skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what I thought too but it doesn’t make much sense.

My understanding is they fumbled around in the dark until they found something people might want and later, once they started building it out, they started getting pull requests.
Or better still, to something that actually lets people know what the topic is.
The shockwave (which travels ahead of the cracks) travels at the speed of sound of the material.

I'd hazard a guess the shockwave propagates about twice as fast as the cracks.
We have no online games and no YouTube as base rules. We pick games that have some meaningful interaction to them. Games like Minecraft, Jurassic Park Evolution 2, Cities Skyline, old Sierra games, puzzle games. It's time boxed and only after responsibilities are taken care of like homework and helping out. I prefer they game over watching tv passively.

I am considering getting rid of consoles and just getting them steam decks instead as their first computers and then do some modding with them.
Do people in tech care?
You can’t compare writing blogs or early YouTube to current trends: short videos, addictive productions, irrelevant contents, etc.

My son has a friend who can watch YouTube and Tiktok for hours without supervision. When he comes home I freak out: he gets bored watching a movie, music videoclips are too long, and if you try to read a short story at bedtime he doesn’t even listen to you.

It’s not about using computers and participating in online communities but undermining their attention, vocabulary, etc.
They make surveillance cameras and "smart" home tech. Two types of product that are anti-privacy when not run completely locally. Not surprising at all.
The fact is, the vast majority of programming IS just dredging up a best solution and modifying it to meet your specifics. Some of the best and still most current algorithms are from like the 60s.

That doesn't make neural networks "smart", and instead says more about our profession and how terrible we in general are at it.
If you're trying to do fair taxation do away with "profit" taxes entirely. Not like any of us plebs get to dodge taxes by spending our income. Subtract what the company spends on salaries from its total revenue and then charge them 20-30 percent of the remainder just like the rest of us pay. "Corporations are people" after all. Toss in a seven percent sales tax on all stock purchases.
"Matrix is the secure real time alternative to SMTP" I stopped reading there.

I used Element in the past and Matrix is a clusterfuck.

Python server slow, Go server not feature complete.
Channels available uninteresting, mostly cryptocurrency. A few porn channels, that's it.

I wish it wasn't so.
If anything Matrix is a replacement for IRC, absolutely not email.

Then, I am absolutely NOT installing a Bundes-anything on any of my devices. I can't trust a state that has multiple state Trojans.
1. Current (default) state: toilet broke.

2. I call plumber.

3. Plumber fix.

4. New state: toilet work.

kqr: "Hi Mr. Plumber, could you let me know when 3-->4 happens. I need to use it once you're done, but I'm busy and don't have time to micromanage or continuously observe your work on the toilet."

(plumber's gaze narrows) "No. Fuck you, kqr. Fuck you, I'm not telling you jack shit. I have rights and dignity as a professional."

kqr: Wow, what a great plumber. I'd hire that person again.
Jitterbug Perfurme, like most of Tom Robbins' novels, is just filled with gold nuggets on every page.

Reading him is like eating mushrooms and strolling through the garden of eden.
You can be fired from the company for breaching any employment agreement or any policy. But That doesn't mean - noncompete agreement cannot be forced.

Else, all employees will find a way to get fired from the company and avoid noncompete agreement.
Exactly correct.

The techniques for repair of radioactive equipment are still in their infancy, and seem to progress only with each accident (due to their inherent costs). Robots die in minutes in a hard radiation environment, and we don't make any new microprocessors with rad hard techniques (though maybe RISC V will change that).

From a safety critical analysis POV there has been a huge change in technical capacity over the last 20 years, but no one in the field would say we're close to strong safety, especially now in regards to software intensive systems. IoT just isn't going to be the same with radiation, you can leap from a correct state to an unsafe one at any point, dozens of bits being flipped every second, transistors misbehaving, faults between silicon layers... Completely unrelated logic is in the same fault compartment of critical trusted logic.

So if you have 50 reactors, that's 50 control systems, plus the shared infrastructure (water/electricity/data/fuel in and out, fire suppression). If you remove one for refuelling you're moving/vibrating a radioactive system with lots of pipes which are now fragile due to radiation. All the stress analysis techniques we use on planes are very hard to use on plants due to lack of access. It seems to me like we're just beginning to understand the complexity of SMRs and, contrary to the PR, they will take a long time to mature.

Everything about nuclear is nonlinear and coupled. Production line techniques are all about equipment that operates in the known region, and the consequences are not too bad when it departs from that because the operator is at fault.
That's called false dichotomy.
..and we haven't even touched on gut flora, how that is affected, and how it effects us.

Good post
In my head I picture these models like if you built a massive scaffold. Just boxes upon boxes, enough to fill a whole school gym, or even cover a football field. Everything is bolted together.

You walk up to one side and Say "write me a poem on JVM". The signals race through the cube and your answer appears on the other side. You want to change something, go back and say another thing - new answer on the other side.

But it's all fixed together like metal scaffolding. The network doesn't change. Sure, it's massive and has a bajillion routes through it, but it's all fixed.

The next step is to make the grid flexible. It can mold and reshape itself based on inputs and output results. I think the challenge is to keep the whole thing together, while allowed it to shape-shift. Too much movement and your network looses parts of itself, or collapses altogether.

Just because we can build a complex, but fixed, scaffolding system, doesn't mean we can build one that adapts and stays together. Broken is a more likely outcome than AGI.
XP was the first Windows with phone-home DRM.
> the only people to lose out were VCs

and the teachers' pensions that went into funding those VCs
Poisoning the entire planets food chain with mercury on the other hand…
That would be just shitty for kids. Your parents are from A and B, but live in C. A and B are hard to enter without citizenship and impossible to live/work in long term without it. If you limit multiple citizenships, you basically kick the child and limit their family access without any reason in that situation.
His death wasn't a freak accident, it was a predictable consequence of him going into Alaska unprepared. He shot a moose and let it rot because he didn't know better and didn't bother to learn first. This was hubris; Alaska is not the place to fake it until you make it.

Anyway, my critique of McCandless is mild, talk to some Alaskans if you want to hear some proper vitriolic criticism of him. I barely scratched the surface by accusing him of hubris.

If you mean my criticism of teens idolizing McCandless, I don't know what to tell you. He isn't a good role model. There are obviously worse role models, but he isn't a good one.
Bring card games, dominos or board games like carcassone junior. The kids will entertain themselves. Set is also very popular.
I think things have become MUCH more addictive as monetization and engagement have evolved.

In the your era there just weren't the sort of a/b tested hooks to get you in, behavioral techniques to keep you engaged and dark patterns to prevent you from leaving.

gotta watch out for your kids. Get them outside, with fresh air and exercise.
I agree, this is excellent! Honestly, shame on Microsoft that these sorts of things have to be a community-produced and delivered. Not singling Microsoft out, either--most software vendors' support for older products is abysmal. I'm tired of the attitude in the software industry of only maintaining back to some arbitrary time (mere years!), inevitably leaving users of older systems out in the cold. Unpopular opinion, but if you can't be assed to support a product for the duration that it's deployed in the field, you probably shouldn't release it to begin with.
A lot of words and not a single source. That’s one thing I’ve noticed from the crowd that is pro Russian they rarely if at all give out any sources.

> It's the proxy war that the US wanted, with over 100,000 dead Ukrainian troops, over half million or so casualties, and Europe in the process of de-industrializing

Let’s not forget the massive causalities and decimation of the Russian military it’s going to take them decades to get back to where they were before the invasion.

If they ever do. But that’s okay I’m sure the February mobilisation will go much better than the last.
And literally throwing random half junk unit tests at your code will better test it than you writing unit tests that are blind to the problems it might have because you wrote both and both bits of code have the same blind spots.

We should probably be developing systems that fuzz all code by default.
The same channel did a follow-up with rifles here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5MORochIDw
> if UK provided 100% of the labor shouldn’t UK get 100% of the tax to support social programs for that 100% labor?

The UK gets 100% already from the income tax for their workers.
Several Mastodon URLs Flagged as Malware on Twitter
An hour of my time? I wish. The fact that the work you’ve done in the cycle is finished regardless, but depending on how you write about it can impact your rating and compensation going forward really stresses me out.
UWaterloo Steam Tunnels (2016)
I wrote "Crafting Interpreters" and read and very much enjoyed Thorsten's interpreters book. (I haven't gotten to his second one yet.)

They are surprisingly alike. Mine takes you through two complete implementations of the same language: first as a tree-walk interpreter and then as a bytecode compiler. His first book does the former and his second book does the latter.

Both are written in an informal friendly style and focus on working code. If you like one, you'll probably like the latter.

Mine uses Java for the first language and C for the second. Thorsten's books use Go for both. I think mine has more background information, theory, and historical context. His will get you to a working interpreter with less prose to wade through.

I think it's mostly a question of style and preference. I'd dip into the first chapter of each and see which resonates with you.
The first link would have stood on it's own as a post.
public internet from an S3 bucket https://twitter.com/Paul_Reviews/status/1596048648416423936
Yeah 3SE is the best of the lot. But how is it interesting here?
Elon’s Commitment to Free Speech Rapidly Replaced by His Commitment to Hypocrisy
They clocked the glass at ~3,000 mph so it'd be a lot closer with 5.56 being ~2,000 mph. The fastest production bullet I believe is .270 Swift which is over 4,000 fps depending on barrel and conditions.
You are not understanding the issue. Revenue can be trivially made to disappear, and this is what actually happens when governments tax revenue.

Revenue is recognized as the size of a sales transaction. The number of sales transactions required to build and sell a given product can vary enormously based on the structure of the business, usually as a product of optimizing for efficiency and specialization. When you tax revenue, businesses have a large incentive to restructure their business to optimize for minimizing the number of sales transactions in the course of building the product, because revenue taxes essentially compound as a function of the number of transactions which is then a cost of business. The compounding is why revenue taxes are so low, usually around 1%. Being tax efficient lowers your costs more than being business efficient, leading to bloated and non-competitive companies.

I've operated a business under one of the few revenue tax regimes. The perverse incentives to verticalize the business structure are very real. Revenue taxes add up quickly.
If you wanna put the tinfoil hat on, having a political flamewar between renewables and nuclear is so ideal for fossil fuel companies that it almost looks deliberately architected.

Nuclear proponents are rarely if ever against renewables on principle, but rather claim they aren’t delivering on their promises. The environmentalists OTOH have been radicalized to be opposed to nuclear in a dogmatic way, are entirely against improving it by lifting research bans etc. The “nuclear is not economically viable” argument seen in recent years is dishonest from the majority of critics; they were against nuclear before and will be in the future, independent of economics and regional viability of wind & solar.

Meanwhile, coal, gas and oil are doing absolutely splendid – even countries with a strong environmentalist ethos can easily be convinced to expand their fossil fuel dependencies during a crisis, when their citizens can’t afford to heat their homes in the winter.
Linux Foundation announces Maps Foundation to build interoperable Open-Map data
Did ChatGPT write that article?
Most likely Preview.app's built-in annotation tools
Roots. When that starts, its important to stay active. If you stay in one place too long you take root and it becomes much more difficult to move, even for the most trivial things. cf. all the "couch potato dad" tropes.
As did I. I was excited for everything until 8. I even liked Vista, since I was installing it on a real computer and not a 256MB shitbox. Still miss Vista's ability to dock My Computer as a desktop toolbar.
Paper and color pencils. Speaking to them, listening to their stories, asking about the place, playing to “guess what I’m watching to”, etc.

If friends expect my son to act as a dog, it’s their wrong.
#tedpilled
It’s “fair” only in that it’s understandable and somewhat enforcacble (and not possible to avoid with loopholes).

It’s not fair in the sense that the right countries necessarily get the tax money - but it’s certainly more likely than it is today.

It’s not fair in that it guarantees businesses aren’t taxed too much or too little, but it does guarantee that the profits are taxed somewhere which ends the incentive to shift the profits around.

Perhaps “fair” is the wrong word. I mean “fair” as in hard to evade overall, not fair distribution.
Big deal. Does it solve mysteries in Brooklyn alongside a multi-cultural group of middle schoolers?
There's a good discussion of this at https://medium.com/the-technical-archaeologist/is-cobol-hold....

It starts off by suggesting that it's all about how COBOL's superiority stems from having support for Binary Code Decimal as a language-level element, rather than having to be imported via a library (the overhead of which really starts to matter at the volume of transactions which COBOL is typically required to handle). But then broadens the discussion out to argue that the intrinsic shape of the COBOL environment "stack allocation, pointers, unions with no run-time cost of conversion between types, and no run-time dispatching or type inference" is fundamentally different from languages like Java or C#, and those differences provide provide performance benefits which cannot be easily obtained in those other languages.
Please educate us how companies are hiding profits in tax havens. Asking for a friend.
I largely agree, but I've not banned it. I just have explicitly told them they can only watch from the subscriptions we've curated. It requires monitoring of course, so they'll watch it on tv (Apple TV) when I'm present. My kids are young enough that they're never alone. Once they're not, I've been thinking if I can write a MITM proxy at home for youtube that somehow only allows content from explicit channels.
Or to put it another way, being ironically literate and contemplative is still being literate and contemplative.
Most nice brokerages will cover the float for the settlement as long as you don't try to withdraw the money outside of the brokerage. Also it's T+2 days now in the USA at least. So this is mostly a non-issue in practice and has nothing to do with your actual complaint. ACH is T+2, Checks and everything else is T+2 to T+5(some paper checks can take 5 days to fully settle). This settlement, like the other commenters have mentioned is to fix any problems. I've seen giant companies screw up ACH payrolls, that they have to recall every ACH and re-submit. This T+2 is to fix those mistakes. Brokerages screw up sometimes too. T+2 let's them fix those mistakes. Yes automation and technology could make it all instant, but human error still happens, so T+2 is there to fix the human error, without having to reach out and undo transactions that have landed.

No trades are guaranteed because you have to find someone willing to take the other side of the trade. This applies pre or post market. Some brokerages are happy to let you try and trade pre and post market, but that still doesn't mean you can find a buyer or seller to complete your trade, much less trades happen, so it's much harder to fill them. Large investment firms don't really get special treatment here, like you seem to think.
Most of the journalists who were banned have migrated to Mastodon, which is also experiencing another mass influx.

Here’s where to find a number of the journalists and their comments on the matter.

Drew Harwell - Washington Post: @drewharwell

https://mastodon.social/@drewharwell/109521080922564404

Micah Lee - The Intercept:
@micahflee

https://infosec.exchange/@micahflee/109524130416499487

Donie O'Sullivan - CNN:
@donieosullivan

https://mastodon.ie/@donieosullivan/109524027127413582

Steve Herman - Voice of America: @w7voa

https://journa.host/@w7voa/109523461810765374
One does not simply avoid paying taxes with an LLC unless your gross income is minute, tax deductible expenses are huge, or your losses are huge. IT IS NOT SOME MAGICAL LOOPHOLE. It is hard enough to stay afloat as a business without misinformation like this being spread.
what does it mean to "qualify" a sign-up? I'm really not sure what this app does from the site.
Can't you just use something like a bloom filter?

There is a bit over 1B passwords in there (based on the size of the file and the length of the line). You would need a binary file around 3GB in size that would have to either load into memory or do about 17 accesses to read specific bytes ( no searching) to figure out if the password is in the filter.
I guess you missed the news that Elon has banned journalists reporting on his @elonjet ban?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34008383
I wonder what aspects the first stories will focus on - will it be the grand Space Opera of the Heresy, a focussed and grizzled trench warfare series with the Guard, the crazed gangs of a hive city and the Arbites sent to police the broken city, Big E reconquering Terra in the Unification Wars.

Soooo much possibility.
GPT can be the generative (imagination) part of a system. The second part would be a system to validate. This means you can filter out the junk and keep the good samples, extending the training set. This is how the model can learn by performing massive search for solutions all on its own. A bit like AlphaGo.

So you might want to reevaluate it. It can sample really well, and it is hard to sample coherently in this combinatorial space. Sampling is half the task, validation needs more work.
I always refer to this as Computer Science 101.
Do the word thang! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMsOKTJNdN8

Fun fact: Some of my private projects still define the symbol LJBAD_DEBUG, which was inspired when I saw the Max Mouse arc of that show when I was a kid.

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/130/
Good god I'm not alone. For me it's fascinating that an AI can make sense of that garble of words. I spent 4 minutes trying to read it and gave up.
Most startups are never profitable especially in the unsexy spaces like travel agents, used car dealerships, etc.
How the hell is it mysterious? It is just cherry-picking the commits then setting the branch pointer. Merge is the evil one because you can hide any changes you like in the commit.
Here [1] is a more detailed description of the situation (post #23).

I'm like 98% oriented towards Thinkpad E14 gen2 AMD Ryzen3 4300U 4 cores (1, 2) due to backlit keyboard, aluminum casing (sort of mil-tested), IPS
FHD display (which I hope to have at least 250 nits of brightness), no PWM flickering and USB-C charging port. 16GB RAM and 512gb or 1T SSD.

[1] https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2481902&page=3

My current budget is 650 euros (getting from suppliers in Baltic EU), gen 1 or 2 may fit, if other specs are ok.
Those who care about government stifling speech do care.
> BWI.. also funding work to provide MLS as an option for E2EE in Matrix, https://www.golem.de/news/bwmessenger-vom-messenger-der-bund...

Good news that BWI is funding a Matrix implementation of the multi-vendor IETF standard MLS group messaging E2EE protocol.

The (translated to English) linked reference doesn't mention MLS, is it correct?
non-competes aren't enforceable in california: https://www.perkinsasbill.com/are-non-compete-agreements-enf...
Some risk and complexity is just intrinsic. Flying is risky because of hitting the ground. Nuclear power is risky because of the nature of radioactive material. Mitigating those risks add complexity and cost.

You need more redundancy, higher quality materials, better QA, more pro-active maintenance, more security, etc. And many of your staff will need to be very highly trained and expensive. This all adds up in terms of expense and timescales. Flying may be cheaper but we all still drive!
> Slow Horses too

S02E04 that came out today (Friday) had me uttering "He's so fucking good" out loud, despite being alone in the apartment. About Gary Oldman, that is. The way he hates absolutely everyone and cares about nothing, while showing that he deeply cares about his employees/Joes and justice. It's all there in the writing too, of course. There's just something about the way Gary Oldman portrays it that gives it an extra layer of authenticity. The man can act.
Not very well unfortunately. The author's confusion about how binary search works is preventing progress toward this solution. The idea is to do an "unbalanced" binary search, with the pivot chosen as offset (range size * big-endian value of hash / (maximum possible big-endian value of hash + 1)). Correctness is exactly the same as correctness of binary search, because the correctness of binary search does not depend on the offset of the pivot (so long as it's not zero or past the end). At some heuristic range length, fall back to linear search of the range. (Possibly, at some larger length, fall back to balanced binary search... But with efficient linear search of no more than a couple disk pages, I doubt this would help.)
Nuclear plants absolutely should take longer to build than a coal plant. Of course coal plants are awful and can cause environmental disasters, but when there is a flaw in their design or construction they don't make an entire area uninhabitable for a generation or more.

Once more for the people in the back; we do not need nuclear. Renewables and storage are cheaper, faster and less risky.