skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like it because it offers for free some functionalities that are paid in PyCharm, for example being able to SSH to a remote machine and edit the code directly there.

However, I miss a lot all the refactoring functionalities that PyCharm offers. For instance, moving a class from one module to another module is trivial in PyCharm (all imports from all other files are automagically updated), but it's a nightmare in VSCode (you need basically to go file by file and update the imports).
Related discussion with no definite answer: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/247129/why-is-pe...
The difference being that in the US you don't have to fear prosecution for most things you'd get prosecuted for in, say, Quatar. You might get cancelled on Twitter but you don't end up in jail or get killed at least.
`pkg install ffmpeg`

It's a thin wrapper around apt for whatever reason. Quite a lot of software packages are distributed by/for termux!
I did not call you insane- that was another commenter.

I also don't doubt there are long commutes. However, I will assert that that is not the typical experience in New York, or elsewhere. No one in my at-work peer group has a commute that long, and no one in my outside-of-work friend group has a commute that long.
Out of curiosity which solution operate in a zero trust environment?
In the last election, he got more votes than anybody had in history. He lost only because he opponent got even more than that.

Much has changed since then. His opponent came with a relatively clean track record, at a time when he himself was seen to be struggling with a crisis. The opponent now has several crises of his own to deal with, most notably inflation, an issue that strikes close to home for a lot of voters.

So broadening his base may not be necessary. His base is quite enthusiastic, and it may suffice merely to demoralize his opponents. That strategy had worked for him in his first election, and now can come with the advantage of spending two years harassing the incumbent.

There are always too many variables to predict confidently, but his wisest course of action may simply be to do exactly what he's always done and hope that circumstances break his way -- which they very well could.
Seems like the ide that's receiving investment in devtools for indie technologies I'm experimenting with.

Hasn't gotten in my way. It's fast. The quality of the devtools are not perfect but useable.
Fo me the worst (possibly only significant) issue about ads is they are stealing my attention over what I'm actually trying to do. Flashing, taking up screen space, disturbing, requiring to find a well-hidden "fuck off" button.

Inclusion of some links bothers me much less. Though I agree it's poor overall.
Great, here comes another depression thread :) Hold tight loosers, let's stick together through this hard time.
I think the issue with any definition and why people say “everything is a cult”, is because I read this list and it makes me feel like progressivism is a cult based on it. Though I’m sure a progressive would say Trumpism is a cult.

LDS is accused of being a cult. But they’re generally nice neighbors. Is it still a cult if it gets big enough?
Islam would’ve once been a cult as well as Christianity.

At the very least it seems any religion is a cult. We can argue then about whether something is religious or not.
Discord vs. Slack: Which Is Right for Your Team?
> iOS isn't even mentioned in the article.

This is my point - Apple and Google are given passes while everyone dunks on the old, increasingly irrelevant, dead horse.
Interesting to see that there are sections where rectangles of color spaces are aligned parallel to the circle middle. They always have one of the RGB elements set on "00" as the colors get more intense and the other 2 color elements get stronger
Yes, in the case of Ethereum "DeFi", the end user is expected to pay the (significant) cost of executing functionality.

For next-gen "DeFi" systems like Holochain -- the incremental cost of executing functionality is vanishingly small, and can be distributed across a DHT substrate hosted by all users of the App.

A self hosted Holochain "DeFi" app costs a small constant factor C times the average agent's memory / network / storage cost, to each client.

In other words, you gain the benefit of the "DeFi" version of App for yourself, by investing a small C x your own cost to run the App for yourself, alone.
For the decline of industry under Labour, see graphs here: https://fullfact.org/economy/did-labour-decimate-manufacturi... Manufacturing was 18% of UK output at the start of Blair's term in office, and 10% when he left in 2010. You can also search for story after story about factory closures following the 1998 Asian financial crisis, which decimated the north of England.

When evaluating Blair's impact it's also important to look at regional shifts, with money and jobs becoming more and more concentrated around London at the expense of the periphery. You can argue about the causes of these shifts, but their existence is not in question.
Exposure to things humans haven't ruined is uniquely inspirational.
> technocratic authoritarianism

I really like when philosophers misatribute the current issues of society to some sort of a "wrong choice of philosophy" kind of situation.

Jesus Christ, the reason "technocratic authoritanianism" is in action is because tech is the latest niche on the bandwagon of rich nouveau.

Of course these would be correlated as people look up to people who recently became billionaires.

Everybody at the age of 40 could think "If I made all the right choices I would have been them".

On top of this, the whole tech industry is still operating in legally gray areas as we didn't have enough time to build our legal codexes to deal with these issues.

Here's your technical auhtoritanianism. You could say the same about East India Company or Big Oil in the past.

Nothing to do with Kant.
As someone working at the same time as him on similar problems, I honestly and sincerely disagree. At the time my reaction was "this is space cadet stuff". 486 hardware was really slow, and the idea of doing any kind of real computational geometry back then was incredibly far-fetched. Until he showed it wasn't.
It is a subjective opinion and I strongly and subjectively disagree.
>When you've decided what differences in the universe are worth caring about, what further insight is there to be gained from declaring brains to be information processors?

Yes we pick our set of relevant differences. The useful thing about information processors is that after undergoing a physical transformation along its entropy gradient, the final state also picks out informative/semantically relevant states from the original space of distinctions. Information processors are informative, they have the ability to tell you something you didn't already know. That is, they manifest new informative states. The space of physical systems that have this property are vanishingly small. Most systems destroy information as it is pulled along its entropy gradient. Computers are perhaps the sole exception.
I mean, if you already accepted that you want to carry with you N amount of dice to solve the ordering of N participants, you can just

* Roll N sided die to decide first (result telling you which player in order is the first)

* Roll n-1 side die to decide second

* Roll n-2 side die to decide 3rd

* ...etc

Same amount of dice rolls, but dices at least can be used for something other than single purpose.
You're absolutely right, I'm impressed. The log is so... polite.
One of the main issues we had with the Luos microservices orchestrator, beyond the open source project itself, was to understand the expectations and problems faced by developers working in the embedded and edge domain. We needed to build a community to exchange with them, allow them to learn and help each other.
So we decided to do an A/B test by trying them both.
> But you can learn a lot about health, your mood, sleep cycles, etc from what comes out the other end.

Was talking about that with my GP. His view was that there's a lot of variance on that front, and that we shouldn't read too much into it. In particular, it's not because your shit isn't "perfect" that you're unhealthy, and there's not much to do about it anyway.

Don't shoot the messenger! I know this is HN where people want (and think they can) optimise everything,
Twitter loses payroll department, other financial employees
This. If you want to save your developers' time. Pony up for a Jetbrains product. Getting VSCode to equivalent functionality takes hours. Dev time is expensive, PyCharm is worth it. (This is not a paid endorsement, I have no connections to Jetbrains other than being a customer who has tried VSCode.)
In fact, it's less wasteful in terms of absolute mass to trash the rocket.

Carrying fuel, parachutes, etc. to booster separation that you don't use to boost the rocket, or worse, carrying fuel, heat shields, aerodynamic surfaces, etc. to LEO for re-entry in addition to your payload, are wasteful. Non-critical mass to lunar orbit is even more extravagant.

When your rocket engine is constructed by the the best TIG welders you can find carefully fitting Inconel parts together, or your tanks made by composite experts hand-laying carbon fiber in cleanrooms, yeah, it feels a waste to see that work crash and burn (or, I suppose, the other way around - first the burn, then the crash).

If your booster is as disposable as a paper cup, with new ones flying off the assembly line faster than you could hope to rework anything, perhaps either the materials or the fuel are wasted but not so much work is wasted.
Nit: "never"? Even if you unit test all cases?
There are number of different places to get this info. I use Termux with yt-dlp and decode to MP4 or extract audio only which requires ffmpeg and it works fine if a little slow. I decoded a 300 GB twitch stream that after downloading took about 20 mins to complete the decode (encode?) to mp4 on my Pixel6. But it works perfectly.

e.g see https://gist.github.com/cyrillkuettel/d63785cf5f4c00106ae215... for example.
I think a lot of people might say something like "It might be OK for simple drivers, but what about something like a GPU" knowing that GPU drivers are probably the most complex. But now we can use this the opposite way and say "well if they can write a GPU driver in Rust, surely it could be used for the simpler devices."

The driver complexity argument is shattered, and the blog posts suggest it's better - confirming fearless concurrency and no memory management issues! So weird that this seems to be the very first Rust written driver.
Using Cell Therapies to Cure Autoimmunity
> Somewhat counter-intuitively, doing simple things like giving a friend a lift when their car breaks down, providing them with meals when they're unable to cook for themselves or helping them move house actually cause you to value the relationship more.

Why do you find this counterintuitive?
It was a Ferrari logo on it. No other documentation or model number, so I can't answer your question. Those who know what the Ferrari logo is supposed to look like can tell it is wrong at 3 meters.
Not sure deliberately bombing a plant into failure counts as an ‘accident’.
But that spawned the traveling delivery truck problem.
Well, look up Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. TR favored Taft as his successor, but then became disenchanted with him and tried to overthrow him in 1912. When he didn't get the nomination, he ran as a third party candidate ("the Bull Mouse Party"), which drew enough votes to win Woodrow Wilson the Presidency.
"For non-ideological or virtue-signaling reasons"

"Replies to our posts with hardcore anti-semitism and adult spam remained up for days even with flagged"

TBF this is a great post, and there are numerous concrete dollars to donuts reasons in here, but everyone has a line.
I would like to point out that if United States won't do it then other countries and large companies will take the lead. And in fact they are already doing it. And while it might not be bringing a lot of tangible returns for US citizens right now, it is projected to overtake practically every single other industry including electronics at some point in the future.

Even without returns, it is simple matter of security. With another country like China taking absolute control over space US would be quickly incapable to take care of its interest here on Earth. Just imagine China deciding to incapacitate all US satellites and US having no way to respond to it.

So it is same old weapons race, it is just trying to score some extra side quests a bit outside of the main quest. Haven't you ever tried to do side quests to get some extra exp to help you with main quest line?
Git is too slow for the use case I mentioned you resolve conflicts when you merge to your repo but you don't establish a consensus allowing everyone to accept your conflict resolution without centralizing.
As I mentioned in my previous post [0] (now flagged), pg seems to be going out of his way to contribute to the ongoing negative signal of the crypto crash, despite him, YC, and his some in his network having a vested interest in a entity that may continue to be significatly affected (coinbase).

I mean,the out-of-context mainstream media headline writes itself:

“Early Coinbase investor says Crypto ecosystem facing systemic risk.”

As someone who would want to do right by the founders that he invested in, I can’t imagine he didn’t run this tweet by Brian Armstrong, the CEO of Coinbase.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33693012
False. It doesn't require smart phones.

False. It doesn't require always-on internet.

False. It doesn't require offline currency exchanges.

Try fleeing Brazil or Russia with significant amounts of cash. Either you cannot do it through legacy banking systems, or you cannot do it in real life with cash, or you have to pay an extortionist bribe in real life.
Roadmap Towards Net-Zero Industries [pdf]
A was an atheist most of my life but now see it differently.
See it as a kind of philosophy embedded in a story (mythology)

People go to church once a week to try to align themselves with the most good they can. They take a hard look at their failing ask forgiveness and try to do better next week.

Contrast that with people than never try to do that, never have a time to reflect on deeper things, have no community that tried to help each other to do good.

All culture sit on a religious traditions, by throwing it away we don’t know what we loose, we are like the doctor of the 1800 that removed organs they didn’t know what they did.

As our culture go further and further away from christianity it is slowly disintegrating. We can no longer trust people and institutions, families don’t last, socials connections are eroding. I don’t think it can go on much longer until it crumble.

Now is there a ’God’ up there, I don’t know. But that’s not were the value of those things lie.
Well aside from the usual Wirth's law answer, the key is high abstraction on all levels, which brings bloat with it.

Eventually that bloat will get optimized, as that chart interestingly shows iphone responsiveness being somewhat corelated with increasing years. Same with Windows, where there was a sizable abstraction jump with Vista, which then got slowly optimized over 7, 8 and 10.

There's even abstraction in memory management now, with 64 bit virtual address mapping. I've recently stumbled upon these ARM benchmarks https://github.com/ThomasKaiser/sbc-bench/blob/master/Result... and was surprised that the Pi 4 runs 10-50% slower in 64 bit mode compared to 32 bit. I'd expect there was also a notable speed decrease when going from 8 to 16 and 32 bit systems, since there's twice as much address data to fetch and process.
Does it federate with any other messaging app? If not, who am I going to exchange messages with?
"other people are already putting ads on the side of their buildings, why shouldn't they be able to throw them up on my house too?".

said no one, ever.
There’s nothing sci-fi in that story. It could have been set in Nazi Germany, Tsarist Russia, Qing China, or anywhere else.

Except it would need to compete on a different field, and wouldn’t fare as well.
http://buoy.hopto.org/buoyant.html <- this link works (unable to edit HN submission headline/OP)

I spelled it wrong so I deleted the original link and updated the filename.
I run ad campaigns for small businesses. Twitter was never a viable advertising platform. It's not even a viable "organic" marketing channel for over 90% of my clients.
OpenSSL still receives minimum funding. Until Heartbleed they had nearly no funding, and now it is two full time people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Infrastructure_Initiative...
Remote is the killer app. I don't like VSCode but it is the only modern editor capable of a modern native-ish local UI while running acceptable-ish code indexing and intelligence on a remote server. As my company's monorepo grows, laptops increasingly choke on it. JetBrains Projector/Gateway are interesting prototypes but don't work reliably yet. It's not as bad as VNC, but it feels closer to VNC than to a genuine local native app with a client/server architecture.
I love the idea of requiring the purchase of merchandise beforehand, although I'm not sure if this would only compound the problem of scalping. The problem with building moats is

a ) scalpers will write algorithms to predict where the moats are before fans can get there

b ) it discourages new fans getting into a band
> Maybe marriage is a nuisance if your life's ambition is to get an essay into The New Yorker, but if you have more pedestrian interests in family, it can be the best.

A disproportionately large portion of journalists for national outlets live in Brooklyn New York, which explains their biased view of the world.
Great Britain is the island, if it’s only Northern Ireland leaving all of the Great Britain island would still be in.
I wish they'd published the graph on an absolute scale and not a relative one, because I have no idea if DVD sales have increased or decreased. Only that the ratio with blu-ray has changed.

I strongly suspect that the subheadline "DVD sales skyrocket in the last year" is simply false.
I was truly wondering why is it developers don't want to pay. But now I think I got it: If they can implement something like the tool themselves, it is clear how much money they are saving by NOT buying it, and implementing something like that themselves.

When you just program you don't really know the value of the code you are creating, you get your salary and company gets the benefits of your code. But if your code makes it unnecessary to pay $100 for something, the value of what you are doing becomes clear, it is at least worth $100.

The value is in the eye of the (would be) buyer.
As opposed to what, not trying to hold large companies to task for their behavior?
No.

Steve Jobs didn’t “retire”—the board fired him. And he was only reinstated as CEO because Apple bought his new company, NeXT.

Bill Gates never came back once he left.
I don't think it's that weird, there not a lot of differences between people at the top or at the bottom.

It's the fact that they were idealized that makes this dip into their intimacy so strange.

But basically, those communications look a lot like ones that I would have with my own friends. And when I was a students, we were careful about spending 10 euros. Now, we have casual chats about buying a sauna for the garden, and if you think about it, it would sound crazy to someone making minimum wage.

If I had billions, I would talk as casually about huge amounts for actions with big consequences, because I'm still ...me. And I would still make jokes like "you have my sword" since we quote LOTR for fun, not because of social status. What? You thougth billionaires were taking all their texts seriously?

Also, calling people out for making mistake that cost you is kinda what everybody sane does. And apologizing to people when you made a mistake is not being submissive, it's being decent. Again, it reads like text I would send myself.

All in all, it seems pretty standard human behavior to me.

Now you may feel shocked that regular humans have so much power, but remember:

- a lot of luck is involved

- some skills like managing stress or being persistent may matter more than a lot others and those people may have much more than the average person

- this is by design in our system, the problem therefore is not that humans are humans, but that our system promote profiles that you don't think deserve it

- nevertheless, managing tesla or spacex is not something most people would succeed at, so there is probably some human traits those texts are not showing that make them capable of doing billions of dollars of operations
The thing about the cigarette rituals is that they were at a higher resolution: you'd sit in a cafe with a cup of coffee talking to someone and the smoking rituals silently punctuated the conversation itself.

Essentially, the language has changed!
Sounds like the mesh objects are nearly equivalent to small BSP trees.

Thanks John!
Positive for Mauritius, maybe. It's not clear that the Mauritian government would be any more likely to remove the US base there, and will instead be happy to just receive the rent that the US is currently paying the UK for it.

One might also note that the Chagossians who lived in the British Indian Ocean Territory never actually owned any land there, nor were they self-sufficient in terms of food.[0] Also, the Chagossians were given[1] severance pay for their work there, and compensation for starting a new life in the Seychelles or Mauritius, back in the 1970s. Then, in the 1980s, the UK government paid out millions more in reparations[2], and this year the government offered them British citizenship too.[3]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagossians#Eviction

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_expulsion_of_the_Chagos...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_expulsion_of_the_Chagos...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/23/chagos-islands...
In my opinion, removing the last paragraph would improve your post immensely. It would be a shame if the post got downvoted to oblivion because of it.
The elite sure do disagree with me publicly but still fly privately, buy up ocean frontage, ignore lower hanging fruit in favour of schemes that enrich them. And we all vote them in again and again.
A friend and I had some manufactured, 20 years ago. We thought about selling them, but had no idea how much interest there would be. My friend did the math to come up with 6-sided ones that had the most uneven odds we could find, and each dice summed to the same number, and all the numbers 1-24 were each used once, and the numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 were each on a different die, making them easy to identify. We colored them red, green, blue, and then maybe yellow?, if I remember correctly, to also try to make them easy to identify. If I remember correctly, 1 and 3 were fair, and 2 and 4 were fair, which we thought was also neat, because it would help you "prove" that the dice were fair, heh.
Firstly, this prime number is not so big compared to other big prime numbers, such as e.g. the largest known prime, 2^82589933 - 1, which has about 82 million bits.

About the why.. well when we'll meet the aliens, for sure it'll come down to "who has the largest prime..", and we don't want to disappoint.

https://www.mersenne.org/primes/
I think you're talking past each other. Having to try to block names containing or appearing similar to "Clyde" is a result of having the bot in a public namespace.

Just as a random, poorly thought-out example, internal stuff could be namespaced with a different prefix like "&Clyde" instead of "@Clyde". As long as users know that official stuff is addressed with &, it matters less what people do with @-namespaced stuff because there's an easy way to tell whether it's actually official or not.

By putting official stuff in the same namespace as user-generated stuff, it's much harder to tell whether something is an official tool or not. @CIyde could be a real internal account.