skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of Paul's work is safety related; in that context I find morbid humor quite appropriate. You're less likely to forget the lesson about flying over water with that hard-hitting gag about unintentionally becoming a U-Boat commander.
Yet the (military) Air Force uses modafinil?
The Pi is a hobbyist device, so yeah. But something like the Ergodox could definitely become popular if video game streamers used it, if there were displays in computer stores, etc. It's an interesting product but many people (like me) simply haven't heard of it.
French being less French
Call me what you will, but I really dislike Lake Tahoe post-pandemic. It's always been a place primarily of second homes, but it definitely feels richer and snootier now... like Aspen.
Sounds like you're heavily manipulated by it already.
I was mentally imagining him talking with his hands through the entire article.
After WW2 Europe learned its lesson: another war would destroy the entire region, even with conventional arms. But nuclear weapons did not prevent this war.

The manner which the weapons were used certainly precludes them from a peace prize IMO
I liked that one a lot! It lead me to some very interesting places that I had never heard of before. Particularly in Oregon I guess. I currently live in Ohio.
What will stop pedophiles (as an example, not associating them with gays) from gaining the same rights and recognition? Or do you suppose that, if that happens, it must be that society has "discovered" that these rights are also part of democracy?

In other words, is there a limiting principle that you're appealing to?

And why do you suppose that the right of people directly to be armed, and therefore resist tyranny and remain governed only democratically, never figures into these democracy scores?
In my experiences, apps using those toolkits usually have a lot worse usability issues than not being able to change the colors.
As GP states, they engaged in "noble lies" in order to drive vaccine adoption.

- flip flopping on mask policy

- surface transmission

- vaccine efficacy

- herd immunity

- natural immunity

- gain of function

I'm not going to argue whether or not this was best course of action, because there's no way to know what the alternate reality would look like.

It is however an interesting revelation about the character of our leaders.

In their mind, the ends justify the means, in so far as they unilaterally define both the ends and the means. Who knows what else they lie about for the "greater good".
That is, assuming something is even packaged as a .deb for your distro's age in the first place.

Trying to get something written using new, say, C++ runtime libraries shipped as a binary working on even a two year old Linux distro is a struggle in itself, meanwhile on Windows, the VC CRT bundled with VS2022 with C++22 support even runs fine as a bundled portable .dll down to Windows 7 (2009) and probably even before.

Running modern libstdc++ (as a binary, mind you) on an otherwise 2009 distro on the other hand - unlikely. Even more so if you stray out of the GNU libc option, or want to deal with libc++ for some reason (such as cross-platform parity, as it is better behaved on Windows/Mac than libstdc++), or any other edge cases out of the usual /lib, especially for GUI apps or worse, GPU apps.
Le Monde Diplomatique is an amazing journal but I don’t think they are the same company at all.
Belarusians, Russians Join Ukraine’s Military
https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-si...
It looks like a generic prologue. Ideally the code generator would detect that no stack frame is required whatsoever and just emit the barebones return. It's possible that the prologue is generated ahead of time and then patched as the codegen determines how many locals it needs.

You could do a second pass if you detect no locals (you'd need to as you'll be computing new offsets for relative branches/loads/etc), or potentially generate two versions of each function as you compile and only commit the one that is smaller but those are some pretty big tradeoffs.

I don't have any idea how TCC is organized internally but my money would be on a generic prologue getting fixed up after-the-fact.

EDIT: I think that it might generate the prolog by rewinding to the beginning of the function here: https://github.com/TinyCC/tinycc/blob/e2e5377e7b68d57def00ac...

I'm not sure if sub rsp, 0 is faster than just filling w/a NOP but that could always be someone's future experiment.
I dunno. I learned relational theory in college along with SQL. Since then, I've forgotten all of relational theory since I never used it for anything, but my SQL has improved quite a lot through use.

I'm thinking you may have a third variable problem here; people who write sucky SQL tend not to have spent a lot of time thinking about how to write non-sucky SQL. People who write non-sucky SQL have. The former has nearly zero chance to have been exposed to relational theory...the latter has a non-zero chance to have been. Correlation /= causation and all that, and the actual causative variable is time spent learning how to write non-sucky SQL.
No thanks. I'll take my private property, my firearms and my self-made wealth over taxation and subjective modesty.
You wouldn't want to run one giant cluster, but at hyper scale you're talking about running thousands or tens of thousands of kubernetes clusters. That's the part that doesn't scale well, for a couple of reasons.

The biggest one is just mechanical: with that many clusters it will be hard to move capacity between clusters, and locality gets baked into everything you do (people do try to build around this, but it's awkward).

If each service or team runs their own kubernetes that's a lot of overhead: kubernetes will need something like 6-7 machines for the cluster (I don't have production experience with kube, spitballing here), so small teams or jobs will have terrible efficiency. Big teams will have to spend a lot of operational effort to manage their fleets.

It's worth noting that at hyperscale there will be individual jobs in a datacenter that are bigger than kubernetes handles comfortably. Handling this efficiently becomes very important, it's literally billions of dollars worth of hardware.
Now that everyone is used to remote I'm considering moving to Europe or Central America.
This was really nice to read. Thanks!
I left because a mortgage for a single family home in a nice neighborhood was 40% less than the rent I paid to live in northern california, and my neighborhood now is quieter, cleaner, safer, and I don't have to step over human feces in the street anymore because we don't have a homelessness or housing crisis that won't be remedied in my lifetime.

There's pretty nature everywhere in America. And the weather isn't that bad most places.
If you’re full e-commerce the only metric that really matters is conversions. How do you know your ads aren’t just taking credit for customers who were going to buy anyway?

You can get great CTR and conversion rate running ads against your brand name. But if your SEO is sound you’re pretty much just canibalizing your organic traffic.

I’m not aware of a way to determine whether an ad just claimed credit for a customer it didn’t earn. I’m interested to learn though.
Not sure it is. It is bill gate not ibm that believe more onto software license. Ibm goes with hardware cum software license.

They are more structured no doubt even then. They are very careful about this. Licensed product but they are more onto

Still because they are more onto hardware and its usage their first anti trust is about tie-in sales. Hardware with monopoly of punch card purchase (I am not joking it is my professor speciality).

Software wise they allow development. Even to this day mvs (that is many years into the future it is mvs) 3.8 is still can be run without license. And invention like vm also.

They worry about Amdahl who basically do this s/360 and hardware compatibility (plug compatible) and even now fuji…

No they no doubt has software licensing but not their focus for a long time.

That is why when found bios cannot protect them, they do mca and totally missed it is software, stupid.

The rest is history.
David - we often use the phrase "code when you need it and no code when you don't." obviously that is easier said than done but we do see tremendous power in a platform that allows you to write a small amount of arbitrary code while having access to an entire registry of thousands of pre-built integrations.
I've got my PPL and refuse to go to see a psychiatrist or anyone who might diagnose me simply for the fact that if I'm told I'm "depressed" and might have to medicated for it, I could ironically lose the one hobby in the world that makes me happiest.
Well that works in some ways, but it can also be very hard to disentangle the actual causal impact of an ad campaign! Absent running an experiment, you don't really know if people would or would not have bought through some other channel without your campaign.

The most striking example is probably the experiment Tadelis convinced eBay to run on their brand-name ads, though the subtlety applies to less obvious cases of questionable ad spend too — https://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/stadelis/Tadelis.pdf
> Screw you software, I’m in charge, not you.

Ahh, this guy didn't get the memo. With modern Windows you're just temporarily borrowing the computer, but Microsoft is in charge of it. They decide what programs you can run, which folders you can look in, which files you can delete and yes, they decide when it updates, even if you're in the middle of something important.
Just do it (tm).
It's common for native English speakers to be monolingual. If there's no real need to learn another language, it takes more effort. Being able to speak multiple languages looks like a superpower if you only know one language.
This is just another thing in a long line of scrupulous things that recruiters do. If bad actors will edit your resume before sending it in then lying about the remote nature of a job is just another part of that.

Which FAANG? Name and shame.
Weird how "tone" never seems to be a concern for the gun lobby or "pro life" crowd (where tone includes arson/bombing/sniper attacks)
The idea that people are simultaneously intelligent enough to understand the somewhat nuanced argument that nuclear power is safe, but also so stupid that "2 million lives saved" makes more sense to them than just a number of QALYs is, I think, an abject failure of science journalism. If you explain everything like everyone is 5, you reap what you sow.
> However, fair warning: Le Monde diplomatique is heavily biased reporting.

I prefer that to the appearance of objectivity, which cannot be more than a facade and is more insidious. What is unacceptable is made up facts, but I am happy with opinionated analysis.
I think it depends what you mean by arrogant. To me, naming things after yourself is a bit of vanity. But I also see the advantage of building a brand with a consistent meaning. You may not believe everything Wolfram has to say, but I think that the naming here conveys a clear meaning to users.
That’s not what woke culture is. Here’s an example in California: the state has formed a commission to investigate paying reparations to slave descendants. Why? Because of BLM in 2020. Knee jerk Twitter politics running the state.

Edit: some replies saying reparations are nothing new. Yes, reparations have been discussed before. When we say “before”, we mean a long time ago. The current discussions are not the same continuous discussions from before, but new ones that came out of BLM riots of 2020. Show me California’s reparations task force before 2020. Also, this task force according to NPR is the “first in the nation”: https://www.npr.org/2022/03/30/1089629383/california-group-v...
Too much real estate sitting unused.
At the cost of our ability to imagine a future, giving rise to the poverty called "postmodernism".

There is a whole world of thought surrounding the nuclear shadow that needs to be the context of any discussion on hypersonic weapons. ABM against those is automated warfare and the rise of the machines.

The situation on Earth is called Einstein's Prison, which is why antigravity is a matter of life or death for we who are stuck in this oubliette.
Thank you, that's just the sort of breadcrumb I was looking for!

I'm in a bit of a rush and don't know the term for this offhand, but I remember hearing that single-layer neural networks are equivalent to multi-layer ones:

https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/451127/equivalence...

https://www.quora.com/Is-a-single-layer-feed-forward-neural-...

There are probably more insights like this out there. These equivalences allow us to think in abstractions that get us above the minutia of fine-tuning these algorithms so that we can see the big picture. I think.
To be fair, the UK is also a cultural giant with respect to radio(!), TV, film, and music. But yes, your point about culture exports is the key to understanding why English is so frequently someone's second language.
There are two parts to this, the increase in the money supply which devalues it and the increase in demand from a significant number of people having more money to spend in the market. If we eliminate the increases in the money supply then the increase in demand will still apply an inflationary force. Without increases in the total money supply though those forces should stabilize to match the new higher demand.

The problem is that we never eliminate the increase in the money supply and finance an incredible amount of spending through debt.
Ask HN: Any large software companies with no PMs that are doing well?
What are some large companies without any Product Managers which do well? How do their development processes look like compared to those with PMs?
Hum, I can't really visualize how expert systems can "free us" from the need of programming and in general how a UI can "free us" from the need of "small talks between human and computer"...

Oh sure, it's appealing speaking to my desktop something like "hey desktop, display a 3D animation of the world by population density, annual climate, natural resources, kind of society etc to help me see a good place to emigrate to according to my preferred criteria you already know", but we are decades behind such UIs and their real effectiveness is still much unknown even in philosophical terms because such UIs will definitive be non deterministic so it's a bit hard trust them in many cases, possibility of mere verification is next to impossible etc.

It's not needed in many domains of course, for instance if I want a raw classification of scanned documents and most of them are well classified humans gets benefit from the raw ML classification, but not equally nice for a car's ADAS system that crush me against a wall because of an interpretation error.

In Smalltalk terms: yes some listings can look like plain English but many others are not and that's not a real issue per se, the real issue is that original Smalltalk was imagined for a human-computer UI, moderns one are kind of lost programming environment, for instance how can I compose a documents with relevant graphs from data sources in various ways etc in Pharo? Because that should be the target of a human-computer UI... For such purpose Smalltalk is far from being easy to read and use...
Nuclear power has a lot of connections to the nuclear arms industry, and as such is highly secretive. Many nuclear reactors were in fact to make bomb fissile material, with power generation as a side effect. The disposal problem is often covered in a veil of secrecy, eg when it pertains to weapons.

This is why debating these issues, which I've looked at my whole life, can be troublesome. We just don't have all the facts!

https://cnduk.org/resources/links-nuclear-power-nuclear-weap...
>customers of SASS companies and consulting companies make it a requirement to choose anyone but AWS. Legacy companies are terrified of Amazon.

Is there a particular reason for this?
Thank you for the thorough explanation! Sorry if I sounds blasé, that’s actually quite of an innovative project (but still I want to call it weird). ;-)

The video is very interesting, btw. But!.. the examples don’t show how interactive it can be (and the results are fucking brutalist; looks a bit like living Kandinsky paintings), related to other audio/live coding interfaces I bookmarked recently (not comparable at all):

http://100r.co/site/orca.html

https://supercollider.github.io/

https://sonic-pi.net/

https://www.purrdata.net/

Congrats!
The person running the test wants to spend their money effectively, not find out that their advertising is working. Running a test and finding something isn’t working is a positive result - it means you can move your money elsewhere and drive more sales.
$100 for a ACM membership $500 for O'Reilly. I can see why O'Reilly didn't want to renew. Learning materials are pretty slim with O'Reilly removed.
Who Moved to California in the Pandemic?
Sure -- the compiler is small enough to include -- and fast enough.
Bellard did an experiment where TCC was used to compile the Linux kernel
on boot. Remarkable.

Yes, the source may be verbose. But, the API exposed would be C, and most
systems have a C FFI.

Instead of TCC, you may wish to consider Quick JS (Bellard's Javascript
interpreter).

The reason I use TCC is to validate C code. TCC evaluates arguments left to right, whereas GCC does right to left...
That is one of the big benefits I have found from writing code while planning to write unit tests for it (even if you don't write all of them). You will generally avoid patterns that will require a lot of mocks to test, which generally make that code easier to refactor and reason about. If you are able to make big chunks of your code into "pure" functions, they are now really easy to test.
>has been made incompetent on purpose by parties interested in and ideologically in favor of dismantling it

So then why isn't government in states where these people are all but absent a pillar of competency that we can use as a blueprint?

These are much larger cultural and societal problems. If you think letting "your team" run things unfettered would magically solve it you're wrong.

There are competent government agencies. The situations in which they arise tend to look a lot like the situations in which other competent groups of people arise (smaller organizations, a well defined and narrowly scoped cause/mandate, people who actually believe in the mandate, etc).
@davidfactorial - thanks for sharing your use case and we look forward to hearing your feedback on the 2.0 release with Python support. we continue to be amazed but how many users are building automations with Discord and we appreciate your sharing the product with your scrappy dev community!
We are very rarely the main character in the various stories that would get written about the time we are alive by an omniscient narrator. Most of our lives are much too boring to hold the reader's attention.
I know, hence "perceived".

Still, my lips are on the can and if I fill the glass from the said can it tastes more "glassy" than "metallic".

As a sibling comment says - it's all in our heads *shrug_emoji*
You Are Burned Out and Don’t Even Know It [video]
Depends on if your workload is CPU or I/O bound. It's true that CPU and RAM and proportional in Lambda and raising or lowering the RAM also raises and lowers your CPU.

I'm not sure why but I found with pre-compiled languages like Go it's not as big an issue (as long as your app is I/O bound). With Node.js I've found that increasing the size of the Lambda helps even with I/O bound functions. I assumed it was because the JIT compiling of the JS takes CPU but it also seems slower on subsequent runs and Lambda sleeps the apps it doesn't stop them (until you hit the end of the 5 minute reuse window). I give my Node.js a min of 1 Gig of RAM whereas I've been able to get some of my Go functions down to 128MB with no performance hit.

Which yes, means the Node.js functions are about twice as expensive per MS before you even consider that the Go function runs for less time. But in both cases I've still found it cheaper than servers due to efficiency even though strictly speaking it costs more than a server per GB/Ghz.
The fighting is most fierce near communization, those edge cases where a brand name is becoming a common name for the item (think Kleenex).

I suspect it's not actually as bad as people may think (if someone searches "Dominos" are they looking for any pizza place, or that particular one), but it does happen.
bias toward short term risk avoidance versus long term risk avoidance. (hence status quo bias, also "nobody got fired for buying IBM", etc.)

what's needed is a meta-level risk budget and sane risk management, and in case of conservative industries (medicine, aviation, nuclear, blablabla) there should be a calculated and constant push to bias against stagnation, without fucking up the otherwise great safety record.

(of course this usually means a bit more in costs of managing changes, but that should be looked at in the perspective of opportunity costs of not changing to better processes/technology/structure/etc.)
(1) Taxes.
(2) Cost of housing.
(3) A government that insists on intervening in every aspect of my life.
(4) A culture of people who actively want the government to intervene on every aspect of their lives.
(5) Traffic.

I can afford to live in California. I just don't want to. I spent 8 years in the Bay Area, love to visit, but ultimately I can have more freedom elsewhere.
I use Windows as my main OS on my personal computer. The only way I find Windows usable is with an LTSB/LTSC iso. One thing I appreciate about Windows over any Linux DE is that it is relatively stable in comparison. I have had weird UI bugs/quirks with every Linux distro I have ever tried, usually after an update. Currently I use Linux Mint XFCE on my work PC, and I'm afraid to change to anything else at this point.
Well, he claims that these lives "would have been lost due to air pollution". The question is, what was the alternative considered for this study? Probably the worst kind of coal plant they could imagine, without any kind of filtration technology? Because I'm pretty sure that the number of lives lost in the last 50 years due to pollution from coal power plants in, let's say, Germany (Ok, West Germany before 1990) is pretty close to zero.

Ok, there are of course other countries with less strict regulations, but then the question is this: would a country that is not capable to regulate its coal plant operators so that they don't kill people via pollution be capable to regulate its nuclear plant operators so that they operate their plants safely?
> A land value tax taxes the land such that the market cost of the home is equal to the cost to build the housing on top of the unit.

To do that, an LVT would have to be calibrated so that it was enough to bring the market price of unimproved land to zero, plus (or minus, in certain market conditions) an additional amount needed compensate for dynamic supply and demand effects (lots of people wanting to move in plus building lag driving prices up above expected long-term equilibrium, lots of people moving out doing the opposite.)

> The land tax will put the land to best use,

Perhaps, but if so...

> and that will drive up the supply of housing units

...then not if housing units aren't the most profitable use of land in the local area it won't.

> All of this while the average person sees lower tax rates

Confiscatory (and the level of LVT you suggest is exactly that) taxes on land don't reduce tax rates for the average person in a country with a nearly 65% pre-policy homeownership rate.

> The money available to collect from NYC and SF land taxes alone could fund a nation-wide UBI.

No, even if that were true pre-policy it couldn't after you enacted it, because you are ignoring dynamic effects. Confiscatory taxation on land will catastrophically drive down land value.
I've never seen an IDE with an equivalent to smart-dash-mode:

http://malsyned.net/smart-dash.html