skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Surely not everything is so incredibly compressible, is it?

I like your line of thinking and I'm actually quite excited about this recent shift in physics to a more information-theoretic line of inquiry.

Is it fair to state a corollary of your question this way? Given a complete description of some hypothesized universe/multiverse generator (essentially the next layer down that we are actively trying to discover), the Kolmogorov complexity (or some variation of K-Complexity) of this description must be greater than the K-complexity of any generated universe.

In my view, it would be very weird if this were not true. And (to me) it would be even weirder if this K-complexity was some large number but still less than infinity.
>Concise Go code has a high signal-to-noise ratio.

A few lines later:

// Good:
if err := doSomething(); err != nil {
// ...
}

"Tell me, how many lights you see?"
It's worth noting that Tailscale runs WireGuard in userspace, which negates many (all?) of the performance benefits. I wonder if it will ever be possible for nonroot users to create WireGuard devices. They're just so useful.
> that's implying anything containing red-looking meat from large ruminant animals.

Pigs are not ruminants. Their meat is usually considered red meat.
At traffic lights, it's very common when one person starts crossing the street while the lights are still red, for others to follow immediately. It takes surprisingly much conscious effort to resist the instinct and look at the traffic lights first.
I'm surprised anyone is surprised. The selling point of crypto always seemed to be the ability to elude regulation, and so they did, and so the obvious temptations were tempting...

A vocal community has been calling out the blatant scams and corruption for years. The information was readily available to anyone doing even the most basic due diligence.
We agree. “The other guys are hypocrites too” is a truism. Great power competition is real a thing. People tend to be hypocrites, and whatabouttism is commonplace. But we can do better.
Do you have any arguments which couldn't also be used to prove C doesn't belong in kernel programming, and we must use assembly?
Software Factory at Gematik
ate a bowl of steamed veggies this morning
Literally the exact same topic: making a list of the worst infractors.

Edit: Here's the summary of this thread so far:

1) Let's make a rule against it instead of just hitting companies based on their nationality

2) A rule would be great, but in the mean time let's target the worst actors

3) These US based spy agencies do a bunch of stuff that is similar, where are they on that list?

4) That's off topic whataboutism

5) Seems like the same topic, why is it different?

6) It just is, no explanation required

Using "whataboutism" to try to shut down discussions you don't like is not intellectually interesting or useful.
I notice that when people don't have a clear answer to a question they will talk more than if they know the answer. To me, it seems that some people get anxious of not knowing the answer that they prefer to say something rather than nothing.

For the train of thought, this one sometimes happens to me, specially when brain-storming ideas or when I'm thinking about second or third order consequences to the "thing" we are discussing.

Also, I think may be cultural? In some countries people prefer to give more context when talking while in others they want to go to the point as soon as possible.
The founder of FTX is unraveling before our eyes, and it’s not pretty
I couldn't help dark-laughing at "if dead, then that"
And specifically engagement with the title, not so much the article. It'd be pretty hard for a link to make it out of new without some early knee-jerk pre-read upvotes, IMO.
Billionaires gotta billionaire. Instead of promoting a healthy, sustainable platform, everyone just wants to lock people into their walled garden to extract money from them.
Hey, all the better to raise awareness then. Maybe some people who work in supply-limited industries will see it and implement countermeasures.

Either way the submission doesn’t violate any HN rules, so I vouched for it.
It is, yes.

Obsidian, by default, provides the capability to trace backlinks in the right pane. So all thus-far identified concepts (machines, phenomena, laws) which invoke resonance as incident, presumably meriting a Bode plot or such, can quickly be listed out.

Additionally, if you have loaded the map into Obsidian and allowed add-ons, you can press "Ctrl+P" type "path" and use the "Path Finder" facility to quickly brainstorm things[0] for example, how resonance is related to health and safety.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/mY1eKAE
>It’s the only place where we know how to reliably verify someone’s death.

No need to verify. You can modify the software to trigger if it doesn't receive periodic signals from someone.
For those looking to build habits, something that helped me immensely is https://habitsgarden.com

I started using it earlier this year and my current streak as of this morning is 226 days.

Before using this to track consistency I actually automated commits to a GitHub repo for certain actions :D
I listen to a lot of music across a lot of eras, and I'm not particularly fond of the 70s or early 80s (my era). I agree that "in my day" is a thing, but the criticism is accurate anyway.

I think vocal harmonies affect people differently for the same reasons people find vocals so compelling: we have wetware devoted to the human voice. It isn't just another instrument, perceptually, at least for most people.
I would have like to see that verified means their bio in the profile is correct. As to why it matters, well sometimes you have to trust an expert, Time isn’t infinite and you can’t research every/many topics in enough detail to have a good critical understanding.
Yeah, it doesn't look bad, but everything else has a stronger cartoon vibe to it and the tree looks more on the realistic side of that.
“Processed” is a bullshit word”.

When you see “natural”, “processed” or “toxin” in reference to a food, health or cosmetic product, pretend the word isn’t there. At best, it means nothing, at worst it is a manipulation designed to part your money from you or a fake cure.
AFAIK they were using Signal with auto-delete turned on. If true, this is a great way to avoid auditability.
If they do not operate in the US, then US laws don't apply.

If the do operate in the US, they must comply with US laws.
For a precise definition of "processed", check out the NOVA system. The biggest villains are the "ultra processed" foods.

https://www.fao.org/3/ca5644en/ca5644en.pdf

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/public-health-nutrit...
People here worried about tiktok seem to be in denial about how the USA has treated the internet (not to mention our constitutional rights, specifically the fourth amendment) for the last 20+ years.

There are no privacy laws of consequence when the people running the show report to no one and have zero oversight, yet they want us to worry about tiktok and China instead of pay attention to the gross violation of our rights by our own government.
Does/will the lack of regulations infer milder criminal penalties?
If it was guaranteed to rise, people would be buying it and the price would have risen. The current price reflects a level of risk that their economy will not recover!
> Never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate
controls and such a complete absence of trustworthy financial information as occurred here. From compromised systems integrity and faulty regulatory oversight abroad, to the concentration of control in the hands of a very small group of inexperienced, unsophisticated and potentially compromised individuals, this situation is unprecedented.

Are these filings typically full of quips? This seems pretty damning but I don't read enough court filings to know whether this sort of language is typical
This is a good question.

The way to think about us is more like a home insurance. When you purchase a policy, your home is covered if something happens to
it for one year. When it expires, you can renew it again. If the insurance goes out of business, you can choose another carrier or find another alternative.

It’s not so different with us. You purchase a subscription, and it covers you for one year if you pass away during that time, and you can renew it afterwards.

The services we offer never extend more than 6 months after one’s passing, so you don’t have to really be worried about us being in business for more than 18 months after you become a user, which is really not excessive and in the ballpark of most other services you use.

Edit — Typo.
Nope, we can't do that because we can't force TikTok to make code changes. Banning it is the only solution.
> Judas was the betrayer symbol maybe most familiar to US people then:

Probably still so now. Judas is the betrayer par excellence in American culture.
It doesn’t get less processed than a fresh red meat steak.
What bugs me is the framing of the salesman as a “petulant child”, and then telling him,

> You never sold yourself to the people with whom and through whom you had to work.

The one problem being that old aphorism of “you can bring a horse to water, but you cannot force it to drink”.

My point being that the author presents his company as something like a family-run business, being small and tightly-knit. Under those conditions, the company culture adopts certain processes and becomes very insular and resistent to change. Especially from outsiders with new and strange ideas.

Under those conditions, there could easily be those few influential employees who can completely kill any attempt to introduce new methods and processes, regardless of how good they may be, or how well these ideas have been presented. It ceases to be “how well these ideas have been sold”, as these “roadblock employees” could easily reject any new change from outside the core people, regardless of what it is.

After all, most of us have known people at companies who are both influential yet also hidebound, in a “that’s never been done here, and so it never will be” manner. They may not in any real official position of power, they just have other attributes - flow of information, control over access or documentation or processes, etc. - that makes their obstinance an insurmountable barrier to anything different and new. Think of that one head of data entry who refused to move on from Windows XP. Or that old CFO who refused to give up paper ledgers because computers were a horrible data risk. These people are found everywhere.

At that point, it also becomes the CEOs job to step in and provide additional leadership. An idea to change the company must have clear and visible buy-in from all levels of the company… including senior leadership. And I would say, especially senior leadership.

This apparent failure to back up that sales manager makes the failure of the sales manager just as much his own failure. He shares in that failure not by hiring that man, but by failing to support him.
Good for them.

While nuclear is one of the most expensive electricity sources, with surprisingly limited fuel reserves given the energy density, it's incredibly safe (despite the reputation) and I think there is inherent value in a diverse supply that can make up for the sticker price.
Hopefully not before they've sorted out the architecture support. It's fine to write drivers that only target one platform in a compiler that only targets that platform, but core systems need to be able to run on all the CPU architectures that Linux supports, which I understand is still a superset of the ones that rust supports.
Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to quit their jobs
The same people that have produced Eurovision for something like a decade is now making American song contest, where states compete against each other. I'm not convinced it will work, but we'll see.
Having a parent in prison, mother or father, does impact the welfare of a child.
REAL PLANETS HAVE CURVES
The surprise isn't that how disorganized they were _internally_. Even if it's an open secret that the money hose isn't strictly above board, it was assumed that at least, the guys in charge were keeping track of the money, even if only for purely selfish cover-my-ass purposes.
Sigils are used for shell scripts and awk, and Perl is descended from both.

They are a useful visual indicator that something is a variable, so they don't bother me.

Newer versions of Perl add post-dereference syntax which reduces the line noise.
"It strains credulity to envision the surreal parade of a lone goat leading sheep across a meatpacking facility, coaxing the flock up concrete ramps" What kind of reality-detached schoolwork essay writing is this? No, it doesn't. Anyone who's actually lived with farm animals, especially sheep, will go "yeah, that's how sheep work? Why the literary pretentiousnes, whose pants are you trying to get in?"
Let's propose ñoñograms then, seems like anything goes.
I'm inclined to agree but it doesn't change the fact that He can't keep Twitter in the form he purchased it.
Thanks! I had read it as poetry.
Exactly. And animals that are treated well start out at 3x the price, and when the tortured animal meat prices are already breaking the bank for most people.
Popular wisdom is hopelessly confused on what "processed" means. Cheese, yogurt, tofu, nixtamal are all subjected to intensive processes using industrial chemicals which radically alter their flavor and texture. But it feels almost trolly to suggest that they're processed foods in the same way that a Twinkie is. Certainly it seems ridiculous to suggest they're less processed than frozen french fries - but they are! Many brands of fries are just potato, oil, salt, coloring, with the only processing steps being cutting, frying, freezing.

I think most people understand it to mean something more like "stuffed full of oil or sugar".
I don't have good ones offhand, but whenever I write a script that spends a long time looping and doing a mix of numerical calculations and text processing, CPython beats Perl. I think this is partly due to how Perl treats numbers as a kind of second class data type.

However Perl handily beats CPython in startup time, so it's much faster for short-lived programs.
I mean, as harsh as it is, yeah of course you'd say the same thing. If slaves had been genetically modified in dangerous ways or carried diseases which ought not to escape. That would be awful for everyone, including other "slaves" (analogy sorta breaks down here, I'm just saying this hurts the population beyond just humans. It hurts other animals as well)
Many reasons can be there which are probably out of there control like anxiety/adhd/autism etc.
There exists an abstract mathematical mapping, sure. However, finding the spot in the real number where that's the case may require infinite storage (you need to store the pointer) or infinite time (you start searching through the number to find what you want). It also has a halting problem where you don't actually know how you'll know when you find that data.
Housing (per sqft relative to income) in Japan is cheap if you're making American wages.
I'm sympathetic to this view, but in the practical realm we had to fight the bloodiest war in our history to settle the the question of human slavery. It was the right thing to do, but if someone really feels factory farming is as bad as chattel slavery (which is IMO an exaggeration, though I agree it's bad), they should consider acts like this to be the opening salvo in a bloody war, not an end in themselves.
If we weren't meant to eat animals they wouldn't be so darned tasty.

The argument that animals suffer so we can eat them tells me that sentimentality has its limits.
That is, forgiveness is how I see the other when I see them not as an enemy or friend, but as a tragic part of nature.

To me, that's more a part of the reconciliation process than of forgiveness. It doesn't require forgiveness to abandon the other and move on. I rather think that forgiveness is the first step to restore the mutual relationship, it's a willful act to salvage what was broken. I guess in my mind, reconciliation is a prerequisite for forgiveness, but whereas reconciliation is about the self, forgiveness is about the other -- or at least the relationship with the other.
Have you ever read an Italian cookbook from your grand-grandparents time? I doubt you are eating what they ate.
But won't focusing on population control have a similar dystopian outcome?
>The "upside" for users who post/write is reaching larger audiences.

But reaching a larger audience is inherently negative, not positive. What is the purpose for speaking to 10,000 users vs 10-20 users? If for marketing, or some other money making scheme, sure there is an advantage. But for users who care about specific content, what value does a cacophony of noise offer? As it is, unity and cohesion will always master diversity and confusion, so shouldn't a "larger audience" be the antithesis of what adds value to a platform?

To a degree, such things can even be seen in major platforms themselves. If we go to something like YouTube, there are different categories of content, and within each categories, sub-genres of content sorted by various factors users are truly interested in. It then does not make sense to attempt to reach the audience invested in makeup tutorials, to also foster users and content around HFT on NASDAQ. If anything, one group would accidentally stumble over the other, and be the worse off for it. This in turn, would hurt both communities atmospheres, and degrade the "convenience factor" of the platform itself. (The more categories and unrelated categories, the harder it is for the user to navigate the platform to find "worthwhile" content, and the harder it is for the owners to curate the UGC.)
"Map of the Observable Universe" (big difference, and the actual title on the page itself)
Wonderful writeup:)
I think it's more of a "China has been known to conduct mass espionage/monitoring of its citizens and abroad. Given that known fact, TikTok poses a concern." Don't think there's hard proof they are doing nefarious things via TikTok.
"engaged in adversarial conduct against the West for years - including extensive psyops."

And the US has an extensive and well-documented record of doing exactly this to other nations (and far, far worse). If we start a new Cold War every between every two nations that try to undermine each other we'll quickly run out of trading partners, which isn't going to work out too well for a preeminent trading nation (or it's people).
Temporarily putting personal feelings aside, I think you've touched on interesting philosophical questions: can something so subjective as suffering ever be fathomed, does it scale, can you do math on it...
COOOOOOOOL!
Or even just to know how much money they had where, to loot it.
I think it is a fair comment. A ping pong "meeting" for two hours accomplishes nothing. There are no shortages of skilled workers who would fill any shoe in twitter's roster. Saying otherwise is dismissive of the real world.

And yes, I read it, and I could take apart the entire article, but unlike Twitter's workforce, I don't get 2 hour smoothie breaks.
> It increases cognitive load when writing the function call, since you now need to remember what kind of true to use.

There is no "kind of true".

> It also increases cognitive load for people who either do already understand the parameters

By letting them see what the parameter they remember is? There's no cognitive load to seeing what you expect.

> or who are doing something for which the parameters are not relevant;

If the language doesn't have optional parameters, all parameters are relevant. By making parameters named, you avoid having to count positional parameters as in MS APIs to ensure you didn't get one in the wrong slot.

> it's harder to ignore a long thing than to ignore a plain "true".

Which is very much valuable. It's much easier to notice mistakes than when you've got 11 positional parameters of which 2/3rds are usually set to 0/null.
I like this question. Do we then base the penalties purely on pain suffered by the scammed?
That is quite the opposite of verification/its intent.
Both she and her daughter would have benefitted greatly from freely accessible, high quality birth control. Although, I guess if Mary used birth control, we wouldn't be able to read Frankenstein.
Bahamas regulators confirm they’re holding some of FTX’s assets
Scrolling, but make sure your feeds are high signal. I never liked algorithmic recommendation engines. I see what's on my plate for the day, consume it, and come out of it enriched instead of radicalized or brainwashed.
whatever the merits of this particular claim, the vulnerability of Wikipedia to subversion should be pretty clear for all of us. If you were NatSec it would be a simple matter to recruit or train a few editors to focus on and continually update / amend a contested topic. Even KPI's could be pretty simple to manage - 'ensure mentions of [insert targeted country] always carries [insert pejorative Y]'
wow very interesting
Macros, the ugly side of C, Rust. Shame Zig didn't come before rust, imagining kernel data structures written in Zig, brings a smile.

Right on point that kernel style C is its own unique world, with a steep learning curve, so lets add Rust with its own steep learning curve. Rust readability isn't any better than kernel C, guess I'm missing the 10,000 hours of reading Rust.

./KISS
If you post the correct link which is joinmastodon.org there's no problem.
It is not legit when you are a business of this magnitude in finance.

Chatops for TechOps? Totally, no one cares if you’re down, there’s little regulatory impact. Accounting and finance? Not even once. (Caveat around TechOps is IAM privs as it relates to SOX, GLBA, etc)

(a component of my work is providing guidance to fintechs on governance and controls with respect to various nation state regulatory frameworks)
The real concern is cured meats. Nitrosamines are terrible for you. Even "no nitrites added" meats will often have celery juice concentrate added, which contains lots of nitrites.
> In my experience, the panic is most likely because someone accessed a nil field when adapting some data. Nothing is corrupt, we just threw an exception in a mundane way.

Even more so if a database is involved (which is generally the case), because odds are the transaction just gets rolled back and there's basically nothing that could be corrupted.
It is not only not typical, it is definitely raising eyebrows from the clerks office to the judges.

Language in these filings is usually so dry that it makes the Sahara look like Tahiti.

The cleanup CEO is mad. And he’s seen some shit.

The financial equivalent of ‘somehow folks with PhDs mixed cleaning chemicals together for no apparent reason and gassed a bunch of kindergartners’.
I understand your argument. It works with starting from a massive misrepresentation of what I have said (aka bad faith). Your argument is fatally flawed due to the reason i stated. And that's why there is nothing to be said to the substance, other than what was written and this discussion was and remains over.
I just didn’t think having verified for press made much sense. Their opinions were/are as well informed as that of an average joe blue blow. A press tag wold have helped inform that they were also likely to be poorly informed.
Yep - return concrete types, but also make sure you have an assertion along the lines of:

var _ IfaceType = &ConcreteType{}

Somewhere, else you risk not knowing that a change to ConcreteType broke is implementation of IfaceType in a way that you might not know about until a rare runtime code path is executed.