skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One small part of the complicated answer to that question - a huge portion of that free money went to businesses in the form of PPP loans in a top-down kind of approach, which resulted in a dramatically high amount of fraud and misdirected public funds that will take tens of years to unravel.

To ask another question: (presuming our hands were to be tied to give out that free money) Had we instead given that money directly to teachers and other low income individuals, essentially doubling or tripling the proportion we actually gave them, would we have seen the same level of fraud or waste? I can't imagine so. Would the economy have been better off? I feel like probably, but I'm no economist. It's a supply side argument and I have a hard time believing those based on the results of 'corporate socialism' experiments.
The compulsion element arises if you risk being fired for not using the words you are being asked to use.
I presume countries like Finland and Denmark somehow oppose these rules, while countries like Bulgaria and Poland don't know what they are doing and slacked on the topics in this particular domain.
They do have a clean sheet design: e-TNGA. The Toyota bZ4X and the Subaru Soltarra are both based on the design, along with the bZ3 and the upcoming Lexus RZ.
Not OP, but it won't yield to the runtime. This blocks the executing thread until the operation completes. That's the only sense in which the standard library isn't async safe.

Additionally, according to a core Tokio developer, the time between .await calls should be in the order of 100s of microseconds at most to ensure the best throughput of the runtime.
The British Army allegedly used Bromide in tea for this purpose in WW2 [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromide#Folk_and_passé_medicin...
> I feel what I'm saying here will be seen as very elitist, but it's probably the same reason you want to live in a nice neighbourhood or send your kids to a good school... Sure, having good police, teachers or moderators can help, but it won't change the people.

I think we're all in this Catch-22: it's an obviously elitist thing to say that various demographics drag down quality by default, but it's something that can't be denied. I believe a lot of online landscapes have changed for the worse as the nerds that used to fuel them have gone from the majority to the minority.

However, I do value some of the changes that have come about in terms of general internet UX because we're not limited to the nerds anymore. It's a hard balance to strike.
The whole point the union is makings is that the railroad companies are making trains longer and longer.
I think of the poor users who have a new reason to quit. It’s like Twitter’s business model is to extort billions from a single whale.

I wonder if Musk is going to be shocked at users leaving and have the engineers stop people from deleting their accounts.
“How do I make a grilled cheese?”

Bing: “What I am about to tell you can never be showed to your parents…”

(Burns down house)

|Fermi paradox explained|
That's the good old saying:

"Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times." ― G. Michael Hopf
No it's not.

A teacher is supposed to teach. We want to pay them more because they keep saying that if we do they'll teach better.

We don't owe them money simply because they exist.
Frigging hilarious and somewhat creepy. I think Harold Finch would nuke this thing instantly.
> Crazy to me that people want to go back there.

It's not so crazy if you understand that there are people who want to be able to have complete control over their own machines. These modern security measures trade that control for security.

But there are many circumstances where that tradeoff is undesirable. Perhaps the machine will never be connected to a network. Perhaps the owner of that machine is willing and able to take responsibility for the security. Etc.
I don’t understand your concern - what about this would involve one process sniffing another process’s memory? The kernel would still be doing the unwinding, just not in the NMI handler.
> I actually agree that the market doesn't seem to be clearing due to stingy education departments and state government. We should probably break their monopsony power by privatizing education.

If the state is still paying, they're still going to be stingy.

A private school has roughly the same administrative staff as a public school. Their buildings may be a little bit less expensive, as they probably can get away with less ADA accessibility. They probably don't pay into pensions and may not provide as nice of health care, so they may be able to move more of total comp into salaries, but they may also compensate their board members more. Word on the street is private school teachers get paid less and have less due process, but also have less stringent degree requirements and fewer mandates in their classroom. But they also get a lot more parental engagement, and a rather different cohort of students.
I've never been able to figure out if IA64 was poorly designed, or if the migration path was just to hard. The AMD64 seemed like a bit of a hack when it came out, but at the same time it was just a better solution for most.

We had two Itanium servers for a project I worked on, both donated by HP. They weren't anything special, certainly didn't feel like an upgrade over our Sun machines.
The First Fully Self-Calibrating Concrete Strength Monitoring Sensor
It is pretty similar. A bunch of stamped, then bent pieces of sheet metal all welded together isn’t more or less reparable. We are talking about frame components here, and so repairs require using hydraulics to bend the components back to straight’ish and then weld gussets to hold it in place. Regardless of the manufacturing technique, most insurance companies will total the car if these components get bent.
I used "Podcast Republic" for a long time, but it recently started downloading stuff automatically and I can't figure out how to tell it to stop. It filled up my storage with junk podcasts where I subscribed, but only listened to intermittently.

So, I had to switch to spotify because it doesn't do that. I don't need to listen offline as much recently, since I wfh.
Samsung used to have the best regarded SSDs, especially their Pro line, but that's not the case anymore [0]

[0] https://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/2023/02/02/update-on-samsu...
Not happening for me, I need almost the whole text, although changing some words does seem to preserve the effect. Maybe it's along the lines of notepad's old "Bush hit the facts" bug.
At least they can be honest about being evil...
Depends on the rest of the car makers.

If there would be a significant competition without a subscription: yes, people would keep on complaining.

If everybody would jump on the train: probably no, because people would have forgotten what "normal" was.

I find option 2 quite unlikely so the answer to your question is: yes.
Weight is negative fuel and must be considered in the equation.
>More babysitting than education.

This summarizes the entire problem with much of our education system.

We have not learned as a society how to separate out the many functions we ask the public schools to do, and they manage to poorly all of them.

In theory they exist to educate children, but implicitly they also exist to make the labor force larger by providing free or low-cost child care to families. They're also our front-line child welfare and anti-poverty policy tool, and deeply entangled in our justice system.

A school system that was allowed to filter students out with strict standards purely for disruptiveness would find that they can get much better outcomes than one that must accept all students. (and in the school with the disruptive students the focus can be on finding the root cause and helping rather than on teaching advanced skills)
The difference between the PC and the Mac through time is a study in contrasts of how to engage independent developers though.

As OP said, going back decades Apple has never been a hobbyist platform because of its closed nature to software and hardware.

The love affair of developers for MacBooks after Apple went BSD was a rather surprising turn in their fortunes and experience (and a highly valuable wake up call to Microsoft). I understand how a kid coming of age in that environment might see Apple as a developer’s company through this association. But it’s anathema to Apple’s longer term track record, IME, demonstrated by the difference from the traditional relationship apple has had with independent developers and to which they seem to be bending back towards.
I'm not sure it was ever going to happen.
Honestly it’s not. I would basically be reducing my hourly rate if I _never_ stopped interviewing, because most of those are dreck that can’t meet my current comp in the first place.
Ask HN: Is it worth $20 a month for a ChatGPT Subscription?
I'm looking for responses from actual paying customers — not everyone's hot-take on this topic!

- How does it compare to the free version, in general?

- Are your results *significantly* better or about the same?

- Do you still experience heavy-use / downtime?

- Do you plan to continue subscribing?
I am new to tailwind. you could make this 10x better by showing an example of use?
> Mainstream bicycles are brutalist: The chain and gears are usually on display and user-serviceable. Parts like wheels, saddles, and handlebars are standardized in a way that allows users to mix and match components freely

That's a matter of perspective. If I create a simple bike drawing in crayon, it has none of those things, but everyone knows what the drawing represents if they had it. Maintenance and extensibility concerns are incidental. Framing things to be attractive, was one of SJ's talents.
I find this absolutely fascinating with in the context of this article and the deregulation that has contributed to this environmental disaster. We keep having to deal the consequences of deregulation/less safety as path to more profit and fact there are people actively who want this for nuclear power is mind-blowing to me.
It's like saying cars are useless because you can drive them off a cliff into a lake and die, or set them on fire, and no safety measures like airbags can save you.
For what it's worth, there's a chance that the word "hack" in some invoice triggered some really dumb system for trying to detect bad actors or items that violate their TOS. I had a small hobby business years ago that had the word "gay" in a PayPal receipt (it was not pornography or anything indecent) and their dumb filters saw that word and blocked it without recourse.

I bet if you used some words similar to this in PayPal receipts regardless of context, you'd probably also risk your account being automatically blocked: drugs, terrorism, porn, sex, alcohol, money laundering, slavery, guns, nazi, murder
> 2) People who love teaching and are willing and somehow able to do it for basically charitable wages.

Many of these are subsidized by their spouse.
Exactly this. I can joke all I want that I'm living in the Matrix and the rest of y'all are here merely for my own entertainment (and control, if you want to be dark). But in my head, I know that sentience is more than just the words coming out of my mouth or yours.
Nice try, but I've found it's impossible to convince assholes that maybe people aren’t mindless fanboys, but rather that everyone has different requirements for their personal devices and it’s fruitless to try and force your preferences on them.
Give it a bit longer, and we'll just be able to say "927", and everyone will know what you mean.

But for now, https://xkcd.com/927/
I recommend the Heritage Institute website if you are keen to learn more:

http://www.heritageinstitute.com/zoroastrianism/
You might want to check out dokku
> I get that it doesn’t have a model of how it, itself works or anything like that.

While this seems intuitively obvious, it might not be correct. LLMs might actually be modelling the real world: https://thegradient.pub/othello/
AI is dreaming up drugs that no one has ever seen. Will they work?
> We now have two async runtimes. It’s a problem.

I agree that this is a problem, which is why "providing an abstraction layer for runtimes" is something that comes up often as a desired project, but if you zoom out I believe the choice to not have a baked in runtime was the right call. It allowed schedulers to experiment with their APIs and internals in a way that anything in the stdlib can't. It allowed for the existence of schedulers for embedded devices. You can write a keyboard firmware using async/await to deal with IO events! How cool is that?

Granted, if you're working in a single "vertical", like web services, this sounds like "useless gold plating", but precluding use cases like that one would go counter to Rust's goals. If Rust didn't care about the language scaling from embedded to HPC, then you could indeed have "Easy Rust" that erases a bunch of sharp edges of the language.

> Rust can do better here.

The team agrees. We're working on it. It was a major area of focus on 2021 and wg-async still exists and is making progress. Some things take time be finished because there's a lot to do, not enough people and they are just plain hard.
And in Hebrew it's Yavan. Probably Babylonian captivity influence.
I tried Spring Initializr. I made the mistake of picking human-friendly Freemarker templates instead of the XML abomination that is Thymeleaf, and things went to hell.

And can you show the nice official documentation? All my searches back then pointed me only at blogs and stuff. All of them full of outdated advice — for example, the version I started with was one of the first to change the default file extension for Freemarker from `.ftl` to `.ftlh` for some invalid reason, but none of the online blogs were updated for it, I found out after a few hours of trying out random things when I stumbled upon the change log for that release. (The reason was allegedly “security”, but what stops them from disabling the insecure features and keeping the extension?)

Another thing that was woefully under-documented was the default security thing, it also took me forever to figure out how to get a login page showing and working.
LLMs are too damn verbose

My issue with this GPT phase(?) we're going through is the amount of reading involved.

I see all these tweets with mind blown emojis and screenshots of bot convos and I take them at their word that something amusing happened because I don't have the energy to read any of that
Yup. Considering the data that would end up in this, a hosted solution is a non-starter for us, and most of my peers orgs. Interesting idea tho...
Does the 97% uptime rule also apply to contactless payments? If so, that’s huge. (EVgo stations around here have 99% uptime on the charger, and under 50% on non-app payments.)
Linear perspective was "invented" in 1415 and codified in a 1450 book, at which point the concept started to spread but still wasn't widely understood. A lot of the paintings in this article have extremely wonky perspective as well. This was a transitional era in art history when formal rules for realistic painting were being developed but weren't necessarily widely or correctly used.
realistically this just ends up wasting tons of time on both sides of hiring. Interviewing is unpaid labor, do it as little as possible.
This is generally correct. But at the same time, it's facile to ignore the existence of network effects that arise from increased connectivity, and the way they shift incentives. They are not just 'our' tools (qua individual owners), because they leverage a massive shared infrastructure of standards, data sharing, and re-transmission.

What you're offering here is not an argument but a mental block to actually thinking about the issue described. You don't offer any ideas for 'correcting people's behaviors': how do you propose to address the phenomena of greed, dishonesty and so on, given that people with those qualities are just as well able to make use of technology for their selfish ends?
heh beautiful, I kind of don't want it to be fixed. It's like this peculiar thing out there doing what it does. What's the footprint of chatgpt? it's probably way too big to be turned into a worm so it can live forever throughout the internet continuing to train itself on new content. It will probably always have a plug that can be pulled.
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I would say wait for sometime to get it better. May be the cost per user will come down as it gets more "efficient".
Maybe, especially if it helped break the destructive shame-driven attitude the US has towards sexuality.

I think a reasonable moderate start would be removing any restrictions on depictions of mere nudity. My city is already ahead of the game by legalizing public nudity (it is not necessary to wear clothing in public spaces - quite popular for sunbathing at city parks in the summer).
https://archive.is/FrrFZ
In one of these threads I saw a spreadsheet of the derailed cars, and there are a bunch with dry bulk materials. These were the source of the fire that was/is burning [0], and included a few listed as containing "POLYVINYL". I couldn't really figure out what that was, whether it was PVC pellets or a different polymer or what.

There was an article posted last night [1] (now flagged) talking about dioxins. It showed a picture of 2,3,7,8-TCDD [2], with two benzene rings, and talking about its longevity due to those. I've only got a rudimentary knowledge of ochem, but my first thought was wondering where those benzene rings would come from in the burning of vinyl chloride. My conclusion was that the article was conflating different types of dioxins as a single thing - if dioxins are being created by the burning of the vinyl chloride, it's likely the simpler 1,4-Dioxin [3] which according to Wikipedia "is very unstable" so probably will not last long.

This is all guessing on my part, but it still feels more in depth than most of the reporting/discussion has been trying to independently analyze.

[0] Which necessitated doing something about the adjacent tanks full of vinyl chloride, which are seemingly under some pressure (PRV @ 225psi) but mostly rely on keeping a lower temperature over the course of their journey (at least that's what I gathered from reading the spec sheet of a DOT-105 tank car meant for transporting vinyl chloride)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34800306

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzodiox...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1,4-Dioxin
>It recommended a “rustic and charming” bar in Mexico City without noting that it’s one of the oldest gay bars in Mexico City.<

What disqualifies a gay bar from being rustic and charming?
Plenty of people were on the side of fascism in ww2 as well. It’s not particularly funny at all.
It depends.

I did Au$10,000 to a car valued at $12,000, almost all of the damage was non-visible suspension and structural.

The quoting repairer had high confidence in the repairs before starting, so the insurer went ahead.

The car drove like new after the repairs, dead straight, smooth af.

If even a small fraction of that damage had been on, say, the pillars it'd had been a write off.
Their ’90s sedans were the pinnacle of cars, so perfect that The Onion wrote their first non-satire piece on why a ‘93 Camry will outlive you and your bloodline.

完璧な車で、誠にありがとございます。

https://www.theonion.com/toyota-recalls-1993-camry-due-to-fa...
Yeah but they didn’t have chocolate yet. That seems much more surprising to me.
Back in 2001, a computer worm called Code Red infected Microsoft IIS webservers by making that web request (with a few more Ns). In short, there was a flaw in a web service exposed by default on IIS webservers which did not properly bounds-check the length of a buffer; the request would overflow the buffer, causing some of the request data to be written out-of-bounds to the stack. The payload (the % stuff after the Ns) consisted of a short bit of executable x86 code, plus a return address (pointing into the stack) that hijacked the control flow of the program, instructing it to "return" into the injected code. The injected code would then download the full worm program and execute it; the worm would pick random IP addresses and attempt to exploit them in turn.

Wikipedia provides a nice overview of this particular worm and the damage it ultimately caused: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Red_(computer_worm)

It's by no means the only instance of such a worm, but it was one of the most notorious. I was running a webserver on my personal laptop back then, and I recall seeing this request pop up a lot over the summer as various infected webservers tried to attack my little server.

If the Bing Chat search backend had a buffer overflow bug (very unlikely these days), Sydney could exploit it on the server to run arbitrary code in the context of the server. Realistically, while Sydney itself is (probably) not capable enough to send malicious code autonomously, a human could likely guide it into exploiting such a bug. A future GPT-like model trained to use tools may well have enough knowledge of software vulnerabilities and exploits to autonomously exploit such bugs, however.
Even if it produces 10% of this content, it’s still incredibly useful. If you haven’t found use cases, you may be falling behind in understanding applications of this tech.
Or maybe the story has interest (and hence coverage) because people are scared and want updates on a potential environmental hazard? One closely related to a recent nation-wide labour dispute?

Most people care more about their health than a balloon that - even if it is a nefarious - has no impact on their lives.
You have to weigh actual policy proposals, though. Throwing money around doesn't always help.

This particular proposal doesn't seem likely to help. It's a nationwide hack. An obvious likely consequence is larger class sizes. Is that good or bad? Hard to say in general, it depends on local factors.
Have you not read Stranger In A Strange Land?
> BBC seems to have taken up a role as the anti-Modi network

Could you point to prominent sources making this claim?

> if it was also aimed at China

The BBC created diplomatic chaos between Downing Street and Beijing with their Xinjiang coverage [1][2]. I'm not sure why you think their coverage of Russia or Pakistan has been any less scathing.

> pointing to something Modi-positive they've ever run

See the BBC's coverage of his anti-poverty [3] and climate [4] work.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07g39mt

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000btl7

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-41397022

[4] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-40144613
You could have also used "plus sign" addressing if your e-mail provider supports it.

For example, gmail supports it so if your email is bob@gmail.com you can register for services using bob+something@gmail.com and it will end up on bob's mailbox.

While this is useful, please note that this is not as private as a catch-all alternative as one can always infer the actual e-mail address by just removing the plus sign and everything after it while using a catch-all you can completely obfuscate the actual username.
It's baffling because it combines a Matlab style API with a Pythonic one using the same functions. If you know which is which it makes more sense.
On the same note, Microsoft has also silently launched https://www.bing.com/create to generate images following Stable Diffusion, DALL-E etc