skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt the excuse of "security concerns". I think it's more likely that the government didn't want it to be so easy for the rest of the world to see what life was like on the ground. Taking random clicks through Street View, it looks postapocalyptic.

(I'm not blaming it on the people, although I think littering is a choice; almost certainly this is a top-down problem, where corruption in all levels of government is bleeding so much financing away from the people that public services are not operating anywhere close to their potential.)
> I remember buying some castle toy set for some friends young boys (4-6) for Christmas. It was a step up of from "Fisher Price" detail. Had horses and soldiers, and big castle.

Was it Schleich, by any chance?
Well, that's only a recent development (compared to the life span of these historical buildings).

A lot of these Cathedrals managed to survive long period of neglect with minimal to no maintenance.

There is a bit of survivor bias in there, but it's also a testament to the durability of these buildings.
> Peak Facebook was in Q2 2021.[1] Instagram is losing to TikTok.

Peak by what measure?

If by profit, probably. From the perspective of a product I like and want to use? Facebook peaked long, long ago.
I've been thinking about this and I think this is a problem all companies face. The best employees are confident and know they can get a job anywhere anytime so they leave. The worst are less confident and never leave. How do you keep the former and get rid of the latter?
It's bad for public spaces to be pervasively tracked.
Often its related to people not finding sources when they start articles, if you do detailed research first rather than posting a stub survival rates are higher. However thats often not how articles come about.
I am not an expert, but I seem to remember welders have higher power requirements than other tools and home appliances, with a specialized socket (the voltages and plug shapes seem to vary from region to region - these ones tend to have 3 pins instead of the "usual" two). You might already have such an outlet if you have used other heavy duty tools in your garage, but most people don't.
PL?
> In a 64-33 vote, the Senate passed the $280 billion “Chips and Science Act,” the final iteration of a bill that was years in the making. About $52 billion would go to microchip manufacturers to incentivize construction of domestic semiconductor fabrication plants

And the remaining $228B...?
Can you link to the source of any widely deployed grep whose "inner loop" is coded in Assembly?
Are three still text based roguelikes being made? For me these were one of the most endearing features of the games back in the day. I was a big ADOM fan and it captured my imagination in an almost book like way because everything in the world was rendered only symbolically.
If this were true, there would be a reduction in US military spending, but I'm... very much not buying that.
> It should be noted that the US decided not to extend the universal free school meals program, because it was "too expensive" at $11B. They also stopped the expanded and early payment of family tax credits, causing a double-whammy hit to poor families (then pile on inflation/food prices, and gas prices). But $50B to large monopolistic companies isn't "too expensive," and we can afford that.

That's misleading framing, that's derailing discussion about this.

More accurately: there's more consensus around national security spending than social spending. The government has decided it would rather have the economy depend on large American companies for these critical components than on large Chinese companies.

And that might have follow-on effects that mean more jobs for Americans so fewer kids are poor and need subsidized school lunches.

I suppose if you're unhappy with that write your senators, and ask them to pass laws requiring purchases from the lowest-cost global supplier (e.g. not American), and use the money saved for welfare subsidies.
> the fact that markets are just as often made unfree by the actions of its private actors.

Example please.
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But there is likewise nothing preventing court packing right now except the concern of some democrats right? They could assign 8 more, then next time there is a swap the gop would add 16 etc. You have to go exponential by nature of the vote to account for deaths. So in as little as 116 years the whole population might be on the bench! I don't like that the macro level policy of our nation is getting decided based on rules of order and who is willing to change them. I'm not a historian, but it seems like the filibuster was already a hack around intended operation of the legislature. Time limiting it would still serve the purpose of preventing the minority from getting shut down with no chance to speak, but also prevent its abuse to require 60 votes on absolutely everything.
We trained GPT3 with the complete works of Plato. The following text selections are either OG Plato or GPT3 Plato. Care to guess the origin of each selection and attempt the Platonic Turing test? (No cheating)

1. Of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily? It is such as I will describe; for I must dare to speak the truth, when truth is my theme. There abides the very being itself with which true knowledge is concerned; the colorless, formless, intangible essence, visible only to mind, the pilot of the soul. The divine intelligence, being nurtured upon mind and pure knowledge, and the intelligence of every soul which is capable of receiving the food proper to it, rejoices at beholding reality, and once more gazing upon truth, is replenished and made glad, until the revolution of the worlds brings her round again to the same place.

2. Is not beauty wise? Imagine not to yourself a beauty which is devoid of wisdom but have the wisdom to conceive beauty in her full perfection. For wisdom and beauty are the same, as I dare say that you yourself well know. A beautiful body is called wise because of the soul which it encloses, and of which it is the attendant or vessel. There is an inferior sort of wisdom which means caution, and is only a craft, and is concerned with the body; but the higher wisdom is the co-knowing of the soul, or is philosophy, and of this the intelligent is a part. And this part in another form is that which is rightly called wisdom, and is the pilot of the soul, guiding her in her journey to the land of the good and the beautiful. That which has no wisdom is a soul which inherits the name only; this is but a part of wisdom, and is entitled only to this much, that no soul in which there is not this superior part ought to be called wise. That which is called wisdom without this adjunct ought to be deemed only half wise, and this, when joined with that, is complete.
"I've done a bit of everything at this point"
I wonder what everything includes. Does it include industrial process control, factory automation, manufacturing execution systems, mathematical modelling of gravitational lenses, hacking (improving) automotive engines, hospital records systems? I find that looking outside of my comfort zone helps me find new opportunities elsewhere and also helps me see my current work in more interesting ways.
I think they just never found a way to make money that didn’t destroy the experience.
> small ... executables.

> clap

Isn't clap kind of notoriously bad about executable bloat and compile times?
Worst break in I've ever had was a skunk. Came in through a sliding door left open for ventilation on a hot summer night. Woke up to scuffling under my bed. Using my phone light I saw the telltale black with white stripe tail sticking out from under the bed and froze.

Sat in bed for a minute pondering my sad and mostly likely odorous fate. Finally walked on furniture to the bedroom door while the skunk was apparently chewing my leather shoes, set a trail of cheese leading out the sliding door and sat in silence and darkness on the stairs overlooking the cheese trail.

Eventually it came sniffling out methodically gobbling cheese right back out to where it belonged.

Got a locking screen door after that...and a new pair of loafers.
Is there much advantage over just sending HTML with just the tags: “html body head p a” ?

I guess it would be nice for bots to get the set of links in a header.
For more clarification:

The US spends $19 billion a year on free lunches for low income American children.

Universal free lunch for all would cost $30 billion a year.
I don't know about your situation but I can say that sometimes its not even technical. For example we had one junior role where we got down to 3 great candidates (from 300 resumes). The deciding factor literally came down to taking the candidate the team liked best; one candidate discarded because he was a robot with zero personality and another because multiple interviewers complained about bad body odor.
While the technical terms may be unfamiliar, it's all pretty straightforward, and requires between 1-4kloc depending on how fast and fancy you want things to be.
(This includes everything from the basic copy on write data-structures to the query language.)

Building an immutable path compressed radix tree is pretty straightforward and requires around 1-2kloc, and it's easy to keep track of the n-smallest hashes of leaf values, as well as the total count of leafs in the nodes.
The sampling done by the min-hashes give you a good indication of two nodes overlap which the jaccard index is just a different name for.

The query engine itself is like 0.5kloc, and is just walking the different radix-trie indices simultaneously. The basic insight of worst case optimal (WCO) joins, is that it's a lot cheaper to join everything at once and treat it as a constraint propagation problem.

A LINQ style query parser takes up another 1-2kloc and is just a bunch of ol' boilerplate.

In total that's about as much code as your average large C++ codebase CMake file.

You could sketch the entire thing on a napkin and build it in a week if you've build something like it before.
That’s what OP´s title suggests
> > in a similar way to these organisations

If you use axe in a similar way to an axe murderer then that would make your use illegal. It wouldn't make axes "almost illegal".
I'm surprised by the use of Rust in domains where a GC is perfectly fine, like much of CLI tooling. Manual memory management is one of the most time consuming issues to deal with and I don't understand why people are burdening themselves with it in domains where it's not strictly necessary.

If you want an ML / C family hybrid language there's Ocaml, or if you just want a fast static-binary language there's Go.
The name of our country is the United States. The state was intended as the primary unit of general government.

Lots of land is outside of cities, and that can't be left ungoverned. And many counties have very few people, which make a lot of government functions impractical or insufficient.

So states are still a reasonable unit after 250 years.
Embracing the Heterodox
Interesting idea! I lol'd at the name... Peerdiem sounds like crowdsourcing sharing company 'per diem' expenses... which I just don't see working.

This is more like "Artdiem".

But that's just my gut, I'd get used to it if I used it once per diem.
There's an added cost if you want to sort through which kids qualify and which kids don't. Trying to filter kids out also reduces the program's reach for kids which do qualify for various reasons.
Early Europeans Could Not Tolerate Milk but Drank It Anyway, Study Finds
When middle class people use a government service, the quality goes up.
>Yes you need to life in a city with decent public transport but that is all.

That is a huge ask. cities come with an incredible amount of baggage: higher taxes, higher cost of living, lower quality of life, less living space, smaller property, left wing politics, higher crime rates, more air pollution. many of us have zero interest in living in a big city.

My personal theory is that individual liberty is inversely proportional to population density. wherever people are closer together, you end up with more rules because it's easier to encroach on other peoples wellbeing. so no thank you. I will keep my car and I will continue to have fires and shoot moose in my backyard.
Six years ago I realized I was transgender after discovering r/asktransgender and understanding that my feelings had a name. Now I have a new name, I actually feel confident and motivated and proud of myself, my relationships with other people are way more open and honest... I feel like my life did a 180 in the best way. After I started transitioning and liking my body I was also able to work through some disordered eating habits and negative self-talk. It was hard, but it feels like a fresh start.
Fairly cynical comments on this thread, many trying to uphold American values like "free market", "protectionism is bad", "what about the consumer", "not from my tax money".

I find those remarks pretty naive. Every major power block heavily subsidizes strategic industries, now and forever. It's in no way new or remarkable, nor does it violate some principle. Most of the above concepts are pure fiction.

Semiconductors are not a "free market" in any ordinary sense. It costs tens of billions to enter the market and you'll buy an ASML machine, speaking of dependencies.

It's pretty obvious that this is in response to geopolitical instability. Being geo locked and this not really being a free market at all justify the "unusual" decision.

As is stands, food, energy, and yes...also semiconductors are foundational to a modern digital society. And they're interconnected, without semiconductors you won't have food either.

If you want to know what happens when semiconductors dry up, watch modern Russia. Arguably it's hard to do because of all the propaganda, but pretty much every domestic industry is falling apart, and therefore society falls apart.

Bottom line, don't be naive. Sure it sucks to give rich companies even more money but if that's what it takes, so be it. Also, rich is just one side of the coin, the other is that they spear-headed the information revolution.
Yup. Money I’m sure.
Glad you enjoyed it! I really wanted a minimalist interface so that the artwork is the real focal point.
I'm looking forward to chatting with you on the platform!
No modern language I know of beats Haskell’s support for STM:

https://wiki.haskell.org/Software_transactional_memory

As I always say, Haskell is the Mercedes of programming languages.
Archive link:

https://archive.ph/XPrEe
That's a problem that affects all theories about the metaphysics of consciousness. All of them share the burden of explaining how a world where "consciousness" exists would be different from a world without it. The ones which claim a distinct consciousness does exist then also have to explain how this consciousness either originates from physical parts with limited or non-existent consciousness(emergent theories like panprotopsychism and emergent materialism), exists outside physical matter (dualism), or exists fully in the smaller parts, somehow getting combined into one (traditional panpsychism).

That's part of why it can be attractive to leave aside concerns about metaphysical consciousness altogether.
Just a few random thoughts:

Feed yourself nutrituous food, not frozen microwaved garbage.

Consume intelligent, thought provoking material, not social media nonsense and battles within the comments.

Keep your self talk at least neutral, hopefully positive (nice man! That sneaking suspicion you have that you are awesome is possibly true)... but definitely not negative (you failed and honestly, you deserve it).

Make time for yourself and use it wisely... aka dont drink alone by yourself, instead work on your portfolio or another certification. Something constructive instead of destructive.

Take time to recharge, get a massage, meditate, listen to music, whatever replenishes the tank.

Celebrate your wins when they happen, however rare.

Be nice to yourself, try and like yourself, have respect for yourself. If it's not there, consider changing to eliminate the parts you dont like.
Realistically I think the biggest impact is that people are hoarding dollars in offshore accounts rather than converting their currency.
> "The fact is, we have so much ‘Jeopardy!’ to make, and so many plans for the future, that we always knew we would need multiple hosts for the franchise, and we are just so grateful that Mayim and Ken stepped in and stepped up to put the show in a position to succeed," Davies said in the official announcement. "And succeed it has."

That is an obvious lie, considering their original choice in Mike Richards was forced out after one day of production. It's okay to admit they are doing this to bring in a more diverse viewership, and that Mayim is better long term for the health of the Jeopardy!™ brand. They are getting more viewers than ever.

Surely a network executive would never lie about motive?
I haven't checked recently and I don't have the phone with the new version of Instagram on it with me (so maybe this changed) but for a long time (and I think still) I have one account that has the paged UI and one account that still has the fling UI logged in to the same copy of Instagram simultaneously (as in where I can switch between them using the account selector).
If wonder if TikToks success is just not doing this. Like "viral" articles and videos used to work on Facebook in like 2014, when "likes" actually mattered and could make something a chainmail-ish between friends.
That was my impression too, that and buying potential competitors.
I'd say its hard to start as a new Wikipedia editor if you only goal is to make article X or make huge changes to article Y that is somewhat controversial. On the other hand, if you start in Wikipedia by doing simple edits in non-controversial subjects (which does improve Wikipedia, and thus, the Internet given how many search engines just scrape Wikipedia for search results), start making making some new articles in notable things that are also not controversial, then you can start understanding how to get controversial (but correct) things added and changed. Yes, that takes longer and is more work, but at the same time, similar to open source software, you have to spend time learning how to code and how to make valuable and correct PRs to make major overhauls to heavily used software.
The nature in which Wikipedia seeks to make access limited to many and to dictate the relevance of subjects it covers kind of diminishes it's credibility in my opinion. e.g. "Pokeymon" has not done anything as an individual being, it's a fictional being, but somehow it had an individual entry even though many other beings with publications and published work do not qualify somehow because of a constantly changing measure of "notoriety".

By this I'm saying sure, you can have a dictionary with select words in it without problems... But when you label it as an OFFICIAL INFORMATION RESOURCE, it becomes subject to a higher level of scrutiny and objectivity that can't just hand pick what words are in it, there has to be a solid democratic aspect involved to managing the resource.

Democracy seems to be failing in many ways right now on public resources.
It's in the source, Less Hashing, Same Performance:
Building a Better Bloom Filter: https://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~michaelm/postscripts/rsa2008.p...

I've used this trick at scale on network gear and it works great.
Not really. I mean yes my dev machine is faster than the CI runner, so things do run faster, but even assuming the CI runner was just as beefy and picked up the job immediately instead of taking 10ish seconds it's still the difference between

When running remotely: edit file > commit > push > switch to browser > browse to pipeline > repeat

Vs locally: edit file > run pipeline > repeat.
We need stronger protections at all levels of social organization. Every group has incentives to exploit each other. The ever-evolving trick is to arrange the balance of power to minimize each faction's capacity for overreach.
So basically the signal-to-noise ratio in Japan is much greater than we are used to stateside, leading to actual problems being more visible and customer service departments taking them more seriously.
If you are an Argentinian developer working for a US company and want to do things the right way, you have to agree to a 55-70+% deduction from your gross income (adding taxes, fees from converting USD->ARS->USD which you can still do but who knows for how long, and so on)[0]. You could stay with ARS but with a projected annual inflation of 70% that doesn't sound too clever, plus you would automatically lose around 50% of the "real" value of your dollars.

Great! Now that your money is in the bank, pray for <deity> you don't fall into a bank run[1] and lose 65% of your savings[2]. The Central Bank still has reserves, but it doesn't look nice.

This applies to freelancing, but I can imagine most other areas work like this, with bureaucracy and pressure to SMBs working way right of the Laffer curve[3].

My point is, this is a negative feedback loop that (maybe?) started with the toxic vainglory of "outsmarting the system" but was fueled along the years with a general mistrust of banks/institutions, for good reasons. There are no incentives to do things correctly, and if some would appear it's likely set up for failure, because who says the next administration doesn't remove it and the show goes on?

Honestly, I don't know how (or if) it can be fixed at this point.

EDIT: Plus, it's really hard to see any of that tax revenue being put to good use. We're sitting at around 40-50% poverty.

[0] https://maxifirtman.medium.com/gu%C3%ADa-definitiva-para-cob... - second graph
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corralito
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corral%C3%B3n
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve
The story doesn't really make sense, wouldn't the more distant outposts easily confirm if a huge army is amassing nearby?
> A theory of consciousness has no need to predict the future.

If you don't feel the need to predict anything about consciousness in the real world, I'd say I won't be interested in such a "theory" (or "explanation"). But glad to see your take on the definition of the term.

Going back to Occam's razor, if you only apply it to get the simplest map (in some sense of "the simplest"), and abandon verifying whether it predicts the territory or not, it seems a blank map always wins.
I've received money from the NSF SBIR grant program and know another half a dozen others who have as well, and while there is certainly a process, it isn't too bad. All the people I know who have received them are at startups and small companies. That said, the NSF does more than just SBIR and I can't speak to any of that.
Can the wood beams be seen in the cathedral? Do visitors ever tour the roof area? I'm trying to understand why it is so important to rebuild it exactly like the original, the benefits of this besides being faithful to the historical structure. Wouldn't it make more sense to innovate and make a new roof that would offer potential features to the cathedral?

Anyway I thought this part was funny

> “I see, monsieur, you have been contaminated by those who believe the president of the republic should not be interfering in the reconstruction of Notre Dame,” he boomed. “You have been contaminated by the party of slowness.” Georgelin is a good-humoured alpha type

Sounds more like a condescending way to avoid addressing the topic to me, personally. But that's just my opinion.
otoh, learned many things about the behavior of cats with dogs, dogs with rabbits, mammalX with mammalY, bears crossing the road, ducks crossing the road (no other types of mammal cross the road).