skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Atomic ops only address a small part of the problem.* Sure, your internal queue pointers will be sane, and two-stage register settings won't be interrupted. But locks are very fine-grained, and aren't going to help you keep co-ordinated in-the-large. In fact, you could argue that each mutex is a warning about muddled coordination. "Who's going to be changing this queue?" "Everybody!" "Better put a lock around it."

Yes, it's all trade-offs. You aren't going to avoid all shared responsibility, and will always need micro-coordination. But safe Rust forces you to assign ownership to every structure, at every scale. Some similar effects to opaque data structures, or actors. But unlike those techniques, it allows you to dynamically transfer responsibility.

The most obvious issue is use-after-"free", use-before-"allocate". "Free" and "allocate" don't just refer to malloc--it's any situation where you pinky-swear you aren't going to be touching something.

But more problematic is this kind of code is easy, even natural, to write in C:

- Task A is waiting for a state changes on resources Q1 and Q2. When it sees a particular set, it will modify resource Q3's state.

- Task B is firing off events to Q1 and handling error responses. It might need to stop Q1.

- Since Q1 is no longer changing state, what happens to Q3? Who's responsible for keeping stuff straight? What's "stuff"? Do we need to worry about Q2?

Rust is going to very strongly push you to explicitly designate what owns and is responsible for Q1, Q2, Q3, at all times. "B's got Q1, so A can't even look at it. I'm @#!* going to have to make A tell B what it wants and let B handle it." That was painful, but a good thing.

* Note to self: Write a blog post titled "Atomics won't save you now!" Start a band named "Useless Atomics".
>Housing has never been this much of a problem up until the past decade or two.

>You gotta reach back to over a hundred years ago to find an example?

So, by 'never', you meant somewhere around 60 years? 75 years? I ask because you discount my 80 year-old example (chosen by availability because I'm reading an interesting book on the economics of Nazi Germany right now) as if it couldn't possibly be relevant because it's so long ago, while appealing to 'never' to attempt a weighty claim.

>The population in the US is the highest it's been in history.

And I hope that will continue, though things look bleak in that regard.

>You're using a bullshit metric like growth rate which is a percentage of constantly increasing number? 1% of 100 is the same as 50% of 2. Of course the growth rate goes down as the population goes up.

Yes, I'm using a percentage term for growth rate because it is appropriate for the comparison, unless you believe in some immutable constant carrying capacity for the US. Adding 1 million people to 10 million is not remotely similar to adding a million to 330 million, but that's the version you're arguing for.

>The natives to the country have a declining birthrate. This is the responsible thing to do.

Responsible to what? It's suicide by an entire species, not to mention dooming your descendants to lower standards of living as the viability of specialization gradually decays.

I'm out of time to respond to this comment, but your remaining points are equally in need of correction.
I would like such a thing to be open access and not involve Tesla at all. I should be able to profitably sell to the grid as a random person if there's need.
I actually do not see much wrong about it. The area has been virtually raped by the West at one point. This is at least some compensation
I agree, the term "Western Ideals" doesn't quite fit but it does go beyond democratic ideals which is why I didn't use that term. There are other aspects like a free market economy that extend way beyond a democratically elected government. I'm certainly open to a new term to describe it.
It does this, except for the "without binary blobs" part, but at least the blobs are well-contained.
Or, get a Brother HL-2270dw. I changed the toner twice in probably a decade. 3 moves. Toner cartridges are available from third parties for dirt cheap. No DRM. The iOS app has the "print" feature and it's all it needs. Never jammed. Never broke or failed in any way. Thought that it won't work with my new eero router... nope, the firmware update fixed the wifi. This thing will outlive me.
NeuralProphet is the successor-extension of Prophet, and it aims to provide Prophet with neural networks and autoregressive terms. The paper can be found here (https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.15397?fbclid=IwAR2vCkHYiy5yuPPjWX...).

We noted that the paper only compares NeuralProphet against Prophet and does not include standard time series datasets (such as M-competitions). So we decided to test the model against simpler models (ETS in this case) using the StatsForecast library (https://github.com/Nixtla/statsforecast/).
Very simple explanation: Entries in double-entry accounting always need to balance - you need two.

So if somebody gives you $100 in cash, you book that as $100 in your "cash" asset. But... the books must balance! And so, you need to book -$100 on the "income" side, because that's where the cash comes from.

If you're not happy with "because it needs to follow the rules" alone, replace "income" with "other people's money". For you to get cash, somebody else needs to give up cash.

The reason you differentiate between asset/liability and income/expense accounts is that you can't really fully balance the latter two. You don't know all the details happening to "other people's money". You know everything happening to your assets and liabilities.

As a result, income/expense are accounted over time ("I made $x/year") while assets liabilities are a value ("I have $357 in my cash drawer") - for the former two, all you know is the delta over time you cause.
Backing out of a drive way with parked cars blocking my view down the street. The camera being in the back can see incoming cars that I can't.
Good luck trying to create something more powerful and versatile than text to create programs.

Text is a seemingly basic, simple and even crude format. Ancient, outdated even?

My opinion is that our perception about the simplicity of text is related to Moravec's Paradox, and is an illusion.

Reading and writing text is something we take for granted, but this is a skill we all have to painfully learn at a young age, and we're so good at it that it seems transparent.

Text is very abstract, the fact that we, humans, are trained to easily parse and decipher it is the reason why it is so powerful for us.

I don't see any replacement in the foreseeable future.
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Maybe not in usability but in component costs it likely was great.

As you know, products aren't made for the customer, they are made for the equation: customerMoney - (ProductionCost + MarketingCost etc etc) = Profit
Imagine two people: one who gets the majority of their calories through processes cereals, the other through red meat. If you were to ask me which person was healthier, I would be pretty confident that it would be the latter. And yet this guide would lead me to the opposite conclusion.

So what gives? Am I conflating other factors like lifestyle (e.g. exercise)? What about the satiation of foods, and what foods your are more likely to overconsume? Does the presence of vitamin fortification give processed cereal an unfair advantage?

I love me some carbs, but I think any system that puts those as a high quality source of calories deserves some strong skepticism.
they already did. VinFast
10% is many billions every three months. I don't think it's wise or ethical to manufacture in countries that have human rights violations but there's nothing ethical about a corporation.
How can someone clean out your account with just the card number? Was there no 2FA?
> So yeah, Ford might make a fast car, they will almost never be able to build a software driven car, which is the car of the future.

I would kill for a "low-tech" EV - think Toyota Corolla[1], but with an electric power train. No touch screen, no "self driving" beyond lane assistance & adaptive cruise. Unfortunately, manufacturers are unwilling to start off with a low-margin products, but I believe that is the car of the future, and will sell like hot cakes.

1. An electric Ford Maverick would fit the bill too, if they don't ape Tesla's cockpit design. The Nissan Leaf is close to my ideal, but the lack of active cooling on the battery is a non-starter.
Something that is a meaningless amount for you surely isn’t meaningless for the person receiving it.

To extrapolate the idea some, I’d be comfortable using an irreversible payment method for various B2B SaaS subscriptions. Those can reach perhaps more meaningful amounts to you.

It seems that you’re rather dismissive of this conversation, so I’ll wish you a pleasant day/evening.
> Rowling’s intense transphobia is not up for debate

As long as people are not willing to even enter in to a conversation about the definition of a woman, then no - I guess it isn’t.

Thanks for clarifying that for the rest of us.
Are you claiming zero money was spent on those properties for 30 years? I don't think that claim would stand on it's face.

Over 30 years all sorts of things would break, pipes, leaks, batteries corroding and leaking out, animals move in, windows broken, doors removed....

Detroit ruins show what zero money put into a building for 30 years looks like - gutted shells.

Show me an ad for a rentable place that has had zero money spent on the building for any maintenance for 30 years and I'll believe you.
PG&E makes it so onerous to be connected to the grid that it'll absolutely take something like this for me to stay connected. But I don't belong to the Tesla ecosystem, so this is clearly not the answer for me.
The thing about debit cards though, it's a different system and they don't work for online payments which makes them effectively useless.

> People seem more wary of accruing debt in Europe; it's easy to lose control over your personal finances with a credit card.

Well using credit means you're taking a loan, and subsequently paying interest on that loan even if it's just a month. Why would you pay interest on a loan that you don't need and pay an exorbitant amount in monthly fees just to have the card? Seems like absolute lunacy. And here it doesn't tie into the credit score system much so there isn't a reason to do it solely because of that.

Luckily these days there are fee-less prepaid cards that work like debit cards, but function as credit cards. That's my go-to.
The early push to electronic voting in the US after the hanging chad debacle of 2000 did include electronic only voting machines in a number of states. Congress allocated all sorts of funds for states, but almost zero oversight or rules about secure machines and processes.

Those early mistakes have been corrected and I believe you are correct, all voting machines in the US now produce a paper trail.

> multiple checks and balances where they confirm that final votes make sense

A term we heard a lot in the lead up and aftermath of the 2020 election was 'risk limiting audits'. It would be irresponsible not to have a strong audit program in place to verify the count, which is what I believe you're referring to.

The fact the US runs 50 independent elections is an interesting double edged sword as a Canadian observer. I'm used to incredibly simple ballots administered by either Elections Canada or Elections Ontario. The US has massively complex ballots administered by their state for county, state and federal office.

In some circumstances the US system makes nation-wide election fraud nearly impossible (election fraud does happen and is different from so-called 'voter fraud' that doesn't). The small scale of some offices and elections does make election fraud more achievable on some scales.

A new weakness has been revealed. Various local election officials (particularly Secretaries of State) wield enormous power to affect the process and outcome of the election. Elections Canada runs exactly the same election under exactly the same rules in every polling place across the country. Experiences state to state, county to country, and even at different polling places within a county can vary wildly in the US. This is exacerbated in Presidential elections by the fact only a handful of states are actually up for grabs in the election. A Secretary of State in any of Pennsylvania, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Minnesota, or Michigan potentially has the power to throw the next election into chaos. 2024 is not going to be fun and I'm not even American.
So? I didn't say there were any good countries on earth.
It's concerning when a power company can't produce adequate power and needs to rely on consumer batteries. It's cool from a tech perspective but isn't such an event exactly when you'd want power? At that point, your battery no longer provides you resiliency but provides the power company a margin they can rely on without investing in additional infrastructure.
In my area, Tesla's too. Particularly after they superSpecialZoom off at the lights and then want to change lanes - into me on my motorbike.

Easy enough to dodge but it'd be nice if people didn't simply assume they are alone at the front. I don't.
USDC and Circle are not as clean as they would like us to believe. https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-financial-bubble-era-comes...
Why? Democarcy I guess. https://www.pine64.org/2022/01/31/pinephone-community-poll-r...

(I don't know why, but it was the most popular distro in the pine64 poll)
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I have nothing but bad things to say about Brother. I will never buy another one.
Last purchase was a $350 multifunction color laser printer that stopped turning on. I was just over the one year warranty and no support from Brother and their authorized service centers want to put me on a commercial support plan. I bought it for my wife, a teacher, because the school copiers were always broken or unavailable.
HP makes shitty printers but they will actually help you get something replaced in my experience.
The company you work for is your customer.
Japan Covid deaths up sevenfold over month amid latest virus wave
Where do you think some of your 401k returns come from?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYbgdo8e-8
> The math makes sense.

If you really feel that way, I recommend getting loans to buy some rental properties and become rich.

Personally whenever I run the numbers on purchasing a rental property, it never has made sense economically so I haven't.
What’s the measure by which Python “won out” over Ruby? Both seem to have pretty broad usage.
Also, taxes. Card networks issue 1099-K forms in the USA and report earnings to tax agencies.

That's a major reason Argentina is taking steps to mandate acceptance of debit cards - so that income is accurately reported for tax purposes: https://www.bcra.gob.ar/MediosPago/Politica_Pagos-i.asp
Her original sin was to say the article title "Creating a more equal post-COVID-19 world for people who menstruate" was an odd way of putting things rather than saying a more equal world for women. Deeply shocking to point something like that out.
Software is in decline – Jonathon Blow
If you refactor code to be more testable then it is testing that is forcing you, not fx.
Why did the SSL expire?

I'm only asking because I have a domain that also uses a certificate from Let's Encrypt / R3 / ISRG Root X1 and I've never had to renew it. (It seems like they auto-renew every 90 days?)
Be surprised. Here is the original Neuralprophet paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.15397.pdf
It only compares itself to Prophet.
more specifically they're both what we'd call "lunch meats" in the US
Venusian days are 116 Earth days long, and land surface area is functionally zero.
My seat belt also doesn't stop me dying in a car crash but I still put it on and disregard anyone telling me I shouldn't bother because its not perfect.
SOFTWARE CAN AND SHOULD BE DONE.
Complicated and bloated systems are never done, but not every system (program/tool/etc) needs to be big, bloated, ugly and complex. It does not matter if the software is 'written for humans', if it's too complicated it won't be changed and/or fixed ever (basically)

On that note, Zawinski's Law:

“Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.”

This is mostly true, but it does not have to be. :(
It's odd, then, that I can't find any serious institution which agrees with you on this projection. Most predict steady continued growth of the US population.
2FA, you get a popup in your bank app asking "Do you want to pay X euro to Y?" for online payments. Can turn that off if you want, but it isn't a big bother.
What other genocides do you know of that killed more than 10% of the world population?
I don't view Typescripts as a good argument against dynamic languages.

I view it as a good case for a well-designed gradual type system for dynamic languages.

All valid Javascript is Typescript, in a profound rather than trivial way.
"Making alternatives harder to boot" is really no worse than what you get when trying to install Linux on any off-the-shelf PC with preinstalled Windows.
$ brew list -1

==> Formulae
bash
bash-completion
bat
flyctl
kubectx
kubernetes-cli
mosh
ripgrep # way better grep
starship # awesome terminal prompt
wget

==> Casks
aldente # stop your mac from charging beyond a configurable charge level
bitwarden
brave-browser
ears # switch audio source/output quickly
kitty # awesome terminal
raycast # spotlight/alfred replacement
rectangle # window manager (successor to the unmaintained spectacle)
shottr # screenshotting app
signal
spotify
stats # hardware stats in the menu bar
visual-studio-code
vlc
zoom

https://github.com/jaywcjlove/awesome-mac is a list of all the cool stuff you could need on a new mac organized by category.
As is including “no confusion”
> JavaScript has no standard library.

>> Math.sin(1.57)
0.9999996829318346

This would be pretty surprising output if there were no standard library.
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It's just a useful feature the fiat system has.

The bigger point of crypto is that this trust can be parametrized and made transparent in a public ledger with less intermediaries. I see it as getting to feature parity, not as something that undermines trustless-ness - don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/pdf/Apple-Supp...

Ctrl+F 157 from PRC, other countries rarely break 30.

Vietnam has 21 suppliers, most of whom also has (likely primary) PRC operation.

>engineering ecosystems

One presumes still need PRC to to build things first and work out kinks - so far only matured manufacturing lines are shifting out of PRC.
On what planet is 10 weeks imprisonment a slap on the wrist? Both of the rulings we’re comparing are utterly insane but I certainly agree that the Saudi one is far more insane.

In my opinion the size of the groups doesn’t matter when it comes to whether or not it should be a crime. Though I understand it may be a relevant factor as far as the law is concerned.
Your source looks at 2020 emissions, which is TRUE, but 2020 was covid shutdowns. I've seen somewhat-reliable estimates of 2-7% reduction in CO2-equivalent emissions. (If you look at 2019, it was remarkably about equal to 2018 after many years of increase.)

But 2021 was the biggest (full year) of emissions ever, more than covering the 2020 decrease. I don't know of any resources that track quarterly emissions, so I don't know if we can see whether 2022 is on-pace for another record year. Perhaps the price of oil reduced usage enough to reduce emissions this year compared to last, but I won't hold my breath.
Anybody else read this in a Danzig voice?

"I don't wanna be... In your one page dungeon..."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Dungeon_(song)
Typical implementation is money can go in, but can't come out til the sanction is lifted. Sorry bout it.

You won't find much on the technical implementation, because the sector as a rule keeps the implementation details generally under wraps. The intent is clear however. Lock as much of their financial resources in a sanctioned account as possible.
There's 2 year warranty if you buy from EU store.
Shareholders are not customers FFS. Stop repeating that like it’s some grand insight.

Shareholders are owners and shareholders want money. The way to get money is from customers. You don’t make money from shareholders unless you’re running a Ponzi scheme.
At least going by your retelling, I'll say PayPal was right to refuse reversal.

Mindlessly clicking through OK buttons is end-user negligence, not fraud. Your brother presumably had multiple opportunities to notice something was not okay before completely signing off on it. It's tantamount to signing a contract without so much as even glancing through the terms, then turning around saying you never meant to sign it.

Fraud protection does not absolve someone from being a responsible adult.
There's nothing about cryptocurrencies that mandates irreversible transactions. A decentralized buffer/escrow system is quite possible, it wouldn't surprise me if it already exists.
From a purely anecdotal perspective, I've noticed a vast decrease in the performance of the macOS updaters/installers since the point when they switched to using what is essentially the iOS mechanism for them, with the MobileAsset UpdateBrain stuff, and .ipsw files, and chunked pbzx archives nested inside zip archives nested inside xar archives. I don't remember the details of the previous system, but I remember it seeming a lot simpler, a lot less buggy, and certainly a lot faster on my hardware.
It only exists at the consumer level as a novelty.

You can get chewable tablets labelled "mberry", places like maybe Spencer's Gifts or similar tchotchke merchants.

They're a fun small gift but I think their use as a sweetener is limited due to the way it changes other flavours.
Go to a sandwich shop that has them both, and you'll probably find two sandwiches on the menu that are identical up to substituting salami and mortadella.

I would be very surprised to find a menu anywhere, except for maybe in some high modernist bullshit cuisine, that substitutes ice cream and broccoli.
That was not nearly her first time being transphobic online.
The ebay terms of service force an arbitration procedure, however, the exception is if you go to small claims court. Most small-claims courts have an upper limit of something like $2,500, so your claim is under that. Send a certified letter with your details and state that if they do not reverse the chargeback, you will take the case to small claims court in your city. They will spend a lot more just replying to such a case than the value of it.

> You and eBay each agree that any and all disputes or claims that have arisen, or may arise, between you and eBay (or any related third parties) that relate in any way to or arise out of this or previous versions of the User Agreement, your use of or access to our Services, the actions of eBay or its agents, or any products or services sold, offered, or purchased through our Services shall be resolved exclusively through final and binding arbitration, rather than in court.

> Alternatively, you may assert your claims in small claims court, if your claims qualify and so long as the matter remains in such court and advances only on an individual (non-class, non-representative) basis.

https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/member-behaviour-policies...

EDIT: If you happen to be in Michigan, hit me up, I am a lawyer and I enjoy helping with these sorts of things.
Land animals' brains are behind their eyes because seeing is everything.

Octopi live underwater. Light diminishes with depth. More data gained from feeling around currents, so brain goes in tentacle.
Here is where his "Thesis: Software is in decline" begins

https://youtu.be/ZSRHeXYDLko?t=1090