skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Though the ethical choice is better in your case, I came to realize that chickens (as they exist for agriculture) are kind of strange abominations of what they came from, and they really do live bizarre lives of eating and pumping out eggs. As soon as they're spent they get turned into dog food or similar. Ethically it's better if they aren't trucked around and crammed in cages, but the end result is still servitude in which your body is used until it stops working the way people want it to, at which point you're disposed of like garbage.

In my mind I thought "If I care enough to reduce suffering to an arbitrary point, why not just eliminate it from my diet entirely? Why do I get to decide at which point the chickens suffer the correct amount?". Especially when the more ethical choice still involves the exploitation of the chicken, it seemed like the right choice to stop eating the food they make.

I don't miss eating eggs so it wasn't a hard choice to follow through on. I know some people depend on them far more than I did, or fewer foods are available to them. It's an interesting quandary though and I don't think my decision was the objectively perfect conclusion or anything – it's just worth considering over time.
this is typical of a lot of urban property in the USA. Yet as a child I remember many kinds of bugs, crawling and flying. Now there are literally none when I look for them, on several occasions. Bird population is low, too.
Article gives scant information but found this from 01/30/23: https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/internet-slows-to-a-crawl-...

From that article:

Vietnam is currently connected with seven undersea cables: SMW3, AAG, IA, APG, AAE-1, SJC2 and ADC. Besides the recent breakage of the IA, problems with the AAE, AAG and APG cables that have been present since 2022 and early 2023 have yet to be fully resolved.

The SJC2 and the ADC are yet to be officially operational, while the SMW3 cable is outdated and about to be decommissioned.

The fact that Vietnam currently only has one fully functional undersea cable has caused internet speeds between Vietnam and the rest of the world to slow to a crawl.
Sure, but is the mother there for murder? Does this cost more than some alternative that’s “too soft”?
In that case, it is being done wrong.

I haven't had to use unsafe Rust yet, but have had to do some squirrely C tricks in the past for really low-level stuff.
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How would we read the article if people didn’t put it in the comments? What, by clicking the link? Unthinkable! Please remember this is hacker news, you’re not allowed to click the link /s
well, the absolute grimmest, darkest and shittiest time, demography-wise or any other aspect really, was 1999 with fertility rate of 1.16, which somehow coincided with the peak of the official mad euphoria for the West and Yeltsin's drunken man-crush on his "friend Bill".

Currently, the fertility rate is on par with the US and most of the other urbanized world, life expectancy is up by whopping 8 years since then (not counting the Covid). That one million of lives lost is due to Covid and it seems like the country is pretty much in the same boat as everyone else now, slowly withering away.
Probably some euro shithole (like mine) that also believes you can serve multiple sentences in parallel. I'm going to guess Spain though.
i've been using it for proposal copywrite in the same manner.
Ugh. HN used to have high quality comments. Now they don't even read the actual article and just comment on the click-baity headline.
Asynchronous execution is more efficient if and only if the time spent waiting for a call to complete is longer than the time spent checking if the call has completed plus the time spent dispatching to another asynchronous call (and waiting vs checking if it is completed, and so on).

Remember that concurrency is not parallelism, it's not about the number of threads being used.
No, I don't think that this has anything to do with GDPR or data protection, this is merely an interpretation of the Tax code.

It is well established that a commercial transaction made through a barter bears no difference against the same transaction made through exchange of money.

The barter may be through exchange of goods or services.

There is a by now historical sentence here in Italy about the organizers of a contest and a local newspaper[0].

Basically the newspaper published about the contest (not as a news article but rather as an ad, including the rules, forms and what not) and the contest organizers had on all their printed material (forms to sign in, posters, etc.) a note like "in cooperation with newspaper name".

The Tax office considered this "exchange" as if it was two operations, one in which the newspaper sold publicity, and one in which they bought publicity on the contest material and it went through all the various courts until the Cassazione confirmed this approach.

That was a case between two entities subject to VAT, in the case of citizens (not subject to VAT) and an entity subject to VAT (Meta in this case) the part subject to VAT should (in theory) emit an "auto-invoice" and declare the VAT on the value. (or at least this is how I understand the matter, probably there will be more details in the news in the next few days/weeks).

[0] (in Italian):

https://sentenze.laleggepertutti.it/sentenza/cassazione-civi...
Can someone explain what this service does and doesn't provide?

I don't see how they can pay doctors to provide this service, and still make money at this price point.
I mean, it's the no stick part that's tricky. Small, watchface size glucose monitors that transmit wirelessly exist. They're just...disposable. Wear it for about 14 days... stick on another $150 device.
You would be surprised by the number of people that skip the article and start commenting based solely on the headline.
I'm not trying to sound naive here when I say:

their content delivery/ranking algorithms prioritize (from my understanding as just a general person in the public who has never seen what's probably millions of lines of code across many different internal private systems at Meta) user engagement over all

If the algorithm is spitting out content that we're all critical of (because it's divisive, bad for mental health, etc.), why are we not acknowledging that it's just a side effect of

1. user input + 2. user engagement to that input = 3. ranked content delivery algorithm

If Facebook went away tomorrow, another platform would fill its place. Humans have shown that they like to doom-scroll on their phone and are ok being fed ads in the mean time because social media scrolling is basically the equivalent of an electronic cigarette for the brain in terms of dopamine delivery.

Because humans have chosen to prioritize the shittier meanier grossier nastier content, Facebook's "models" have been trained on that. Why are we criticizing Facebook's models that we basically played our own individual role in building?
I use debuggers in languages like rust or go very similarly to how I use repls in languages like python. But I do think interpreted languages have a distinct advantage on this front! Which is why rust (or c++, or go) isn't the best tool for every job.
If the US government wanted his digital assets, they would get his digital assets.

Currencies that aren't state backed will always have massive fluctuation in value anyway. If you are Argentinean, the USD is a better store of value than BitCoin.

A pump and dump with a good story is still just a pump and dump. NFT's and crypto are for suckers and those who prey upon them.
The Retail Revolution
My method: swallow water while holding your breath and pinching your nose. Learned this at a young age, it definitely works. I think it creates the pressure that the article discusses.
BASIC interpreters for 8 bit microcomputers, having 48 Kb of RAM or less, and running at 1 MHz, used garbage collection for strings just fine. That software was tailor-made to the machines from scratch.

I would say it was the size and complexity of Lisp systems, developed in ivory towers on big iron hardware, which had trouble fitting in to emerging low-cost microchip-based hardware.

When microcomputers emerged, they had the capabilities of mainframes from 15 (or more) years before. Current software from mainframes just wouldn't fit. That's how a lot of the languages and operating systems became swiftly relegated to the past.

(Why do we still have Unix and Unix-like systems today? Unix started relatively late, on small minicomputers that were not so far off from subsequent microcomputers. Unix made the jump from PDP-7, 11 to DEC Vax, and 680x0 Sun boxes and such.)

A Lisp system measuring its heaps and image sizes in hundreds of kilobytes or megabytes simply wouldn't fit into a system measured in tens of kilobytes. People working with Lisp machines in the 80's couldn't get customers (or not mass market customers), because mass market customers didn't want to buy expensive hardware. Only some big companies or governments.

Today your GNU Bash may hit a 20 megabyte VM footprint, and you don't even notice, let alone pause to think about how "wrong" that is.
That's why internet is extremely slow here, I am in Myanmar
Why Lego Won
I often think of markets in pseudo-evolutionary terms. The types and sizes of companies that survive are those that fit the environmental pressures.

One common trend in evolution is toward gigantism in places of intense competition. Whales, for example, may be as large as they are to avoid having to compete or be eaten by smaller animals. Being bigger means they eat more, leaving fewer resources for competitors.

It can be quite the winning strategy.

At least so long as the environment can provide enough stability to feed such large organisms in the manner in which they are evolved to exploit.

For companies, being large means you can always buy the competition or make sure the barrier to entry is too high for competition (thinner profit margins, "free" services, regulatory capture, etc.).

It works, and quite well. These large corporations can withstand enormous financial shocks, and if they can't, they get purchased by those that can.

For most mature markets this generally seems to shake out to most of the product area being divided between two or three big players and a host of smaller companies at the edges.

Oddly enough, when things are stable being large may be a winning strategy, but it is also very fragile and if the whole system gets disrupted, can be the first to fail when things change too much.
I mean, yeah. I was a contractor but not an independent contractor, and I was paid like shit. My take-home has gone up nearly three times since leaving that world and joining a company full-time in 2018. Independent contractors have it much better, as long as they're able to keep work in the pipeline.
the implied topic is the effect on insect populations, and on human psychology due to lack of rest time and other potential side-effects.
I don't mind to differ on this one. Your reaction certainly didn't address any of my concerns about practicality of HW keys in any scenario where you're not just sitting at home and can lose your key, and will be fucked if you'll not be able to recover or downgrade your security for a little bit until everything's normal again.

Maybe to secure corporate accounts against phishing, or whatever. But for my personal stuff, I need to be able to recover in many ways at any time with just a random computer and internet access without any special HW that may not be readily obtainable the moment I need it.
Right, most of the risks incurred by corporations are socialized, due to various limitations on financial and criminal liability granted to shareholders, officers and managers.
Yeah - the streaming fragmentation really does feel like it's being brought back full circle. I think I'm in the minority of binging a show only when it's completed, and only ever subscribing for a service for a month-at-a-time.

Although, I do keep Disney+ for my child, and Peacock because I still watch the Office a lot.
It uplifts people across the globe while hurting your fellow citizens. We need less of it, not more.
> local and federal political involvement to secure a fair economy

That seems a lot more important in any case, in that fancy digital assets aren't going to prevent the atrocities mentioned in the beginning of the article.
Not a good example. At the moment it's being criminally mismanaged by the conservative government. The NHS has seen better days.
Like I said in 2017¹:

Just think of all the interesting data they will aggregate!

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15564533#15565018
Yeah, I actually find it really disconcerting. It's one thing when you read mainstream news stories and see that they're inaccurate; like, "OK, sure the writer is a journalist, obviously not a specialist in this area, and the intended audience is also comprised of non-specialists." But reading HN makes me feel very inadequate 99% of the time, in terms of my knowledge of the computing domain. Then every few months I see a thread about some specific thing that I feel quite comfortable with and it's like, "What on earth? I thought these people were all smarter than me, but look at these comments..."

I'm currently a PhD student doing research related to Tor, and there was a thread about Tor last month. I didn't even know where to start with the comments, so I didn't participate at all.
Historically people never felt safe. You're imagining an idealized period that never really existed. Read some firsthand accounts by people who actually lived during those times and you'll see they struggled with the same issues and worse.

As for men doing better, that's pretty easy considering how many men don't even bother to try.
These things are literally something which impacts the outcomes of court cases on a nearly daily basis somewhere on the globe, and they interlace into the law in various ways both in the legislative process and in the judicial process. It is possible to create a law which does not map correctly to technical reality if you do not understand, it is possible for the court to order something which does not map correctly to technical reality. Technical reality is not always fungible. At some level, it all becomes physics.

Both the legislature and the judiciary in the US, and in other governments around the world, are technically and scientifically illiterate.
This is rude for pretty obvious reasons.
I agree - the OP’s explanation is terrible. What does this even mean:

> From a fundamentals perspective, the expected number of meals is a function of the probability of finding the fourth toy in any specific meal.

I can barely parse it. The probability of finding the nth toy before the nth meal is 0, so is the answer a function of 0? Or maybe the probability of finding the toy with index 4 in a specific meal is 1/4, and the answer is a function of 1/4?

Anyway, if you drink another coffee and stop reducing your fractions, you get a nicer way to say the answer :) . After getting n different toys, the probability of a duplicate on the next try is n/4, so the probability of a new toy is 1-n/4 = (4-n)/4, and it takes 4/(4-n) draws on expectation to go from n to n+1 toys. So to do from 0 toys to 4 toys takes 4 * (1/4 + 1/3 + 1/2 + 1/1) tries on expectation, because you can just add the expected number of tries for each new toy.
And more importantly they had to read manuals and think through solutions instead of copying the first answer from Stack Overflow (source: me, I'm 51 and have been programming since I was 7).
20 years from now prompt engineering wont be required. We might still call it prompt engineering tho.
Yep the FreeStyle Libre 2 is great. I bought one a few weeks ago to satisfy my curiosity. I'm a non-diabetic. It was around EUR 70 including shipping and lasted exactly 2 weeks. Sensor insertion was easy, quick and painless. 1-minute resolution with 8 hour memory between swipes. Curiosity satisfied!
Amazing, we are currently doing something very similar at our makerspace on a 1987 Road Kings pinball machine.

We first replaced the original RAM chip with a IDT 7132 SA100P dual-port RAM that sits on a breadboard:

https://pic.t0.vc/WPUO.jpg

The other port is accessed by an ATmega 1284 to the left of it. Its code responds to simple serial commands and can read and write to the RAM.

An ESP32 talks to the ATmega over UART and frequently asks it to dump 16 bytes at 0x00A0 to tell the game state and player number, and 0x0100 to get the four player scores. When it detects a new game, it offers the player a chance to scan their RFID member card and keeps track of their score:

https://pic.t0.vc/UQYK.jpg

After the game is complete, any players who have scanned in get their scores uploaded to our member portal where we can sort them by personal best:

https://pic.t0.vc/MZGY.png

We found there were sometimes read collisions and the ATmega would block the pinball machine from writing to RAM which would cause crashes or odd behavior. The latest version uses two RAM chips, one acting as a shadow copy -- similar to yours.

Eventually we'll make a PCB for it and open source everything. Currently only half the code (the ESP32) is on Github: https://github.com/Protospace/pinballwizard
If you have insurance, an urgent care center is typically much cheaper and faster than an ER visit, for non-life-threatening injuries.
Seems he understands markets perfectly clearly. If the market is dominated by one player then there's no competition, consumers are offered a false choice, and prices are dictated rather than discovered.
NFTs aren't a good fit for this, because they critically depend on external infrastructure.

Here's a monkey: https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0xbc4ca0eda7647a8ab7c2061...

But what's actually on the blockchain? A pointer to an IPFS URL:

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmeSjSinHpPnmXmspMjwiXyN6zS4E9zccariGR3...

Which in turn points to a picture again on IPFS.

For this to work:

First OpenSea has to do this work to format it in a human-readable way. If the authorities contact OpenSea, this may be disabled.

Next, the ipfs.io domain has to keep resolving. This can be stopped by the authorities and ICANN.

Next, ipfs.io has to keep returning data at those URLs. That can be stopped by the authorities and whover runs ipfs.io.

And if we work around the need for an IPFS proxy and talk to IPFS directly, then this still only works so long people keep on hosting that image. I don't know how many people is that world-wide, but probably not that many.

Even assuming this survives a hostile government and keeps working, the real-life owner is usually easily found and targeted.
IMO it's less about power than the self-selection of the responders. Naive MoE estimates that assume random sampling completely miss that respondents are just a difference species, esp. w.r.t. financial attributes.

It would be shocking if some large fraction of high-earners really were living paycheck-to-paycheck. That a large fraction people who chose to respond to a survey and who stated they earn $xxxK/yr also said they're living paycheck-to-paycheck is ... somewhat less surprising.

There should be half a dozen "among survey respondents" comments to headlines like this, the same way there are a dozen "in mice" comments to every breathless report of medical progress in this-or-that.
Haha, sounds about right
> it's actually improving and innovation is rapid

The basis for this comment is what?
Exactly. It's the same thing as drug addiction: drug addiction is a big problem in and of itself, but also the consequence of a greater-scope emotional problem. Leave that underlying problem untreated, and the best you can hope for is that the addict will transfer their addiction to something less harmful.
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A man has to take 2500 calories per day, that's 9.35€ per day, 280€ per month. That's much more than most people spend on food at least in the south of Europe
That really is a perfect analogy.
If all that's allowed is "latest" or "most views", I will keep uploading my content to your platform and bot-voting/-viewing it to keep it at the top of everyone's feed.
From the info popup: "This website tracks the price of "12 Great Value Large White Eggs" at Walmart locations across the U.S."
I work in cloud and that doesn’t even phase me. A lot of people want to write applications in Node or don’t understand/want to deal with concurrency, leave cores stranded, etc. You pay a premium for it but it’s their decision.

Anyway, for people who pick relatively more sane application languages, yeah deserialization is pretty much all their CPU does. It’s just such a shame because it really is a godawful format, just like HTTP/1, its basically only benefit is that it’s easily human-readable.
on the contrary, I wouldn't be too surprised to find that this burst of innovation is happening to coincide with a bunch of patents held and buried by big pharma coming near their expiration period.

up until now there has been zero financial incentive for stakeholders to promote a method of blood glucose measurement which bypasses the need for consumables, and every incentive to prevent such a solution.
No; "Judgment-proof" means "too poor to be sued because there is no universe in which the costs will be repaid," not "Case too worthless to bring." Anything that is criminal liability is never judgment-proof (when jail is on the table, a defendant can always "pay" with their freedom); civil liability is judgment-proof if the defendant could never possibly scrape together the cash to make the plaintiff whole.

Basically anything First Amendment-grounded can pass the bar of worth bringing to court because the First Amendment protections are a patchwork of carve-outs, exceptions, and careful interpretations to stretch the ideal of "The government cannot constrain the people here" over the reality of "Some speech is harmful in a way that cannot be made whole."

There's nothing about being a nonprofit that prevents some Internet rando from using your forums to post massive obviously-false defamatory statements. The only thing that keeps the forums themselves from catching a lawsuit when that happens is s230.
The Washington Post is in no way socially conservative, but it does often push pro big business/amazon polices.
It's good to see that even though families push to perpetuate trauma, it is possible to lead a successful, upstanding life.
> But I think the approach of "cut x% over and over" to keep the stock afloat at some point is not going to work forever, since a company is not very competitive at 0% of its original engineering / get things done work force.

Let me ask you this.

If we can correlate (which I think we can) "a tech company should have X headcount when the Federal Funds Rate is 0.25%" and "a tech company should have Y headcount when the Federal Funds Rate is 5.25%, where X is less than Y", I'm going to guess most tech companies just play it by ear/quarter by quarter (like the rest of the economic/financial markets based on all sorts of reports/data that come out incrementally over the year)

Right now, maybe companies haven't done enough layoffs to get their headcount to where it needs to be if the Federal Funds Rate is the full blown "doomsday" terminal 5.25%. Maybe companies are doing it incrementally and waiting to see if the Fed will pivot, because they have to keep in mind how expensive re-hiring people to chase growth will be?
The DNS for service discovery was fairly static, and not what we updated via SMTP.

We treated the DNS server in question simply as a key-value store where a message would set/replace a specific record. The use case was that we we're setting a handful of records when people registered a domain, so those DNS servers were user visible, unlike the service discovery.

The main reason for not considering LDAP at the time for the user facing DNS server besides the lack of maturity for OpenLDAP was that using SMTP gave us one single unified mechanism for dispatching messages to all parts of the system, which also meant it was trivial to proxy, intercept, and log the full message flow with the same mechanism as needed.