skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>My first introduction to this way of thinking was many years ago when I worked on a software development project and the project manager was extremely concerned about a single cent being wrong in the calculations

On one of of my previous contracting gigs (about 20 years ago), for a very large, USA-based financial services company, the VP hired me for a full month (at consultants pay rate, 40 hrs a week) to investigate and track down a 1-cent discrepancy in $4,000,000,000 under assets for a particular division that differed between two reports by exactly 1 penny(one generated on the mainframe/cobol system, and one generated on a custom pc based system).

Turned out it was a rounding error in like the 8th decimal place on the mainframe side. I thought it was crazy at the time - but guess his thinking was there is no difference between being a penny off, or a million dollars off - you need to be able to account for every cent.
Sure thing!

Mate is traditionally drank with a metal straw, a small "cup" (the gourd) and a bottle with hot water, which we Argies always call a "termo" (after the thermos brand, much like many people call tissue paper "kleenex"). This bottle is used to constantly refill the gourd, since each "serving" of water only lasts a couple of sips. Note the yerba mate inside the gourd lasts many rounds of sipping until it also needs to be changed.

So to drink mate in Argentina, you need yerba, one straw, one gourd, and one termo per group of people, because we share the mate. But Uruguayans don't share their mate, even though they are heavy mate drinkers, so each carries their own mate and termo under their arm, everywhere. Hence, "they are born with a termo under their arm".

It's not really a joke, more like a friendly description of Uruguayans and mate.
But my point is that you will be able to use all this stuff if they’re forced to allow the OS to be opened. You just won’t get to use their product
Either he is that obsessive artist who pays little thought to anything else, or just wasn't ready for this sudden flux of money.

He gets to work on his dream project, and is beloved by thousands of fans. Sounds like a good life to live, even if in a tiny house!
Excellent elaboration, thanks!

You eloquently summed up exactly the thought process & distaste I experienced but in a way which adds some conversational pithiness rather than the pablum of my throwaway jest.

10 points to gryffindor!
AFAIK, ChatGPT doesn't ever attempt to do math. It's not a generalized AI. It's building novel blocks of text based on its enormous corpus of sources. That corpus includes technical information, but doesn't actually understand how anything works or unwinds any algorithms. It would scan its body of text for similar division problems and extrapolate an answer from a purely lexical point of view. It's dumb, but also they didn't spend all that time, energy and money to build a calculator.
What amount of money would Alphabet need to make before you felt OK paying them $12/month for YouTube?
setjmp/longjmp (aka goto on steroid) is a better example. Algebraic effects are sort of a structured (and, depending on the language, typed) form of sjlj.
Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of consequences. Plus, twitter is a private company and can change its terms whenever it wants.
How would that work? It's not like most millionaires have

Don't expect a cogent, sensible answer to that question.
Counter example: .net c#

One compiler for 99%, one package manager, one base classes liberary, one cli, etc.
> .. even though that is a direct personal safety risk

The data is public, jesus christ. Though Musk-fans will eat this up.
It’s about a high enough number to get agreement.

Day to day citizens won’t care and would probably get behind it because its easy to point at bad billionaires who only did bad stuff because they had billions to do those things with. And tax revenue would help their lives so great … tax the rich … easy sell.

The millionaires are basically just upper middle class these days, they might think differently but it’s not hard to construct arguments based on their real life and use things they care about to get them to agree.

The multimillionaires are the toughest sell, but i think it’s probably doable. They aren’t yet detached from reality, they have causes they care about they can’t single handily bankroll. they haven’t gotten rich enough the tenth generation of their families may never need to work, they can be reasoned with.

The hundred million plus will probably on average hate the idea as they are probably in general looking at the continuation of their net worth growth and considering themselves as likely be eventually billionaires themselves… on average. Some will be on board, maybe even a significant percentage but I think the majority wont. The thing is about critical mass. With even a modest percentage of these people and all the rest…

With that aggregate group you can use democracy to make things happen even with the billionaires trying to buy the system. There are rich people on board to pay for counter media propaganda and the voting class do matter to their elected representatives as those people worry about getting votes next time.

A wealth tax at say a hundred million is so much harder to sell than at a billion.

And that’s all before you’d get into how it was structured. It would be almost impossible for the world to stop billionaires hoarding wealth in some foxhole full of gold and diamonds and valuable art and so on… but even just capping personal wealth at a billion and forcing the rest of their wealth into trusts and companies would likely be a net good as the army of money managers and businessmen would spread that money further around the economy than a single billionaire ever could.
Is that even a question? He's on the record as wanting to run a whole planet. Sorry guys, we have to make this work somehow, oxygen is now $8 Elon Dollars / month...
> That's why they come into existence: because we want them to for that purpose.

That's humans' intentions not why they come into existense. Just like you and I did not come into the world simply because our parents decided to, animals also are born not because of but despite human intentions.

I was merely replying to that one statement. Morally, I am on the fence on this, but it might be better to let them loose into the wild where they can feed predators amd contribute to an ecosystem. For example wolves kill and endanger animals so they're hunted but chicken are easy to catch and feed upon. You still have to discard their dead bodies so whh not discard them live into the wild.
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It's entirely possible the account posted different content beyond tracking the jet. It's also possible a mistake was made and the account will be restored.

When Kanye was banned for posting a swastika, people spread a rumor that it was for posting a picture of Elon looking fat.

So we have a history of there being more to it here.

Maybe we should actually find out what the account has posted recently, or see if it was a mistake, first?
Most people who have jobs do not work because they want to but because they are forced by economic circumstances. Should we abolish work?
How exactly? You can still be rich - but there will be a cap on power. That's like saying "if amazing dictatorial power is made illegal, only outlaws will amass dictatorial power". No, in fact, sometimes systems do what they are supposed to achieve, especially when it comes to things like power where we can have a conversation that the ultra-rich are usually already engaged in morally and legally questionable behaviour (Bill Gates anti-trust skirting and various anti-competetive antics, facebooks whole business mode centered around tracking users against their will,so much of Elon Musks skirting and flat out ignoring of labour and safety regulations and other recent antics...).

I'm not saying a hard cap on wealth is the best way to achieve this or that achieving any form of control of private power that doesn't turn authoritarian is possible, but in general, I'm against using these types of "you can't make the thing we do regulated, because then only criminals will do it" argument. Beer, recreational weed and medical services tightly regulated and we don't see massive crime rings build on top of them. If we regulate wealth to such a degree that most people feel like it's fair, it'll be difficult to establish proper crime syndicates around it - the question of how to keep a state that can do this effectively from being authoritarian is a much better question to raise
“The scientists say previous research had mistaken the organs as scent glands or underdeveloped versions of penises”.

That’s kind of suggestive.
It might be counterproductive If you're only running or doing cardio at the gym. Try to add resistance training and put on some muscle. It's not just for looks having a a good amount of muscle makes you healthier overall.
I understand the reasoning.
If you have a string each letter is an individual character.
You wouldn't pack two ASCII letters into a a char just because your char is 16 bit.

On such a platform, if you have the string "Hello" and would write the chars un-truncated you'd end up with "H\0e\0l\0l\0o\0" in the file.

However, if you are not writing a string, but binary data, this would mean you now loose every 2nd 8-bit byte.
If you're in a fixed location, you don't need to use a mobile network. Get wired internet connectivity, then use VOIP.
I think having a GPL implementation of a language makes it more future proof. I don't want to be able compile some source only with "rustc-v_ancient-company_name-internal_fork-no_you_cant_have_its_source" version.

Programming languages with single compilers tend to be not used in my area of work and research (HPC and Scientific Computing). Hence, I'd rather have multiple compatible, yet independently implemented compilers, per language.
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Plus, the tracking is on Elon's jet, not Elon as a person. So nothing is preventing Elon from sending his jet to NY, while flying, charter or first class, to Miami.
This seems like an old view of the current ecommerce landscape. Sure Magento is still an option, but as you pointed out it should only be considered for basic implementations where it can be used off-the-shelf with minimal customization.

Building a fully custom solution is the most expensive option today and really unnecessary. There is no reason to build your own product management system when so many flexible options exist. Just as I would never recommend building a server and push people towards containerization and the cloud, I recommend finding components that can be leveraged to streamline the custom build.

In terms of high-end headless systems, the market is large and growing. Some leading composable commerce SaaS offerings can offer free tiers and have pre-built front-ends and integrations.
You can try a "Scottish" shower. Run it warm for however long you want (think about your gas bill though:) and then switch it to cold (as cold as you can get it) at the end for 30 seconds to a minute, or alternate but finish on the cold. Even 10 seconds is good, helps keep me warm after I've left the shower.
Not just math, it doesn't grasp some simple language concepts. I was asking it to generate some project names for a hobby database project - it suggested stuff like "DataStore", "ValueVault" etc. Okay, that's a good start, then I asked it to give me name suggestions that aren't made by combining two existing words, and it couldn't get what I was asking for even after I rephrased it a few times, it just kept combining two data-related words for each suggestion.

It's still impressive that it can keep track of the context in a relatively long-running conversation though.
> Overpopulation, overconsumption by the rich and poor choices of technologies are major drivers; dramatic cultural change provides the main hope of averting calamity.

Why this extreme leftist language?

We have a problem with greenhouse gas emissions. The way to net zero by 2050 is fairly clear. It's going to be difficult, but by no means impossible. The US is well on track. China claims to be able to get to net zero in 2060. Not too bad. India wants to become a green hydrogen powerhouse. Etc.

What overpopulation? What does that even mean? What would be a "good level of population"? 6 billion, 2 billion, 100 million? The population is clearly stabilizing. Most projections say that we'll probably exceed 10 billion by a bit at some point, but then we'll start going down.

Overconsumption by the rich? Again, how much are the rich supposed to consume? Musk is about a million times as rich as the average person. Does he eat and drink a million times as much?

> dramatic cultural change

What dramatic cultural change is needed?

There will always be advocates of revolution, and bringing back the guillotine, and doing away with the rich. But CO2 emissions have nothing to do with this.
I literally started a deep dive into the current state of progressive web app support on iOS this week. WebKit does seem limited on many html apis, but I haven’t seen the bugs this article mentions, yet.

Back at the release in 2007, web apps were the original way to build for the iPhone until Apple got the App Store working. Apps became king because of the 30% cut.
> But the reality is we should just tax net worth over a million at 100%

As a reference point, a retirement account funded with $1,000,000, designed to support a $50,000 annual spend (inflation-adjusted), only has a 75% chance of lasting 30 years before the money runs out. (per default parameters on https://cfiresim.com)
Is there anything a cat owner can do, when having an indoor cat isn't an option? Some kind of collar that produces noise maybe?
I thought everyone was leaving Twitter and moving to alternatives?

Doesn't seem to have happened. Everyone's more obsessed than ever with Twitter drama.
In this scenario: how does making buying illegal help the woman?

The entire market is pushed into the unregulated black market as a side-effect of making buying illegal. This world is dominated by criminals and gangs.
I think you can always teach it a little bit, since for the chat session it holds "memory". So maybe adding/saying some basic algebra inputs it would output better or accurate results.
The glass is half-full or half-empty. We have websites and can do things I never dreamed of as a child. When I had to do product research when I was younger it meant going to a book store and pursuing a rack of magazines. Google was a startup, Amazon was a startup. I would not call them unprofitable. Back when I was young you had companies like SUN, SGI, MIPS as startups, where are they now? Our president tweets? Direct communication to people without it being filtered by N layers? I bet every president has said hate speech behinds the scene at some point. Now the curtain is being lifted. I consider that good, actually, incredible. If you think sitting in your house alone during COVID would have been better without having the internet, then just turn it off. But I don't know anybody who came to that conclusion.

In the modern world people seem to criticize things that are not perfect. That is fine to notice those things, but to let them sway your entire outlook is unhealthy and, in many cases, wrong.

Can we do better? Yes, I think so. But I don't think we are doing nearly as bad as the picture you paint.

I think the biggest problem is that the Internet accelerated change to a speed that people are not accustomed to. It might take a couple generations to adapt.
The hardware obviously isn't the only cost.

The stats I've seen say they sold roughly 80 million of these this year. To be sustainable, this $15 device would have to cost in the neighborhood of $115 each.

If they can't sell them for at least a break even price, they are likely to do what Microsoft did and shut the whole thing down --- and leave you with a cheap brick.

Their initial plan and motivation was flawed. They were expecting consumers to use these things to just blindly order stuff from Amazon --- at a price most advantageous to Amazon of course.

Consumers may be pretty stupid but it turns out they aren't *that* stupid --- enough to blindly make purchases just for the thrill of doing it with their voice. Very few are using them for this.

Why don’t you give that a little more thought.

Is this enough thinking for you?
And people wonder why I'm willing to endure a year or two of DSL until a local fiber provider lights up the town where we're buying a house. Sure, starlink is an option, but I'll be just fine knowing I'm not sending any of my money into his pockets.
I mean both ways should be available. It generally is reasonable to support mutable variables but immutable values should be supported as well. E.g. Scala has 2 separate keywords: var and val (the difference is you can't assign a val again once it is initialized). I want the same in C#, Python and other languages.
Absolutely a region specific matter, although many countries are now in the same phase. Notable large scale exceptions are China (which is going to get really weird now with zero-covid out the door) and countries like Japan where mask wearing is still common.

In the Netherlands we have no restrictions remaining, and masks are worn by around 1% of people, so this fall season saw a surge of common colds and various other stuff doing the rounds. It's particularly annoying if you have a young child (like I do), because they'll be bringing in all the viruses doing the rounds from kindergarten or school. They do so even without covid, but the pandemic definitely had some weird effects on immune systems and the normal flu season.

My family has been catching colds every three or four weeks since August this year; varying in intensity from too sick to work to mildly inconvenient, but never lasting longer than a week. I think we've had the worst of it by now.
I can still bookmark Elon’s plane on FlightRadar or ADSBExchange… this doesn’t stop anyone “geo-stalking” … it just stopped one guy tweeting it. Oh and also hurt Elon’s free speech debate credibility.
A language made to win hacking competitions prioritize speed and power as in solving a problem fast, rather then readability, debugging, performance, etc.
A stalker could easily watch the exit for the suites (where private jets go from) at the airport.
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Wake me when Twitter starts showing which users have been de-amplified:

> Twitter is working on a software update that will show your true account status, so you know clearly if you’ve been shadowbanned, the reason why and how to appeal [1]

That's the real story. This suspension is transparent and relatively uninteresting compared to the vast amount of moderation that we can't see.

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16010421251303710...
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Well, if you're asking whether capitalism and economic necessities are the root of most of our problems, then my answer is a resounding yes.
> Unless you do really stupid things with that money it’s almost impossible for a billionaire to get poorer.

"Really stupid things" like buying a social media company?
We can freely point out the hypocrisy and ignorance of the “free speech absolutists” like Musk. That would be a consequence of us exercising our free speech.
Take your general point.

However looking from the outside, it does look like democracy is failing in the US.

The problem appears to be that it's money, not the people, who have the largest influence on who is elected.

The large amount of money swirling in the system, and the pretty much unregulated use of very powerful persuasive tools - has corroded the US democracy.

Today the technology allows you to surround each and every person in their own advertising bubble online - all data driven to get the outcome the payers want.

And then the effect of the candidates needing money to get elected - and them having to sign up to stuff just to get the money.

Take sensible gun reforms - something that poll after poll suggests there is broad support - is effectively blocked by the arms lobby.
> How do you really know that the person selling sex really wants to and isn't consciously or unconsciously forced by it by the economic circumstances

You mean like every other shitty job? If economic circumstances are the core problem, then address those rather than taking away people's agency.
>> I’ve come to the conclusion that fragmentation is inevitable as a language gets popular.

That's what language standards are for.

The Ferrocene project is working on standardizing Rust and creating a safety-critical version of the Rust toolchain:

https://ferrous-systems.com/ferrocene/

The Ferrocene Rust draft spec is out:

https://spec.ferrocene.dev/

As Rust continues to improve and be more widely used and adopted, there will be multiple implementations. As you've stated, it is inevitable as Rust gets popular. (For example, if Rust becomes popular enough to displace niches that C and C++ have occupied, when will Microsoft release a Rust toolchain? When will Intel release a Rust toolchain? And so forth.)

Standards help to better define what a Rust toolchain should do and what it means to be a conforming Rust implementation.
It's fun how you refer to anything after K&R as "modern C"; since ANSI C was first specified in 1989, this means that any version since then is modern. Great!

I do agree that "immutable" would have been a better name, but I guess that angle hadn't been invented yet. :)
I prefer the encoded version of weather, TAF (Terminal Area Forecast). That makes it easier to visually scan down and see how the weather is forecast to change in the terminal area. (Is it improving? Getting worse? Is there a time when the winds change significantly [meaning a frontal passage is happening]?)

Same for a time sequence of METARs, especially when you cross-compare the METARs to the TAF (to know if the forecast is holding or was blown.)

Visually scanning the encoded text of weather is easier. (The entire NOTAM system is a mess, encoded or not.)

Raw TAF and Raw METAR for BOS below:

KBOS 141129Z 1412/1518 31018G28KT P6SM SKC
FM141400 31020G30KT P6SM SKC
FM150200 34014G26KT P6SM SCT070
FM151100 01009KT P6SM BKN050
FM151500 04011G18KT P6SM BKN020

KBOS 141254Z 29020G31KT 10SM FEW050 M05/M13 A3000 RMK AO2 PK WND 29031/1245 SLP157 T10501133
KBOS 141154Z 31018G28KT 10SM FEW050 M05/M14 A3000 RMK AO2 PK WND 31030/1125 SLP158 60000 T10501139 10006 21050 53003
KBOS 141054Z 32017G26KT 10SM FEW060 M05/M15 A2999 RMK AO2 PK WND 30028/1020 SLP155 T10501150

Here's Indy's METARs, showing generally good weather with broken clouds, developing into light rain-mist-solid overcast, then heavy rain-mist-overcast, then light rain-mist-broken clouds. (Read from bottom-up.) I'd quickly read that as improving and generally following the TAF (below it), meaning the forecast is probably a good one.

KIND 141308Z 11013KT 2SM -RA BR BKN006 OVC011 06/04 A2989 RMK AO2 P0002 T00560044 $
KIND 141254Z 11013KT 1 3/4SM RA BR OVC006 06/04 A2988 RMK AO2 SLP121 P0007 T00560044 $
KIND 141233Z 11013KT 2SM +RA BR OVC007 05/04 A2989 RMK AO2 P0002 T00500039 $
KIND 141154Z 11013KT 9SM -RA OVC007 05/04 A2988 RMK AO2 SLP124 P0003 60021 70021 T00500039 10056 20044 55011 $
KIND 141054Z 09013G22KT 7SM -RA BKN009 BKN055 OVC095 05/03 A2987 RMK AO2 SLP120 P0003 T00500033 $
KIND 141051Z 10013G22KT 7SM -RA BKN009 BKN021 OVC090 04/03 A2988 RMK AO2 P0003 $

KIND 141311Z 1413/1518 11013G22KT 2SM -SHRA BR OVC006
FM141500 13011G21KT P6SM BKN007 OVC015
FM142200 12011G21KT 5SM -SHRA BR SCT003 OVC009
FM150300 11013G21KT 2SM SHRA BR OVC006
FM150700 20012G27KT P6SM OVC009
FM150900 25010KT P6SM BKN016.