skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are operating under the rather naive assumption that the people and resources used in fusion research are fungible with the people and resources used in other things.

When you have a bunch of people who know how to build nuclear bombs sitting around with nothing to do, you damn well keep them busy before another country finds them a job.
> The core filtering engines used in the uBlock Origin ("uBO") extension, and has no external dependencies.

When it says that they are no external dependencies in the first line of the README, that sounds like it's not very likely to change.

Note this: you can develop the core of something complex and widely used like uBlock Origin, without external dependencies, during your free time, for years.

(edit: to be fair, it embeds 2 libraries, Regex.Analyzer and publicsuffixlist)
For people not familiar, it's a synthesizer that has a really rich user interface from the late 70s

Example:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairlight_CMI
How about you? Do you think I should be careful because I called skipping breakfast "a return to normal"? What happens when I fail to be careful about expressing my observations? Get jumped by people who urge you not to make normative statements because the possibility of you getting anecdoted to oblivion gives them anxiety?
Capital has the power so nope.
The problem with RSS is that to join the social media you need a server and normal people will never host servers. Even tech people don't like to host servers (see how many DBaaS and PaaS and hosted offerings of open-source server software exist).

Because of that I think a standard that allows people to publish their own (cryptographically signed) things on a variety of publicly accessible servers (that could be restricted or not, have their own moderation policies or not, be paid or not or have other model) is the way forward: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr
How to safely skip reading privacy policies
I was an editorial illustrator, only for a couple years, a little over a decade ago now. Thank god I no longer have skin in the game.

With Midjourney V4 I'm getting publication ready results about 30% of attempts, and the rest of the time I struggle to get stuff that's clean and on point. I tend to get good results right away, or I can't get what I want at all. I'm sure these odds will improve as the models and tools for manipulating them improve.

What's shocking is how trivially easy it is to emulate another artist's style. I have always loved and admired Moebius's work. He can convey such a strong effect with do few lines. I've studied his work carefully, learned the same tools and drawing techniques, and on many occasions have tried to emulate his style.

What comes out is a pale imitation. Up until quite recently nobody could imitate his style. Style was too ephemeral to steal. Now it's trivial.
So you're implying that Grindr users are groomers?
This shows the bubble different people live in. I literally never dealt with QR codes with respect to covid but I use them for electronics/documentation all the time.
If RSS really were popular, you would expect Google closing Reader to spur Mozilla and Apple to put even more work in maintaining their RSS readers, to attract people to them.

However, RSS was never very popular outside some small tech circles, and Mozilla and Apple saw that the same way that Google did.
It works perfectly fine on mobile and it feels really smooth :)
Here's the harsh truth: unless you're well connected, the only way to get visibility on social media is to pay someone.

This can mean:

- Paying the platform (the easiest and most scalable, but also the most expensive and arguably least effective)

- Paying an influencer for an explicitly labeled sponsored content (effective, but depends a lot on your target demographic)

- Paying a popular account to share your content "organically", without any explicit sponsored labeling (the most effective, but also the hardest to scale)

You'll find that once you get a decent amount of following, it's easy to snowball into a much larger following - provided you have content worth sharing.
One big difference: GOTO ist not bound to any scope. Which ist no wonder, its usually just syntactic sugar for an omnipresent assembly instruction: JMP.

Algebraic effects are less general and play nicer with scoped constructs like finalizers and exceptions. The downside is that they work via stack unwindindig, so they incur some performace penalties.

I highly recommend reading the original article - "Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us". It demonstrates their operation via Javascript by renaming try/catch, and I think it will answer your questions nicely.
People gatekeeping the word “engineer” is a bit annoying, since the word “engineer” dates to at least 1380 and originally just means someone who works on engines. “Engineer” as a legally super special class of job is a thing that came much later and only ever applied to certain jurisdictions anyway.

“Software engineer” is just a synonym for “programmer”, in the actually existing practice of the English language.
NASA is a way to channel money to the US Military Industrial Complex. Rockets of the form of SLS are relevant not only to space exploration, but obviously to missile and ICBM/equivalent design.

Boeing is maintained as a competitor for Airbus for national competitive reasons. As are the other contractors for NASA and the general MIC itself.

The MIC is the biggest socialist redistribution of wealth in existence, it takes $800B/year from taxpayers and redistributes it to the relevant companies, which in return, commit to providing employment and general wealth distribution.

The MIC even beats out the US Department of Agriculture, which is the most "socialist" of all the US departments.

NASA does great stuff, it's science is unparalleled in the space world, but the projects and systems that are developed, particularly for space as opposed to aeronautics (the first "A" in NASA) use space as the excuse for the wealth distribution.

There's actually nothing wrong with that. EU has had national "champions" as companies for centuries. It just doesn't fit with the conventional view that the US is a "free capitalist market".
Calgary Airbnb host warns others: create safety plan after nightmare experience
Title shortened from "Calgary Airbnb host warns others to create safety plan after nightmare guest experience" to fit HN limits.
> I don't know much about the scope of the theoretical work there. The missing ingredient is implied to be "continuations", which are not supported in Common Lisp.

„I have a partial understanding of a related concept and zero knowledge on the actual topic, so let me write a blog post“

CL condition system is a strict subset of algebraic effects (or any effect system)
That's why be don't deserve the title of engineer in software and we should stick with coder or programmer.

'Hi mate. We just bought this rebar from Alibaba, saved as a ton of money. Could you sign here real quick? We need to finish that bridge!'
Diigo is really under rated

They went down once in many years and I couldn’t use the web until it was back up.
I think he's saying it wouldn't.

He's focused on stopping authoritarian government getting involved, and has decided that other concerns are not as important as that.

In his view any type of regulation is a slippery slope to 1984 so he needs to design something which cannot be regulated.
What do you want for 2023?
Is there an information source that says he didn't massively overpay and saddle Twitter with a near insurmountable debt load? Reports are Twitter has stopped paying its bills [1], which is common when bankruptcy is inevitable.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/technology/elon-musk-twit...
He was trying to influence government policy that directly affected his business. This is like a level or two below bribing the SEC and CFTC to look the other way while breaking regulations.
TikTok would be banned from US “for good” under bipartisan bill
This should be an option for a screensaver. Well made!
Is anyone else getting cold/sick much more often these days?
I know this is probably due to the pandemic + working from home. However I found that I get cold or sick much more often, specifically in the past year.

I had covid this year in October, but even before that I noticed the pattern. For four years at uni I remember getting sick like twice. This year alone I'm sick for like 5th time alone.

I do try to stay active though, I'm running 5k in the gym regularly, I've been to the gym almost 100 times this year. I'm taking multi-vitamins as well. What else can I do to avoid getting cold so often?
That’s what you see when you read the sentences I wrote?
Solar is completely sufficient for 99% of applications.
According to T-mobile I am. Service is slow and inconsistent. Messages get delayed by hours. Calls sometimes don’t get through. Costs me $250/month for 4 phones with unlimited dat and hotspots. M I feel ripped off. I am one city away from T-Mobile headquarters.
> Should an engineer be tracking what their company is telling media outlets?

Are you serious? Make sure your ass is covered if you're doing illegal shit for your company, because they're never looking out for you over the org.
Unrelated but you most posted a comment many years back (below). Wondering if you have any tips on research / articles in this space?

> Yes, very nice. But it needs an update on structured documents (tree-like, as in HTML). And, ideally, it should be accompanied by work that addresses collaborative editing in such structured documents.
This is why tenure for fundamental research is very important. You have to be free to fail without consequences or you won't be able to take the risks to figure this stuff out.
Was that really necessary? The title of the item, to which the above reply was written, was "Solving Advent of Code with jq". So yes, "doing the same thing" here fits fine.
Interesting... In Europe, we simply build the houses using bricks, cement/concrete and beans of steel or concrete. We not waste wood, and the houses are more solid and not have problems with insects or moisture damaging the wood structure. I think that it's the usual since the 60's .

However, I saw older structures using wood beans, mixed with stone, bricks, and/or adobe.
> > USA probably won't have an effective arsenal within a century.

> If other countries joined, it would be a great outcome.

Why the optimism? Without MAD, it's nearly certain that we'd have a world war at some point in time. Sooner or later, it will surely happen. If you think it won't happen, or won't cost millions of lives, or won't employ re-developed nukes eventually, please tell me why you think so. (No sarcasm.)
Oh right! Hacker's Delight might be where I read the story, and likely I misremember the details.
Does it? I suppose TikTok did a good job of recognizing what I was interested in during the first day or two of using it, but now it keeps pushing that same content to me even though I've long moved on to new interests. You can only watch variations on the same video over and over so many times before it gets really old.

For the sake of discussion I opened the app again to see if anything had changed since I last used it. Still, I got the same kind of content that bored me away from the app last time. I'm not sure that's all that uncanny. Pretty much what you'd expect from a mediocre algorithm.

I don't really see RSS as being a curation channel as much as a notification channel, though. What RSS provides is a means to notify you when 'professional' curators have curated new content for you.
Sorry but this is completely wrong. “Mens rea” means knowing you were doing a particular thing. It doesn’t mean knowing that it was illegal.

E.g. if I take your wallet off of a table because I thought it was mine, I’m probably not guilty of theft. If I took it because I didn’t know theft was illegal, I probably still am.
People in "VC space" use laws aplenty to protect their interests as well, as is everyone else who takes part in any civilized society.
I would guess because when you're doing a hacky thing, it's convenient to go back and make a change like "x = something with x" rather than updating all occurrences.

Source: I do that all the time when trying to solve AoC problems :)
More and more, I continue to be shocked that countries in this position didn't end up letting covid run its course. Seems like after some initial difficulties, it could have helped balance their demographics a lot.
I'm not the person you're replying to, but I have a pond too.

Mosquito dunks are one way to deal with mosquito larvae without resorting to a conventional pesticide. Another is to have some kind of fish. Mosquito fish are probably best. I think koi/goldfish tend to eat them too.

https://summitchemical.com/products/mosquito-dunks/

Taro needs to be moved indoors for the winter if you're in a cold climate. Water hyacinth and water lettuce also don't survive winter. I don't think frogbit does, but regardless apparently it's considered invasive where I am (Oregon) so the pond/garden supply places don't sell it anymore.

Azolla (aka fairy moss or mosquito fern) can survive the winter. It turns red when it freezes, but it starts multiplying again when it warms up.

Cattail and hardy water lily can regrow from the roots. Same with water clover.

Duckweed is similar to azolla, but does not survive in winter. If you buy water plants, you may end up with duckweed that went along for the ride.

We had a lotus, it came back after one winter, but didn't survive the next. (Our last spring was very wet and cold, and lotus apparently like hot weather and sun.)

Incidentally, if anyone reading this is in the general vicinity of the Willamette valley, I highly recommend visiting Hughes Water Gardens in Wilsonville if you get the chance. It's a plant nursery, but they sell mostly aquatic plants, and also pond supplies and koi.
I am looking forward to a dystopian future where a region will be assigned a 911 or 112 area code if they pinky promise to never have an emergency.
Incredible. There's more here: https://oimo.io/works
Several really cool things in the language. I'm trying to wrap my head around the concept of precedence order being dynamic. And to come up with a use case when it would be an advantage to change precedence order dynamically. I'm sure people here at HN can come up with some good examples.
I'd say it's still true that it was never implemented properly.
The fact that you mention a ruling class should signify that. There was still a state, etc so it was never achieved.

That said I think it's a utopia and as such (just like many other anarchistic strains) in line with some of 'utopia's defintions it is impractical/impossible bs.
[My lack of response should not be taken as lack of appreciation for your answer. It is tremendously insightful but as I said, IANAP, so a lot of it yet flies over my head.]
> Elon Musk smeared Twitter's former head of trust and safety, Yoel Roth, by falsely and baselessly claiming that he supports the sexualization of children, in a tweet on Saturday.

https://www.businessinsider.com/musk-smeared-twitters-ex-saf...

The relevant context is important:

> Roth wrote that Grindr is not "a safe and age-appropriate resource for teenagers," but since queer youth already use it, such platforms "should instead focus on crafting safety strategies that can accommodate a wide variety of use cases."
If Chinese didn't break their economy by silly covid lock downs that _still_ continue we wouldn't have shortages in the first place.

Also I'm in favour of not calling it shortages, but "price gauges bonanza" as that is what it is essentially. Have you tried to buy a real fpga recently? Yes, many types are available, but the prices....

It is not really that surprising, if the only thing that kept prices in check was cheap competition from China and that competition was practically killed off by their own gov. Why would remaining companies not monetise this new market conditions by increasing prices?
>I'm guessing you aren't a gamer.

Followed by calling the game "Fortnight" gave me a bit of a chuckle.

Most people I know just don't buy anything that isn't on Steam. People only use the Epic store cause they give out free games all the time in a sad attempt to get people to use it more, but most people don't care and would rather stay with Steam (while occasionally redeeming some free games on Epic). As for something like GoG, they give you DRM-free portable installers, so obviously some people like that and occasionally use it instead of Steam.
Write the month as a three letter code and your ambiguity is solved.
I once made a friend who is a property developer very happy by pointing out that his new building (built with traditional materials) in Edinburgh's New Town might still be standing in a 1000 years whereas I'm lucky if anything I do lasts 10 years.
None yet, but that is being worked on.
This year, I also started to develop a language (with a simple syntax) from scratch (in C) to solve the puzzles. It is a lot of work. So, I quit after having solved three puzzles. I did it in a kind of literary programming style using MarkDownC (https://github.com/FransFaase/IParse/blob/master/README.md#m...). You can see the page with the code at: https://github.com/FransFaase/AdventOfCode2022/blob/main/Lan...
You spelt “Education” with a capital E there…
For those wondering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topf_and_Sons
thanks this is interesting. It's not something I'm an expert at but I'll research the topic
> if all productive activity was channeled straight back into public projects

How do you get people to even contribute to those projects? And who decides what good projects would be?

Why should the flawed concept of a planned economy suddenly start working for software development specifically?
The police service used to have a rule;

Sergeants have to spend at least 80% of their time working the regular
beats with street-officers. As you go up the ranks you spend more time
at a desk, disconnected from reality, but even when you reach the rank
of Captain, you still must spend 10% of your time out in a patrol car
or walking the neighbourhood.

This stops the kind of disconnected management that you speak of,
where they think they are "above" the work and will justify this with
all sorts of "management talk" about abstraction, metrics and overview
to justify the fact that they've simply forgotten how things actually
work and lost the edge.

One trick that occasionally works is to drag them back down to reality
by their ego. Ask for help.

"I'm having a little difficulty understanding problem X, and *as my
superior* I wondered if you could explain to me...."

However, in general you cannot up-manage and educate people who refuse
to engage. They lack the humility. They went into management as a
refuge from the demands of understanding and you're reminding them of
that.
AdGuard Annoyances list hits the match for it.
Sorry, I don’t know how to engage with someone who completely disregards the words I write.
It's not so much a fork as an attempt to recreate it almost from scratch no?
I don't think the source code was ever released.
Do you have week long blackouts currently? In any given year you can count on a week where a panel only produces 10%. It just has to be cloudy or rainy. However much solar we add, even with storage to get through a night, needs some other source to get through the cloudy week, unless we are ok with blackouts.
Pretty much this.

As much as I like CGP calling it "maddening" is a bit clickbaity and ignoring a lot of history there

This is like jargon, it exists for a reason, and while some choices could definitely have been better, it is what it is

Oh but there is a better choice, the ICAO codes. But the "English please" crowd is never satisfied
Why not? Why do we keep Apple responsible for Foxconn's labor practices? Isn't Foxconn an independent company after all? The reason is because we don't want evil to spread by externalizing the responsibility to third parties.
Given that a large number of those "states" are net tax beneficiaries, that first house needs to be reformed.

As for having reps of taxpayers by net tax burden, what the hell does "net tax burden" mean? Tesla is useless without roads. Boeing is useless without airports. How do we apportion the tax paid against benefits received?

It's nonsense that "taxpayers" are worthy of further representation than any other citizen. The fact that corporations pay tax should not give them rights to representation in the legislature. Unless you think of corporations as one way to "represent taxpayers by net tax burden" because they are a collection of taxpayers.
With abundant electricity wouldn't we face another type of global warming? We will would start to consume so much electricity that this will heat up the planet?
China hits back at US chip sanctions with WTO dispute
> I get this perspective from the developer point of view

I'd argue also for most end users' point of view as they will most likely get a more stable app when the average developer doesn't have to write C/C++.

> The thing is, I have dozens or hundreds of tiny little utilities like this installed that make one-off tasks that I do once a month or so much easier. I can't afford for them to be Electron based on my 128 GB SSD.

That's a fair point. I also feel the pain of installing large apps on my MacBook with 256GB SSD. But I think I would still take a large app with all the other benefits than an app that might SEGFAULT all the time, but is small because it's written in C/C++ (like what has been my experience with avidemux for example).

> On Linux, the norm is that distribution maintainers put together a package with the dependencies separate, and these are shared between multiple packages

I get this point, and I used to be an avid Gentoo user myself so I compiled everything from scratch and liked the small size and efficiency of a dynamically linked system. I think the biggest drawback with this approach is that sometimes sharing libraries with "compatible" versions will cause bugs because those versions actually have certain tiny differences that cause bugs to appear, whereas with a static build you lock down the whole dependency tree (except the OS level libs), so you know almost for sure that the app is going to work exactly the same regardless of the system you run it on.

Actually because the bundled JS itself is quite small for LosslessCut (32MB), it would be theoretically possible to bring-your-own electron (even from source), e.g. use a single system-installed electron that can be shared by many different electron apps, as well as use the system installed ffmpeg. Then you could run `electron Resources/app.asar`. It might be possible to setup such a minimal build.
That's super beautiful. Many thanks!
>Operational question, why do the DEA and ATF exist?

Same as every other specialty law enforcement agency (campus police, transit system police, etc), prioritizing stuff that the "real police" would get raked over the coals for wasting resources on. You couldn't have the FBI kicking down the doors of medium time drug dealers and suburban dads who violated some arcane statute the way the DEA and ATF do in the same way that a city police department can't justify pissing away man-hours chasing every bum that Karen calls in for pissing on the train tracks. Easier to just spend the money on a bespoke enforcement agency than to have the hard conversations about political will and how much the long tail of stuff these organizations do actually matters.
Complete drivel. Just one example

> fiat money is deeply unfair and is changing in ways that directly threaten democracy and human rights.

> decentralized network, where decentralized means ‘there are lots of computers involved’

How will "lots of computers involved" solve "Fiat money is deeply unfair"? More computers don't help fairness.