skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am thinking about this sort of thing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPS5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Operational_Decision_Manag...

Inform 7 has a very primitive rules engine and (to me) a very interesting model in which defaults and the overriding of defaults is a major strategy of control. For instance the default response to you typing in a command is basically

printf("huh?\n")

and then the commands you can type in are defined in terms of exceptions to that rule, exceptions to those exceptions and so forth.

I tried to write a text adventure in Drools in a way inspired by Inform 7 and got to the 30% mark of a demo, I was convinced it was possible but that it wasn't for me because I couldn't make head or tail of the error messages I was getting because Drools syntax is an unholy mixture of the host language (Java) plus Drools-specific constructions. (One reason we can't have good things in programming languages is that we're still using your father's parser generators.)

(The other time I wrote something unconventional with production rules, which was the control plane for a stream processing engine, I had no trouble coding it and little trouble with the error messages because I could read and understand the source code for the Jena Rules Engines... That didn't stop the Jena maintainers from telling me that my use case was unsupported.)

It's sad that production rules became unfashionable when Duran Duran did because between the RETE algorithm, improvements on the RETE algorithm, and keeping rules in a hash table, production rules engines have improved dramatically since "expert system shells".
At least from Wikipedia's numbers, 17K m3/sec. average flow in the St. Lawrence is only found below the mouth of the Saguenay River - far downstream from the Great Lakes, effectively at sea level (vs. even Lake Ontario is ~70m higher), and (from other sources) well downstream of the point where substantial tides and salt water intrude from the Atlantic.

I used the spillway capacity of Hoover Dam, rather than try to add up the total (diverted & un-diverted) flows of the Colorado, Columbia, Missouri, Rio Grande, Arkansas, Red, Sacramento, etc., etc. The point being that 10-20% of the Great Lakes water flow would be far, far too little to revive the west from its death spiral (to paraphrase user aurizon).
Seems like the patent office will sign everything that stands still for a certain time, regardless of their merits
Click-bait titles are now an art form in itself. Nothing against the work being discussed.
I am a newbie, but I meant to say single-malt Scotch whiskey. Bunnahabhain and Knockando are currently my two favorites. Both very different, but good in their own way.
Outside the rest of the claim not making sense how exactly would one compare the price of the M1 Ultra to an Intel CPU in the first place? The M1 Ultra doesn't have a price tag and even if it did you'd still not have a number you'd compare to the cost of a CPU.
So you're running programs without dynamic memory allocation? That makes sense for a certain domain, like microcontrollers and embedded systems, but most programs do end up dynamically allocating memory, which leads to non-zeroes for both of those things.
> All forms of economic land, including such things as natural resources and intellectual property, also generate economic rents and are candidates for taxation.

That fixes my biggest complaint about Georgism.

Take Google, for instance. What is the basis of their income? It's not the land they own or occupy. It's that they own google.com.

Where does IBM's money come from? Not from the land they own in upstate New York. It comes from their patent portfolio.
How many homes do you need to actually live? Most likely, the answer is one.

Are homes for living in, or for making money? That's the fundamental question we need to resolve. Because if its the former, then we are doing an abysmal job at satisfying that need. If its the latter, then we're doing a bang up job.
I had to do this recently. I just create a new project, and move the deps and js code files in it. And then fix whatever is breaking. The great thing is that they didn't have a lot of stuff done native side. The biggest changes was updating react-navigation to 5 from 3
+1. The commenter above also wanted cared about bijective mappings, and squaring a random variable in [-1, 1] is not bijective. Squaring a random variable defined over positive real numbers would lead to a bijective mapping and the distribution would still remain uniform.

Actually, I find it hard to come up with a bijective mapping that leads to a non uniform distribution that's useful for anything practical.
Just curious, are there exploits involving the GPU in the wild? It seems there is a lot of surface area for attack when emitting command buffers to the GPU. Not that I know how to get at system critical resources via the GPU, but there are some clever bastards out there.
Wonders never cease :)
Kids are going to be flying those up to peek in your windows and skylights soon.
It was filed in 2008, seemed granted in 2018
Sounds like we need a cheap, portable and available EMP device :)

Seriously though, noice by electronics should be considered a hazard.
> analogy that can't outweigh a study

I agree, a study is a more solid information source than a
an analogy by some rando on the internet. But -

> outweigh

It's not intended to "outweigh" the study, but to explain it.

> bad analogy

I don't think its actually a bad analaogy, rather it's quite a good
one if I may say so.
They use email as an example of federation. Actually, it's an example of the reverse. For example, I run a website with a reasonably large subscriber base (100k+ emails). Of those, something like 90% are gmail.com, outlook.com or yahoo.com. The majority are actually gmail.com.

So, while email is federated under the covers, users use it like it's a walled garden. In fact, if you go to a store where they ask for an email address, employees often have a hard time understanding what you're saying if you give them an address that isn't one of the three above.

Bottom line is consumers don't want or understand federated services. They don't care. That's why monopolies win.

To get people using federated services would require a massive, ongoing education effort. And, even that is likely to fail, because it just doesn't matter enough to people.

Alternate solution: governments could use antitrust to force federation.
Packing peanuts are often made out of corn starch. The problem is how the packaging comes from the receiver to a sensible use.
I don't even think Pico is in active development any more.
Disney has a similar deal to over 1800 entities that have special district status in Florida.
How is this different from any other installer that asks for admin access? At least the wget method gives you an opportunity to look at the install script, which most software installers dont provide
Wow, thank you for sharing WebLiero. I haven't played that game in ages--so excited to try it out.
Nothing really. It's just one kind of immutable ledger. If you have a use case where decentralization of the infrastructure is important, you don't care as much about network effects, and you know all your counterparties, then a private chain might be suitable.
People are FOMO'ing into buying sight-unseen houses the same day they get listed because they think it will continue doing 20-30% year-over-year with no significant pullback in the near future. Or same FOMO on the interest (mortgage) rate.

That's not healthy
PVC is only used for the sewage drain as far as I know. That's a small cost.
(Morgan Stanley acquired E*Trade)
We'll have to disagree on this. What you call a bunch of people having the same taste in clothing, I call social signalling.
This little drone has approximately 0 chance of competing with the big players on video quality. Why not simply embrace its limitations, and make them a part of its character?
it's amazing the international telephone system even worked at all.

ma bell was quite centralized but there were many attempts to get them to interoperate both domestically and internationally, even to the point of having a very rigorous regulation regime (nationalization too.)
I'm 100% certain that there's an instrument out there for you. Try a few things out, even if they look and sound like toys. Cheap instruments abound but even if you splurge on something expensive, most music instruments keep their value well enough to break even if you decide to sell them in a few years. (As long as you don't buy brand new.)

One thing that _probably_ helped me stick with accordion is finding a role model early on. He's on YouTube and plays the instrument very well and is super friendly and enthusiastic. He never says, "this is the only way to learn X," like a lot of music teachers do. His philosophy is, "I'll show you some techniques that worked for me, give them a try and see if they work for you." I figure I can call myself successful if I'm only ever as half as good as him, in terms of both musical ability and his general outlook on life.

The other thing is, first and foremost, play for fun! Yeah, it's a slog to get through some of the theory and repetition in the beginning but if you get burned out, find something more engaging to do for a while (e.g. mimicking a catchy pop song) and then come back to the theory later, knowing that grokking it will help you play cool stuff later.
No longer focused on growth it seems.
A hosted service that you log into can manage on-chain identity for you, but still make it possible for you to transfer identity management to another service, maintaining portability without needing the user to do key management.
For some reason, this chills me to the bone. Being forced to fight your own countrymen. Has this been done more in history?
drones make unwanted noise and ruin the atmosphere of natural settings. does the world need your boring selfies from an aerial perspective? No. absolutely not.
Only worse than these snapchat plastic teeny drones would a V2 with built-in flood light, for added light-pollution. Let's spoil star-gazing, too! I feel the sudden urge to pick up a book about falconry...
> Filed: 2017
The way I hear it frequently is: declarative shell, imperative core.
When due diligence is done then these lies about user count would have been exposed so they got to come clean about this "accident" now.
DeepMind's recently introduced 540 billion parameter language model PaLM can already explain complex jokes and and reason logically by explicitly describing reasoning steps. The results are quite impressive.
https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/04/pathways-language-model-pa...

To be sure, this happened just two years after GPT-3. So 5 years for something which Gowers wants, but based on a large language model, seems in fact quite realistic.
Shhh . . . no need to attract more people to Western Michigan. Let them continue to think it's nothing special.
> This will become a problem if demand goes down and Employers have more choices.

Or if interest rates rise and the economy slows down to fight inflation and the money dries up until things stabilize (or freaking war spreading in Europe). Would you rather be laid off due to economic downsizing or go back the the cubicle. I think I know the company’s opinion here.
Good on Mr. Smith. But was he in any way involved with the legal defense team for GNOME?

The story reads to me like GNOME spent $150k on a legal defense that saved themselves and carved out a little niche for FOSS projects, but otherwise allowed the patent troll to continue profiting from this patent.

> Of course, that’s little comfort to the 20+ victims attacked after GNOME with the now-proven-worthless Rothschild ‘086 patent, or the 50+ companies targeted with related patents that haven’t yet been re-examined.

Meanwhile, it looks like Mr. Smith basically did what the GNOME defense team should have done from the start and got the patent invalidated, with no funds to speak of.
> I have a relative who works as an auditor for the California Department of Revenue

No such department exists in California state government. Major state-level tax bodies in California are the Board of Equalization, the Franchise Tax Board, and the Department of Tax and Fee Administration. Sales and Use Tax is handled by the last.
Kind of expected on EPS as Rivian took the hit compared to Last quarter.
Focusing on life itself and what comes after it, the big picture. Reading ancient scriptures, occasional meditation, walking in nature, thinkering about the multiverse theories, post-materialist science, holographic universe, simulation theory, electric universe, time-space relativity, letting go of the ego, stereotypes and all kinds of dogma. Also, lots of physical pain and regular illness, which strangely enough helps with these kinds of things.
if people care more about the imagined world than the real world to the degree described in the comment i replied to, then there is no need for our real bodies to actually do anything other than exist. We only need imagine what we'd like to identify with, and the system will handle the rest. We could each be the supreme leader of our own world as far as we can observe

A bunch of bodies existing in reality with minimal real-world activity would be a form of peace.

Real world activity would be a disruption to that peace, and also unobservable to the imagined world since all content is mediated. So anytime a persons behavior does not fit into the imagined world system, they could be killed and no one would care or even know. Maybe everybody is just told that person had a heart attack or whatever.

it's akin to the dangers of not having a free press but with all of those dangers hyper-industrialized
>had Republicans presented Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio as the nominee in 2016, there are 70% chances are they'd still be in the WH

Cruz or Rubio might have been like every other Republican candidate since 1988, in being unable to win the midwestern swing states PA, MI, and WI that Trump won for the first time in three decades.
People "gambling" as you put it on the stock market take all the risk and then have to pay huge amounts of tax on any gains. Why should they pay for your mistakes.

Literally every single person investing money in the stock market adds more to society than a student debt non-payee.

Just got my payslip this month and I'm paying $16K in tax why should that money go to paying off your mistakes and also when I hear that it will be paying off your mistakes I'm sorry but I'm quitting my job and going full leech mode, the government will never see a single tax dollar from my work as long as I live. Just gonna live off handouts and pump out 8+ kids.

Think people with your thinking are completely naive to how thin the line is that keeps society productive. Some of us are getting real tired of carrying the burden of your poor decisions.

I'm pretty good at earning money when I contribute to society, I'm happy to switch that energy to exploiting society, I'm close to the edge on this, all it's gonna take is a few more things I consider stupid and I'm switching. Think it's high time productives start holding non-productives ransom instead of us being threatened with stupid spending of our hard work.
hilarious.

substantive reply: history begs to differ.
In the last 6 months Netflix is down 71%, Nvidia 23%, Facebook 36%, AMD 25%, Amazon 14%, General Motors 29%, Alphabet 20%, Volkswagen 32%, etc.

Are these all flagging companies as well?
> features on by default that are billed at the on-demand rate.

Can you please elaborate on what these features are? I used to work in the agent team and we were cautious not to have that happen.
I have spent WAY too much time playing orb.farm already. Thank you for a great list.
You don’t need a blockchain for that and blockchain wouldn’t solve that issue regardless.
How about we make "non-practicing entity" a defense in a patent lawsuit? That, if you can prove that the owner of the patent is an NPE (and doesn't reasonably license or innovate or even try to innovate, only sue or unreasonably license), case tossed...
Given all the information, it does sound like they were test fitting aftermarket parts.
There are native mobile versions of those games linked near the bottom of the page, too.
There was a ton of work on this in the 20th century, but the manifesto lacks a bibliography. How will this succeed where all the other brilliant folks from the past fell short?
I think it's worth noting that their stock is still up 185% since March of 2020. In spite of the prior failures at hardware, the app is still incredibly popular among young people.
I see an E2E test on there, I wonder about this for my own code if it's enough.

Sucks to add unit test to an existing app on the other hand E2E is nice.
I'm not sure if I understand what the problem is here. Would you rather not have this information available? It allows you to look up the info about the chemical and decide for yourself if you're ok with it.
DeSantis vetoes net metering bill opposed by rooftop solar proponents
Is it really? If you report a crime in a major western city more than likely the police won't file a report. Also "crime per capita" is a very gross and broad statement.
High home prices are the leading cause of homelessness. Everything mentioned here are marginal at best, extremely counterproductive at worst. Lock up more people? What happens when they get out of jail, it's harder for them to find a job and a place to live. Where do they end up, back on the streets. Unless the solution is indefinite detention of people, I'm not sure how criminalization solves homelessness.
I suspect lots of large companies that do make things but also hold many, many patents would object.

Patents can a potent weapon, especially if you have a lot of them in a specific area. So to answer your question, I would expect opposition from anyone with a big portfolio who wants unencumbered range of motion to use them offensively.

So for specific examples from the little corner of the world focused on here, I suspect and easy ones are Qualcomm and IBM. Probably Microsoft, probably Apple, but they've both surprised on some things recently.
what if they said "Europe and North America"?
Airbnb is Hacker News' McDonald - an easy target to attack and complain about, kind of symbol of lost 'right for one's house' which never really was but definitely will not be.

I prefer having discussion about the underlying issues causing these emotions though, they keep being mentioned here all the time but I guess its easier to just bash the messenger rather than fight government and selfishness/greed in general population.
pex is apparently pretty common already in plumbing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-linked_polyethylene
Do you have any evidence for this statement ("Apple paid them not to"), or are you just making shit up?
A Little-Noticed Reason Workers Quit: Too Little Work
From a few comments above, you may be seeing pico instead of nano on latest Mac OS

[0] https://osxdaily.com/2022/03/27/get-nano-text-editor-mac/
> and see undergraduate classes are taught by grad students who make ~30k a year

Hah, wasn't it UCLA who recently got excoriated for advertising for grad students to teach undergraduate classes with this stellar line:

"This is an uncompensated position"?
These examples are fair. At the provincial level Transport, Pipes and Wires all are small enough expenditures to not warrant their own category breakdown in the budget and are lumped into a 14.6% of budget other category.

At the city level it's tricky because the breakdown my city provides in the budget separates into capital and operating rather than other categories. From what I can tell from the 50 page report, water pipes cost approximately 25% of budget and transport costs approximately 5%. Wires aren't listed in enough details to get an estimate.

My best sense from the numbers in the breakdown is the expenses for my suburb breakdown into roughly 60% per capita items, and 40% per area items. So 60% of our budget gets more expensive as you add people with low per capita taxation and 40% gets cheaper as you add more density.
Feels like the tech bubble is bursting haha. Big co seems to be relatively safe but so many others are down 50%+ YTD.

Robinhood, Wish, Peloton, Affirm, Opendoor, Roku, etc. etc.
When we bought our last house, the title transfer alone was about $500 (a couple hundred went to the state just to file), and the title insurance was about $750. My understanding is that even if we got the house for free, we would still have to have paid this amount.

The insurance is crazy part when you think about it. Even paying the $500, there's not a guarantee you actually rightfully had the title.
I know that you asked for suggestions on a *mastodon* client specifically...but in case you did not know...technically you can interact with fediverse instances and networks - including, yes, mastodon instances - with other ActivityPub clients too...Just sayin'...in which case feel free to filter for any of a bunch of them here: https://fediverse.party/en/miscellaneous/
Yet for some reason it's still worse quality than an iPhone. I switched from an S21 Ultra to a 13 Pro Max and snapchat has noticeably better quality on the iPhone. I just wish they would allow you to use the ultra wide and telephoto sensors as well.
Quickly installable via AppImage for Linux users:

https://www.openra.net/download/

The Red Alert Multiplayer section is quite alive.
I have a running LinkedIn search for 'principal software engineer' and 'software engineer' in Portland that has been going for a while. I'm not really looking right now, but I like to see what the trends look like.
I understood that it cost Gnome $150k for Gnome to settle and obtain their own exclusive right of usage instead of doing the right thing and fight the patent.
> Certainly there are still some people who are wealthy enough to keep their vacation homes vacant most of the time (and prefer it that way, since doing short-term rentals tends to involve quite a bit of wear-and-tear on a house and its furnishings). But many list on Airbnb now. I consider this a net positive for society.

You are missing a critical issue. Airbnb makes it way more affordable to have this second home, so now many more only-sorta-wealthy people can afford vacation homes while pricing people out of the local housing market.
This captures my assessment on the matter.

With the housing shortage and unmet demand, we are at the margins whereby the ones buying are well-off.

The question to ask is if the rate of new housing and the rate of capable buyers will diverge.

As long as supply is low enough that the supply of capable buyers keep outbidding each other, housing prices will keep rising or at least plateau.

Higher rates will have an affect on diminishing the rate of capable buyers entering the market, but if supply is still low and the demand for home ownership remains high, I don't foresee anything drastic happening to the housing market.
> Also, lots of physical pain and regular illness, which strangely enough helps with these kinds of things.

Turn your pain into art. For me, pain is the impetus for most of my art. A lot of people won't like hearing that, because they're not in pain, so can't relate. You can of course create art without having pain. It's a conundrum.
The Aral Sea might act as a warning. It was used for agricultural irrigation without concern for if the water could be replaced, and now barely even exists (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dan-Shaw-3/publication/...).

I live in Arizona. Most of our Colorado River water goes to agricultural irrigation. The drought is bad, but bringing in even more water from out of state wouldn't be an actual solution.
That's ridiculous. If it is seriously dangerous, ban it. Don't condition people into ignoring warning labels.
Twitter should have died long ago – let Elon Musk take it out back and shoot it