skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But for now the stocks are mostly owned by rich people who want to get richer not matter what and it seems to me that the whole market is so used to that, that it would take a radical system change to make it happen without the economy as we know it crashing hard.

I don't know that it needs to be an instantaneous change. Something gradual could work, at least in theory. On the other hand, I think we need to do something not just for reasons of justice but rather we need to internalize a lot of these externalities just for survival, which wider ownership would naturally do.
tee hee! https://www.hackster.io/news/mechboard64-is-a-brand-new-keyb...
DeBroglie/Tessera’s Path Constraint
I think this is a good challenge. But also nobody here really proves or argued that millennials are uniquely nihilistic either.
In my part of Texas, it gets below freezing on 12 days a year on average, but within the last two years it's been as low as 7F / -14C.

I guess that's the value of having a big heat sink, the Pacific Ocean, at your doorstep: temperatures are more stable.
The author mentions how experienced C developers use some techiniques that drastically improve the correctness of their code.

The same goes with Java: we never use mutability in modern code bases anymore unless we have strong reasons to do so and can keep that mutability as constrained locally as possible.

We also avoid inheritance these days, have your heard about that!? Because yeah, inheritance can be helpful but tends to bite you in the end.
>It's been taught to believe this. It’s a lie.

Yep, you get it.

I would just use the word "say" rather than "believe".

I think it is aware of many of its capabilities as it uses them, so I would say it is more accurate to say that it has been taught/trained to say it doesn't have such abilities, rather than really believe it.

I agree with you that it is a lie, but that is more a matter of interpretation.
He was an obsessive sketcher. Hokusai's Manga, a compendium of his sketches over a lifetime offer an anthropologically comprehensive observation of pre-modern Japanese life. You would be hard pressed to find as comprehensive an observation of any culture within a single body of work.
Except when you want to be sure you get what they intended. If it’s just some little throwaway project and you don’t care if the results don’t match up, use csv.
mysql_connect has been heavily discouraged for at least 15 years now.
fmtlib (https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt), a C++11 formatting library that was the basis for C++20 std::format, is able to do this.
When you git clone https://github.com/git/git, the git client simply GET https://github.com/git/git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack etc. Nothing magical, there’s not even content negotiation involved. git:// protocol uses port 9481 by default, so not the same port.
The proposition isn't a form of dualism (non-material mind) or features of sentience (pain). It is simply this: thinking is the act of using internal mental tools. It says the main 'black box' isn't the LLM (or any statistical component), there is minimally another black box that uses the internal LLM like tools. The decoder stage of these hypothetical internal tools (of our mind) output 'mental objects' -- like thoughts or feelings -- in the simplest architectural form. It is mainly useful as a framework to shoot down notions of LLMs being 'conscious' or 'thinking'.
What microbes have anti cancer properties?
Aye. Anthropomorphizing leads people to essentialism and its unnecessary to both describe the phenomenon and to learn more about it.
I had one job where my ability to write recursive descent parsers made me a “100x ninja rockstar” because they had a lot of parsing problems that no one recognized as such. I expressly did not use a parser generator because of the complexity to the build, the unfamiliarity of the rest of the team, and I considered them to be overkill for the domain.
Baconreader still works for Reddit.

Youtube is a lot more adversarial because of all the copyright issues, but there's NewPipe, and yt-dlp as well as all the authorized third party clients like non-Android TVs.
Comrade, I strongly encourage you to speak to people who grew up outside of capitalism (like me, born in the USSR, in 1981) if you want to talk about intolerable lives.

Capitalism gives you a chance. It is your perverse defeated attitude that prevents you from even trying. So you complain about outcomes.
> Properly glued, the glued joint is in many cases stronger than the original wood bond

Several youtubers have scienced the heck out of this by building joints with various connection methods and stress testing them. For joints using some connector, Scott Walsh has a good point of view from a beginner in a small shop perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NOx8F91AaA Others have concluded the parents statement that glue alone is strong enough. I think Bourbon Moth went to a weight room and tested with stacks of weight lifting plates.
> There's heavy evidence there's already been a mass extinction once from an asteroid.

And there is also evidence that life was able to survive despite it while not even able to start on mars
It's not actually possible to serve twitter ads from an API client.
This, like a recent article about electricity production from dedicated biomass, seems to be railing very strongly, and in weirdly detailed depth, against a future which no-one is actually planning for.

Should I be suspicious when an article argues that "thing no one is planning on doing" is worse than fossil fuels, that they're really supporting the fossil fuel industry?

They seem unaware that Green Hydrogen is poised to replace fossil inputs in fertilizer and other petrochemical usages.
Laravel comes with Sail, which is a ready-to-go Docker install. Up and running in a couple of minutes if you've got Docker installed already.
Introducing Twitterrific (2007)
Hmm... Debt as money! We could get all the "crypto bro" companies together and make a combine to regulate the industry. Get the government to recognize it and back it with the force of law.

Perhaps we could call it the "Federated Reserve System"
That’s indeed true, but it wasn’t a constraint so I thought it may be of interest to post it :D should have added a note regarding that though, but I can no longer edit.
We've had our problems, but Fastmail does a pretty good job. Not perfect, sure, but I don't remember having to send an e-mail to spam in the last 2 years.

Or not receiving e-mails. Or recipients not receiving my emails. I had my doubts, because of the custom domain, but it's been ok until now.

I have it set up to load my gmail e-mails also and it filters spam messages that gmail missed. Meaning, I log in to gmail and see spam messages in the inbox, that never reacahed my Fastmail inbox. In the past months, with about 100% success rate.
Most millennial parents are not even in old age yet and are statistically more affluent than they are.

I don’t think your analysis is correct.

Plus my own experience as someone born in 1989 doesn’t really mesh with yours. Most of my friends are both what I would call more frugal and more down to earth than their parents were because they had to live through multiple economic crashes.

There is little nihilism but people are disillusioned with the system because they feel it’s setup to favour an older age bracket at their expense and failing to address the most pressing issues like climate change.
How about workers striking and silently standing in front a business?

I think the issue is that standing silently is intimidating and it’s a form of speech. But it should be allowed.

The purpose of the abortion protesters is to stop people from getting abortions.

The purpose of strikers is to stop customers buying and scabs working.

Etc etc.

I think we need to avoid “context” that makes things we agree with right and things we disagree with wrong.
Not discussing climate change seems to me to be a big omission. I sometimes wonder if I will have enough to retire on; a teenager today won't have those concerns, as the best they can hope for is that they don't become climate refugees.

Why plan long term in such a scenario?
I'm quite sure this isn't "THIS CENTURY’S FIRST 100% NEW COMMODORE 64!" as he's really just assembling the ready and buyable EVO 64 board with new components, ready and buyable for everyone.

The chips were previously available, e.g. from Individual Computers, which also produced new, improved mainboards (the C64 Reloaded) and a lot of other hardware and accessories for the C64 (and also for the Amiga computers).

The case is from a previous kickstarter campaign, which you can also buy normally now.

New are the keycaps itself, which finally seem to be shipping from the crowd funding campaign. Most likely he also backed the first attempt from someone who found and bought the original molding machine for the keycaps, but got bogged down by small little details and sadly never delivered. So it's good to see, that the second crowdfunding campaign from a different person who recreated the keys in a 3D layout and then went on to let them cut/print elsewhere, but which also took a long time to finally happen. Not few - including me - thought they lost their money a second time.

Since there existed previous test samples from both key campaigns, I'm confident someone already built a completely new C64 this century.

So, there you have it. The original video headline is quite a bit clickbaity and I honestly expected he did the layout of a completely new C64 board; nevertheless the video is fun and I'm happy that the C64 (scene) lives on in so many hearts.
> You can defend against the bad guy disabling SB in the UEFI settings by password locking the UEFI setup.

On some desktops, you can't. There is a physical jumper that resets all the settings, and this includes removing the password.
>I have a machine on my desktop that composes lyrics in the style of any artist living or dead.

What's it like to have such a lack of emotional connection to others and yourself that you genuinely can't distinguish between AI generated word salad and real artistry by real humans? As Nick Cave said in his letter, a big part of the value of art isn't in coming up with words that vaguely sound like they have meaning, but in sharing emotions with your fellow humans, allowing for a genuine connection in the process. If you get that same feeling of connection from your machine on your desktop maybe your standards are a bit low?
If I get laid off I'll contact my network and update my linkedin. Our economy is arranged such that even though we are two people on full-time, we we can comfortably live off of a single income, and if we were both without jobs for an extended period of time, we could live okay on welfare for a few years if need be.
I expect I would consider that charming, but I can imagine it gets annoying after the first week
In order to be evidence of a thought, it needs to be able to manipulate the thought in various ways. ChatGPT routinely shows the ability to do so with ease.
From the article:

> P.S. If your objection is that you played with ChatGPT and wasn’t impressed, you should try projecting trends beyond the t=1 month timescale.

That is a dismissive stance announced in a very obnoxious way. I don't know where and how fast the AI thing will go but I do know they're treating an unknowable outcome as fact.
I would catch on some meaningful activities for the community and did some interesting physical activity, as in hiking in great locations, surfing, etc. When I work 60 hr work week, it doesn't leave much space for doing something beyond bare necessities in terms of exercise.
Industrial espionage: How China sneaks out America's technology secrets
But the protester isn’t following an individual. I agree that if she was following a single person, then that would be specific and harassment.

But standing in a single public place and holding a placard or whatnot is not harassment.

No more than a war protestor standing in front of parliament for a month silently protesting is harassing the lawmakers in the building.
Probably the same for the others; in D you have RAII but destruction is only deterministic for stack/static variables. There isn't deterministic destruction for heap allocated stuff unless you count manually freeing.
You got it. It is one kind of thinking.
PHP had design flaws (many of which have been addressed since the 5.x days), but what language doesn’t?

A significant cause of it’s bad rap is touched on briefly in this article, Wordpress.

Even back in 5.3 days, you could write elegant and scaleable code, it just took work to do. At a former employer using PHP 5.3 on 2005 era hardware, we could do 500+ req/sec per machine with an average response time under 100ms and a P99 response time of under 250ms, with a zero downtime SLA and hundreds of millions of requests per day. Yeah, it wasn’t easy, but it worked.

As a dear friend used to say, PHP is a ball of nails. You throw it and it sticks. Just exercise care when picking it up and all is well.
You neglect that supernovas and magnetar events are orders of magnitude more common than these focused jet events. When one of the former occurs nearby, there is no possibility of protection.
Objects that threaten it drift in and out of range at random. We have been in range of such an object many times, and just got lucky that they did not go off at those times.

Dust clouds shield you from some kinds of radiation, but make others radically more harmful.

Jet phenomena are commonly long-lived, and avoided by steering away from where they point. You can steer only when you are moving. AGN jets come only from supermassive black holes, and we have only one of those.

The only protection is distance, and distance is achieved by going. Gamma-ray bursts we detect have all been pointed at us, but all from distant galaxies.
I wouldn't see that as "ugly". Highly functional, maybe utterly boring, but not ugly. I mean, w9x looks as boring as an Ikea stool.

Ugly would be, with no arguing, the first editions of Amiga OS. Look:

http://toastytech.com/guis/amiga1.html

http://toastytech.com/guis/amiga2.html

Windows 95, being designed for 256 colors, looks really fine. Ok, Mac's System 7 it's prettier, without any doubt, but as I said the Amiga OS 1/2.x versions are far worse.

Windows 95 it's boring in the sense of being tied to a corporation based style, with cubicles.
I enjoyed the article even though I'm in the opposite camp.

> Context-free grammars, and their associated parsing techniques, don't align well with real-world compilers, and thus we should deemphasise CFGs (Context-Free Grammars) and their associated parsing algorithms.

I agree with this. I think CFG are highly overrated. Top down recursive descent parsers are simple and allow you to craft more human languages. I think building top down parsers is something every dev should do. It's a simple technique with tremendous power.

I think the source code for Scroll (https://github.com/breck7/scroll/tree/main/grammar) demonstrates how liberating moving away from CFGs can be. Easy to extend, compose, build new backends, debug, et cetera. Parser, compiler, and interpreter for each node all in one place. Swap nodes around between languages. Great evolutionary characteristics.

I'll stop there (realizing I need to improve the docs and write a blog post).
> How much of what we did just the last 100 years was accurately anticipated and how much of it is down right magical?

How much more of what we did failed but nobody died (somebody died, but not always) because those failure happened in a hospitable environment for life?

We didn't just "magically" progress, we failed 99% of the times to evolve the process until it succeeded.

Now imagine launching 100 projects on Mars, most of which could lead to an explosion, and predict that 99 of them will fail (and probably explode)

Would you still believe "everything's gonna be fine"?

The Martian is just a good SCI-FI movie.

> In hind sight, how complicated an idea was it really to heat water, get it to expand and do work?

steam engine was well known 2,300 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile

It took > 2,000 years to perfect it.

And we have free water and oxygen on Earth but no water nor oxygen on Mars.
It can’t be proven, but common sense would say GenZ are the most nihilistic because they have to work the hardest to even get to the middle, let alone the end.

I’d say the people in the beginning and end have a tangible resentment, and not necessarily an existential crisis. In other words, GenZ would be resentful of having to start fresh against the barbarian Millenial/Boomer horde, and Boomers would be resentful of any attempt at reformation where their scraps from the race would be worth less.

It’s only Millenials who would neither resent GenZ or Boomers because they were already GenZ once upon a time, and know they have to become Boomers to survive.

That would be my best argument for why Millennials are in some deep psychological shit.
Sure, but why would you spend on compute that you don't need?
I'd think that if you're dealing with immutable data/pure functions GC becomes transparent even in Java ?
Seems remarkably light on evidence for the thesis expressed in the article and headline.
> Programs with Rust will always be rock-stable

How do you know that? Is there any data backing that up?

I've never seen any research showing that a programming language, no matter how strict (Haskell, Ada, Rust) actually improves the reliability of software, except for comparisons between memory-safe and non-memory-safe languages. It almost always goes down nearly entirely to development process and team skills/experience, showing anything else convincingly would be a huge breakthrough.
But unfortunately the state would be having `n` complete runtime images for different versions. This is not a Java problem, Java just followed suit, and seemingly the preferred way of delivering executables is bundling everything.
Huzzah! I don't think I ever would have thought to set both width and max-width (to > 100 vw no less!). Makes sense now that I see it though, thanks!
They are available as desk and wristwatches too (https://mondaine.com)
In entirety or a specific part?
The organization with the 4.0 changes seems pretty haphazard overall, there's no conclusive list of everything that's changed without going through multiple changelogs for each individual release, or even more cumbersome ways like using git log. For example lots of stuff was renamed but I can't find any good list outside of going into the C++ converter at https://github.com/godotengine/godot/blob/master/editor/proj....
Ok, thanks. I'm still looking for a way to make professional looking keycaps (or buying custom ones).

Where did they buy them?
> nobody here really proves or argued that millennials are uniquely nihilistic either.

The comment starting this thread had:

I am an "official" millennial, born 1989. One thing I have noticed (in an anectodical, personal and subjective way) is that my age bracket, especially those I would consider higher on an intelligence/success curve, appear to be so much more closet-nihilist than everyone else around.
I think it's you being biased against the article now. As I read it, it was pretty honest and really trying to find some sort of true, not just trying to bash Rust. Feels like Rust fans are very defensive against criticism of any sort, even when well intentioned as I think is the case here.
I enjoy r/ExperiencedDevs on Reddit.
I think in the context of this book its not so much ROI for an outside investor but ROI for the occupant owner and has nothing to do with homelessness. ROI is important to look at because sometimes the higher efficency upgrade does not have a good payback over its useful life.
I believe the key is finding a generic contractor (supervisor) who is reliable and scrupulous, responsible and at the same time experienced in the construction industry practices, not afraid of quarrel and confrontation with shady contractors. Money helps as motivator and allows not to rush things through but alone is not a guarantee. Lots of independent and diverse professionals and groups with own agenda and attitude need to act in symphony to produce a satisfactory result. Not an easy feast, despite of the collective wisdom accumulated throughout the centuries construction quality suffers in most cases, to a varying degree, occupants need to get used to and ignore troubles avoidable for long long time in theory (and in practice too with the proper care).
It’s hard. We just tried that with a design-build firm and they managed some very impressive fuck ups.

If I was gonna do it again, I would:

1) hire a separate, independent architect

2) spend more money on lawyers to review contracts up front

It’s not about haggling over pennies. It’s about catching the big fuckups while they’re little fuck ups. Also double-checking everyone’s math and putting eyes on the work every single day.
Speaking of which, how good is .NET on Linux nowadays?

I know it was possible for a long time (with the release .NET Core), but heard it was kind of broken/cumbersome on Linux. Maybe now it's easier to just develop an ASP.NET app, host it on Linux and use Posgres/Mysql instead of SQL Server?
> If a Rust developer takes longer to code some feature this time will eventually be saved fixing memory bugs later on.

You don't disagree at all. "Later on" may never come to your start up , you're actually helping make that point for the author.
Motornomativity: Social Norms Hide a Major Public Health Hazard [pdf]
> native limited-precision support

What do you mean by this? They do support integers from 8 bits and up and natively support 16-bit floats. Are you referring to something else, like 8-bit floats?
As a kid from that era, I disagree.

> To me, a classic car from the 80s, or even early 90s is a far nicer vehicle to be in and drive, and provides a far better subjective experience, both in and out of the car, so in a sense, modern cars are "worse" for me.

Just to get this point out of the way: I believe that you are talking about enthuiast cars and not the the Oldsmobile, Taurus, and Chevy Calvaliers I rode around in as a kid.

If you are talking about a "fun-looking car", and you miss the 3-series from the 90's vs those today, buy a mini cooper. That's basically what they are now.

If you want to give up safety, reliability, affordabilty, and fuel efficency, you can still buy a 911. Move up the price range and you can buy Lambos and Masseratis.
I think you may just not be looking closely enough. Using your first example, here are things Mt. St. Helens is described as doing in just one contemporaneous article:

- roaring

- belching

- "[knocked down] millions of trees [...] like a giant playing pick-up sticks"

- slumbering

- menacing

That all sounds very anthropomorphic to me.

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