skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its not that I disagree, I think the VAT is much better than an income tax; but that has nothing to do with the IRS. The IRS would still have to administer the collection of tax revenue.
How is it that my UX looks completely different to the blog post?

I don't have advanced settings. Instead I have to go "Configuration->Function URL" to find this.
That's complicated based on workload, etc. A single PG node will obviously never scale to Google or Facebook levels.

Attend a PG conference and you will run into plenty of people running PG with similar use cases(and maybe similar loads) to you.

I can say we run a few hundred concurrent users backed by PG on a small to medium sized VPS without issues. Our DB is in the 3 digit GB range on disk, but not yet TB range.
"Coded in assembly language 59 years ago, the IMF seems small, at 200,000 lines of code. But the nature of assembler is that each line does a lot. Somehow replicating the logic in a more contemporary language has resisted efforts dating back a couple of decades."

Considering that average IQ has been dropping for decades in developed countries, one has to begin wondering if we are even capable of building code or infrastructure as well as they did 50-70 years ago
Replaing 200k lines of assembler with a mountain of Java code written as they describe seems like perpetual job security for TurboTax
https://ectobit.com
This made me wonder, of course if electrical circuits can be expressed as pretty much 1:1 WYSIWYG diagrams, why not computer programs?
Elon ships poorly-assembled cars years late, over budget, at higher prices than advertised, and missing features he had promised for years. He has historically done of all this using large amounts of government subsidies.

Beyond that, he's completely out of touch with a typical human being, let alone a typical Windows user.

Why do you think he could or should fix Windows?
Harry Potter and the Millennials
https://conorbarnes.com/

It should be getting a dark theme face-lift in the next week though!
I think the paper measures the communication through the electric field. So it's fair to compare that to the amount of communication from the solitary animals, right? I'm not measuring their overall computation that they apply going through their day. And I also submit it may be hard to know just how much computation the fungus does when it's not communicating.
Plutocracy.
1+K, 10+K, ... are merely upper bounds on the Kolmogorov complexities in L2, but the actual complexities can be lower, by an arbitrary amount for some strings. Furthermore, what's considered complex in L1 and L2 can be very different, and although "most" strings would be complex in either language, they don't have to be the same subsets in L1 and L2.
With all of the tools we've built to optimize our time, you'd think we would be more creative.
Does Spain export a lot of electricity? It could produce a lot of solar power. Even some in the winter, a lot in the summer when it's needed for air conditioning. One can think of it this way, if a solar panel is manufactured in or imported to EU, maybe it should be installed in the more sunny regions for maximum benefit.

Spain is also a wind power giant.

As comparison, Germany is not a great location for either wind or solar power.
Given that he is THE Ken Thompson, I'd argue that he was, in fact, the UNIX system resource.
> suppose you’ve set your sights on a less lofty goal than calculating the exact time-bounded Kolmogorov complexity of every possible string — suppose you’re content to calculate it approximately, and just for most strings. If there’s an efficient way to do this, Liu and Pass showed, then true one-way functions cannot exist. In that case, all our candidate one-way functions would be instantly breakable, not just in theory but in practice.

Wow, this discovery seems to have really deep implications for the limits of artificial general intelligence, but I don’t have quite enough background in the field to make a formal mathematical connection. At first glance, this seems to imply: cryptography or AIXItl, choose one.

Anyone working in the field have more insight on this paper’s potential AGI implications?
Germany would have to retrofit a lot of their seaports to be able to unload LNG from ships which would also take years to complete

Nuclear takes too much time so odds are they'll have to ramp up more coal plants to meet demand
And udevd used to be it's own stand-alone daemon which didn't need systemd at all, but for some reason it is now essentially tied to it.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udev#History

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudev
> The undoing of Skinner's grip on psychology is commonly marked by Chomsky's 1959 critical review of Skinner's book Verbal Behavior, a book in which Skinner attempted to explain linguistic ability using behaviorist principles.

This article is from 2012. In the 10 years since, we've shown that reward maximization can lead to unexpectedly good language models (GPT etc). I'm not familiar with Skinner or Chomsky's arguments mentioned here, but it would be interesting to see how they hold up now.
TinyPilot: Month 21
I wrote a more flowery version of exactly that in an email I sent to Burgerville. I.e. "I don't like being guilted into tipping for otherwise not tip-worthy service, so if you continue to do this, then as much as I like you're food I'll choose someone else who doesn't make me feel this way."
I don't know anything about bluesky, but I applaud any initiative that could provide a path away from the highly centralized web we find ourselves in today.

Also excited to see verifiable computation as an underpinning of this particular initiative. It's a fun topic and technology I haven't seen too broadly explored.
A tax system can be regressive and more efficient. The regressivity of a tax system can be offset by benefits, such as UBI, etc. Why is it that Europe has less income inequality and VAT? Because it is offset with a generous welfare state.
The only difference between 1 and 2^128 is 128 small constant factors of 2.
Yes that’s the point. The marketing points to that as the big cost but it’s insignificant compared to the real cost which is running workloads on it that aren’t optimised for price first. Which is probably most of them from experience.

Then again that’s how Bezos rolls.
Doesn't the fact that its opened in append only mode (Linux) mitigate data races with regards to writes?
https://ig.emnace.org

I write my pages as plain HTML documents. Pretty refreshing!

I have a blog post detailing the rationale: https://ig.emnace.org/articles/simplicity-of-web-page.html

But the gist of it is pretty much what you'd expect from the site alone: lightweight, semantically correct, minimal Web pages.
Thanks for that feedback.

I've mentioned this publicly before on HN: we are happy to offer anyone SAML SSO even if you fit into our Pro/Business tiers. We have configured "Enterprise" tiers for folks below $200/month and it is no sweat on our end. It just takes some pre-provisioning on our end that usually comes with more direct engagements with Enterprise customers.

Anecdotally, typically _very_ few customers in the self-service tiers make mention of this. It's something we need to message better on our marketing site but for onlookers here, know the option is available to you.
I'm glad to hear the panels were nice or at least not the same crap as early VGA panels. My first desktop LCD panel was a G5 iMac. I had a big Trinitron monitor for a long time and lusted after a 1600sw.
The post on Research and Adventure is great. It reminds me a lot of my time at Grad School. Some beautiful photos as well.
https://staysaasy.com/

It's not quite mine (I share it with a friend), but it is our personal blog since we're anonymous. We write about scaling high-growth engineering and PM teams.

Tech stack is Jekyll with a minimalist theme that we liked (Hydeout). We've set up a continuous deployment pipeline via Gitlab. Sometimes, the engineer in me can't believe that we can have all of these things for free.
I used to use my blog for photography, but these days it's mostly just occasional thoughts and the picture part is largely unused or something meant to illustrate the article and not one of my photos, but the design still revolves around each post having an image:

https://blog.samwhited.com/
Great answer and exactly what I was looking for! Thank you
It could literally be a shorthand for /usr/bin/env, actually delegating the PATH handling to user space. The path to /usr/bin/env could be a boot arg or runtime variable (sysctl). It could probably be implemented in Linux (without touching kernel code) via binfmt_misc. It's mostly a matter of people agreeing to do this.
We already do, those taxes just go directly to the salaries of elected officials.
I use lambdas for nearly everything at a games startup. The "Serverless framework" - https://www.serverless.com - has built-in concepts of dev/stage/prod and routing from URLs -> function etc. Logging goes to cloudfront but you could use any logging library you wanted inside your functions.

We don't have an operations team, so each dev deploys their own services; this framework gives them all a consistent interface so we know how to test or deploy someone else's code.

Advantages from my POV:

* zero or simplified ops; no load balancer setup etc.
* we don't pay for idle hardware
* scales well by default (built with parallelism in mind)

If a certain game spikes in popularity then it COULD become expensive - but IMO that's better default behavior than a server falling over.
https://staycaffeinated.com/

Haven't written since the new job, been meaning to finish up a few drafts I have lying around
http://www.parimashah.com/
Music Industry Flags Discord and Reddit as Primary Piracy Threats
It's seems that you are right. Speaking of disappearing activists and city officials I heard that a lot of that was done by FSB and that is "Gestapo" i.e secret police.
There's a typo
"Since it wasn't like a fixed palette--EGA was like only 16 colors--each of VGA's 256 pallet slots could be set to basically one of 16 million columns."

columns = colors
sounds like a dystopian nightmare. Makes me glad to live in a country where not getting into the best school doesn't automatically doom you to a lifetime of failure.
Some of the bodies on the streets of Bucha were lying for several weeks - Russia didn't care. There are also reports where Russian troops didn't allow civilians hiding in the basements to take the dead out (as some weak/ill/elderly were dying in the basements from the conditions there)

And technical approach like bringing specialized crematoriums wouldn't be a typical approach for Russians in such a situation - more typical (ie. simple and quick) would for example be to dig a large trench/hole by a tank and pile the bodies into the trench. The crematoriums is really to destroy evidence.

>they might be concerned for their own troops

that isn't a concern in Russian army. As an illustration - the Russian soldiers were digging and driving tanks in the Red Forest in Chernobyl without any PPE and without dosimeters. As a result over several weeks there many - like high tens or in the low hundreds - has already got acute radiation sickness, and many more are going to get very ill in the coming months/years from the ingested and inhaled alpha and beta emitters from the disturbed soil.
https://trbm.net
https://www.solomonsklash.io/

I do offensive cybersecurity.
IIRC that's how it works! it starts from a first image, and improves it until 'satisfied' that the result fits the prompt
Psilocybin-producing mushrooms are widely dispersed across the clade of all other true mushrooms and their genomes clearly show there is no great mystery about their evolutionary history or relationships to other fungi. Modern phylogenetics completely discredits panspermia as an origin for particular species or groups of fungi: they all share a single common ancestor and they are all connected to our single Tree of Life as with every other known lifeform on Earth.
Well, spin it how you will, but we've had this idea of a "progressive" tax system for quite a while now. ("Progressive" in the sense that those who make more, pay more, presumably because they can afford it more.) Our tax system has been that way for more than a century. So, you can call that "penalized unfairly", and others can call it "paying their fair share", but the reality is that it is the current default option. If you want a different system, you're going to need a lot better argument than "penalized unfairly". You're going to need an argument that can move the majority of voters, most of whom do not make more than $1 million/year.

My previous point wasn't anything about "should", by the way. I was merely saying that, in the current political climate, not hitting the rich harder was something that would make it harder for a VAT-only scheme to become reality.
file(1) or ldd(1)
Regardless of how much cherry-picking there was, some of these pictures are just beautiful.
Yep, plutocracy in the open without loopholes, lobbying and corruption. Just directly weigh the votes by the amount of participation to the common pot.
Just happy that they made the switch. Not interesting in the sense that it is unexpected.
I was trying to say, that some things are going to be hard for most people, because they're inherently a bit hard.

Just like inherent complexity in some software or business problems.

Maybe airplanes wasn't the best thing to compare with -- the comment below compares with C instead, maybe that's better. I never flew a plane.
https://langworth.com

It’s a retro experience with a text adventure game. I wrote it to prove to myself that I kinda knew WebGL after shutting down our browser gaming startup.

Only one person has beaten the game. Most don’t make it inside the building. Guess I’m not a great game designer ;)
Why Millennials Won’t Let Go of Harry Potter (2020)
The linked ecosystem overview[1] is a great exploration of the space. However, there's no mention of IndieAuth[2] in the exploration of decentralized and self-sovereign identity. I'd love to better understand why it's been left out because it seems really appealing in my own explorations of the space.

[1] https://gitlab.com/bluesky-community1/decentralized-ecosyste...

[2] https://indieauth.net/
Redhat family of distros are the same.
2 would be the wrong answer here, because K-complexity includes the definition of sha256 itself.
https://offbynull.com
Looks like the root mistake here is conflating `usize` (the integer type giving the maximum size of a data object, and the type of offsets into an allocation) and `uptr` (the size of a pointer's integer representation). In a segmented memory architecture, or one using 'object-oriented memory', the two need not be the same. You need pretty much the same sort of tweaks to be able to effectively target systems like the old 8086/80286, the 65816 (of Apple II GS and SNES fame) or the Intel iAPX 432.
Those all are small countries, with combined population less than Germany.
Its like the bank closed before could even be a run, but continues to be a bank.
It might get buried under all of the other comments, but I write stuff occasionally on my website

https://ersei.saggis.com

Some of the articles are on HN and have gotten a pretty good reception.
In my opinion, I think a completely voluntary tax system is what we have to achieve as a race to get to the next level as a civilization. I think a flat tax is a step in the right direction because it eliminates an entire swath of corruption.
There's no mention here of moderation, a key ingredient to any social network of people who lack real-world ties to each other.
https://art-res.xyz this is a website that I mainly use for blogging about art resources. Made in Hugo, though probably needs a fresh coat of paint.
‘Deepfake’ revenge porn is now illegal in Virginia (2019)
IQ has actually been increasing

https://ourworldindata.org/intelligence#by-country
GitHub and Gitlab exposes all user's public SSH keys (2019)
Pretty unsafe, I think. And you can't turn it off. https://rushter.com/blog/public-ssh-keys/

Links to APIs:

https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/users#list-public-keys-for-a-user

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/users.html#list-ssh-keys-for-user
Do you mind if I email you directly at hello@...?

I have a few thoughts to share and questions to ask about your search.
http://theroadchoseme.com

Documenting my years on the road driving my own vehicles to 56 countries.

After quitting my software eng job I drove the Pan American Highway from Alaska to Argentina through 17 countries over two years .

After working and saving I drove right around Africa, through 35 countries over three years.

Now I’m tackling Australia
Yeah you need an aws iam identity to call lambda invoke, for public consumer this is better.
> already pays for

huge understatement even as written :)
I may recall wrong here, but I think MIPS is the only architecture in use that has one's complement integer arithmetics.
The investors might have drank the same koolaid as the founders - if it can take a $650M big L and keep going, then practically nothing can stop them.
Was that real money raised or funny, AKA crypto, money?
The wiki is fantastic, I think I landed on the gitbook version somehow earlier this year. Love seeing long term projects like this full of interesting content. Well done.
https://cjlm.ca – currently sporting a newspaper-style layout inspired by http://www.breckyunits.com/
Was this behavior inherited from Unixes past? It seems like it'd be better if shells just returned the error back to the user.
If your scenario involves reusing keys then what you are breaking is not a one-time pad.

You're showing that if you implement something vaguely similar to OTP, but lacking the one element that makes OTP secure, it fails the IND-CCA2 game. Which is really pretty obvious when you think about it since OTP minus the critical "one time" element is just repeated XOR with a fixed key, which is barely stronger than ROT-13.
Is there currently a way to create a fake identity from a photograph of an iris?
Done, thank you!
Thanks for your reply.

I am still curious if you have any actual reasoning behind your assertion that the article we are discussing is "part of a wave of amplification of Western propaganda"..? If you are interested in counter assertions regarding the veracity of the Guardian as a journalistic source, I will be happy to provide you with them; my reference to their about page is not at all in "bad faith" as you charge..

Also curious as to what exactly is the exercise you are suggesting regarding your "personal disclaimer"..?

Not sure why you are accusing me of being unaware of the potential bias of sources that are within the Guardian article we are ostensibly discussing here, nor do I see how you conclude that this justified your accusation that I am "even more delusional than I initially anticipated.", but I work with sources in Japan, China and Taiwan and am comfortable with material in all relevant languages, so I am happy to discuss the issues pertaining to the disinformation campaigns waged by China against Taiwan and the geopolitics of the region if you like..

As to the your situations "when I am at negative points", this might be a good place to start :

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> Why can't parents travel, date new people, have ridiculously cool hobbies, read, and talk to random people on the street?

because all that stuff costs time and money.

realistically, you'd need to make enough money to cover the kid's stuff and saving. if you have anything left after that, only then can you devote anything to travel or hobbies.

I'm currently in the same boat as the guy above. what I make could comfortable support a family but I can instead help my girlfriend pay for college and hop between countries whenever I feel like it while pursuing learning electronics. I wouldn't be able to do these things if I was stuck paying rent on a house and covering food/ activities for a child.
It sounds like you can get a stable URL for a function, but it'll still be a Lambda URL.

I'd love to use this with a custom domain, without having to use an API Gateway.
This collection page of Emacs packages: https://emacs.zeef.com contains only packages which are last updated at least 2 years ago, and it's already an impressive amount to me, which indicates that Emacs community is also very active, despite having - in IT terms- a very ancient editor.
AWS Lambda has now gone full PHP. Never go full PHP.
Our infrastructure runs on Ubuntu 20.04 across the board but, for example, our main Ruby on Rails monolith runs Ruby 3.0, but Canonical only packages 2.7 for Focal. We have a legacy service which runs on 2.5 and a few microservices that run on 2.7. Having language versions tied to specific OS versions was a massive PITA for us in the past, now it doesn't even really matter all the much what OS is running the code. If we just used apt versions we'd be stuck on Ubuntu 18.04 for ruby 2.5 and we'd have to ugprade the entire application in order to get it to run on 20.04 once it goes out of support. Yuck

Nevermind trying to setup a development environment where you have multiple dependencies on different language runtimes.
> Plastics, lubricants, wax, sulphur, ashphalt are other products of oil

If they're produced with green energy (i.e. oil is only used as a chemical input instead of an energy input), then they aren't adding carbon to the atmosphere. Continue using them in good health.
In the meantime, a barebones crew operates Chernobyl infrastructure, while the sacrophagus was shelled by Russian troops.

Europes nuclear power Zaporizhzhia plant is surrounded by Russian troops and sustained damage:

> At 11:28pm local time on the 3 March 2022, a column of 10 Russian armored vehicles and two tanks cautiously approached the Power Plant.[18][19][20] The action commenced at 12:48am on the 4 March when Ukraine forces fired anti tank missiles and Russian forces responded with a variety of weapons, including rocket-propelled grenades.[19] During approximately two hours of heavy fighting a fire broke out in a training facility outside of the main complex, which was extinguished by 6:20am,[21][22] though other sections surrounding the plant sustained damage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Enerhodar
https://victorribeiro.com
TechEmpower has benchmarks for different web stacks: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
You're doing whatnow??

This may come off as arrogant, but it sounds like something that could be rewritten in Fortran to run on an old laptop with similar execution time.
Now all those poor Filipinos they talk about "helping" will now keep playing-to-earn a currency they can't buy anything with, like they could before (with the requisite crypto hoop-jumping)
https://christine.website
The US tried a voluntary tax system with the Articles of Confederation. It didn’t work.