skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paging Jaron Lanier...

(oops, looks like even he is anti social-media these days. http://www.jaronlanier.com/tenarguments.html )
The book "Don't sleep there are snakes" by Everett is still a very entertaining read! I highly recommend it.
KCL – A constraint-based language for configuration and policy scenarios
KCL is an open source constraint-based record and functional language. KCL improves the writing of a large number of complex configurations such as cloud native configuration through mature programming language technology and practice, and is committed to building better modularity, scalability and stability around configuration, simpler logic writing, fast automation and good ecological extensionality.
If I hadn't been forced to file for bankruptcy, none of these crimes would have been discovered
> you can’t load whatever you please, either.

Well you should be able to. If the customer is powerless to stop it we're going to see cars and fridges playing ads at full volume very soon.
In greek "June" and "July" start with the same three letters
Disparate Fragments
The problem with metric paper is that A4 sucks for printing text—it’s too wide for a reasonable line length at 10 or 11pt, whence e.g. the sprawling margins of the standard LaTeX classes with the a4paper option; and A5 is definitely on the small side. (A single wide margin beside a long text column, like in the Berkeley physics course, Spivak’s Calculus, or Tufte’s books, is one possible way of taking advantage of wide paper, but it’s not used that often.) A period-2 infinite sequence with alternating 3:2 and 4:3 sheets, which in one form or another has been used for books since forever, would have been better, but apparently the committee(?) did not like it for some reason.
OP updates:

Thank you. The perfect way to think about this for me is this:

(X)*= X X X X X X

Here X=a or b

So,

a or b then a or b then a or b then....
C and C++ "const" is weird because it's not constant, it's just a weird name for immutable - K&R C doesn't have const, it's an invention of C++ and thus modern C.

Bjarne's book calls these immutable variables "constants" which is completely crazy, but I guess indicates that the name is on purpose. This leads to the usual C++ insanity shortly afterwards in the book...

> An object that is a constant when accessed through one pointer may be variable when accessed in other ways.

Yeah, no. If the object were actually constant you can't do that, your language has betrayed the poor programmer. You can't "access" constants, you can use them to initialize variables, parameters, and so on, but they can't be "accessed" and that's where you've gone wrong here.

Rust's Quiz has a example showing what happens with actual constants, and it's not that
Your post seems to imply that people with disabilities are not part of the "general population". Also, they are considered power users and if something they need doesn't work, they are on their own? Pretty harsh, but its a free world. Everyone is entitled to their opinion.
Amused at "everything is an expression", but also apparently there exist both if-statements and ternary-expressions for some reason. :P
Using the correct, official flag isn't exactly rocket science...
Most well-drafted civil complaints are written this way. It’s hardly confined to complaints drafted by the Government.

Legal process is driven as much by narrative as it is by facts and allegations.
I mean solipsistically we could always argue that all of “reality” is purely our own perception.

You are of course correct that our models are incomplete, and that models can intentionally or otherwise mislead.

For the sake of discussion, what would an epistemological model look like?
Other sources can do better but the problem of transferring heat from plasma erupting in a vacuum chamber lined with mirrors seems really hard to me compared to the problem you have in a natural gas power plant, say, so I'd expect even a well developed laser pulse fusion power plant to have a lower efficiency.
O2 is the only provider that still has reasonable plans with global roaming included, if that's important to you.

Grab a PAYG SIM card and test out each provider's network before you go through the pain of porting. We switched and found the signal to be literally unusable near our house, so we're back on Three. And O2 incorrectly charged us a £200 early termination fee when we switched away. Took a few months of hassling to get that resolved.
In the course of Google+'s lifespan, I had several opportunities to look at dynamics of profile and community activity on the platform.

Sampling a random selection of ~50k profiles, I found that only 9% had ever posted public content, and ~ 0.3% had been active within the past month (excluding YouTube activity exposed through G+). This itself is an interesting validation of the 90-90-1 rule of thumb for online discussion participation.

(Those results were independently validated a few months later by Stone Temple Consulting, an online marketing agency, since acquired by Perficient: <https://blogs.perficient.com/2015/04/14/real-numbers-for-the...>)

I also had a chance to look at several lists of highly-active / highly-ranked profiles over time, and found that, at least to a first approximation, more activity was a stronger predictor of later account deletion --- whether elected by the individual (e.g., disenchanted) or the platform (spam / abuse removal). This is counterintuitive at first blush but makes sense on modest reflection.

For Communities, what I found was a fantastic rate of creation and destruction. There were ~8 million communities created by the time new communities were discontinued (~January 2019), and the creation rate was on the order of thousands per day. There was also a high destruction rate, evidenced by the fact that within an hour or so, many of the communities which had been listed via a recent sitemaps query were no longer extant. I'd commented on that at the time.

For Twitter, it's highly probable that:

- Account defections are among more active members.

- Those members account for a large fraction of overall content.

- Those members account for a large fraction of significant content. E.g., not spam or bot traffic.

Of Twitter's 200m MAUs, it's likely that roughly 90% (180m) participate seldom if at all, 9% (~18m) occasionally, and roughly 2 million are the most active members. Loss of as few as a few percent of all members could see removal of virtually all substantive content.
So are O2, Vodafone and EE. It's almost like they are a cartel of shitty providers...
> lighting money on fire

It's almost as if money is just paper and has little economic value. The same criticism you made of crypto.
Thanks for the 15 million merits vibes. I think I need a shower and a nice walk outdoors.
"Software is not creative."
It is a hard implementation of creativity. Like a song on Spotify (or any other listening format) is creativity, all wrapped up and finished.

There are of course creative ways to do things. I am working with two software companies that have a problem to solve. One tries to fix the problem (a very hard problem) and is unsuccessful, the other knew it was very hard and hacked it in a way that the people got what they needed. Proper genius thinking and a super creative way of getting the solution that is required.
Native Angular support for Tailwind UI
No, I feel about the same. If anything slightly healthier.

I didn't work from home much though. Currently writing this from the pub.
For me it is simple: Capitalism searching for the next virgin real estate to "capitalize" on.

First mover advantage appetite is pushing Facebook to double down on it despite the obvious fact that the tech is not ready yet.

IMO it is going the be the 10th next big thing, maybe in 30-40 years, when we will have optical computers able to process real-life-like virtual environment auto-generated by advanced AI models (and maybe fusion reactors to power them, one can dream)

What is the rush? I see Zero benefits for humanity. It is all just bling.
My understanding is an authenticator can be a device (hardware) or software.

Yubico obviously have a vested interest in the hardware/device authenticator.

I'm never going to utilise a device as it seems to be a single point of failure and a good way of getting locked out of your accounts if device fails. And a way for hardware manufacturers to lock you into their ecosystem. And utilising two or move devices is not a valid work around, even though yubico might not agree.

This leaves software authenticators. To my understanding, this seems to be platform dependant. With Google, Microsoft, and Apple providing their own solutions. This is also not acceptable for vendor lock-in reasons and due to trust of these advertising companies.

I would only ever use this if like my password manager the authenticator was software based (hardware independent), platform independent, open source, and offline.

My issue is who controls the list of authorised authenticators. Because if it's the likes of the above mentioned advertising companies you know they want the keys to your kingdom.
Almost every element of computing has been harnessed to become a moat to protect someone's income stream.
If you work in a company where there is no one that has some idea about the laws that apply to what you do that you could check with, you would be a little concerned.
I disagree, but that aside I think the big motivator was embedded support. The reality is what OP said: companies fork GCC.
> I’ve been watching news in Asia, including from Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, and the Philippines.

It should be obvious, but so have I. What are you seeing in your news that makes you think you know more than I that there's not only a higher risk of PLA invasion, but that said risk is at all measurable in any meaningful way?

> The further China’s social order degrades, the higher the chances of an invasion.

By what basis? Try my logic: the further the PRC's social order degrades, the less support Xi will have for a foreign war. What happened back in Russia when they invaded Ukraine? Protests. Does the CPC want more protests right now?

It's moot. Think about it: if you are so certain that there will be an invasion, then you likely would acknowledge that our intelligence services are even more certain. If your certainty is so high, their certainty would be, well, probably at 100% in the next year, right? If they knew that, would they not completely mobilize our army, activate our standing militia? The PLA would know that we know, and wouldn't the invasion simply happen tomorrow?

I say this because I ask you to recognize the inherent uncertainty at all, and that the statistical probability of a PLA invasion is dependent upon human whim and global politics. If you can't tell me which way a stock is going to go confidently enough to bet your entire savings on it, there's no way you can reasonably guess whether Taiwan is livable based on risk of invasion.

I mean, if you're telling me you wouldn't live in Taiwan because you'd be afraid of an invasion, I definitely don't want to hear that you've been in a car any time in the last year, because if you're that concerned about the PLA invading Taiwan, there's no WAY you would risk the objectively, measurably higher likelihood of getting in a car accident from a drunk driver.

But don't take my word for it: in the words of a huge portion of the staff of the US state department stationed here in Taiwan (we had a dinner party recently (I have no authority to quote them on this so you know, don't run to the press)): the US State Department is skittish to a fault. If they haven't pulled staff, they don't consider invasion a realistic probability.
> unless there is a society will to end it

This is another retreat into passing the buck to a non-entity that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33982377 alludes to in talking about where "software" went wrong. Society doesn't exist in a practical sense, it's just a word that refers to a collection of individuals (and the culture/etc that those individuals share).

Individuals can do things like donate to free open source projects to keep incentives aligned with their users.

Tangentially...

> Governments exists to regulate society and set rewards and punishments, we currently reward data gathering so it is what we get.

I'd say governments exist to regulate specifically violence (e.g. punish citizens who use it in an unauthorized manner against each other). Other stuff like interstate highways are cool too, but they're easier to negotiate in a federated way than e.g. regulation of violence between states would be (short of just having states go to war with each other).

Towards the end of regulating violence, surveillance is super useful. And this is why we cannot leave tech decisions in the hands of government either, because they have incentives going to the very core essence of government to build a surveillance state.
There was never "billions" of deposits in the first place. Someone mints a coin and pays FTX 5 million to list it. Then that person pays influencers and invests themselves to get the price of the coin to go up. Now on paper that coin is worth "100 million". But in reality only 8 million dollars has been spent.
“If Sweden didn’t have the Nordic Model, I would not be alive”
I don't understand why someone would go to the bother of that. Is it just a christo-fascist thing to remove other religions or is there some other motive at work? There's a quote about "support for the women in Iran fighting for basic human rights" but I don't see the connection.

Is that version of Iran's flag used elsewhere by protestors or their supporters?
Also addressed recently by Gynn Moody at Techdirt: <https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/29/if-twitter-goes-down-in-...>

My HN submission saw little traction: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33957360>

IA are among the few actors in the digital archival space, and do yeoman's work.
> Capitalism is the natural order - it's an emergent phenomenon.

So is war and taking things by force. The strong prevail and the weak perish.
Voice assistants failed because they serve their makers more than help users
> I’m happy to pay for it

You don't, others do.

Besides, deep down you know that you are a parasite. You can do better, come on.
> Curing cancer would be infinitely more profitable than yet another crypto exchange. But humans are greedy. They won't wait for the big payday when a metaphorical marshmallow is dangling in front of them.

The problem is the NPV calculations - tying you money up from 15 years before you see a return in a high risk sector ( where most things fail ) - doesn't make mathematical sense.

What makes mathematical sense is to rely on optimists to try anyway and then buy them at the right time when you can get the most return on your investment.

This is what a company like Pfizer does - it goes around buying innovative companies - taking the products and sacking the people [1]. They are extremely successful - but if everybody behaved like that we'd be fcked.

( I over emphasise for effect - but broadly true )
Engineer doesn't imply honesty. In those jurisdiction where it's a protected title, it just implies that you have some mix of STEM topics in your degree. Software engineers, in these jurisdictions, have that mix, and are as real as bioengineers (a.k.a hospital lab workers), chemical process engineers, construction engineers, etc.

No one has had their engineer title taken away for being a crook, as far as I know. Unless the crooked thing they did was fake their diploma.

Titles won't fix this.
If you're looking for an easy-to-install version of Linux that gives you 99% of RT Linux then Ubuntu Studio is worth looking at.
Flutter app with rust core works great too.
Space debris expert: Orbits will be lost–and people will die–later this decade
Why wouldn’t you be using one of the many freely distributed BSDs if software freedom is so important to you? That’s what I do, anyway.
>Privacy shouldn’t exist for financial transactions. It makes it easier to launder money or hide wealth. There is no other use for “dark” financial transactions.

This makes a very tenuous assumption that government is always justified in any money it seeks to take away or trace, or that nobody ever has a good and even moral reason for hiding their money from a hungry state.

That's an awfully narrow view of reality or even the long history of governments becoming downright predatory.

Yes, privacy absolutely should exist for financial transactions. It's flat out naive, or elitist and authoritarian to believe that the state deserves a constant right to know where every penny you have goes and how to confiscate it whenever it pleases.
It depends on the time, it's public after the fact, but not-public during the time gap where someone like Alameda could do front-running by managing to get in other transactions before the loser's orders get executed, or before any others get the chance to take that order.
It’s not typed up on a typewriter, although it may appear that way. Back when I worked in a federal district court, we used WordPerfect on Windows to draft judicial documents using a standard template that looked much like this; I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re still using it today.
To be charitable, it seems as though the Iranian flag was simply made easy to see for Twitter posts. Doesn't seem to have a malicious undertone to it.
Full ASCII Visualizer AoC day 14
Reflections on a year studying “Consciousness and AI”
Assuming that you can charge whatever number you want. Realistically however you will have to negotiate with insurances and sometimes governments about the price of things. The second group is particularly tricky, since government make the rules.

Imagine you invent a way to cure cancer and it costs you 10000$ a treatment. How much do you charge the customer? Two times that? Ten? Twenty? At what point is someone going to stop in and force you to sell at a lower price? How long till public opinion turns against you? What if competition forces the price down? There are lot of variables that might lead to you ending up at 10000$ + a few percent profit margin.

Now imagine you have a medication that's 100$ a dosage. You sell it for 120$. That's 84 doses to cover the cost of a cancer treatment. Assuming the same markup on treatment that's 100 doses.

At this point it's the simple question what the company is more likely to get away with: Many small doses with a profit margin that add up? Or one large treatment with a big profit margin?

Right now reality shows that the small doses seem to work better. An example would be insulin. In the US it costs 30$ a dose upwards. Production costs are at less than 10$. [0] That's a 200% markup.

With numbers like these, why would you ever cure something?

[0]: https://marketrealist.com/healthcare/cost-to-manufacture-ins...
And properly prioritize the various GUI tasks otherwise they will simply get blocked by higher priority stuff. Having a real time OS and then running interactive tasks at a low priority will defeat the purpose, so there is that extra bit of configuration to keep in mind.
Ask HN: Do you make a physical product?
It could be a piece of hardware, or a non-electric item. It could be a one-off physical prototype.

Many of us create software, but I can imagine it must be particularly satisfied to create a physical product or item.
> Engineers are of course partly responsible for the things they implement.

That is outrageous. The company owners have limited liability protections. The employees should receive at least that unless they are in a position that requires specific legal training like an engineer legislatively appointed to be responsible for some safety function. Where they are appointed and remunerated specifically for their legal responsibility, in other words.

And the court cases after WWII are hardly reliable precedent. They were basically making it up as they went with fairly flimsy justification apart from the fact they had a bunch of troops still in fighting form.
The US built infrastructure efficiently too back when it was a developing country. From 1940-1980 the US built an incredible amount of infrastructure.

It’s must more efficient to build where there was nothing before than build where there is already something. Even China faced this issue with Three Gorges which took then decades just to get started.
Hey HN,

one of our goals for our product was to make it easily extendable by ourselves and our customers. To achieve this, we came up with the idea of Scriptable. At the core, Scriptable allows product teams to accept and run code from anyone to extend their products in various forms without the usual risk of running untrusted code.

In our case, we allow users and ourselves to easily extend our product (Questmate.com) with user-defined UI components, as well as logic that can run at certain events (e.g., a form is being submitted).

To give you just a few concrete examples of what we and the users of our product were able to achieve using this "magic escape hatch":

- Giving limited access to smart devices, from Philips Hue to your Tesla (https://twitter.com/sreuter/status/1597410646198394881/photo...)

- Rendering form dropdowns, backed by data coming live from Airtable, Slack, Google Sheets, and other APIs. (See video @ https://www.questmate.com/integrations/airtable)
- Sending back into an Airtable, a Slack room and others and our destinations (example use case: https://www.questmate.com/visitor-management)

Scriptable also allows you (the product owner/developer) to define your own layers, which allows them to inject everything from custom data objects to actual API clients into the global context of the function. And to top it off, you can automagically pre-authenticate HTTP requests by automatically adding headers to outbound fetch requests without exposing any actual credentials/access tokens to script authors.
Universe and dark matter obv.
nothing is stopping you to force push into github and no-one will ever know
Too many windows, panes, misfeatures I don't want, and it's also quite slow.

It's a kitchen sink even before you install any plugins, and yet all the useful functionality requires plugins.

All I want is a text editor that can quickly switch to another file, that doesn't make it annoying when the file it had open was changed, that only adds the input that I type to a file and nothing else.

Also easy integration with commandline tools (select text, pass that as stdin to a command, replace it with stdout, all done trivially without going through a billion menus and plugins), vertical selection and multi-cursor that doesn't suck, maybe a few other details, are things where it failed to deliver.
I started writing a note about how this was probably an overworked web designers who just cleaned up artifacts - and then, nah, they have left the script and in as blurry artifacts and just white-out over the symbol. It may well be cock up but honestly it's looking more like conspiracy.
Anti-Cheating Education Software Braces for ChatGPT
You can follow people on tiktok, and there's no reason an RSS reader couldn't have a recommendation engine as well.
Flickr is the best option for long-term photo storage. I gladly pay for my pro account. Good luck with the foundation!
Lucky you're past the green-on-a-black-background phase of computing then!
Hi, is this role filled? how can i apply?
This.

I'm finding increasingly harder to follow some podcasts as well.

More and more are centering their distribution through Spotify. Reason: money. Either to fund the minimum needed or to give them some margin that Patreon or similar methods are not able to.