skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel the same about Hillary. She shared a conspiracy theory this last week that Paul Pelosi's attacker was a right-wing extremist.

It was found later that the alleged "blog" David created wasn't created long ago and was taken down pretty swiftly after the attack, showing that this was created as a prop for a political stunt before midterms.

The residence for the attacker, David, was found to be a hippie commune with a gay pride marijuana flag in their front yard. Does anyone really think this guy was a far righty? Give me a break.
I don't disagree with anything you said. I also think that wikipedia should adopt a much less cringey fundraising style.

However...

I feel like wikipedia tends to attract a highly disproportionate amount of criticism, especially about fundraising, budget inflation and editing/deletionism. In one sense, this is a good thing. Criticism and scrutiny keep organisations honest.

In another sense, there's a nihilism to it. Wikipedia is perhaps 100X more resource efficient than a Facebook. It's far more respectful of its users than any bigtech. It embodies otherwise naive ideals of the early web. It has performed way better than commercial peers in the face of the decade's misinformation and political fact wars... including journalistic ones. It keeps its nose much cleaner than big nonprofits like the Red Cross. All freely available to everyone, highly accessible, supported by optional donations. Wikimedia is a beacon.

FOSS has been tamed. The rivers of the WWW have been dammed. "Don't be evil" got fired. It feels like Wikipedia is subjected to a bigotry of higher expectations specifically because it doesn't suck. There's a crabs-in-a-bucket feel to it that disturbs me.
Agreed, the Wii U tablet controller was a proof of concept for the same form factor that would become the extremely successful Switch.
There's a cogent argument which would claim that proliferation of the Christchurch shooter's footage would serve as a specific causal factor for future mass shootings, especially because part of the motivation of that shooting was exactly the proliferation of that manifesto. In that sense it's almost a memetic threat because any proliferation of the video locks in the reward structure for future copycats. In terms of discourse about what should/shouldn't be generally exposed to people with only a passing interest (external to any discussion about how that moral imperative aught to be enforced), the Christchurch footage would be pretty close to the top of my blacklist.

Moreover - I'm pretty sure anyone with a modicum of net-literacy could find that video with relative ease if they really wanted to. It's clearly not a binary of proliferation and censorship, but a complex gradient where different mediums of curation have different thresholds for that kind of exposure.
OK, let's take a different tack here. Define an amount of money sufficient to buy 5 iPhones, pay for the time/effort to run the test, and leave some profit on top. You and I each put up that amount of money and we test 5 stock iPhones against 5 iPhones with the glue/gaskets removed in some water intrusion tests in a swimming pool and then disassemble them to inspect.

If the glue isn't effective (your premise), I'd expect the phones to behave broadly similarly and you win the bet.

If the glue is effective, I'd expect the 5 no-glue phones to experience more water intrusion and I win the bet.

How about $50K each, plus $5K each for phones, plus $5K each on top to be donated to the FSF? If there is no difference (or if the no-gasket phones outperform), you keep all 10 phones, my $50K, and are out $5K for phones and $5K to FSF. If the glued phones outperform, I keep the 10 phones, your $50K, and am out $5K for phones and $5K to FSF. Either way, the FSF gets $10K. (If you dislike the FSF, pick another remotely reasonable charity and if you win, both of us donate $5K to that charity.)

I'm sure we can find some tech YouTuber to help us film and broadcast the outcome publicly.

You in?
They have been independent for over 200 years. And who is left to be racist? The country is pretty much all black.
It's not just games that are played in off-TV mode, any game that supports the Wii U Pro controller needs to have a single screen option.
The implementation is open source and not owned by a for-profit company that could decide to kill it off in the future.

This is a good thing, because it means that we don't have to worry about a program running on one implementation vs another.

Also, one of the things that Perl is great for (unlike many other scripting languages) is backwards compatibility. A program written in the 1990s for Perl 5.004 will probably run with minimal modifications on Perl v5.36.
The site in question has regularly been used as a place to coordinate doxxing and serious harassment. AFAIK no measures have been taken by the owners to remedy this, and thus they've forfeited their rights to run a website.
`du -h` of a project that did nothing but use clap was 380 megabytes or there abouts.

EDIT: A blank "cargo new" project plus a clap dependency weighs 143 megabytes, not 400. Maybe the 400 megabyte project had another dependency as well, I can't remember. I've edited the comment to say 140 instead of 400.

$ cargo build
Updating crates.io index
Downloaded clap v3.2.23
Downloaded textwrap v0.16.0
Downloaded proc-macro2 v1.0.47
Downloaded clap_lex v0.2.4
Downloaded hashbrown v0.12.3
Downloaded clap_derive v3.2.18
Downloaded once_cell v1.16.0
Downloaded libc v0.2.137
Downloaded os_str_bytes v6.3.1
Downloaded unicode-ident v1.0.5
Downloaded syn v1.0.103
Downloaded 11 crates (1.4 MB) in 3.71s
Compiling proc-macro2 v1.0.47
Compiling version_check v0.9.4
Compiling unicode-ident v1.0.5
Compiling quote v1.0.21
Compiling syn v1.0.103
Compiling autocfg v1.1.0
Compiling libc v0.2.137
Compiling os_str_bytes v6.3.1
Compiling heck v0.4.0
Compiling hashbrown v0.12.3
Compiling textwrap v0.16.0
Compiling strsim v0.10.0
Compiling termcolor v1.1.3
Compiling once_cell v1.16.0
Compiling bitflags v1.3.2
Compiling clap_lex v0.2.4
Compiling proc-macro-error-attr v1.0.4
Compiling proc-macro-error v1.0.4
Compiling indexmap v1.9.1
Compiling atty v0.2.14
Compiling clap_derive v3.2.18
Compiling clap v3.2.23
Compiling clapdemo v0.1.0 (/home/jes/clapdemo)
Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 36.61s
$ du -h | tail -n1
143M
23 bytes is a 'long' program, my shortest is 17 bytes:

mov eax, $c08e0040

Beat that!
Hint: If your software ships Chrome its optimization is overdue, not premature. Looking at you, Electron apps.
Different sensors are even worse for sensor fusion. Actually, it only applies to different sensors, incorporating different signals with different strengths and weaknesses into a model that is actually better and not worse, is difficult.
TSMC plans 1-nm-Chips for 2027
Is this real person also named Drew?
I started a new project in Perl, which I've commented on before a couple of times in response to a similar question.

One of the main reasons I chose Perl is it's commitment to not introducing breaking changes.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31261071
Ah. I might tend to agree about the term, but when discussing a new right to repair law with my father, he said he thought it was not a good law to pass. I asked him if he knew what it was and he thought it was just giving customers the right to fix their devices. I told him about how it really meant providing diagnostic tools, manuals, selling replacement parts, stopping planned obsolescence, etc (aka no more roadblocks by manufacturers) and he immediately changed his whole view on right to repair. So it seems the name might be an obstacle to understanding it.
The paradox of tolerance has nothing to do with the idea that we should protect all or we'll find ourselves unable to protect any.

I can be intolerant of murder while also protecting a murderers right not to be murdered.
Never read a better summary before -

> These domains are strongly associated with fraudulent activities and high-risk investments which take advantage of people who are suffering from economic hardship and growing global wealth inequality. Few to no legitimate use-cases for this technology have been found; instead it is mostly used for fraudulent “get rich quick” schemes and to facilitate criminal activity, such as ransomware, illicit trade, and sanctions evasion. These projects often encourage large-scale energy waste and electronics waste, which contributes to the declining health of Earth’s environment. The presence of these projects on SourceHut exposes new victims to these scams and is harmful to the reputation of SourceHut and its community.

I'm going to send this to everyone who I know is involved in crypto/blockchain.
Why? One of the production goals of software is to minimize inventory time. Software that is written and not shipped incurs capex without revenue, unlike tech debt - I can put an explicit number on this cost. Similarly, software that goes unshipped also does not get customer feedback. It may be worthless.

There’s a balance here - but it’s not at all obvious what the balance should be in every business.
LIDAR can be safer than an optical system, I can believe that. LIDAR and an optical system being safer than either alone without a lot of extra complexity: maybe not.
I don’t understand what energy’s fungibility has to do with anything I’ve said. Most economic uses of energy involve exchanging it for productive capacity or consumer demand. Bitcoin definitely is an economic use of energy, just not a good or desirable one.

I don’t think the directly comparable elements of the financial system (i.e., storage and settlement) use anywhere near as much power as Bitcoin does. Unless you’re doing that thing where you’re comparing the entire traditional economy to Bitcoin, which is silly: the traditional economy has actually valuable outflows, and Bitcoin does not replace factories and their workers.
Yeah, wish people would apply that to their process. Perhaps going straight for Electron is a premature optimization of the development process.
It wouldn't be much like today's internet. Bandwidth on fiber is enormous compared to bandwidth using dish antennas.
Cuz Muskdaddy wanted mo money. There, mystery solved.
An Opinionated Guide to Sauna
>The texts include messages from Joe Rogan and Jack Dorsey, but also from Sam Bankman-Fried and one of his advisers, who told Musk the FTX founder could put up as much as $15 billion to be part of the Twitter deal.

>Alas, Musk only replied with cursory responses, including, “So long as I don’t have to have a laborious blockchain debate,”

That made me laugh.
No, Wikipedia is a cancer.

https://www.edge.org/conversation/jaron_lanier-digital-maois...
I would argue that the opposite is true, because memory is fungible and files are not.

c.f.) Java, where the GC can handle memory, but it didn’t work out so well for files, so, to restore correctness, we needed the Closeable and AutoCloseable interfaces to give manual control back to the programmers.
Apple is not the lender with Apple (credit) Card.
Is there a reason why many of these left/right progressive/reactionary votes are so close to 50:50? This election, the US presidential election, the Brexit vote. It seems really peculiar.

Possible reasons I could think about:

* People get angry on some kind of 1-1 basis. If there's a certain amount of anger on one side that generates a reaction on the other side, which generates a reaction on the first side and so on.

* We're at a time in history where views are changing and we just happen to be in a period at a 50:50 cross-over.

* Selection bias: We only pay attention to close run-offs and ignore the normal ones.
This reminds me of The Burning Man Organization.

“Non-profits” in general are very poorly understood and seem to slip under the radar of accountability at the governmental and board levels.

501c3 has the household name, “non-profit.” It is a case study of an extraordinarily well-branded idea and how that shapes perception.

My experience with these types of organizations and their governance puts me in a default defensive default posture. Too many have found out ways to exploit the capabilities.

At least with a regular corporate entity, there is no mistake the company is out to reward its ownership.
Fundamentally what you want to look at:

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-debt-t...

The US government has been spending unusually high since 2020. It doesn't matter why.

When the private market no longer wants to buy the US government's debt: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/central-bank-bala...

It shows up as imbalance on the central bank's BALANCE sheet. In 2009, they broke(you could call this bankruptcy but no such mechanism exists for the central bank). It was primarily the collapse of fannie and freddie. For 10 years they never managed to find balance but at least in around 2015 to 2019 they stopped rising and were dropping.

The problem in 2019-2020 is this imbalance got way out of wack. More than doubling but it's worse, there's a counter balance to this imbalance. They are listing 'assets' of very low interest rate bonds. These aren't assets, these are liabilities. If they had recovered from 2009 and then 2020 happened, then perhaps we can argue they are assets but it's not true. Hence this article where they are fueling losses. These assets are becoming liabilities is the loss.

Yes, for about half a year they have been clawing it back. Inflation is out of control and only by reducing money supply are they finding any control over inflation. Overall this is great news but it will have quite a profound negative effect on the economy. More importantly, it means retirees are headed back to work.
Honest question: what is Raku?
Those are valid points. My point is that the percentage of ant colonies that we have interacted with is very close to zero.
I think they’re talking about number of different systems doing the same thing. Have one system doing it that is sufficiently abstracted away from a common set of hardware vs various systems competing for various aspects of control.
I think that was an interesting read. I have worked on an userspace implementation of TCP via DPDK so I have sympathy for the limitations mentioned (the load balancing and thread scheduling argument are very accurate).

However I would have liked a section dedicated as to why hardware accelerated UDP wouldn’t be an adequate solution vs a whole new protocol. It seems to me it provides a solid basis for achieving the results the author wants to bring about?
“Systems that are designed without any thought of performance rarely perform well, even with an extensive optimization phase at the end of the software development cycle.”

I’d go further, if performance is not part of your initial requirements you’ll never get it.

Performant systems come from architecture and data modeling. Heck in the modern era data load patterns Trump algorithmic efficiency even. Those things are very challenging to back into a codebase.
Not at all. Nintendo has been making experimental toys since before anyone here was alive. They've been making experimental electronic toys for as long as there have been electronic toys.
It’s typically a role where you code internal software supporting a research group you’re a part of. Usually pays a small fraction of what commercial devs make, unfortunately.
Default gruvbox light's background is a bit too dark, but light+hard has been my goto for the last 6 years or so.
> The USA lost almost 2 million manufacturing jobs in the 1980s.

That's misleading. Via FRED, manufacturing employment in the USA had a long peak lasting from roughly 1970 to about 1990. The largest peak-to-trough drop was in fact about 3 million, from mid-1979 to early 1983, but that had more to do with the Volker recession than any change in corporate culture. Manufacturing employment rebounded (partially) from the post-recession low, remaining steady until about 2000.

The sea change in employment came after 2000, plausibly due to opening trade relations with China. However, at the same time manufacturing production did not decrease much if any. For example, production of durable consumer goods (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IPDCONGD) increased from 1982 to 2005 or so.

That being said, "steady manufacturing employment" does mean that manufacturing employment as a share of all employment fell, thanks to growth in the labour force. That by itself can explain some of the qualitative observations re: the rust belt and such.
Honestly just buy an older laptop on eBay. Depending on how slow you want, they’re very cheap.
This seems like a likely outcome imo
Not sure how I feel about this article... there are some valid points, but also some half-truths, where the answer is more "it depends" than yes or no.

The feeling I get is that the article tries to make a long list of all possible causes, which dilutes the main reasons why premature optimisation or even optimisation is skipped. It also doesn't try to see the issue from the other side and inform the reader when optimisation is premature and doesn't need to be considered, which makes its argument very one-sided.

One additional point that I think might be missing from this list imo, is the shifting functionality requirements given to the developers which make it less certain that a specific piece of code will be the foundation on which you will build the rest of the logic or whether it will be a leaf-level logic that will be used very infrequently but this comes with other caveats regarding refactoring, etc.
fwiw, part of their schtick was newsletters and that you, effectively, never had to open their app. Seems like they designed for one and not the other. That said, during launch day they took a lot of feedback from here so they might hear you if you reach out.
"Companies own or manage 75% of U.S. detention facilities. Two of the biggest companies, CoreCivic and The GEO Group, are publicly traded. In the correctional system, however, less than 10% of state and federal inmates are in the care of private prisons."

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/02/why-private-prisons-geo-grou...

Well, it seems I need to brush up on some reading then.
They really only want links with original titles here regardless though. Just let it crop it.
The Language Formerly Known As Perl6 - see https://raku.org/
Well in star wars case, the executives are to take the blame.

They planned a trilogy without writing it? They just shot ⅓ of a trilogy with no plan whatsoever of what should happen next?
> Socialist are left-wing ideologue. And their name has socialist in it. Ergo they are left-wing.

I'm sorry, but that is among the most braindead takes I've ever seen on HN.
Exactly, if we're discussing evolution why does that discussion become non-intellectual and unworthy when including the obvious endgame of evolution?
Starting to wonder how much the global takeoff of the Internet and specifically the WWW was due to the "end of history" period from 1989-2001, when there wasn't significant conflict between major powers. I suspect the spillover from this will be increasing Balkanisation of the Internet simply in order to limit the extent to which it's a cyberwarfare or propaganda battlefield.
> I don't understand these kinds proposals because it won't actually do anything, every manufacturer will just switch their marketing copy to phone as a service or tv as a service and the world continues on no better than before.

I'm not so sure. People like to own the stuff they paid for.

> the oem is just allowed to make it hard

This is exactly the point which the suggested law addresses.

When you buy a product and the vendor disappears from the face of the Earth (whether after 10 years or 10 days), you should still be able to use the product as advertised.

> we really don't like laws that make companies take positive actions.

What do you mean by positive actions?
It sounds like donation-laundering to me.

"People won't donate to unpopular Cause X, so we'll pretend Wikipedia is running out of money which is a more popular cause and pass on the donations."
So you'd suggest they gave money to, for example, Media Foundation for West Africa: The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) is a non-governmental organization dedicated to protecting and defending the right to freedom of expression, particularly for media and human rights defenders, throughout the 16 countries in West Africa

or

Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (US$250,000): The Arab Reporters in Journalism (ARIJ) is a nonprofit investigative journalism organization based in Jordan?
1 nm... Isn't a silicon atom like 0.2nm? Is 1nm the potential peak of silicon based semiconductor technology?
I don't know about ARIN, but I got an PI assignment from RIPE for my home lab without issues.
Nothing the GP has said requires a stance on the fungible nature of energy. Where are you getting that from?
That's... exactly the argument that I'm responding to in my original comment. My argument is there are billions of CMYKs to encode thousands of Pantones with. Just do the reverse mapping if you know it's supposed to be a Pantone color.
Yes, the current delta was not massive and will shrink over time.

By getting rid of the extra sensors they eliminate a temporary crutch and focus resources on the simple solution.

Not a new concept by the way. Henry Ford was obsessed with simplifying and eliminating every part that wasn’t necessary on the model T for virtually all the same reasons.
Yeah the fact that the large transfer to Tides happened at the same time that the Tides CEO became General Counsel for Wikimedia seems pretty gross (and I say this as someone that in general would agree with Tides' mission otherwise)

To quote the page this HN submission links to:
"Concerns expressed then focused on the secrecy of the grant, the break with the participatory grantmaking principles the Foundation had until then embraced, and the fact that the transfer coincided with Amanda Keton's move in the 2019–2020 financial year from General Counsel of the Tides Network and CEO of Tides Advocacy to General Counsel of the Wikimedia Foundation"
I'm not pushing an agenda. This is basic math.
Alpine on bare metal is amazing. I love it.
The Line (Scott Galloway)
Shameless plug about our note-taking and flashcards app Notefuel that is built on this idea: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/notefuel-notes-flashcards/id14...

Uses GPT-3 to generates question, fill-in-the-blanks, multiple choice and couples it with spaced repetition.
These days when perl enthusiasts say things like 'its terse' and 'there's more than one way to do it' and 'you can find a quick and short way to do interesting things' the reaction is more of faint nausea than anything else. Probably not what they were going for.
The block column is of type TEXT which should be fastest for LIKE '1%'
A monetary unit that can't be debased running on an open, permissionless financial network anybody can use is the use-case. The big and only use case. Research suggests less than 1% of "crypto" usage is for criminal activity. Energy isn't fungible and it isn't wasted if it's securing hundreds of billions of value for hundreds of millions of people.

So maybe you shouldn't send something to everyone you know if it isn't true.
It's not that the water "blew away" in the solar wind, it's that the atmosphere did, taking the water vapor in the atmosphere with it. This is a very gradual process, which would happen on Earth too, if not for the magnetic field.

I don't know that the collision with the moon is the secret here or not. I think it's complex.
I know you’re being snarky, but a dictatorship with limited export opportunities and extreme inequality isn’t exactly the paradise you think it is.
IB does not work TCP/IP by default. You can either run TCP over IB, which has a performance penalty, or you can directly run in Ethernet mode, which is something completely different.