skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Equating the US to Saudi Arabia is beyond divorced from reality. No, you can't "just" do that and get anywhere close to similar outcomes as what's happened here.

Turn on your TV anywhere in America, walk into a coffee shop, talk to a friend. Conversations freely and frequently come to vigorous criticisms of those in power. Now go try to do that almost anywhere in the Middle East. You'll struggle to find someone willing to even remotely entertain that conversation with you.

That's what oppression looks like. Not hypotheticals like the one you're proposing here.
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I think WASM is very interesting and running Postgres in the browser is interesting, but for learning one could readily use something like db-fiddle, which offers Postgres.
do you know any textbooks on abstract interpretation?
There are "back channels" for european unpasteurized cheese to be sold here. I've been friends with a couple of cheesemongers who sell that stuff. I asked them how it comes over here when the FDA doesn't allow it. "In shipping containers, like everything else". I asked them what would happen if it was discovered. "They'd probably just destroy it all." I've found examples of such cheeses in great cheese stores across the USA.
Vietnam is also a communist (which we invaded and got badly defeated btw), dictatorship loving (Cuba, Venezuela, ....) country, whatever you see in China, you also see in Vietnam, media isn't just as vicious with Vietnam. In the other hand, Vietnam have a bright future, they have developed significantly in the last decade, I wish them well.
Assembly plants are just one kind of manufacturing, albeit a very visible part. Petroleum refining and other chemicals are manufacturing. The US does a lot of that.

Manufacturing has been a growing share of GDP for the past few years, interrupted surprisingly briefly by COVID. Just that most of it isn't assembly lines.
A similar argument was made by Toyota about their systems during the lead-up to the unintended acceleration debacle. I recommend Koopman's talk [1] on the subject for details, but long story short the Toyota ETC was apparently utterly reliable and installed in some of the most popular vehicles on the market at the time. However, detailed investigation of the systems and code behind the few publicized incidents revealed basic system issues like the watchdog failed to detect task crashes, rampant memory safety issues, and even a failure to follow their own internal code guidelines. All of that was manifesting in people's vehicles, but it was only rarely turning lethal and even those cases went mostly unrecognized.

Things have improved significantly since the Toyota acceleration issue, in large part because all those details came out. Model-based design is now basically standard for most ECUs, which eliminates large amounts of buggy human-written code. Formal methods tools that don't entirely suck exist. However, most of the issues Koopman points out (especially memory safety) still exist in many places on modern vehicles and all of his points about the issues with relying on testing to surface quality problems remain relevant.

[1] https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/pubs/koopman14_toyota_ua_...

https://youtu.be/DKHa7rxkvK8
Crypto broker Genesis slashes 20% of workforce and announces CEO exit
I'm curious if there is a reason you went with (what I believe is) a derivative of the Sleepycat license, instead of one of the more familiar licenses?

Your comment here is at odds with my understanding of how the Sleepycat license works and how Berkeley DB is licensed.
Western FDI has definitely played a major role in China’s growth, yes.

Note that my comment doesn’t call that into question though, only that the conversation around chinas success is almost always grossly oversimplified to suit ideological agendas.
Programs are ideas that need to be understood, modeled, and manipulated by humans. Text is the best available way to incept ideas into the minds of humans.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30338074 - City Generator

Made by the same person.
They don’t out perform in coolness.
> 2 different seat/steering wheel/mirror presets they use before driving

This was a feature on a truck my dad bought in like 2002. It was mapped to physical buttons near the seat controls. Tapping a few times is a regression.
+1 on Invisible China. Scott Rozelle's group at the FSI has been doing some good work on trying to alleviate the opportunity gap that exists in several prefectures in the PRC.
Clearly it contains alchemists' lost secrets to creating slimes. But is cursed to gradually turn anyone who reads it into a slime. Which at least one player will obviously try to do. There's some good motivation to complete the quest and/or make one or more players play as an intelligent slime for a while.

[EDIT] Gelatinous cubes, rather. Now I must read the Book of Shame.
Good for you for actually critically assessing the study. I haven't, and your criticisms sound valid.

I'm not familiar with a narrative that racism is getting worse. My impression (and I thought this was in line with US liberal thinking) is that we are now beginning to admit that racism didn't go away with the end of slavery, it didn't go away with the end of segregation; it's still here. I'd say things are getting better, because many white people acknowledge racism instead of pretending it doesn't exist.
I don't /perceive/ any audio latency, the game sound seems fine to me. Talking about Elite: Dangerous specifically - I use the VM to develop my E:D 3rd party application.
> Americans fight for ideals all the time

The US government, post ww2, fights for Corporations in the NATO axis that benefit from a particular regime being in power in a particular country.

Sometimes these regimes are democratic, other times they are not. The ideals are kool aid to sell to the public to garner support for war.

For eg, US has toppled democracies in Haiti and Iran to support corporate interests. It supported dictatorship in Haiti, Saudi, Indonesia, Pakistan, Iran etc to promote the interests of NATO corporations.
Exactly. Russia's #1 gas importer is EU.
Nobody does until it affects them personally or unless they have some compassion for others in their country who don't have the same opportunities and skillset as you. Many of the drugged out people on the street without homes or a future could have been hard working factory workers but wealthy people thought it would be better to save a few bucks and boost their own paychecks by offshoring.
> This is what's behind the paradox where a good dev working alone or maybe with one very like minded person can produce a level of productivity you can't match again as you add developers, till you have way more developers. The dip represents the loss due to having to communicate a common understanding of the codebase, that doesn't get adequately compensated for till you've added a lot more people.

Wow I couldn't agree more with this point. You put it perfectly. I worked alone and later with one other developer on a project and it felt way more productive than my current team of 5 developers!
It's fairly clear which policies have contributed to their economic rise.
But also benefits from the taxes paid on the rental property that help pay for things they and their family use.
Most businesses deals are secret by default. All my contracts have confidentiality clauses. The only reason to make a deal non-secret is PR.
If state and federal governments didn't subsidize suburban infrastructure, cities would directly. The broader infrastructure network is vitally important for urban areas, and the suburbs especially are essential to retain the workers needed for productivity. Framing this as cities being exploited by greedy suburbanites is just wrong.
It's funny, people like to exacerbate the difference between cryptocurrency and shitcoins, but both of them are leagues away from the security of government tender. Even in the middle of a global recession, government cheese held it's value better than Ethereum or Bitcoin ever did. Principle-driven projects are getting sanctioned across the globe, everyone who wanted to 'rethink global finance' can go home now. Sure, a few other cryptocurrencies have been given special treatment based on their legacy, but it's only a matter of time before the shitcoin curse permeates them, too. L2 chains and non-custodial wallets have pushed that particular doomsday clock 2 ticks closer to midnight.

I'm not convinced there's 1-5 projects left after you "take out the trash". There's nothing. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero... all of these legacy projects have no use besides P2P transactions. It's cool, and can scale well, but that's not going to drive prices in the long-term. Crypto's hands are tied, and it can do nothing except trade sideways until it dies forever, like SoulSeek or LimeWire. Betting on Bitcoin going back up is like betting on Tastetations showing up again at your local CVS; abysmal odds, all hours of the day.
> So i am wondering isnt the root of all evil the fact that high paying jobs are clustered around large urban centres? Shouldnt tech have solved this issue by now? Even if people prefer office work, cant this work be done in smaller urban areas?

This gets into an interesting "can of worms" problem.

My background is finance which tends to be clustered around "financial hubs" (London, New York, Toronto...).

Again, I will keep my "Toronto" perspective as I am most familiar with it.

Why are all the banks located on "Bay street"? Because if you dont have a "bay street" address you are a "nobody". This odd mentality can be found globally, "wall street" , specific "pockets" of London.

The "big 5" banks here COULD build places in smaller urban areas, but those lack the "power" of that Bay street address.

Now that we established that for odd reasons you have to be located in "bay street" there is also the view that you must be "seen". Remote work is a career killer in Finance.

One large Canadian bank has started the "we want you back in the office" discussions :

https://financialpost.com/fp-work/rbc-staff-back-office-more...

RBC CEO asks staff to come into the office more often 'Technology can’t replicate the energy, spontaneity, big ideas, true sense of belonging and fun' of being in the office, CEO says

Now RBC has issued a press statement on this, the other Canadian banks will quickly follow suit (they move in lock-step with one another).

So.. work in finance, you need to be on "bay street" monday to friday.
You don't want to commute, increase demand to live in Toronto.

Basic economics show that increased demand leads to increases in pricing..

See this :

https://www.blogto.com/real-estate-toronto/2022/08/toronto-r...
For what it's worth, `1 mm/inch in 1` seems to work as expected.
Structural versus Pipeline Composition of Higher-Order Functions
> "dude, where is my nuclear reactor?"

What are you talking about?
>And Replit’s Hacker plan is cheap but they aren’t very powerful (just 2vCPU and 2GB ram)

with all due respect, ur equivalent plans are far more expensive. because the equivalent on Nimbus is 30 hours per week. But on replit - u can actually host a website. The repl is "always on".

I think we probably have to agree to disagree on wasting energy here. The magic of cloud environments is always on environments where my scratch api is also running for my other developer to ping. Replit is pretty good for this. So is Sagemaker. But I do respect that ur target market is a bit different.
That makes no sense. End consumers have the ultimate power to do something else. If the option isn't there, we now have economic incentives such that an entrepenur ca make a killing providing that service.
They also contribute a lot to VC funds iirc
Woah, we don't need __init__.py any more. Mind blown.
I'm not saying we should ban it, although I think it should be considered. I'm only suggesting that buying any kind of cryptocurrency is a bad idea.
I though we were going to move all those tech factories back home? I mean, we are literally paying for it, at least our taxes are.
vterm
> Here is a starter list of things a house will need over the course of 30 years.

My house is 25 years old (bought it new) and from your list, the only things I've done is exterior paint and water heater.

I've also done cosmetic landscaping but that was strictly optional, as I like to work on the yard.
There are still a lot of things that can't be done in browsers but should be doable, so I'm ok with this. Like imagine that instead of having to make a native iPhone app for every little thing, which ironically is probably JS under React Native anyway, Apple supported most of those native features via the browser. Of course Apple has much more to lose than to gain from that. They deliberately don't even support push notifications in PWAs.

Also, Postgres in browser is actually useful.
I don't, either, since I have no pets and my youngest child at home is 12. However, when my previous company ran a survey, many parents of younger children mentioned children and pets as reasons they wanted to spend one or more days in the office.
A man was given a suspended jail sentence in the UK for making a joke video about Grenfell. To (on the whole) great and uncritical applause from the media and general public.
The paper on the site is from 2017. When I hear immer, i think of immer-js, a persistent & immutable library alao from 2017. Any relationship? https://immerjs.github.io/immer/

Side note, I thought persistent was going to mean backed onto storage & the program could close & restart where it was. Just meams that previous versions of the data structs remaim available.
Nope, it was a different one. You'd draw a shape (rectangle, circle) and the attach a prompt to it, after which AI generates it. Next, you can do advanced compositing.
We've already been increasing dependence on PMCs, as the Romans did with mercenaries, in our last big war:

https://www.wired.com/2004/07/coalition-of-the-billing/
> Transactions and storage of money are already decentralized, through the traditional finance system

That's not the case for every country on the planet

> Yes, that's why transactions for those huge sums are subject to AML laws.

And how do those prevent rich person A from paying rich person B (by buying a painting owned by B for an inflated price) for some illegal service?
HN pedantry ruins the fun of wordplay yet again.
Sorry, I think I didn't express myself properly. My point was that the people involved in those movements unfortunately are not allowed to stop caring about them, as the problems they denounce won't magically go away.
So if I leaked Saudi state secrets, should I be extradited to Saudi Arabia? Or is that only if I leaked the secrets of a state you consider a "good guy" state?
Hypocrisy or realpolitik, depending on how nuanced your worldview is.
Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Like I said I was skeptical at first. There's also a bit of acclimating to a new way of interacting with the car - e.g. trusting it to turn on the lights and wipers for you, as well as learning how to use the voice controls. I don't think it's biased to say that automation and voice are more ergonomic than buttons and knobs while driving. The screen is mainly used for visualization in the Tesla. The navigation experience is so much better than other cars.
I haven't seen a good answer to the question, "Does Lockdown on iOS 16 prevent whatever this exploited?"

In any case, there was a Chrome 0day recently patched too, an Element Desktop RCE... so... Qubes is looking less and less like "A good idea" and more and more like "The only way to safely use web browsers." :( Disposable browsing VMs should keep the nasties away.
I understand what you are saying. I'm saying that doing this properly is a solved problem, and that power consumption isn't an issue because many of the features they do have (not AGC or frequency/amplitude compression, those are quite simple) would consume far more power than it would take to do this properly.

Modern low-power DSPs can achieve latencies in the microseconds, especially for such a simple task as EQ. That's going to be far beyond human hearing to notice.
I sympathize with your younger colleague. Spending 1+ hours of your day, 5 out of 7 days per week, just to afford your own house would mean I would opt out of raising a family. Even 30+ min per day commute sounds terrible.
That is not the kind of packaging that inspires confidence. And the effort it takes to verify it isn't backdoored is too much. Definitely, my IT department is not going to appreciate me installing this. In this case, I actually think our IT department would be right.
The basic https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/index.html is where I learned everything.
Response to Tyler Cowen on eternal growth
>making Nimbus a seamless part of engineers dev workflow (among all your task tracking, SCM, CI/CD tools)

tricky. unless u can allow my prod environment to be imported into nimbus (or the other way around - export). Otherwise my prod packages and your packages will always be out of sync. And that is too bothersome.
The problem is not code merging and branching. But if its a "dev environment", it has to be in sync with my production environment.

Everyone here has been burnt by different version of operating system libraries, so stuff doesnt work properly. Python is notoriously funky about this because most of its libraries are written in C actually.
Shift to markets, stringent capital controls, consolidation of massive state owned enterprises, encouragement of joint ventures between Chinese companies, western companies, and the government, lack of stringent IP laws/rights.

Some of the above is “capitalistic” and some of it is not. Commentators have been predicting China would continue to shift towards becoming more capitalist or fail for decades and they’ve been continuously proven wrong. China has developed a completely different model of development from the western consensus, but people still want to have their cake and eat it too.
Spite Fence
They have been threatening the island by flying military aircraft across the Taiwan air defense almost daily for the past year and have now surrounded the island and fired missiles over the island in a show of intimidation. What definition of "threatening" are you using?
I submitted a thoughtful analysis of this recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32214320
People bid on houses the maximum they can afford (assuming supply of houses is constrained). So house prices are driven by people’s income and the interest rates.

If wages go up enough, then you keep the house you have with a low fixed 30 year mortgage (because the mortgage can’t be replaced), and buy another when you want to move.
Quite the opposite. It is only the most vulnerable people that won't manage to resolve whatever issue they may have that an endless loop of FAQs (looking at you, Google) with no actual contacts (or very meticulously hidden away, if there's any) won't fix in any way. Bad actors are much more likely to have the networking and specific knowledge to get ahold of somebody internally to bribe, manipulate. Hell, even big companies bribe others' employees en masse, and there's plenty other examples. And automated systems' judgement is very poor (from a design standpoint, better blanket refuse than let in without utterly being certain), at least in my experience trying to recover somebody's Outlook account and inputting all emails and contacts, exact matches line per line.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32416424

https://mashable.com/article/instagram-verification-paid-bla...
It's in the same vein, but our goal is to create a standard for fully reproducible builds

Nixpacks can also spit out a plan (https://nixpacks.com/docs/how-it-works#plan) which, when run again, will assure that the build artifacts the exact same every time it's run against that plan.

The result is that any code that's built with nixpacks has all it's dependencies snapshotted so it won't break over time.

For us, that means anytime someone comes to our platform (http://railway.app/) and deploys an Template, it won't be broken
Seems a reasonable experiment to me. Beyond the base install it contains a collection of useful apps and setting preconfigured for web filtering.
Niu Technologies to launch e-bikes with sodium-ion batteries in 2023
No doubt about any of that, but China played a really tough game to become more than just a cheap workbench. All those forced joint ventures, and the immense discipline required to make those become more than just easy profit-share for some lucky ones who know the right people. They did a lot of things extremely well to get to where they are now. That won't be easy to replicate. Particularly when one of the partners knows that game so well. It could end as colonization 2.0.
All I really want is to open VSCode and remote into a thing, no matter what it is, where my repo is available, and to build my bazel targets with remote execution and caching. But at 4x the price of EC2 instances I'm honestly not seeing what's being offered here or how it helps me.
I have no experience with this subject, but I don't think hot food needing to be "held" at 135°F has any implications regarding the cooking temperature. The document you linked seems to be forbidding holding TCS food below 135°F for more than 4 hours.
Because the trade war happened and we just had two years of supply chain disruptions.
Anyone knows what she actually tweeted?
Contrarian Ventures launches €100M to invest in climate tech startups
Austria nearly does. Mr. Bond.
I see little difference between tweets and political parody songs.
Ask HN: Why do you trust electronic voting machines?
Anyone who frequents this site should know that in any electronic system with a microprocessor there are a million and one ways that data can be tampered with in the hardware, firmware, or software. Often times in USA it’s just a regular old sql database of some type storing the results on top a regular Linux/Windows computer. I think it’s obviously a huge scandal that “electronic voting machines” have been normalized in public consciousness. Whenever I tell people it’s ridiculous that electronic machines have taken over the paper ballot box im called crazy or paranoid. Wake up people! Electronic voting machines are a scam used to undermine your democracies.
The only way to fix the problem and restore faith in humanity is to scrap all electronic voting machines and go back to paper. (Or, how about an extremely simple electronic circuit, 2 buttons, printed in copper suspended in acrylic so anyone in the room can verify with their own eyes the circuit isn’t tampered with, as long as they can understand simple circuits. these circuits will be directly connected to a tabulator machine similarly implemented as a simple circuit located in a public room, suspended within acrylic, and with a visible copper connection to the voting booths, which would have extremely thin opaque walls for privacy but also ensuring that you can see it’s not being siphoned off. The open hardware folks can create the simplest most effective circuit that’s still easily be auditable by the human eye. )
I fully believe you have only the best intentions, but unfortunately advertisement companies don't. Simply allowing them to put ads there directly leads to your users being tracked, even across websites. DDG does not have a clean slate either, Microsoft is actively tracking through ads.
Un-paywalled: https://archive.ph/5HJal