skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh wow. This sums up what’s wrong with our growing individualism where it’s only me me me.

The goal should be to strive as a society not everyone can be a doctor, lawyer or investment banker.

And education and healthcare are prime examples where we have to pay the tab together.
In this case, the government is who is giving out the loans, and it’s been that way since 2010.

Then they pay someone else to service the loan after origination.
Think really carefully about it though. Going back to separate charsets for everything would mean losing the ability to communicate multiple languages as part of the same text.

This might not matter to you, but it matters to… for example… anybody learning a language. Например, я провел последние месяцы, изучая русский язык. Как бы я написал это, если бы мой пост был в ASCII?
In your scenario, you are using

66% ..3..........2....1.3.....................2......2.X
33% ..3..........2....1........1...1...................X

but that's closer to a 50%-50% split of the miners, not a 66%-33%.

The problem is that 2 and 3 will produce the double of blocks. For e while 1 may tie or get ahead, but after 30 blocks the the 23 fork will almost always be like 10 blocks ahead of the only 1 fork.

Ignoring most of the . to make the graph shorter

66% 3213...223.3223..23.23.323..3.2223
33% 321.11....1....11..1..1...11.1....

or looking at each chain

66% 32132233223232332332223
33% 3211111111111

After a while, 1 can

A) Give up and start mining censored blocks

B) Start a new fork, from the current 2-3 chain with many censored blocks

C) Declare that they are a fork and convince the exchanges to give them a new moniker, like ETC of BXC

D) Convince the exchanges that they are the real chain in spite they are shorter, and convince the exchanges to give the other chain a new moniker.
People quite often 'suffer in silence'.

Furthermore, I can assure you that Covid has been reported as just as dangerous outside the US as within. Indeed, it was within the US that it became most strongly politicised, spawning such dangerous nonsense as it is 'just the flu'.
So who was hurt in that scenario? Seems ok unless the servers were mislead during hiring.
It’s less about changing minds than it is about driving turnout. The party in power typically has turnout problems in midterms.
Where I am it's getting quite late, so I'll continue this a bit tomorrow.

>> Do you see me as one of "the crowd obsessed with Hunter's laptop"?

> Unfortunately, yes.

Confused about that. I haven't discussed it at all.

> That's a silly question.

If we're going to have a conversation, that kind of thing is right out. Deal?

You still haven't really answered the question I've been asking repeatedly. A little bit, but not to the depth you're asking of me.
Maybe I'm missing something but I don't understand the multiplayer aspect -- I'm in the interactive Chrome browser I can play with, but there's nobody else here. I'm not browsing together with anybody.

If it matters, the HN link redirects for me to:

https://threejs-example.hyperbeam.com/672b6071

and the ID at the end stays the same even in incognito.

Since this is on the front page and I've been waiting around for 5 minutes there must be other people using it. How is it supposed to be multiplayer?

EDIT: once I posted this comment somebody else joined, I see how it works now. Very cool. I guess it depends on winding up with a shared ID or something?
Not about the Prophet synthesizer. I am disappointed.
Interesing possibility but I didn't watch much tv since 1994 until I used cable tv in Nelsonvile from 2002-2003. Since then I only watch tv in corporate breakrooms.

I was flying with my Dad in the dream and we were above what looked like a river. We had a discussion and then thought it would be fun to drop in to the river and walk through it. Before we dropped in during the dream there were these strange fortifications through out the river that looked like image links I shared but does not look like the images in the wiki. They weren't as tall and they were not as bright looking.

There was no context for the dream. But the interesting thing was how memorable it was. Only about 6 dreams per year are memorable for me.
> I think mainstream analysis is that を is considered to not always mark the object,

But even in English we can say things like "fly the skies" or "walk the streets", which map reasonably well to how を is used. When it's used for sentences like 自転車を盗んでいるところを捕まった (roughly "caught about to steal a bicycle") however it's harder to understand it that way. It's not the ところ that was caught, but the (implied) topic, probably "I" with no other context
The changes on income based repayment and interest are huge and will certainly make a large difference in the amount of debt college students carry going forward. It doesn’t change the up front coat of college in any way, but it’s not a one-time handout.
Rawdrawandroid: Build Android apps without Java, entirely in C and Make
Observable Universe Rectangular Map (2021)
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_langua...
This is pretty cool! I've thought about making something similar myself. Nice to know I can contribute to something instead of creating it from scratch.

Top programming languages since 2005:

- Go

- Swift

- Rust

- TypeScript

- Clojure

- Kotlin

- Julia

- PowerShell

- Elixir

- Dark

- F#

- CoffeeScript

- Crystal

- Nim

- Elm

- CUDA

- Reason

- Haxe

- Node.js (!)

- fish

- Zig

- Arduino

- Red

- Idris

- Vala
Sure. But the important difference is: I can express the time "2nd of March 2056, 15:00 UTC", we can talk about that future time, and we can tell whether we're before or after that time. But I can't express the same time in unix time, because I don't know how many leap seconds will be between now and March 2056.
This reasoning does not hold up. Science does not claim the universe needs a cause to come into existance. Your premise is already wrong. Science tries to come up with explanations for the observed reality in our universe. It does not claim to know what is outside the observable universe or what laws of physics exist or don't exist there.

You follow the extremely common logical fallacy that because you want there to be a reason for the universe and you wanting there to be something before the universe then that means there has to be a god?

A big leap based on unproven assumptions.

Who says time does not extend outside the universe? Where's the proof that a universe can't cause itself? Why can't it be governed by the same laws?

Science does not claim to have all the answers but just then jumping to the conclusion that there has to be a god? Nah.

What if there indeed was a God but is now gone? What makes you assume that he cares about us and our morals? What would he think of people that claim he has spoken to them? Why would he create all the sickness and pain in the world? Would it mean there's some extremely sick and perverted being out there that just likes to watch innocent women being raped? Clearly he could prevent that. But then again why do religions assume that their god is good willing? Clearly he can't be that with all the shit going on because if he willed it into existance then all that is on him.
During the night, you can... open windows and create draft? Unless the night is very hot, it should be enough to bring temperature inside down to manageable levels.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but a decade ago Intel would probably have said their fab/process node was their moat?

I know nothing about chip design, but like most things, I feel like one exceptionally brilliant tech lead surrounded by a group of say ~100 merely very smart collaborators can make a world class ARM based processor-design. A mere $100mm annually in hiring and overhead?

The rest of Apple’s advantage comes from being able to actually hire the best, and being their own customer at scale, which means being able to buy first place in line at the fab with billions of dollars of cash.

This is perhaps less true now that the chip has so many specialized areas on the die? Like, does the neural engine get allocated a certain mm^2 and certain number of bus lanes, and then a fully separate team of 100 designs it? I suspect the neural engine part of the chip is actually super simple to design, it’s the tight coupling with the OS and getting apps to properly leverage it which is tricky.
> It was not CYA: The National Archives and DoJ spent 20 months exhausting all legal means to force the return of the documents to a safe facility.

You're missing the point: the documents should never have left the White House in the first place. Whoever was supposed to check that screwed up. If they're going to throw the book at Trump for keeping them instead of giving them back, they should also be throwing the book at whoever screwed up by letting them out of the White House in the first place. And the Biden administration should have some explaining to do about that. Is anyone asking them? Hollow laugh.

I have no problem with prosecuting people who violate the law. What I have a problem with is extravagantly one-sided reporting, intended to further polarize the country for political gain. The sooner we the people realize that all politicians are crooks and all government is untrustworthy and all media is corrupt, and stop jumping on bandwagons just because someone says something we like without exercising any critical thinking, the better off we'll be.
Hmm, how did Apple get to 5nm first? Does the fact its ARM have anything to do with it?
70's stagflation UNaccepted Keynes
And yet student loans were actually a driver of racial inequality - not an equalizer [1].

Without the ability to default - the loans made the situation worse.

Some of that might be undone by forgiveness.

[1] https://studentloanhero.com/featured/student-debt-demographi...
Well, modern HTML + CSS is actually Turing-complete.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2497146/is-css-turing-co...

You can't have any programming language that is more powerful than that. So technically speaking (HTML + CSS) is a "proper programming language". Just a very awkward one where the user has to "operate the crank on the machine" to execute it.
> Venture capitalists are pumping billions into companies, racing to get a fusion power plant up and running by the early 2030s.

The article mentions Commonwealth Fusion Systems. Anyone else in the space?
This looks like an awesome project, definitely curious to see how much actual graphics ability the processor has.
You're not adding the complexity, it's out there. One would hope we're aiming at modelling nature.

The human body is incredibly complex and making simple theories about it doesn't help so much. As you said, Go is incredibly complex and it took ML to tackle it.

ML is a good case, is it simple or is it complex? The ideas we use to communicate the program are simple enough. It's polynomial regression or it's a neural network. Understandable ideal simple terms, but what the program practically executes is much more complex.

Why ditch understanding what's going on under the hood so that we can live in the land of ideal simplicities? Those usually come last after you get what's going on and have refined your practicalities down.

We need better tools for everything and we're not going to get there by ignoring the practical and complex parts.

Sabine is happy to kill off looking at complexity because Penrose is hypothesizing about the nature of life under the guise of pre-big bang physics.

Okay I get her relationship to Penrose.. why do I have to stop exploring complexity again? Cause it's not divinely simple.. and/or because she said so?

But again I admit I waste my own time and maybe yours, we wont merge our views. The eagle never lost as much time as he did, talking to the raven.
> In terms of comparisons, John Carmack made some decent contributions, but you have zero insight into the costs of it.

Perhaps more importantly, John Carmack et al. are massive outliers.

Maybe there's some kind of an excessive cost to the prominent achievements, contributions and expertise of some of those people, maybe not. Many of those people have long-term relationships, families and interests outside of CS or tech. Linus Torvalds does scuba diving. Carmack practised judo and Brazilian jiu-jitsu at least at some point. I have no idea how much of a long-term thing that was -- lots of people practise a martial art or something else that sounds superficially non-nerdy for a few years -- and it probably doesn't say all that much by itself, but it doesn't seem to me like all of those outlier people just spent all their time obsessed with programming alone.

But to be able to have both great professional prominence in technology and a life outside of it, one would probably have to be both an outlier -- even more so than just for great success at tech alone -- and more or less lucky. For most people, trying for the former without regard for the latter would probably come at quite a cost.

Other than that, spot on.

edit: wording
What’s the best things on their menu?
The feed really depends on what you have reacted to in the past. I routinely "hide all from" most pages and friends-of-friends so I mostly only see original content from friends and family.
I would be interested too. I'm writing software that could make an excellent addition to a college textbook.
We’re not talking about trying to prove correctness; this is about the representational semantics of the language (a symbol system) itself.
> Where is the empathy for the ones who passed on a college education because they didn't think they would be able to pay off the loan?

I don't understand. No matter what kind of reform is done (making college cheaper, or forgiving loans, or any other solution) it will still be the case that some people in the past couldn't go to college because it was too expensive back then. So we can never change anything?
College should be low cost, at the very least. Or free. Or you should even get paid to go, which Denmark showed is viable.

Education is an investment in the future. It's a rising tide that lifts all boats - or it ought to be.

Instead, we seem to have a networking event for the wealthy; a decades-long spirit-crushing grind for the middle-class, and a dark, dismal carrot for poor people to join the US military.

Over 40 countries around the world offer free post-secondary education. But in the world's wealthiest country, we have the worlds most expensive education and the world's highest "college debt".

It's a sign of how brainwashed we are that this is accepted as normal. Why aren't we moving towards free-as-standard college as a goal?

Instead, we have shrieking hypocrites, apoplectic at the idea that anyone other than a bank or military contractor might get a bailout, mere months after collecting their PPP cheques.
What do people think "hologram" means?
Similar price trends are to be expected across all nodes in highly interconnected grids.
Ok, what would one party have to do to prove they are better than the other?
Education is not a prime example. Many degrees ARE useless. Paying your own way is a massive incentive to pick a valuable and reasonably priced degree. Many people consider healthcare a human right. Getting to spend 4 years half assedly drawing supply and demand graphs or writing essays about proust is most definitely not!
Wow, that's exactly what USSR under Stalin would do. Except that they would jusr charge you for yearly robes and not for the daily pleasure to stay under gulag.
A fart, to fart in Swedish: En prutt, att prutta.
The water is never too hot to cool the reactors, it's too hot to release back into the river, for environmental reasons. Evaporative cooling solves that problem, but then you "lose" water, which is never great in a heat wave.

A nuclear plant using sea water never stops due to heat waves, because it can dilute any amount of hot water.
Actors are a first class feature of Pony Lang[1], which features reference capabilities as it's method of guaranteeing thread safety at compile time. "Refcap"s have a bit of a learning curve but otherwise the language is syntactically a real pleasure to use.

While learning, I worked through Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby but doing the examples in Pony. It really highlights some of the short-comings of Ruby, that are implemented better in Pony. Off the top of my head: Pony has named arguments, default arguments, real interfaces (no need for "duck-types"), it's strongly typed... There are probably more but those are a few I noticed specifically in a book that could otherwise stand as promotional material for Ruby.

Definitely recommend anyone interested in OO, or the Actor Model to check it out.

[1]: https://www.ponylang.io/discover/#what-is-pony
This is really a contentless comment. It sounds like they are doing something that you deem problematic and nefarious according to your own ideology? So what?
Debian Begins a General Resolution to Decide What to Do with Non-Free Firmware
I feel like there's a fantastic irony that Biden, the senator whos legislation was responsible for exempting student loans from bankruptcy almost entirely, has now come to recon with biden, the president who's forgiveness legislation is literally a lynchpin attempting to keep the entire student loan bubble from destroying the economy in the latest recession of capitalism.

I certainly applaud the effort, however I feel like greater education and predatory lending reform could have prevented the need for this in the first place.
I am not familiar with HexChat but you might consider using a different IRC client that allows you to silence anything/everything by default and only alert you on specific keywords you are interested in. If you like command line tools, consider trying out WeeChat IRC client [1] It is very customizable and there are many scripts for it. I've used it in conjunction with GNU Screen running on VM's and using Mosh [2] to connect to my VM if I am on a mobile or high-network-loss connection.

As for the moderator behavior, Mint is not a commercially supported OS AFAIK so the only options would be to either not use that chat, or publish IRC logs as static files to a website. It is not uncommon for IRC logs to be published on an archive site. Sometimes behavior can improve when people know their actions are recorded and published outside of their control, but perhaps not in this case. Taking a look around it appears this behavior has been going on for some time. [3]

[1] - https://weechat.org/

[2] - https://mosh.org/

[3] - https://libreddit.mha.fi/r/linuxmint/comments/3s3e7q/is_ther...
They bought out TSMC fab capacity by biddng significantly over AMD.
It’s pretty damn smart honestly. I wonder, given this works and Dems no longer having to be beholden to two senators blocking bills that the majority of democratic voters want, we’ll see rapid legalization being passed that was not possible for the past two years.
>All but two states have so-called “pay-to-stay” laws that make prisoners pay for their time behind bars

What? Had no idea about this whatsoever and I consider myself a well-read person. Damn.
Every day I find new reason to believe the American penal system unconscionable.

Not only is slavery permitted, the US is the subject of the ire of the United Nations over it (the ILO, specifically). For-profit prisons with state minimum occupancy clauses. Charging prisoners for their time there. And one of the highest incarceration levels and worst recidivism rates in the world.

What exactly is the point of any of this?
No, I was reflecting your argument back to you but it goes straight over your head apparently.

> Unlike Uranium, which is relatively scarce and the cost of which, in $ and kg of carbon, after mining and enriching to 5% LEU is considerable.

Simply not true. Nuclear power when considering all lifecycle emissions is lower than wind and solar: https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
The college loan programs obviously already created perverse incentives. It should come as no surprise that the loan forgiveness does as well.

It is almost as if there's some motivation other than to allow children of poor families to obtain a college education.

As for the college should be free anyways like it is in Europe, then perhaps we should administer universities like they do in Europe. Only a few select students are allowed to go and they don't provide training leagues for professional sports teams.
Episode of the podcast "Atlas Obscura" which provides some background on the destruction of the American Chestnut and ongoing efforts to revive the species:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/podcast-american-chest...
It has aspects of weather like behavior. Plus climate behavior in that chaotic systems can jump from one semistable pattern to another. And then point events.

A virus jumps from bats to humans. Some dictator decides for his own internal reasons to start a war. The pace of technology isn't predictable or even possible to predict.

Referring to something above. Economics would be a lot better if it focused on historical happenings and stopped trying to pretend it's a hard science like physics.
PLDB – Programming Languages Database
Right now when you click the link we create a new "room" based on your IP. If you share the generated URL (like you did above) then people can join in and cobrowse with you
I think this is an okay belief to have if you approach it from the bottom up instead of the top down. If something is counterintuitive, then you shouldn't write it off as a hacky asterisk in your head, you should improve your understanding of the domain in question so that it becomes intuitive.
And here I thought the name of the island Krk (off the coast of Croatia) was the only totally vowel-less word.
We can - and must - change the rules/system moving forward for sure, but I don't think it's fair when 2 individuals, who were faced with the decision to go or not to college at the same time, with the same rules, see the rules retroactively changed for one of them.
They pay TSMC loads of money to have the first chips for each process node. They were first to 5nm, they'll be first to 3nm next year too. This is because they sell whole products rather than chips like Intel and AMD, so Apple's profit margins are astronomical compared to them, and so they can afford to pay TSMC so much.
> where guilds had de facto monopolies on certain services or manufacturing and if you wanted to be independent... tough luck

This conflates too many historical threads to support the hypothesis. The guild era was one where most countries required official consent to start a business of any kind. That's how the guilds enforced their monopoly.
We’re all living on borrowed time. And the past is immutable, the future is ever changing with too many variables to calculate. There’s nothing productive from regretting enjoying your youth. I’m around your age and got into programming as a junior in high school. I would program on the side and play video games with friends make movies et cetera. I loved all of it, i still enjoy playing games with friends though it’s not as frequent now.

You’re in college, enjoy it use it to learn computer science. People switch careers up later in life, you’ve got time and can do whatever you want
Makes sense that he's best known for constructing spheres out of straight lines then.
Astronomers discover “water world” exoplanet nearby that could support life
I wrote this a number of years ago to accomplish same:

#!/bin/ksh

Die() {
echo Bad IP
exit 1
}

[ $# = 1 ] || Die

[ ${1%%?*.?*.?*.?*} ] && Die

I=$1

until [ ${#I} = 0 ]
do
J=${I#[0-9.]}
[ ${#I} = ${#J} ] && Die
I=$J
done

I=$1.

typeset -ui N=0

while [ $I ]
do
J=${I%%.*}
I=${I#$J.}
[ $((J>>8)) = 0 ] || Die
N=$(( (N<<8) + J ))
done

echo $N

# End
They already said it’s PCS, 1900Mhz.
Have kids, that'll balance things out for you.

Seriously though, start with proper nutrition, exercise, and sleep. That will help with the rest.

You do not have to get nuts about it. And when you run adrift, immediately forgive yourself and steer the ship back on course.
Yes, because those chips are made from silicon.