skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don't want to defend the Taliban, but the core of any government is the group that maintains a monopoly on violence in a realm.

The pre-Taliban government of Afghanistan as well as the US puppet state in 2021 failed in this core responsibility, and consequently lost the right to govern. Whether or not the Taliban will produce a stable or good government is a different question. I personally weep for those forced to live under it's rule.

It would make about as much sense to say the United States in 1783 was not a government, but a terrorist organization that attacked the rightful British government of the American colonies. The British lost the right to govern when they failed to maintain their monopoly on violence in the American colonies, and a new governmental organization formed from the ashes of the war that proved it.
That's what I thought. Then I tried not flossing, and my gums got unhealthy and started bleeding a lot in like two weeks. My teeth aren't unusual; I wouldn't expect to be that much of an outlier; so not sure what was going on in those studies that I also had heard about.
What do you know about how GPS works?
> but if someone is harassing you in PRIVMSG there's often nothing you can do

The large majority of IRC networks are centrally managed these days, so you can talk to the network operators so they ban the person from the network.

> channel bans can be circumvented and enforcement bots subverted fairly easily

Disallow unregistered users on your channel, and it becomes as hard to circumvent as registering on any other platform; assuming the network uses standard blocklists like DroneBL
I assume you're an FBI agent trying to encourage people to install your real cooler encrypted app that's not on the store and only available via sideloading.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/06/fbi-snooped-on-crimi...
"the solution to pollution is dilution"
Our code ranking algorithm uses an NLP model (trained on a code dataset) to pick the most relevant snippets. You're right that the accepted answer on Stack Overflow is a good heuristic, and it's something we'll add to our ranking algorithm in the near future.

Showing an answer written by a human as a part of the code snippet is also a good idea.
The trick is that not all of the complexity is protective politics -- some of the complexity is carefully created diplomatic language to keep together a coalition of cranky managers who managed to agree on _this very specific version of The Plan_.

And unless you're savvy, it's difficult to tell which part is which, thus the problem OP is having.
Mirror neurons 30 years later: implications and applications
Are you suggesting that this is a two step aggregation , first by groups, second, ultimately, aggregate those groups, in which case the first step was unnecessary?

In any case, if you sum a list of numbers you have to look at each value. There’s no way around it. You can parallelize, like MapReduce, but the number of items is unchanged. You can preaggregate, but at some point you need partial sums.
if you'd develop an embedded OS e.g. for cars, why would you use X11 in this day and age?
I understand that, I didn't mean the concept of e2ee requires the endpoints to never share it at all. What I meant was, commonly people will disable iCloud backups hoping to regain some privacy, but it does nothing because most of your communication partners use iCloud backups. Just like people who switch to eg. Protonmail - if you only ever talk to GMail users, it doesn't really give you much extra privacy.
It's true, NSO Group doesn't exist and none of their exploits have ever worked on anyone.
> Anyone building a new app should not be writing for X at this point (its deprecated).

Did I miss an announcement or something? Last time I checked X was not deprecated.

How would you even deprecate a protocol? Is HTTP/1.1 also deprecated?
In terms of production capacity and industrial capability, it is mostly there. As an example, the recently unopened nord stream pipeline produced 200,000 pipe sections with similar dimensions and mass to the Micro Modular Reactor pressure vessel - in just a few years. Nuclear fuel costs are dirt cheap and production rates can be ramped pretty quickly - it's the magic of nuclear energy density.the reactor tech is more or less fifty years old with some design to build changes. Culturally, the zero-carbon push, volatile and political fossil markets, and perhaps an end in sight to the shale boom - it's completely changed the customer conversation compared to just a few years ago. Ultimately, energy scarcity is going to be the push for full market deployments. And we may be approaching that. All the delays and waddling will dissolve in the face of cold hard necessity.
That's the thing, if you think your device is compromised, don't use it. This is dangerous as it's a bandage and most likely allows surveillance that's "pre-approved" or is carrier based, probably even baseband modem based.
I feel like claiming that faked scientific narratives were invented by the Tabasco (sic) industry might be missing Radium, Tetra-ethyl Lead, and any number of other issues. Suffice it to say that for as long as the scientific method has held some sort of real authority outside of its practitioners, it has been twisted by special interests (especially those that have deep pockets) towards their own benefit.

The Tobacco industry is already sufficiently guilty through their actions that there is no need to make things up to paint them in a bad light (here, the 'originators' of scientific chaffing) - all that can do is provide cover for bad deeds when people figure out that such claims are fraudulent, and extend the possibility to information that is not. See the war on drugs for a more modern example.
The whole thing seems so inefficient but I am not an expert.

Can anyone here expand on this?
Don't forget toll roads. They rake in billions in profits every year and keep making excuses not to decrease the toll fees. Worse, they have roadworks with decreased speed limits on really busy roads at the worst possible time, which in some cases makes your average speed lower on the toll road than on a toll-free road.
That, and the apps teams hated the architecture given very poor tooling support - especially since the writing was on the wall that the future was GPGPU accelerators and the Cell was a dead end. The roadrunner processors were awesome on paper, but not so much when it came to working with them. Kind of a shame really: there were some really interesting ideas in that processor design.
Most senior level hackers are being hired through very shortened interview cycles. Often a phonecall and that's it. The old school way of a recruiter reaching out, then a screening, then a tech round is falling behind.
Wait, where is the actual spreadsheet? Everything is hidden behind demo booking.

It'd be nice to actually see billions of cells in action. Otherwise it's just marketing for their product disguised as a technical blog post. For all we know it doesn't actually work that well in practice.
Also note comments from hello_im_angela (= Angela Fan) and jw4ng (= Jeff Wang). Those are the HN accounts for Angela and Jeff from No Languages left Behind.
Then why did all the mom and pop shops go out of business when Kmart and Walmart and Dollar General came around around?

Retail is a near perfect example of multiple sellers competing for multiple buyers resulting in razor thin profit margins, which means the buyers are getting what they want at the lowest prices possible.

Retail business do not earn 2-4% profit margins because they want to, they earn them because their customers will go to the store next door if they try to take 5%+.
Yeah I wasn't sure what will happen if more people add in stops in the "right" direction afterwards, I don't think I've ever been in that situation, but that makes sense.
This was the question I came to pose... This is such an exciting field but when the CORE most important variable is missing, I tend to assume the worst - in this case being that the value is atrociously low.
I haven't experienced the microphones on the ARM MBP 16", but with its Intel predecessor. And there the microphones are excellent and not drowned by fan noise (assuming of course, you don't run huge compute tasks in the background during the calls, never encountered anyone doing so). I can't imagine the ARM MBP to be more noisy than the Intel one.

But specifically: the MB Air doesn't have a fan, so you won't hear fan noise while using it.
Either:

1) They aren't collecting personally identifiable information, and therefore don't fall within the scope of the GDPR, and therefore the cost of compliance is virtually nil

or:

2) They are collecting personally identifiable information. For just visiting their site, that's abuse.

> And what's your knowledge of their code stack and backends?

Not relevant.
> So why would [the landlord] care?

A complaint from one of many residents may be futile, but a complaint from the retail tenant with the largest space would carry more weight. Surely showing that this elevator decreases the value of their building would be something they'd care about, if delivered correctly.
Bro, you don't need a paper to demonstrate the benefit of flossing.

Just get right in there at the back with some decent floss (Oral B Satin Tape is good), and taste the rotten, disgusting food you remove. That's what the people around you are smelling every day when you exhale.
I don't expect management to understand the codebase, so why are coders expected to understand management buzzwords and such? Looking at the comments here it seems like people are pulled into these meetings unwillingly and subjected to the managerial nitty-gritty, and expected to participate, but it's a one-way street because the management is never subjected to the technical side of things. I think that's where the sentiment is coming from.
Facebook translations are horrifying for the mainstream languages already. They go from completely wrong to kinda understandable but still wrong.
Thanks for this list!
> autocracies fund their operations with inflation

There is limited evidence for connecting countries' foreign debt levels to their degree of democratization [1].

More pointedly, there is ample evidence--millenia of it!--for empires on commodity money waging war and whatnot and having a fine time of it.

> deficit spending funded with inflation is not really what people have voted for

Deficit spending / bond issuance is voted on at multiple levels of government practically every cycle. People have voted for this. Because the alternative is austerity, and fanatical governments that pursue that for its own sake tend to get replaced.

[1] https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/68966375/bf00224681202...
Given the recent influx of EVs, some of these charts explain why certain brands seem to have launched them now.

Hyundai, kia and Genesis for instance, share the same ev platform.

Volvo and polestar too,with their EVs.

Audi, Vw, Porsche too have all launched EVs with surprisingly similar specs ( especially in terms of miles/kwh).

These ownership trees help explain why, clearly.
I understand your assumptions now. You’re saying SP mult is by convention twice the flops for half the area, and I was talking about same flops for one fourth the area. It’s a choice. There might be a current convention, but regardless, the sum total is a factor of 4 cost for each double precision mult op compared to single. Frame it how you like, divvy the cost up different ways, the DP mult cost is still 4x SP. Aaaanyway... that does answer my question & confirm what I thought, thank you for explaining and clarifying the convention.
Adapted from the game defined in the paper: The cell probe complexity of succinct data structures.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030439750...
Strange they heat the sand instead of moving it around like a pumped battery
The exception is std::io::Error, which doesn't provide any information about which file failed to be opened/closed/read/whatever. I know this is because doing so would require an allocation, but it's still painful.
Pro Tip: Buy a professional dental pick. I bought one on Amazon for around $35 about 10 years ago. I use it every day. It works great.
I don’t have an emotional response over Wayland.

My practical engineering analysis says that people will be forced to choose between abandoning working X software and foregoing new Wayland packages.

For example when one workflow critical app adopts GTK 5 (assuming it does not support X) and another workflow critical app remains X based.

And apps will remain X based because all the effort of porting to Wayland is chores not features.

Wayland doesn’t add import functionality to applications.

Indeed breaking the client-server idiom is a functional regression.

As is breaking Linux and Wayland is a breaking change because backward compatibility and/or reliable automated tooling to port complex applications is too much work for Wayland’s developers.

Who like most of those affected, are not getting paid Faang wages to work on deep pocketed well resourced teams.

Breaking applications makes it Python3 on steroids in terms of generating tidal waves of compatibility efforts.
"Why did the company not hire more people?"

COVID dramatically reduced worker demand for airlines, hotels, restaurants, the like. So those people went to do something else, something that saw an increase in demand, say delivering packages.

Now those workers are needed again, but no longer available. Or only a few.

As an example, at Schiphol airport (Amsterdam) they require 500 new/extra security staff. It takes months to find them and just training takes several weeks.
Will this be available to Chinese residents? Huge if so.
X11 makes tear-free drawing possible.

Wayland, IIUC, makes tear-free drawing inevitable.
That’s not what bad faith means. Cheers.
Aside - Documentation says:

> It is possible to cast the variant type to any pointer type, which will return null if the types match, or the pointer value otherwise.

That seems backwards to me. Maybe it's just me? Surely if the types match that's when we get the pointer value ?

My main point - Strings

I think at this point good strings are table stakes. If you're a general purpose language, people are going to use strings. Are they going to make a hash table of 3D vectors? Maybe. Are they going to do finite field arithmetic? Maybe. Are they going to need networking? Maybe. But they are going to use strings. C's strings are reprehensibly awful. C++ strings are, astoundingly, both much more complicated and worse in many ways, like there was a competition. You need to be doing a lot better than that IMHO.

I happen to really like Rust's str but I'm not expecting to see something so feature rich in a language like C3. I am expecting a lot more than from a fifty year old programming language though.
> clear that Web3 companies have major incidents at higher rates than most other software companies

I won't argue this, but I think that it depends on where you look. Cryptography audit services are books out for months or years because of the demand from cryptocurrency projects. There's never been a vulnerability in the Bitcoin or Ethereum networks that allowed an attacker to steal funds or execute a double-spend. And cryptocurrency projects have pioneered whole fields of cryptography like zksnarks for security purposes.

Cryptocurrency projects often have a fundamentally very difficult problem to solve, and attackers are also very sophisticated. There are currently very few people with the expertise needed to implement a complex cryptocurrency project securely.

Disclaimer: I'm a protocol developer for a cryptocurrency project (not one of the ones mentioned here)
> capture not working properly

This has changed.

As a daily Wayland user, the only thing that Wayland can't do is networked sessions, and I have never needed that.

> suggested Wayland

Ubuntu slated it for default in 22.04, but reverted due to a bug. I expect them to try again during the next release. If you want to try it then it's typically selected in the login manager.

> don't want to go over it again

Or don't try it, the grandparent comment was talking about "hate" not "disinterest".
I've been burned by that as well. I pretty much only by clothes on final sale if I have a high degree of confidence I will like the result (feel, fit, color, etc) and even then I've been disappointed by the variability in quality.

BTW, Mr. Porter has a fantastic return process. They include the return label and invoice in the box. Some of their stuff is expensive, but I'm much more comfortable trying their products out because it's so easy to return.
> There's a huge gap between Fortune 500 executives, government officials, etc. and regular people in terms of the resources available to them to prevent state-sponsored attackers. It doesn't take much these days to go from a nobody to being on somebody's radar.

It's also a question of whether you want that. Anyone can take anti-phishing training, it just takes a lot of time. Want to download a mod for a game? You better have a separate gaming machine with no important data on it and, to be sure, in a separate network. Want to buy a phone? Better drive to a random store, ordering is to dangerous.

Sure, it's easy to get on the radar, but avoiding a state-sponsored hack is also a lot of effort. Fortune 500 executives need to put that effort in and they do have the money to make it happen, but for most people, the problem is not the cost.
The average quality of consumer goods has deteriorated so far that it's practically all trash on arrival. Of course they don't want returns coming back, it's a big fat waste stream and they want nothing to do with it beyond skimming their take as it blows past.

Instead we should be forcing stores to not only always accept unwanted items, if anything to encourage them to exercise more care preventing low-quality/counterfeit/misrepresented products. But to also be at least partially responsible for the total waste/recycling burden their sales create.

> Whenever someone hands me a flyer, it's kind of like they're saying "here, you throw this away." - Mitch Hedberg
Hey,

I disagree. The G word has never happened. There is no such thing called historical evidence. Please refer the following fact sheet [0].

I’m not denying it as it never happened. But, yeah, I will be standing by my nation till the last spill of my blood.

[0]: https://www.mfa.gov.tr/the-armenian-allegation-of-genocide-t...
Heh, nice one. Not that it's my area, but in case the above was not decodable as sarcasm to other readers, following the evidence-based / defense-in-depth strategies I'd personally recommend not using phones at all (far too little control in general) and instead recommend seeking out auditable (open source) software on actual machines you have a hope to control for secure communications. It's a deep rabbit hole with diminishing returns, though.
> GTK4 on Wayland is actually a pretty nice API to program with, which remedies a lot of warts in GTK/X11

Gtk on X11 does not expose any X11 to the programmer, so I really don't know what this is supposed to mean.
Nobody is paying $19.99/month for a calculator, you can certainly come up with a better argument than this.
> Stores always charge the amount such that (price per widget)*(expected number of widgets sold) is maximized.

The error is in neglecting the stores’ competitors selling the widget for a lower price, and customers opting to buy from said competitors.
Do you think the companies that have generous return policies have never run the numbers?
Only floss the teeth you want to keep
> putting up $10 million isn't pocket change

10 Million = 0.0027% of Apple's sales in 2021.

Equivalent to an Apple developer who made 300K in 2021 donating 8 dollars.

If this doesn't classify as pocket change, it's quite close.
As a native Swiss German speaker, my native language is not only low resource in general, but has the additional difficulty of not having a standardized orthography (many native speakers will exclusively write in Standard German, and use Swiss German only for spoken communication).

So you have a language with some economic opportunity (a few million speakers in a fairly wealthy country) but no clearly defined written interface, and an ambivalent attitude of many speakers towards the very idea of writing the language.
Not yet exploited: I'm a big fan of deep bore geothermal energy using a closed loop. Here's an example from a company trying to make it work. Idk if they can actually do it but it can def be done by a large enough entity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtQmGPmyLA0

Build some pipes in the ground. Pump an anti-freeze like fluid into the ground so it heats up. Bring it up on the other side and the heat from the fluid heats some steel pipes submerged in water so the water turns to steam. Steam turns turbine and electricity is generated.

You can either send it straight to market or you could store it via batteries, flywheels, compressed air, your choice.

Lots of areas where energy could be lost but the earth is hot so it's not like we're depleting a resource
This is completely incorrect. Here's the actual law

https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/documents/inspection...
We interviewed speakers of low-resource languages from all over the world to understand the human need for this kind of technology --- what do people actually want, how would they use it, and what's the quality they would find useful? Many low-resource languages lack data online, but are spoken by millions. However, many indigenous languages are spoken by smaller numbers of people, and we are definitely interested in partnering with local communities to co-develop technology and have been actively investigating these collaborations but don't have much to share yet.
If X11 is well and truly on the way out by then, I'll be all for GTK5 dropping X11 support. It doesn't seem like much of the world beyond Gnome is on Wayland but GTK is everywhere. If that remains the case, a Wayland only GTK (that didn't accept X11 patches) would probably result in a massive fork.

I generally use Gnome on my Linux laptop. I often find myself switching it to be Gnome on X rather than Gnome on Wayland. This isn't based on any explicit preference (I genuinely don't care), but I usually encounter some glitchiness that goes away when I take Wayland out of the picture.
Because of empathy I guess? I can go on living perfectly fine without my savings ("fortune"), without losing any quality of life really. So if I can make the lives of five people's families and loved ones better, why wouldn't I?
Racism plays a major role here [1,2], and it's certainly a motivation for Bill 21 at least. Remember, this is the ultimate culmination of a village writing a handbook for immigrants that included not eating babies, like they do in their home country [3].

Bill 96 is a direct violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, so you're right it's not racist, just a denial of my guaranteed rights as a Canadian Citizen. Ignoring First Nations, of course, many of whom speak neither French nor English. If you do count them, then Bill 96 can also be considered racist

[1] https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/two-thirds-of-qu...

[2] https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-coroner-feels-joyce-echaq...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/12/world/canada/canada-herou...
I think amazon warehouse is a middle ground.

They must have some ROI calculation. Or would that be ROR (return on return?)
> Nothing stops Apple from offering e2ee backups, and in fact they do this for certain data backed up to iCloud (health data for example.)

Almost all users can't handle this; to support people, you need to be able to recover their account when they've lost every single password and proof of identity they possibly can. It's not a backup if you can't restore it.
I would also blame Trump's relentless political attacks about Obama returning Iran's assets. And Biden's political cowardice after the Afghan collapse. All of it is reducing trust in US's supposed rules-based institutions. US is speedrunning through the fall of an empire