skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which really entrenches a specific philosophy of what the relationship should be between the state and the citizen.

A mandatory ID card says that every citizen has to prove their validity to the state, and it is the state which can grant or revoke that validity, rather than the state being the servant of the citizens.

There have surely been enough examples by now of successful countries not requiring mandatory ID cards, and examples of ID cards being abused by governments for discriminatory policies, that I don't know why they have such support.

http://www.preventgenocide.org/prevent/removing-facilitating...

https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/4472/exclusion-de...

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/99-of-indian-status-card-holders-have-...
The largest city in the Middle Ages was either Baghdad or Hangzhou, with neither European cities nor Tenochtitlan reaching half their size.
Most of the time keywords with low search volume translates to lower competition as well. Its a great hack to get views in cost effective way.
> deployed an API that has not gone down a single time since deploying near the beginning of this year

How often does the codebase change? How many people work on it?
Beavers in the wet meadow by my driveway coppice willows to produce large amounts of material on a sustainable basis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppicing

I've not only seen the results but I've actually pulled the wood out of their dams by hand when I disassemble them to prevent them from flooding my driveway. It's not that hard to do so long as you keep the water level low. Once the water level gets high they get a lot more productive because they can easily float large amounts of wood.
This is a valid criticism. Many of the (possibly) non-generic functions in Common Lisp could be made generic. That they weren't was a bow to existing implementations of Lisp that wouldn't have supported it. The stakeholders engaging in the standardization process didn't want extensions that would be excessively (at the time) costly for them to implement, especially in a way that wouldn't have a large runtime performance impact.
It looks like they're blocked from editing wikipedia articles without an account or am I misunderstanding wikipedia's response?

Blocking anonymous editing from a range of IPs to combat malicious editing seems ok in my book since they allow alternative means.
I know what LeCun originally said on Twitter and what the copy on the Galactica web page said. But to repeat my question, what is the model useful for? How can it be used to achieve something that bears any resemblance to the original claims?
In addition to graphics libraries, a lot of anti-cheat is still windows only. Many gamers hate anti-cheat, but by popularity many top games require it.
To drop a, as far as we know, perfectly healthy tree and leave it in the yard?

We had a guy who was doing work in the neighborhood offer to take down a big beautiful Maple tree in our back yard. He tried to instill fear of the tree.

So many people are easily tricked into taking down perfectly healthy trees because they are big. What a loss.
This is a great idea. How are you funding it?
The tribal thesis in the AI world seems to be that AI workers don't need subject matter expertise, as the AI will figure it out during training. In fact, subject matter expertise can be a negative because it's a distraction from making the AI good enough to figure it out on its own.

This assumption has proven to be very fragile, but I don't think the AI bigwigs have accepted that yet. Still flush from the success of things like AlphaZero, where this thesis was more true.
Can you expand on the last part? I mean the good other technical books for someone already a bit familiar who wants a deeper dive? Thanks for the pointers
I just threw up a little in my mouth. Frankly, I can see it coming in the future, perhaps in a join release with a future Call of Duty game.

Click here to link your car, phone and playstation together to enable cross platform loot.
Oh I wrote that code in anger forever ago, it had the merit of still working when I did the last round of cleanups on my website.

I could've sworn at some point some paths had something slightly more involved (strip slashes, some starts_with or trim_prefix, etc.) but the snippet as you've copied it is certainly... not great.
While the extra ram could be useful for some, I fail to see how the metrics they are using are relevant in any way. Having plenty of processes isn't supposed to be an issue with modern OSes and multicore CPUs and latency seems to be a non-issue they have a hard time explaining themselves.

I wouldn't touch that with a ten-foot pole.
You might try blowing the microphone holes with a can of air. It may be clogged with pocket lint.
Going outside or even climbing my stairs is possibly dangerous, so you mean the government should get a cut of everything? Oh wait…
There is a "wine brick"-type instruction workaround (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine-Glo):

"After dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, do not place the liquid in a jug away in the cupboard for twenty days, because then it would turn into wine."

I have seen this type of messages a few times on growkits.
> Reason No. 2: The Work is Morally Abhorrent

I disagree. It's better in general not to go around judging people's morality, and if you can't manage that, try to keep your moral judgments to yourself. This situation is exactly what that evidently hated phrase "it's not for me" was invented for.

Banal as it sounds, "it's not for me" has been holding society together for hundreds of years, whereas "you are bad for creating or liking this" has never helped anybody.

> However, an important caveat here--expressing your distaste for a work on moral grounds is a great way to spark a discussion with friends and family members.

Usually it's not a discussion, usually it's a screaming match. Nobody learns anything, nobody changes their mind, everyone becomes their worst self. Our culture is filled with these discussions, I'm tired of them.
I think the hypothetical gamers from your post would be wrong. AFAIK ECC should, at most, add an insignificant amount of latency into the memory controller. It doesn't add any to the actual memory transactions because the extra bits move in parallel. Registered memory will add latency, but that's a different technology that just tends to be paired with ECC.
Interesting. Current syntax highlighting in emacs is mostly fine, except for how it occasionally blows up - an unterminated quote, in some languages, can run out and match the entire tail as a string, potentially freezing on a large file. Paredit(♡) avoids this by not even letting you do that unless you ask very nicely. I wonder if tree-sitter helps there.
ML people are the ultimate generalists. They claim to make tools which are domain agnostic, but they can't really validate that for themselves because they have no domain knowledge about anything.
This reminds me of a time I went to see a musician friend of mine perform. I showed up before his performance and sat at the bar to watch the others go on before him.

A younger gentleman sat down on stage, plugged in a bass guitar and sat with it. He strummed it a couple times and then put it on his lap. He then jammed a butter knife into it. I thought it was a weird weird tool to use to tune a guitar, but whatever.

Then he pulled out a bow and began fiddling that butter knife. It was the most wretched sound I've ever heard intentionally amplified.

It was horrible, and he wouldn't stop. I finished my drink and looked around the room. Everyone was locked in, some even nodding their heads as though there were some rhythm to nod to. There was not. There was no discernable difference in pitch or tone no matter where on the knife he played. If he could predict the sound being made before he made it, it wasn't obvious.

I had a great seat in the middle of the bar and didn't want to lose it for my friend's show, so ordered another drink. But the guy was relentless, and the crowd was relentless in their appreciation. I slammed the drink and gave up the best seat in the house to smoke outside until it was over.

My friend's performance was excellent (which I watched later from the back of the room). Later I was with him and a couple other patrons and tried to describe how awful the knife guy was. The others who saw it said I was being closed-minded. I worry they cannot hear well.

The only art in that room was watching that crowd accept that wretched noise as performance, simply because the person making it happened to be on stage.
nice hack for getting better reach.
Robots authorized to kill in SFPD draft policy
I've used it to track my child at Tokyo Disneyland via an AirTag, I've been notified when I left one of my headphones behind within about 100 meters, and I've used it within the house to find a phone that (somehow) had slipped behind the couch.

It's been a nice feature for us.
Interesting. Anecdotally, I do feel way sharper, eloquent and wittier when I am on low-carb, fasting-often-and-long diet I practice between September and March. I tend to feel sleepy and bloated on a high carb diet I do most of the summer (and that's not sweets or soda, it's just adding bread and pasta). I do a lot of fasted cardio, including things like cycling 200km during a 36hr or 72hr fast. I do software design for a living, so generally have to think hard with some regularity :-)
Something that touches power-train needs to be ASIL-D grade. For a good reason.
Sleep Can Keep AI from Catastrophic Forgetting
Nothing new that would utilize any brain to identify new patterns. Mostly what I always listen to. Otherwise, Lofi. Nothing with vocals (expect the songs I already know) to distract me.
> Steel cut oatmeal + an egg + 1tbsp cottage cheese + hot sauce is an amazing breakfast

I don't eat breakfast b/c of IF, but damn, this made me hungry.
Could you share the critical feedback you gave? I am interested as someone who works with biological systems and is curious about how ML can or cannot help.
Most premium brand cars are leased, not bought. In this scenario it makes perfect sense to tax an increase in performance as it will increase the wear on the car.

This is another copy paste article on the subject that offers no details just to spark outrage and clicks. If the tax also applies to bought and payed units feel free to rage. But until some real journalism clears that up...
This narrative is so full of lies I cannot imagine incompetence, it has to be malice. So, I won't bother getting links, you can look them up. For others...
Paragraph by paragraph.

1) Housing price-to-income ratio in the US is low by the developed world standard, and has not increased much faster than inflation over long term before the last 2-3 years, when it went noticeably up... not due to corporations.

2a) Massive corporations provided railroads, utilities, etc. well before the government started regulating them and taking over certain responsibilities. I can maybe grant you clean water.

2b) Education funding, even adjusted by inflation, has increased massively over time.

3) De-policing results in much more suffering, especially among minorities. While to an extent any police force is basically a gang currently in control, the alternative - as literally any collapsing society from Ethiopia to post-Soviet Russia to parts of current Mexico show - is a different gang, and as far as these things go US police at least generally do their job, and police brutality is a minor, statistically insignificant issue blown out of proportion by activists. Look up numbers.

4) " the fact that there are different concepts of "justice" for different classes has rarely if ever been more evident" - except pretty much all of history, and most modern countries. While not a factual error, I like how accumulating wealth by a large number of people is conflated in the same sentence with a few criminals, to taint it. A typical trick of malicious propaganda.

5) Very strong and non-quantified statement comparing an improbable anecdote with another improbable anecdote. Don't know what data would disprove this, but basically a lie.

6) "Starvation" wages in the US are some of the highest in the world, and disposable income a median American enjoys makes many other developed countries look like "3rd world" countries compared to them in turn.

Of course, as this whole thing develops, US also starts as a ~sole industrial power in the world (with others either undeveloped or bombed into oblivion) with strong demographics, and ends as a much smaller percentage of the world economy (primarily because others develop), and with an aging population. Even in a perfect system you would expect decline in relative standards, so it's actually a marvel how well US is doing so far.
If it's legal and Microsoft is ok with it, I guess I'm happy it exists!

When I was a kid I remember poring over all kinds of stuff to make my games run well on the family PC. CCleaner, Disk Cleaner, Disk Defragmenter, turning off a bunch of Windows services and processes in Task Manager, and... there was one other questionable program I can't recall, that disabled a bunch of things when you ran it, then re-enabled it when you quit. I had Malwarebytes and SuperAntiSpyware, and tweaked the registry a bit, IIRC.

My point is, it takes a lot of work to understand what can be turned off to squeeze out performance, but it sounds like something that benefits the user.
DMOZ

Remind me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ
You should reduce your consumption as much as possible. In the case of cars, buy a used one when you need one.

Don't give companies that you don't think have earned your money your business.
Wow! This is interesting
Spotify is one of the highest value subscriptions I have. For $16 (I think) my family gets music, all they can listen to, and 2 of us listen to it all the time.
Derek Sivers: Cross the world four times

https://sive.rs/4
Absolute nonsense, Russia will invade what they call "little Russias" because they believe they are superior and that the people in those land belong to them, and that the resources belong to them. NATO has nothing to do with Russia's urge to invade and oppress other cultures, but NATO is a way for such countries to defend themselves. So if a professor claims to have expertise and not understand these basic facts that all former USSR states understand, then the professor is just repeating Russian propaganda.

For example, on national TV in Russia this week, they are laying the groundwork to invade Kazakhstan right now, claiming that they need the uranium for Rosatom and that the "same nazi process in Ukraine could happen in Kazakhstan," meaning that the President of Kazakhstan is refusing to be a puppet of Putin lately.

These dynamics are extremely clear to anyone who spends even a small amount of time talking to someone from Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Chechnya, etc. But those voices are almost never heard, and instead Russian propaganda gets the air time.
I think it's OK to experiment with new forms of monetization, as long as you're not ripping off customers. Here in Berlin VW e.g. operates a car-sharing service using a fleet of ID.3/ID.4's, where you simply pay for a car by the minute, with two different prices for driving (20-30 cents/minute) and parking (9 cents/minute). You can simply drive and then leave the car on any public parking spot (no payment necessary). Often, cars are located just 2-4 minutes walking distance away. I used that so much, but unfortunately VW seems to have decided it's not profitable enough and they recently sold it off to a competitor with worse pricing.

So I guess subscriptions alone don't cut it, you still need to sell the car as well. That said I heard from multiple people that car manufacturers earn most of their money with the service and spare parts for cars (not sure if this is still true) and that the buying price is even slightly subsidized. So from that perspective adding a subscription on top of the purchase price makes sense. In the end people will decide whether it makes sense to pay for that, and I think there will be enough competition in the premium segment, so consumers can just chose to take their money somewhere else if an offer is not good.
I mean.... That matters to someone in the industry, yes. But not necessarily someone in academia.

You chose industry over academia, and that's fine. It lines up with your values. But realize that not everyone shares those values and beliefs. To some, the act of discovering a new thing is much more important than the users using said discovery. And that lines up with academia more so than the industry.

Both are different. Both are valid.
I don’t know the exact implementation details of CLOS, but I feel that it can be easily replicated in C by adding the needed metadata in the structure and doing the needed type checking in the functions.

And thus Objective-C was reborn
Always love reading about sustainability practices.

Sidenote/tangent: why put a chat modal on a blog? I don't get it. It takes up valuable mobile real estate and I'm sure the desktop UX is not improved.
So what would constitute him not "getting defensive"?

He's supposed to agree with you, or not express an opinion?
Anything else short of this would be "defensive" right?

This whole idea that defending your positions in arguments is somehow a bad thing is a really odd modern development that I never understood.
Bank of Japan to Run CBDC Experiments with Country's Megabanks
I was in fact looking at some transcriptions of my recent meetings, and found one that captures how even small mistakes can make for completely not-understandable transcripts, unless they are manually cleaned up.

Manual transcription:

> So no: long story short, Slum is basically the way we can have an individual [, uhhh,] instance that carries all the licenses.

(Slum is a project name in this case)

Computer transcription (MS Teams):

> So no.

> A long story shorts. Love is basically the way we can have an individual.

> OHS instance that carries all the license.
That is the main point of the article. It was a poor choice for what they used it for and most startups aren't writing system (or even desktop) software but are building web apps.

A CRUD/SaaS web team should only be using it for high performance areas with a few microservices. At least until the web side of Rust significantly matures (mostly in the people/community side not just code).
Exactly. They'll retain a sort of zombified power and influence in organizations that they successfully captured over the last decade. But even that will slowly fade as well. You are right. They lost the debate.
Yes. I used avocados as an example because everyone is well aware how large the seed is. I couldn't find the original reference, but there's a few papers on how there are South American plants that now geographically isolated because there's no megafauna to eat and disperse the seeds.
That's how I read it as well, which would mean the headline above is very clickbaity.

Yamla: "You can, however, still edit while logged in with an account."
Thank you!

Admittedly, paywall-busting doesn't work as well with Unclutter as with the text-extraction methods. But it's still effective for most sites and there are custom tweaks e.g. for nytimes.com.

I'm thinking about improving on this actually. It would be cool to fetch the page content from web archives automatically if it detects a paywall. Kind of like the "archive.is" links people post here all the time, but with less clutter.
The actual site binary ends up using about 256 MB of ram worst case, the main problem is that in order to get more cores on Hetzner, you need to pay for more ram. I run some virtual machines on that dedi but they don't really add up to much in the RAM/active CPU cores department.

I go into much more detail about this on my blog here:

- https://xeiaso.net/talks/how-my-website-works

- https://xeiaso.net/blog/xedn

- https://xeiaso.net/blog/site-update-mastodon-quoting

And pretty much in any post labeled "Site Update". My site is kind of hilariously complicated because it has to be. :(
> Descriptive is that english longbowmen had to practice continusously.

I was under the impression the draw weight[1] was a large part of that[2].

[1]: https://youtu.be/1w8yHeF4KRk?t=152

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_longbow#Training
As long as the car manufacturer isn't selling the tunes, that doesn't really offend my sensibilities.

Arbitrarily restricting capability just so the manufacturer can make more money is the problem.
> Speed in programming never matters except in the systems space.

It matters to whoever is paying for compute. If you get some other benefit, it may be a worthwhile tradeoff, but it always matters.
Reading this on another open tab right now: https://retool.com/blog/erp-for-engineers/

Like what I'm reading.
This is an interesting question. If you’re accelerating and take your foot off the gas pedal, the car continues to accelerate until braking is applied. So if you accelerate very quickly to the speed limit, there would be a likely situation where you pass the desired speed unless you get on the brakes, which requires reaction time.

But yeah - I don’t necessarily agree with regulating it away for safety - people need to have personal responsibility. But regulations could make car companies optimize for other variables though (like distance and economy) which could be good.
> I wholeheartedly agree with his underlying message, that all of it is just distractions, that may keep you from living.

For me, it's the opposite. The internet is my life. It's the only way in which I may live in the first place.

I have autism, ADHD, and DID, which prevent me from expressing myself properly in Real Life. However, I can express myself extremely well over the internet, with close friends, and do things that you can't do in real life (multimedia and such).

While I believe some parts of the internet can be just distractions, in particular social media like TikTok and Twitter, some parts are so, so important to me, like Discord, which I use to talk to friends. And it's not important because I'm distracting myself or subjecting myself to torture. It's important to me because it keeps me in contact with other real people that I get to talk to instantly every single day and express myself in exactly the way that I want.

It's not just a distraction.
But here they got traffic by using Medium's publications, recommendation engine and getting featured in editorial content, not through search!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anfinsen%27s_dogma

> It states that, at least for a small globular protein in its standard physiological environment, the native structure is determined only by the protein's amino acid sequence.

Seems like "no true scotsman". If you present a counter example, they'll go "but this is only true for "small", the one you gave me isn't small.
> Atlas aims to be secure as possible without losing performance. We do this by disabling features that can leak information or be exploited. There are exceptions to this such as Spectre, and Meltdown. These mitigations are disabled to improve performance. If a security mitigation measure decreases performance, it will be disabled.

haha, gave me a good laugh. thanks, but no thanks.
I've hit this warning a few times where I expect to add additional match arms to be added in the future, always bugs me that clippy in that case steers you towards some change you know you'll end up undoing.
AIC Pump-Less Two Phase Cooling and AMD Genoa Edge at SC22
When it comes to gerrymandering with surgical precision I guess you could add Arizona to that list. I went from having Andy Biggs, one of the most conservatives members of congress and a member of the Freedom Caucus, as a representative to having a Democrat as a representative. Oh BTW, I didn’t move.