skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Easily the most iconic privately funded organisation associated with parking tickets and enforcement would be the Queensland (Australia) Surfers Paradise Meter Maids :

> Unlike other meter maids, who issue parking tickets to motorists when they overstay, Gold Coast meter maids put money into parking meters which might otherwise expire, preventing vehicle owners from incurring a fine. After the introduction of pay-and-display parking meters they took on the task of explaining to motorists how the machines work.

Say what now??

> The Surfers Paradise meter maids were first instituted by entrepreneur Bernie Elsey in 1965, through the Surfers Paradise Progress Association, which was opposed to the introduction of parking meters by the Gold Coast City Council.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfers_Paradise_Meter_Maids
> You can't expect modern Windows to ship 20+ year old DLLs that allow running Windows 98 APIs as that's a major security vulnerability since older APIs had direct hardware/memory access without any kind of checks and balances.

That doesn't make sense. If those old DLLs could bypass some security protections in Windows than that would be still a major vulnerability in recent Windows itself.
> World War 1 ended up with Brits and Germans killing each other because a Bosnian Serb assassinated an Austro-Hungarian Royal

Russians and French died in much higher numbers on the Entente side than the Brits (who only joined due to Belgium's neutrality being violated anyways).

However, you probably know that the assassination of the morganatically married heir presumptive of the Austro-Hungarian throne was not the real reason for the war, only the spark that ignited the powder keg. There were many reasons and a lot of tension building for decades, starting with, funnily, Germany beating Austria which forced them to expand south, towards Bosnia, and also Germany beating France making the latter want revenge. The former pitted Austria-Hungary against Russia in the Balkans, on top of the many problems between the different Balkan countries. The latter made France eager for revenge and desperate to not be alone next time, hence it's cozying to Russia and the UK. Sprinkle an agressive German naval build-up that pushed the UK towards the Entente, German fears of Russian rearmament, Austrian fears of irrelevance, etc. and you have a powder keg with clearly defined lines just waiting for a spark.
Can anyone recommend educational resources that cut through the jargon and explain the subject accurately?
One thing that I miss in C++ is a bit more clarity on how copy elision and NRVO kick in. To me it feels a bit hand-wavy.

This article makes a good point in showcasing clear examples.
This is a thoughtful comment that shouldn't be grayed (as it is at the time of my reading).

But it doesn't answer gp. Whatever an enlightened political philosophy debate might yield, Russia annexed Crimea by force at a time when it was not theirs. Full stop.

However good Russia's case was or however much a majority of the inhabitants wanted control to change, control was ultimately changed via unjustified means that should be rejected by the international community.

The proof of Russia's lack of genuine interest in the will of those people is how quickly it came in to start shooting. You don't resolve national break-ups in weeks or months (see, for example, the dissolution of Czechoslovakia).
> I think most of the faults atributed to Capitalism are really Democracy not working properly.

Democracy in capitalism will always be biased to the interests of the capitalist class thanks to a lot of issues:

- Mass media that is under the editorial control of the super rich (Sinclair, Murdoch, German Axel Springer, Berlusconi, Bezos, ...)

- financial contributions towards political campaigns, including indirect contributions such as dirt-digging smear campaigns

- financial contributions in the form of party sponsoring (e.g. sponsoring rallies and conventions)

- higher-up party cadres and elected government officials being promised high-paying jobs in the private sector after leaving office (e.g. here in Germany, Gerhard Schröder who sold us out to Russia)

- most higher-up party cadres come from privileged families - someone who has to exit school at 16 to help make rent doesn't have the time to involve themselves in politics, nor do they have the network that people have whose parents already have been in politics. That's the reason why so many politicians are so detached from the realities of the working classes - and additionally, their "connections" that help them rise usually want their returns when the cadre reaches influential circles.
I don't find it a distraction. I had to think, "this is such an old idea, when did this realization struck me?".
It was more than a decade ago, on my third research project, when I went abroad to visit another research institute.
Before my experience was only with individuals with extremely high rigor and standards, with who we would discuss of Poincaré, Feyerabend, etc. This was not typical of everyday life in research centers.
Though there's nothing blockchain offers that is really needed to fix the "costs users a global average of 6.4 percent of the total transfer value" (or the speed).

The transfer value cut, for example, could be lessened or even eliminated altogether, just by being mandated by international legal agreements and imposed onto the banks.
Are there any stories that stuck with you and would like to share?

I also had a period of time when i was reading many short stories but lost steam after trying a few which I didn't like.

A side-effect of reading short stories is that I forgot their title/author, including the 2-3 stories I enjoyed the most. Or maybe I'm just forgetful. One which I do remember is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Persistence_of_Vision_(nov...
I was hoping this was a treatise on the history of wine production.
Open Source AI to generate code, competitive with OpenAI Codex/GitHub Copilot
I am surprised that I haven't seen this here! In theory this can be used to both generate code and to analyze code. I'm pretty excited to try it out!

Does anybody know how much VRAM the models require at different sizes? I didn't see it documented anywhere.
VirtualBox itself is GPL3 licensed. However the Addon for fast USB etc. which is an extra download is proprietary. To my understanding Sun tried to open source that as well, but it contained third party code they couldn't open up.
But not all nasal vaccines: just this one. As the article says, they need to try a reformulation to try and make it "stick" to nasal mucosa and not get swallowed. Or, move to an asthma inhaler type model.
So instead of having an entity to do the ticketing, you propose to have an entity to validate that the ticketing done by the 3rd party is valid? Does not seem to solve anything.
I can't believe how much better non-alcoholic beers are these days. In the Ireland/UK, Guinness 0.0 is almost as good as the real thing. Heineken 0.0 is great lager as well as Lucky Saint. Punk AF is an OK IPA replacement (don't like the company though).
Most OSes will have this but it's difficult to use as a general API. The main use case is "I freed these pages and will not use them anymore, save on the bookeeping". Anything beyond that is a little dicey because if the OS does reclaim the pages you'll take a fault trying to hit the cache, which can be bad if it happens at an inopportune time. And properly signaling this to applications is hard (SIGSEGV is not a very ergonomic interface).
Just want to point out that not all 16-bit code can run unhindered in long mode. You can run 16-bit protected mode code. But long mode dropped the V8086 mode that made easily emulating 16-bit real mode possible.
If you need identity you can just compare indices instead of pointers, no?
Look at the ants and their speck of dust sized brains. Simple rules + repetition. That's all you need for giant fractals.
It's similar to the coal industry. We know that the coal lobby has an outsized influence despite the industry itself being tiny and shrinking.

Private juvenile facilities have the exact same problem because they encourage things like kickbacks for sending innocent kids into the system for funding. Neither should exist and should be fully abolished because the incentives for the companies in question go against behaving in a way that benefits society.
There also is an OS called Windows that has more users than those two combined.

I wouldn’t know how that compares when looking only at computers where the sole or main user can personally make purchase decisions, though, and that’s the market many small startups target, at least initially.

I guess Windows does worse there, but I wouldn’t dare guess by how much.
If you browse LAION (e.g. using this [0]), which SD uses you find all sorts of owned IP there (shutterstock, artstation, fanart from deviantart and tumblr etc.) - because it's a research data set. LAION has a disclaimer that it does not claim ownership and that any troubles you run into by using the graph are your own.

[0] https://rom1504.github.io/clip-retrieval
It's quite probable that I've heard it most from those who reject geological evidence or evidence for evolution for belief based reasons, because of my personal history, and, well, apparently my lack of engaging with philosophy majors[0] and scientists who apparently discuss it frequently (although it strikes me that it'd be people specialising in the philosophy of science who'd use it, rather than people doing actual scientific research). Also, I'm not entirely sure why I should care about what philosophy majors think about the scientific method.

That said, if you have blogs etc. from scientists or scholars of the philosophy of science I can read discussing "scientism" (FYI, my spellcheck is insistent that's not a word) , then I'll happily read them.

[0] Can I make the usual philosophy major joke about how I don't interact with them "other than when I'm ordering my burger at the drivethrough"? Heyoo, please, take my wife, I can't get no respect.
I fully agree but also want to emphasize that the people who work on this at WebKit also enjoy making their own stuff.
Make not drinking part of your identity. Instead of telling people

> I’m not drinking

say

> I don’t drink

This is a small change in thinking that has a surprisingly large effect for a lot of people. Hope it helps
Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero
Depends on the use case, Zylon is one of the strongest fibers, and is used for rigging in competitive sailing. However it's not UV stable and not good with repetitive bending, so I'd not recommend it for climbing use either...
Sounds like they didn't have the balls to sue Microsoft. (Opus is SILK+CELT and SILK was developed by Skype, which was bought by MS)
> Does anyone actually think this is endorsement?

Doesn't sound like an endorsement to me. They needed 150k email-only licences to bridge until they can replace contract they buy the rest of their Office 365 licenses on. Google showed up with an bid they couldn't refuse. I wouldn't be surprised if this is a loss-leader for Google (or an "investment", as we call in the defense business).
Coinbase gets regulatory approval in Singapore
Have you checked out the "Tiny Habits" framework? It worked wonders for me and my habits. Haven't tried it on drinking though.
Best thing that happened to my life. I was reborn again after alcohol had left my system completely. All the years before that were a complete waste, an illusion.

My anecdote, I've come to believe that alcohol, besides its short term and well known effects, also has some sort of mid-to-long term low-level psychedelic effects where it distorts your sense of reality as to think everything in a slightly more negative way, increasingly so the further you are from your last dosage, so that it makes itself relevant again as a relief from those symptoms.

I realized this after quitting for a long time, where my mood had significantly improved and i had a very beautiful daily routine, some days i would slip and have one beer or one wine when hanging out with friends (even though i didn't need it, mainly because my feelings of social anxiety had disappeared along with quitting alcohol and honestly i was having so much more fun being sober) thinking that it's fine and it won't do anything to me. Besides not enjoying its flavor at all anymore and getting annoyingly dizzy, the next days something had happened. I didn't experience the very same routine the same way. As if something bleak and dark was lurking in my psyche. I can't explain it but it was completely foreign to me at that point to feel like that so i noticed. Then i realized, oh this is how i used to feel all the time when i was consuming alcohol. Those feelings disappeared after 3 days of consuming a single beer and i was back to normal again, happy. Months later i would slip again, and the same process would repeat. 2-3 days of bleak gloom, then back to normal. That would happen a few times more as i don't really put too much pressure on myself, but now honestly i can't even smell it. A sip of wine or beer brings me disgust so there's nothing to it. I enjoy my nights out more, i dance more, i have more energy, i'm more social, people think i'm on cocaine or ecstasy and they're surprised when i tell them I've been only drinking club mate. Caffeine is a fantastic alternative. No weird paranoias, no weird drunk behavior, aware, not stupid, no dark days, no hangovers. Next day, feeling better than the night before.

Really, my opinion is that alcohol is the biggest scam that exists. It eats your life for nothing. No benefits. Only detriments. I have zero contacts left from the days i used to drink. Noone was my friend, they were addiction buddies with mostly bad behavior. The amount of experience that i'm able to digest with a bright head is so much more fulfilling and lasting that it's like i was a zombie back then and now i am alive. I can't express how lucky i am to have left that era and that self behind. It was trash compared to how i feel now. I strongly suggest that you get rid of it completely and forever.
Well waste is perhaps a strong word. But I bought a lot of unnecessary crap that I didn't need. I could've put a lot more money into investments and I would likely have double the amount of capital I have today.
Fastutil is amazing. Specialized collection types for almost everything.
I have cut back, not eliminated completely, although the trend is in that direction.

Whenever tempted I focus completely on the fact I never regret not having drunk anything. That I will feel great having clear head.

It’s the opposite from imagining a certainty of lost sleep, fuzzy head, and feeling the subconscious worry I will hedonistically miss out on anything.

The key is two things:

1. to realize how certain you can be, 100% for practical purposes. Absolute.

2. And that not drinking is the hedonistically best choice. It’s not about withholding some pleasure from myself, it’s about not letting anything get in the way of my all day clear headed pleasure.

3. So I absolutely, with complete certainty, know I will not regret, not having the drink in front of me.

My interest in alcohol keeps instantiating further below where I think any discipline I have is.

I hope that makes some sense and helps someone.
1. Bots are more than half of my traffic right now and they don't provide any benefits except using my bandwidth and distort my statistics.
2. Strange behavior + technology
2a-c. Could be a part of a solution.
3. Good idea

The purpose of this thread is to gather ideas and experiences. A silver bullet would be great, but since it's not realistic, all ideas are more than welcome.
+1 for remembering the CamelCase of the proper name of this garbage language we all write in now ;)
Amusingly macOS also has this as SPI, it's used for the Objective-C runtime.
I've regretted reading some books (half through). Mostly modern neuroscience stuff and self help.
There's a reason Android offers SparseArray as a more efficient way of mapping integers to objects. Though Android is a whole different beast with its ART and register-based bytecode.
About what? Yes, they were opposed in their time, but their findings eventually became the accepted facts. When I said "walk backwards", I meant exactly that - we haven't been washing our hands for a 170 years and had to say "actually, scientific evidence has shown that we were completely wrong, the people who considered Semmelweiz a loonie were actually right."

Science has a definite tendency to go forwards, not backwards. Because scientists like to replicate results, and tend to reject things that don't properly explain the observed facts. Unlike statements of faith from, well, actual faiths, as opposed to "scientism".
I am concerned about false positives - but I will weigh cons and pros. Thank you for your suggestion.
> for 75 years

A sure sign of corruption. An honest lease would be short, so that it can simply not be renewed if problems arise.
Those private businesses are incentivized to make money by ticketing as many people as possible. As long as fighting a ticket is more expensive than paying a ticket there is no incentive for them to do "a great job". Because the model of all of these systems is that the private "efficient" entity gets a %age of the expenses that they inflict on people, but any cost from subsequent lawsuits are borne by the public.
Dunno if that's as likely on Hacker News.
That article was today's most fascinating read for me. Thanks!
This is a direct, and expected, result of capitalism.
India village goes offline daily to help people talk
Just a note thay you're replying to the author, so I'm sure they know what it's talking about :)
I got married, kids, work on a statup at night => 0 time for drinking
How do you differ from Cloudflare?
Linux, ThinkPad T470 with the big 95Wh battery.

Bonus: Charging your mobile phone takes less percents off your battery life than with a macbook.
Gosh, you've just reminded me of this 'exploit' memory came flooding back!

Another I really enjoyed was Manchester United Europe on the Amiga -- though no one seems to ever talk about it, so perhaps it was rubbish!
> I should not be required to broadcast my signal to the federal government to prove I am not going to commit a crime, that is the exact backwards of how the legal system is suppose to work

You're participating in airspace, and if you want to participate in airspace you have to comply with the rules for participation to not endanger others.

In ye olde times, you had to do a pilot exam, and planes and choppers were/are expensive and had to transmit ADS-B information both for air traffic security and for keeping track of abuse. If you were caught abusing your privileges, you lost your license.

Why should drones be exempt of these rules, particularly as they are mass-market things (unlike airplanes) and thus the chance of them getting abused is far higher?
Mish from Step CI here

We too like good UI! Our website is built with Nuxt and the Demo with CodeMirror 6
What's what I just said?

> 99% of the time you just need class identity, not values from it.

So no need to deference the class pointer, or the table index.
In all my time as a Perl dev (since 1996) I don't think I've ever heard the term "associative array" except at the start of `perldoc perldata` - which says they're known as hashes and then never uses the term again.

DESCRIPTION
Variable names
Perl has three built-in data types: scalars, arrays of scalars, and
associative arrays of scalars, known as "hashes". A scalar is a single
string (of any size, limited only by the available memory), number, or a
reference to something (which will be discussed in perlref). Normal
arrays are ordered lists of scalars indexed by number, starting with 0.
Hashes are unordered collections of scalar values indexed by their
associated string key.

Hash is ubiquitous.
Oh, we've got plenty of that, but still can't do much if anything about it. Lots of talk from both sides on how to handle it, but no real action because none of the "solutions" address the problem.
“Two Problems for FinTech to Solve: Cross-Border Payments and ESG Data”
Email is about the only compatible thing between these systems.
There is nothing in the mathematical definition of probability that prevents you from applying the formalism to “guessing”.

The axiomatic definition of probability is about consistency - not about explanations.

Whatever your definition of probability is it seems too restrictive.

You may have another name for the “this is more likely than that” statements and the related reasoning processes essential in science, technology and survival in the world.

Many people call that “probability” and sucessfully apply probability theory to reason about those things.
Most of the bots concerns the frontpage.
Tolerability and immunogenicity of an intranasally-administered adenovirus-vectored COVID-19 vaccine

An open-label partially-randomised ascending dose phase I trial : https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/article/PIIS2352-39...

search: >'intranasally administered COVID-19 vaccine'< @DDG : <https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/?q='intranasally administer...>
Wow, I didn't know that search engines can too be addicted to alcohol
> When the object is locked by a stack-lock or monitor, or if the object is forwarded by the GC (all of which is indicated by the lowest two bits of the header), the upper 62 bits of the first word of the header are interpreted as a pointer to the stack-lock, object monitor or the forwarded location of the object.

The term "stack-lock" is new to me. What's that? Is that just when the lock record is stored on the stack? In which case, what is being locked by a monitor, because i would expect the lock record to always be on the stack. Is this about thin vs inflated lock states?
They do cater to a need and their solution is effective.
Might be a difference in how people in jail (vs prison) get counted?

Not sure if other systems have a similar distinction?

For non US people: Jail is run by the local (usually county) government and is for minor(ish) crimes like writing bad checks, failing to appear in court, DUIs, reckless driving, things like that.
Investing in Water Rights
Could we assume it is like executing:

var item Item

item = items[0]
all = append(all, &item)

item = items[1]
all = append(all, &item)

...
What's the difference between inflating away the buying power of the people, versus taxing away the buying power of the people? Mathematically there should be no difference.

But I guess the transparency of the latter and the unpopularity for the politicians involved is too scary, so that's why we print monopoly money instead.
What a great article. I never had anything to do with wine, this was a joy to read.
selection action is already possible in vim using 'v' or 'V'. But many times, I do want immediate action-operator when I know exactly what I need to operate on. So Kakoune is un-convincing.
SMTP Injection
This is always stated as something bad, but perhaps the US is a violent society and it is doing a good job at keeping the violent behind bars?

A similar argument can be made about health spending: if it's low then we are not doing enough, but if it's high then we are spending too much (i.e. we are inefficient), when in fact we might be allocating more capital to it because we value it more.

Glad to hear any thoughts about this.
Ask HN: Best way to provide IT support to family?
I have a number of older family members that require IT/tech assistance from time to time. I'd like to be able to remotely control their machines and was wondering what people were using.

I'd prefer something that doesn't leave a permanent hole in their router and require them to configure port-forwarding (like VNC) if possible. GoToMyPC looks OK but expensive for how infrequently I would use it. Wireguard and RDP would be one option, but probably overkill. Any other suggestions?
Calling fascist everyone that disagrees with you will certainly not help and should not have a place on HN.