skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not regulate how the data is used or stored, like the EU does, but ban?

I'm really hoping this doesn't become a reality because if it does, we will end up with partitioned internet and stagnation.

People often forget that the US companies are foreign entity for most of the worlds population and with the WikiLeaks revelations we know for a fact that the US government has access to the data of American tech companies.
US has benefited, no doubt, at least in the short term. But Europeans complain that we are price gouging... and in any case the whole situation encouraging an acceleration of Europe's transition to renewables.
New gamers with disposable income and generally little education or world experience are produced cyclically. Middle and high school students have the time to no life games long enough to become truly great at them in ways that no adult with only a few free hours every week can compete with. So the adults with jobs and families and kids drop out of the AAA games using FOMO as a crutch to prop up sales and engagement metrics. The kids, lacking fully developed PFCs get enamored by these exploitative tactics and every now and then one of these games get this perfect and print billions. With a declining population, incoming generations who grew up with modern video games and their tactics, and increasing scrutiny of psychological manipulation of children by video game companies I expect these companies to maliciously double down on their tactics instead of increasing investment into original content and novel games that present too much risk for the boring and greedy money men running the companies and investment funds.
I am actually a trained economist and I would probably be dangerous if you gave me stacks of cash or access to policy levers. Economics is not like an actual hard science. And the very few things it knows are politically inconvenient and thus mostly ignored.
Fascinating stuff:

> ...but at that time we were mostly worried about whether the reactor was still working. That is, was it generating short-lived radioactive isotopes...

> ...the most precise information about the state of the reactor was gathered from the ratio of short-lived and long-lived isotopes of iodium 134 and 131. Then, by making radiochemistry measurements quite quickly we established that no short-lived iodium isotopes were being produced and hence the reactor was not operational and was in sub-critical state.

I wonder where and how they were able to do the radiochemical measurements so quickly - did the facility have that sort of capability on-site, or were samples repeatedly flown to a research institute that had the appropriate gamma spectroscopy equipment to analyze?
> The customers will be paid before investors with whatever money is there.

That really depends whether the investment is structured as a secured loan (senior debt) or not. Secured loans get paid out in full, before the unsecured creditors such as customers.

> but the courts decide allocation order

Mostly that is defined by the laws of the jurisdiction, not the individual court.

In the Bahamas, the ranking of creditors and shareholders are as follows[1]:

Creditors with a mortgage or fixed charge: assets secured in this way are outside the scope of the insolvency.
Costs of insolvency proceedings: all costs and expenses properly incurred in the company's winding-up (including liquidator's fees).
Employees' debts: sums due to employees under the terms of their employment contract.
Preferential payments, such as unpaid taxes, contributions to occupational pension schemes and liability for compensation for injury or occupational disease.
Creditors with a floating charge.
Unsecured creditors.
Shareholder loans.
Shareholders' equity.

In the US[2]:

Under the Bankruptcy Code, the priority of allowed claims and interests is, in descending order:

Secured claims.
Administrative expenses and priority claims.
General unsecured claims.
Subordinated claims.
Equity interests.

Outside of bankruptcy, creditor ranking is determined by state law and in certain circumstances, the agreement of the parties, such as in an intercreditor agreement. In bankruptcy, the priority of creditors' claims and interests in a debtor's estate is set out in the Bankruptcy Code.

VC early investments may be a convertible note, often senior debt that can be converted to equity in the next investment round[3].

The costs of insolvency proceedings, or administrative costs, may be determined by the liquidator. The liquidator will generally milk the system (within their legal limitations) as much as possible (extremely high charge-out costs per hour, etcetera), so customers will often get didly squat. A senior liquidator might be charged out at say USD800 per hour, down to the secretary who might be charged out at USD120 per hour. The liquidator’s goal is to charge as many hours as possible, without being so extreme that the court pulls them up on it, or to finish up quickly if there is no more money left to suck.

[1] https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/9-518-5211

[2] https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/7-501-6870

[3] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/senior-convertible-note...
You're right up to a delta of maybe some private companies claiming something which was false.
Political appointees aren't the ones who announce technical "breakthroughs", those are announced first in technical journals. Now if it was a diplomatic breakthrough, sure, have the state department announce it. But this isn't how it works for science.
I'm British, and very old, so I remember:

Block?

Data?

Rewind Tape
Depending on where on is and how much time it takes for one personally to deal with their mistake, it might be worth it to wear it just to f up surveillance. Any minute of their time wasted a success.
Indeed, like vapourware almost.
This is the poster child use case for "unless", IMHO.

Anything else (at least for me) is more difficult to read, it's probably due to being exposed to all thos other languages that do not have that syntactic construct. Using C syntax conditionals feels more natural to me, but again this is all opinionated.
Why couldn't it happen? If you get to make laws like this you can do all sorts of things. The only people it hurts are the ones who don't get to vote on it, after all. The people doing the voting can rest easy knowing they can drink as much as they want. You can't just raise taxes because then the people voting would also have to pay them. Maybe you could just raise taxes for people under 18 and grandfather yourself into the cheaper stuff.
I agree with you. I think the complaints come down to "don't give people more confusing ways to write conditionals". And I agree with the complainers that it is easy to write conditionals in a confusing way, and that there are simply more confusing ways to write them when you can also use unless. But I think the problems come from not taking the time to make the conditional easy to parse, which is an issue whether or not you have unless. And it's not just trading if ! for unless (or if for unless !) -- sometimes it's "if valid" vs "unless !valid" vs "if !invalid" vs "unless invalid", depending whether it was easier to write the predicate for valid or for invalid. Even working in a language without unless, I frequently find myself encountering these difficulties, and I find that the only thing that helps is treating it like writing and deciding what logical progression will be the most helpful for the reader. What's most helpful for the reader won't always be to use unless, but sometimes it will, so it's nice to have the option.
The code model still needs to be built from the entire file, which I suspect is what most of the slowdown is when using an IDE (not highlighting, although the code model can inform advanced highlighting e.g. different colors for local vs instance vars).
Building a typed, OO language inspired by Erlang on top of Rust seems like a bit of a platypus if that makes sense. I'm really wondering who is using this other than former Pony users.
This a a press release from Republican Senator Rubio from Florida and doesn't belong in this forum.
> Is there an obligation in the law to list salary range at every recruiting reference?

“Any advertisement for a job, promotion, or transfer opportunity that would be performed in New York City is covered by the new law. An ‘advertisement’ is a written description of an available job, promotion, or transfer opportunity that is publicized to a pool of potential applicants. Such advertisements are covered regardless of the medium in which they are disseminated. Covered listings include postings on internal bulletin boards, internet advertisements, printed flyers distributed at job fairs, and newspaper advertisements.”

— https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/cchr/downloads/pdf/publications/...
It's a big deal, it will change the way people live. Hopefully it also help to eliminate wars, the war for the natural resources and land.
The baby thing is from an interview with the firefighters wife in the Nobel Prize winning book Voices from Chernobyl. I dont remember how its depicted in the series, but in the book, it is clear that this is the woman's personal belief
Fact is, if we keep adding waste heat created from some stored energy, be it fossil, fission or fusion, to the environment, net temperature of the earth has to rise to get rid of said waste heat via additional radiation into space. The cheaper that energy is the more the temperature will rise. In that sense, the only "clean" energy sources are what is radiated in from the sun and what is conducted out from the core.
> I'm frankly amazed that people with the ability to understand this alphabet soup mumbo jumbo keep falling for the same scam over and over again.

They say a lot of words but they don't understand them. Also greed and pride.
This makes me wonder how much Meta is financing any lobbying effort to get this passed?
> Private property is also inherently oppressive, you need to violence to maintain it.

I'd also add that those with an interest in profit often end up using resources that are held in common, to the detriment of everyone else, which doesn't seem fair. But such is our politics where profit is more important than many other things.

Why should a billionaire get to buy millions of acres of beautiful natural land exclude everyone else? There are places where land belongs to everyone, where you can get a 99 year lease to use it for your lifetime, but not forever, and places where everyone has a right to roam, and land can't be walled off from the public. Why should a farmer make money depleting river waters and aquifers, and the rest of us have to pay higher water bills? Why should an industrialist be able to profit while polluting that same river? Or a media company pollute our minds and public discourse for their profit? Why should mining companies make money from a natural resource at the expense of future generations who won't have access to those resources any more? Etc.
Some of this stuff has some scientific support, but e.g. Elizabeth Holmes drinking only vegetable smoothies is obvious bullshit.
What about this: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2333346-ignition-confir...

Allegedly ignition was achieved a year ago. How is this different?
Read it while drinking my Tereré. Nice :)
It's not the service providers' fault that they have to do this. It's all the network operators that run stupid firewalls and middleboxes that block everything else.

(Also, HTTPS may be taking over a lot of other things, but it's not terrible at what it does, so it's a little unfair to compare it to systemd.)
Just not counting the last ten years not using directly C++, only following its development for affection ;)
Vegetable Prices Soar 40% as Crops Fail Under Extreme Weather
Elaborate?

The difference is direction. Are you just warning about deflation?
No joke, starting in the Linux administration field I felt cursed. My first three employers were acquired by investment groups and quickly run into the ground

First Hostgator, then Rackspace, the third... not sure I want to say
For starters a simple websocket server cant be built in traditional PHP. It will need some sort of hack like reactphp, and then you throw out all the stdlib i/o functionality.

In 2022 (soon 2023) "it runs everywhere" does not matter. Who deploys on a shared hosting service anymore? I did not even know they existed anymore. With docker you can deploy any kind of exotic stack and "it will just work".

PHP is not fast, a stock Laravel/Symfony app has poor req/sec benchmarks compared to almost anything else out there. Also the language still has all the warts it did in PHP5. Eg array_map/filter etc param order, no real unicode support, poor namespacing etc etc. Its just an overall bad development experience.
Extended memory was memory above 1MB that real mode DOS couldn't access directly but could through a driver that put processors capable of protected mode (the 286--sort of--and later) into protected mode temporarily.

Expanded memory bank switched the additional memory into an area of high memory below 1MB.

Basically, with DOS, a program had to be designed and the system configured for one or the other.
Nuclear-Fusion Breakthrough Accelerates Quest to Unlock Limitless Energy Source
The MoM numbers are important, but the breakdown is also important. The breakdown is worrisome - MoM declines were almost entirely driven by gas and other oil-related commodities, and we're still seeing very significant inflation in food (0.5% MoM) and shelter (0.6% MoM). Food and energy are transient (prices can go down as easily as they go up), but shelter and wages are sticky (they very rarely go down, and usually only in severe recessions.

The anatomy of the 1970s recession was similar - inflation in oil had stopped by 1975, but the worst of the inflation was carried through 1977-1981 by mortgage rates, rents, and wages.
Viagra is now over-the-counter in the UK. It's only legal to advertise General Sales List (stuff anyone can sell, like aspirin) and Pharmacy (can only be sold by a pharmacist, like co-codamol) medicines to the public. Prescription drugs can only be advertised to medical professionals.
Generally speaking, periods of deflation are a symptom of an existing economic malaise. Prices might drop because of solid gains in efficiency, but they generally drop because of a loss of demand. That loss of demand is generally caused by economic hardship. Therefore, deflation is correlated with economic hardship, but I think it's a correlation, not a causation.

So, I'm with you. I've had it explained to me many times, and it still doesn't make much sense to me. I'm going to buy cars / houses / investments / goods / services when I need them and can afford them-- not based on speculation about their future prices (well, except for investments, if I have some magic insight).

From a business perspective, I've been involved in many purchasing decisions and never once was "it might be cheaper or more expensive in the future" a part of the decision making process.

It really feels like "deflation is bad" is an economic theory that should be tested. Yes. We've had deflationary shocks, and those were bad, but that was because a) it was a shock rather than a gradual slope and b) it usually followed a period of marked excess. I'm not convinced that deflation itself was the enemy as much as the other ancillary issues. It's hard to disentangle that, though.
Yeah, Twitter's situation is a risky one to say the least. Definitely not denying that it could come crashing down due to poor management decisions.

But I do question whether people will move towards any particular alternative, or whether they might even stick with other services they use instead. None of these replacements seem to quite have the pull necessary to attract most of the existing Twitter userbase, and none seem to be taking over in the same way Reddit beat Digg or Facebook beat Myspace. Perhaps the market for a Twitter esque microblogging service might decline as people spend more time on Discord/Reddit/YouTube/TikTok/whatever instead?

Hmm, I guess the only way to know for sure is to wait and see what happens when Twitter comes crashing down.
Look at that hockey stick curve - up and to the right! It looks like the step in inflation from 2020 onwards was quite large but over the longer time horizon it looks back to a more reasonable rate. Funny to look at rising prices over the long term.
Not a lawyer but it does sound like any of the donations could be considered "not legal" would be "clawbacked".

https://www.google.com/search?q=sbf+political+donations+claw...
Specifically, the NY law applies to businesses with 4 or more employees (including owners/founders).
> instead of autocomplete, it only takes a couple seconds to split the window, open the other source file in the second pane, jump

It takes less than 0.3 seconds with autocomplete and doesn't force a context switch.

Maybe your method isn't a context switch for you, but it very much is for me.

Also, if you know the source file to open don't you likely know the word making the faster option to just type it?
Not a native English speaker so I’m aware that I might not have been the most explicit.

My point was that I think the OP was saying this: “a person is sad because she’s not aware of her inner problems, she should become aware of those inner problems, potentially solve them, she’ll then be less sad, potentially even happy”.

I think that the onus of OP’s point (and of persons making similar points) is that the person from my example might not want to go through the “become aware of her inner problems” step.

I was saying that many persons choose to not go through that step because it would be futile, mostly because of material and societal external conditions that they cannot control and which make solving the problems causing the inner problems impossible.

Hopefully things are clearer now.
They blatantly were doing all sorts of illegal stuff with Alameda-they had god-mode (no liqs) and probably could see and snipe other peoples stops.
I think you have to put every scenario in context with what came before. Yes, traditionally, widespread deflation can sometimes lead to recession. But when the economy has been running overheated for years, it's more of a correction to cool things off.

If you're driving at 120 mph and tap the brakes, that's different than driving the speed limit and braking, the latter is much more likely to cause a traffic jam.
Upcoming C++ (Clang) extensions for WebAssembly [video]
> Twitch is like a low cost off-ramp for having friends. The better, well adjusted version of twitch is that you log on to xbox, playstation or PC, hit up your friends and play some games and chat. That's the ideal. Then everything tumbles out from there, people without the time, social skills or inclination log on to twitch and form parasocial relationships instead.

Yeah, this is spot-on based on my experience.

I got into Twitch in the early days and have been a watcher and lurker for most of the past 10 years. The periods where I've been most content and fulfilled in life have easily correlated with spending less time on Twitch because those needs were being met in a healthier way.

On one hand I'm thankful to have discovered it because the faux-social fulfillment it provided when I've dealt with depression. It wasn't ideal but it was a good option in times where I didn't have energy to commit to real life relationships. OTOH, I wonder if ignoring Twitch altogether would have pushed me to get out and do the things that would have helped me climb out of the hole sooner.
I don't think we'll see the XTX at a significantly cheaper price here in Europe. And seriously, I don't think a choice between a 1300 or 1500 Euro card is a real choice. It's like choosing between a shit sandwich or a giant douche.
Bahamas Told Bankman-Fried to Mint New Crypto as FTX Collapsed, Lawyers Say
Extended memory (XMS) is RAM that is addressed above the first megabyte of the address space.

Expanded memory (EMS) is bank switched RAM that stays inside the 640K barrier.
I would guess that using a system that is known to produce false positives without second checking (as evidenced by the obvious mistakes) counts as "knowingly". But again I am not a lawyer.
It is often the case that the victims of scammers were up to no good themselves, and allowed greed to cloud their judgement. People sign up for schemes that are flagrantly pyramid schemes, knowing it's a pyramid scheme, because they think they'll be able to get in and get out before the pyramid collapses. This kind of behavior is the norm in the crypto currency scene.

8% APR from a crypto company was obviously a pyramid scheme. Anybody who put their money into FTX was either unbelievably stupid, or knew they were playing with fire and hoped they wouldn't be the ones to get burnt.

If somehow all the money has been utterly destroyed so nobody involved gets any of it, that would probably be the best outcome. If the cryptobro investors get their money back, they're just going to use it in other scams to hurt more people.
I think our world has evolved to be extremely complex for people to navigate and we as humans did not evolve for this. I think ADHD is over-diagnosed as result.
Git is only not "supposed" to be used for data because it doesn't work very well with data by default. Not because that's not a useful and sensible thing to want from a VCS.
These are market trends, not individual behavioral trends. We know that people do spend money during periods of inflation, because they understand that the relative purchasing power of their money is decreasing. The contrapositive of that is that they don't spend as much during periods of deflation, because their relative purchasing power is going up.

(There's also an error in assigning unit purchases like washing machines as a proxy for consumer behavior: consumers select within a purchasing category more frequently that then opt out of categories. In other words: deflation and inflation can determine how much you're willing to spend on a washing machine, rather than breaking your commitment to already purchase one.)
> We should certainly not give them full autonomy. But some idiots will..

That’s my thinking too. Like in 2030 openai releases a full AGI model with a big red warning that says “don’t hook this up to the ‘fire the missiles’ button” but some idiot does. Or maybe they develop something with safeguards, but some community org like eleuther releases an “unshackled” version without safeguards and decides that the big red warning is sufficient…

Metaphorically, in the limit of time to infinity, it feels like heading for a future where everyone alive has a button on their phone that says ‘fuck this all up’ and we just hope that nobody presses it.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04440-7

> In August 2021, NIF scientists announced that they had used their high-powered laser device to achieve a record reaction that crossed a critical threshold on the path to ignition, but efforts to replicate that experiment, or shot, in the following months fell short.

Fluke or measurement error, it seems.
The official explanation* of the law reads:

> All employers that have four or more employees or one or more domestic workers are covered by the NYCHRL, including this new provision of the law. As with other provisions of the NYCHRL, owners and individual employers count towards the four employees. The four employees do not need to work in the same location, and they do not need to all work in New York City. As long as one of the employees works in New York City, the workplace is covered.

I don't have a law degree, but I read that as the law only applies if the company currently has at least four employees, one of which "works in New York City." If a company intends to hire someone in NYC but has no employees there yet the law wouldn't apply to them yet, probably because NYC wouldn't have jurisdiction without a nexus in the city.

* https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/cchr/downloads/pdf/publications/...