skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bezos and Musk are so rich because they own many shares of their companies. Those shares are valuable because of the labor of hundreds of thousands of people. It is these people the hundreds of billions of equity should flow to. Bezos and Musk aren't much different to feudal lords taking from their serfs.
They sure could have picked an acronym that wasn't also the winsock function prefix, though.
Same with me when I was a teen and all my friends had motorcycles, several ending up being basket cases.
Don't let the idiots get you down - the world is, and has been, becoming friendlier to little niches of people over time. The smart weirdos have been kicking butt for a long time now (at least the ones that can get to a friendly enclave) and this is set to grow exponentially.

And if you're still pessimistic, consider this.
A person I otherwise rabidly disagree with once said "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun". Well, military power is also now accruing to those with the best ideas (see all the drones and cyber-war lately).

The world is slowly turning into nerd paradise!
> China seemed to stick with zero-covid for too long and never did get a vaccine that produced a strong and long lasting immune response and refused to import a vaccine.

Asia, Africa, South America used Sinovac. If it was 'weak', there would be catastrophes all around. Since there isn't any such catastrophe anywhere, its not a matter of Sinovac being weak - its a matter of Pfizer lobbyists being dominant and wanting to push their product through entire Angloamerican establishment, and doing so through both the state organs and the corporate media.

First, China 'had to reopen'. Then, China is immediately 'in trouble'. Now, 'Xi is hesitant to accept vaccines', for some reason, despite China having a variety of domestically produced vaccines -> but obviously, the lobby push to export Pfizer was done and failed in China with China preferring its own vaccines. Hence the new smear job against China's own vaccines.

The mere progression of the headlines in the past 2-3 weeks can tell one what is the highest level geopolitical/corporate play that is being done.
If Anthropologists are hostile to empirical methods, anthropology is not a science.
https://archive.ph/YJWo7

For 16,937 students, Stanford lists 2,288 faculty and 15,750 administrative staff.
An open garden cannot compete with Facebook, Twitter or Spotify. We need regulation and legislation which clearly outlines what is and is not okay, while creating black box behaviours that is impossible to navigate.
Congrats on launching! Your game looks polished, consistently thematic, and I feel intrigued by the "magick" mechanisms hinted on the landing page.

I'm curious what marketing mobile games looks like in 2023. App store optimization? Buying app store ads? Getting people to review your game?
Loot boxes are generally not considered gambling because you don't wager anything and don't win money. They are very much like a kids version of gambling though!
That's assuming the companies managing those bodies/warehouses haven't gone bankrupt and chucked the bodies in a dumpster in that intervening 40 years
Wow...Glad some publicity is spent to showcase how out of touch some people in the administration had become ...
I know, it's awful isn't it? The irony of an article about detailed low-level optimisation of memcpy (which is probably being used unnecessarily anyway), re-implementing scrolling in javascript...

You've got to admire it, really.
Wow, thank you, what a fascinating show, lots of episodes on their channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@ComputerChroniclesYT/playlists
If there’s enlightenment to be had, don’t withhold it.
Yep. Even as the US loses ~100,000 people/year from covid despite the all-mighty Pfizer vaccine having been made de facto vaccine by lobbyist pressure, the US corporate press is busy smearing China and China's vaccine for being 'weak'. Despite entire world from Asia to Africa to South America having used it.

But of course, China must reopen, then must import vaccines and it must be Pfizer. After all, it was possible for Pfizer lobbyists to neutralize literally entire competition in Europe and push Pfizer as the de facto singular vaccine - why should not they try the same in China.

...

Capitalism creates the worst incentives.
Elohim, God on high.
Yeah, same here, along with the sound of them rustling through the grass! There were many times where we would be walking on a trail, I would stop, and say "there's a snake over here" and pull a snake out from the cover of grass!

Its always made me wonder how members of indigenous tribes, that hunt and gather, perceive the world.
Isn't that cute? So any financial system that is not under tight control by the west is now dangerous, a threat and an attack on the west. Might as well conquer these countries again and steal anything from them 1800s style.

That being said, Tether USDT is priced (and supposedly backed) in USD. Is the USA part of the West?
The Stormlight Archives by Brandon z Sanderson. I'm on book 4 now eagerly awaiting the release of 5. Easily one of if not the best series of his.

Life before death.
Strength before weakness.
Journey before destination.
I think they just mean reproduction?
Terry Hall: lead singer of the Specials dies aged 63
Did your parents build 2 additional units in a building detached from their house and charge rent, including to people who weren't you from day 1?

If so, then yes. (Assuming it didn't fall under accessory dwelling unit rules.)
Carlin's bit on soft language has, sadly, never been more relevant than today.
Selectql.js: Manipulating Objects
SelectQL.js is inspired by Structured Query Language (SQL) for accessing and manipulating Objects in an easy and familiar way. It supports complex Objects and Arrays using Builder Design Pattern.
It's not an addition. It's a totally separate building with four rental units.
> Most of exceptions are unrecoverable (that's why they are called exceptions), the best course of action is to crash, which happens by default.

This is why D separates exceptions into two categories:

1. Error - these are not recoverable. The only reason to catch them is to maybe try to save some state or log a message or shut down the reactor before crashing.

2. Exception - these are recoverable

(I'm being facetious. Any system design where, while unwinding a fatal error, one relies on it to shut down the reactor is a horrible, terrible design.)
Futurama?
Enforcement is only as good as the records available to ascertain the facts.

Imagine installment sales where the original seller transfers their right to collect the remaining balance to two separate companies. How does the original buyer have any confidence that their payments will be applied correctly if they are reliant on and beholden to shoddy records of the seller or some third party?
there is relatively little correlation between conformism and intelligence

a world dominated by military power is not a nerd paradise

consider the plight of the iranian nuclear scientists
I hate seeing people in camera. I don't want to know if you are deaf or have four eyes. I don't want to know your disability.

I'm here to offer to information for anyone. If you're not able to hear me, I'll adjust. When I know about your disability I cater to you which reduces our growth.

I wish more people realize that cameras affect vulnerable populations.
Binance is a scam.
> causing them to cross without a walk signal.

SURELY one always looks out for traffic, even if it is green for you!
> There's an implicit assumption that someone in the future will be bothered to resurrect a frozen body

I imagine that mad scientists, in general, suffer from a lack of test subjects. I'm pretty sure the future will find something to do with frozen humans who signed up to be resurrected.
Too soon to say. Seattle just opened up zoning after fighting a bunch of nimby pushback.

Prices seem to have fallen very very recently. Hopefully the upzoning helps more.
It's a tool of social positioning, and helps an academic precariat oust incumbents in fields where there really aren't a lot of positions and whose degrees are good for little but academia or being political commissars at organizations that actually do something useful.
Can we please stop using common names for new technologies? will make it harder to reference in a decade.
> What if we had a language that only had checked exceptions and forced you to deal with anything that can go wrong. Launching a program? You better have some code to deal with an out of memory exception, or some code for dealing with a stack overflow exception. Working with some maths? Well, you better define what should happen in the case of number underflows or overflows, as well as division by zero or whatever else can be inferred by what operators you use. Dealing with a network? Well, be prepared to handle dozens of types of network failures, the brittleness of networks being laid bare to you. Want to deal with reflection? Well, there would probably be none, to avoid too much dynamic behavior.

> It's rather obvious why we don't really have languages like that, but at the same time - if writing code in a language like that would be "possible", then surely there's a domain or two out there that might benefit not just from enforced 100% test coverage, but also every single possible error being handled, or at least laid bare. If a program should crash upon particular errors, then the developer might say so explicitly, or otherwise provide logic to recover from those, without ever missing any place where things could go wrong.

A lot of functional languages go in that direction. E.g. if you stick to the non-IO fragment of Haskell then it mostly works like that - things that can error return Either that you have to handle explicitly, and while there's sugar to let you work with that in a similar way to exceptions it will never be entirely hidden. (Within IO you can have exceptions, of course; making a proper algebraic model of how e.g. network I/O works is pretty daunting). Idris or especially Noether go even further in that direction.
Out of curiosity what did you pay for them?
This is my favorite book. I have a signed first edition.

I'm super happy to see someone else appreciates it :-)
> I get that you'd need evidence, but wouldn't crypto be the perfect space for dark money?

It should/could/is. However, there are two things you need to understand:

1. Crypto is mostly a young people game. Who happens to be quite broke. The people who have money where I'm from, are not comfortable with crypto. They'd rather deal cash, real estate, gold or valuable objects.

2. You can't launder money with crypto. You can only launder money with something that has an off-ramp. For now, crypto acceptance is very limited. The number of places, stores and businesses that accept crypto is quite minuscule that you almost always need an off-ramp into the traditional financial system. And that's where the laundering will happen, and is happening.
"The Americans" is staggeringly good in my opinion.

I am blessed with a bad memory, so after a few years, I was able to watch the whole thing again, and except for a half-dozen things I remembered, it was like new content to me.

The only criticism is that you know the main characters are going to be OK, so it takes away a bit of the suspense. I wonder if you could have a similar show where the main characters are caught at some unpredictable point in the middle of a season, and then the show continues with new characters brought in to do the same job.
This thread started a day ago, but only had about an hour on the front page. Reposts keep appearing, so there is obviously an appetite for this story. Instead of a duplicate/split discussion, I've re-upped the original thread and merged the others hither.

If you're going to comment, please make sure you're up on the site guidelines and that your comment is within them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
A slight clarification: Binance owned a 15% stake in FTX and sold it back to FTX for FTT.
I have a few questions about the relevance of this.

> 1.2 guns per citizen

After 1 gun, do guns truly become more dangerous? For someone opening a door, I don't think handgun vs AR vs shotgun is a very meaningful distinction - you're going to die if you get shot in the face

> loaded up to the gills

Isn't it true that one of the top arguments used against gun control that criminals will have the weapons anyways?

Therefore, as a LEO being summoned to a potential crime scene, isn't it true that they would behave in accordance with the person being a potential criminal, and therefore living outside of "guns per citizen" statistics? And therefore isn't the global approach to SWATting likely done without respect to the local environment, but instead in accordance with best practices of deescalation and safety?

I look forward to hearing you expand your thoughts.
I now absolutely cannot stand being pandered to. If I'm watching a show and a black|gay|female character pops up, or me2|lgtbq÷|'struggles of woman' is mentioned in the spirit of wokism, I turn it off. I completely support it all but I'm just sick of having it pushed tasteslessly in my face. It's always subpar acting/writing and it feels like a cheap trick by the producers.
Using SD-card on ESP8266 was more challenging.

upip.install('sdcard') did not work.

But ChatGPT truly helped and suggested I find it in Github.

https://github.com/micropython/micropython-lib/blob/master/m...
it seems like this might be a goal, but i have been using WSL for ages for development and i can't imagine anyone would target user applications at WSL.

with my sample size of 1, if they added any extended functionality to WSL or WSA i wouldn't use it, i use that environment because it mimics the production environment I target, We wont be using WSL in production that would be Linux.

I don't see the use case for running Android on windows except for development and maybe a limited selection of apps. You wouldn't run WSA as a way to get the "locked down" benefits of Andoird on a desktop. Desktops also generally have far more limited sensors and other hardware features. I get Android on a phone because of the form factor, access to NFC, a flashlight, accelerometer sensors and so on Desktop can't have these.

Windows gets by business because of WSL, otherwise i would run Ubuntu or something, but windows is just less hassle for everything that isn't in the CLI (YRMV)
You might get them if there were more than about 4 customers on Linux who would want them.
Feel free to email me, but I have really no idea who you are, and no idea what this has to do with the thread. Feel better, regardless.
Some politicians have staked themselves on this issue publicly. Can't recall the name, but a GOP candidate explicitly said that he would shoot the police if the entered with a no-knock warrant into his home.

One challenge is that citizens side with the police in court.
A similar thing happened with The Hobbit, iirc. It was shot in 60fps and everyone said the CGI was too obvious, I think we’ve just learned to associate high frame rates with computer games.
> these same people side with the police every time.

Not all of us.
It isn’t. But reality is almost as good:

In a statement, Mars said it was "absurd" to compare its corporate governance and financial reporting requirements with Binance's, adding that its goods and services are "highly regulated."
Why would there be a lack of blur? The 24fps (say) footage will start with more blur as the shutter speed will be slower and this blur will remain when interpolated to 60fps. It would surely have a physically impossibly high amount of blur after interpolation.
What you want is full transparency and incentive alignment. A government, or rather the people running the government, fundamentally don't benefit from these things because they use monetary policy to benefit themselves and the elite that is currently in control. Of course they need to get re-elected, so they must make it so that the general population believes in their "goodness" - The fed is just a group a people making decisions behind close doors with who-knows-what political incentives.

So yes, in theory it could be a centralized database but I don't think there exists this mystical "global trusted entity" that has the population's best interests as their main incentive because everything within a single nation state is clouded by politics. Banks and big tech are prime examples. That's why it needs to be decentralized, decoupled from specific governments and people in power.
Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old.
I’ve found anyone that uses the “bridge to sell you” line doesn’t have any actual evidence for what they believe except it “feels right”.
it's a subsystem, of Windows, for Android.

Windows Subsystem for Android.

it's not hard.
Digital ocean functions just release a “scheduled” feature. It’s super easy and has a generous free tier.

I’m using it to issue a daily db back up command for my app.
> My understanding is that no one has been (intentionally, carefully) thawed after being vitrified using "modern" techniques, so we really don't know what condition a body would be in after unthawing using current technology.

why haven't they tested this on animals or non-paying cadavers? It would seem unwise to pay to keep vitrified bodies frozen if one had no understanding of how the bodies would be when they were unfrozen.
That's from 2018... look at Tether market cap to get an idea how much the landscape has changed.

I guess US regulators will know if Tether is really holding half its reserves in Treasuries (around $30bn). Of course that's not a 1:1 but it's also not 0.
I’m not sure that not receiving a service you didn’t pay for is any worse than going to prison or getting a lien on your house.
You should be, but you’re not.
This is inaccurate. I know many people on both sides of the gun debate and I don't know a single person who doesn't want police reform regarding no-knock raids. I don't know a single gun owner who supports the police in the Breonna Taylor incident.

The overwhelmingly vast majority of "protect yourself from government tyranny" types want to massively curtail police powers.
If you'd like some good science fiction about this issue and Kessler Syndrome, Makoto Yukimura's Planetes is just an amazing read.
The fact that you find the way a "primitive and foreign" person was treated a mere century ago so horrific from the perspective of today rather proves my point.
https://simonwillison.net/2020/Oct/9/git-scraping/

Simon Willison has a bunch of examples of scraping sites with GHA and storing the results in a repo. But you can use the same technique without the storing part if need be.
The “twitter files” links has the Biden campaign reporting dick pics. We can actually view the links mentioned via the Internet Archive. Oops.

And no they don’t have a right for something illegal (revenge porn, unconcent) and the company certainly has their own right to censor how they want and choose who they listen to.

The Russian thing was about the actual facts about Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election and if you were crowing about that influence too.
The thing that drives me nuts about him and his show can be found in episode 1. He does some scanning of the temple and finds three underground chambers. He cites them as evidence and speculates that they might prove him right and they are a mere 10 meters below him.

And then he leaves.

What?! This is your whole life's work and reputation on the line and you aren't digging 10m to check? It might take a few days but that's nothing. If it's illegal, will he risk nothing for his conviction? He makes the speculation, seeds doubt and then follows through with nothing again and again.

It's the same as those tv psychics. The whole episode we watch as they get closer to a burial site and then right when they are staring out the car window at some woods with dramatic music, the credits roll. Nothing found again!

The first 80% of the episode is fascinating as he shows us these amazing sites. Then inevitably comes the wild speculation disconnected from anything actually shown. Such a frustrating end to every episode. Wake me up when you find something.
I close a door or put a box in its way. No app.
> Even as a senior developer with nearly 10 years of experience, every interview process is an exercise in convincing the other person that you're not a junior, and is more often a losing battle

Developer interviews are one giant cargo cult in the industry. I usually spend about 15 minutes on coding during interview, and even that sometimes feels like too much.
if I had 3 wishes, I'd waste one to give all reddit people AIDS
While you are right, we are where we are and there is tremendous leverage in making an extremely common (even if undesirable) thing more efficient. It kind of doesn't matter why millions of lines of code perform memcpys - they do, and we're unlikely to change majority of them anytime soon.

P.S. I work on the type of systems where we obsess over unneeded memory accesses and copies. Minimizing those is not as trivial as it may seem, especially if you care about memory safety.
Great, the OS is very much not ready for dynamic reflow of windows to accomodate changing screen space and trapped dust and sand are going to make short work of these devices. Honestly, why bother.
putting upgrade in quotes labels you as a perfectly level-headed thinker with no predetermined judgements. mm-hmm.
I can't remember a single use case when library could definitely know that consumer must handle that particular exceptions.

100% of checked exception uses must be unchecked.
I think there is a distinction between a natural monopoly that people are compelled to pay for, and one which is only regulated.

For regulated monopolies, there's further the distinction well if they are paid by the users of the service, or by taxes levied on the general population.

When it comes to water power and electricity, I think individuals should be able to opt out if they do not want the service by the Monopoly.
It can only be interpreted that way in bad faith by people elevating a political agenda over science.
This is not the fault of snap though, Firefox is just fucking useless - the current instance of the browser that's already loaded everything it has into ram since it will happily suck up a gig while doing nothing should not break because the on disk version has changed.

But no, instead of continuing it will do one of several things:

- show a blank page after entering URL or search term (no feedback, it just does nothing)
- fail to refresh the tab
- crash entirely
- helpfully suggest you restart Firefox in one of those tabs that stopped working earlier.

It is embarrassingly bad, just like the overall UX for Mozilla products is unfortunately, but alas the only other choice is brave and its even worse somehow. (Chrome proper would also be fine but Firefox is the only multi platform* browser that supports custom sync etc)

* Firefox is horrific on android too - broken rendering, blank pages until you engage the address bar and hit go again, etc, add-ons basically unavailable...
Plexamp is great. Even has built in EQ so I can use autoeq profiles on iOS etc. Reminds me a lot of Winamp of old.
I really like this refutation of the GNU-style micro-optimized-but-slow-in-practice mess of assembly.