skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, at least it was slower a while ago, for the networking code I was working on. Could be outperforming for other use cases. As for perf, when you run it you can see that a lot of cpu is sent on work stealing and other bookkeeping. Which is fine, and the single threaded runtime doesn’t have some of that, so I use that a lot.
> It's really hard to be better than Twitter.

It is, but right now people don't care as much about privacy as features and community. It's not what people who focus on openness or privacy want, but it's the reality. Where are the celebrities and brands? Where are the conversations happening? Where are my friends? This is the challenge.
>One of the reasons that a lot of rape is not reported is because the "testimony" is extracted in an adversarial setting from the victim him or her self

I know. The only reason I got a CCR number for my assault was because the cop started to give a damn when they found out the person wasn't white.

>It is a system set up by what a lot of people reasonable define as "rape culture". Not to be unreasonably down on social democracy, it is just that dealing with the horrid things that happens sometimes (rarely we hope) between people away from witnesses is very difficult for any community.

That's why I also encourage folks to keep a knife in their purse.

When I say "testimony is evidence" the testimony can be "He tried to rape me, so I stabbed him in the throat like it was an episode of The Americans."

(Sorry for being flippant, it's been a rough COVID.)
Where did you find confirmation that "Find my" still broadcasts in airplane mode?
This book was published in 2017. The author, Nicolas Rougier, also has a few other books online books on data visualization[0] and the reproducibility problem in research[1].

[0] https://github.com/rougier/scientific-visualization-book
[1] https://rr-france.github.io/bookrr
> I don't expect quantum computers to be able to "break" this limit as some suggest by merely addin gmore qubits. But who can really say?

Sure — but we’re not anywhere near that limit.

Also, you can entangle remote quantum systems which is a different paradigm for distributed computing than you can do with a classical computer.

With classical computers, you get a summation of joining the two systems; with quantum computers, you get the product of joining the two systems.
I assume the person you're responding to is referring to the fact that Trump lost and ended up inciting an insurrection against the federal government in an attempt to prevent his opponent from taking power.

That's not really ending on a good note.
‘Built to Fail’? Why TerraUSDs Growth Is Giving Finance Experts Nightmares(4/22)
Agreed. If the dictionary is owned by the related class, and classes aren't collected themselves, then there's no point in using an ephemeron table. From a GC perspective, an ephemeron table entry can be seen as a tuple <M, K, V> where V is alive if both M and K are alive. Sort of a strong edge to V from the conjunction of M and K. (A regular strong edge is a tuple <K, V> where V is alive if K is alive.) So if the ephemeron table M is known to be alive, then it collapses down to a regular strong edge, the simplest forms of which are plain properties or dictionaries mapping Ks to Vs.
I can only find a reference to what you said with regard to upstream connections. Are you sure this also happens with downstream clients?

https://www.nginx.com/blog/overcoming-ephemeral-port-exhaust...
>Yes, you either need town walls (e.g. borders) or you need a legal apparatus that coordinates over a large area.

Or a mechanism to decide who is a resident, with access to social services etc.

I want to read up on how Switzerland does it -- I heard some cantons, you need permission of the community to settle, but I don't know if that works in the spirit intended or if you're a non-white / European refugee they'd just vote you away even if you follow democratic norms etc.
> Many crimes, like drug possession, speeding, jaywalking, etc. can be eliminated altogether, or made civil rather than criminal offenses.

With you on drug possession, but in most jurisdictions, speeding and jaywalking already are not criminal offenses.

I think the matter at hand is a perfect example, though: copyright infringement as a criminal offense just doesn't make sense in a civil society (something I wish we lived in!). It's just big business getting the government to enforce their profit margins by threat of prison. No one should ever go to prison for copyright infringement, ever.

It also occurs to me that -- as far as I know -- there are no criminal penalties for patent or trademark infringement. Why the discrepancy? Well, I think it's obvious: big businesses have lobbied Congress to make it riskier to infringe copyrights, because they believe copyright infringement to be a huge risk to their bottom line. While double checking this point, I found this article[0]; clearly there are nutjobs out there who want to make patent infringement carry jail time! Ridiculous.

[0] https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2019/03/04/may-time-provide-crimi...
Seems like an amazing opportunity to build a pedestrian-centric community. Include a grocery store, coffee shop, gym, and some green space, with automobile infrastructure exclusively below ground or on the periphery. The idea being that you don’t need a car for most of your daily needs. Doesn’t sound half-bad to me if I’m a renter (which I was for most of my adult life).
It really seems like you're making the argument I said you were making, that Georgia Democrats are basically Republicans actually and that the Democrats ought to have run a Republican-lite Joe Manchin character (who would have gotten stomped), or, failing that, some wild-eyed left-coast radical (who would have gotten stomped), but instead the national and state parties colluded to run candidates who could actually win.

I'm struggling to understand how we go from that, to saying that there is even the remotest support in Georgia to secede even though every national candidate Georgians elected is in the party currently in power, or that after secession the elections would or should go back to Republican vs. Republican-lite. The only way any of that makes sense is if the actual goal is to separate the Georgia Democrats from the national apparatus to hopefully give state Republicans a chance to figuratively beat the newly-activated voters into submission. In fact if we're going strictly by the numbers then in any split Georgia should stay with the Democratic parts of the country.

Also I'm not sure what Pelosi has to do with any of this but at the moment, from the outside, the face of Georgia Democrats look like Ossoff, Warnock and Abrams all of whom are authentically local. I'm sure Trump and the Republican party would like people to think that Pelosi is the face of the Georgia Democrats, though.

I do feel bad for Georgian voters, not to mention the people counting the votes. It wasn't their fault that the balance of power came down to them in the end and I'm sure most of them didn't like being in the middle of that firestorm. However I suspect any acrimony was primarily due to the fact that the Democrats found a winning strategy in a formerly safe state.
Exactly. Gab and Mastodon have done exactly that and are self-hosting. Whether if they are alternatives to Facebook, Twitter, etc is another story.

Both are failures in that regard and it is not early days.
Federal government may make reporting cyberattacks mandatory: Mendicino
He drank a pint of UV-sensitive resin, this is how he exploded.
I've been loving `mblaze`[1] lately after trying `aerc` for a few months. It's been a lot of fun using an email "client" that really emphasizes the unix philosophy. I don't have a ton of email in my primary address and I always reach inbox zero by the end of the evening. So ymmv.

[1] https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze
Who would trust Musk's evidence if he can't even estimate the volume of tweet data required to determine which users are bots? He lost this round and will have to find another way to get Twitter to lower the price (which is unlikely at this point).
Thanks a lot. Any feedback is very welcome!
> In truth, Musk probably only needs the “decahose” API Twitter makes available to some researchers, which is 10% of all tweets.

If you have the firehose, couldn't you just only sample every 10th tweet and make a "decahose"[1] of your own to work with?

[1] Shouldn't this be "decihose" since it's 1/10 not 10x?
Try `magrep` from `mblaze`. All you need is a maildir.

https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze
My question was whether I can create a gateway so that if I had to call from a prison, I can still reach friends/family/lawyer without the call being marked as spam, collect fees etc.
Any conceivable sequence could theoretically be generated by randomness. A perfect random number generator could generate a list of social security numbers or an infinite sequence of zeros. Likewise any sequence that appears random may just have a pattern which hasn't emerged from what has observed.
5000 lines looks like half are comments or whitespace, none of the functions look more than a couple hundred lines or a few levels of control flow depth. Pretty harsh nitpick.
I make my own surfboards for similar reasons. I tend to only code in my free time if I can't surf, or work on my next board (night time or no surf). Not sure how wood working it toddler friendly though?
There's some wisdom in the overall point, but the example of a mobile phone is completely upside down. I for one don't want to think of pulling a device out of my pocket in terms of some kind of microtransaction. Rather I want it to be a natural extension of my own mind, including running software that serves my interests rather than corporate spyware.

Of course one is always able to do a post-facto "price per use" calculation, it's just an extremely myopic paradigm to be thinking in. Even $/month is too small minded - that's how salesmen push you into paying way too much and financing things. But thinking $/year starts to make sense, letting you take into account things like how long upstream software is going to be supported etc.

Also yes, most everybody knows the tabs for eating/drinking out add up to a considerable amount of discretionary income. Those too are better brought into the $/mo and $/year paradigm.
'Superworms' Eat–and Survive On–Polystyrene
Would be nice to be able to buy the web UI to manage a private set of controllers...
To be fair, that first statement conflates Samsung and Android, so the second half of your first line should be that Samsung tablets are not in the same class.

Samsung's take on Android is, in my experience, dreadful.
Can we remove a trillion tons of carbon from the atmosphere? (2018)
What types of bugs are those? Can you explain a bit more?
Sorry for the somewhat obvious reference, but I thought that The Right to Read by Richard Stallman [1] would probably have predicted something similar. Of course, it had:

There were ways, of course, to get around the SPA and Central
Licensing. They were themselves illegal. Dan had had a classmate in
software, Frank Martucci, who had obtained an illicit debugging tool,
and used it to skip over the copyright monitor code when reading
books. But he had told too many friends about it, and one of them
turned him in to the SPA for a reward (students deep in debt were
easily tempted into betrayal). In 2047, Frank was in prison, not for
pirate reading, but for possessing a debugger.

People may quibble about the specifics here "It's a game, not a book", but to me it honestly sounds like we are firmly on the trajectory to this horrific reality.

No one should ever go to prison for a lot of things, but "allowing people to play computer games" sounds like it should be pretty high on those lists. I have never owned a Nintendo device, and will continue to avoid them now that I know about the terrible consequences of their profit-seeking.

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[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
TL;DR: failure to understand the production leads to the destruction of intangible assets, while focusing solely on tangible wealth.
Cron is running on Electron. I doubt it is fast.
Facebook (Instagram) and Twitter convince you that getting followers is growth. All you're doing is donating content to them and giving them advertiser profiles so that they can sell your own audience back to you. Algorithmic timelines mean that "your" followers/subscribers see what the owners want them to see, and not the stuff from you that they explicitly subscribed to.

This website is good advice. Stop sharecropping for billionaires.
> but the EU openly holds that [it is a state]

No it doesn't, and that's not what your link says.

The "EU position" (if there even is a single position that can be called that) is that the EU's treaties are binding on the signatory states, and the EU's court is ultimately responsible for deciding the meaning of those treaties. Of course, if a country disagrees with the court, it is free to leave the EU completely.
patch has been released couple of days ago. But by scanning the net, there were still lots of servers that were not patched yet
Slack and Discord are the de-facto realtime communication systems for open source projects, though. I wish it weren't so.
If you don't mind me asking, how do you have your own infrastructure configured?

I just recently set up my own blog on a DO droplet, which is fairly vendor-portable if I need to change cloud providers. I had always assumed that serving content over a non-commercial connection would have some issues, although this was more of a vague doubt in the back of my mind.

Do you worry about having greater exposure to (possibly malicious) outside traffic on your home network? Does your private ISP plan provide enough resources for hosting content?
I've had that experience with upscaling games from older-era (like N64) but Breath of the Wild looks pretty amazing at 4k here:

https://youtu.be/-qb22AmxWSc?t=2935
I didn’t know this term so thank you! Another one I noticed on my work iPhone is when your phone can’t handle scrolling some bloated site, and scrolling is registered as a click on an ad.
Those are summer numbers, they also given winter numbers of China: 25%, Western Europe: 10%, India: 6%.

The article is kind enough to link to the study: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm9909

The data is coming from satellites, which are apparently able to directly measure NO2 levels (a good proxy for NOx levels), and they use near infrared reflectivity to estimate crop yield (which they say previous studies have shown to be a good way to estimate it).
Correct. It is not a cancellation fee. Musk cannot cancel the contract, only a court can make that determination after concluding that Musk is unable to finance the deal.

I am not a lawyer so I am quite curious as to how that plays out.

Assuming he has it, could the courts force him to sell $40B in assets?
When a cryptocurrency you never heard of drains your life savings
FCC proposes record $34k fine for unauthorized transmissions during wildfire
Getting Started with Rust (2022 Update)
You must not know many people in the safe asset business. The overwhelming goal is to NOT lose money. Sure faster settlement times would be nice but never at the cost of increased risk. That would entirely defeat the purpose of it being a safe asset.
Hello! In a previous thread[0], I had shared my online book "Getting Started with Rust by building a Tiny Markdown Compiler." Many folks provided great feedback, and I'm thankful for all the positive energy I've received from both writing and sharing this.

Since then I've completed many updates to this resource, including incorporating many suggestions[1], breaking out the content into more palpable chunks, and publishing it as a Github pages site[2].

I hope this introductory experience with the Rust programming language is fun and engaging, and I'm excited to see where people go from here.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23206660

[1]: https://github.com/jesselawson/getting-started-with-rust/iss...

[2]: https://jesselawson.github.io/getting-started-with-rust
I like Thunderbird but sometimes it just gets ... stuck. I don't know of any better way to explain it.

I presume that some networking thing hits its limits and needs to time out (generally DNS ... it's always DNS). After some mysterious amount of time, Thunderbird gets unstuck and continues on its merry way.

The real problem, at the end of the day, is single-threaded GUI toolkits, though.
> At the same time, suburbs with low rates of crime are typically nicer to walk around without a destination in mind.

I have to disagree here. In the suburbs there is nowhere to go and nothing to discover. Walking around the city I see new people, restaurants or other businesses that I find interesting. The suburbs where I grew up were always the same thing.
>It would be cool if we could inject some artificial 3D printing thingies in the gum that feed on nutrients from your body and slowly create a new tooth as programmed beforehand.

Hmm, that sounds just like a cell. In fact it would probably be easiest to find a way to turn tooth regeneration on. Other animals have it, there's no reason why we shouldn't be able to except that we haven't figured out how yet.

I agree though and I've thought that before-- something about the dentists office is especially crude. But then again what do you expect when we have chunks of mineral in our face we use to mash food with? Teeth themselves are rather crude
Just how screwed is Do Kwon from this let alone from the Luna ponzi and can he be extradited?
nah he has enough financing and $1 billion would never be enough of a pay off for the disruption he has caused.
Thanks for mentioning these. We'll look into what is happening with the context on Hacker News.

I am familiar with co-pilot and I appreciate the suggestion and think it's possible you're right. We actually used to have gray text which you can enabled in certain sites still if you click the extension icon in the top left of your browser: https://imgur.com/a/90wDnvN

We found that it was very difficult to integrate that grey text with many websites in the way you might expect it to work. We are still exploring what a happy medium might look like.
When do/did you have time to study LeetCode? After a day’s work at my actual job, I’m done. My brain is fried. Writing more code is the last thing I want to do.
If anything that paper looks really cool (not that I understand it). Transforming classical problems like graph isomorphism into a quantum algorithm is legit science and potentially extremely valuable.
So it would be like a copyright system where you have to give credit to the creator, but don't have to pay royalties.
What religion has a problem with regenerating teeth? It's just a hard problem. We don't even need placenta for stem cells anymore, and we still are a while away from creating a second set of teeth
> There is a big difference between claiming that "you could just go in the backseat while the car drives itself", and calling your system Autopilot, considering collision avoidance isn't anywhere in the traditional definition of autopilot as it pertains to planes.

Do you think that the average consumer knows this much about how plane autopilots work? If not, how is it relevant?
This whole thing is extremely dumb for at least three reasons:

1. Musk is talking about percent of daily active users that are bots, but Twitter's SEC filings refer to the percent of monetizable users that are bots, i.e., users that actually get shown ads. There is no way for Elon to produce a comparable figure from the firehose data

2. Even if he could, the firehose doesn't contain the sort of PII you would need to determine whether a user be a bot.

3. But even if it did, none of this matters. He can get out of the deal only if he proves the error would cause a material adverse effect on the company, which is an extremely high bar that is basically never met and would certainly not be met due to an erroneous estimate in a SEC filing.
Maybe "pre-classical".
Unless they're intentionally using UI scripting to create ad impressions, weatherbots aren't viewing tweets--they're posting them.

If people aren't viewing those tweets or deriving value, they're consuming resources without adding much to the ecosystem. If people are viewing those tweets and deriving value from them, the bot is increasing ad revenue.
> It's widely reported that at least 40% of Americans believe the election was rigged. Whether they are correct or not is irrelevant. If 40% of a population _believe_ that democracy has been usurped, and are armed to the teeth, and yet clearly there has not been an (armed) uprising then I'm wondering what has to happen for said armed population to actually take action?

I don't think we're in the final inning yet. The only thing I know for sure is that I don't intend to be in North America for any day in January 2025, and that I will have full and complete backups of all my irreplaceable data on my person whilst traveling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boson_sampling
boson sampling was introduced for quantum supremacy experiments.
it does not have any practical applications and it's supposed to be easy for QCs.
Well the guys at Xanadu believe that for some bizarre reason it can be used to solve all sort of useful problems.
[“This could create an incentive (effectively an economic moral hazard) to utilize strategies to acquire discounted BTC,” Clements says of the plan. Such a coordinated, intentional attack could look similar to George Soros’s legendary attack on the British pound. The Bank of England spent more than 3.3 billion pounds countertrading to defend the pound’s peg against other European currencies, but ultimately failed.
Attacking a pegged asset could be described as an attempt to acquire the backing assets at a discount, by forcing a fire sale of the collateral. Especially given that BTC is a harder asset and generally superior money to LUNA/UST (and if it isn’t, it’s not much of a reserve asset), it is nearly a law of nature that LUNA or UST holders will seek to transform those tokens into BTC.
The sharks may already be circling.
“There’s a lot of incentive to attack the peg, especially for people outside the [crypto] space,” said Zhou. “There’s a lot of these Chicago [traders], they don’t give a [damn]. If they see an opportunity, they’re going to Soros-attack it. They’re just waiting for the right moment … I think [UST] will collapse on its own, but if someone attacks it, it will collapse even faster.”]
'pollution' is vague and politically charged. The article observes that Nitrogen Oxides reduce crop yields, whereas some "pollution" (e.g. volcanic ash) can increase crop yields.
More simply “to the extent permitted by law, you agree that you waive all your rights and we waive all of our responsibilities.”
why the analogies? its a corporate merger, there is a vast body of practice in this area, we can just speak from experience, no need to make incorrect analogies to other unrelated areas of endeavor
While there is much good work to be done on making simple shorter code more expressive there is also tones of low hanging fruit.

These

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Demeter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_privilege

We just need to do this again and again and again.

For example, we all know there should be / and everything should be done via file descriptors by now. Great, but who is making it happen?!?
We actually just didn't do a Launch HN post till now.
Yeah their papers and github repos look cool alright.
still pretty useless, read my other comment.
I used flowblade 2.6.0 for my teaching throughout the pandemic. It's a wonderful tool and I never experienced any crashes. Earlier I tried Shotcut, Openshot and others. They were slow to work with (laggy ui), slow to render and sometimes crashed.

My experiences were on Linux btw (Ubuntu 20.04) using well supported hardware.
But a VW campervan, whole new genre of tools required :D