skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He might be describing one bifurcation in the world of math, where constructive proofs reign, but overlooking nonconstructive "existence" proofs.
40 thousand balls of ~1 inch (3cm) projected at 6Km (~4miles) high will certainly destroy a lot of things (including many Russians lives) when they will come back on Earth?
There's a big leap between knowing that and actually doing it. People should be able to go as they wish, it's bodily autonomy.
100%, I think its really time for regulations.
I applaud the EU's recent regulations for tech, especially the digital markets act.
How did you feel when you first came across a global variable, or even a pointer? It seems to me that math-first people would probably find C to be an abomination.
Nah. Words cannot express it fully.

It really showed that Java & JVM languages are perfectly able to power games.

And the level of polish of the environment, is really great.
Yeah they achieved several world firsts in AI. They're pretty good at software, although they do seem to be struggling as of late.

How high are your standards exactly?
> An underappreciated side effect of the second amendment is that an awful lot of Americans have an extremely effective means of "assisted dying" at their fingertips.

Even if we take "you can impulsively shoot yourself at a moment's notice" as a good thing (I don't think it is), none of that is correct:

1. Any gun will do, and france (and more generally europe) has extensive allowance for hunting and sports shooting, both of which can easily be used to try to kill yourself.

2. Try being an important word here, fucking up a gun suicide attempt is a common occurrence and can leave you extensively maimed and debilitated (e.g. gun pointed too high, recoil moves the gun and blows up your entire face leaving you alive, gun pointed too low, bullet hits the palate or misses the skull entirely and hits the spine, ...)

3. Whether successful or not, finding a gun-suicide is one of the worst discoveries you can make, to say nothing of the cleanup (mostly in case of success).

While a gun is not the worst suicide method by a mile (train, car, or cop involve and endanger other people), it's still a shitty one.
Adnan Syed of 'Serial' fame gets Georgetown University job helping inmates
The Gnomes were Calaquendi, who answered the call of the Valar (angels/gods) to come see the Light of the Two Trees in the West.

The Vanyar (also Calaquendi) were probably "higher" than the Gnomes, but they were never seen in Middle-earth again. We learn very little about them, and I don't think they're even passingly alluded to in The Lord of the Rings. Some of the Gnomes returned to Middle-earth, so they outrank everybody who never left.

He renamed the Gnomes "Noldor", and most of The Silmarillion is about them (and the Men who hung out with them). They came back to Middle-earth to retrieve the Silmarils, which had been stolen by Morgoth (the Big Bad of the First Age, and Sauron's boss).

Galadriel is one of the very few we meet who were part of that go-and-return trip. It was a nasty business, and that's why her turning down the Ring and returning to the West was such a big deal. (Though she wasn't part of the story at the time they were called Gnomes, and she had to be retroactively inserted into it. He never did finalize that story, and we're left with a conflicting mess of unpublished stories.)
1. You're a kid yourself if you were that late.

2. No-one used the social features.
> It will be interesting to see how the public debate handles that fact

The majority of those who severely defend the 2nd amendment are conservative and thusly - it won't be handled.

It's as you state, morally bad, to take ones own life. That's the perception/belief setting idea for conservatives and the actual thing you're going against. Reality/facts actually have a very difficult time changing people's beliefs as we've seen with COVID, drugs, etc.
Amazing that with all this drama it never made it to the customer facing side or had any impact on the success of the launch. Truly an outlier among high performing companies.
Tesla Introduces Its Own $300 Version of Apple's Canceled AirPower Charger
This seems like a lot of typing for what, up until Brexit Got Done, could have been expressed with the two-character word "no", as in, "no, ByteDance, no."

Now it's 'optics' and geopolitics.

These two scenarios are not equivalent. One gives ByteDance vastly more leverage.
Indeed, I kind of stopped reading the article there.

The other issue is his picking on Lisp programmers with this example. If you open books on programming using C, it almost always will have either the iterative or the recursive solution - not the closed for one. So why is he picking on Lisp programmers in particular?
If true and most people inside in China wear masks, what does it say about mask effectiveness?
Are there any stories/articles on why people chose meson, over say CMake (or others)? I do like meson much more than CMake for sure, sane syntax and all.
> Roger Foley, who has a degenerative brain disorder and is hospitalized in London, Ontario, was so alarmed by staffers mentioning euthanasia that he began secretly recording some of their conversations.

> In one recording obtained by the AP, the hospital’s director of ethics told Foley that for him to remain in the hospital, it would cost “north of $1,500 a day.” Foley replied that mentioning fees felt like coercion and asked what plan there was for his long-term care.

> “Roger, this is not my show,” the ethicist responded. “My piece of this was to talk to you, (to see) if you had an interest in assisted dying.”

> Foley said he had never previously mentioned euthanasia. The hospital says there is no prohibition on staff raising the issue.

Wow. This does feel hazardous to me.
https://www.amazon.com/Lying-Moral-Choice-Public-Private/dp/...

Lying by Bok
When someone becomes rich through this path, they aren't rolling around with a billion dollars in a vault Scrooge McDuck style. Almost all of their wealth that isn't taxed is already tied in their own business or in investments in other businesses, so they're already doing the things that you say will make it work for the world. Even the little bit of liquid money they keep in the bank is loaned out to other profit-seeking entrepreneurs.

Once again, profit is not immoral. It serves as an important signal for capital to be directed in the value-creation cycle that ends up producing wealth for everyone. In the words of Isabel Paterson: "Production is profit; and profit is production. They are not merely related; they are the same thing. When a man plants potatoes, if he does not get back more than he put in, he has produced nothing."

You are saying that if a man who planted potatoes harvests them and keeps some for himself above and beyond what he needs to subsist, he is evil. I'm really not sure how you justify that position.
> money laundering from US funds that went to Ukraine with some of it stolen and washed through FTX.

Source? Isn’t this just a theory with no evidence?
The Pope is talking about this guy: https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/pavone-s-dismissal-c....

As an outsider, I see the Church as moving away from the middle ages by degrees.
I didn’t find it accessible.
> It would have been much more exciting, like a Catholic themed version of Among Us.

Do you want the Spanish Inquisition? That's how you get the Spanish Inquisition.
I'd agree: there's a common misconception that math is "objective." Even if one agrees on the axioms (Axiom of Choice [1]), one must reach consensus on definitions, which seem to be consciously chosen to allow generalization of theorems to more mathematical objects; that is, building connections between previously disparate fields of math, e.g. algebra and geometry, calculus and geometry, etc. Why have many domain-specific theorems when we can have one?

One could have a valid proof to a theorem, but there's the human element of having people understand and accept the result.

That said, I think when people speak of math, they speak of its application to the real-world, not the proofs.

[1] - From the Wikipedia page for the axiom, Jerry Bona has an amusing quote: "The axiom of choice is obviously true, the well-ordering principle obviously false, and who can tell about Zorn's lemma?"
> There's a big leap between knowing that and actually doing it.

Which is mostly a good thing, as it leaves some room for relenting.

> People should be able to go as they wish, it's bodily autonomy.

There's a difference between being able to go as you wish, and being able to go as an impulse you can't take back.
I think the next-to-last faq ("Is it true that EfficientVectorRouting implements a model of associative memory?") answers that. Did you see it?
“Choose to not be poor” is the thesis of your statement, whether you meant for it to be or not. It’s hard for that to be a good faith start to any discussion regarding poverty.
i love all the (movie) sequels of hobbit, LOR etc. but I have a hard time to put the stories together in my mind. maybe reading all the books would help me with the timeline and overall understanding?
> But human rights advocates say the country’s regulations lack necessary safeguards, devalue the lives of disabled people and are prompting doctors and health workers to suggest the procedure to those who might not otherwise consider it.[0]

My problem with euthanasia is how do you know if the patient actually wanted it, or if they were pressured into it by medical personnel in order to cut costs?

In Canada, the health care system is publicly funded. There's an incentive for euthanasia because it cuts costs

In the USA, we don't have a public health care system, so there's an incentive to drag people along, run up the bill, and not euthanize them

What I find most interesting about this euthanasia thing is I only see it really getting taken seriously in jurisdictions where the health care system is public. If a public healthcare system introduces this nasty dynamic of disabled, debilitated people getting put down "for the public good", I don't want a public health care system

[0] https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-toronto-7c63...
I think you're quite possibly correct. ChatGPT has already replaced at least 25% of my search volume despite being a tech preview.

Nothing has been able to disrupt Google so far but there's no reason it can't.
The issue isn’t the manuals existing it’s what they describe. Basically the R in RISC.
So the davinci-text-003 is basically prompt engineering the model to generate our answer. I tried being very specific and used a template which after a bit of debugging I figured out works best which was basically intuition based as you would talk to a human kind of ... https://github.com/theskcd/spchengine/blob/b2bf55268e9245f70...
> In contrast, wind seems to already be making 10 percent of the US demand[4], versus solars 2 percent.

The numbers can be misleading; I'm not suggesting that jldugger doesn't understand this, just that I find the numbers and the way they are quoted a bit confusing. If we look at primary energy consumption by source from the US Energy Information Agency we see [1] that for 2021 the US used 98 quads of energy.

The breakdown into primary energy consumption by source for 2021 is

77 quads from fossil fuels
8 quads from nuclear
5 quads from biomass
3.3 quads from wind
2 quads from hydro
1.5 quads from solar
===========================
98 quads total

These number are rounded, see original for details (quad == Quadrillion BTU). It appears to me that wind plus solar are providing close to 5% of US consumption of energy.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/browser/index.php?tbl=T...
You can subscribe to newsletters via FeedBin, which costs $5 a month, and will act as a source to many feed readers (as well as being a web-based feed/newsletter/twitter feed reader itself).
> “software that doesn’t really care about the needs of the user but rather about the needs of the developer.”

Shall we not forget the software that only cares about aesthetic aspirations of its UX designers
I am having trouble viewing this as a good use of Tesla’s resources. Am I missing something? It would be one thing if their stock was riding a high.. but this feels like it’s failing to read the room. If Elon wants to mess around with this kinda thing, shouldn’t it be done under a joke company like Boring? That’s how he did the flame thrower.
I’m using Reeder with Feedly. Reeder makes processing a lot of feeds pretty easy.

I keep hoping Feedly will help separate the wheat from the chaff in my feeds with their ML work, but it seems to require me doing more than clicking on what to read to identify my likes and dislikes.

I’ve played with Matter and Readwise Reader, and so far I’m not impressed. I like Readwise in theory, but the RSS reading UI is a bit slow though I might need to tweak the settings to make it quicker.
I disagree with this:

> A person must have the right to chose the terms of their own existence.

In the sense that a person doesn't have the right to choose to die, and shouldn't have the right to make that decision on behalf of someone else
Even if it didn’t lead to empirical results I think most of the value of the book today is in the questions Minsky asked. How is intelligence organized in a distributed system like a neural net? ChatGPT may be able to do amazing things, but the mechanisms it uses are still very opaque. So even if the theory may not be “useful”, it is still worth pursuing IMO

It’s also pretty well written and written by someone who clearly spent a lot of mental energy on the problem
If they’re fine blatantly flaunting the law and violating contracts sure I guess.
Ok, but you didn’t say “best” system, you said optimal state. Optimal for who has to be answered.

"as many people as possible are happy with the state of affairs" seems bad to me. Taking all your money and splitting it between me and my friends would make a larger number of people happy than you keeping it; the government dropping free money in everyone’s bank account would make most people happy; it doesn’t mean that’s the best thing to do in a societal sense
> This is absolutely insane to me.

What's absolutely insane to ME is how consistently your responses seem to ignore that other people have different use cases for passwords. Nobody cares if something seems "insane" to you. It may surprise you to discover that services like these exist, perhaps, because people interact with passwords in a different way than your "I only keep passwords that I use monthly" brain database paradigm.
Any chance of a link or photo or something?
It also works today for tariffs against goods manufactured using overseas slave and near slave labor.

“Imported totalitarianism” is the new child labor and slavery.
Yeah, it's also why I stopped feeling guilty about driving a ICE car and not choosing the more expensive renewable supplier option on my power bill. At the end of the day I'm not so rich that I can afford to make inefficient sacrifices. My kids' college funds still need filling, sourcing my power from coal/natural gas means thousands of dollars in those funds over the years that wouldn't otherwise be there.

Or I can make a negligible dent in global carbon emissions and my kids can take on thousands extra in student loans. I'm happy to do my part when we're all (or at least most of us) playing the same game, but I have too many people directly relying on me to be an ineffective martyr.

Back in 2016 I read a "human interest" story about some janitor who saved his pennies for months, keeping track with an excel spreadsheet, so he could make a multi-hundred dollar donation to Hillary Clinton's campaign. The article was clearly trying to frame this as some noble sacrifice from someone who doesn't have much to begin with, I just saw a poor person getting fleeced by an aristocrat, and she lost anyway.
> I have not used a RSS reader as a serious reading software for years

Same here but I think we were mostly forced into it. Site owners care more about getting you on their site than the quality of the content. There's no incentive to include a bare bones version for RSS so, if they even have an RSS feed, it's just links. Aggregate sites can't even include the content. Also, there's just too much multimedia content these days, a proper browser will always be more reliable for viewing it. I really don't mind it. I just love not having to re-scan over headlines I've already seen or intentionally skipped over.
> I think the modern pressure to have a "canon" which explains absolutely everything that goes on in the world can lead to sterile and unbelievable worlds as well if a worldbuilder gives in too much.

I agree with that. Leaving room for expansion, and mystery, feels like a more "real" world than one where everything has already been explored and done.

Fandoms sometimes put themselves into a corner, too, when they start making assumptions that all that can be said and done already has been. The Star Wars sequel series (episodes 7, 8, 9) come to mind. I think the majority of complaints came about because they dared to do something new to Star Wars. (Some of it was already hinted in the original films, too; as an example: Leia being force-sensitive)
Folks will pay for simple and ready immediately, or complicated, multi-user, and rich in a minute. (Plus significant backwards compat.) There is no big need for complicated and ready now. Pulling in the long tail of functionality often desired takes time, and it is mostly IO-bound not CPU bound, which hasn't increased as fast.

I suppose you could put a ton of OS and libraries in a (modern equiv of EEP)ROM for immediate access. The original Macintosh was kinda like that. But things went the other way when disk storage dropped in price a lot faster than chip storage.

Maybe we're back to a point where the former is economically viable, but there would be a lot of historic baggage to overcome.
> We are just at peak newsletter via email delivery

The thing that makes substack work for me is that every one has an RSS feed. Otherwise it would simply be another thing for me to ignore.
Try it in the browser, new version should be available soon: https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=haiku
Also, NeXtSTEP could reliably print stuff. Which, given that publishing was the niche that arguably kept the Mac alive during those years: kinda important!
The approaches to X and Wayland compatibility are interesting.

>Instead of running a full X server as XQuartz or other X11 compatibility packages do on other operating systems, it directly handles Xlib API calls and translates them into Haiku API calls, instead.

>It is a little more complicated than the one for X11, running an “in-process Wayland server” for each application instead of translating C API calls directly.

Unfortunately the Wayland part has no blog post similar to the X one.
Even AIs Need Community: Why Computers Cannot Think Themselves Into Sentience
NetNewsWire on iOS and Mac.
Let's remember that this is because Facebook had an open API that a 3rd party developer abused with the consent of the users.

In case you wonder why nobody bothers to have open APIs for anything anymore. (cf. Twitter 10 years ago and today)
Could someone explain what meaning that $250M figure has if everyone recognizes there is really only $4M or so securing his attendance?
FYI, Wiseman's work has been the foundation for later projects like https://github.com/cnelson/maho
2019 was the last time I looked into the CMake vs. Meson debate and while Meson looked 100% saner, cleaner, etc. the network effects of most of the popular C++ libraries using CMake made me end up picking CMake. I'd be curious how the landscape is today but I now have stockholm syndrome with CMake especially using vcpkg.
It's been a while but nothing from pine64 was well supported without hacky 3rd party custom kernel rolls and the like, with no apparent effort to move stuff into mainline.

I hope that's changed?
No, the biggest difference is one is only intended for development and debugging.

> Dear ImGui is designed to enable fast iterations and to empower programmers to create content creation tools and visualization / debug tools (as opposed to UI for the average end-user).
> This is why I get frustrated with people who say we should influence businesses with our wallet, by choosing not to shop at stores who behave badly.

The reason I get upset with this is because the world is so complicated that it is really difficult to determine if something is ethical or not. Or rather, which options are the most ethical (the world is so complex that nothing is completely ethical, so I think we should make an analogy to harm reduction. There will almost always be harm and if we seek zero harm through purity testing, we give advantage to those that do the most harm). While I agree that we should vote with our wallets to put pressure on the market, it is clearly not enough. It never will be enough because we can't peer behind the curtain and no one really knows how to make a pencil[0]. If no one knows how to make a pencil, then it follows that no one knows if pencil making is ethical to begin with, let alone pencil usage. I think what we must do instead is be willing to have these complex and nuanced conversations without religious vigor and instead make sure our passion to advocate for or against a system is proportionate to the time we are willing to put in to learning about the complexities of said system.

[0] https://fee.org/resources/i-pencil/
So… are the books any good? Or is that irrelevant now?
I've been trying to reason through the threat model for this and 1Password's newfound cloud storage. This write-up, and any reversing efforts for 1P, only speak to what goes over the network and how the client stores locally (1P uses b64 in sqlite on the client, for example) but I don't know how anyone could speak to what the breach had access to unless those dumps are made public.

One scenario I can imagine is that the API routes merely add authentication over s3:PutObject and the wire serialization is the storage format. But surely if that were true then 1P wouldn't have thrown such a hissy fit over giving up local vaults since their clients already supported multiple cloud backends anyway.

Coming back to the linked repo, the files are 4 years old: did LP not change their format at all over 4 years?
21st Century C: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/21st-century-c/97814493...
I'm not worrying, I'm making an observation that DEI is about to kill its host, and when that happens, it will set a famous precedent. A company that doesn't worship DEI will be the next Google.
This is a wake up to call to not build your security model on a user chosen master password!

Since the vaults have been stolen, an offline brute force attack can be executed. This attack is no longer slowed down by online protection mechanisms, such as blocking IP addresses. Rather, security now depends solely on the cryptography and thus on the master password chosen by the user.

In the end, it is a single factor that separates the attacker from the encrypted data. If less IT-savvy employees are not adequately trained and supported in choosing the master password, the result is fatal. The extent of this will become clear in the coming months when the attacker has cracked the first master passwords and compromises accounts.

At heylogin, we believe that this security model of traditional password managers has come to an end. That's why we built a new solution that uses the secure element of smartphones to implement end-to-end encryption that is 2-factor secure by default and works without a master password.If our users' encrypted databases were stolen, the attacker would not be able to perform a brute force attack.

I just wrote a post on our company blog about the problems of LastPass and how to fix these: https://www.heylogin.com/en-post/lastpass-incident-2022
Archaeologists uncover oldest known projectile points in the Americas