skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand that.

But what I think I'm trying to get at is that utterances such as "I'm a free person...I'm a good person...What I'm doing is important...etc." can be truth statements within the context of their respective systems. 'I am free, a good person, important' etc are meaningless outside of this context, of course.

I'm thinking the disconnect here is with being.

As an example, let me reference a king. What is a king? A son of king? That's one way. Appointed by a constitution? That's another. But is there an inherent 'kingship' outside of such definitions? Heredity is a property of the idea, not of kingship. So we can have a king but never a king which is a king. But regardless he can order my head cut off. In terms of a king as we define a king is the son of a king, then it is a truth claim to state that Arthur is a king. A social construct, a fantasy, is not precluded from instantiating something with 'power' in the world.

In a way, I think experience by definition is to 'play make believe'. Our experience by definition is always going to be at least one step removed. We do not perceive the world; we perceive constructs derived from sensory data.

Why I state insanity/sanity is meaningless in terms of being is that I don't see such as being applicable. As an example of what some might call insanity let us take: believing something is present which in fact is not there. Such is defined as irrational. It is contrary to the senses, as there is no sensory input to indicate such. However, if a hominid cognizes a lion in a bush, aka paranoia, and runs, there are generally two possibilities: 1) fruitless expenditure of energy decreases the individual chance of survival or 2) believing a predator near which cannot be perceived provides instances of escape where reliance on purely sensory data would have proved inadequate. Here what can be termed insanity has a chance of informing mental models of reality in ways that sensory data is too limited to do so. In this way, it can often enough better represent 'reality' in terms of survival.

Even our man with the coconut could derive a survival advantage from these activities, in the sense that social creatures generally require socialization or risk cognitive decline, therefore impairing their chances of survival.

(Survival is, of course, a short-term proposition which we extend implicitly into eternity, in one fashion or another, but evolution is a moment-to-moment phenomena.)

Anyway, I'm by no means trying to argue with you. I'm more musing than anything.
There used to be a saying that left voters were simply right voters that has yet to be the victim of a crime, commonly with the subtext that people who are victim of crime by low social economic demographics are only acting rational based on that trauma.
This is a strange complaint that seems to reduce to C not having a well defined ABI.

Of course it doesn't. C implementations do. This isn't really any different than most other languages, but feels different because C doesn't have a blessed implementation that all other implementations must interact with.

That's a strength. It means C is found on esoteric microcontrollers as well as powerful modern desktops. That wouldn't work as well as it could if the ABI were uniform on all targets and implementations.

And yes, it can act as a protocol. It's the simplest way to access host ABI communication without understanding it.
>Can any human generate a new unique work and submit a copyright application for it? Is the mere curation work that the human applies to the AI system's output sufficient to receive a copyright on the work?

The short answer is that they don't need to submit anything. If they put their name on it, they're the putative copyright holder and it's up to someone else to prove they aren't. Copyright registration isn't required and is mostly related to be able to collect damages from others who violate your copyright.
IIRC the fed tried a few times to tighten and the market reacted badly(i.e. taper tantrum). Rather than focus on economic health, Powell chose to support asset prices owned by the upper half of Americans(and, by a huge majority, the 1%).

That sort of makes sense given Powell was a Trump appointee and Trump favored a weak dollar in order to boost American manufacturing.
n-1 is a great concept that works right up until log4shell starts happening.

The solution is to audit all code you rely on, the unviability of that solution is the fault of the npm micro package ecosystem.
Hello, I wonder, concerning unemployment stats, people are saying u-3 or u-6 etc. is there something like “full utilisation”? What would that look like? Say, assume drones/advanced future cyborgs are free and everyone works and likes it. It’s not going to be infinite growth since it would have to be locked to a pop and region. Simplify for example: it works out to be a Mac Donald’s every second street corner. How many jobs and res?

I also heard of a thing called money velocity. ~how much a particular dollar moves around. I heard it’s worth considering when understanding inflation stuff. I heard it said that recent stimulus has been like adding gas to a cold system (low velocity) where last time it was a hot system. The worry is we are going to explode if the temp goes up.
Have a nice day everyone.
> In other words, the best way to fix the incompatibility problem caused by API mismatches is to never make the mistake of coding directly against the host platform's APIs to begin with. Trying to do it with compatibility shims to make one platform look like the other is a fool's errand. You end up running around trying to achieve parity with a mammoth API surface area (which might never have been especially well-designed to begin with...).

It seems like you're making a good point, but I'm confused by your comment. Do you believe we should avoid coding directly against the host platform's APIs, or do believe we should avoid compatibility shims? At some point, you need compatibility shims in order to avoid coding directly against the host platform's APIs. The most that your runtime strives to match existing runtimes, the less you need to worry about writing shims to improve compatibility.
Everybody “plans” on living in the same house forever. Unfortunately, life gets in the way. Job change, moving for a different school district, divorce, death, etc. Stuff happens.
> NFTs can be more than a receipt.

They can't. Again. Context: game assets/game items.

Good luck storing any game asset/item on (any) blockchain.
> now you don't want a DB user per end user.

`RESET ROLE; SET ROLE app_username;` could be done for each query / transaction / when fetching the connection from the pool.
Given that you store the IV alongside the ciphertext anyways, I'm not seeing what advantage this has over just choosing the IV at random.
The goal of the public school system is to free up working parents from schooling kids, so they can, well, work.

It became an even more pressing need once women entered the workforce in full.

This became very evident during the pandemic, when so many parents suddenly had their kids at home during working hours.

If you can afford home schooling, awesome. Most can't.
Supposedly you can test for this using a wifi device since the frequencies are similar so I threw this together https://ismymicrowaveleaking.isotropic.us if anyone wants to try it. No clue how accurate it is, seems to work for my sample size of 2 microwaves. Phone had to be on 2.4ghz wifi or the signal was unaffected.
i like this as an emerging genre of blogposts. @andydb recently did this for Cockroach https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/how-we-built-cockroachdb-...
No there is not something. That's a misconception.

The author is under no obligation at all. Of course a request is no problem. But then if that request is ignored, then that's no problem either. Who knows why there is no response. Maybe the person has other things in life needing attention. Maybe they have a bad day/week/month. Maybe they are burnt out. Maybe they have already responded to you 100x or maybe they just don't like your name.

If they do respond -- great! It's likely in their interest to respond to bug reports since it's likely in their interest to have less buggy software for themselves (if they use their own software) or for their customers (if their customers use their software). But maybe it's not, maybe they have moved on, or maybe they are just on vacation. If they are nice, then they tell you. But even that's something they don't have to do.

You are free to dislike them for that, and you are free to not use your software anymore.

You are usually even free to fork the project if you want your pull requests in and they keep being ignored or rejected. If others think like you, you get a community right away. But many people don't fork. Because it's a lot of work suddenly being a maintainer. Then you suddenly get those requests and opinions and pressure. Don't like that? See! That's the issue here! If you don't like it, then don't criticize others for not liking it either.
I read the article.

I disagree with the premise that there are fewer geniuses today. There are plenty of geniuses, if not more than ever.

They just don't all have a deep, cultural impact on the zeitgeist.

Take for example the resolution of Fermat's Last Theorem and Poincare's Conjecture. Or the work being done on the Twin Primes problem.

This article is probably better situated as an examination of culture. You could make a similar argument for why there isn't anything comparable to the Beatles at the moment.
Fear is the mindkiller. Remember that. Worry is fear. They are out of your control. Just keep your vax for COVID-19, and don't visit any Russian sites.
Interesting. What's the actual root cause of that?
I didn't downvote you, but often people get downvoted because they take the discussion off-topic.

It's interesting to you that what the PRC is doing today reminds you of something the FBI did last century. But the discussion is still about the PRC, not the FBI.

As you can see, your comment that is benign on the surface started a whole thread of off-topic comments, which bogs down the overall discussion and generates more heat than light.

Or maybe people read what you wrote as yet another "what about..." comment, the likes of which always pop up like mushrooms after a rain in discussions about China's current-day misdeeds.
I have a molar that has been declared a 'pre-cavity' for two decades now. My wisdom teeth need to be pulled b/c they are going to become 'problematic'... still waiting for problems 30 years later. When I inform them I don't want the x-rays, I have been told by several DDS's in 2 states that it is state law that they must snap pictures. My one filling came when I was 9 & my mom still gets angry at Dr D for not having $$$ to pay his rent/student loans that month. My teeth may be coffee stained & aren't unnaturally bright white, but they are solid & all mine. F the dental industry, at this rate I'll take my yellow teeth to the grave.
Interesting rant. I found it fairly humorous but I am not sure if the author meant it that way.

As I read it, the author's thesis is that all programming languages have to talk to the operating system and the operating system is written in C so the operating system uses C calling conventions which leaks C's "ugliness" into the implementation or expression of their beautiful language.

I kind of think of this as the "I like computers but don't really understand computation" fallacy. It is fundamental lack of understanding about the nature of computer architectures and what they can and cannot do vis-a-vis how you might express that in a programming language.

One of my professors in college was fond of saying that "All programming languages are just syntactic sugar around machine code." Which is fundamentally true, and tries to capture that at the end of the day what ever your language "says" has to be expressed in machine code to actually do what it does.

You will spend a lot of time in this space writing a compiler, and code generation is an art all of its own.

But you can side step, a bit, by not writing a compiler, and instead writing an interpreter. The series of articles that were posted here gave a good intro, and while you still have to do the "naughty bit" where you write code in some compilable language that can pretend to be a computer of some different form, you can make everything look like your language.

I always encourage people who are "learning computers" to actually write a compiler (there are some good starting points for that but online courseware from MIT and other sources can get you the lecture material too). Doing that helps broaden one's perspective of what language designers and implementers are up against with regards to pretty much every computer working the "same" way (Von Neumann or Harvard architecture wise)
>For successful homeschooling, you need to be able to design each class, have experience in what works, able to design good tests and consistently have time to do everything by yourself.

Or buy one of those homeschooling curriculums.
Looking for Type 1 Diabetes specific variants in my own genome
Yes. I work on applications that run for a long time in the browser with many subframes. The beforeunload event helps us clean up things and manage our applications' states better.
People who enjoy the cheap capital afforded by the Fed increasing supply do not want to see their gravy train end, even if it is better for the economy as a whole to temper it while it's hot. See Trump et al gnashing their teeth at the fed for talking about raising rates back in 2018.
I didn't read the article. I only watched the video.

The video to me made a convincing case that the object seen in the video file is a glare at the location of a heat-emitting object.

I'd now be ready for a follow-up discussing whether the motion of the object (accounting for the gimbal system) is unusual or not. The video didn't get into it one way or another, but it's the obvious next question to ask.
I don’t always crack open dev tools on public websites, but when I do, it’s probably because of word-break: break-all;
Not if they go to college and then get a mentally difficult/highly filtered (not the same thing) job. They could be surrounded by peers for the rest of their lives.
He says that it is glare, at tedious length. As of last year he thought it was the exhaust of another aircraft[1], plus he has stated his goal is to debunk UFO videos. He could have spent some of his tedious length and extensive reconstruction demonstrating the apparent position and velocity of that other plane, but he chose to spend it going on about what he should think is an inconsequential detail.

[ 1 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/11/i-stud... ]
That's true, the ACLs are pretty huge. I've heard about Tailscale almost exclusively in the context of /r/selfhosted, and this post is about the free plan which guided my response. It's not hard to see why this would be useful at my job. Honestly I wish they'd pay for it, OpenVPN is such a pain for my users.
I was thinking this as well. If a new drug works well for 99% of the people, has mildish side effects for 0.9% and is really bad for 0.1% of people, that's no good. But if a nerve agent kills 99% of people and is not effective on 1%, that's just fine.
This developer has every right to a nervous breakdown over the war in Ukraine.

The npm ecosystem distributing yet another malicious module is more serious though.
i think those two actually collapse to the exact same thing: "no guaranteed support"
This bit of [1], referred to in [2], seems relevant:

"their site owners, moderators, administrators, and users are required to comply with the Fedora Code of Conduct. Community sites and accounts which are unable to meet this standard of conduct will be required to cease use of the Fedora trademarks,"

I wasn't previously aware of it, but [3] may also be relevant. (I know no more than appeared on the devel list, other than history elsewhere.)

They may have cocked up the case, but a finding of bad faith against Red Hat seems unlikely to be fair, given the above.

1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Trademark_guidelines?rd...

2. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fe...

3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pocock
I have an old lapel button: C combines the power of assembly language with the flexibility of assembly language. Humorous, yes, but still true - it's a high-level, platform-independent assembly language that (used well) allows for creating all sorts of things great and small. I found it the perfect back-end to a Python front end, where the known problems of C could be minimized via control being done at the interpreter level and the compute-heavy work being done in C.
> the Fed has been using a new framework called "ample reserves" since the latter part of 2020

It’s been using an ample reserve regime for much longer than that. The Fed received congressional approval to implement a floor system around 2007 (it had been seeking it since the 80’s, I think), and has used it since the GFC. Are you possibly referring to the average inflation targeting framework?
Right on the edge of ~20 years but Matrix.
Sometimes it takes a discussion, I’m not in the business of upvoting or downvoting :p
if you click on past you'll see the past 9 discussions in the last 8 years. it's not entirely new, and nothing changed since
> the alternatives suffer from the same filesystem performance issues that this release claims to improve

Hehe, not if you run Docker in a Linux VM, edit your code using the SSH VSCode plugin, and port forward any services from the VM to your Mac.

After doing this for over a year, I don't know why anyone still uses Docker for Mac, other than corporate how-to guides that still start with "1. Download Docker for Mac", or feeling unfamiliar with Linux.

Docker was originally created as a chroot'ed process container with abstracted networking, nothing more -- and certainly not a full VM. Why not run it as it was intended to be run?

Edit: Am I incorrect? Or is something else wrong?
And affirming the same thing this week: https://aasm.org/aasm-statement-senate-daylight-saving-time-...

> The AASM position statement also indicates that “current evidence best supports the adoption of year-round standard time, which aligns best with human circadian biology and provides distinct benefits for public health and safety.” The statement was endorsed by more than 20 medical, scientific, and civic organizations, including the American College of Chest Physicians, American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, National PTA, National Safety Council, Society for Research on Biological Rhythms, and World Sleep Society.
> If a site that started out as just sexist trash could somehow morph into...

- an intrusive surveillance system that puts the FBI to shame

- a system of increasingly isolated and toxic echo chambers

- a disinformation and propaganda machine powerful enough to shape public opinion, influence elections, and facilitate civil unrest and extremism

- an "attention economy" where people are encouraged to scroll infinitely so they view more advertisements

- something that makes people feel worse about themselves and generally depressed

etc.
Try https://ideasfilter.com/

I build it some tíme ago
Can you buy phone number data?
Thanks to twilio, Spammers and Bots can't be stopped by phone number verification anymore. Do you know of any vendor for PN data to be able to block suspicious ones? (labeled "recently reattributet" or "registered < 1 week ago" or "owned by .ISP)
Crazy idea but couldn't a game include the asset but an NFT in a wallet associated to a user account allows them to actually use it?
They want to keep people afraid enough to comply, but not pissed off enough to rise up.

You can only afford so many Tiananmens before you crush the national morale, and with it, your autocratic pyramid scheme. China doesn't want to become North Korea.
You could obtain a small metal disc etched with distinct patterns on each face, designate one of those patterns to represent doing a project and the other not doing a project, perturb the disc in such a way that it violently upends in the air, then wait to see which pattern is displayed when the disc comes to rest on a surface, repeating as necessary as you proceed down the list of potential projects until the desired number have been selected.
To be honest, I'm not sure. I can say for a long time, refrigerators were very dangerous and would often kill people. It's why Einstein co-patented a new mechanism for refrigeration.

Likewise, maybe there's something particularly challenging about designing heating elements to work in a watery environment that makes dishwashers subject to failure.

It also doesn't have the same global popularity as more common appliances like a dryer, so perhaps the failure rates aren't as well known, except among the affluent and restaurant owners.
or you know, you could just write code and not give a fuck about titles :-D
Yes, less useful. For example, apparently theres no capacitor plugin to create a "foreground service" in android. A search on Ionic's page takes you to the Cordova plugin.
I think this falls into the category of articles where the author makes an eye-catching assertion in the title to pull you in and then totally fails to justify it other than by ranting about some personal gripe he has.
I believe we are heading towards personal safety bubbles, where dangerous molecular detection and warning is done in realtime via smartphone or other personal device such as glasses or implant. It might take awhile coming, but that seems the natural conclusion to having supercomputers available for individuals. Would the detection be possible via advanced mmwave/field detection, or would it have to have a molecular mini lab system of some sort ala pcr? Great market opportunity here.

This seems inevitable because the rise of various threats is also inevitable via technology, and us humans like to be safe.
I'm not clear on why this is a C problem specifically, when it sounds like the author is really bothered by the lack of standardization in ABIs. Why would other languages not have this problem? At the assembly level, you still need to know which parameters go in which register and how the stack is laid out in memory. Rewriting the Linux kernel in Rust wouldn't change the way that software interrupts work, so how would it give you a Rust-native system call ABI? Am I missing something?
China Praises Ukraine Resistance, Pledges Economic Support
Great EH&S people are amazing.

At the root of researchers' reactions to EH&S are two things:

1) EH&S will frequently be the source of unfunded and unresourced mandates. "You must stop your research until you've properly tidied up all of your electrical cords" is, in the short term, an impediment to forward progress. Researchers frequently under-budget for safety/disposal costs when submitting proposals, leaving nobody with money to foot the bill for expediting the resolution for a safety stoppage.

2) The statistical likelihood of a single accident is greater for a large organization than for a single research group. One group can get away with a lethal practice for a hundred years before the first death. A hundred labs will only get away with a similar practice for a year.

If you find a competent and reasonable EH&S auditor, they are a great resource. They may ding you for some safety violations, but they'll be able to point the way toward safer practices. In the best case, even if they don't have mitigation funds for longstanding problems, their voices carry real weight and can expedite the allocation of scarce resources toward real safety concerns.