skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an interesting thought experiment you can do. Imagine a world with 100% honest, rule-abiding people. What are the consequences of such a world?

The initial things you realize are, no keys, no locks, no gates, no passwords. ...but it gets even more profound the more you think about it. No police, no military, no cashiers, no ticket collectors, no bouncers, no bartenders (for beer/wine), no security guards, no prisons, no weapons manufacturing or sales, no security cameras or systems, no cybersecurity professionals or monitoring software, no criminal judicial system, no financial enforcement agencies... ...and how many industries would function far more cheaply such as insurance, unemployment, credit cards, and healthcare, due to no fraud?

It's actually staggering how much of society is structured purely around a lack of trust. It's easy to imagine that security is responsible for a huge portion or all human GDP/budgets - maybe 50%?

...and what percentage of the population is really responsible for causing this? It is 1%? 5? Or maybe it's much more? Maybe most of us are not criminals because of the enforcement?

If we could program in obedience in people - what leaps and bounds we could achieve!

But more realistically, there is an equilibrium that exists between dishonest behavior and efficiency. The more common dishonest people are, the more expensive the entire system becomes. ...and it's not at all linear. A change from 0.1% dishonest behavior and 1% dishonest behavior probably results in an outlandishly more complex security setup.
> Unlike Rust, however, Alumina is not memory-safe and it requires manual memory management.

From what I gather, it might be more accurate to say that Alumina has no ownership model. Rust requires manual memory management, but offers the ownership model as a compile-time tool for doing so.

It would actually be pretty interesting to see some experimentation around alternative ownership models.
I only could find this from another URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32542953 (2 points | 12 days ago | 0 comments)

Note that from the FAQ:

> Are reposts ok? If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.

I sometimes link old post with low points or few comments when one of the comments is very interesting and explain or debunk the post. But in this case there is nothing interesting in the old discussion. (Is the other URL better? Both look similar to me.)
So if an article casually threw in some disparaging remarks about Blacks, Asians, or Jews (or, as was the case here, implied the entire problem the article was talking about was disproportionately their fault), they'd be expect to let the accusations stand unchallenged, because they should only address more interesting parts of the article?
Although the conceptual boundary is thin, stealing is a crime and contractual violation is a tort. If we believe that our rights are secured by the counterbalancing of powers, then we ought not permit police to adjudicate torts.
Valgrind and Sanitizers should work on Alumina. I have not actually tried them myself yet, but I don't see any reason why they couldn't work.

The only potential problem I see that with the current C backend, the debugging information is very hard to trace back to the original Alumina source code, so it might be hard to see where the leaks are coming from. This is something I plan to address in the self-hosted compiler, once it is functional.
I recommend enabling and using hibernate.

insta-edit: That said, I can confirm that while some hibernated devices require using the power button to wake, others will continue to monitor input devices. So your mileage may vary.
Yeah I exhaled slightly when reading they're in the >97th percentile for UK salaries.

Modest earnings
And they were right too
I think "narrative" is probably the most underrated element in economic theory, probably because it's hard to measure. But it's easy to see: Many American CEOs appear to be only in it for themselves, and as you say US culture is very much individualistic: Always care for yourself first. Compare this to e.g. Japan where kids learn from very early age that everything you do, you do for the community. With these completely different mind-sets the style of cooperation is very different as well.

As a German I can also say that unions and Betriebsräte are not only looking for the employees but also looking that the business has a future. And that's a common ground with the employers, which is why there is not this kind of animosity as in the US. Also, as I said: Even managers in Germany know that the success of the company is a group effort.
Large segments of the population have given up on walking. Frankly, I think even regular non-e bikes and scooters should be discouraged by public policy in favor of walking. In my city, I see too many overweight people riding around leisurely on bikes who would be served much better by walking.
Oh sure, it was incredibly unusual but once everyone got used to him being around after a few years, or a generation if he had kids, the novelty would wear off. I just don’t think it matters.
> perfectly acceptable to violate a contract. It doesn't matter you're not a fan of this. As long as you follow through with the terms of violating it

Every contract comes with its invisible body of law attached. For purchase and sale contracts, particularly those involving livestock auctions, property law comes into play. Withholding someone else’s property is criminal. The police showed discretion in not charging the family. But recovery is totally within their remit.
Blue politics believes they own diversity, but lack the knowledge of different cultures and backgrounds to understand that western liberalism is not the default position of the world.

The same as red politics it's designed to be a "you're X so your reasons and facts don't matter.".

Unfortunately universities are filled with warm bodies and students that cannot survive in the private sector. Therefore they need tax funding to get paid to do research. Grants are based on what's politically popular, and so here we are.

An easy way to resolve this will be to remove federal student loans. They're predatory and cause students to spend their lives in an echo chamber of psuedo science at tax payer expense.
Possibly you're thinking of Begin: A Tactical Starship Simulation[1]?? That, however, was not real-time at all but turn-based, since it was a direct descendant of the old mainframe Trek game.

[1] https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/begin-a-tactical-starship...
It makes no sense to me to use Elixir without running on the BEAM. Absolutely zero. You lose OTP, for one thing, which means that the entire programming paradigm goes out the window.
The SNRI therapy bubble has already burst, now druggists are looking for alternatives. The tragic part is that psychologists have been prescribing mind-altering drugs for years that didn't treat depression. What makes psychedelics any different?
> Maintaining 20-30 mph on even land takes enough effort, except perhaps on a road bike

Averaging 20 mph over non trivial distances puts you in elite territory. Most people can't sustain that, even experienced cyclists. Wind and climbing eats into sustainable speed even more.
Yeah there’s not a magical supply of no-kills, and even if they are they fill up darn fast.
Interesting. In GNOME? With what kind of GPU, screen setup, etc? E.g. are you using fractional scaling?
It won't matter.

We're quickly coming to a time when police brutality will be solved by crowd-sourced drone hits on brutalizing officers.
What makes you so convinced it would?
Probably the single biggest thing was how their was nothing extra or (imho) weird.

It felt like Android on the Pixel compared to the heavily modified and bundled versions everyone else shipped.
> stealing is a crime and contractual violation is a tort

Purchase and sale of livestock has a deep body of law attached.

Judicial involvement isn’t always necessary, though either side can petition its review. (These cops had a warrant, by the way [1].) In this case, the parents waited until after the auction, after the seizure and after the slaughter to do that.

[1] https://dig.abclocal.go.com/kgo/PDF/2022-08-31-Complaint.pdf
I wholeheartedly agree, but as a sysadmin for mutualized clients, at some point in the process i need to interact with a generic elevated accout. Would it be possible to forgo that? Sure, some of our clients have implemented robust password sync through ldap or general federation, but doing that has a cost, and doing that also means that an admins password is now a single point of failure, MFA being unrealistic specifically because those accounts generally have to log in a lot of times.

An admins password (not our team) being leaked is exactly what hapened to our client with the most effective federation, and the consequences were disastrous. They have now recovered, but are considering other options and potentially going back to machine-specific passwords to ensure only one gets compromised at a time.
I don’t think Firefly gets rid of the OTP.
What I Learned Reading About the Life of a WW2 Scientist and Inventor
(appears to be paywall? so haven't read past the abstract)

How much of this is just solved by putting solar panels on the roof of the indoor growing buildings.
Presumably these places would be self-motivated to lower their energy bill
They had a reputation for great tech but not great products. Glass was not compelling (or, at best, not marketed well). No one wanted it -- except gadgets nerds. So it was easy to complain about one thing or another.

If Apple does it, everyone will want one. Apple makes great products and has the best marketing of anything ever. Even if it has a camera going 24x7, people will be able to live with it.
Absolutely has nothing to do with the IP owner.

That much money (as well as being tied to a big name like Amazon) attracts the antithesis of creativity, where everything becomes ‘plastic’ (someone above called it a ‘wax museum’ which is a good way to put it) and means anything remotely controversial or original will be killed dead.
Reminds me of the classic "every time I flush the toilet my computer reboots".

(The toilet caused a water pressure drop that made the well pump kick in, causing a power drop, rebooting the computer.)
Custom built PCs are overall more efficient, cost effective, and reliable than anything prebuilt due to their nature. But it does require a general understanding of its parts. Perhaps you are lacking some understanding of custom builds, or it's anecdotal data? Either way that does not represent the entire subsection of computing.
> If she bonded that closely to the animal they should have kept it on the property and not brought it to the 4H show

By my reading, the family did not bring the goat to the 4H auction. Rather it seems 4H loaned them the goat to raise, with the intent that 4H would sell it at auction later.

Viewing this through the simplistic lens of property can only lead to a single conclusion. The real question is about the failings of the property model when it comes to pets. Most people consider it abhorrent that the compensation for a pet dog being murdered is anchored around the economic value of "one dog", rather than the dog's life itself plus the pain and suffering of losing a family member. And of course, our society categorically rejects the administration of human relationships in terms of property interests.

It's not a stretch to say that by raising the goat, the girl developed a type of interest in it. And to point out there was a straightforward way to respect the girl's interest while also respecting the economic interest - give the family the right of first refusal at the auction, or other appropriate compensation as the family had seemingly offered.
Police departments have been known to avoid hiring smart people…
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/robert-jordan-too-smart-...
> Traffic was about 25% of PM2.5 in 1995, combustion was like 90% of that.

1995 numbers seem like a poor choice, given engines ran vastly dirtier back then.

> "Every bit helps" though right? Except PM pollution is global in scope.

The latter point doesn't contradict the former point. Every little bit does help. I am certainly not claiming we should make tire emissions the primary focus of emissions reduction, just that we should care about air quality enough to also tackle tire emissions seriously.
If you sell someone a car, and then go take it back, you’re not violating a contact, you’re stealing a car.

If you never deliver it, maybe that’s arguable but even then it could often be considered theft.
And sometimes it’s analysis paralysis, and/or being confronted with too many different advices.
It’s a big, complex project and it’s failed two tests. I’m happy to take the bet that it will launch successfully
Google Trends puts interest in Ubuntu at about half of interest in Linux, while Linux Mint is way down below Debian and CentOS: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fm%2F0fpzzp,%2F...

Could all be an artefact of the way Google classifies searches into topics, though.
> Why do you care about how the UAW guy defrauded his organization?

Because in non-right to work states, the workers are forced to contribute part of their paycheck to the UAW. So "the UAW guy defrauded his organization" should really read "the UAW guy defrauded the employees he was supposed to represent."
Impact of Anonymous Feedback on Engineering Teams
Feedback is welcome, no pun intended ;)
Many opportunities, yes, Czechia will have access to sea...
People outside of EU tend to demonize unions through the lens of their own economic environment and lack of knowledge of the matter. The truth is that they should unionize, as this would be the best way to secure their rights (advice from a former Amazonian with exposure to operations).

Amazon would s*t bricks, if the same standards would be implemented in US, as in UK, Germany or France. That's the reason why they're so afraid of it.
I had the same takeaway when I read these papers. It felt like a game of whack-a-mole.

There's a massive performance benefit to doing this at the cost of implementation complexity. I haven't studied the implementations or tried my hand one, but I get the impression that these are tough to implement correctly in a way that takes full advantage of the hardware.

(In that sense, it's awesome that the researchers also did the legwork to implement and maintain a library!)
I get what you're saying, but I work to live, not live to work. My end game is to spend my time doing what I love with those I love and unfortunately, writing code for someone elses business is not what I love. It's traveling the world, hiking mountains, swimming with whales and dolphins, sitting on a swing set with my kid, taking my dog for walks.

Money is my only motivation because I want to quit everything that makes money and only do stuff that doesn't make money but makes me happy.
Awesome!

How difficult was it for you to design a whole programming language?

Do you have a theoretical CS background?

If I want to design my own, would learning Racket and other LISPs help?

I'm interested in formal methods and embedded systems.
Beautiful tribute — you captured Peter perfectly.
Thank you for taking the time to reply and explain things to me. I appreciate it. I've nothing else to add because I just wanted to know more.
Pardon my confusion but…

…what? Is there a laugh being had that’s going over my head? I’m still kinda waking up
.. and it probably gives them excellent grounds to challenge whatever agreement you and the spouse come up with. So, not actually a smart play.
Which cargo did you go with? They’re interesting but spend.
No, it doesn't mention it, and in fact the quote you copypasted does not contain any mention of it. The author is oblivious to the concept and is erroneously concluding it to be merely a psychological effect.
Once I get my arms around gamedev a little more, one of my planned projects is a remake of Fire Fight[0], which isn't on this list but it's still in the spirit of the thread.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Fight
In this case, the police supposedly left their jurisdiction to seize property without a warrant. That doesn't seem normal to me.
Makes me think of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32631017
An additive strong typedef library for C++14/17/20
What a load of rubbish.

I take my kid to school on my bike. I go shopping on it, including weekly food shopping. I commute on it, if I'm not working from home.

I have essentially no transport needs it can't meet (that can't also be met by a train). As such, my outlay of £1500, annual service of £50, and £2/month to charge the battery is.. incredible. No car can compare.

To live in a world where that is a choice is an epic privilege, and to not acknowledge it is fundamentally a better option than a car is, in my view, epic obtuseness.
TTBOMK, there is not and has never been a system built by humans that other humans haven't been able to take advantage of for their own devices. It's more an issue of minimizing it and punishing it when we find it.
Three Big Things: The Most Important Forces Shaping the World
Have you done a write up on the build? I'd love to read about that.
> You could live with dignity here in France on minimum wage

I don't know about that, but - your French employer can certainly live off of you when you're making minimum wage.

> how about the US?

It's questionable whether you could live in dignity in the US regardless of what your salary is... just looking at the situation in Jackson, Mississipi right now, or the state of public transport or healthcare in a country as rich as the US makes you feel like someone is playing a cruel joke at people's expense.
You weren’t exaggerating. Jeez. It starts with someone who can’t decide when they should be exercising or not and goes downhill.

Sadly I also know the type of people these points resonate with. I’m reminded of the sort of person who posts on r/books asking if audiobooks really count as reading, as they can’t decide what values should matter to them nor when.
An anecdote- my mother's car was stolen, stripped for parts, and the repair shop that stole out, had it visible and out in the open the entire time, police (Virginia, Hampton area, a decade ago) refused to recover property, and we couldn't afford to go to court.
D&D is at least trying to do the latter - they just issued an apology for the Hadozee - a slave race of monkey people for which the unfortunate implications are obvious. At least to some people.

Of course we're still left with the archetype of race mapping to moral alignment in general which is gross, but at least it's something.

And of course every single time anyone tries to decolonize (I'm going to use that word specifically because it irks certain people) fantasy and sci-fi, there's a controversy like the one we're in the middle of now. Some people have to be dragged kicking and screaming into the twentieth century.

[0]https://www.thegamer.com/dungeons-dragons-spelljammer-advent...
We don't want to be too abstract, to get a feel for what we are doing, especially for collections and their different and possibly touchy algorithmic complexities, but if it makes sense we can use fooColl to reference a set as a general collection, for parts of the code that work well with any collection.
This is an entirely ridiculous take - bicycling is just as active a form of transportation as walking is.

The only mode of transportation that needs to be discouraged from an activity-perspective is car travel.
I have a strong understanding of the guidelines of this site, and I do see how you might want to invoke them for this thread, but considering the subjective nature of this topic, I am comfortable that my comment remains acceptable. These sorts of statements absolutely impact my perception of the strengths and applicability of the (strongest possible) interpretation of the linked blog post.

Also, I would say that you're comments in this subthread do not assume the strongest possible interpretation of the commenters point. You're coming across as actively hostile, frankly.
You'll have to get up much earlier to walk 5 miles to work vs. biking. Not to mention the many people who can't walk far for reasons out of their control.
One guy's opinion who is biased and in favor of the current banking cartel's monopoly and practices.

What El Salvador has done is revolutionary.
I wrote a small thread on doing just that: https://twitter.com/jugurthahadjar/status/131066829330549965...
There is no logical fallacy. Your original comment is just wrong. If psychedelics improve the outcome, they are still worthwhile even if the therapy is still needed and not a placebo. You are just misplacing the bar. The analogy to performance enhancing drugs is actually quite good.
ESD?
Does IMDB act this way for non-Amazon movies?

If not, this is real slimy.
That’s assuming they can work 240 days a year, contracting normally has significant unpaid downtime and of course zero benefits.
Most people are lazy. A software solution is going to be more effective than a wetware one.
High School Diplomas Should Be Easier to Earn
Would it though if Angela Merkel et al hadn't banned nuclear energy and spent 16 years cosying up to Putin instead of setting up some back up plans?
Not well, IMO. Or, at least, "it's complicated."

Take for example, the boreal forest, which produces roughly equivalent amounts of oxygen as the Amazon. A large swatch of canada is covered by boreal forest. As the climate warms, the growing season could become elongated. However, there actually isn't any more arable land in Canada without deforesting. Grassland goes right up to the forest, and the forest doesn't stop until the arctic circle.

Maybe you could EVENTUALLY grow in the arctic circle, but even then you face significant developmental/logistical challenges

So, what do you do? Do you tear down the forest, as is happening in S. America, make room for homesteading and civilization? probably not wise. And yet, in the south, if I had to guess, the desert in the southwest will continue to creep up into the grasslands to the north and east.

So say that you do decide to deforest to turn that land into something more than just forest—what then? Increasing turbulent/violent weather poses significant challenges. Arguably one of the worst parts of climate change is not just the extra warmth, but the extreme weather that it brings. Hailstorms are becoming more likely. Early frosts are becoming more likely. And both of these things will kill your crops in one fell swoop. So the existing arable land's yield is going down, not up.

But yes, we'll get a new shipping lane.
> Most people in software organizations are just mediocre devs.

> Ideas like this harm organizations

Organizations where this is true have already been harmed irreparably
Being rich sure has its perks though, all these extra chances the rest of us don't get.
I got my ebike a month ago. I cycle at least 35 kilometers a day since. From home to my daughter's nanny, return, five days a week. I've never put much thought about my "identity" as a commuter. All I know is petrol is well over two euros a litre, and I'm getting chubby and out of breath.

I'e always seen driving as something I needed to do. I've never really minded it, but never really liked it either. On the other hand, I really, really love my bike. It takes me everywhere reasonably fast. I do not need an insurance. No paperwork. Low maintenance as well. Should I run out of battery, well, it's still a bike. I don't really have to think about parking either.

I won't make cycling my identity, but I really enjoy the sense of freedom that came with my bike.
80L pannier bags are available on Amazon for about £50 or so. You could also get a crate on the pannier rack, or even a front rack for another. Trailers of various kinds are an option too - I do click and collect orders once or twice a week for a family of five and manage.

Admittedly without electric assist it would suck somewhat..