skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great story. I recall SoftPC but not SoftWindows. The Wikipedia page has something interesting to say:

> Unlike most emulators, the SoftWindows product used recompiled Windows components to improve performance in most business applications, providing almost native performance (but this meant that, unlike SoftPC, SoftWindows was not upgradable).
I've seen them on a flight before quite some distance from the north pole. I am not 100% certain on the flight but I think it was a Norwegian Air Dreamliner flight from London to New York, which still goes reasonably far north.
Ok then keep your five month old at home (that's what you want me to say right)? And now you want to say "then keep your four year old at home"

But there is a huge difference between the socialization needs of a child under one (when they get their measles vaccine) and a child under five. Children between 3 and 5 go to pre-school and need to interact with people for their psychological well being. So it's on us as a society to make it safe for them to so.

And meningococcus usually spreads through deep kissing, so as long as your infant is French kissing an infected adult it should be fine.
There is no type information at runtime at all in OCaml. Once the program has been typed, the program is translated into an untyped lambda-calculus and all type information is throw away. In particular, pattern matching is compiled into this untyped lambda-calculus using if/then/else (and switch statement, and exception and exceptions handlers, ...). The type system is sufficient to detect before this compilation if the pattern is total or if it need to add a failure case. In this case, the `Match_failure` is just a catch-all term in this conditional expression.

For instance

let f x = match x with
| [] -> ()

is translated into

(is_empty/267 =
(function x/269 : int
(if x/269
(raise (makeblock 0 (global Match_failure/18!) [0: "r.ml" 1 17]))
1)))

where you can see the exception being build and raised in the `then` branch of the test.
Contrarily, the total function

let is_empty x = match x with
| [] -> true
| _ :: _ -> false

becomes

(let (is_empty/267 = (function x/269 : int (if x/269 0 1)))

And since the function doesn't need to handle the failure case, it doesn't have that `(raise ...)` case.

Another important point is that type system information is only needed to check the exhautiveness of pattern matching in presence of GADTs. Otherwise the exhautiveness of pattern matching can be checked using syntatic criteria on the pattern matching and type definitions.
Because money supply had the big upward adjustment in 1H2020 and inflation kicked in in 2H21 (same time as the supply shortages), and wage growth is not very high. Money supply growth probably has some impact on deflation not happening two years ago.
> I'm assuming that you aren't asking for exceptions which literally nobody wants

I want exceptions. Why would they be a bad idea? Besides the fact that software doesn't utilize them today (because they're not implemented, chicken and egg problem)? IMO they would be as big a security win as many other complex features CPU designers are adding in the name of security, e.g. pointer authentication.
>the SAT's a way of laundering discrepancies in generational wealth, which is indeed due to racist public policy as well as racist private actions. it may be intended not that way, but that's how it functions.

But what are SATs being replaced with? "holistic admissions"? A poor kid can prepare for the SAT by studying his ass off, with mostly free/cheap materials from the internet. How can you do the same with "extracurriculars" (eg. going to africa to dig a well) and "hobbies" (going the country club every week)?
Nice! I made a doom renderer with emojis some time ago, but I decided to keep the emojis bigger, so you could identify them. But I like your approach, will definitely try in my doom renderer too: https://github.com/CrociDB/doomoji
Approximately one half of a giraffe.
Unfortunately, there is a lot more an autocratic regime can do to obscure the fatalities, or at least their circumstances.

At some point, only a surviving fellow soldier disobeying orders to inform the family can pierce the veil of secrecy.
I had similar thoughts on Amazons hiring process. They can shove their "leadership principles". I know they're going to churn through all potential applicants someday and have to start acting like real people.
The elites likes precious metals and will spend a lot of manpower to attain it, but precious metals doesn't make society rich. When we say that Europe was rich we don't mean they had lots of gold in their coffers, but that they had plenty of good food, housing, clothes, medicine etc, things that makes society rich.
This is a 35+ question essay exam that simultaneously asks whether candidates are industry thought leaders and "strong architects" and includes not one but four questions about high school achievements. It's among the top 5 worst hiring processes I've ever seen.
> To get a debit card you must be either 18 or have a legal guardian who is at least 18 on the account.

Not necessarily. You can be issued a debit card from age 11 in the UK, although it will only do online transactions to prevent the account going overdrawn.

Allowing a parent/guardian control of the account is optional.

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/banking/cards-for-under-18...
It is wildly not the norm.
This data is being collected. And stories about that are being leaked, so that people feel (slightly) watched. Nobody in any (halfway intelligent) government wants a Nazi like Gestapo or SS patrols.

They know that offensively acting against dissent would actually drive dissent. So they take a book out of Bentham's Panopticon [0] and translate it into modern society.

You know you are being watched. And you know that there is a possibility that the government can construct something out of all that data. And if there is no data about you that is even more suspicious.

So on a subliminal level the subduing effects are there. The status quo is being kept stable for the elites at least.

People listen to entertainment news, see the next villain that we are shown and are happy the government protected us from whatever danger is the new fad (either Chinese imports, Muslim terrorists, socialists or whatever floats their boat).

Media? Media is there to make money. Whatever drives advertising dollars wins.

This data collection is there to subdue society at large. Not stop any single crime. If there were no crime/school shooting/act of terrorism nobody would buy the next surveillance bill and re-elect our masters.

/s
You can have both! mitmproxy will dump TLS master secrets for any app: https://docs.mitmproxy.org/stable/howto-wireshark-tls/
Your "huge supersonic drone" is in reality a subsonic one, that's smaller than an F16 and flies no higher than 19,700ft while a typical airliner cruises at 35,000 to 41,000ft
Interesting, I also keep coming back to text files for productivity, because of the speed and simplicity. Some of the points the author mentions though like due dates, a journal/schedule and version history still aren’t really solved very well I think. Not to mention collaborating in a team that way (not a requirement for the author I think, but something I could use myself).

I actually tried simply using VSCode for a while with just a plain text "todo.txt", "schedule.txt" and "projects.txt", but that didn’t scale very well (also didn't really get things like autocomplete to work properly).

If anyone’s interested, we decided to see if we can actually solve this ourselves and are building an editor/IDE from scratch now, but specifically for "todo.txt" (https://thymer.com).
This reminds me of how I used to split rents with my roommates: Identify surplus value, and split that value evenly.

0. Given a prospective rental house. (And therefore a known set of rooms and a known total rent)

1. Each person "bids" by pricing every room in the house. Goal: each person should be looking for "break-even" pricing. Try to price such that all the rooms feel "equally good" at your given prices.

2. Just one restriction on the pricing: each bidder's room-prices must sum to the house's monthly rent.

3. Reveal all bids.

4. Choose the room-assignment that yields the highest total price. Because of the restriction in [2], we're guaranteed a surplus over the true total rent. (Unless everyone somehow put in identical bids)

5. Split the surplus evenly. Everyone gets a room at the price they bid for that room, minus 1/nth of the surplus. Effectively, everyone gets an identical surprise discount.

We lived together for over 10 years, through 5 different rentals. We split up when it came time to start families and buy houses.
> Fascinating, isn't it?

Yes. From a human psychology POV it's absolutely fascinating (in the
sense of being an open puzzle that compels one to ask deep questions).

It concerns much more than illegal mass surveillance. What is truly
astonishing is the distance between the stories we tell ourselves and
the reality we inhabit. It's the same denial and rationalisation that
means we can cope with climate emergency.

Our age is the spectacle of the chasm. There's an enormous gulf
between our mythology - what we tell ourselves about our rational
civilisation, our empowerment by technology, our omniscient knowledge,
our social contract, our freedom... etc - and the reality - that we
have almost no basis for reason (except within narrow confines of
science), are dominated by our technology, live in ignorance and fear,
have torn up social contracts and become slaves to 19th century
ideologies.

This is the interregnum in which you can have revelations on the scale
of Snowden exposing colossal constitutional violations, and have
people shrug.

>> to have an 'official' perspective is to be able to move on with your life

Except people don't. They pretend to. In reality they move on with a
shadow of what approximates to life under the conditions of
extraordinary dissonance. They become docile, domesticated shells of
real people for whom cultural, educational, economic and spiritual
life dimensions are crippled. The awareness of dominance doesn't
magically vanish, it is sublimated into broad cynicism, sarcasm,
duplicity and inability to trust or believe in anything.

Don't mistake tolerance for the effects being rendered harmless by
wilful ignorance.
Steam to Chrome OS
Many of the countries you mention did not have far reaching imperialist tendencies, that's in my view due to lack of scarcity, and somewhat strong moral/civilizational/religious foundations that many in Europe lacked.

It is why things like chattel slavery, non-cooperation, and extreme levels of greed were not as concentrated elsewhere but heavily relied upon in European development.

The abundance of resources, good weather, lack of famines, and access to open uninhabited land probably also played a defining role in the development of these less hostile civilizations.

When the Chinese visited Africa on trade missions, the idea of mass theft of resources never crossed their minds. The idea of selling drugs and destroying a society for profit was a confusing concept to the leaders of many groups. A great example of this is in the correspondences between the Chinese leadership and Queen Victoria.

I doubt many of these groups expected the people they traded with in good faith to turn around and attempt to destroy these relationships through force and theft.

In my opinion, this is why the last 200 years of western development was so fruitful. If Europeans had stayed in Europe they would not have been as prosperous. It is the wealth taken, industries destroyed in other countries, and trade flows re-routed that created this boom. Much of it done to fuel conflicting war machines in Europe.

We are now at a new stage of development on this planet where smash and grab is no longer as possible (due to nukes). The idea of win-win relationships still seems alien to Europeans dealing with outsiders. This is where a group like the Chinese will outperform tremendously and re-secure their position as global economic leaders in a large portion of this planet.

In many scenarios, the Chinese would rather be poor than suffer reputational damage from this kind of uncivilized activity. We are entering a world where long term reputation and thinking matters, and the Chinese approach will be heavily rewarded.

I'm not sure how long the reputational damage incurred by Europeans will affect their ability to do business around the world but I strongly believe this history will be detrimental to future European development. We can see the beginning of it with the recent rapid movement towards de-dollarization and de-euroization where energy trading and some other commodities are concerned.

I know this can be an uncomfortable truth for some in the west but I expect 90% of planet will be in agreement here, so the message should probably not be ignored.
That's real problem

Only one person (the oldest one) from my like 20-30ppl circle within age range of 20-30 gets close to IT salaries, that's ridiculous

in most cases it is around 40% (around 2 minimal wages) of my *nothing special* salary by IT standards (4.5 minimal wages), people with better cards get 7-10 minimal wages here, top people like 15-20+

and they see no reasonably easy way to jump higher (e.g within one or two years)

I can't honestly recommend anything but IT to anyone that can put a lot of effort (while mentioning all bad things ofc)
The entire system is very elementary compared to org-mode. This is good for some (people that wanna try this approach since it's simpler and mostly works fine), bad for others (people accustomed to all features org provides).
So why not quote this article instead of linking and quoting a different article?
There may be only one implicit context for you, which is why I said "better" is subjective.

Personally the M1 Ultra would be better imo as a desktop GPU than RTX 3090 in certain contexts. Putting it in a van, traveling with it, etc.

I'll probably wait until the next go around of them, but I'm loving nearing desktop performance w/ reduced loads.
Org mode does all this but 100x better.
Also the aircraft landing on a carrier have tail hooks to stop themselves and an undercarriage that is designed for those stresses.
US and NATO Struggle to Decipher Status of Negotiations Twixt Russia and Ukraine
Reminds me of a trick question from the time Finnair started to fly over the pole: Once there was so much demand, that they had to fly with two planes. They flew side by side, directly over the pole. So one of them crossed the international date line and the other did not. How come they landed on the same date?
Thanks for the tip. I think mine was up but I will check again.
You could get a prepaid card and switch to that as your primary payment method. FWIW, I've removed all payment methods from my account before and it worked though I had to disable some unused Google Cloud projects I think.
also very useful for reverse engineering devices using a custom protocol over USB bulk data (in conjunction with a Windows/OSX VM and the usbmon kernel module).
And also with a 100x learning curve.
Big O is a useful vocabulary for comparing efficiency between different approaches. Binary trees are abstract, yes, but I prefer them to spending an extra 5-10 minutes listening to an interviewer describe a scenario that ultimately still boils down to a binary tree.

From the other side of the table, when I’ve interviewed candidates without a solid understanding of runtimes I’ve seen some very unique code. One candidate wrote a triple-nested for loop and couldn’t understand why it wasn’t an answer we were hoping for. i.e. O(n^3) instead of O(nlgn). Running that code in production honestly would have been a disaster for our oncall.

Interviews being such a hot button topic always struck me as odd. On HN we love evaluating new frameworks of the month, or discussing the intricacies of Elixir fundamentals - all of which also require time investment to learn. Why draw the line at learning Big O? Try looking at it through the lens of a useful skill rather than something to memorize for interviews. Even if you never learned it in school, you can still learn it now and it has real life practical value.
Fixed rate debts interest are set to accommodate the current inflation rate plus higher values to accommodate the risk of inflation increasing.

Lenders are not fools when it comes to inflation.
Online booking for starters. If I had to schedule a haircut over the phone, I’d find a new stylist.
Imho its not so much the actor pattern but the single writer principle.

actors are a tool which is not to used solely. Need encapsulate state? Actors can help. Need concurrency? Perhaps futures are a better fit.

the question you ask is problatic at it sees actors as a single solution.
A16Z is obviously motivated by quick money because they can flip tokens much faster than traditional VC investments — exits happen in months rather than years. It’s a brilliant money-making scheme while it lasts.

One Turing winner’s opinion shouldn’t be given undue weight. Kary Mullis was a Nobel Prize recipient who used his scientific clout to advocate for the once-popular claim that HIV doesn’t cause AIDS even after evidence was overwhelming:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kary_Mullis

Excellent scientists can be wrong outside their narrow field of expertise.
Isaac Asimov wrote a great critique on 1984 which includes a few thoughts on Animal Farm: http://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/1984.htm
We had a spectacular view of them a few years ago on a flight from Portland (OR) to London.
FYI there is also an illustrated edition, with cool pictures illustrating cool tree things: https://greystonebooks.com/products/the-hidden-life-of-trees...!

If you like scientific nonfiction in this vein, I'd also recommend:

- The Wild Trees

- Mycelium Running

- Mind of the Raven

- The Klamath Knot

Or if you want tree fiction:

- The Overstory

(edit: dunno how to do bullet lists here)
These planes however might have enough measurable influence on the local microclimate that may increase the rate of methane leaks. I haven't checked the numbers though.
> In communism, the people own the means of production collectively. On top of that, private property still exists. People own houses, cars, what else they may need and have access to. No communist ideology as far as I'm aware requires or advocates for the end of privacy.

Sharing ownership means you don't own anything, unless you're the elite in charge of forcing people to share and taking away personal property to be "shared".
Youtube is ad-supported. You can't upload videos more than 15 minutes long without letting Youtube put preroll and mid-roll ads all over them, and the only access-control method it supports is "unlisted", where anybody with the URL can see it.

Creators don't want to force their paying Patreon supporters to watch ads for content that they paid for, and that can be leaked to the whole world if somebody merely ctrl-vs a bit of text.
Solyndra’s approach was to use thin film solar PV (lower efficiency than standard polycrystalline cells) and put it into a transparent tube.

The value prop was the following: installation is expensive, and risky on rooftops because you have to make through holes in your roof. Also the panels are heavy, subject to wind loading etc, thus putting panels on the roof is usually not worth it, or at least was not a dozen years ago. But the tubes were very light and since they had a small cross-section they win will just flow right through them so you could just secure the installation with guy wires and not actually cut holes in the roof, and use less labor do do so. Also you wouldn’t have over heating and other issues of commercial panels.

Unfortunately, the efficiency really wasn’t that high. And there was also the structural financial issue that I discussed. So a double whammy.

Solyndra got a high risk loan from ARPA-E that was used in a high profile way by the GOP to beat up all government investment in alternative technologies. High risk and sure, it failed. The point of ARPA (now DARPA) is to invest in high risk “out there” projects — like, say, that stupid packet switching idea for connecting computers. The idea of ARPA-E was to do the same for energy projects.

For some reason climate related work causes a fuss, while there’s always money for something “defense” related.
What are some such features?

I've used Visual Studio before, and one thing that annoys me about VS Code is that I can't just drag a tab out to a new window and have it be connected to the same project or session or whatever.

Even if one uses "new window" and moves the tab, things occur such as it not picking up imports, etc.
The point is people can afford houses if they are willing to compromise on size, in the way previous generations did. A lot are choosing to rent instead. That’s a choice.
I generally agree with you that all science should be testable, i.e. it should give us tell us things that we did not know, but can then test. However, I don't agree that you can easily extrapolate from that to saying these fields are science and these are not. Psychology, economics etc. do make predictions and many have been tested.

To give you one example of predictions in psychology: Pavlov made very clear (and accurate) predictions about what is going to happen to his dog after "training" it.

On the other hand there are areas in the "hard science", for example physics that have been going for long time, without making any predictions that are testable. String theory is the canonical example here.

So saying only the "hard sciences" are "real sciences" is just repeating the trope that is very popular in engineering cycles (in my experience much less so amongst physicists or chemist). It doesn't make it true.
Also it's very difficult to say what you mean by predictions. For example complex systems theory can make accurate predictions about general behavior of a system, but can't predict
There's a significant cost we pay to keep the air clean enough to breathe.
I wish there was a setting to fold parenthesis in comments
In that case, this statement would become false:

>We really need farm workers
Nuclear capable...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh-47M2_Kinzhal
That makes a lot of sense. The Max is still pretty fucking big, but two of those is a lot more manageable than a single monolothic die double the size
As someone who experienced something along these lines through some kind of sloppy guilt by association (frequently computed from a cafe a drug dealer operated out of when he got busted), I don't even have to answer hypothetically.

Ignored it, made sure my ducks were in a row, and basically waited for them to lose interest - budgets for such individual surveillance are presumably finite. Eventually the most visible manned surveillance ceased occurring, IIRC it lasted at least a few months. It was a very annoying experience.

But the population-wide omnipresent automated surveillance is a different beast entirely. When it involves manpower actually watching and following someone it can't last forever.

I'm sure people are regularly being caught up in mass location and communications metadata surveillance nets thanks to their phones being in the vicinity of criminal activity like whore houses and/or illegal drug dens. The cost is so low for sustaining that kind of thing it's basically an honor system from where I'm sitting that they ever stop.
er. don't they all? at least all the sophisticated ones. otherwise you can't see the contents of https/etc requests. Charles does this as well for example, and it's reasonably popular: https://www.charlesproxy.com/

AFAICT it's roughly as widely used as mitmproxy, and e.g. google trends favors Charles by a moderate amount: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=%22charles...

or are you referring to some other cert-related feature?
Fascinating article, but I have to point to something else: how refreshing it is to read an article by someone who has complete control over the English language.