skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It really puzzles me why smart people want to spend their time satisfying the (compiler errors | warnings | linter) rather than inventing new and useful things."

Over the past fifty years we've realized that even incredibly smart people suck at avoiding the gazillion pitfalls involved in programming. Virtually every professional programming environment these days employs a suite of tools that help ensure we don't make certain classes of avoidable mistakes, and the borrow checker is simply another one of these tools to protect us from ourselves.

Am I to assume you don't turn on any warnings or linters in any of your projects?
Well we’ve kind of already started exploring that option with unikernels. Compile each app as its own complete software stack.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unikernel
Oxide Computer, my employer, is using Rust for firmware and other embedded cases.

Several automotive companies have been hiring for Rust, though what exactly they’re using it for isn’t as well known publicly yet.

There have been a few aerospace projects. And at least one train project, IIRC?
I'm interested in those alternative technologies, but I suspect they won't scale as well as batteries. Pumped hydro has been around a long time but it hasn't scaled because it is just very geographically specific.
Seveneves is a novel that uses a similar black hole event as part of the story's setup.
> isolates aren't really meant to isolate untrusted code.

They totally are meant for that. That's arguably the main thing they are designed to do.

The fact that people add defense-in-depth layers on top of it doesn't mean that the first layer isn't expected to be effective.
>marc andreessen bad
> And how to stop your spouse from spying on you?

I dunno about you, but I kind of got married to them because I trust them.
While I think the hobbit movies were very bad, I've never agreed with this take. Mostly the movies pull details out of the lord of the rings appendixes and fill in gaps in the plot of the hobbit that would honestly be quite strange in a modern film. Gandalf just screwing off for no apparent reason for half the film would be confusing and weird (honestly it was in the book too, but it's too whimsical to be a bother). And a lot of people complained about Legolas being there but other people would complain if he wasn't, or if he was just a no name member of the mob like the elves were in the book.

There's nothing inherently wrong with an adapted version of the hobbit that fits in better to lord of the rings imo, it's just that this particular try at it was a disaster.
Since CLAP was announced last year, I've seen lot of online interest in CLAP from electronic musicians, plus independent audio developers who are sick of dealing with bureaucratic BS around Apple's AU Avid's AAX, and Steinberg's VST plugin standards. I would put Urs Heckman from u-he at the tip-top of not just audio DSP developers, but small business owners who truly care about advancing the state of the art. If u-he and Bitwig can get other Berlin-based audio shops on board this has a good chance of succeeding.
There are also terrain and weather conditions.

Typically it is very hard to glide at night since a large part of gliding is the air movement caused by local and regional thermal differences.

Ardupilot (or one of its offshoots, I can't recall exactly) does have a lift detecting autopilot in beta. I don't know how it works with a specific route, but it seems to lock in thermals pretty well.
The Federal government is like a huge ship. It has huge weight but any turns take a long time. Quarantines should probably be an enumerated power of the Federal government but it’s too difficult to amend the constitution now.
A full out war between nuclear powers would be over way faster than a draft could be implemented.
I’d be skeptical of such a claim. We have very limited ability to detect dark black holes. The range of possible masses for said black holes is broad if primordial black holes exist.
The US had a solution at Yucca Mountain, except the solution has been legally and politically sabotaged by activists.
Do you think those technologies will be scaled such that batteries are a "negligible fraction" of utility storage, or are you just giving examples of possibilities?
huhhh ???
Easy to say from a certain perspective.

Some of these microagressions are not so micro - such as real estate agents being documented discriminating against black people ~50% of the time (assuming we can generalize from NY)
While not perfect, I really liked Will Pirkle’s book[1]. It describes the popular ABIs and has great intro to DSP. I would say the downsides are that the description of various interfaces takes up too many pages and that the book uses his own framework ASPiK for cross-compatability, but it’s easy enough to convert to a more popular framework like JUCE if needed.

[1] https://www.routledge.com/Designing-Audio-Effect-Plugins-in-...
More unbanking the banked recently
I’ve never experienced that.
I very much appreciate how the concept brought to light bad behavior, but I absolutely do not like the "weak" direction it's going.

I'm very familiar with being on the receiving end of these sort of things and it's VERY odd to see people take the opposite tack of the one I've taken.

I'm not at all speaking for anyone else, but for me, overwhelmingly, the best "strategy" (kind of weird to say it, it feels more like a survival mechanism) has been to understand that the "aggressor" is the problem in the equation, and I have control over how I react.

So for me, even the framing of "microaggression" gives too much power. I'd prefer something like "A-hole flares" or "Jerk flags."

Though generally one shouldn't speak for large groups, I will perhaps be so bold to say that black folks my age and older are very used to doing this and it's valuable, and it's something younger people should learn.
When I hear "social safety net" I don't think of public schools and universities. Perhaps other people have a different definition, but as someone who has studied tax policy (at a public law school!) this was never how we talked about safety nets.
You can pretty much make this same argument about any language higher-level than C.
I think your parent’s take is that the filibuster only affects floor votes, but all of the stages of bill making before that are unaffected by the filibuster.

The Filibuster has been replaced by the Cloture Vote as the heckler’s veto of Congress. It is quiet/anonymous, can be done by staffers (not just Congresspersons), and can be done remotely. Hence this is a stronger heckler’s veto today than in the past.

And it _is_ disingenuous because Republicans have the Hastert Rule, which is even more restrictive on what can come to a floor vote than what Democrats do.
How many social sciences aren't 'dubious at best' though? Even studies of things that are concretely defined and measurable (e.g. all-cause mortality) are fraught with dubiousness.
It's silly to say that real estate agents shouldn't deny service to people of different races or suggest different homes based on their customers race?
Every air separation plant (you know, the kind used to make oxygen for steelmaking) employs expanders for recovering energy from cryogenic nitrogen. This is an off the shelf technology.
Looking at black holes with known mass ranges: the realistic mitigation strategy would be to just to leave the Solar System.

Even if a black hole missed the Earth, just flying through the Solar System would be enough to completely disrupt all planetary orbits.

Any mitigation strategy to alter the course of the black hole itself would require so much mass/energy to the point that we'd be making our own black holes for the purpose of space travel, so the Solar System wouldn't matter too much in the grand scheme of things anyway.

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But as we look at smaller and smaller black holes outside known mass ranges (e.g. primordial black holes, artificial black holes, etc...), things start to change.

A black hole with the mass of anywhere smaller than a star to the mass of a planet is more or less still going to result in the same effects as a stellar mass black hole.

A dwarf planet mass black hole on a collision course with Earth would destroy Earth. If we knew it was coming say a 400-1000 years in advance, we may be able to accelerate a large asteroid into it resulting in a different trajectory for the black hole causing it to miss the Earth, but the tidal forces would still rip the Earth apart or at least send it into a different orbit.

An asteroid mass black hole would strike the Earth causing a massive amount of gamma radiation cooking everything on the surface as it entered the Earth's atmosphere only for it to continue through the planet, emerging on the other side with another bout of radiation cooking before continuing off to shoot back out into space. It would be about the same as two small moons crashing on either side of the Earth.

A tennis ball mass black hole going close to the speed of light would go right through the Earth without too much fuss. The black hole's radius would be too small (smaller than an electron) to cause any damage.

Edit: Added "going close to the speed of light" to the tennis ball mass black hole explanation. If it was not going fast to the speed of light, the black hole would evaporate before it could travel through the Earth. The evaporation would probably also cause so much heat it would cook the planet.
I've been a first hand witness of a coworker accusing another coworker of "microagressions" because they disagreed (passionately, I would add) on how to approach a problem. I was privy to the outcome from HR and management as well, which was essentially: "ok, nothing racial was said or suggested, but this person feels a certain way, so be more careful next time."

It's really disheartening that people have taken a tool for identifying actual subtle racism and are now using it as a weapon to attempt to tarnish the reputations of others.
I am sure that, in a lot of cases, the people aren't really offended but they see an opportunity for content online so they use it.
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> Rarely Seen Paintings by Tolkien Portray a Lush ‘Lord of the Rings’ Landscape

That's a great prompt for DALL-E 2! Someone should try it and compare the results to the real drawings
Economic shocks are not fun, but to lighten the mood I figured to share a weird but hilarious subculture: vrekken.

A "vrek" is the dutch word for somebody that is extraordinarily frugal in unhealthy ways. The vrekken culture embraces this as a quality and then escalates it to Olympic standards. Not even out of necessity, instead as an avenue for creativity.

Here's one such vrekken news paper of the "Saver of the Fatherland":
https://www.vrekkenpagina.nl/

I'm unsure if there's international versions of this culture?
It could be larger than baseload, but it's unlikely to be any less than baseload.
Feeling slighted is a reaction a person has. One can choose to have a different reaction.

If someone cuts you off in traffic, you can road rage and curse and be angry, or you can shrug your shoulders and go on with your day.

The mistake is putting the responsibility for your own emotional state onto other people.
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They did the same thing with closed source Pylance, which is built on top of the open source Pyright. Pretty despicable behavior no matter how you cut it.
why the hostility? they're trying to build a sustainable business so their product can have a future, which in turn benefits those who can avail themselves of their open source

is paying for support really such a raw deal if you are using their produce to generate your own revenue?
Also references another interesting article about a stateful service design antipatter: https://www.michaelnygard.com/blog/2018/01/services-by-lifec...
The only reason I came here was to make cheap puns like this, and you beat me to it.
> But because it involves an attempt to measure something that has partisan lean, people of one partisan group feel an instinctual need to refute it, lest they lose points or whatever.

I think you make a good point that partisan issues like this can lead to knee-jerk reactions.

You point out how this might play out with right-leaning readers, and it seems plausible to me.

Any theories for how a partisan topic like this could affect left-leaning readers?
"When deciding by committee
Here's a useful rule of thumb:
Talents make a difference,
And follies make a sum!"

- Piet Hein, "Grooks"
It's psychology and sociology. It is dubious science at best. No additional specific examples are needed.

(Of course, we may differ on what makes science good science. For me, the ability to repeat an experimental result is essential to good science. Profiting from the results of your research generally seems to lead to bad science)
The A220 emits very strange engine noises in some phases of the flight. Personally I must say I find them very unpleasant. My wild guess it's the gear fan.

It doesn't help to know that their have quite some engine problems. Although objectively I doubt the noises and engine failures are related.
It's from Fox. The current President is a Democrat. Any change in any major economic factor will be reported as terrible. This isn't news in the sense that it's surprising or unexpected, and it's not relevant.
Do you explain TLS to casual internet users? I'd like to see that.

The regular non-tech savvy user doesn't necessarily have to understand the details. That's why people are working on such solutions in the first place. Someone experienced with blockchains would never connect their wallet to a random stranger's and approve draining their funds. However the massive hype around them has brought in a lot of new users.

Wallets have come a long way from people writing their private key on a piece of paper back in the early days. The above complaint is bizarre in this context, because what they described is the exact opposite of what's actually happened. Every reputable wallet team has worked hard on improving security over the past years using strategies like social recovery, multi sig, cold storage of keys, etc.
Seems feasible. As Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB ram, 64GB flash, ethernet (for a DSL or cable modem), and wifi could meet most peoples needs for file sharing (like dropbox), gmail like web email, chat (matrix or similar), etc. Trick is it needs to be robust, trivial to use, and pushed by a well recognized name to get decent market share.

Ideally they would find each other via a DHT and even offer to trade services (storage, backups, replacing a down service, etc.)

Having these in a decent fraction of households would help mitigate the usual downsides of P2P (slow transfers, slow startup time, etc).
It actually may not be, when you enter a recession you can fall into an equity trap where everyone starts hoarding money and it further plummets the economy
Does dart isolate have any similarity to this ?
https://dart.dev/guides/language/concurrency
I and some other folks in the Rust audio community have put together some low-level bindings for the CLAP API: https://github.com/glowcoil/clap-sys

They're relatively straightforward due to the fact that CLAP is a simple, pure-C ABI, and there are already some fully functional plugins making use of them (e.g. https://github.com/robbert-vdh/nih-plug).
You forgot the best IMO walking simulator, The Stanley Parable

https://store.steampowered.com/app/221910/The_Stanley_Parabl...
This is a touchy subject, but the gist of it is that nearly all evidence points to post-Lyme complications being due to something other than ongoing Lyme infection. However, there are a lot of alternative medicine doctors who try to treat post-Lyme complications as ongoing infections that they claim are too hidden to be measured or detected. They want to treat the "hidden infection" with extremely long courses of very powerful (and expensive) antibiotics.

The problem with this theory is that when studied under double-blind conditions, the post-Lyme patients who receive high dose antibiotics don't actually do much better than those who receive placebo. Similar numbers of patients in both placebo and antibiotic groups have recoveries, but the antibiotic cohort has higher rates of adverse effects. Any time you have evidence like this, insurance companies will refuse to cover these treatments.

It's a touchy subject because post-Lyme symptoms are very real, but the cause of those symptoms isn't really understood. Patients who are desperate for answers are drawn to the high-dose, long-term antibiotic treatments because it gives a convenient explanation and a convenient treatment option, but the real-world results don't really support it. There are a few researchers out there who are still trying to prove otherwise, so it's possible that we'll get some different information later.

Sadly, there isn't much in the way of treatment knowledge for how to actually deal with post-Lyme complications, other than going for large batteries of neurological and immunological testing and hoping that something turns up. Beyond that it's largely palliative care and rest while the patient hopefully gradually recovers.
> Nothing in my rebuttal cares about what society thinks.

Your entire "rebuttal" is about the lack of support structures that are missing exactly because society does not condone people having children. Something which was already established throughout the thread, being the core premise raised.
If you believe the money amount correspondence to intellectual and lived life weight is linear, then Marc must be astronomical huge.

But in the end, no one knows the correspondence between money amount and intellectual and lived life weight. That's a market thing. Everyone's option is mixed together and give to a weight of collective market dynamism.
An insult must be both thrown and caught. If you refuse to catch the insult, you refuse to be insulted.

Calling it a jerk flag is a great way to take over the transaction.
It can simply mean being able to work on your own terms. Being able to walk away from undesirable situations, even if you still enjoy working.
These days it's just exactly 1852 meters. Since the Earth is not perfectly spherical the historical definition is ambiguous and until relatively recently the distance was different depending on jurisdictions.
Link to the actual paintings: https://www.tolkienestate.com/painting/
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It's a question of what you think is going to happen. Personally, I think there are a lot of other people who are looking for ways to get out of cash and into something that is portable and loses value at a slower rate than inflation as well.

It implies increasing demand for alternative assets like art and collectables, and maybe small land purchases. If there's something you know about or enjoy, it may be worth just getting into buying something, like antique motorcycles, painting and sculpture, photography, classical instruments of the non-piano variety, fancy watches, wine auctions, and other niche high end collectables. Even the top level hi-fi systems from niche makers (McIntosh, Luxman, Audio Research) with limited supply look like they could still be in demand in a decade, just like a good 1970s amp or speakers still costs more than an iPod.

If these sound extravagent, the alternative at that level of investment is to buy a small crypto mining rig. Personally I would rather just take the hi-fi system or the instruments. :)
You're right that credit cards are far from guarantees. Still, I'd imagine Cloudflare do something like cluster users by risk level at some granularity. Brand-new paying accounts might be put together in the same process, while paying customers for over a year might be in another. You might be attacked even in the latter group, but the attacker can do that at a much lower frequency (the card isn't recently stolen; and they've been paying for this attack for a year - only to be kicked out now if found).

Also, the browser risk model is much worse because of the scale. If you manage to get malicious code onto a popular website then you get many, many opportunities to attack people. With Cloudflare you can only attack the other tenants of your process, and you're paying every time you do it (in a browser, it runs on the target's machine, free for you). And even then as the blogpost mentions they randomize pairings, limit the amount of time they spend together, etc.

Overall I think this is far less risky than the browser situation. And Cloudflare isn't the only one that thinks so - their competitors also put multiple tenants in the same process. Done carefully, it's a reasonable model.
Here is my list of places to move based on a few factors.

1) Denver, you like outdoors, access to world class airport, you don't mind lots of traffic tying to get to said outdoors. There are lots of people and dinning options.

2) Salt Lake City, you like outdoors, access to world class airports. There is less traffic, people, and dinning options than Denver. The culture is quite conservative.

3) Bend Or. Small town, direct access to some amazing outdoor activities. Lots of great dinning, coffee shops and breweries for the size of the town. Best to have a remote job as the job market there is small. Winters are BRUTAL but summers are AMAZING. Lots of young active single people.

4) Dallas TX. You are looking for lots of attractive women who like to eat and shop. There is not much to do outdoors in Dallas but if you want to party it isn't a bad spot.

5) Bellingham, WA. You like to sail and be outdoors this is a great spot. You will need to bring your own job but traffic is light, summers are amazing, and you have the San Juan Islands right there to enjoy. Not so amazing for single life.

6) Boise, ID. Never move there it is horrible.

7) Whitefish, MT. This is an amazingly beautiful town. World class outdoor activities year around within a 20 minute drive of anywhere in town. Single life not so great and the dinning is not on par with the other towns but for stuff to do this is up there.
Perhaps I struggle to articulate this clearly because it seems so obvious.

If there are 3 potential logical causes being discussed (QE, reduction in supply of commodities due to covid, and reduction in supply of fossil fuels from Russia since the invasion of Ukraine), and I provide data that suggests that 2 of them could not be significantly responsible, that leaves only one.

The difference is the magnitude. Never before in US history has the government expanded the M2 money supply by ~20% in a matter of a few weeks. This is the chart that sums it up [0]. That was significantly by direct cash injection/expansion of the Fed's balance sheet. Combined with ultra low interest rates (also the most significant in US history) and the elimination of the reserve requirement, M2 has been growing at an incredible rate ever since. When you have 1 gold bar worth of value in an economy and 100 dollars, a gold bar is worth $100. If you print 20 more dollars, well, that gold bar will soon be worth $120, and not because the inherent value or usefulness of the gold bar changed.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WM2NS
I mean, it's obvious.

Or maybe it's a proof of the intelligence of a elected official?
> On Monday, Kraken executive Christina Yee wrote in Slack to employees that the "C.E.O, company, and culture are not going to change in a meaningful way," urging workers to go "somewhere that doesn't disgust you," the Times reported.

Sounds like a healthy corporate environment run by professionals. /s