skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is fanciful but ignores that a huge amount of this system is in place because we can’t even agree on what is correct.

> It is 1%? 5? Or maybe it's much more? Maybe most of us are not criminals because of the enforcement?

Far more. The number of people who speed consistently and only slow down when they see a cop is the most visible evidence of this. Marijuana use was something like 20% of the population before any legalization passed.
> clean, clear, testable interfaces (like monoliths lack)

What prevents a monolith from having these things?
> a water crisis of unparalleled scale

Unparalleled, really? Googling "China" and "heat wave" should give you pretty paralleled results.
OK, so I've got 50GB of audio samples. Does anyone actually believe that these 50GB (400 giga-bits) are more efficiently stored in a database designed for "stuff" than they are in a database designed for files ("a filesystem") ?
I used gentoo prefix for a long time and it was a much much better citizen than homebrew(which isn't hard TBH). But gentoo has a terrible way of engaging the community. I tried to contribute but it was just cumbersome. So in the end back in the days I still had my own clang patches(basically before all the apple changes were upstreamed).
£500/day is the rate for software engineering contractors in the UK that guarantees a continuous stream of work

That might have been true pre-COVID but is even that rate a guarantee of much in a post-COVID world with the economic uncertainty we have now and so much pressure to do everything inside IR35? So many of the offers being made in the UK contract market now fall through and so many of the gigs are relatively short that even if you take a rate where you can work "continuously" you could actually be losing 1-2 months out of the year just from things like delayed starts, having several rounds of looking for the next gig in the same year, having "safe" contracts fall through unexpectedly, aborting a "done deal" that was advertised as outside IR35 but it turned out the client or recruiter had no idea how IR35 actually worked, etc.

We've been talking about this a lot in my network this year as it seems to be a recurring source of irritation for those who are still trying to work genuine freelance and outside IR35 contract gigs. A reasonable estimate for this year might be that 80% of gigs people have been approached about on LinkedIn or seen posted by agency recruiters never actually hired anyone and the time taken for a freelancer or contractor to find their next real gig is up maybe 50-100% compared to a couple of years ago.
People are voluntarily asked to reduce power consumption between 4 and 9pm on the hottest days of the year. We're out of power!

California has a lot of problems, but the state government at the moment is actually operating quite effectively at trying to solve them. Including the issues with the electrical grid (for example our one nuclear plant getting emergency funding to stay online to help meet our environment goals while the grid is transitioning).
"Turning this into" a race issue? It is a race issue.

You're simply making things up about Jackson's leaders and hoping they will stick. Well, they don't stick. Jackson has repeatedly appealed for funding to address this issue and they have been repeatedly denied that funding by the state's Republican leaders.

Maybe you should ask yourself why you're so lazy that you're unwilling to research the issue, and also so willing to post a knee-jerk reaction in public about how this can't possibly be about race.
Or just flip the mouse over when you walk away.
The tradeoff is efficiency vs. redundancy.
Conda is a subset of Nix in this regard.
>Seems to me they're operating on a matter of principle.

That’s what I’m talking about. The “principle” argument is genuinely funny! They have unlimited power but because they’ve chosen to follow an arbitrary rule based on their arbitrary definition of neutrality, they have no power. It’s a coincidence that they enable doxxing, harassment and DDOS-for-hire because they’re religiously bound by a sacred covenant! They dare not cross the ancient gods lest blood and pestilence rain down upon all our heads!

They’re not making a choice to continue enabling harassment, doxxing and DDOS-for-hire, they are simply doing as the sacred runes prescribe, as all orthodox stewards of the realm should and would do. It’s actually noble, we should actually be thanking them for acting this way.

It’s just plain funny.

As for your food bank analogy, do they provide food for active murderers and pedophiles? Like, if they were visited by current victims and the families of victims asking them for help, would they respond with a box of food for the perpetrators and tell the victims to kick rocks?
The island Thera was destroyed by a volcanic eruption some 1200 years before Plato: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santorini_caldera. The collapse of the island would have triggered tsunamis all across the Aegean Sea, so it's very likely many coastal towns had their own stories of being "swallowed by the sea".
I use a standing desk.

I have been using a standing desk for years and I no longer have lower back pain or stiffness in my lower legs that I experienced after years of sitting at a desk.
If each card were a public/private keypair, you could sign a message authorising a payment of X amount at current time, in zero knowledge, without leaking your secret (the credit card number) in every transaction.

Add two factor authentication, if you want, but fix the underlying giant issue first.
What S.F. would look like if it took ending single-family zoning seriously
Pop_OS is also another good variant (It does not use Firefox snaps)
Debian, Linux mint, MX Linux, you name it, all way better these days than Ubuntu.
Launch

rlwrap sbcl

Instead of sbcl directly to get all your line editing niceties.

As far as IDE are concerned, Emacs and the slime module are unbeatable, but it may be difficult to ease into them. There are many tutorials online. You won't regret it.
> The rest are developer tools and runtime configurations.

I wish people understood this, but sadly they seem to be more and more common as primary modes for software distribution.
No. I'm saying on MacOS, for certain types of development where you need BSD or GNU userland tools not included in MacOS - a package manager for installing such tools like brew is required to make life sane and workable.
Is there a guide like this for anaconda? I'd really prefer to have it "shoved into its own little corner " without it touching my bashrc and the like. I'm currently isntalling it with nix-env, which is great, but nix is a tad overkill, and if/when I'm done experimenting with nix I'll still probably require conda.
That over time, through time-proven hypothesis, we arrive at a modern understanding of our biology and psychology.

So you openly admit that this is difficult to assess? That much we can agree on at least.
All of that is true, and that's why Nokia acquired Trolltech: Qt solved all those problems on Symbian, and provided an easy, mostly OS-independent, way to rebuild the apps for Maemo/MeeGo.
Accidents happen. My own neighborhood had a boil notice for the better part of a week after a line break that flooded a freeway. [1]

an issue at the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Facility that was caused by the Pearl River flooding this past weekend. [0]

Wealth is a lagging indicator for competence. Many systems can coast along even as problems pile up and don't seem to be problems even though the system cannot withstand an accident.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) assessment team flagged numerous system problems in a July 2022 report, one month before the system failed. The problems highlighted in the report include: [0]

- Poor administration, lack of staff
- Finances are in shambles
- Customer complaints
- Lack of routine monitoring and maintenance
- Water in storage tanks isn’t cycled
- Frequent line breaks

0. https://www.wjtv.com/news/jacksons-water-crisis/jacksons-wat...

1. https://abc7.com/houston-water-main-break-city-of-flooding-o...
> cancel culture

It's not cancel culture. It's breaking the rules and someone upholding rules.

"I wanted to apologize"

I'm pretty sure if you really wanted to apologize, you could have. Being banned in one location doesn't preclude you from reaching out in other ways.

Finally, you say that was your only offense, but I need proof that this was the ONLY thing you did that was offensive, or that was just the straw that broke the camels back.

Considering you equated "upholding rules" as "cancel culture" you aren't really unbiased.
For most of the southern states in the US, their ideology demands that disasters disproportionately impact the poor for the sin of being poor. In order to do this effectively, the various state governments actively avoid supporting, maintaining, or improving infrastructure past the bare functional minimum during good times. They know that for all of their crying and complaining about welfare and handouts, the federal government will be right there to write them a check to fix their shit when times are tough, and they'll turn around and use that money to pad the pockets of themselves and their political donors. That money has to trickle down through the state legislature's pockets before even making it to the city.
Can be; it’s all contextual.

https://www.sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html
> MacPorts packages were frequently broken and would sometimes remain that way for long stretches of time, with the only fixes being manually applied local patches (if they existed at all)

That was my experience as well a couple of years ago, with some quite painful OS transitions. Still, I’ve been using it for I think a decade now, and I cannot remember any problem in the last 4 years or so. It does not have everything as Homebrew is the cool kid and cool devs do not care about anything else, but it is solid. And last time I looked it had a much more sensible way of working than brew and a better security model, even if it leads to some duplication in the installed packages.
Good to know, this seemed like it was something that was put out by mozilla.
I don’t think I’ve touched system ruby in years. With RVM everything is just installed into my home ~/.rvm folder and keeps it tidy.
I don’t know if the $13.5 Billion committed by the US for security assistance in Ukraine would make any difference in the well being of US citizens with targeted infrastructure improvements or expanded social services.
In the United States, our ports have the same problem. They run almost entirely by unions and do not want any kind of automation whatsoever. Pors another major countries have automated a lot of the moving of cargo, but unions here have fought it and prevented it.

https://www.cato.org/commentary/americas-ports-problem-decad...
In America, crab blood remains vital for drug- and vaccine-making
I guess Washington Post forgot to fact-check Jackson Mississippi has been always run by corrupt democrats at federal, state and local level. They are poster child fan boy of Benny Thompson who is the longest running Congressman at the moment.
This information is immediately available for anyone in the country, after they turn 18, via whitepages. This security via obscurity effort isn’t providing any meaningful protection.
> and centralised digital cash (not bitcoin but BankOfEnglandCoin) is technically feasible.

Not only is it feasible, we've had it forever. BankOfEnglandCoin is more commonly known as the pound sterling.
Ah that's the catch, I didn't get anxiety from Adderall so that wasn't a problem. As others have said, I would try some other medication if possible at all, they really do help.
I echo the top comment on that pro-nazi post, too much missing info to form an opinion.

I don't like or hate CF either way but quit this "_______ also did some bad shit" that's not the topic of discussion and is a clear attempt at "cancelling" instead of discussing the topic at hand. Which so happens is also missing a lot of info and HNers are jumping the gun without knowing who did lobbying and why and what consequences they faced.
Keep in mind it's not really 50%, more like 65? 2,000 hours means you work 40 hours/week, 50 weeks ... Basically no vacation, just a few holidays or sick days. We budget full time as 1,600 hours
This is an interesting way of looking at it that I hadn't thought of--turning the Kelly criterion around to ask "what would my bankroll have to be to make this bet worth it" rather than "what size bet should I make given the bankroll I have."

It's worth noting that it can often make sense to be more conservative than the Kelly criterion would suggest, depending on your risk tolerance. So I would consider your calculation a lower bound.
I get your general argument, and in a lot of circumstances, it has validity, but I don't think it does in this case.

Jackson has indeed experienced white flight and a population decline. But it still has basically the same population it had 10 years ago (153k now, 173k as of the 2010 census). And the water treatment infrastructure issues there have been ongoing for many years. There have been repeated appeals to the state for funding. The state has denied anything close to the requested funding.

In this particular case, it's not about failing to wisely "physically shrink" the "amount of infrastructure" to something 10% smaller. It's about failure to address chronically broken fundamental infrastructure.
This is exactly the point. The goal is to take poorer people and problems (need for school funding, crime, older infrastructure) and concentrate them in a location where you can say “hey, they need to solve their own problems.” Then all the suburbs get great services and low taxes, while all the social and infrastructure problems can be ignored. The suburbs then fight like hell to make sure they don’t pay a dime for any of this stuff, while working hard to ensure that public transportation never exists to allow people to access the economic opportunities in the suburbs (AKA “bring crime into their neighborhoods.”) Cities can raise taxes to pay for their needs, but businesses and wealthier people just move across the city line. The poverty and lack of education inevitably breed local political corruption, and everyone outside the city gets another opportunity to feel righteous about writing the poorer cities off.
You made an unsupported assertion about Macports, based on your experience from “the PowerPC days”?

I don’t even use Macports, but that’s just plain unfair.
Does that work well for libraries that you use during software development? Or do you develop inside the container? What if you use two libraries and each has to live in its own container?
Op here. I enjoyed your comment. This was the kind of discussion I was hoping to generate. There is a lot of nuance in this area, but is often filled with a lot of anger (from both sides) that makes discussion difficult.
As if they could do that today. Even China takes over 10 years to build a nuke, no way the west can do it faster.

The US is adding 60GW a year of renewables, 55 of nukes in 12 is not impressive.
Hence the creation of OSHA and why union nearly entirely disappeared in America
Samba still works (including with iOS). Will likely be your 10-year solution.

If you need offline syncing, OneDrive and SyncThing have worked fine for me for the past couple of years (there is even an iOS SyncThing app, which I use sparingly).
Maybe we should just park the turkey in the VAB and turn the VAB into a museum.
That could work if you only care about your own electricity usage. How are you going to get the other several billions of Windows users to do the same? Maybe a software update makes more sense?
It is indeed very different from state to state, depending on the state's tax base and priorities, and also within states from locale to locale, at times.
No worries if you don't know, but how hard is it to get Nix setup on macOS?
Most commonly, dependency conflicts. Probably the most well known example of this was Linus of the Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel accidentally rendering his Pop!OS install unusable by installing Steam.

The second most common way is installing random packages from the internet in attempt to get something working. This is one I ran into years ago trying to get audio working under Fedora on some random laptop.
How about magnetic containment? Does ionized hydrogen combust well or not?
This explains why they lose all my packages.
Word of warning, this is what I thought HOAs were about when I bought a house in one, with extremely reasonable rules and landscaping services. But unfortunately power corrupts and the board members went out and hired a lawyer in secret, re-wrote the CC&Rs, and then used obscure vote procedures to take total control.

Once the board members gave themselves the ability to write rules without a vote, they started going after everyone for petty violations, like parking a car in your driveway for too many days or having the wrong colored door mat. And they have the legal power to foreclose on your house if you don’t play along.
I always assumed those lists (& others) were like Christmas cards from media organizations to the advertisers who keep the lights on.
Do we have a concrete proof besides suspecting malicious motives and quickly jumping to conclusions about racial discrimination?

I am seeing a lot of knee-jerk reaction from our media. Everything is about race. All the fricking time. It is a "systemic" problem that gets blamed at some ulterior level that cannot be proven or challenged. And btw, if you question it, you're a bigot. This is a great way to make zero progress because we've given up the cause to a nation wide racial discrimination problem and therefore, we must not look at incompetency in local government for instance in this case.

I guess my problem is how do we know if it is a race problem or not? Surely not every conflict between two races is from racism. US has been a melting pot for many decades and lot of people coexist fine from various cultures.
In Irvine, California, homes are plumbed with two water lines: potable, and greywater. So even in the middle of a drought, everything is green.
Countless years ago I had a boombox that, set to the right radio frequency, could listen in on nearby cordless phone calls.

I just looked it up out of curiosity, and the early phones used 1.7 MHz, right at the top of the AM range. That seems like it was asking for trouble.
Fair enough.

What if you had a 80% chance instead of a 50% chance?

90% chance?

I'm sure at some probability before 100% you'd be willing to take that chance.
> The brain is a computer

As an aside, there are tomes of literature, research and arguments for and against the computational theory of mind. I don't think it's as clear cut to say that the brain is a computer, as physiologically it certainly doesn't work like a computer at all.
27 + 19 is 46%, that’s hardly nothing. Again if you compare other countries a lot of places do a lot more with less. It’s governance issue, not a resource issue.
AI generated sci-fi action movie blockbusters
Just because anyone can work around it, doesn’t mean they should have to. If the package maintainers themselves are censoring stuff as best they can, that’s beyond the pale.

Gab had no more toxic content than any twitter thread on a contentious topic.
That's a good point and also one of the things I kinda like about Alumina. You can do thing like this and the file will only be closed at the end of the function rather than the end of the if block.

let stream: &dyn Writable<Self> = if output_filename.is_some() {
let file = File::create(output_filename.unwrap())?
defer file.close();

file
} else {
&StdioStream::stdout()
};
I would rather NOT be the engineer who pays taxes so that another engineer makes something that will never fly.
The uses for a technology are largely driven by the people who initially pay money for it. Here, clearly, carbon capture has been paid for by oil and gas companies and no one else. It feels like they have given up on the technology simply because some companies have used it for purposes they don't approve of. As I see it, no one is willing to pay the cost to purchase and dispose of the CO2, so more profitable uses needed to be found. This is something we could solve simply with funding it seems. If it's really too expensive to collect and dispose of CO2, that would be a different (much more compelling) argument, but one which the article fails to make.
Just as the US would object to Mexico joining a military alliance with e.g., China, Russia objects to Ukraine joining a military alliance with the US.

Your analogy is missing that the US forcibly annexed the Baja California peninsula, say, prior to Mexico attempting to join said alliance. Multiple Ukrainian governments prior to 2014 had said they had no intention of joining NATO. Crimea changed their mind.
I see lots of comments claiming it is or is not 'about race' or 'red vs blue'. Does anyone have any sources at all to back up either of those claims?
We've been investigating coupling syntactic and low-level FFIs [1]. Our most recent work will be published at the upcoming Scheme Workshop [2], where we integrate Gambit Scheme with CPython. We share the concerns you have and have had quite good success with the Scheme<->Python interface! The syntactic interface makes it really enjoyable.

[1]: https://zenodo.org/record/4711425

[2]: The paper should be up in a few days I suppose.
They could easily handle this with some smart metering, so people could just dry their clothes or charge their EVs in the morning or at night.
I have less of a problem with Brew and more with installation procedures that require Brew. For example, instructions for using the Raspberry Pi Pico C SDK typically start with "brew install cmake".

CMake itself supports Mac OS 10.10 or later. Brew requires 10.15, so if you depend on CMake via Brew then you're cutting off people with older systems.

Furthermore, trying to install via brew means you'll pull in other unnecessary dependencies. It tried to install Python for some reason but failed. (Python itself supports Mac 10.11 or later, but Brew apparently tries some other way of doing it.)

Yes, I should buy a newer machine, but many other programming tools work fine.
If you define crime as violating the anarchist non-aggression principle, then it makes more sense. The only problem is that the state would be the largest offender.

Nazi laws weren't moral, as it's not moral today to demand half of my profits or I go to jail.
Agreed. When brew installed in /usr/local I ranted much like this post. I’m much happier with brew since the move to /opt.
I am all for a law compelling companies like CF to cooperate with LE and censor on behalf of the state if that is the will of the people. They are a utility provider that has not been expected by society to fund and administer a censorship operation. Go and vote if you think they should be compelled to censor.
can you spell straw man?
You not knowing history is a you problem. Genuinely weird to see people proud of their ignorance. Black people have been in Europe for many centuries.

https://twitter.com/erik_kaars/status/1418911714175750147?s=...
Fair enough. The problem is that at some point, the data has to hit some sort of storage hardware. Presumably between the DB and the hardware, there's some layer that somewhat abstracts the storage hardware. Isn't that ... a filesystem?
According to this Wikipedia article,

"""
In his 2004 chapter "A Mythology for Anglo-Saxon England", Michael Drout states that Tolkien never used the actual phrase, though commentators have found it appropriate as a description of much of his approach in creating Middle-earth.
"""

So this is critical interpretation and not something he literally said he intended. His quotes (also in the article) suggest he was drawing from English and Norse mythology, of course, but not that the cosmology of Middle Earth is solely English.
emdr at its core has bilateral stimulation, can be auditive, kinesthetic too, experienced therapists should be able to adapt it.