skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
qwant main founder is a shady microsoft zealot and was in trouble for weird stuff (dunno how it did turn out). AFAIK, qwant is running ads from the advertisment company of microsoft like duckduckgo.
It is said qwant mostly use bing as its backend (they have small indexing engine/web crawler on their own though, but not main).

Usually, when something online is "free", follow the _real_ money: which advertisment company is making money out of it? is user data sold to brokers? is there a fund behind it financing (vanguard/blackrock/etc)?
> My recollection is that accumulation of aldehyde is also the danger of consuming methanol.

I assume you mean ethanol, because methanol is highly poisonous (even a fraction of a shot will make you go blind).

But yes, alcohol is broken down into acetaldehyde.
Is this a skin on tableau?
I have seen recently several discussions in the HN/Substack blog milleau about nuclear war “not being that bad.” Hitting the delete button on nearly every major city in Russia, the United States and and Europe is pretty bad.

For the flee to New Zealand crowd; I am quite curious what will happen when everyone with access to a long range airliner or business jet heads in that direction…

Related, NZ could do with some serious thinking about its inability to enforce airspace sovereignty.
Inkscape with a Latex extension is the best tool for making scientific posters imo.
I suspect even thinking there's a "test" has it wrong.

Yes, there's an experimental test -- as in, testing to see if salt is salt. But I dont think there's a formal test... as soon as you specify it, you've eliminated the need for intelligence. Intelligence is in that process of specification.

In otherwords, we should be able to ask the machine "what do you think of woody allen's films?" and rather than just taking any answer.. we need an empirical test to see if the machine has actually understood the question. Not a formal test.

There is no doubt a sequence of replies which will convince a person that the machine has understood the question: just record them, and play them back.

We're not interested in the replies. We're interested in whether the machine is actually thinking about the world. Is it evaluating the films? What are its views? What if I show it a bad film and say it wasnt by woody allen? What then?

There's something wrong in seeing this as a formal, rather than experimental, process. For any given machine we will need specific hypothesis tests as to its "intelligence", and we will need to treat it like any other empirical system.
Got it, but I think most democracies (for example US, Brazil, Argentina) have a line of succession either in their constitution or in the amendments that follow it. Whenever anyone takes the role of president next, they have full authority, power, and responsibilities of a president, even if in some cases they don't have the title of President.

I know of a few examples that it's required to have new elections months after a president step down, which is the case of India, but even then the acting president has the full power of a president.
Alleged Disasters Inside Brand New Luxury Houses Purchased for Nearly $2M
Atoms and institutions were used to build hardness/predictability in our world till now. Blockchains are new superior supplement to all. Fascinating read.
Your gripe is that there are two arrows on one line? The second is an argument to the promise constructor. You should be able to reason about this line easily.
From Wikipedia: "In November 2013 it was made known that the Salvation Army was referring LGBT individuals to one of several conversion therapy groups."

The American Medical Association has never suggested there is scientific data proving this therapy to be successful at changing sexual orientation, in fact the scientific data proves the opposite, it is harmful.
Yes, your biggest issue with it is also my biggest issue with it. It holds this spot in the cultural consciousness as like, the only/best general-purpose addiction program when it absolutely is not that.

Judges and mental health professionals sending people to AA without specifically understanding its practices and how those will help that individual is terrible and I hate that it's as common as it is.

And speaking from within the US, a lot of the weird AA-isms I think are adaptions to our fucked up healthcare system and general attitudes towards personal agency and addiction. No one is picking people up off the streets and giving them top-notch medicalized in-patient addiction treatment you know? AA isn't ideal or even necessarily very good for a lot of things. But it is there and it is free, and no matter how fucked up your life is they won't turn you away. Can't really say that about many other treatment paradigms right now.
Our Minecraft server is spun up only when we play, with a simple bespoke front-end that allows any Cognito-authenticated user to start or stop the AWS instance. The dashboard also shows an auto-updated leaderboard with some in-game stats (death count, miles traveled, last login and so on), stored in DynamoDB and periodically updated by a cron job on the server. I also planned to add a map of the spawn, but not sure if that’ll happen.

We have not played since MS started effectively requiring a phone number from every Minecraft player.
You missed the second part of my quote "innocent people simply trying to live their life".

Mocking is often excused because many (but obviously not all) creationist will try to push their views on others. No one cares what your beliefs are. They care when you use those beliefs as a basis to impose your morality onto others. That opens them up to justifiable backlash.

Non-binary people generally aren't pushing any belief beyond just wanting to live their life how they want to live it. The change they are looking for is acceptance.
Those instances show that Facebook is willing to do that to small incentivized groups of users- in that case, volunteers offered monetary benefit via gift cards, but difficult to say such a model is accomplishable on a wide scale. This is a situation where the users were self-selecting.

Certainly, companies will misuse and abuse the freedoms associated with sideloading, but I disagree that it’s as an easy task as people think. First they actually have to build competing app stores that are compelling enough for users to overcome the friction of switching. I don’t think these companies, other than game platforms like Epic, and perhaps tech companies in politically sensitive markets such as China or Russia, have it in them:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30808926
I suspect Taiwan is going to be another level. In Hong Kong the transition was planned and executed over a number of years (decades even) with cooperation from most local authorities and evolutionary changes continuing gradually over many years.

In Taiwan it could be sudden and brutal.

If you've ever seen truly country people from the inner provinces… I mean the most country-bumpkin (土 / "earthy") type of them, not the ones you meet from big cities, and think about how the PLA is partially made up of some of these people, the stories about Russian soldiers entering Ukraine and being amazed to find that regular households have microwaves, blenders, and nutella… start to give a picture of what kind of soldiers will be blanketing Taiwan in the event of a large invasion. It will not be like Hong Kong at all.
I honestly can't tell if this is satire or an interesting look into an alien (to me) work culture.
How destructive are nuclear weapons really?
No. I am the poor programmer whose manager forced me to use a library their nephew's dog or someone wrote that does all of those. Except using finalize for closing pipes for subprocesses, that was by Java standard library itself. And keeping references longer than needed, that is every library that implements clever caching, ever. Regarding try-with-resources, RAII was invented for a reason. Java did not copy it, because they seemed to seriously believe that GC is a good substitute.

One of the many features of Java is that it is advertised as being easy enough that any idiot can write it, and managers then hire idiots.
> the impact of x86 decoding was not that major at a point, I suspect it has increased with time

Can you elaborate why decode would become more problematic over time?
When you see a combination with a bunch of possible letters, you have to try to eliminate the letters instead of going for the win. Lots of people keep going for the win and losing when they could have eliminated a bunch of possibilities with a completely different search.
> They don’t check for employment eligibility/citizenship status before interviewing

As far as I remember, the vast majority, if not all, of recruiters I spoke with in the past few years asked me about my work eligibility in the US.
I know I can use Preview but it's very annoying. Everything is behind a menu and it is counterintuitive and slow.

The Finder rotate does only 90 degrees and doesn't do cropping.
Not sure if it's your site, but the sign-up and magic link went straight to my GMail's spam folder, with the link removed.
Aspect's Experiment
'Secret code' behind key type of memory revealed in new brain scans
Not really a counterexample, but you should watch this. (many dubbed English versions on YouTube as well.)

https://www.retrocrush.tv/video/016971v/ringing-bell-(subbed...
Just to clarify some points:

Yes, ofc You are still paying property tax, just way less than you would in nearly any other jurisdiction. It’s capped at 1% of total assessed value and that value can only go up 2% a year (i.e. way less than market).

That was the meaning of the word “nearly.”

EDIT: Just to contextualize this a bit, let’s assume those four houses were bought ten years ago for a total of $4m at the time. They are now worth $10m, but the owner pays $50k a year in tax to carry that “investment” that has gained on average $600k a year. Not exactly a meaningful carrying cost.
Source?

From what I see, is that 70% spend their money after 5 years, but don't just become 'homeless' / destitute. This seems some kind of overblown myth.

The other study I found:

"Statistically, 1% of lottery winners in the Florida study went bankrupt annually (Source: https://www.creditdonkey.com/lottery-winner-statistics.html)"
In the past they've talked about the speed and memory improvements they've gotten from using MultiArrayList in the compiler, storing tags separately from the unions themselves. If you have a union with a size of 16 bytes and you add a tag to that which is 1 byte, a lot of space is wasted due to padding. If you keep the tags in a separate array, both arrays are individually densely packed. Less memory wasted due to padding == less memory use overall and better utilization of cache.

But in terms of the implementation, this means working with untagged unions, because the tags are maintained externally.
mmmmh... links? lynx? netsurf?

(sarcasm)
“What if they have no code they can legally show”

> Sorry to be blunt, but chances are they aren't very good, and they are definitely not as good as they think they are.

and there it is, one of the other subthreads is making fun of this kind of employer that swear by showing code

this is a false attribution bias where you decided not to notice that every evaluation technique the entire industry figured out will mostly by filled with people that cant code

your technique is simple no better
The difference is a firestorm.

In a firestorm spotfires interact. This interaction will increase the burning rates (forests and bushes burn more thoroughly, there is more heat and higher flames. It creates whole new local climate that throws shoot into the atmosphere.

2009 Black Saturday bushfires in Australia had some firestorms.
On here, I’d expect that if anything you post does get traction, a fair number of people will question whether it should even exist, whether it’s done well, etc., often in a pretty condescending way. Sometimes it’ll be legitimate feedback, and sometimes it’ll be ignorant.

Plenty of people will be nice and constructive, but I often feel for the people posting their work on here given how harsh the community can be.
Not true. mmap is commonly used in malloc implementations. Look at this man page for jemalloc.

http://jemalloc.net/jemalloc.3.html

"Traditionally, allocators have used sbrk(2) to obtain memory, which is suboptimal for several reasons, including race conditions, increased fragmentation, and artificial limitations on maximum usable memory. If sbrk(2) is supported by the operating system, this allocator uses both mmap(2) and sbrk(2), in that order of preference; otherwise only mmap(2) is used."

Also, Google's tcmalloc uses mmap to get system memory:

https://github.com/google/tcmalloc/blob/master/docs/design.m...

"An allocation for k pages is satisfied by looking in the kth free list. If that free list is empty, we look in the next free list, and so forth. Eventually, we look in the last free list if necessary. If that fails, we fetch memory from the system mmap."

In fact I'd be surprised to see a modern malloc implementation that doesn't use mmap under the hood.
"Taxation is entirely about raising money."

It isn't. Government has no need of it. Taxes are essentially shredded and deleted.

All very simple when you realise there isn't a fixed amount of money and it grows and shrinks as required by the economy.

What is spent and what is taxed are inductively connected, not directly connected. That's how we have 'deficits'. It's a function of the accounting.

"What does "releasing real resources" mean, and how does taxation achieve that?"

If you tax employment directly, private firms offer fewer jobs because there would be insufficient money in circulation to employ everybody (wages are insufficient to purchase output due to the tax take). The public sector then hires those who can no longer get jobs in the private sector.

The LVT fails to target the areas required, and it lacks a countercyclical behaviour. An employment tax, for example, collects more when the economy is hot and less when it is cooler. That's part of the automatic stabilisation mechanism.

"I'm puzzled as to how you conceive of government not needing land, when many government services do in fact need it"

Government is largely service based rather than goods based. What it needs is people.

Georgism is based upon a view of money that isn't actually the case. So it doesn't work.
Is that really the case for anyone but dedicated hobbyists? I would be honestly shocked to learn that the average life of any laptop brand runs higher than 5-6 years on average before being discarded.
I am, in fact, slowly progressing towards this concept on my own with a split keyboard (Quefrency / Sinc).

I am doing it so I don't have to move the right hand off the mouse, or put the coffee cup down or just feel like supporting my chin with the right hand while I am reading.

What I did so far that helped with productivity was:

1. Map the Capslock to activate 2nd layer when held.

On the second layer then:

2. Use the 1-6 number buttons on the second layer so I can type in all 0-9 numbers with just one hand

3. Map the QWSADE (along with HIJKL which is at this point a given) to arrows and PgUp/Down/Backspace

4. Map Z to Enter/Return (So Capslock + Z) is Enter/Return.

I was toying with an idea to map the right side letters to the left side, but that learning that may be more trouble than it's worth. If I need to type more than 1 word it's usually worth using both hands.

On a separate note I am continuously surprised there isn't enough advancement yet by means of AI to make a rock-solid autocorrect for typos.
Don't use react?! <ducks tomatoes>
> Check page 13. They directly reference Snowden. I'm getting a strong sense that you are a troll.

I sometimes make mistakes, I was not aware that Snowden leaked this program too.

Anyway, illegality of this program is not proven yet, all collection happened under FISA warrants as I initially said, I think this was the topic?

> Your understanding, based on ignoring the linked document?

I obviously didn't go through all 60 pages of court document, I believe it was your burden to provide exact citation to support of your point for the sake of discussion.
I think the "not a hedge fund" part is referring to the fact that this would be a taxable event for the average stockholder. You can't just presto move that same amount into another tax stock.
If enough people start marking it as "Not Spam," would that make things better?
Do you think that still sounds much more confusing than it needs to be?

I don't totally understand why they offer these two mechanisms of integration -- or why the granularity of access would need to be different between them. Why not let "OAuth apps" be authorized per-repo -- if you are going to have "OAuth apps" existing as a thing still? And they don't seem to be deprecated in favor of newer "github apps", right?
Yup, my family minecraft server fell victim to that. Thankfully it was a new map with only a couple days' work into it, but annoying nonetheless.

Whitelist your private servers!
I guess these materials are intended as support for classes, so it is ok for them to resemble Powerpoint decks as there would be a lot of voice over and explanations on top of them by the teacher.
> Do you consider Jack Dorsey naive on the subject?

On the contrary, Jack knows what he's talking about and wants this because it would allow him to abdicate responsibility for Twitter platform moderation.
false attribution error and appeal to authority

which was on top of a false dilemma to begin with

amazing

I get that the logical move is to get defensive, but just consider introspection
That log entry happens when you change the settings on a repo for what kind of merges are allowed for PRs (merge commit, squash, rebase). It’s three checkboxes under “Pull Requests” in the settings for a repo. I can’t speak to any reason a threat actor would have wanted to change those settings though.
You could also use LibreOffice or Google Docs. I just meant that for my use-case (arranging images, plain text log files, syntax-colored code, and tables together in one place, quickly) prior to final annotation (big red arrows connecting the dots)
Same here, I've never had that callback hell problem either, I think it's pretty elegant actually and you can do a lot of nice refactoring by extracting callbacks into variables. And the big strength is that your programming actually looks the way that the runtime works. It just becomes confusing with another abstraction that obfuscates the way the runtime works and requires you to now have this mental translation model.
Yeah. A good place to see just the exported API (and its documentation) is https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/AlexEidt/Vidio.
This is why I like Quordle and Waffle. Both are evil and definitely do repeated letters and rare words.
Or they don't have the time or manpower to fix/learn things and
are trying their best to hire someone to help right the ship before bringing you onboard. Such a negative take.
Hey everyone, OP here.

I, like many others tend to waffle between loving and hating social media, so this is my take on what I think a better solution looks like. This is something I've been working on for the past couple of months and a concept that I think will be though provoking, if nothing else, to the HN community. If you want to read more on my thoughts and the story behind this, you can check out my blog post here: https://dev.to/duensing/introducing-slow-social-4a90

Besides that, I'm happy to answer questions and take criticism.
It's hard for me to see "X gets more funding" as something to celebrate. Funding is essentially zero sum so that just means something else is now less funded as a consequence.
I'm not saying anything about promises vs async/await. The original comment said that you can't have 2 async things happen in parallel without Promise.all, my code snippet proves that you can.
I think the idea of paternalism comes from seeing people harm themselves by undertaking actions they were manipulated into taking, and confusing that with actions they'd have done on their own, independently.
Pinta or KolourPaint maybe?
I remember when the Linux kernel's preemptible patches were introduced. It already had preemptible userspace, but the kernel wasn't, leading to lots of latency issues. Once they hacked up SMP support to add preempting, things were so much smoother
Maybe a useful (if redundant) part of a multipronged approach for self-medicators but can't touch the reality-avoidance component of addiction - that maladaptive behavioral pattern which has more in common with personality disorders than "chemical imbalance".
Why are you working for free? I'm not in machine learning, but if I got this in an accounting field I would think it was a scam and not a legitimate job offer. Just my two cents. Best of luck friend.
ROI of the project
A nit I like to pick: there is no substantial definition of "empire" by which the U.S. is an empire. Hegemon, maybe. So "imperial" isn't appropriate.
Because Apple still wields control over iOS, which means they can also curate how the sideloading experience. I don't believe that even if legislation and regulator action forces iOS to permit sideloading, that it necessitates sideloading to be done in as casual a process as it is to download and install software on macOS, Windows, or desktops in general. Apple will still be able to determine how sideloading is done. And they can make the process very guarded, with multiple disclaimer screens and agreement menus that the user must assent to before they are allowed to sideload. Even on Android today, enabling sideloading is a multiple step process:

https://techcult.com/sideload-apps-on-android/

Furthermore, I believe that Apple can choose to shape the experience even after sideloading is enabled. They can add badge icons that single out sideloaded apps. They can force sideloaded apps to be on specifically marked pages on the springboard. They can add alerts and popovers galore that ask the user "Do you really want to do that?" wrt the sideloaded apps. Apple is a master of UX and branding - if they can influence millions of users via the blue iMessage bubble vs. the green SMS chat bubble dichotomy, they can find a way to subtly single out sideloaded apps as worthy of concern. Emergent user behavior then follows.

Finally, as I have mentioned in the previous link, Apple still controls the operating system that all apps, whether sideloaded or not, exist on. If they wanted to harden its security and strengthen entitlements in such a way that even sideloaded apps cannot bypass certain privacy or security safeguards, they can probably find a way. At they very least, they can introduce a similar notarization process that they already do on macOS on non-Mac App Store apps.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/notarizin...
If I'm running it, I have no intentions of letting it become that way. The whole point of the product is that it's about friends and not influencers. People, not money. This is something for myself, my friends, and people like them more than.

If Slow Social had any measure of great success I'd love to make it a B-Corp.
Related:

"PRGA: An Open-Source FPGA Research and
Prototyping Framework":

https://parallel.princeton.edu/papers/FPGA21-Li.pdf
This confuses async with parallelism, probably because JavaScript is his threading model.
Submitted as a curiosity, as a sketch from a "lead pencil" that contained actual lead (Pb).
Good stuff! Keep going!
Aluminium plate can be laser cut or water cut and if you're doing 2D stuff then it's simple enough that they can give you an online quote and there are some fairly cheap providers in China. Maybe not quite as cheap as OSHPark for very small parts, but you do get aluminium instead of fibreglass.
So far I've gotten virtually zero views or downloads on my GitHub repo's. I'm ambivalent. On the one hand, I can forget about my 15 minutes of fame. On the other, I've done my duty to society by sharing my work, but don't have to deal with bug reports or feature requests.