skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I very much like this article. I especially like the comparison to TempleOS. I think Terry Davis blew computing wide open. That is what a personal computer can do, when it’s treated as an instrument instead of an appliance, and the user treated like the player of said instrument, instead of a child in a china shop.

Imagine if you could plug your guitar into a computer, have that audio file, be a widget in a buffer, and then, pass it to other functions just like any other object, process it using, idk, map(car), and then sync it to a video using list functions, maybe with different implementations for the data structures under the hood. Or if you could make a game, modify it while you’re playing it, share that game as an image with a friend, and have them open it up, interact with it the same way they do with every other data structure from email to org mode.
If the true cost of bad air quality is a lower lifespan, what dollar amount makes it okay to contribute to the problem?
> The result of any operation on a NaN is a NaN.

That's not true! maxNum(nan, x) = x.
No one in the world ever bought a wardrobe at Walmart because they could afford to drop $20k at a tailor but chose not to cause Walmart is good enough.

They made econmic trade offs depending on their level of poverty.
And that is how we descended to the madness of the word crypto.
`CONFIG_LOCK_DOWN_KERNEL_FORCE_CONFIDENTIALITY=y` or similar may also be of interest, see `man kernel_lockdown`.
You have been able to draw plots from proper graphing libraries using actual images for years in terminals that support the kitty graphics protocol. See

GNUPlot: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/integrations/#tool-gnuplot
matplotlib: https://github.com/jktr/matplotlib-backend-kitty
Julia: https://github.com/simonschoelly/KittyTerminalImages.jl

The kitty graphics protocol is supported in three major terminals these days: kitty, WezTerm, konsole.
Does anyone have a recommendation on a quality air quality monitor for home use?
Yeah, for what it's worth, I went through some programming interviews at smaller places. And then it was much more normal, not leet-code.
That's exactly my point: when you internalize the diagram, you'll be able to reason confidently about what happens:

• In the case of "2.3 + 2.3", each "2.3" is “snapped” to the nearest representable value (green line in the diagram), then their sum snapped to the nearest green line. In this case, because the two summands are equal and we're using binary floating-point, the result will also be a green line. If you knew more about the details of binary64 aka float64, you could confidently say that "2.3" means 2.29999995231628417969 (https://float.exposed/0x40133333) and be sure of what "2.3 + 2.3" would give (4.59999990463256835938 = https://float.exposed/0x40933333) and that this is indeed the closest representable value to 4.6 (so yes, we can rely on 2.3 + 2.3 giving the same value as what “4.6” would be stored as, i.e. "2.3 + 2.3 == 4.6" evaluating to True), but even without learning the details you can go pretty far. For instance, you know you can rely on "x + x" and "2 * x" giving the same value for any (non-NaN) value x.

• I already gave the example of 100000000000000000000000.0 + 200000000000000000000000.0 ≠ 300000000000000000000000.0 above, but for the specific case of "x + x" and "2 * x" yes we can rely upon them evaluating to the same value (unless 2*x is Infinity or NaN), though of course the large integer x may itself not be representable exactly. Again, with the mental model, you'll be in a better position to state what you expect by "exactly".
pretty awesome that someone made this.

i used to think macos was was simpler than windows, but this type of 'feature' was just one of many that made me think, 'no - it was just marketing'.
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Thanks to Hassan.
Seems like everyone was treating the non-founder Jobs as being typical of a founder to me. If he had stayed at Apple instead of going off to do Next he would have been more typical and probably have still been bad at quality and focused on slimy sales tricks.

He's really more an example of someone who was forced to correct some pretty massive defects and lack of vision in important areas where most lottery winning founding CEOs will never get corrections.

I would be kind of curious but I found it very funny if he wasn't a black mark against Next hardware back then given that workstation users were already going to see consumer as cheap even if he didn't have a reputation for cheapening his line further.

Really I think his behavior was much more inline with Cook than his earlier self once he was successful and founder envy was more an external benefit than related to some actual behavior he had.
But you’re playing games on steam which has its own drm!
GitHub becoming Pastebin would be a hilarious turn of events.
How is Haskell declarative ?
Did you at least reap some of the buyout benefits?
Apples and oranges. The EPA primary standard (which is they propose to change) is based only on health and not economics.

From the Regulatory Impact Analysis[1]:

(yes it's long, but the quote preempts a lot of the predictable replies here)

>The Clean Air Act (CAA) requires the EPA, for each criteria pollutant, to set standards that protect public health with “an adequate margin of safety” and public welfare from “any known or anticipated adverse effects.” As interpreted by the Agency and the courts, the CAA requires the EPA to base the decisions for primary standards on health considerations only; economic factors cannot be considered. The prohibition against considering cost in the setting of the primary air quality standards does not mean that costs, benefits, or other economic consequences are unimportant. The Agency believes that consideration of costs and benefits is an essential decision-making tool for the efficient implementation of these standards. The impacts of costs, benefits, and efficiency are considered by the States when they make decisions regarding what timelines, strategies, and policies are appropriate for their circumstances.

TL;DR: Primary standards are meant to determine healthy levels, including for vulnerable people like children and the elderly. They are not intended to determine what levels are economically efficient. That's handled during implementation, not when setting the primary standards.

[1] https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2023-01/naaqs-pm_...
I built a Django extension for that! Lets me poke around with a read-only user and then bookmark the results to share with others: https://django-sql-dashboard.datasette.io
That's not the correct title. This is just speculation. It could be an explicit block or it could be a failure that affects API access for features used by 3rd party clients.

There's a good chance for either option at this point really...
These aren't mutally exclusive. Plenty of government programs are still underfunded, and plenty of the rich aren't paying their fair debts to society.
I would like to see an auto-adjusting tax...

Eg. "The tax per gram of PM2.5 is $1. Each year, if average PM2.5 levels across America are above 5 ug/m^3, the tax will increase 10%. Otherwise, it will decrease 10%."

Then lawmakers once need to put in place the tax and set the target, and they never need to intervene again.
You can do that too with some more tricks.

It's possible to register more than one ModelAdmin for a given model - so you could have a read only one which staff spend most of their time in, but that then links to the writable one when they need to make changes.

You could even register multiple admin sites: /admin/ showing read-only data and /admin-write/ that allows it to be edited.
This piece includes a link to a piece about the housing crisis in Arizona. TLDR: they need to build a lot more housing and bureaucratic requirements for things like garages are a factor in the crisis.
Although it may seem somehow unsavory, there is a long history of placing value on the probabilistic saving of human life (e.g. in highway engineering). We have limited resources in the world to save lives and doing the math is better than the alternative.
> people know that if they are in a room with their car while it runs, they will die within minutes.

We'll also all die within minutes if we rebreathe only our own exhalations.

More to the point, without energy production, the billions of people on the planet will die. It's all tradeoffs, not absolutes.
I did that for some pics too, kinda funky to have actual memory map
Copilot and Private Repositories on GitHub
Only halfway related, but a long time ago I had an idea for a character encoding that was stroke based.

In other words, based on minimal stroke primitives (line, arc, circle, etc.) that were placed not with any exact coordinates, but simply in relation to each other conceptually and with crude size/position categories. E.g. "downward stroke, top to bottom" is a capital "I" while "downward stroke, middle to bottom, dot closely above first stroke" would be a lowercase "i". And then for matching forms with different meanings, there would be a final "family" selector, e.g. to distinguish an em-dash from the Chinese character for "one", or an en-dash ("punctuation" family) from a minus sign ("math symbol" family).

And then a suitably compressed bit encoding for the instructions. So in the end, something like "I" might just be 3-4 bits long, while a complex Chinese glyph might be 60 bits.

But the main feature being that a font renderer could always draw a primitive version of any glyph, even if you don't have it in a single font anywhere, because the character code itself encodes it. And then that character codes wouldn't be just something totally arbitrary invented by Unicode, but inherently meaningful, and anyone could be free to invent any character they wanted, that would always been drawn by any software, no Unicode gatekeepers needed.

Obviously it's not terribly practical, for a whole host of reasons. But I still sometimes think about how elegant it would be to have a "geometric" self-describing character encoding, and to get away from all of the political decisions around language scripts and where they get put in Unicode and in which version.
This type of opinion getting any kind of popularity in society is a scary thought to me. I really hope this continues to stay a fringe opinion. It would lead to tremendous abuses to the general public and a destruction of stability. There seems built into it some kind of strange assumption that anyone who has money got it in an unjust fashion.
I like this point, but I'm not sure exactly how well concepts such as velocity and time, etc. were understood. They were certainly thinking about it, but even the idea of no action meaning constant motion (without other forces) was about 1500+ years away.

I think Zeno might have invented calculus if it weren't for the fact that math wasn't even nearly sophisticated[1] enough to admit any sensible formalization of the ideas.

[1] Perhaps it was even just because the power of symbolic algebra hadn't been fully realized. Geometry and logic only takes you so far.
Still not a justification for blockade. Saudis give 16 year prison sentences to US citizens for mild government criticism in their tweets and the US does not sanction them: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/american-sentenced-16-yea...
Which of these conversation topics relate to Lisp?
No problem in human psychology is so deadly, and yet so frustrating to address

I'm sure everyone could probably live much longer and "healthier" if the government controlled every aspect of their life, but that's exactly the authoritarian dystopia that much of the population fortunately rejects. It's only a problem to those who want society to become that sort of sterile un-life.

We realise there are risks to everything, and that's just a natural part of life. You could even say that's what makes life worth living.
How to Build a Face-Search App
I would say it is the other way around, it is totally feasible to traverse an infinite number of intervals in a fixed time. As I also responded to a different comment, just assume space is E³. Would you want to argue that you can not move or reach the goal under that assumption?
i'd nitpick about less code being a benefit (but perhaps that's why you said 'whatever that means') see: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_golf
That's not the point. The comment implies all it would take to "house the poor" is to spend $100 billion. The government spends that amount many times over. Spending $100 billion is not a big deal. If that were sufficient to end homelessness, it would be done already.

Also, since when is confiscating 100% of someone's wealth, "paying their fair debt"? Do you happen to have any personal wealth? If so, why haven't you donated it to the government yet, as fairness dictates?
would enterprizes have paid for dockerhub from day1? it's very unlikely.

also they are in a tough spot, because if they limit the download of the most popular images, they limit their own basic usability, and those images happen to be almost all free super-fungible stuff (alpine, ubuntu, node, redis, postgresql, nginx, apache, and all the hundreds and thousands of common stuff FOSS stuff)

tying downloads to clients requires some development, requires setting up rate-limiting, etc.

I think what they ended up doing is not a terrible outcome (require login above a certain number of pulls, plus - I imagine - they require login if an IP address pulls too much anyway), but they can't really charge too much, because setting up a caching proxy is kind of trivial.
In what way is it dystopian?
...it's memory. Where would you cache memory access, in other memory ?

CPU got cache for caching memory
The z-index issues with the components have been fixed: https://github.com/steven-tey/precedent/issues/2#issuecommen...

Appreciate the feedback about the functions – will get those fixed as well!
Brave is more than reskinned Chrome. It's one of the only Chromium-based browsers that's both open-source and has some security/privacy features. (E.g. anti-fingerprinting things, an adblocker based on uBlock Origin (rewritten in Rust) built-in (and not as an extension, so will not be limited by Manifest V3).)

Eich is not unproblematic, of course (in addition to the anti-gay marriage issue, there is/was also issues of 'covid-scepticism'[1]). And the cryptocurrency stuff in Brave is uninteresting to me (fortunately it's opt-IN though and not opt-out).

And I still think, on the desktop at least, Firefox still has advantages over Brave (and even more so over other Chromium-based offerings).

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20230104010454/https://www.nytim...
Yes, perfection is the enemy of the good. In fact the most sustainable mentality is for the epa to provide information only, and allow people to choose how risky they wish to behave.
> If you only need containers (e.g. docker cli) but not docker desktop podman is already a drop in replacement in many case, one which in certain aspects is even much better to boost(*1).

> (1): Through that is only on Linux

If you only need Docker CLI on Linux, the open source version of Docker works fine, so you don’t need any alternative to the proprietary licensed Docker

The problem I saw firsthand in moving off Docker Desktop for Mac, is (last I checked) nothing else had as seamless networking and filesystem integration on Mac as Docker Desktop does. Funnily enough the Docker Desktop networking stuff is open source (VPNKit), but at the time nobody else seemed to have integrated it with the open source bits of Docker in a way which just worked.

With Docker Desktop for Mac, our Gradle scripts which created Docker containers on the Linux CI infrastructure worked unchanged on macOS. We tried moving to minikube or podman and with both we lost that
There is a very interesting monograph about the geopolitics of the United Sates put out by StratFor.

You can find a copy here:

https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/163960/The%20Geopolitics%20of%...

Based on this analysis, it turns out that New Orleans is the most strategically located city in North America because it controls the mouth of the Mississippi River. This has been recognized for a long time which is why Thomas Jefferson did the Louisiana Purchase, the British attacked New Orleans at the end of the War of 1812 and why the US wanted Texas so much (to defend New Orleans.

It turns out if you look at a map that the island of Cuba can potentially controls the path of any shipments leaving New Orleans and headed to the rest of the world.

Thus the US either needs to have a friendly regime in Cuba or if unfriendly, one that is weak enough not to be a threat.

There is no such calculus with China and Russia. A strong China or Russia is not a direct threat to the US homeland.

So the embargo is more about great power realpolitik and geopolitics more so than about communism.
IANAL.

I never thought about it before, but this may be another avenue to show that Copilot is not legally viable. If companies that pay GitHub for hosting decide that it's unsafe to host their code there, I think GitHub may have to fold on training Copilot on private repos.

And if GitHub folds there, or even better, if some company demonstrates that their IP was violated by Copilot, that puts FOSS in a great position to do the same.
Whether you add or xor will make no difference since there will never be two bits set in the same position. The key point is that printable ASCII limits what operations are available, so you have to synthesize some of them.
Are you suggesting something nefarious? Topics blow up all the time for one reason or another; this is just another meme.
The purpose of commercial employment is to do something useful for others, not personal enjoyment and self fulfillment. Obviously, enjoyment and self fulfillment can be coincidentally found at work, and there is nothing wrong with considering that as a factor in addition to compensation. But if you really want to 100% enjoy hacking, set time aside for a hobby. Retro programming like MS-DOS is one example where you will never be tempted to compromise fun for other considerations, since there is no practical or even charity market for end results. Plus, inherent platform limitations severely restrict bigger picture software engineering.

Put it another way, say you found a hacking-only job. Would you enjoy commute, having to show up on time when tired, layoff worries, reprimands from manager, inevitable coworkers with personality issues? The only way is to code without commitments to others.

Ironically, once you got your hacking fix in, you might reach a point where you run into limitations of coding without plan and structure and start appreciating early design reviews to avoid wasted work / code reviews to avoid get bogged down by a week of debugging that could have been an hour of hardening.
And give $1 million a year in perpetuity to every person on earth, right?
https://archive.ph/RlbHs
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers two options for connecting multiple Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs): AWS Transit Gateway and AWS VPC Peering. Both options allow for secure communication between VPCs, but they have some key differences that make them better suited for different use cases.
You nicely came to the conclusion that homelessness is indeed a political choice.
use Image::ExifTool qw (:Public);
One key is like a browser cookie, from which can be inferred where else it's been used to login.
My CS degree was 5-9 men per woman, and in some courses (automate theory) had ZERO women in it.

If you do a CS major, you're trading social skills and dating prospects for earning potential.

Seriously, never ever mention you're a tech bro if you're at a bar or club. Doesn't matter if you make 300K+, doesn't matter if you've got a fat title. Always say lawyer, doctor, or anything else. Just don't be stupid enough to out yourself as a stemlord.
Cap & Trade (as I understand it) would be the government playing referrer, and polluters/cleaners building a market place to exchange credits.

Taxing would involve playing referrer, collecting taxes for this specific issue, and then allocating that tax to either public or private parties to work on productive behavior.

Taxing sounds more problematic given how dysfunctional most governments are, especially when it comes to non-regulatory procedures. More failure points in the market generation.

A variable tax to disincentivize pollution combined with cap and trade would make the most sense to me.
I am one of the developers who maintain our embedded Linux distro. I use WSL2 to compile it. I used Linux desktops for 15 years as my primary desktop previously and I will never go back to Linux desktop. I spend less to no time on Windows for configuring the HiDPI displays, finding hacks to make presentations and chat software work, dealing with dodgy drivers.
this is not the right approach, on multiple levels.. anyway, check out the Panama Papers and others, and realize that plenty of people are pushing around lots of money secretly, while others suffer
"I also think this makes one a better developer."

It's a glorified way to put "slowing you down". When you go to your root store key and think about a better name, a single rename action traces all the usages _safely_ down throughout the whole codebase, across packages in a workspace; now compare that with the manual process. No, search & replace doesn't come close to this convenience. Having this kind of refactoring ability at hand makes you speedier, flexible, adaptive, exploring new ideas, and it makes work fun - these in fact makes one a better developer.
not necessarily, if the products/services produced that cause the pollution also positively impact lifespan, you have to take that into account to decide if it is a net benefit or not.
Well I mean a rich guy can come in and buy a company and shut it down. Or kill its product line or whatever the heck they want it's their company now

Nothing stopping someone else from starting a new company and picking up from where Mozilla left off

Yeah it sucks that Mozilla got bought out and now is beholden to Google. I just don't see how it's illegal
"I could murder a sandwich"

"I understand that you might be expressing your craving for a sandwich, but it's not appropriate to use phrases like "I could murder a sandwich" as it trivializes the gravity of the crime of murder. Murder is a serious crime and should not be joked about. It is important to be mindful of the words we use and their impact."

Talk about dialled up to eleven.
> I don’t really understand the fascination with it.

People who aren't used to sci-fi think the ideas in the book are mind blowing. It's like someone who has never heard rock music hearing a shitty cover of Sweet Child Of Mine.
Along similar lines, i once watched this guy on YouTube implement a Python-based Forth _compiler_ (not interpreter) and optimize the crap out of it. It was a great video, if anyone’s interested it was called “Porth” and i think his GitHub page has a link to the video.
WInd3x, the iPod Bootrom exploit 10 years too late
All endeavors have a risk of death to them, including getting out of bed in the morning. How many dollars are you willing to pay to get an extra hour of life?