skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Better then to have to wear a space suit... oh wait
Is Rust really "fearless concurrency" ?

Considering the number of deadlock issues encountered by folks using async Rust, I think "fearless concurrency" is misinformation by Rust evangelists.

Deadlocks in production Rust microservice:

https://blog.polybdenum.com/2022/07/24/fixing-the-next-thous...
No, it is not stronger or better for purposes of accessing blocked websites. Internet accessed through TOR is much-unusable due to low speeds and endless captchas.
I wasn't aware they were so unpopular. I don't mean a Thunderbolt dock, it can be one of those ten buck dongles from Amazon with a bunch of ports on it, that looks like a glorified card reader.

It will also work with any computer monitor that has a USB-C input and USB ports on it, usually, which are starting to become popular enough lately where I'm from.
Mega Millions has been increasing the odds over the years in order to generate larger and less frequent jackpots. More hype means more ticket sales.
Yes, I would say I have. I have been sexually assaulted for example, but that doesn't mean I want the person who did it to suffer as well. That would just mean more suffering.
I don't think we can put aside the details of whether it is true or not (it's not), because Putin has full info about the fact that it's nonsense, so it's extremely relevant to his mindset (ie, it's a fabrication aimed at a completely unrelated objective).
It’s voluntary so obviously not a tax. But two things are true: First, for one reason or another poor people tend to play the lottery significantly more than people get are financially stable. Second, the lottery funds the government.

So looking purely at the macro level, the net effect looks a lot like a regressive tax. Which is why people say that even if it’s not 100% true.
Don’t forget that the $1.10 that does get distributed as prizes also gets taxed at almost 50%.
“A couple dozen friends and acquaintances”. Very good research there, pal. You really are an expert in the field.
And even then, only with a warrant.
Indeed, thats why it ages so poorly. Compare that to something like Brave New World.
In case you haven't already read it, one of the greatest reddit comments/threads of all time goes into great detail exactly how fucked you are if you win—and what you can do about it: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vzgl/you_just_...
There's a reason the most sophisticated attacks usually come from "state actors".
The counter argument is that a lot of those games reward “skill”. Through study/statistics your odds improve, in the same way that equity research can lead to a good stock pick. The lottery is naked chance.
he said $708.5 million PRE tax
> When revisiting old projects I have seen countless of Clojure dependencies having died in the meantime. I have replaced utility libraries with more recent utility libraries sometimes several times. Very annoying.

Yes, the "best in class" libraries change every few years in Clojure's universe, but they always bring huge improvements that require completely new APIs.

For instance:

https://github.com/plumatic/schema -> https://github.com/metosin/malli

https://github.com/juxt/bidi -> https://github.com/metosin/reitit

https://github.com/bhauman/lein-figwheel -> https://github.com/thheller/shadow-cljs

https://github.com/stuartsierra/component -> https://github.com/weavejester/integrant

https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen -> https://github.com/practicalli/clojure-deps-edn

> So overall Clojure is in a strange situation. For picking it up on-the-job its not the responsible choice probably for most situations I work in. For my private tinkering the JVM dependency feels just a little too heavyweight. I don't see that Clojure will hit an inflection point of adoption in any way in the future that would make it a viable candidate for me to use at work.

I think about programming languages as tools for different bottlenecks.

– Computational: Rust

– Networking: Go

– Business logic: Clojure / Python

And for many people Python has everything that Clojure is missing: a very low barrier to enter, and a very stable and well-documented ecosystem of frameworks and libraries.
I think there’s something off with the render scaling, because the pixels are enormous even when I set it to a non-fixed sized font (Monaco). I had to set 2x scaling and then it looked better but only because the text was enormous.

I recall this being something you had to pay attention to with imgui/glfw — probably just needs a small tweak.
I mean, it's at least a bit less ambiguous than Go.
As the saying goes, you can spare yourself 10 minutes of thinking with a few hours of debugging.

A debugger works if you're in unknown territory, e.g. an inherited code base or some third party library. You have only a vague idea what the code does, you don't know if the original author was good or bad, you can't modify the code... Also good if you have some platform corruption going on, like a C pointer gone wild and overwriting unrelated data, hardware that's not completely functioning as it should, some virus scanner or security contraption injecting its own crap in your code for your supposed good...

Using a debugger on your own code generally means you did not think things trough. Adding assertions will help you trap the trouble closer to its point of origin. Print debugging is good for dumping inputs and outputs, and maybe complex intermediate state. As you have a full programming language available, you can add a few if statements to only dump state if it is relevant to your problem.

The nice thing is, assertions and print debugging nicely evolve to production: The first can be enabled with a feature toggle, the second nicely evolves to logging. This means your prod executable is not only good at doing its job, it's also good at helping you troubleshoot on a bad day. Use the dev bugs to train yourself and your program to troubleshoot the prod bugs.
I mentioned three solutions. In general you can make a lot of things "just work" with SSH, by using port forwarding.
Oh man, HTC 10 was the worst phone I owned in terms of repair-ability (I even saw one phone repair place explicitly saying they don't support that phone). Not only you risk screen (primarily) and other components damage. You can also break the phone in subtle ways when putting it back[1] and reopening it back is again tough because you need to unglue the screen first to get to screws.

Having a builtin validating code as one commenter mentioned would be a godsend, but nearly all companies do everything they can to make customers not want their phones repaired.

[1] things like some sensors not working, accidentally clipping the tape with buttons, touch screen being funky (although that likely was due to non genuine screen), or my favorite - gps working but never able to get exact location)
That is not my understanding. $1.34B is apparently the total winnings of all people that round, not the winner. The winner is entitled to one of two options, either a $708.5M single payout or an undisclosed higher total as an annual payment over 30 years. There may be a very large long-tail of small winners.

(Edit: Can't reply: the understanding comes from a lifetime of experience with weasels. They use the figure to describe the round, the winner is not entitled to the round total. This is an intentional marketing doublespeak on their part.)
Nuclear can modulate it's output by more aggressively cooling the water. There's no xenon poisoning since the reactors output is the same. This is undesirable because it's essentially wasting fuel, by deliberately reducing the efficiency of the steam turbine. But it can be done, and fuel is not a big driver of nuclear cost.
I've never heard of this anywhere in the US (but I've never explicitly looked). I got a plot at work once but that was private property. A senior center next to me offered gardening at a nearby plot for it's elderly members but again nothing public. Some city parks have small gardens run by volunteers.

Edit: should have googled, seems my town does indeed have it! https://www.mountainview.gov/depts/cs/rec/facilities/garden....
> Or at least a logical explanation, as to why you think the majority of the population are homicidal maniacs, held in check by the threat of prison time.

You don't need the MAJORITY of the population to be homicidal maniacs, only held in check by the thread of punishment to see a marked rise in homicides.

I'd guess that even with a low rate of one out of every thousand people being homicidal maniacs only kept in check by the threat of force, you'd get 200x or more homicides than you have now.

After all, a homicidal maniac will, almost by definition, kill repeatedly, and since (in this hypothetical situation) they are not punished for it, there's simply no reason for them to stop doing it.
Can confirm that Scaniverse is amazing.
In regards to battery degradation, how much of that range can I expect to see after the first 100000km?
Sometimes I need to look at the screen and see nothing so https://allblackscreen.com/ to clear my brain.
> product developers don't seem to care at all

They do care - it is just what they care about is diametrically opposed to your interests. The post-sales revenue stream from collected data is not only profitable, but in some cases more profitable than the sale itself.
RKN only backed down only because it was a PR stunt where it played the role of an inept villain.
>Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see what's special about Carbon here.

It's nothing really out of the ordinary ... also that particular optimization is meager in practice (on the order of 1%?). I know everything improvement adds up, but the author talks about it as if it was a game changer. I like the enthusiasm, though :D.
Yeah. Basically think a C++ alternative by C++ developers who are dissatisfied with the standards committee.
I installed a dummy load instead the cellular antenna in my vehicle. In theory it should not be able to connect back to my automaker's virtual mobile network.
I used to think of the lottery as a suckers bet, until I realized that for some people it is basically their only shot at transformative wealth.

Put another way: If you’re poor, unconnected, and uneducated, your odds of becoming a billionaire are zero.

If you’re poor, unconnected, uneducated, and play the lottery, your odds are ever so slightly higher.
It's interesting how much attention lotteries get when the jackpot gets this high. For the average 99%er, what does a billion do for you that a hundred million doesn't? Both are so potentially life changing that it doesn't seem to really matter which one you get. On a good note, it appears that winners of large lottery jackpots in recent years have been doing a much better job of managing their winnings that those in the past. Guess the stories of people going bankrupt a few years later have started having an impact on the general public.
> So we're talking about a how to affect the size of a minority subpopulation in an otherwise rule following society.

I don't think that's what we were talking about.

WaitWaitWha: "Why is it that I am comfortable crossing the intersection when I have a green light? Because I have confidence that those who would break the social contract of following agreed upon laws will be punished, so they are deterred from breaking them."

Me: "I would say it's because most people have no desire to murder other people, even if they could get away with it legally."

WaitWaitWha seems to be arguing that we don't have "an otherwise rule following society", and only the punishment is preventing widespread rule breaking. Whereas I was arguing that we do have an otherwise rule following society regardless of the punishment. I would also argue that punishment doesn't actually do much to deter the people who don't respect the rules in the first place.

Indeed, I would say that speed limits are the least respected because speed limits are rather arbitrary. Speed limits change over time (they were set to 55 in the 1970s to save gas, not to save lives), and they vary widely by locality. Not to mention that speed limits don't vary by day/night or by weather, which makes no sense. Whereas red and green lights have had the exact same meaning the whole time, and the consequences of violation are rather obvious, because a red light means cars may drive through the intersection perpendicular to you, one of the most dangerous situations you can imagine.

> I agree, there are places where a traffic light is little more than ornamentation

I don't know what you're agreeing with, because I didn't say or intend to imply that.

> "Is running this red light really worth the fine?"

Well, the primary thought has to be "Can I make it through without dying?"
Spice DAO to Dissolve After Infamous ‘Dune’ Book Auction
China also does not seem to be willing to burn all the bridges to the rest of the world just yet, so it has to accept some kind of interconnection to services like AWS that aren't under its control.
Yep... and if true or not (and let's be fair, if Ukraine joined NATO, there would actually be missles located there), the west used even worse propaganda, even twice in a row ([0] and [1]).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony

[1] "iraq has weapons of mass destruction"
This is the first time I ever heard of WPA3 existing. Does it exist under any other name?
Or 17.2 Celsius (for people in most of the world)
This article and website is very interesting. As far as laid out here, the DHT theory of hair loss doesn't actually say why DHT is overexpressed, it usually is explained with "genetics". If the scalp-tension theory is fundamental for hair loss, it might just be a level deeper: many men (and women) have a genetic disposition for scalp tension. But apparently this is something you can combat manually to a degree.
There's a browser extension for Firefox and chromium that can allow you to create redirects using wildcards or regex, it's called Redirector and it is awesome.
Discovering how organs work is sub-facebook?
Sure, the statistics are not very good, but we don't have anything better. We have some evidence that property crime has gone down relative to other parts of the country (and much better evidence for homicide, which doesn't have the same under-reporting risk), and no evidence (as far as I know) for the opposite.
If you cannot install any packages at all without major hassle, then I think you would have a lot worse problems in many other areas besides this. As I said elsewhere in the thread, X11 is also a horrible remoting solution, pretty much worse than every other possible option in every way. The only reason it seems anyone would even consider using it is because ssh has built-in support for it, or if you only use a handful of small Xaw3d or Motif applications with no graphics or bitmaps.
If ukraine joined nato, do you honestly believe, that americans wouldn't install missles there, that could reach moscow?
Yes, I'd love to know more about how you implemented your setup.
Apple alleges human rights violation by Colombian court in SEP patent dispute
If you assume the Model S and Model X are representative of other EVs, then about 94% of it: https://electrek.co/2018/04/14/tesla-battery-degradation-dat...

And keep in mind that degradation is fastest at the beginning, so at 200000km, you have about 92% of what you started with, not the 88% you'd expect if it were linear.
True they don’t, that’s what the lottery does.

Netflix and the lottery sell different things at a similar price point. I’ve subscribed to both at various times.

Edit: it seems the comment I replied to was changed. It used to say approximately “Netflix doesn’t sell a dream to get rich”
> Its not a "tax" - it's just fun. The odds are terrible, but the dream / "what if?" aspect of it is fun.

Terrible is an understatement. With those odds, you would have better success to throw $10K on DOGE than to buy $10K worth of lottery tickets.

The main difference being you can hold your DOGE coins vs wasting all your money on tickets valid for a week and to find out that all of them don't match the jackpot numbers.
I've read that spatialite is not well maintained, is that true?
ANS is super fast and trivially parallelizable, faster than Huffman or especially arithmetic encoding, and is superior to Huffman at least as far as compression ratios are concerned (symbol probabilities are not restricted to powers of 2, but unlike arithmetic encoding one is usually limited to something close to multiples of 2^-9 to 2^-13 for symbol probabilities, the limitation being due to required table sizes for rANS or tANS in high speed memories or in L1 cache).

It is fast because it can be machine word oriented (you can read/write whole machine word sizes at a time, not arbitrary/variable bit length sequences), and as a result you can interleave any number of independent (parallel) encoders in the same stream with just a (parallel) prefix sum to figure out where to write state values (as whole machine words) when renormalization needs to occur in individual encoders. It is super SIMD friendly as a result (see https://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.3392.pdf).

I for one got up to 400 GB/s throughput on A100 GPUs in my implementation (https://github.com/facebookresearch/dietgpu), which to my knowledge is/was the fastest entropy coder out there on a commercially available hardware platform, so fast that we're using it to losslessly compress data before sending over PCIe/NVLink/Infiniband/etc during large scale neural network training while still being a win. Nvidia's nvCOMP library also recently added similar techniques.

ANS can also self-synchronize as well, but chunking data into fixed >=4 KiB segments has fairly minimal compression size overhead (you need an index to tell you where each variable sized compressed chunk begins) and is faster.
> but if they can simultaneously discount the payout by exploiting financial illiteracy, then why not?

You're not entirely wrong - your total expected payout is better if you take the lump sum and invest wisely. However if you don't trust yourself to have good discipline and strategy and annuity version isn't entirely crazy. Your EV is lower but you can't completely screw yourself.
Yes it is. This is by design, and better than using a random first relay for every circuit, new random one every day, etc.

https://blog.torproject.org/improving-tors-anonymity-changin...

https://www-users.cse.umn.edu/~hoppernj/single_guard.pdf
At this level of wealth, unless you're already wealthy, you really have to move and take some steps to obfuscate your new found wealth.
Any practical use of smart contracts can be argued if one ignores nuance with a cynical Gedankenexperiment. Proof remains in the pudding
Out of idle daydreaming (because I had bought a ticket), I started wondering what I would do right after discovering I won (and yes, I've seen that Reddit post with all the financial, legal advice). I don't mean who I would give money to, or what to do with the $.

No, I'm talking about technology-wise, would I (in the interest of protecting my newfound $):

-- Before claiming prize, immediately disconnect/uncouple all financial apps and services from my publicly discoverable phone number (to prevent financial hijacking of accounts)

-- Disconnect my phone number from my iCloud / iMessage and link instead with my private email address (to isolate randos contacting me by phone number)

-- Take the approach to get 3-4 clean iPhones,

Phone #1) for iMessaging / Whatsapping with friends, family who have my email,

Phone #2) a new phone number for only answering telephone calls from same,

Phone #3) for all financial matters/apps, and phone is used only for that

Phone #4) my old phone number in case I still need to receive something, but which will get flooded with spam.

-- Remove any public videos of myself, or even wipe my voicemail recording, so that my voice is not known to anyone and could be used maliciously?

-- Would I swear off any further commenting (or even delete my accounts) on Reddit, HN, other sites for fear that it could link back to me and open me to some hacking vulnerability? The phone strategy above is with the notion that someone sends you a poisoned text message and it scrapes/hijacks your financial accounts, etc.

All of this of course focused on the likelihood that once your name becomes public, hundreds of malicious actors will be trying to find some way into your accounts. Or is it that when you reach this tier of having money, your banking is just not done the same way any more?

And then all the usual of moving to a temporary private / unknown address, talking to lawyers/finance, going on vacation for a year, etc.
I feel like a broken record at this point, but even if a large part of passenger cars move to electric, industrialized countries still consume incredible amounts of fuel for: all planes, ships, trucks, freight trains, plastics, most fertilizers, heating, electricity production, road building etc
Dumped by fickle Big Tech, downtown needs real love
Where does that understanding come from?

The very first sentence reads "A ticket sold in Illinois is the sole winner of the $1.34 billion Mega Millions jackpot"
Changed from https://news.samsung.com/kr/%ec%82%bc%ec%84%b1-%ea%b0%a4%eb%.... Thanks!
It's not so much identity information (i.e. data about your identity), as much as data that can personally identify you. The obvious PII is your full name and social security number. That's your identity. But your credit card number or your address aren't your identity, per se, but still can personally identify you, so also considered PII.

Things that are not normally considered PII is for example your OS or even specific device model (i.e. user is using iPhone 12 Pro is not normally considered PII). As usual, it's not a crystal clear definition, so varies by context, company, industry regulations and so on.
It looks like the research and prototype phase, may be a few years for startups to bring products to market. I found this article on the same tech in development:

https://engineering.princeton.edu/news/2022/06/13/loo-30-yea...
Circular, I'm sure you meant.
Kandria, Open world RPG: https://reader.tymoon.eu/article/413
In some countries lottery isn't taxed at all.
Face Verification Bypass [pdf]
That's fair, I didn't intend to sound entitled, but "let's all decide what Rails-like to use" doesn't seem to be working for Clojurists, so I was hoping that poking at other avenues might spark some productive conversation.
Discussed here:

Technical overview of Kandria, a game and game engine developed in Common Lisp - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32043026 - July 2022 (32 comments)
Not uncommon at all. In the US they're generally called community gardens, and in larger cities often have similarly long wait lists to the OP's.
The US has not put any nuclear weapons (or long-range missiles) in Latvia or Estonia, which are already part of NATO and closer to Moscow... so no.

There's already a perfectly close place to put them, which the US hasn't bothered doing, because it's unnecessary.
Computer scientists do not play the lottery. They know it is considerably more likely they'll be stuck by lighting 30 times than ever win against 300M+ to 1 odds. Also, computer scientists are virtuous, so they wouldn't gamble regardless.
And they produce co2 anyway.

I don't think they capture as much co2 as they release.
I don't think WPA3 is totally ready for widespread use (yet) due to older IoT devices. I'm not even totally sure what problem it solves, so I should probably read up on it.
For me it's http://perdu.com (lost dot com in French) witch a I use as connection checker. It has been online for years, decades actually.
Still incredible to consider how much material we'll have to dig out of the ground to deliver hundreds of GW of renewable electricity production potential in the form of solar and wind. For grid scale electricy storage, there's not enough Lithium and cobalt in the Earth's crust to build the needed capacity. Maybe widespread deployment of hydrogen can help