skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s even worse, you have epa officials who use to work for pesticide companies. It’s collusion.
> ... although these topics could still potentially be mentioned in the documentation.

They're not relevant to the wasm/js deliverables. They're an implementation detail of the server which happens to be serving the related documentation. If you have specific verbiage which you feel would improve the docs in this regard, please feel free to send it. i'm likely to miss most responses in HN, so please use email (stephan at sqlite dot org) or the sqlite forum: https://sqlite.org/forum.
Hedge fund traders are using D, for performance. I've even had a hedge fund trader come to me to teach them how to implement their own compiler, as they wanted to make it faster.

Remember the stories about traders trying to shave milliseconds off of their trading speed?
FarmVille Once Took over Facebook. Now Everything Is FarmVille (2020)
Interesting, I've made many programs without caring about memory management and they worked just fine.
Assembler then early NNets and then more NNets, I find careers at that time quite wilder than today. Kinda like the FORTRAN team using ad-hoc markov chains for register allocation (IIRC) just out of curiosity.
> as the check could be just patched out

You could still sign the result with the CPU ID key.

But, then, the result can be completely bogus. The benchmark itself would need to be something that can't be faked, but a proof-of-work benchmark would end up being a very synthetic one, and very biased towards a limited set of functions.
I sadly hadn't heard of her, and her Wikipedia page has no mention of any state awards such as an OBE or MBE (maybe she might have refused them) and she likely died in the window where there was no 100th birthday card from the Queen/King.
Please add (2015) to title?
We're not far: I spend most of my day pushing text streams around in a terminal. Vi(m) and Emacs are still two of the most popular editors.
Pay?
Those aren’t the only options.

My mom enforced clear consequences based on what I valued and she valued. Break rules, I lose computer time. Trespass on someone’s property, I write an apology letter and deliver it to them. Etc
That the field became male-dominated once computing became simultaneously expensive and highly profitable should be entirely unsurprising.
I can understand not wanting to create an email-password login, but imagine for a moment losing your Google account for any reason, and losing all your accounts associated with it.
The dinner is not necessarily buying support. It is buying access. The lobbyist can drown out my voice because I don't get the same access to my supposed representative. Welcome to a republic.

Do you have an idea to improve on this? Perhaps there could be 100 designated dinners per rep per year and up to four competing voices could be at the table. We could vote for the candidate who has a 100 dinner topics list that we like the best.
I can sell you one out of my desk drawer for half that :-)

The interesting thing is that they do what they do well, "boot" instantly, and can be carried in the pocket. When a company I was with was being acquired pretty much every one of the auditors had one of these in their pocket. They knew exactly what sequence of presses would answer the question they needed answer.
yikes! your healthcare is more important than the politics of funding; let's be very clear that my comment is about overall funding, not specific people and cases. Good wishes to you and yours
When I ran the numbers for a nuclear powered engine for launching the space shuttle, the shielding ended up massing about the same as the fuel in the actual space shuttle.

A car engine is less powerful than a spaceship, but radiation is your enemy. It's not just "Oh we need some shielding, slap some lead around it!" kind of enemy, it's "if your body absorbs ten joules per kilogram of body weight, then you die, it take a few days, and it hurts the whole time. Your modern car engine produces around fifteen thousand joules per second (and that's when it's cruising, multiply that by ten if you're accelerating as hard as you can). If you are in a crash and the shielding is breached, you die and so does everyone else nearby." - https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/69576/prac...

The thickness of shielding needed to turn that radiation into safe heat is a bit challenging to calculate, but can be approximated with the mean free path, which for gamma rays at this per-photon energy level is in the order of 1cm. You need to reduce it by 1000 to not die immediately, a million to survive going to the shops once, a billion to regularly commute, and probably quite a lot more before regulators are happy. As it's an exponential, those correspond to (10, 20, 30) centimetres, all multiplied by some fudge factor because I'm handwaving a lot by saying the mean free path is 1 cm without giving a lot more specifics.

30 centimetre thick shell surrounding a 1 meter cube has a volume of about 3 cubic meters, massing much more than your car regardless of what you make it from. If you made it from lead, it would mass 34 tons.

Unfortunately, the radiation shielding also has to cope with neutron radiation, and the best materials for neutrons are the light elements while the best for gamma is the heavy elements; and even more annoyingly, absorbing neutron radiation causes the emission of gamma radiation.

This is also why we won't get a Mr. Fusion powered electric DeLorean even if someone figures out One Weird Trick That Makes Farnsworth Fusors Useful: fusion reactors are even worse than fusion for the instantaneous radiation output per unit energy, the advantage in this regard is (IIRC) that the radioactive waste from fusion is easier to deal with than the waste from fission.
> You argue that the number of stop signs in your neighborhood isn’t enough and causes danger.

It's fine for normal people to lobby their representative. But if you're a billionaire telling your representative to close the roads near your house because you don't like normal people driving by, and anyway you travel by helicopter, and you donate millions every year to your representative's campaign so they'd better listen to you - then you're using money to increase your influence beyond "one man, one vote" and that's basically bribery.
>> the answer is 'lobbying'. That is, the free, democratic, and fully legal, bribery of government

Sure, it's legal, but how is it democratic?
My own interpretation: this person said something negative about me. I now like them less and don’t want to spend time with them. That is not okay, because I’m keeping score (remembering their past actions and using it to decide future outcomes) and I’m preferring not to spend time with them.

Combined with the other comments, you’re also not allowed to change your own behavior based on what other people say (sticks and stones, outsider).

Sounds like a coping mechanism for dealing with trauma from a family member. Your parent is horrible to you, but you want a parent to love and be loved by, so you decide keeping score is immoral. You also don’t want to feel responsible and lessen the impact, so you decide words don’t hurt.

It’s horrible advice for a kid. You won’t mold yourself to fit into the group (also called socialization, totally normal and healthy) and you won’t cut ties with people that are awful to you. Maybe you’ll be lucky enough to find another kid who accepts you. Much more likely a bully will latch on.
The whole idea of limits of growth is just bullshit. It would require a limit not only to population and resources, but also hard limits (that happen to all occur in the 2020s) to innovation, marketing, creative industries, social and demographic change, efficiency increase, changes in management and government action.

The only way to stop economic growth is to stop all change at every level in society, including all individuals' preferences and fashions.
Well, you still have to define them inside of another class then and have to find one that makes sense. They also have an reference to the outer class which might not be desirable.

That being said, it maybe makes it slightly better, but I hope you agree that this is still very much a supoptimal solution and probably comes from a time where searching filenames was the best way to navigate code in the lack of modern IDEs.
I owe probably 50% or more of what I've learned about crypto and TLS to Thomas Pornin. He's extremely bright, used to be(and may still be) super active on SE, and one of the few people who both understands it well enough to speak in specifics, but does so freely. I'd absolutely trust anything he writes.
So it’s a valid defense to say complying with the law is hard, that’s why I didn’t?

Shouldn’t the right course be to change the law before taking such actions?
Maybe because it's largely populated by people trained in CS, which in turn is rooted in the fairly male-dominated field of math.
>A joke about trans people may or may not be transphobia.

That is good. A lot of people don't agree.

>who is telling the joke,

Not true.

>whi is the punchline, etc.

Maybe. The problem is the inconsistent standards on that. Punch lines that are anti white or anti male aren't considered sexists or racist, but anti trans ones are.

We need a consistent standard and we don't have it.

>But this case was not that. This case was specifically targeting a specific individual and making fun of them being trans. That's absolutely transphobia.

That was not the case. They were parodying the newspaper or magazine that said Levine was the woman of the year.
We are at the stage we are starting to explore the possibilities of using analog components, so my guess would be there is a lot of road to cover.

Plus, there are a couple different lines of research for new materials as well, so any one of those can yield something interesting.
I mean, it seems like you can disable this under chrome:flags and looking for the Side Search experiment, which seems pretty "easy to disable". I think the argument, though, was that having to whack-a-mole things in the first place is annoying because it implies a broken incentive on behalf of the developers and Firefox doesn't seem like they are trying to be different here: they are just trying to not be Google... which is like, cool and all? but I want a bold alternative that isn't even playing by the same rules as Google, and that's not Firefox.
How big was the team and what type of project?
And what amount of level of detail did you put in the planning/roadmap?
Did you also had experiments and investigations taken into account?
Wavacity offers a full-blown (free) auto editor that works on smartphones
I had reached maximum characters, which is also why a space is missing
Ridiculous. So much of law enforcement and forensic "science" is just pretext or pseudoscientific supportive structure for good old gut feelings.
Isn't medicine expensive, highly profitable and significantly female-dominated these days?
Stackfulness and the possibility of stack underflows are not actually constrained in any significant manner by whether or not a language uses prefix or postfix notation, and it would be more-or-less trivial to reject arity mismatches in a postfix language as well.

The one real advantage that prefix notation has is that it is familiar, since it is so widespread in mathematical notation. Though that particular advantage would optimize the experience of using a language for people new to programming or that particular language, whereas it might realistically make more sense to optimize for the experience of people already familiar with a language, since those will constitute the vast majority of development time in any serious language, and I would argue that postfix notation has an advantage there in most domains.
ffmpeg is such a great tool, it’s complex but because video stuff is complex. Shoutout to llogan and gyan in StackOverflow, I don’t think I could’ve done a few things without their help.
I love writing my ideas down. I also work on software to implement my ideas.

I do all my writing in the open, on GitHub and links are on my profile.
I use markdown to write my idea journal. I create a heading for each idea.

If you don't write ideas down, you won't have better ideas that the ideas you did have reveal. We know that many companies pivot or end up doing something they didn't originally intend to. The same is true for ideas. The more you do something the better you get at it.

I am at 725+ computer ideas I enjoy writing about. I'm not the first for them but I enjoyed thinking of them (I didn't read about them elsewhere). I write about Parallelism, multithreaded, software design, software architecture, programming language design, futuristic things software should do.

Ideas are where mathematics, science and theology come from. Someone heard or thought of an idea they like and wrote it down. You benefit from ideas and education everyday. Don't say they're worthless.
If anyone comes and tries to sell you stuff using a chart that looks like that, better show them the door immediately. That thing seems optimized to cause upper management hypnosis by its expertly designed cavalcade of hollow bullshit terminology.
First of all, I love this. ffmpeg is the closest to magic, with the arguments the closest to Harry Potter-type spells, I've ever seen.

Second... I swear it makes me want something like this for shell commands in general. The amount of time I've wasted trying to fix nightmare quoting and spacing issues when passing arguments (containing spaces) that get to a command that will run ssh to run a command remotely that needs those original arguments...

I swear if there were a visual command-line builder that guaranteed quotes and spaces and variables were always printed and escaped correctly, together with a visual reminder of what the -akxlIEJC flags all mean... in other words, I want this but for way more than just ffmpeg! :)
We could be using the influence trade gives us to pressure them to change.. I mean your argument doesn't solve anything more than sticking our collective fingers in our ears and humming loudly.

Though honestly, in areas of free speech my country seems to treat Saudi Arabia as a fecking role model.
> And if you're making a big financial decision like whether you can afford a bigger house, I sure hope you're treating them the same.

On the contrary, I would suggest most people ignore their equity such as stock when considering whether or not they can afford a mortgage for the very reason of this thread title.

> And at the end of the day even the nominal value of cash isn't what matters -- it's the real value.

I prefer to use the term “purchasing power” rather than “real value”, but I agree with this.

>Inflation and even currency fluctuation change the real value of what your cash can purchase daily, so the value of your cash is changing too.

Correct, which is why buy equity such as stock or broad market ETF. I think the purchasing power of the equity will be higher than cash sufficiently far into the future.

But I do not see the point of worrying about decreases in equity prices in the near future long before I plan on selling. I guess there is no right or wrong, but I feel like worrying about short term changes in price is how people actually lose money by selling low and bugging high, rather than just buying and holding.
One of the most amazing things to me, and my fascination with computers, was that you could actually talk to the people that invented them, unlike steam engines, or cars, where the original inventors are long gone.
Yeah that's one of my pet peeves with lean-startup type stuff. It's great for consumer products that aren't too different from what people are used to but not that useful for work that requires a lot of R&D (since there what you end up with often depends on constraints you learn about during the R&D process).

Look at a technology that has had a massive impact on the world: fracking. People pursued that for many years with limited results before they were able to do it successfully/economically.
As a gold standard for cybersecurity in the United States and the foundation for many new standards and regulations starting to emerge today, the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework is more crucial than ever.
Where are the terawatts of batreries coming from? It will be decades before we have the manufacturing capacity to make that many batteries, assuming we have the natural resources to make that possible.

Batteries are reasonably priced per unit, but they do not scale reasonably. Batteries will not provide grid scale storage in our lifetime, IMO.

I think the concept of grid scale storage is misguided Fission (and hopefully fusion) can provide base load at all times, with as much wind & solar as needed to provide for variable load.
https://archive.ph/3nCDv

https://web.archive.org/web/20220203082600/https://www.nytim...
You detect the deadlocks when they happen and abort
Reading between the lines is a whole different thing.

"Theory of mind" means, among other things, having a good mental model of what other people know and don't know.

Obviously, without understanding what piece of information the other person is missing, it's very hard to explain it to them.
I'm a total layman when it comes to biology. Chemical engineer by training, never got into the biotechnology side though.
The fact I realized I was finding excuses to myself all the time to watch videos late at night, not counting calories or doing sport every because it 'would be hard'. Turned out it was not THAT hard once I decided it wasn't somehow and the past 6 weeks have been great.

I know that sounds weird but first basically the guy has a way of talking that's just .. 'motivating'. Secondly it feels like he's with you when he says stuff like "of course it's hard, ITS SUPPOSED TO BE !" and also reading the testimonials of his university on the net where it looks like a bunch of young guys just followed the advice and went kickboxing everyday felt ... relatable so It stung me in my pride to not do it since I see myself as quite ambitious ^^. Wouldn't see myself paying for his stuff though (yet?).

For your case you'd need to tell more in what you are feeling overwhelmed. It could be all in your head or it could also be dealing with breakup, death of a relative and/or shitty wage and rent increase in the US at the same time for what I know ^^.

Maybe just watch a few motiational videos (and also this long one which is super funny if you can take a step back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4isrrclZu0). Also one book I'm reading recently that is really nice is "atomic habits" (and also 'rich dad poor dad').

If you have troubles getting girls I also have other materials but I'd def get banned if I post it here so give me a mail adress to send it
This is why I don't understand the opposition to stiff carbon taxes...

Let's do both!
> “obeying the law would not scale”

I’d love to see them trying that one out in an EU courtroom
> but it does it by adding complexity rather than by simplifying.

That's true - it simplifies a lot of other things alongside the ISA, but it's also apparent that, while it can do a lot of tasks faster than, say, a Z-80, the ISA forces one to take some creative approaches.

Literal ports of Z-80 code to the 6502 usually sucked.
And how could I forget BpA? Known toxic chemical and in all receipts from thermal printers, which readily enters the bloodstream. Luckily they removed it from PC water bottles and can linings, except replaced with... BpS! Obviously a completely safe chemical, though no testing had been done.
You're right, I should have left that out. I do hope that it didn't dissuade you from considering the message.
It really is not. Just Edwards AFB by itself could power the entire state all year long if it was replaced by solar panels and batteries.
Thank you for sharing Andreas! It's absolutely phenomenal how far along SerenityOS has come and it's also a peek at how FOSS is supposed to be - a way to learn, hack on something fun, share it with others but without any huge expectations.

Building the next unicorn is awesome and all but in my opinion, this has it's own place. I am glad some people out there get to work on their dream projects and actually can make a living out it. Kudos to all the supporters, obviously.

I also love how focused SerenityOS is and what kind of audience it caters to. Some people might say, "make it for everyone" but that doesn't work most of the time. Having a focused audience allows a lot of freedom in the way of UX/DX, docs, communication etc. So I am glad Andreas set that down upfront.
Lobbying is an essential part of most democracies - how would you’re representatives know how to represent you if you weren’t allowed to tell them?
1. these days
2. nursing may be female-dominated, but the gender ratio of doctors (for whom the industry is significantly more profitable) is still heavily skewed towards men, is it not?
* Breadwinning is associated with the male gender role, so men face more social pressures to be breadwinners than women do. (The proportion of men who e.g. stay at home to parent is much smaller than women, and it's likely fewer women are willing to date a man with that goal, compared to the number of men willing to date a woman with that goal.)

* Once IT became a big industry with lots of good paying jobs, it became extremely attractive to breadwinners.
If you look at the revenue cloud service providers get, and that revenue is based on CPU time used, 1% is a huge amount of money.

It's like weight on an airplane. Boeing told me back in 1980 that saving one pound was worth a quarter million dollars of investment. That'd be like a million bucks today.
None of those are necessarily right wing views.

Many average liberals agree with all of those. I consider liberals to be leftists, I know there is contention on that label though.

I hold a more strict view than most people on what is right wing which may be causing my different view. I consider all liberals including classical liberals to be left wing.

I would mention that "San Francisco pro-nudist activist Gypsy" isn't exactly a very right wing sort of position.

He was also a hemp jewelry maker.

At best he was in the center in common American parlance.
This isn't about that

and securities fraud statutes already have personal liability
All those 1%'s add up.
Indeed. Saying: “Obeying the law doesn’t scale.” is an admission of guilt with pre-meditated intent to break the law. I keep hoping the courts will drive that point home at some point.
According to the supreme court (https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/16/politics/supreme-court-campai...), it is legal to make personal donations to your campaign and then have the campaign pay you back with post election fundraising. What is to stop a candidate from colluding with a bank? Let's say a banker offers the candidate a 1MM loan with 0.5% apr. The candidate receives that money and makes a 1MM loan to their campaign at 10% apr. Now the candidate potentially has a ~100K/year annual revenue stream coming from the repayment of their loan. All they need to do is rile up their supporters about whatever hot button issue is most salient with their constituents to keep the post election donations coming in. This is particularly scary when it comes to house elections since given the short terms, house members are pretty much always in election fundraising mode.

Now, perhaps the scheme I just outlined is a bit too obvious, but I certainly don't doubt that far more sophisticated money laundering schemes that leverage the recent supreme court decision are happening now and will happen in the future.
> Vi(m) and Emacs are still two of the most popular editors

They are the two I use most frequently, but I don't think they are popular outside our niche.

It kills me to see programmers on Windows using Notepad++.
I mean words only hurt if you let them in so that’s why we think of things this way.

It sucks to be in a relationship with someone who can’t forgive or forget. Mean vindictive people who will twist words and who are suppose to love you unconditionally.