skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I were a schoolchild in 2020 and I was told that all of the fun parts like chatting to my friends, hanging out at break, eating lunch together, passing notes around in class etc were cancelled and I was going to sit in front of a screen at home for 6-8 hours for a year or more I'd have just dropped out then too.

That's assuming that I even got to do that, since like many of the kids in the article, I wouldn't necessarily have a stable home connection or a desk or many of the things I needed to do "home learning".

> Another Boston student became severely depressed during online learning and was hospitalized for months. Back home, he refuses to attend school or leave his room despite visits from at least one teacher.

He's just checked out. Complete loss of respect for the entire establishment. It doesn't just come back magically when the hysteria lifts, we've still had no closure or even acknowledgement that what happened was insane.
Yeah. Over the last four years, I have had a lot of really successful products at my current company - but for all of them, I basically had to do it "rogue" which takes a lot for me to do, because I value having buy-in from the business and management. But, they needed to be done, and I was right - even though I was fought on the products.

It sucks.
"Communal disharmony." A lovely term to justify a good old dose of authoritarianism or censorship, for 'the greater good' (or 'communal harmony' in this case).
Amazon’s Self-Driving Car Shuttles People on Public Roads for the First Time
United Flight from Maui Came Within 800 Feet of Striking Pacific Ocean
ChatGPT Tells the Story of Coinbase Battling the Government
Yes, LLMs are different. They are not reliable computers and computers are not reliable translators.

Perhaps pick the best tool for the job?

Or just flail around wildly and leave snarky comments on articles about bullshit generators. Your choice.
https://archive.ph/jfNs9
> you can't just block their access to the internet

Or maybe that's the best thing you can do for them, perhaps preventing them from revealing even more passwords etc to the attacker.
Nike (or a more appropriate entity) wouldn't be able to sponsor him even if it wanted to, given how the ties with the Russian banks have now been severed. Another case for bitcoin, I guess?
If the model never leaves the company's servers, and you strap a simple filter on its output that removes verbatim regurgitates, then this should be moot?
Developers are pretty bad about this sort of thing. Back when this article was written, GitHub didn’t have its automatic scanning and you could just search “site:github.com intext:sk_live_” to find hundreds of Stripe live secret keys that would give you full access to someone’s hard earned cash.

Surprised this article doesn’t mention it but a scary amount of desktop apps use Electron nowadays which has considerably fewer protections than Chrome (and usually what protections it has are turned off by lazy devs). Since it runs at an OS level with very little safeguard there’s a lot of damage you could do, for example electron.shell can be turned into an easy RAT.
The West will have some deteriorating relations with India as well if India decides to start ethnic cleansing or stripping citizenship from 100 million Muslims. Consider how much business we do with Burma (approximately $0), even though the labor is quite cheap there. The BBC documentary is a warning shot.

To be clear, this is not about the West taking sides in religious or ethnic issues; there are limits on what kinds of violence people are willing to accept in the supply chain. China is incredibly hard to divorce from, but we're doing it.
The book this blog post is based on -- Sanjoy Mahajan's "Street-fighting Mathematics" -- is a fantastic read. It is a bit like watching cirque du soleil; I don't come away having internalised much because I have no practice thinking that way, but I come away hugely entertained!

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-098-street-fighting-mathemati...

The reading list has a link to both the printed version and a free pdf of the book.
Sure it applies. In that case, there's just maybe some legitimate reason to fear it.
"hey!"

"what?!"

"where are you?!"

"over here!"

"ok!"
It's unlikely to enter an actual free-fall by stalling the plane, but it's entirely possible to produce an acceleration of -1 G by diving - the astronaut training airplanes are doing it all the time. The question is just, why would a normal passenger aircraft do it (except maybe in an extreme emergency)?
Ukraine has strict agricultural laws prohibiting foreign companies from owning land.
Many women would say the same about many men, who often don't hear a word that they are saying!
> If you wanna have your mind blown, start looking into who bought up a lot of that farmland (and agricultural enterprise) starting after the 2014 uh, government restructuring. Hint: it’s not the Ukrainians. And they were changing laws to allow more foreign takeover of Ukrainian agriculture up to the invasion.

I'm not sure I understand the comment. Is what you're presenting negative?
There is clear value in being able to pass around several pieces of information about the same thing without having to individually name them every time (less typing, you can decide to include more members at a later time, less overhead in passing by reference, users can treat it as an opaque type without needing to know the contents, etc).
A speed of 9.81m/s is not free fall. Acceleration of 9.81m/s² is. If you're actually in free fall, you will quickly accelerate past 9.81m/s to whatever your terminal velocity is.

A typical passenger jet flies at a speed of somewhere between 100m/s and 300m/s. Just a small downward angle can add a vertical component to that vector well above 9.81m/s. That's what I think we're seeing here, not a plane dropping out of the sky.
Tories hate the BBC for being a hive of lefties, and slowly strangle its source of funds; Labour hate the BBC for being partisan to Tories, and will loudly shout they're being ignored at every turn. Apart from a handful of highly-visible figures (Dimbleby, Kuenssberg, Neil), who are easily ignored, the truth is somewhat in the middle. Occasionally too much in the middle, like on Brexit, but in the middle nonetheless.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11746913/Passenger-...
Andy Grote was the penis, in case you were wondering.
'unless electric beats it for baseload' seems like an error; perhaps you meant 'unless renewables beat it for baseload'

the cheaper/useful/constrained trichotomy seems like a similar error; supply constraints manifest as higher prices, and the usefulness of a fairly fungible commodity like energy is entirely relative to its price

pv with batteries is already cheaper than fossil-fuel sources in much of the world, and largely as a result, fossil-fuel consumption for electrical generation is already slowly dropping in much of the world; this has already resulted in a rash of bankruptcies of coal companies

overall fossil-fuel consumption is not dropping, but will be within a few years
It seems good, but some icons and texts are not visible to read easily. Maybe you can make their font bigger.
They presumably meant accelerating down at g (9.81 m/s/s) rather than steady velocity of 9.81 m/s.

Whether engine or gravity, that would cause an uncomfortable feeling of weightlessness in the cabin and vertical velocity would build quickly.
I heard about Hardware embedded code. But not sure how high the efficiency gains are. So if someone has more info. And also in Memory Computation.
Authoritarian leaders/movements always respond to criticism by attacking the people doing it.
OrbStack: Light Linux containers and VMs on macOS, early access
Not knowing is costly. Not knowing what you don't know, doubly so. Consultants are used for different reason. Sometimes for delegation of understanding, which never (rarely?) works.
Designing with Chiplets to Build the Dream Chip
Such batteries are not really marketed. The economic case for them relies on the market for lithium being saturated — but the market is not saturated. You can't make a profit selling lithium alternatives when we're not presently close to being out of lithium, even if we might hit a supply crunch at some point.

Gelion in Australia makes a zinc-bromine battery with an 87% RTE per their IPO filings. I've been watching them closely, but I've been hesitant to invest in a company whose products probably have years before they're in serious demand. Most flow batteries are well below 87% RTE.
šljiva, Serbia's popular brandy, could be the next mezcal
I store files in an appropiate strcture in my repo in a "src" folder, eg "src/usr/bin/myprog", "src/etc/cron.daily/myprog.cron" etc

Then I have a "src/DEBIAN" folder with a control file and maybe things like conffiles, postinst, etc.

Control file looks like

Package: mypackage
Version: 1.0.__datestamp__
Architecture: all
Maintainer: My Name <my.name@email.com>
Depends: perl, libcgi-pm-perl, libtimedate-perl, apache2
Section: web
Priority: optional
Installed-Size: 1000
Description: My fun package which does good stuff
Do wonderful things like existing

sed replaces the __datestamp__ line with yyyy.mm.dd.hh.mm.ss, then

fakeroot dpkg-deb --build ./src

builds a deb.

(I have a larger script which does things like checking out from git, tagging, etc)
Aha, I didn't know they were paying for it.
You're literally whining about your inability to kick someone out of their home.
Homelessness was a reeeeaally good motivator for me to get my shit together. Not that I advise anyone do it. Worked 12-14 hour days delivering food for a couple of months. I think seeing that number go up after every delivery really helped. Been a few years now so my willingness to be disciplined is lessened, but I can still turn it on whenever I need to.

I’d say think back to times when you were able to be disciplined. Was there a gamification of the task going on or little wins along the way? Those might help.
It feels like the C++ committee should be working on a "C++ Safe Edition 2025" as an opinionated and radical overhaul of the language. Absent something is radical, govs & industry leaders are going to continue to call for the death of C++.

Given work on Circle (, Carbon, etc.) -- a "radically opinionated" Edition of C++ as a fork in the standard seems required (where Edition = Fork).

Incrementalism towards a "more polished" C++ won't be enough; not least due to branding.
Linked lists are complicated. You can get something that compiles easily with C++, but to be sure it doesn't leak memory might require you to get that PhD after all.
Actually, technology has already done this to a large extend, and AI is the next logical step in the process. Our economy is evolving, and evolving in very twisted ways to make us more machine like.
Fixed the comma, it's 30,000!
I watch Denys Davydov every day to keep up with the war in Ukraine, also there are some veteran US soldiers who vlog a little less often but who contribute a lot of understanding.

Techmoan changed my life and got me into collecting audio gear again, I’m afraid he is not vlogging as often as he used to because of health challenges.

Commercial stuff is part of it though, for the first time I am watching an anime series, the remake of Urusei Yatsura, as soon as it comes out. Uploaders seem to be playing a game of whack-a-mole with the censors, often putting things in the video to confuse the content filters.
Hacker News is a super-text-heavy site, but even with this extreme example, the favicon alone means that 20% of the page weight is binary data. For any normal site, binary data outweighs ASCII by several orders of magnitude. In either case though, we’re talking about a few kilobytes, which I wouldn’t consider “big” — like even if you wanted to write an HN reader app for your esp32 microcontroller, HN being served in UTF32 instead of UTF8 probably wouldn’t be the biggest obstacle :P
We should call people who moan about license choices and donation messages in postinstall scripts what they are: leeches.

If you take time out of your day to complain about an OSS project and spread negativity you're literally a detriment to the wider ecosystem. That includes purity testing.

I hope zloirock does what is good for him going forward.
I read Breakfast of Champions, around age 14, only because I saw that it was not kept with the general library collection, and was told that children needed permission to read it. My mom was reluctant but agreed, and that was my introduction to Vonnegut. I liked it. That underlined an interest in things singled out like that. For instance I read the cancelled stories on HN first, and while the signal-to-noise ratio is low I've found an unusual number of pearls in that pile too. If you want me to read something forbidding it is a great sales pitch.

It's a shame that I've already read Margaret Atwood's oeuvre since now I can't read her with that extra spice.
The author misses the point: consultants are brought in more to buttress the position of the advocators and to squash dissent, less to offer genuine knowledge that the clients don't already know.
If Muslims and Hindus have found peace then this would not create disharmony...
US defence forces no match for the unstoppable fiend known as Reply-All
Even if they did go on social media. It's like a sand in the ocean, not everything on social media get's amplified. Chances are folks were told to put away their electronic device since it was during the takeoff, so no one has a recording. That means a tweet or facebook post with no image or picture? Might get 1 or 2 thumbs up.
It wasn't a SWAT team but a regulary search and a court decided later the search was illegal. Let's see if an Indian court decides if this is illegal.

If you're concerned about Germany, it ranks #13 in World Press Freedom Index (it slipped mostly because of attacks against the press by left and right extremists during COVID) and India ranks #150 (out of 180).
This seems an apt description of management consulting trying to find its future.

It used to look at the trends of the past 5-10 years, and extrapolate or forward, especially mbas. That hasn’t exactly worked out so well the last 20y due to tech driven change outpacing most everything else.

The saying the tech is the easy part of the equation compared to people seems to put the management consulting lens at the top of the pyramid in some cases.

Sometimes it’s not negative and just the truth of many intelligent lived experiences. If business consulting can be subjective sometimes the response to it might have to be as well to resonate.
> Adopt language epochs so that the language syntax and semantics can be evolved without having to fight backwards compatibility.

That's what Javascript got surprisingly right IMO: you can target the latest bleeding edge features, and still be able to compile and run them on 20-year-old browsers through code re-writing (aka transpilation) and polyfills [1]

I often wish this was available for other languages, too.

[1] Well, not all features because some if them are notoriously hard to polyfill (IIRC Proxies are one such unpolyfillable feature). And there's the huge issue of the entire world relying on just one guy: https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/master/docs/2023-02...
The larger the team I am on, the less happy I am.
I moved from a 40 person team serving a few dozen clients in a multi-tenant setup, to essentially working for one of the clients directly as their only full time developer.

I have probably written more code in the last 6 months than the preceding 5 years.
It's not because I suddenly got smarter or I am some 10x engineer, it's because all the BS got out of the way.

No agile, no jira, no backlog grooming, no story points, no standups, no sprints, no product owner, no stakeholder management, no churn. No "two masters" or principal-agent problems.

Client/boss knows what they want, and so thats what I work on. It's clear whats important, so that's where I spend my time. He trusts my advice and feedback because he doesn't have 10 other senior engineers whispering conflicting BS in his ear. He is clear on how robust a solution they want, and if it's worth moving onto a new idea or wrapping up the current one.

So, freed from all the other problems, I just build.
That’s a reasonable point. However, while things are more likely to go viral if the original poster has many followers, but it isn’t a hard requirement.

Any of those 6 followers could start things off by sending it to people that follow them at which point it can quickly go exponential.
> Technology won’t progress at the rate needed to prevent the worst of the climate disaster,

Thing is, it already did. RCP8.5 is not going to happen, because it overestimated China's current-day coal usage by 500%.

Meanwhile events like the COVID pandemic and Russian invasion ultimately prevented the world from breaking the 2019 CO2 emissions record of 40.9Gt.

I'm not saying we should sit back and relax, but perhaps it's not all doom and gloom.
Yeah, and if you read my comment carefully, this law to jail people was only instituted 9 years into the totalitarianism started. The first move (apart from rigging election) was labeling media as "foreign agents" circa 2012.
> You should have insisted on a corrected job reference and in the extreme case gone to court

I did. The court couldn't do anything for me, because the company had my own evaluation on paper and used those words verbatim. It's genius really, but also pretty damn petty.
People pay for that kind of experience:
https://www.gozerog.com/
a) That line of thinking was eviscerated with Johnson and Kussenberg.

b) The BBC is biased against Labor and SNP as a growing number of Britons are coming to realise. Clearly towing the line in favor of the Tory party.

c) Plenty of nations have such advocacy groups.
We tried to develop an application (completely free to use) for creating life calendars, and this is one example of its use.
For example, look at many events of the 20th century through the calendar of life: https://storycell.vercel.app/stories/44

I am not a historian, all information and dates were taken from Wikipedia.

Do you find this website useful and what functionality does it lack?
The web sites in search results were always liable for defamation though. And Microsoft/Google could have been had they rewritten snippets to falsely suggest a page had defamatory information (they don’t)
Yes, I think it's related to the waining political and economic power of the West and buoyed by Putin, Xi Jinping etc getting away with whatever they want
Rather than assurances, how about some data?
Put up a firewall and block us.
Official documentation is a problem. It is aimed at Debian maintainers building a fully policy compliant package that could be accepted to the official repository. You don't need any of that crap for making a .deb package. It puts off people from creating Debian packages for their own programs or private use.
Search "turkey earthquake" and try to find a niche commentator, hell even a Turk on the ground not a part of a news organisation. Perhaps original uploader footage. Literally anything not uploaded by a TV news station.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=turkey+earthqua...

Let me know if its just me seeing this TV shit smeared everywhere. No wonder tiktok is murdering youtube.
The article's conclusion may be distasteful to some, but is in line with historical precedent. The 1973 Yom Kippur war and following oil embargo led to fuel economy standards, CFL research was started, search for alternate fuel sources and extraction method such as fracking... Many parallels to today, except "green" sources barely existed at the time.
I used to work on bizdev with a German group and it took me a long time to catch on:

"The character used as the thousands separator
In the United States, this character is a comma (,). In Germany, it is a period (.). Thus one thousand and twenty-five is displayed as 1,025 in the United States and 1.025 in Germany. In Sweden, the thousands separator is a space.

The character used as the decimal separator
In the United States, this character is a period (.). In Germany, it is a comma (,). Thus one thousand twenty-five and seven tenths is displayed as 1,025.7 in the United States and 1.025,7 in Germany."
Regarding supermarket prices, I've done the same calculations and even made a game of it when I was at university[0].

Per calorie you can do similar with value brand digestives.

However, so far as I can see in the reporting, many people in the UK really are that short of money — It's not just not being able to budget right (dyscalculia is a thing, but not common enough to explain current observations by itself).

I also think that, just as pubs are required to supply free water on request[1], they should also supply free unflavoured lentils-and-rice on request, given how cheap it is.

> If you can only send your kid to school with 1 slice of bread, you have other problems than money.

They do indeed have other problems than money — money is also a problem, just not the only one.

I was going to add that a significant number can't even manage as much as one slice of bread, however all the news I can find specifically about schoolkids skipping specifically breakfast (and not the generic mass hunger I previously gave examples of) turned out to be reporting the same two studies by two different foods companies so I don't trust that factoid.

[0] 20 years ago: breakfast was Quaker oats with skimmed UHT, sugar, and whichever dried sultanas or raisins was cheaper; skipped lunch; dinner was Chinese instant noodles from Lidl at 13p per pack; total daily was about 50p. I could sustain this without feeling bad for 12 days out of 14, with cheese on toast the other two. My dad commented that I seemed to have lost weight by the end of term, so I'm not convinced that was genuinely sustainable despite feeling like it at the time.

[1] I'm told the law is more complicated, but in practice this is observed
Great article.

Rust struct and Haskell records work pretty much the same way, too:

// Rust
Item { name, price }
Item { name: name, price: price }
match item {
Item { name, .. } => todo!(),
}

corresponding to

-- Haskell
Item { item, price }
Item { item = item, price = price }
case item of
Item { name, .. } -> undefined

Haskell has some opt-in flexibility wrt. packing and unpacking of field names [1].

[1]: https://ghc.gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/doc/users_guide/exts/reco...
The refusal to do an ABI break is a crazy move on the C++ committee's part. C++ without an ABI break loses performance, has a bunch of confusing features (eg bucket iterators in hash tables...), and completely prevents a lot of proposals that would make smart pointers work a lot better.
The 83B Election
I wonder what the Muslims in India think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_against_Muslims_in_In...
What I find interesting is how close the opposite sides are. Victimhood is the currency of today’s “conservatism”: Donald Trump says he is “angrier than he has ever been” and of course conservatives today claim to be victimized by the media, the academy, etc.

Back in the Trump years I would see Colin Kapernick kneel and think, “this guy thinks America is not great, just like the President.”
Joining a room from server perspective vs syncing the client to the rooms he has already joined
Hmmm, Serbia wasn't "southern europe" last time I checked.
“Some post-colonial history there” is quite an understatement.
I’m referring to civil liability
Your comment reminds me of Steve Jobs lecture at MIT 1992. The part about consulting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c4CNB80SRc
> I think you meant more than simply "why I choose not to license my own project as GPL"

Think what you want. Nobody else was confused by my meaning.

> have and agenda and are paid to spread FUD

LMAO you guys are fucking lunatics. Have a nice night.
I think there has been a big push for "official" viewpoints in the aftermath of COVID, which really is a shame. I think back to the 2016 Turkey Coup attempt as an example where uploads and live streams from the ground were so much more valuable than the news