skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Her whole deal in that book was that regulations are bad and that they are used as a cudgel by established players. Here we have an example of what happens when regulations are rolled back -- the profit motive takes over, eliminates safety measures, and eventually creates superfund sites.

One of Rand's examples of a bad regulation in the book was limits on car length, which was a regulation that was removed.

She assumes that the natural competence of capitalists can only shine through if regulation is completely eliminated. That regulation of the industry prevents competence. But I don't think it's a matter of all regulation being bad. And I think it's a matter of having the right regulation with adequate enforcement. These things require competent people to make decisions.

In the end competence isn't a matter of being a capitalist or of deregulating or of being utterly selfish about everything. It's entirely a result of being honest and reflective and trying to seek solutions to the problems people face. So she completely misses the mark.

And here's an example of how removing regulations causes exactly the kinds of problems she decries in the book--peoples' lives being ruined by totally preventable rail brought on by incompetence and lack of resources. In fact the selfishness of the management and capitalist class in this case has lead directly to the accident. So clearly selfishness is not a virtue for the people in Palestine Ohio.
These lights were originally a public art exhibit that was supposed to be for two years, and then was extended. [1] They aren't used for anything essential.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bay_Lights
Despite how much I despise everything being Blink, this is still good for competition on iOS
No, I haven't, but it looks like it's a standalone console application, while DuckDB is in-process, like SQLite, and lives inside its JDBC driver. This means I can use it inside any compatible GUI and get stuff like schema browsing and IntelliSense out of the box. Since I have DBeaver open all day anyway, DuckDB is always a tab away.
Full report:

https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/41903/...
For sure. My comment was in jest.
There is frustration with crime everywhere.

Last week I took my family to the NY Farm Show up in Syracuse and we thought we'd have dinner at the Destiny USA mall and saw an unusual crowd outside and somebody told us they were evacuating the mall because of a shooting.

We looked it up back home and found out somebody had shot at a trash can to intimidate somebody else. This was the third incident of gunfire at the mall in 12 months. It's a big inconvenience to a lot of people and certainly makes me more inclined to stay home than go to Syracuse.
IDK, its more like finding recipes to many great restaurant chains all mushed together by a 5th grader whose uncle stole it from them, on the sidewalk. looks like a grey area to me legally but IANAL.
The Pantheon in rome has a giant 150' diameter, unsupported concrete dome. It uses some density "hacks" as well. Turns out the top third of the dome uses concrete that's about 50% pumice (lightweight volcanic rock) by volume. Like ancient foam. Both structures are ancient at this point but the Panthon is particularly impressive in that the unsupported dome survives in a highly seismic area.
Zoom fires its president after only 10 months
In their defense, the original system was only supposed to be up for one maintenance cycle, but it was extended due to the massive popularity of the installation.
That sounds like Apple agreeing not to go into the music business with their settlement with apple music - and then just doing what they want any way. Microsoft being so large, could just do it and settle later.
Nope, nor are the actual trackers, it's only the website used for search that's blocked in reality, slight flaw in Bittorrent, not having p2p search, although one could argue that lead to its success, with lists of new torrents, incentives for seeding more, and the fact that most people with slow connections don't seed everything forever, unlike previous UI designs that made that the default
The point I raised is that Democrats are equally complicit in socializing losses and privatizing profits. The mechanism may be different but the outcome is identical: poor people get poorer.

In 2008 and 2009, to remove moral hazard, big banks needed to be temporary nationalized, their shareholders and bondholders wiped out and some of their executives jailed. The loss would have been felt by the wealthiest. Instead, the Obama administration took the path of shoveling billions of dollars into the big banks. Poor people got inflation, the wealthy got richer.

So to answer the narrow question of privatization: in 2008 and 2009, by not nationalizing the banking system when it imploded, the Obama administration in effect privatized it as a hybrid quasi nationalized system. Banks were force fed billions and of taxpayer money. Executives didn't get fired. Guess who still got to collect outsized salaries? Guess who got screwed over? This was a privatization because the financial backstop to the banks changed from the market to the Federal government. Everyday workers got shafted.
Our system wins awards too, it's ok but we have a huge problem with safety on trains
sorry yes, bespoke fixtures with commodity modules (mostly bridgelux - cheap and nice phosphors).

as an aside, when are we going to get a usable DC power and control standard for lighting?
For me it depends a lot on the context. JSON is often very human readable (as long as it's not too deeply nested), fairly well defined (compared to CSVs), and most languages and software have easy out of the box support for parsing and manipulating it.

If I were building a system that had to deal with large amounts of tabular data that isn't directly consumed by humans, JSON wouldn't be my first choice nor my last.
Spectrum and MTX, but no Amstrad CPC or PCW port? Seems like an oversight.
“We can't extract it because of availability of water in a region that doesn't have enough water for existing needs” certainly sounds a lot like we need to get it from elsewhere.
I guess I’ll use telnet instead. It’ll be fine.
Tried to open DuckDB file with one table with 890K rows and about 30 columns. Process stalled, had to kill it (MacOS). DuckDB cli opens it in a snap.
The computers are the good part of the job. Unless I'm dealing with npm.
Semantic search using embeddings seems like the missing puzzle piece here to me. We can already generate embeddings for both text and images.

The vision subsystem generates an embedding when it sees a cat, which the memory subsystem uses to query the database for the N nearest entries. They are all about cats. Then we feed all those database entries - summarized if necessary - along with the context of the conversation to the LLM.

Now your AI, too, gets a subconscious rush of impressions and memories when it sees a cat.
> I had a job every summer in college and through grad school, this was only ~10 years ago and it paid for exactly 0% of my tuition.

It also digs into time that you could be socializing, or as professionals call it "networking". Having a job during school also is downward pressure on your grades, it makes it very hard to have top performance in your classes. Which excludes you from most scholarships.

Anecdotally I had two jobs most of my time during university, one on weekends one on evenings.

I wound up with less debt (note, not NO debt, just less) than most of my classmates but the tradeoff was that I basically entered the workforce basically already burned out and that was a seriously negative impact on my early career.
I guess it's an advantage of playing catch-up. You can learn from other languages their experience and mistakes.

Still props for the Java team for doing a good job.
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Those screenshots (on Github) are a throwback. Haven't seen holo blue in a long time.

#33b5e5, praise DuARTe
Good points, I'd add since a lot of kids these days have technology in general and are incorporating in some schooling and such you can add a device for single-purpose use, i.e iPad for reading, watching, demo-ing, etc. with structured timing like phone box, shared times, etc.
Which protections are these? I thought that incorporation didn't give any protections for maliciousness, it's just that DAs rarely go after executives because any particular blame is so distributed throughout the corporation that it would make any case difficult to prosecute.
> I think they would be rather insulted, and promptly ignore not just this thread, but any person who tries to reason them out of their behavior.

E.g. they would behave like sad stratospherically socially inept stupid fuckers?
When teaching noobs I first have to tell them how to make folders, create files, what files are and where they are stored, modern systems abstract that all away.

I want them to realise that code is just text files, same with html
> All goods sold in Canada have to comply with Canadian laws. That typically means repackaging to comply with product labeling and language laws, but there are other things.

From my experience, most items I purchase already have French labelling on them.

> Canadian consumers do not have the same expendable income as do U.S. consumers. The net effect is higher operating costs and lower margins at baseline. When the economy gets tougher that margin matters.

Why is that? 20% drop is huge.
Back in 1999 Microsoft bought Interix, and marketed it as Windows Services for Unix under their own banner. So the agreement was probably non-binding as of 1999 at the latest.

Microsoft just didn't see Unix, and especially Linux, as competition because they felt what they built was better. Interix/SFU was a compatibility path to migrate Unix devs to Windows NT more than anything; it was more like Cygwin than like WSL.

They figured that Linux, and the dirty hippies that built it, would be easily swept away by Microsoft's mighty hand. Only when the Gates-Ballmer dynasty stepped down would the company be convinced otherwise.
Trust me, I don't. I have close to 6,000 comments on this site, many attesting to my hatred of the United States and the dysfunction of it's government.

That being said, nobody is fooled by the ad-reductio distraction of "both governments do bad things". China is now (since Aug. '22) accused of serious human rights violations by the United Nations for their treatment of the Uighur population. Someone approved of it, and it's very likely the the current regime is aware of it. None of this stuff is up for debate, or diluted when you mention the US' own failings. It's just extremely embarrassing for China, who wants to be treated like a respected Western superpower, but can't own up to it's mistakes when they do slip up. They won't acknowledge Tiananmen Square, they won't let people debate Hong Kong, they won't deny the Uighur extermination, and now they're refusing to let the global stage investigate the origin site of the worst pandemic in a century. You can see why people would draw their own conclusions here.

Even if all of this was propaganda vs propaganda (which it isn't, but I'll entertain in good faith), China is still losing. Despite their authoritarian grasp on information, they can't control the global perception of them. It's the ultimate insecurity, and incompatible with the global ideals of information freedom. Again, even if you are right, and western affairs are controlled by a mysterious free-speech cabal/shadow-government, I don't see how it changes China's disadvantage on the global stage. It took a fraction of the world's military forces to repel Russia from Ukraine, preventing a sea-based invasion of Taiwan is probably easier than the average NATO wargaming exercise. And then China would be similarly disgraced, and forced to rectify their impulsive actions with a world that doesn't want to be a part of them. If they want to carry out their reunification plan, it would destroy them.
that's not how the act works, sorry.
The Flask of Us
Why does it take so long to make molds? Has prototyping reduced the number of molds you have made? Has that decreased the wait time, or are more people making molds and so the wait time is now increased instead?
Rand was right that the looters will wield regulation as a tool for looting, but she was wrong that deregulation would prevent that. Modern looters are able to exploit both regulation and deregulation for personal profit at the expense of others, and her ideology doesn’t offer useful guidance for that scenario.
I purchased a DE10-nano last year with the plan to try some FPGA RISC-V based development... but got lost in the number of extensions and versions of RISC-V kicking around. Has anyone tried this? I'd also be interested how it compares performance wise to the above, and Pi4, see if it worth the effort. Anyway at least it got some good use with MiSTer :) I kinda hope Raspberry adopts RISC-V on their next SBC, but hopefully with more open hardware.
>Similarly, universities are under pressure to appear "on the right side of >history" by aggressive student activists, fueled by the flames of BLM, MeToo, >whichever other social justice outrage.

Oh is Turning Point USA not a social justice group
I can also recommend Binaural Beats - https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.axet.binauralbeat...

I'm sure the somewhat mythical claims about the healing power of noise are over-stated, but it does provide a more interesting set of noises than Chroma Doze. Excellent for long-haul flights and crappy commutes.
Hard to imagine that the US is not massively over-supplied with office space right now

Easy to imagine, since it's been in every newspaper almost every single day for the last two years. Last i checked, SFO had something like 30% office occupancy rate.

Where i live, landlords are paying the few remaining tenants in some skyscrapers to move into other skyscrapers to concentrate the remaining offices in fewer buildings so that the other towers can be shut down and mothballed, or turned into apartments.
Here's a good place to recommend the browser extension vimium (and vimari for safari).
Could not get into the link, but I can guess: Companies value profits above all eles. IT is view as a Cost/Expense, so it takes away from profits.
> It's only high for regular income

That's almost everyone? :P

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Ethical hackers aren't companies that will sell their company here.

I don't know any company who gives stock options here, it's not a thing.

Dividends gets taxed at 30%.

If you get a bonus from work for delivering, taxes are normally so high that the bonus looks low.

What you're saying is basically: it's great when you're rich.
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> and believed a product packaged for the U.S. market would operate largely unchanged in Canada, and they were terribly wrong.

Really?

I was under the impression cross border shopping told a vastly different story. Seems there's a lot of demand for American products by Canadian shoppers.
Absolutely this. The edge cases are really the hard part here. As a real-world example, one of my worst ever days occurred when we essentially rolled out a routine update which changed how a date object was serialized. This had a very serious bug and needed to be rolled back. The problem was of course we "discovered" the bug when it serialized some important objects with broken dates. When we rolled back, of course the objects were still broken and also now we were on a previous version of the code that couldn't deserialize them. This included the tools that would normally be used to fix broken data so the data rollback which would normally be simple was anything but.

Unless these sorts of things are dealt with, any framework like this will just be solving the part of the problem that isn't really a problem.
My config is pretty barebones these days. This is what i use every day for C++ dev work

https://pastebin.mozilla.org/mShC6Dm0

I'm still using evil mode. Most of my important functions are bound to some combination off space bar though.

It's certainly not perfect and has some "quirks" (or bugs if we're being honest), but it works pretty well.
Im guessing that the second backslash was deemd unecessary (and in my opinion it is - no need for additional key strokes in the name of some arbitral consistancy).
Besides you are probably looking at this wrong - backslash here is equivalent of hash or dolar sign - it denotes begining of expression (just like most languages do). And they literally could not use another one because of backward compatibilty it they want to keep the "no STR"/simple versuon of interpolation possible. They will just add new escape sequence /{ - its kinda brilliant if you think about it.
IANAL but it seems that if you rely on looking at the suspect piece of code to see what it's doing (even if done by an LLM), it's not exactly clean room.
Belt and suspenders, eh?

Not sure how well-known but many 3D scene formats are text, especially early ones. Similar to svg conceptually, which many are familiar with. At a certain complexity, writing it by hand is no longer practical and software support approaches necessity.
The "a few bad apples spoils the bunch" defense. Not gonna work.
There’s an entire cottage industry around this. As one example:

https://www.synopsys.com/software-integrity/security-testing...

Frequently used for things like internal audits, compliance, due-diligence during financing, etc.

It’s remarkably thorough but not always completely accurate - it flagged an open source project I created that we were using as GPL. I had to correct them, which was entertaining.
Providing legal protection for lawsuits can be a lucrative business. However, I'm not aware of any BSD-based companies that have capitalized on this opportunity. Are there any untold stories?
What happens if I already have a field called STR or FMT?

> STR is a public static final field that is automatically imported in every Java source file.
> You want the government to start dictating what language developers can choose?

Do you want Ada? That's how you get Ada.
Let’s not exaggerate; many people do care enough to have it affect their behavior. If there’s something you “care” about, but this does not affect any decisions you make in any way, do you actually care about it?
You're asking them to explain a technology they use while expecting them to tiptoe around what they're actually allowed to say about how they applied the technology. And you say this replaced your system design interviews. It sounds to me like someone explaining what Kubernetes is won't do nearly as well as someone who can explain in-depth how they applied Kubernetes to their job.
It's not a win I'd care about. This takes away the audience which would put a lot of pressure on Emacs developers to do stupid things that would lead to the editor getting worse and worse. This is the "popularity curse" which spoiled a lot of good things in programming world.

So, if people who want to use Windows don't become Emacs users -- I couldn't care less. I don't want these people to swamp the developers with requests to add mouse-based navigation or modal windows. Being few years a dad, I discovered that in situations that don't endanger my son's help, it's more expedient to let him make his own mistakes, if he really wants to, but it doesn't work if I try to pretend that his bad ideas are equally valid as good ideas. In other words, if people want to use Windows, they should be told they are doing something stupid, but they shouldn't be strong-handed out of it.
The problem is that political combats and campaings have been made on the same platform, and those might decide the future of the country and many people.

E.g. Twitter is not for really for general people to provide content, it is mainly for those with large audience already. And they want attention.
Another company with that reputation is Walmart. Further evidence Amazon is not really a tech company, they just like those multiples so dabble in enough tech to get them. It seems like the longest running con to me that people even see them as a tech company.
Breach the corporate veil. Throw any share holders in jail for varying times.
There's also NitrOS9 for 680x, an open source clone of the unix like OS-9

http://www.nitros9.org/battle.html
http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/nitros9_docs.html
AI is dreaming up drugs that no one has ever seen. Now do they work?
> It’s possible, he says, that this heart–brain loop evolved to help animals process danger signals more quickly: when the animal sees a potential threat, even before the brain can fully process what the situation means, the heart rate rises, essentially telling the brain that it should be worried.

I suppose, but how does the information about danger get from the eyes to the heart to the brain faster than from the eyes to the brain?
Interesting choice of Ballmer as Dr. Evil... I always felt that Bill Gates's speaking voice resembled that of Evil.
Jailer: Modern, minimal, flexible, and easy-to-expand FreeBSD jail manager
IP paying property taxes would be nice. Could even let owners set the value, if it were coupled to licensing fees etc.
Pretty sure ARM has never broken binary compatibility, even across ISA expansions (16→32 bit, 32→64 bit).
> It is literally that simple. Nay, simpler, because authentication is automatic and secure:

You keep saying that as if there’s no such thing as secure automatic authentication on SSH yet people have been doing exactly that since before AD was even a thing.

> Three "Linux admins" failed at this task, and I had to resort to using ChatGPT and then fixing up the result by testing it against a dozen VMs that took me a day to spin up.

You do realise that you can get bad Linux sysadmins as well as bad Windows administrators?

Plus it’s not really fair to compare managing different distributions to managing a Windows (unless you’re counting Windows 95 and CE as part of your fleet). Most businesses standardise on one Linux distro (or BSD flavour) and only diversify from that if that absolutely have to. It’s not because Linux is harder than Windows. It’s because managing multiple different core stacks is harder regardless of whether that’s Linux and Windows. Or Linux and BSD. Or Windows 95 and Windows XP. Or different base distributions of Linux.

The first rule of managing large fleets of servers is homogenise as much of it as you can.
Yeah, I've never heard of someone going to NYC for a weekend specifically to go shopping and taking empty suitcases on the plane. /s (feel free to fill in whatever city Paris, Milan, LA, etc)

People make shopping excursions all the time. Just because you don't do it, doesn't mean others don't. People drive from Houston<->Dallas specifically to go shopping. Yes, there's no international border to cross, but it is still a 5 hour drive one way. So a 2.5 hour drive from Vancouver to Seattle would be nothing for those that are into it.
http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/IBM-835-Exhibit_224.pdf follows a good explaination of sco's tactics at the time. During the lawsuit a dedicated server company rackshack (later ev1 servers) bought a license for all their users between. According to the owner Robert Marsh later in the trial, he felt in the end SCO was misleading and provided false information.
How you both survive a bear encounter
I've had a macro for that in EMACS for the past 30 years.