skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Docker is fine and dandy, but sometimes you just need to run an Ubuntu container that has to be persistent to run a few tests. debootstrap + systemd-nspawn -bD is amazing at that.

I am also curious about why GP needs audio in Linux VMs - I did similar tricks too but with Windows VMs, in order to pass-through my microphone to shoddy Windows-only corporate chat apps, but I never had the same necessity under Linux to be honest.
People do talk about all those other things. And talking about diet is not myopic when most people's diet is so poor and unhealthy.
In practice nationalized industries end up serving no one but the politicians who nationalized them and the people who draw their salaries from them. Nationalized news media is even worse.
Helix is awesome. Thank you for doing this!
I'm pretty sure it started out as a file name, it being the default output name of the C compiler in Unix.

It didn't become the name of a format until Linux, and I think it really didn't get that name until ELF was introduced in Linux since they needed a way to distinguish the two formats.
Us nuclear proponents have been saying for decades not to dismantle functioning power plants and build new ones. It’s a bit disingenuous to now say it’s not possible due to “supply chain crisis”. If we had been running on home made nuclear and not imported Russian gas we would not be in this situation at all; it was completely avoidable.
i have to admit it felt weird as a non-us person, when the airplane pa system mentioned, that someone from the armed forces was also riding along and calling out that person by name and the subsequent clapping...
Try drinking something that isn't alcohol to enjoy the social/refreshment/habit aspects of drinking.

I haven't given up all alcohol, but I've largely switched to non-alcoholic gin spirits for mocktails, and I've been drinking bottled kombucha in place of beer.
Fairly sure alcohol takes longer than that to kick in, so perhaps it's not the actual alcohol you crave, more the situation?

Best to work out why you drink on those occasion, and try and figure out how to subsitute
Calorie restriction tends to be worse for maintaining muscle mass than outright fasting.
1. C++ doesn’t use vtables for classes which do not have virtual methods (in practice most of them). And vtables are shared between objects of the same type.

2. “Malloc headers”? Malloc usually stores metadata in freed data.

3. C++ developers don’t call “new” for every single object, the way Java devs do. Idiomatic code defaults to allocating fixed-size objects inline (on stack or in a pre-existing bigger allocation), not in a separate allocation.

4. In C++ there are other ways to allocate dynamic memory than “new”. Arena allocators, directly calling mmap/VirtualAlloc/whatever makes sense in a given case.
I can’t believe his basal metabolic rate is under or at 1500cal.

Smaller women might have that.
Summary: due to deep pipelines and branch prediction, a tight loop with a single if statement goes fastest if the test nearly always comes out the same way as last time, and slowest when it is true or false at random.
"count", versus actual, measurable metabolic change? Fringe dieting schemes only made worse by anecdotal 'evidence'.
> mankind 'solves' natural sciences eventually?

How do we know that exactly this happened, when it do happen?
Its not a classic free rider problem. Because the service does not degrade for the people who originally wrote the software. The original authors couldn't care less if somebody else under invests.
Tell HN: HN London Meetup
After an unexpected volume of interest in the first of a new series of Hacker News Meetups[1], we've re-organised[2] an event for the HN community in London.

If you're in the London area, feel free to come along and say hi!

Date: 17th of November

Time: 18:00 - 20:30

Location: Monzo HQ (5 Appold Street, London, EC2A 2AG)

RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/london-hacker-news-meetup/events/288728346/

Spaces: 100

Many thanks to @jtemplestein for hosting us at Monzo HQ.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32660447

[2] The original had to be rescheduled due to the venue cancelling after the passing of the Queen
Isn't GPT-3 a glorified autocompletion algorithm? Why would anyone want to start a business around it? I understand it's fun to play with it and NLP has come a long way from Eliza, but at the end of the day they aren't that different in the sense that it's not real AI and like Eliza GPT-3 has no understanding about the generated text. Using GPT-3 to provide one functionality of your product is one thing, create a business around it makes no sense IMO.
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I really like Coopers. It tastes great and is the only brand that isn't almost as expensive as regular beer. I'm resentful of how much profit there must since there isn't alcohol excise to pay.
If you hide pointers and destructively update variables, this happens easily. I'd say the Go problem is a bit worse because there are also exposed pointers via that '&' operator.

But the problem should have been known when the language was designed. In CommonLisp, i.e., quite a mighty but old language, it is the same: the capture is on a loop variable that is destructively updated:

(setf refs (loop for i in '(1 2 3) collect #'(lambda () i)))
-> (#<function) #<function> #<function>)

(mapcar #'(lambda (f) (funcall f)) refs)
-> (3 3 3)

The same done with a fresh function parameter works. And since this is the usual style in Lisp, I suppose the problem will not be that obvious like in Go:

(setf refs (mapcar #'(lambda (i) #'(lambda () i)) '(1 2 3)))
-> (#<function> #<function> #<function>)

(mapcar #'(lambda (f) (funcall f)) refs)
-> (1 2 3)
> every sysadmin can count on it being there.

Ah, this old chestnut.

I don't disagree with your overall point, but that audience is pretty small, and the number of people who text edit a lot that a) need to float between machines frequently AND b) don't have enough access to install what they want is even smaller.
No I'm comparing past Microsoft to present Microsoft. Backwards compatibility was a more impressive way to make money than... whatever it is Microsoft is doing these days.

The only reason I "upgraded" my Windows last time was exactly because Microsoft broke compatibility (some new app required the latest version of whatever library that wasn't backported).
Automating Terraform: Terrateam vs. GitHub Actions
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

You can start with your description and end with "I'd like to help, but I don't have the knowledge how to debug this further. I'm happy to provide more information if you can guide me."

The first thing you'll be pointed at is likely https://profiler.firefox.com/docs/#/./guide-getting-started so it may be a good idea to start with capturing the "idle" profile for a while and submitting that with your initial report. Check the "Share a profile" section.
I think some people use glucose monitors to monitor their insulin response.
I love this new quote I heard a few days ago:
"The slowest way to validade a feature is to build it"
Let alone over engineer it...
> So much confusion is caused by the inability to distinguish between "gift" and "loan".

What the difference between a gift and a loan that costs nothing?
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> So much confusion is caused by the inability to distinguish between "gift" and "loan".

QE4 was the better part of a trillion dollars. That much money moves through a system that is too complex and jargon filled for the layman to understand, and you want them to believe that there is nothing to see here?

1. The people on the other side of the bad loan, who aren't expected to pay back the money, are making bank by taking on silly levels of risk and then benefiting from the bailouts.

2. These loans aren't available to ordinary people or businesses because the terms would obviously put any individual far too far ahead. We can tell they are unfair just from that.

3. There isn't any reason to believe the loans are being paid back. Every time it looks like debts might get called in on aggregate, people claim financial crisis and there is another big round of lending.

> The problem with allowing banks to hard-fail is that imposes real, huge costs on customers even if the deposits are 100% covered

Yeah. People can't funnel their savings to incompetents and expect a good outcome. They should be very picky and reserved in deciding who to trust with their money, and there should not be coordinated giving of massive funds to a small pool of institutions who are regularly discovered to be wasting the resources they are entrusted with. This is one of the reasons we put up with the economy, it is supposed to keep power away from those sort of fools.

They need to be sent broke when they screw up badly. And people shouldn't be punished for saying "they're all untrustworthy, so I'm keeping money under my mattress".

> And prices going down exponentially is bad for investment, and precisely keeping prices the same forever is impossible

You've missed a bunch of options here though, namely the infinite number of functions that aren't exponential. Prices could be a random walk around an average, for example.

> Pension funds are more or less obliged to buy the safest assets they can?

I'm not following the story too closely, but the word I heard was the UK pension funds were getting margin called on their safe assets.
Yeah, North Korea survived with their nukes, Libya failed after Gaddafi gave up theirs.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/if-gaddafi-had-the-bomb_b_846...

A very good article.
I also stopped smoking using Carr's book. As I recall, for the first three days you were required to smoke three cigarettes in quick succession at a fixed time each day, followed by abstinence.

Well, it worked. Then I resumed smoking 6 months later.

"It's easy to quit smoking; I've done it scores of times".
That (Mac Studio) and the iMac are also qualifying another ARM desktop PC (as in personal computer).
Thank you! I do this kind of operation a lot and had no idea this new method existed in C++17.
I thought for sure it was going to be "How do I exit vim?"
It's the same in any western culture, and I assume every other culture that isn't going through food scarcity too. I only watch live TV when the football's on, and when you're not accustomed to it it's really overwhelming the sheer number of ads for food delivery apps.

Personally I had to vow to myself I would never use delivery apps again after I started using it almost daily, I just don't have the willpower to allow myself it every once in a while.
Then at most 3 people per product frontend would be enough?
But the real number is more like 300+, so I can see the parent's point.
Arguably if Go had done this years ago, go.mod would not have existed and this would have an even bigger impact.

Just like we'll rarely pick exactly the right behavior, we'll rarely pick exactly the right time to fix the broken behavior.
Running Windows 11 ARM in Parallels on my M1 MBP is a surprisingly smooth experience. Most x86 applications work well (both in terms of reliability and performance) using Microsoft's inbuilt emulation. I have not run any games or larger applications in the VM, but I suspect most Windows users could run on ARM and not notice the difference.
Badum tss
No more ironic than a stationery jet, a loud pair of earmuffs, or even more apt, a secure, locked down public key.
find a meeting and go there.
> We need to radically transform our economy. Critical infrastructure (electricity grids, power generation, gas grids, oil refineries and pipelines, telecommunication, rail, road and air transportation, airports, railway grids) must be nationalized

Are you going to do that without removing the influence of money over politicians? That'll create more problems, not less.

> As an intermediate, at least media regulation needs to step up and mandate fair, unbiased and truthful reporting and a clear, visible separation of commentary and entertainment.

That's fixing democracy, not capitalism (and I agree with that).
For me what worked was to try and understand why I was drinking. I used to drink (a lot) at night to help me fall asleep (pretty much black out).

Why was I having difficulties falling asleep? Work stress? Diet? Something else? I decided to change two of the simplest things and the ones I had direct control, it was time to go to a gym and start diet. So I just radically changed my lifestyle.

From one day to the other I stopped eating crap and became a lot more mindful of quantities I've been eating and started tracking my macros. Because of that I removed alcohol entirely from the equation as those empty calories didn't fit in my macros. I started going to the gym every morning before work, and been consistently going 6 days a week. Since I'm waking up earlier to go the gym, by the time its evening I'm a lot more tired and don't really need the help to fall asleep.

Been losing weight, gaining muscle, my sleep patterns have never been better. It's been 3 months since I started, and since then I've had 2 glasses of wine on my birthday, and 1 pint of beer when I met a friend I haven't seen in 5 years.

I still enjoy the act of drinking, I like that buzz feeling, I like the taste and the smell, it's all great. But I don't want to ruin the progress I've had since I started exercising and eating better. I've never been in a better physical shape in my life and I like that a lot more than I like drinking. Of course I'll still get drunk on NYE, but at least I won't get drunk the whatever remaining days till then we have.
Utilitarianistic approaches are really bad... Scientism falls flat on its face, since it's a self refuting philosophy(!).

It's truth cannot be demonstrated according to its own principles, (i.e. hard sciences are the best / superiour or even only source of genuine knowledge of the world). The truth of scientism is philosophical in nature and not the result of a scientific experiment.

We shouldn't adhere to untruth just because it "serves" our ends in some ways or another.*

By the way, how do you arrive at your value judgements of "good" and "bad", "serving" something vs. the opposite?
How do you determine "the benefits" in a relativistic worldview, most modern people, as well as you seem to adhere to (see "post truth world").

For whom was it "net beneficial"?

Doing science and producing results is not necessarily a result or proof of the philosophy the scientist adheres to. One could believe all sorts of things and get scientific results, so I don't see scientism as beneficial in any sense.

It is wrong as a theory and it undermines science itself in a major way.
Scientism undermines the presuppositions science philosophically rests on*and which cannot be proven by science itself.

Therefore if Scientism believes that you can only believe "truths" that are the result of scientific experiments and you have to rely on presuppositions that cannot categorically be proven by science itself, you cannot do science anymore.

Scientism is the enemy of science, logically speaking.

*
I still believe that "the Good" and "Truth" are directly entangled and necessary.

*
a) belief in an external world, independent of mind, languagy or theory,
b) the nature of the world is orderly, especially its "deep structure" that lies under and beyond the manifest world of ordinary perception
c) objective truth exists
d) our sensory and cognitive faculties are reliable for gaining truth and knowledge of the world, and tehy are able to grasp the world's deep structure that lies beyond the sense-perceptible world,
e) various types of values and "oughts" exist
f) the laws of logic and mathematics exist
Adaptability Quotient
The choice of compilers in the godbolt screenshots is odd. First, GCC is the default compiler for Linux and what most is compiled with. But using Clang would make sense if it was also used for the Windows side to Limit the differences to OS details instead of irrelevant compiler differences like Clang optimizing printf to puts while MSVC doesn't.

Also, why link to wine-mirror on GitHub instead of Wine's own gitlab instance?
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

What I see is 100% of marketologist's bullshit and 0% of STEM. I have seen so many articles like this in the last few years and what we get? Galaxy Note 7 reincarnation?
How one depends on another? To me it sounds these things are orthogonal.
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I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of IT professionals have experienced a similar journey: you start out as a young person with a liking for tech and computers specifically. You find out about programming and get your feet wet, and it's enough fun to keep you going. You learn more and the fun never stops, so you decide to pursue a career in the IT, perhaps as a software developer. Jump cut forward, you find yourself in a well-paid role in some company with a degree in your pocket, and you've learned so much on the way. But while your day job is tons more professional than what your first attempts at programming looked like back at home, there's also no denying that some of the fun of olde is gone as well. Was is just the magic of novelty you experienced back then? Was it that back home, you were always in full control? Or did something else go wrong? Does it have to be that way? Or are there any jobs that pay the bills but are as much fun as writing your first programs as a young person?
> I found keeping the drink log useful both for charting my progress

I found keeping a drink log helpful just for cutting down. I measured each drink with a measuring cup, and recorded the time and quantity. To my surprise, the act of maintaining a log naturally and painlessly reduced my consumption by 50% (a greater reduction was more of a struggle).
I saw a video like a month ago on YouTube where somebody pumped something like 250 liters of water on his roof (7 meters elevation, if I remember correctly) and let it run through a homebuild generator.

The power capacity of that setup was like that of an AA battery, if I remember correctly.

You need huge amounts of water and lots of height difference.
You don’t need to hodl. You can spend, invest, trade, all self custodially by just interacting with the chain.
It's not a dilution of value when the risk is deflation; and at zero-inflation, it's not a tax because it encourages growth by investment.

So it's only a "tax" if it (1) causes inflation to rise; and (2) rise above the level which promotes growth.

Neither of those conditions obviously obtains in the era of QE. Indeed, (1) never did.
I feel that the main issue with Jira is that it is a victim of its own success the same way Windows was, when it was built it fulfilled the needs of the time, however time did not stand still and instead of refining what they had, they kept on adding to it without changing its fundamentals.

I think we both agree that in the age of VSCode: it is unacceptable for 30+ billion dollar company to have such a sluggish web UI.

I'm an engineer and I actually feel that Jira fails me because it's not flexible enough, some examples include:
- issues cannot have more than one assignee
- projects cannot have multiple releasable items / components
- poor Bitbucket integration

> However, I wonder how many people are actually picking Jira based on its merits rather than it just being what they're accustomed/used to, or simply not knowing there are other options out there.

I pick it still because most people will understand how it works and I am able to customise it the most to fit everyone's needs more than all the other tools out there.
Worst possible conditions? Seriously? It’s the worst conditions that can possibly exist. Nothing could be worse than being in a prison in the United States?

On the labor issue I don’t see why prison populations shouldn’t get put to work on public works projects. It’s not a vacation, it’s jail.
GM is starting an energy storage subsidiary to take on the Tesla Powerwall
Reading the thread it seems people complain that the source code is not available, and that posting this (very nice) app using the "Rust" keyword might therefore be perceived as clickbait, as people would of course like to see how it's done in Rust. I tend to agree as I would like to learn more about the app (since I've done Rust development for mobile and am curious how e.g. you generate bindings etc.), but unfortunately that seems nowhere to be found.
You mean you don't collect data about yourself and your biological processes every second of every day to hyperoptimize your existence? What are you doing on HN?
> alcohol is harmful to a laundry list of biological processes

I was told that there's no organ in the body that it isn't harmful to.
A new scientific truth triumphs via the death of the ego attachments to the less precise truth. Sometimes that requires bodily death.
I think you are confusing calorie restriction with fasting.

You can be regularly fasting AND eating the same amount of calories on average. You just eat more between fasts. Fasting just means there is enough period between your meals for your body to get stressed a bit and to have to go into fasting mode.

The idea here is that the act of fasting alone promotes positive changes. A side effect is that most people, usually, are not able to make up all of the calories in a short time. Meaning if you eat only every other day, it actually is quite hard to eat two days of calories within one day.

For me fasting is much more bearable than "dieting". For me dieting just means I am hungry constantly while fasting means I just need to survive until the next meal when I will be able to eat as much as I want and feel satisfied.

Also fasting is sort of self-regulating. As long as I can keep to the fasting period and I am not criminally overeating outside of it, I can reap the benefits of weight loss as if I was on caloric restriction but without having to think about it or counting calories.

Neither caloric restriction nor fasting necessarily means wasting of your muscles. Though if you fast long enough or restrict your calories enough at some point it will become unavoidable.

I personally think it all depends on your cost/benefit. Fasting brings positive effects you can't emulate in any other way. But you don't need to be fasting constantly, I personally think you can get a lot of effects by fasting occasionally (like one day a week, for example).

And without getting too much into details, I think if you are absolutely unwilling to do fasting and would prefer caloric restriction there still are better ways to do it. It is better to reduce your calorie ingestion by reducing hunger relative to your output.

For example, jogging every day in the morning, eating whole fresh fruit and vegetables some time before your meals, will have effect of reducing your hunger and making you eat less without having to be constantly hungry.
Yeah we were using ARM desktops back in primary school with Risc OS. Its quite fascinating that they are coming back.
Strange to recommend Mankiw, and Modern Monetary Theory (a discredited, non-mainstream economic concept that Mankiw wrote against) in the same sentence.

MMT is practically pseudoscience, makes unclear claims, claims a foundation in mainstream economics but makes completely wild logical leaps when it comes to policy recommendations, and it's promoted by politicians more than real economists.
Yes but you'll only know how good it really is once you try it

At first glance some docs look good but when you go to use it, it's confusing/incomplete/outdated
Will this help? a keyboard that randomize the order of the digits everytime it is used

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/bsx4ww/t...