skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting idea... what about something different than ubi? What if rather than being "generous", or only being given to 0.1%, it was given to anyone with a phd, but it was lower, and they need to clock in for 8 hrs to get it? As in physically leave their home and enter a place with other researchers for 8 hrs (idea factory basically).

This might ensure that only those who are passionate would take the opportunity, and that they could still do whatever they wanted once they did.

Obviously if you wanted to run an expensive experiment it would cost money and you'd need to fight for funding, but no more fighting for spots or fighting for your life or needing to justify everything to everyone else.
Depending on the quality, you could offer it as a tool for lawyers to access all the paperwork they have to process.

> If dispute resolution is the social function of the law, what we have is far from the most efficient way to reach fair or reasonable resolutions. Instead, modern litigation can be understood as a massive, socially unnecessary arms race, wherein lawyers subject each other to torturous amounts of labor just because they can. In older times, the limits of technology and a kind of professionalism created a natural limit to such arms races, but today neither side can stand down, lest it put itself at a competitive disadvantage.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/you-really-dont...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31787599
I believe it’s important to learn to slow down yourself, instead of having the UI slow you down involuntarily.
165K!
thanks for this. saves me from wasting time on it.
Agree. Each day,decreased number of old cool planes, which flight from 1940s and still in flight condition.

I cry every time see, how good maintained old aviation history in US, comparable to exUSSR.

Even more impressive, there are examples of old soviet planes in flight condition in US - you will not see them flight in exUSSR.

Unfortunately, not all 1940s engines have modern substitutions.

For me this is our history. I think it is acceptable to make for them exclusion from rules.
I'm a week into a month-long time off (which I really needed) and can add a few suggestions:

* Put your phone away

* Read a silly book for pleasure

* Watch children playing, and play with them if you can

* Take a long walk, try not to retrace your steps

* Get some sun (maybe on a walk), and then take a nap

* Appreciate something mundane
Slope is very easy to pickup. It is concise. It has simple and easy package manager. You do not need to learn huge tooling around it, etc.
You can quickly build a console or GUI app. You can write your modules and it's FOSS. I'd say that all this makes it an excellent small, hobby lang.
This is misleading and a bit dangerous...

You'd also need to "sync" the lock resource, which is accessed over REST. At the very least, you need some sort of Idempotency-Key for your REST API.

(Imagine the scenario where /acquire succeeds on the server, but the network response fails before the client gets to read it. The client retries. How does the server know it's the same request?)
i think you're interpreting "offline" here differently (i.e. "in real life") to what was intended (i.e. "asynchronously").
Sure, numpy introduces its own set of restrictions. I was mostly referring to taking a different approach before turning to numpy, but it could very well be true.

In essence, doing what you did is the way to get performance out of Python when nothing else works.
Ask HN: Advice for Racket ORM college independent work
Hi HN!

I'm currently working on a rough plan for my college independent work this fall semester that is going to be focused on making an ORM in Racket.

I'm interested in the "DSL" programming style of Racket since I've never tried such a thing, as well as building a large project written in a LISP utilizing all the features like macros, as I've also never tried serious LISP programming despite being a fan for a long time (in part due to pg's blog and otherwise for Emacs).

So far my plan is to learn Racket this summer, and then in the fall use the Stanford database course on edX to learn about relational algebra, and then take a look at a preexisting ORM/ORM DSL for inspiration as I write my own. Resources on any of those, or alternative suggestions would be fantastic!

For some context on my background, I've taken Data Structures and Algorithms, Functional Programming, and Compilers.

Thanks for your help!
Hmm learned something new. All this time I thought it was just lingo of the younger generation
On this topic, a question I've had for a while but never learned the answer to is: if nobody did anything outside farming, how expensive would farm equipment be?

I assume there's some scale benefit to agricultural vehicles from the production of everyone else's vehicles, and likewise the construction and maintenance of the transport infrastructure to get food from the farms to the people, but I don't know whether or not that scaling benefit is enough to change the conclusion.
I thought the Romans used that symbol for good luck and fertility? It seems at odds with the message. Doesn't seem so much a 'clever subversion' as confusing.
I didn't laugh in exactly the same way I didn't laugh at actual Seinfeld jokes. In that sense, it was absolutely uncanny.
Can't resist: Overheard in Stanford locker room after Show HN. "He got me" L said of D's dunk over him. That fking D boomed me. L added "He's so good", repeating it four times. L then said he wanted to add D to the list of players he works out with this summer.

Numerous AWS (really early) internal eng talks I saw, hammered home the point that distributed locking / leasing was one of the hardest problems to engineer for, if not the hardest, often quoting Chubby and Paxos Made Live papers.

Today, if I were to need a form of distributed co-ordination, I'd reach for Durable Objects to see if it fits my needs.
>One way to make more money is to work more.

Not if you can't get schedules for more hours which is the situation millions of people are in also a lot of people can't pay others to do their chores and such for them so they have to do that themselves which can take a lot of time.
> Bitcoin has no assets.

Cash just as well "has no assets". You can't just compare bitcoin to a corporation and get something that makes sense.
You may be right that the journalist didn't notice the distinction. But at this point 10-15 years into the age of data, I'd think that's one of the most basic requirements for their job.

Maybe the blame should fall more on Vox and their work environment rather than the journalist, but we do have to draw a line somewhere on the basic standards for journalism. We don't excuse a bridge falling down or a web service failing because the engineers had to pick up their kids from school..
I think you partly agree with me then, you accept there's a publishing bias, the difference is you think it's good.

I don't think the press should fawn over him. Maybe you're fine with the publishing bias because that helps keep him in check. I can understand that, but in that case you must be aware of the publishing bias, otherwise you'll be being deceived and will have a distorted view of reality.
And those things are wrong?
You can add locks to objects, which restricts who can delete them and how, but requires bucket wide settings.
> RTC is a non-profit, do-it-yourself social network that uses a smaller, simpler, user-built toolkit. We are proudly the polar opposite of the big, exploitative, corporate-owned social media mega-sites. Not cool. Not easy. Not big. rawtext.club is what you make it. The point is that you can do a LOT using very minimal resources by stringing together command line tricks on a Linux system.

Yeah. Of course, Who would not want to go back to the dark ages and strip everything down and go underground with the rest of the fringe projects that failed before it? Not to get too excited about creating a hidden sea chamber in the internet but I guess to each to their own?

I don't think the typical regular blogger off the street would want to revert back to writing manuscripts to their readers for the sake of privacy or setting up their own instance themselves just to join an exclusive party of 5.

If they won't do it with Mastodon why would they do it with this?
Farmland and pasture are also area-hungry, but nearer by populations. Solar (and wind) co-exist synergetically with those. Likewise, with reservoirs and canals.

Vertical fence-rows of bifacial panels, aligned N-S, are minimally disruptive of existing farm methods, and harvest morning and afternoon sun while relieving crops from heat stress and water loss. They do not accumulate dust.

Peppers and tomatoes may get 2x-3x yield, so protected.

Panels on greenhouse roofs are also helpful.

Some crops do best directly under horizontal panels, using morning and afternoon light, protected by them from storm rain and hail.

In pasture, herds keep weeds off panels.

* * *

Aneutronic fusion will be solved long before we need much power in space. The current fusion work has no future except insofar as it develops plasma management tech.
I laughed because it was an AI. If Seinfeld himself had done this routine I would have been pretty stone-faced
Manchmal sind diese Dinge schwer zu erklären…
Check what it says about the hobby language - it is not meant to attract huge crowds, so it does not need to be 'respectable'.
For me it is good if it raises associations with Logo, though - as Logo was also providing way to computing for 'non-professionals' - thus keeping the fun and joy of computing.
Without centralization ... and "trust", there would be no "market".

People bought BTC at $60k because they "trusted" the "market" to value the crypto. This "trust" model built around unregulated "exchanges" is clearly broken.
Playing around with gpt3 in the past I've noticed it lifts a lot of material and repurposes it. Does some variation of cat food skit exist in the wild? I wouldn't be surprised.
Sorry, maybe I was not clear enough. My point is that age is not the problem, but company tenure is (not for all, but for most). Specially on those who managed to survive the corporate darwinism (by operating the company's red tape and processes) and reached the leadership role.

I've met many older (40+) excellent technical people at IBM and usually their situation was that they were afraid of change and became used to IBM insanities, but gradually they are taking the leap of faith and jumping ship (AWS is taking them by the bucket). The feedback I get from those who left is that they can't believe they put up with IBM's crazyness for so long, as the other companies seem so lean and rational in comparison.

One thing IBM still has a talent for is training tech professionals as I met some truly great ones there.
That's because a HDL is not a lower level machine language, but instead they are languages used to implement a machine that consumes a machine language.

Consider what happens when you implement a x86 emulator in python: you're using a high level language to implement a machine using a particular substrate (a simulation inside another machine). This simulated x86 CPU executed machine code and you'd call that machine code to be the "native" or "lowest level" language with respect to that particular machine.

You can see how that choice of machine language bears no relationship with the language used to implement the underlying machine.
I find your argument to be true, but the idea is to discuss what we can do versus the standards which I find them to be GDPR and Apple. The first because it came out with a set of rules that didn't exist anywhere else in the world and the second because it prevented millions of people to be tracked when they navigate (obviously a commercial stunt, but still). I would question if anyone else made more for privacy in the last few years than these two (Maybe Firefox?)

Maybe the whole world must push for GDPR-like regulation or for Android to block third-party cookies. Until then, the responsibility is on each individual.
> The comment was worded poorly, since it was not clear if "they" was gender neutral, singular or plural, which could have referred to Gustave Eiffel and the sculptor. Either would have fit in that situation.

Does it matter? Sometimes you want an imprecise "they".
Some people work on very high speed serdes or busses.

Imagine you have a hardware group of around 150 people led by a director, like 10-15 middle managers, some PMs, etc. Total comp for employees ranges from like 80k/yr for the team in a low CoL country to over 500k/yr for the director and tech leads. With support, offices, labs, sw, the group might cost like $150mm/yr. A few speed scopes just get budgeted in.
buyvm.com rents 256MB VMs. vultr.com still has some 500MB VMs in some of their DCs.

You could also run raspberry pi, or other small SBC form your home.
Also, Vala: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala
My comment regards more complex scenarios.

The article describes what it claims to be limited mitigation efforts; but what I commented about is how they make the problem go away, if you actually use them. If you have some smart pointers but also allocate and deallocate memory manually in all sorts of places in your app, and transfer ownership via raw pointers, then - yeah, you might have UAF problems. In 2011 you could have blamed the lack of language features and library facilities to avoid this; but those days are over. UAF problems are now pitfalls you have to actively and knowingly walk into, they don't just happen.

There are other issues with safety which still happen, like out-of-bounds access, which don't have this kind of "effective inoculation"; so it's not as though C++ is now a completely safe language. But UAFs are now mostly a non-issue.
I confirm, there is a campaign against Elon Musk. It’s as if he declared candidacy for president of USA, we’re seeing the same discreditation tactics. Are there entrenched interests afraid that he could run for presidency, trying to ruin his reputation?
how long before this is tiktok
It's a tricky field, and not a coincidence that at least 3 (maybe more) high profile disgruntled employees from Google have been from this area.

I think of it as kind of like security, in that you are sometimes seen as against the push of the overall project/area. However unlike security there are 0 software tools or principles that anyone agrees on.
I don't buy the argument that people living in Australia would starve to death if everyone in the world gradually halved their working hours over the next decade. I think current consumption here is so far above subsistence levels that there's a lot of room to drop without facing famine.

This is less clear-cut for anyone in a society that's close to subsistence and I'm not in any way suggesting that we should all cut our hours by 50%, but why not 20%? Even if food production decreases linearly, we'd still be at a 152% surplus, right?
That isn't exclusivity the realm of any side / ideology, the vast majority of them do it.

What would help is for Musk to stop being so dishonest when he tweets things, saying X is true then saying a month or so later X never happened doesn't look good nor do repeated promises that often do not come to pass.
Unfortunately that just means you don’t create one. To prevent one being created, you have to either somehow figure out a way to get everyone in the world to agree not to create one, or obtain enough global power that you can forcibly stop anyone creating one. Not exactly easy!
> What specifically have the verge reported on to make them lose credibility in your eyes?

This article, for one. It looks like they shopped around to find people with law degrees and opinions, even though those opinions may not be much on their own. But when put together in a montage of quotes, you can get a real spin effect. You don't notice it?

Motive (left-wing media)

Means (spin doctor on call)

Opportunity (Elon is public enemy number one with Trump all but out of the picture)

But let's ignore the fact that at least some of the employees that got fired were sending emails to most or all of the employees, more than once, during company time with company equipment, to solicit assistance with the letter. I'm sure there's more to the story that will be revealed, and it's certainly too early to be declaring that someone has a case, so putting these misleading headlines out (even if ambiguously worded) is a big red flag.
Rsync, Article 1: Scenarios
We work more in large part because we consume much more. Increased consumption requires increased supply which requires increased production which means more work to be done.
Thanks, makes sense. I will explore how the Intel Management Engine can make an effect on privacy.
reminds me of a very frightening quote from security specialist Gavin de Becker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_de_Becker), paraphrased: "every evil that you can think of, someone will have done it"
Rolling over our current national debt at the current rates will make the debt servicing costs too high relative to tax income. So either rates cannot stay high indefinitely, or inflation will continue until debt is smaller compared to tax income. In both cases money becomes cheap. The average maturity on debt is 5 years which is where I got that time scale, but this is also in line with previous cycle lengths-- you can't find many times where the fed has waited longer to cut rates. Debt has also never been this high as a percent of GDP, so more pressure from that shouldead to faster policy changes.
100% agree with your view. But it is sad to see it happening from inside specially all the politics and shenanigans related to it. As I said in another comment IBM has some good talent inside and it is a shame to see them wasting their time and talent there.
Would you be willing to consider using a non-Go library via a C API for this? I'm working on AccessKit [1], a cross-platform abstraction over the various platform-specific accessibility APIs. It's written in Rust, and it doesn't yet have a C API, but that's planned. I'm aware that using cgo complicates build requirements, particularly on Windows, but it looks like you're already dependent on cgo on Windows (unlike, say, Gio).

[1]: https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit I know I haven't yet done much with it this year. Hopefully I'll start doing substantial work on this again in the next few weeks. Threads like this one remind me that the world is waiting.
Lidar industry unites to make roadways safer for pedestrians
I program for work, and not leisure. As prospective careers go, it probably ranks top among similar labor. All the same I could not be arsed to develop "for its own sake". Work offers coordinating with others towards a common goal and finding validation from the product, and the value it brings - but it also, it offers incentive.

If people don't "have" to do anything, they generally don't do much. Especially today where attention is easily hijacked by passive electronic consumption, advertisers. This leads to problems. Low motivation, ennui, health issues. It's not a question of "discovering what one likes to do".
> a.) we are not at pre-corona levels yet

We are if we account for inflation.
the DB just decided for HN to slow down itself
This so called "French intelligence research center" is essentially the work of only one, pro-Russian person.

In February 2022, a few days before the start of the invasion, he claimed that “American spin doctors” have “staged a Russian threat and aggression that does not exist”

https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/%C3%89ric_Den...
People bought and sold crypto before centralized exchanges and custodial wallets. They will continue to do so.
I don't think a 48-year-old professional actor is misspelling "friend" because of his accent, when that exact spelling is an alt-right shibboleth.

As indicated by the deliberate use of the word "adjacent", it's a sign that the crypto space and the alt-right have sufficient contact that there is horizontal memetic transfer (in both the original and modern senses of "meme") between the two.
Do What Defines You (2010)
I'll take that bet. I say BTC doesn't breach $5,000 in the next 18 months.

What do you want to bet?
Writer is probably one of the easier ways to be largely pseudonymous. No need for anyone other than some people at your publisher and some friends/family to know the connection. Reclusive writers is even something of a trope. Of course, no images also presumably means no book signings, cons, basically any public appearances--especially these days when everyone has a camera in their pocket.
Like I said, I'm probably wrong :)
Is DALL-E publicly available or what? How do I work on generating images?
Abysmal is a huge exaggeration. It sounds convincingly like Seinfeld. Yeah the delivery isn't incredible, but what do you expect?
Plot twist. Fax is not dead yet even in 2022. I was at the DMV and they asked for something to be faxed. Yes, faxed unless I could produce the original in front.
Ask HN: Name a startup that got acquired before launching their product
What is your proposed alternative for `defer`? (suppose hidden "RAII" control flow doesn't count)
Consider remapping your keyboard layout
The cheaper the panels are, the closer by you want them.
They are definitely crummy. Communism isn't a new idea. It's a very old, very bad idea that's repeatedly failed.
It’s (not) self-driving in the same way planes do (not) fly. Just because something doesn’t do things the way we (or our or a bird) does doesn’t mean it doesn’t achieve its goal.
That may help. But I think that Elon headlines just generate great clickbait and that is the primary reason.

Everybody loves a story about either a superhero or supervillain who also happens to be the richest person in the world. Any story. And he is arguably both. The verge now even has a weekly summary of elons shenanigans…
How would you organize labor and resources such that there is no elite class? How do you enforce whatever rules are required and ensure that those enforcers don't become the elite themselves (if nobody else..)?
> In which region?

South Asia.

> I've never seen people shoveling off kilos of dust from their roof like they would do for e.g. snow.

And I've never seen people shoveling off snow from their roof. Because it doesn't snow here. Doesn't mean it doesn't snow anywhere in the world. Same thing with the dust. You have snow. We have dust.

You're lucky to live in a place that's not dusty.

Tangential anecdote: the replacement intervals of air filters of cars (including those that are sold in both USA and here) are drastically different. Over here for most cars the filters should be changed at around 10000 km. In USA it's more like 24000 km (for especially dusty conditions) to 48000 km for those same cars.

(I picked USA because it's a random developed country. I do not assume you're from there.)

How about indoors? We sweep/vaccum away plenty of dust. Do you people not have to do that?

> That still leaves a lot of light going through, so maybe it becomes my hypothetical 20% (maybe roughly the same as a very cloudy weather).

We don't have to speculate; there's studies on this. I'm posting a couple of links I skimmed through:

1. https://news.mit.edu/2022/solar-panels-dust-magnets-0311

2. https://www.nrel.gov/news/features/2021/scientists-studying-...

From the 2nd link: "The energy lost annually from soiling amounts to as much as 7% in parts of the United States to as high as 50% in the Middle East."

Middle-east is all desert, and there's as much as 50% energy loss there.
I'm not holding my breath. As of yet, no one has had the imagination. This has become a fav piece of rhetoric by ancoms who believe complex supply lines, infrastructure and essential services could be maintained, let alone improved upon, with a "flat hierarchy" society doing away with representative democracy. No one can take that seriously. The universe hates a vacuum and you can be sure that, as in the past, if goons have an opening to seize power under the guise of Communism, with their party being the only legitimate, then they will. Removing checks and balances will do that.