skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like a third of Africa is in the Commonwealth, as is India and much of Oceania.

Maybe I've read too many articles about US currency being used across the world. That said, I've seen a surprising amount of foreign programs reference Lincoln's image. Considering there are hundreds of billions of pennies in existence I suspect he's more well known than you'd think, even though they primarily are in the US.
One of the best and most underrated science channels on YouTube. I hope he gets his deserved rise in popularity, though his channel is growing faster now.
I like the contemporary alternative to the classics. They make a lot of thing so much easier.

I have a little mental block, though. It's related to the realities of the stuff I work on. Since I find myself logged into other people systems, keeping the old, standard tools hot in my head does really take some of the load off. It's a pretty common refrain, but it's real and practical when you've got embedded systems, bsds, linuxes, macs, etc. Even the difference between gnu and mac is clunky when I don't practice enough.

For the same reason, with the notable exception of git, I use practically no aliases.

If I could invent a product, maybe it would be one that enables effectively "forwarding" CLIs to a remote host shell.
A lot of people who actually create content or administer subs are on the old site, I have to guess.
Oracle is an option (especially for converting CentOS without reinstalling), but it has become stunningly more expensive.

There used to be a $99/yr "support in name only" option, with no ability to file service requests (community discussion boards only). The basic level of support was $500/yr.

It now appears that basic support is $1,200/yr. Of course, ISO downloads and yum support are still free, but the support contract is now much more expensive.

Oracle also still offers free KSplice kernel updates for Ubuntu, but it appears that Fedora support was removed.
I really like some of the Adult Swim movies for absurd comedy. Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters and Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie come to mind as good examples.
Where I was projects started on CentOS. Often once they got big / went to production, they were switched to RHEL.

And devs often used CentOS when playing around (ie, setting up VM's etc at home or just randomly) because you didn't need to talk to anyone to do so.
Not significantly worse, I think it was about 4/10. I tried to find the link through my browser history without any luck though :-/
Right. I used to sit on a trading floor next to a commodities sales desk. If the GP's mental model is that people who are involved in futures are, by definition, involved in speculation, then that is a wrong model: a lot of "real economy" manufacturers hedge their exposure to price changes for their inputs or outputs through the futures market.
So, you think if you put up a website, people won't use it for diagnosis anyway?

yes, I know mammo AI products are on the market- those that were approved followed a collection of regulations that I think you are not.
This is fine and all, but there are also subtle differences in standard CLI tools depending on the implementation. I'm used to GNU stdutils, and butt heads with the macOS and BusyBox implementations.
While the person doing the napkin math didn't account for inflation, they were also wildly conservative in terms of how much of a return endowments can get from their investments, mostly just referencing the 4% rule that's useful for retiring individuals with very low risk tolerance.

They estimated that free tuition for all students would cost 3% per year, but the S&P 500 has returned over 10% yearly over the last 100 years, 7% adjusted for inflation. [1]

This math also assumes that the school never receives another donation ever again, which is quite unlikely.

It should also be obvious that my point isn't that schools should literally run entirely on their endowment. My point is: giving money to a school like Harvard or Stanford isn't really an act of charity at this point, because they are juggernaut institutions that are too big to fail. They don't need to be raking in licensing fees from images and quotes from people who have been dead for decades.

It's also interesting that, in your last sentence, you are implying that HN viewers don't know anything about running a business, but last I checked we were talking about universities. There's a little bit of irony here: my whole argument revolves around the fact that these supposedly "non-profit" educational institutions are acting very much like businesses in ways probably shouldn't be.

In my view, images and text for deceased historical figures like Albert Einstein and Martin Luther King, Jr. should be part of the public domain much sooner than copyright law currently allows so that we can all enjoy and learn from their legacy freely without capitalist incentives.

I think Reddit is a better place to complain about fake Internet points. I highly recommend it!

[1] https://www.officialdata.org/us/stocks/s-p-500/1926
It isn't being trained on test. Kind of the point of memory is that you can change the memory at will and don't need to train on new information you have never seen before.
“Your Body Is a Battleground”
Apple CANNOT do sound....period. they fail it on every single platform....my mac is terrible... Bluetooth sucks....airpods suck....
I guess - my hypothetical response attests that every claim is false, his that at least two are are untrue - which ones and just how untrue?

>And, for the record, those wild accusations are utterly untrue

And then he rapidly goes off the rails.

>But I have a challenge to this liar who claims their friend saw me “exposed” – describe just one thing, anything at all (scars, tattoos, …) that isn’t known by the public. She won’t be able to do so, because it never happened. … Moreover, the “friend” in question who gave the interview to BI, is a far left activist/actress in LA with a major political axe to grind.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1527518555641618433

> They began brewing attacks of all kinds as soon as the Twitter acquisition was announced.

>In my 30 year career, including the entire MeToo era, there’s nothing to report, but, as soon as I say I intend to restore free speech to Twitter & vote Republican, suddenly there is …

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1527629698267615232

I mean there's at least 750 thousand reasons now to believe that there is in fact something to report and that investigative journalists are now looking into what else there may be.

> Heard has been credited with donating $1.3 million in four installments, Dougherty said. But not all of the money came directly from her: $100,000 was from Depp, and another $500,000 is from a Vanguard account the ACLU believes to be associated with Elon Musk — whom Heard dated after her breakup with Depp.

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/29/1095571524/amber-heard-aclu-d...
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society.

e.g. Peter Mitchell's chemiosmotic theory of how living cells power themselves at a molecular level was not accepted for many years.
> We are educated, paid and motivated to push the boundaries of research, not to think about all potential fallout

That’s the whole problem that led to the introduction of these sections.
Fascinating study, and it's telling that it was done using more traditional fluorescence techniques instead of the newfangled microelectrode arrays supposedly due to revolutionize the field. (not optogenetics as replier points out, that's for activating via light, not expressing fluorescence)

It's stuff like this that reminds me how little we understand of how even a highly structured area like the visual cortex, where there are practically purpose-built clusters of cells for certain features and contours. Good luck doing this in the frontal cortex!

But this is where it starts. We don't need to jump the queue and go straight to "the exact location of love" as we often see in bad science reporting. Nevertheless I'm sure we will see headlines like "watch a thought race across a brain" and the like. Ah well, the research is what's important.
This is certainly the dream of DeviceTree, but I don't see how this can work, given that "Linux" generally requires a different device tree depending on both the kernel version and which specific drivers are employed. Perhaps for specific ARM boards with a very high degree of maturity this is possible, but for example even for Raspberry Pi, a completely different set of DT overlays are required depending on the specific graphics driver configuration which is desired (KMS/FKMS/proprietary VideoCore etc.).
That comment says volumes about yours.
Look even waiting 3 months is already a failure of the speedy requirement. Saying well 1 year is too long but edge cases isn’t a minor issue… No anyone ever hitting 1 year is clear evidence of total failure of the system to even pretend to care about this issue.
Okay, so instead of Nim, consider a hypothetical language that has Nim-like syntax but Rust semantics. What would be the problem with that?
I don't see how a passive scan like this can be harmful . Ofcourse if it does show a positive one should confirm further with a biopsy or other standard confirmation diagnostic.
As for false negatives...
If you feel something is wrong you should get it checked thoroughly anyway .
That's because thanks to computers, clipboards are no longer needed.

But the whole point of this thread is that the computers aren't getting the job done.

So why not use something has been proven to work, rather than something that is showing that it doesn't work?
That they benefit "humanity" is a dubious claim. They certainly benefit the small club that uses their services.
Anti-vax people agree.
If you asked everyone in the world to draw Trump's face and Einstein's face I bet you more people would draw Trump more accurately. But both have crazy hair so maybe it would be a toss up.
Tether's claim is that verified users can redeem USDT for USD 1:1 at https://tether.to/. Exchanges like Kraken are secondary markets and Tether does not claim anything about them.
Even if people use it for diagnosis, so what? Take the info and if it’s positive to confirm with doctor, if it’s negative but you have reservations go see doctor.

It doesn’t really change anything.
But DAI doesn't control USDC, which means that they cannot control the reserve piece of the equation. This is the independent monetary policy + free capital flow piece of the trilemma.

The auction function doesn't work if USDC suddenly isn't worth 1 USD, because then you're facing down a reserve that isn't worth "more" than DAI, even though the algo still thinks it's in balance.

Basically you've tied DAI to USDC, which in turn is tied to Coinbase, which in the event of a bank run/bankruptcy event will freeze assets and cause massive capital flight causing people to sell their USDC for less than 1 USD as they flee for safety. This causes DAI to become unbalanced because their reserve of USDC isn't actually worth what it should be in USD terms, causing DAI to also lose the peg in terms of real US dollars.

I'm telling you, there isn't a way to make this stuff work. It's financial alchemy.
At least with patents there's an argument to be made that patents are a public good because they encourage disclosure of inventions by their inventors.

Copyright can similarly be argued to benefit the public by encouraging creators to create.

But how does the public benefit from enforcing publicity rights?
I'd love to see a Red Hat CoreOS outside the context of OpenShift at some point.

Seeing a proliferation of container-first, immutable, and atomic distributions like Fedora CoreOS would be a good middle ground between bare-metal and Kubernetes.

All of my Fedora CoreOS hosts automagically upgrade themselves via rpm-ostree and Zincati, and the fact that the OS is atomic and disconnected from the containers I'm running on top of it gives me a lot of peace of mind in terms of stability.
Dear 100011_100001,

in the olden days hacking was not only a job of producing code, there was a hacker culture. There were the gurus, the diciples, and the anarchists. It was about dediction, love, and fun. Programming is related to Zen.

You are a hacker because you love what you do. But you lack the spirit of Zen and the spirit of community. That's not your fault, it is the fault of the work environment you live in.

A good culture is one of peers who teach each other, not one of workers who get the Jira issues done.

Maybe these good olden days have never existed and Zen is a lie. But to attain enlightenment and contentment, you need the Zen mind. And Zen says that you have to keep the beginner's spirit. You are overconfident. You think there is no one who can teach you at your work place. That is horrible. You obviously are not able to teach your peers how to program like you do! That's worse. You should know: you are truly successful when you have managed to teach your peers how to outperform you.

If that is not possible in your work place's culture then you should go and look for a better place.
You know, if people who teach ML classes at universities point out to you that what you're doing is going to be taught in classes as an example of "what not to do and how not to do it", you should probably immediately stop what you are doing and get opinions from experts in the field.

I will repeat what others are say: this is irresponible due to naivete and could be harmful to people. Please consult with experts on how to proceed.
That's something different, though. Money market funds are meant to be safe interest bearing investments: they're expected to give a small positive return on investment in normal times, and to be safe enough that people will at least get their original investment back in bad times. That's why it's a big deal when something happens which causes them to return less than was invested by any amount: a safe investment, which gave lower returns in exchange for that supposed safety, wasn't.

The goal of Tether is a little different. One USDT is meant to be worth one USD. It's just as much a problem for the purposes people use it for if USDT is trading above one dollar as below, because they're paying more than its value. That is, the Tether peg is meant to be two-sided, both above and below, and all that's happened is that it's gone from trading at slightly above the nominal value to trading slightly below it. That's not really "breaking the peg" in any meaningful sense.
So you should ignore it and see a doctor regardless.
Chonky Palmtop Will Slide into Your Heart
Isaac is pretty amazing. His topic selection is like a peek into my brain.

I wish he had a team of content producers working with him, rather than having to do so much re-using stock footage.
I will keep that in mind next time I am staring at the rear of a diesel bus while stuck in traffic.
ETH will soon move from PoW to PoS (let's not debate the timeline or if it is a good idea). This will put about 32 million GPUs worth of compute and millions of CPUs searching for something else to do (or just flood the market with used equipment).

I have been searching, for years, for alternative workloads for these GPUs beyond just PoW mining and password cracking. Many of them are on systems with tiny cpus, little memory, little disk, little networking so the options are heavily limited. AI/ML/Rendering/Gaming actually make bad use cases.

If anyone has thoughts on this, I'd appreciate hearing them. Let it all die is certainly an option, but it also seems just as wasteful as keeping it going. Maybe we can find a better use case, like somehow curing cancer...
Keep in mind that this is the website from Deutsche Bahn, which operates a lot of trains, regional trains and local trains. But not every public transport is from Deutsche Bahn. The 9-Euro-Ticket is valid for all public local transport, too - not just for the Deutsche Bahn.

The ticket is for local transport operators, too. One can also buy the ticket there. A subscription ticket will be automatically converted. One can for example buy it at the local Verkehrsverbund (transit district), which here serves in Hamburg several million people with all kinds of regional trains, city trains, underground trains, busses, ferries, ...

Thus one can use all (!!!) local and regional public transport for 9 Euro for a month, 24 hours a day, for all of Germany, for all public transport operators. The is done for three months, each month costs 9 Euro.
"If we don't enforce publicity rights, what incentive will people have to gain renown?"

It's wild how nobody wrote or invented anything prior to the rise of intellectual property.
There are many free goods people don’t seem to (usually) overconsume.

Primary school is free, libraries are free, parks are free, etc. To know whether public transportation is more like free libraries or more like free parking, you have to run the experiment.
I think you and I are experiencing different realities. I know first hand it is easy to drive without a valid license whether that means not having one at all, having one but currently it is suspended, or any other various ways. I also know direct* 2nd hand of how easy it is to have a car that does not have proper official paperwork/stickers/plates.

If you are operating a car in someone else's name does not mean they are ultimately on the hook. Yes, they will probably be main suspect, but they will/could be able to prove not involved. Easiest would be to say you were using the car without permission.

>Logically it would have to be fantastically burdensome to convince many people to drive without licenses.

WAT! this happens every. single. day.

*I know direct 2nd hand is counter-intuitive, but I mean I personally know people with cars like this.
The PA bridge collapsed despite a recent (couple years prior) gas tax hike that was supposedly going to be used to prevent exactly that kind of outcome.

Throwing money at the problem doesn't work if you suck at throwing and can't hit the problem.
> "It stil might be worth it to use the train, as you can work/read in the train which you can't do in a car."

Also, at €9 for a ticket that lasts a month, you're going to save an awful lot of money compared to taking the car.
A good example of what you are warning against is Anscombe’s quartet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe's_quartet
Hey, fd. I don't use it normally, but it ended up being the easiest and fastest tool for me to delete ~100 million empty files off my disk (a weird situation). It has threading and command execution built in, so I could saturate my cpu pretty easily doing the deletes with `fd -tf --threads=64 --exec r m {}` (I put the space in the rm command on purpose for posting).
Would you write the same comment about a Catholic psychiatrist who wrote a blog about both Catholicism and psychiatry?

Catholicism is definitely pretty controversial and definitely not universally respected, but I think most people would have pretty strong pushback against a commenter who felt the need to bring up an author's Catholicism regarding a blog post that had little to do with catholicism.
This is a great concept, but definitely really early.
I'm curious if there are other examples in the ecosystem already?
The main table is stored in a 'heap', which is more similar to the dynamic allocation region of a program rather than the data structure.

If it needs to write to the table, it has a free space map listing all of the available fixed size pages. Each page can hold some number of fixed size tuples.

I'm surprised they've gotten so far with this. It seems ripe for fragmentation issues. I'm surprised they don't at least have a b+tree implementation to provide clustering based on the primary key. They have a b+tree implementation for indices, but not for tuple storage. IIRC, there's a feature to allow fixed size data row to be stored directly in the index, to help alleviate the need to look in the heap table. Perhaps that's what's kept the heap as viable?

Variable length strings are kept in a separate file (TOAST tables), referenced by the tuple. This keeps records fixed size, and allows for circumventing disk reads for string data for queries that don't require them. I'm not quite sure how the allocation scheme or data structure works there. My (very speculative) guess is that they're stored as a linked list, and on write, the allocator tries to give contiguous pages.

fwiw, I don't use postgresql on a regular basis, I've just spent some good amount of time squinting at the file format and related code, soley due to my own curiosity. It's been a while, so it's very possible that I'm misrepresenting or misremembering something. Someone has already posted their documentation on the file format -- it's a good read if you're interested.
That's the difference between Zig and Go.

As far as I can tell, Go was kinda rushed, and they called it 1.0 before they get to add the generics it obviously needed. And I bet adding those generics in a way that preserves backward compatibility was a bear.

Zig will be done when it's done.
> A taboo is a prohibition based in a cultural sensibility that perceives it as excessively repulsive, sacred, or allowed only by certain persons. Taboos are not about "harm," they're about enforcing so-called "cultural norms."

Cultural norms are typically an adaptation to the realities of human life. They may become outmoded in certain circumstances, but they're rarely completely gratuitous.

> Being homophobic is about taboos.

Taboos against homosexuality exist because until recently, sexual reproduction was non-optional. My dad grew up in a village in Bangladesh where 1 out of 4 kids died before age 5. If you didn't have kids to help you farm, you'd be dead in your old age and potentially sooner than that. There was no Social Security, and there weren't alternative social roles for people who couldn't contribute to the next generation of the village. (And, of course, surrogacy and other modern medical technology was non-existent.)

Think about it logically: if the taboo was purely gratuitous, like you suggest, why did it arise independently in many different civilizations?

> They were used to justify taboos against interracial marriage, pornography, short skirts, and woman having jobs. They were used to justify paying women less and segregating education. They were used to justify discrimination against men who grew their hair long or wore tattoos.

There is a joke along the lines of "they laughed at Einstein, but they also laughed at Bozo the clown." Sometimes society is wrong; more often, taboos simply become obsolete. For example, if it was 1945 and the backbone of the economy was still people lifting heavy car doors and bolting them into place, you can bet norms around workplace gender equality would look a lot different. It's important to see what taboos may be obsolete, but railing against taboos for the sake of doing so threatens society.

I'll point out that sexual liberalism has hardly been proven right by "history." Virtually every society to embrace it has seen birth rates collapse. The future of the world now belongs to Muslims and Africans, who for the most part still strongly embrace traditional sexual taboos.
> The fact that the constitution explicitly proscribes "unreasonable" seizures means it also allows "reasonable" seizures.

Yes, a reasonable seizure is either through eminent domain (with just compensation) or the result of a criminal proceeding as punishment.

Unreasonable would be seizures with no criminal proceedings or just compensation.
This is precisely like the prohibition on “cruel AND unusual punishment” being circumvented by making cruelty usual.

I’d mourn for the US, but it seems it’s been dead & gone longer than I’ve been alive.
Thanks for that info. That's unfortunate.
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", a 1968 book, was set in 1992, and featured sentient androids hardly distinguishable from humans and off-world colonies in (presumably) different star systems. So yeah, 20 years to build a space elevator is, indeed, a very conservative estimate by the standards of 1960-1990s.