skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a recollection you stirred up I had not thought about in years: my freshman (and sophomore) roommate in college could only fall-asleep with the television on, but of course did not want it playing all night, so every evening he would start a Shawshank Redemption VHS tape from the beginning when getting in bed. He did that for two entire academic years, never changing the movie. I used to have the first 12-15 minutes of it memorized.
You might want to pump in some helium - you'll be out a lot faster and no sensation of smothering from the bag.
This is commonly called 'hallucination' and is a confound in super resolution. Its particularly concerning when people throw SISR at medical imaging ...
TLDR - As usual Apple / iOS is holding back open innovation
And neither is about the subject of the post.
“Like almost all the men sent there, he has never been charged with a crime.”
.ly is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Libya

.to is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of the island kingdom of Tonga.

Are you disagreeing with my use of "shady", or something else in particular?

.io is a shady ccTLD too, assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory.
"one way that a group of things can be lined up one after the other, which is different than any of the many other possible ways you could have lined them up instead"
Haven't you encountered "The Banality of Evil," yet? It doesn't take "sick fucks" to operate a detainment facility and/or concentration camp. The staff at these institutions are simply operating in accordance with handed-down procedure designed in abstract by remote administrators.
> so that enormous portion of the populace is effectively unmotivated to work at anything.

What percentage?
> Agricultural use of water is actually productive though

Depends on what food is being produced. Some foods are significantly more water intensive than others [0] or are inefficient to grow in droughts [1]. Perhaps cutting back on non-essential crops that require tons of water would be a method to meet halfway?

[0]: nuts primarily, you may recall the hullabaloo about almonds which is somewhat inaccurate about them specifically, but true about nuts generally

[1]: asparagus is very inefficient as well
I have started listening to Lore before sleeping. I find Aaron's voice really soothing. https://www.lorepodcast.com/episodes
Based on the Fed's comments last week..they're just getting started.
Give it 12 months
> This is useful for compiler programmers

But that's incredibly powerful.

Now, stuff that would have to be implemented in the compiler to update the language, can now be written just as a "normal" program, that adds whole new features to your programming language.

For example, the entire object system in Common Lisp was implemented as macros.

Yes, most programming tasks don't require this kind of power. But it does mean programming in Lisp it's very very rare you are going to be stuck because your programming language doesn't implement some feature you need for the task at hand.
You talk a lot for someone with no evidence.

> the video evidence, the formal position of the UN, the formal position of NATO, and the formal position of more than 120 countries.

Literally none of this is true. The UN has not found any evidence of death camps or a holocaust so you have been misinformed.

I beg you to actually do some reading on this topic because the things you are spewing are just embarrassing.

Honestly, you have such a childlike understanding of the world it's sad. Just utterly brainwashed.
The documentation doesn't explain how it uses the webcam - can anyone figure it out?
Did this about a year back along with Ansible for a little 4 node Pi K3s cluster using another pi running nfs. That nfs service also provides persistent volumes for another docker swarm cluster (but I digress).

I setup the boot order something like (sorry can't remember exactly) 1 - PXE, 2 - sd card, 3 - USB. That way I could link in the nfs boot directory and reboot each pi and have it come up on the netboot filesystem, dd a new image to usb or sd and reboot into a fresh new image.

I highly recommend the experience of trying out pxe boot along with your choice of automation.
This response, though frequently used, is wrong. If my data is useless they wouldn’t collect it. They use this data to target ads specifically for me, increasing those ads value. So yes, individuals data is worth something.
Which is apparently a thing! https://www.zcombinator.org/
Obligatory.

https://slashdot.org/story/04/10/20/1518217/neal-stephenson-...
That is really interesting. Have you noticed a performance penalty at all? E.g. with large concurrent IO like compiling, or other dev use cases?

eSATA never seemed to take off for that application, and on paper usb-c should be pretty good!
Nah, you just rely on the indentation to understand the structure, just like every other language.
Great suggestion, thanks!!! I'm about to teach simply-typed lambda calculus and fixed-point combinators in my class. This book is a great suggestion (as are all books by Smullyan). Shame that the pace of courses today and bite-size youtubization has killed the joy of sitting around with a single puzzle in a cozy nook or a bus.
Those countries aren’t first world, and they most certainly don’t claim to be the world superpower.
No, I'm with the fed. I feel like there needs to be higher interest rates to flush out the trillions that were pumped into the economy.

Right now, there's just too much money go around still.
> A few weeks ago, Khalid Qasim got some news he'd been waiting 20 years for. He had been cleared for release from the prison at Guantanamo Bay.

> By that point, Qasim had been in Guantanamo nearly half his life, aged 23 to 43. Like almost all the men sent there, he has never been charged with a crime.

Most people at Guantanamo haven't been charged with anything, and about a quarter of the rest have been cleared of any wrongdoing. It's a travesty that the place continues to exist and has ever existed.

Your "primarily in the middle east" comment is also really confusing to me -- first, citation needed? Second, even if true, so what? Why should it be worse that wealthy buyers of these pieces would be "primarily in the middle east" than anywhere else?
I didn't flag your article -- but here's some general thoughts.

I've always been kind of disappointed that the curiosity-provoking thing people want to discuss on Hacker News is... medical information. I think we're all used to being knowledgeable and well-informed and confident in our opinions -- but I think that works against us when there's a highly detailed and specialized field of research.

Wired ran an article recently that made the point that when you stumble across information on your own, you're more invested in the results of your research. I guess I have this worry that as laymen surfing the web, we're just not able to properly "weight" the things we're coming across.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-search-quietly-damaging-d...

Case in point... "ResearchGate" is basically a social media site -- kind of like Facebook. Saying it's a "preprint" is a nice way of saying it has the same legitimacy as a comment somebody left on a YouTube video. I've always thought it's unfortunate that it has the word "research" in its name.

The one thing I've learned is if you search the web long enough, you'll find a study that proves you're right... about anything. The only real solution is to be really rigorous about where we're getting our information from.

I don't know if that's why people flagged the link. And I get it -- it's frustrating when you want to share something, and then instead you're shunned from the conversation altogether. But I think the real problem is that we don't have a better place and format for having these conversations -- for getting the information, assessing it, discussing it, arriving at some kind of informed consensus....

I don't know what the answer is.
I read (probably) the same comment, thought it was funny but also quite true and fitted what I had been thinking but wasn't able to really express.

Crytptonomicon is one of my favourite books.

It's the only book that, has had me in fits of laughter/crying, despite it not being a 'comical' book. I've had most of a train car turning around to figure out what's going on, on multiple occasions. (It's that 'RAM' chapter that always gets me).

But the ending of the book is just... disappointing, at best. Many/most of the plot lines are wrapped up, and it just stops. It could be argued that "Leave them wanting more" is true, but it felt like such a sudden conclusion.
If they haven’t been convicted in court, shouldn’t they be presumed innocent?
That's certainly a model one could use, but it strikes me as not particularly useful.
This is a great example of regulations that feel good but are probably net negative. Paper bags require more energy and are worse for the environment than plastic bags on net [0][1]. Reusable bags are improperly sanitized and typically quite dirty, something that was pretty relevant in 2020 (and theoretically going forward). [2]

[0]: https://ecomyths.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/scho0711buan...

[1]: https://cascade.uoregon.edu/fall2012/expert/expert-article/

[2]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-plastic-bag-ban-backfires-1...
Two points to that:

* Looking for people who caught aggro and getting out ahead of it is the bulk of my work. It's how I prioritize my workstream. The problem, and where the metaphor breaks down, is that I'm not omnipotent or have Grid2. If my devs don't tell me their pain points or I don't pull it out of them by asking what deliverables they would like to see out of me I would miss out lots of higher priority items than what I can see.

* The whole reason I'm on a team is because I have a specialized skillset and am but one stakeholder among many who want things from me. I will never run out of stuff to bring to planning but ultimately it's a group discussion about what I should do next. For larger companies s/me/the infra team.
Usually this means you may probably get distracted easily. So you are good at maths and physics, but then there is this new concept on software engineering and what you do? maybe you switch and forgot for a while about the last topic you where becoming an expert.

There is one thing you are doing constantly and that is: Learning. You are becoming one of the best at learning a new topic quickly.

So is not really as in susans blog post that we are never going to have a single destiny... our destiny is to be the best at learning new topics in record time. This is certainly useful at a research team and new knowledge areas can really laverage someone like that. It's like the category theory expert who can found relations between mathematical objects.

My mindset towards this comes from an stoic maybe buddhist kind of perspective mainly influenced by Thich Nhan Nhat: So you want to be an expert in many things but there is no time for that? cool, embrace it, hug that feeling, accept it you don't need to suffer about it and maybe you already know this and you are looking for practical advice to get more done right?

So that is what I do, I embrace this fact, breath it out, and continue with the topic at hand.

Now getting back at the distractibility-factor... the real problem is when this starts making us not deliver important things here i'm with the person who commented about systems. Atomic Habits is a good book to make those systems and make it simpler for our biased existence to follow a predesigned path daily just as if you were your own parent and designed systems for the little you, the one that have to make decisions daily.

Honestly some psilocybin have helped me understanding this... and micro-doing it seems to add clarity and helps on the letting go.
> We went public, are now north of 8,000 employees, and it’s still nearly as transparent as when I joined - financials, product metrics, anonymized employee trends/HR data, major decisions

I greatly prefer total transparency and have pushed for it when in situations that I have a say, but I'm curious how that can be achieved in a public company? Once it's public, a lot more regulations apply, many of which force reducing transparency.
The US would not like to think of itself in that company. But it seems that quite a few Americans see ourselves as better only because of our identity as Americans and not because of any difference in behavior.
Does Julia have this quality?

I'm not suggesting it does, I'm genuinely curious for anyone that knows this area well.
Don't worry, it will be enough in 50 years. Btw, for now, just concentrate your most like topics and GO!
Isn’t that the literal definition of homosexuality? Homo meaning same, as an in same-sex partners.
This is based on stack overflow developer survey 2022.
You don't need multiple module instances, the modules just need access to details about the opaque type or private portions of a type. If you've ever seen this in a C header:

struct foo;

That's an example of an opaque type. Put that in a header, and any function can make use of it in any other C file, they just can't access its innards (well, it's C so you actually can if you know how its contents are packed). Functions can accept them as parameters and return them knowing nothing but that opaque type and some additional function signatures like this (to do something useful with it):

struct foo make_foo(...); // or struct foo*
void print_foo(struct foo*); // or struct foo

So I can write something like this:

// main.c
#include "foo.h"
// other includes
void do_something(struct foo* f) {
// lots of code
print_foo(f);
}
int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
struct foo f = make_foo(a_param);
do_something(&f);
return 0;
}

In a hypothetical C you could do something like this:

struct foo {
int a;
char b;
private;
};

That last bit indicating that there is something there, but not what it is. Then somewhere you'd have a fuller definition:

struct foo {
int a;
char b;
// private expanded
float c;
}

Which would be used by functions which are meant to actually operate on the rest of this structure. In this case, anything that knows of struct foo can directly access its "public" fields of a and b, but have no clue about the remaining fields.
Clojure takes this criticism to heart, and at least uses different delimiters for indicate different kinds of syntactic structures. Like () for classic lists, [] for arrays, {} for maps. Helps with visually detecting different kinds of structures in your code.
How would you feel if your loved ones were kidnapped from their homes, brought to a foreign country, held for 20 years, but were never convicted of a crime? At this point it's pretty much the duty of the US government to give them lavish lives. This is inhumane treatment.
The point is that they’re not equivalent. What’s the difference between your proposal and just not having private members at all?
I did see a couple people in the reddit posted here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32634139

complaining about the price of getting their images done. So part of it may actually exchanging money for a service. I bet a good chunk of it is investor cash though.
The main Congress man who has been pushing it is retiring. I hate to say it, but I hope between his retirement and a spectacular failure tomorrow that this boondoggle will be ended before more good money is thrown at it.
What evidence do you have that they will be able to live "lavish" lifestyles after their release? How do you feel that the US government has imprisoned people for 20 years without trial? How do you know they are guilty of anything without a trial which provides evidence to that claim?
I suggest three things:

1. Clear separation between study/preparatory work and deliverable work. There's an inherent tendency to rush and "do it live". And the work done in a workplace setting is often different from a personal project because the preparation is done through countless meetings and reports that gradually uncover specifications by consensus. When it's your project, you have to substitute that with self-feedback and accept that on many days you aren't doing deliverables, you're finding the benchmark you want to set for those deliverables.

2. Your project must be coherent. Any contradiction in its premise will turn into a source of difficulty. At the beginning you can evade this by adding scope: scope lets you ignore contradictions by having more to do, and this is a classic error in many forms of personal project. Then the scope gets out of hand and the project either fails or turns into a monumental struggle. Instead list all assumptions out early on and give them a tournament-style ranking: what's most important, and just as importantly, what contradictions arise by trying to strive for both? Philosophical reasoning can create a ton of leverage for useful progress by clarifying what you really want.

3. Careful attention to workspace. I don't mean just software here, but everything: physically, what does it mean to begin working on this project? Is it easy to resume? Are the materials set up in an ergonomic position or are you always shuffling things around in piles? Do you have some elaborate configuration process? Can you simplify it by reducing the technology? Can you likewise simplify it by redefining your use of technology?

When you ignore the things making it physically easy to reach the end, you create extra work, and eventually it grows into being its own job. Again, there are things people are hired to do that will not see a personal project through. If the project is ultimately "make a business", you may structure it like one, but not every project is or can be that way.
And author of the excellent https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com before that!
This. If they were convicted, they’d be in a US prison, not a place that the US just indefinitely “rents” so it can be off US soil.

Remember: military bases are US soil and subject to the Constitution. Except for when they’re not.
>the perperators

I would feel a little better about this if, say, these people were convicted of crimes and the art was sold as restitution a la OJ Simpson. But how can you call these people perpetrators when they've been held without trial for decades? They've been convicted of nothing. We've locked people up for years because they wore a model of Casio watch that was popular with some members of Al Quaeda (before any Bayesians jump in, it's worth mentioning that the watch is also popular with people who aren't members of Al Quaeda, which makes those indefinite detentions even more egregious IMO)
Except space X has shown the opposite can be true.
On the other hand they're flying Wizz Air which is a budget airline so they've implicitly demonstrated their price sensitivity regardless of ad-block usage.
> One example that comes to my mind is the use of trading windows for employees.

But when you have access to info that could conceivably impact the stock price if revealed, you cannot do any trading even during those trading windows. That's why the top execs can typically (always, I think) only trade via pre-planned schedules.

I've been placed on the insider list in public companies when involved in secret projects (future acquisitions, typically) and that means zero trading for the duration of the project regardless of when employee trading windows open or close.
25% of their user base are kids in the age range of 10-19 world wide and that goes up to 32% is you look at the US. Do you really think most of them are making rational decisions about their data? Take a look at studies on brain development and rational thinking. Combine that with literacy rates and data privacy understanding... the overwhelming majority of their users are not making rational or informed decisions.
The Interface is a criminally underrated book. Same with the Cobweb, under written by him under the pseudonym Stephen Bury.
Noooo… tomatoes would just get more expensive to the point where demand balances out. You need to think beyond the first effect. All of this stuff ripples through the entire market.
>But if it does, I hope it leads the US government to change course on this nonsense.

I see no reason why a failure of this rocket would change the way they do business. The political motivation is for local high prestige jobs, not for any outcomes outside of that.

NASA does well to fight for the science they do, but the funding model is not aligned with that goal.
More to this point, you could imagine 2 alternative versions of the Diamond Age, exploring the same world, but from the eyes of each of Fiona and Elizabeth. Nell's story isn't necessarily more interesting, and her outcome wasn't necessarily more successful: She's the one of the 3 the book focused on.

Cryptnet and Dramatis Personae were both intriguing, mysterious organizations that were written to imply there's much beneath their surfaces the plot only touched.
I personally have no trust in EU leaders. I studied China history extensively, and this look exactly like what happened before the great famine there.

They will be defending their world view until the last moment, then it will be complete chaos.

Number are constantly manipulated, the lies are getting less and less subtle as well.

I left the EU few years ago and I am not looking back.

I don't think the energy crisis is going to be the sole problem. You should expect civil war in several European countries as well (France being one of them).

Good luck to the ones deciding to stay there, I hope everything will be fine.
I love the atlassian method for dotfiles. I have been using for a few years now and currently stored on my private gitea server. I also create a branch for each variation, linux, macOS, macOS arm, windows. Basically they’re the same but they all have slightly different things I cannot use universally.
That is a wild unindented consequence.
I agree with your comment, but most importantly, I hope (tho I know it won't happen) this helps people to open their eyes and realize the importance of self hosting their own stuff, I could understand that maybe 10 years ago it wasn't just as easy but now days if you are trully a small team or one with very low transit you can host your stuff even on a Raspberry PI and it would not be more expensive than permanently keeping a light bulb on besides granting you tons of flexibility. I mean, if you are less than 10 people you can even use that same hardware to keep a IM server and possibly a simple web page or some other application of interest, honestly that's what you get for being too cheap
Beauracracies can be extremely cruel without a single cruel person. All is takes is diffuse, disconnected decision making to produce ridiculous rules.
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Also not all founders are visionary geniuses like Steve Jobs, with confidence the size of Eiffel tower
In general I agree. The cybermoney hate-kegels that HN practices are, interpreted in the most generous possible way a really loud, really low-signal way for a bunch of people to express the sentiment that they think some tradeable instruments are over-valued, which professionals do by either not buying them, or going short if they're convicted. Less charitable interpretations cluster around old-fashioned sour grapes that a bunch of people lucked into 10^6x or 10^7x type returns, which, in fairness, is hard not to be annoyed by on a human flinch level.

There is another group of people actively trying to profit either financially or in-kind via page views on the very thing they are calling destructive profiteering, and in the least generous possible interpretation, Ms. White falls into that category with this site.

But life is fucking hard at the best of times, and speaking for myself I'm generally much happier and more sane when I keep a sense of humor about things. Her site made me laugh, and was therefore a bargain at the ten minutes I spent chuckling over it.
How close is the current Early Access PDF to what you think the final book will be?