skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With the HST issue, it wasn't necessarily the democracy that was the fault but the mechanism of direct democracy referendum. Also the culprit with Brexit.

There's a reason our democracies are representative democracies. It allows things to slow down and our representatives to have cooler heads and make informed decisions.

In contrast a referendum is easily instantly hijacked and there's never any guarantee that the way people are voting in the referendum has anything actually to do with the referendum issue.

In BC's case with the HST the vote on the tax quickly became a way to poke the unpopular Premier Gordon Campbell in the eye, and many people voted against the HST to make a point against a government that they were mad at for other reasons.

Referendums are bad bad bad.
You're probably 15 years old or thereabouts, so I'll keep this simple:

With UBI, you will have to drive your trash to the nearest landfill yourself. And the car will barely work for lack of mechanics. And the road will barely function for lack of construction workers. And the landfill will just be a disordered rubbish tip, and not a proper facility. Because no one--and I mean no one--is working in garbage, grease, or tar when they can sit at home instead.

It's the purest idiocy anyone ever thought of.

And yeah, doctors and nurses are in it for the money. No one works in shit and puke for fun either.
Yes, that's correct. The word "word" is ambiguous and has a few meanings. Where I'm from, the "word" is the unit you can load/store to memory in a single instruction. So if you can load a 32-bit quantity, that's your word size. The byte is the address granularity, while the word is the access granularity.

Because of backwards compatibility, and because CPUs are far more flexible about loading more memory sizes than they traditionally have been, the meaning of "word" doesn't really matter anymore. In the context of Win32 and x86 programming, a WORD is 16 bits, a DWORD ("double word") is 32 bits, and a QWORD ("quad word") is 64 bits. That's most likely where you'll see it these days.
>so is Science

this stipulates that science believes there is a Creator. to me, at best, science's stance on a Creator is "data inadequate". i think science would be just fine if it happens that (Creator === false), but it would also be happy if (Creator === true) but there would at least be proof beyond faith for science to make that a fact.
I Cancelled Starlink
> Polish is universally better received than flaky new features, and the releases we view most fondly are the ones that are fast and reliable

It's far from universal. Most users never expect to understand their software in the first place, and so put a lot more value on new features. If anything I'd say developers put too much effort into polish, since we're the very small demographic that actually appreciates it.
For reasons that I can't quite explain fully, I like angular much better. For me it's a shame that react won the battle and is used at every company now.
You can often have multiple dependencies.

Library A uses Boost and requires an older version of GCC. Library B uses Boost and requires the newer version of Boost. You want to use libraries A and B in the same project, what now?
I'm sorry, but this is still a crazy rant. If you throw enough shit at the wall, something will stick.
Felony contempt of business model!
I think if you call it insurance it assumes you are entitled to something, but you are not. A future government can decided to stop paying or reduce payments if they want to.

I prefer what we have here in Australia where you are required to pay money into an account that is actually yours, with a balance that you can watch grow, and that you can withdraw as you need when you retire.
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These were definitely based in history, but they definitely played some things up for TV entertainment. Like suspense of finding something, then cutting to commercial. The closest I can think of in modern times might be Expedition Unknown (on Discovery), but if that were live and on NBC. I wish I could think of what they might have been called, this was early 90s.
Then the bad person gets charged with the crimes. It's not like a judge would just throw their hands in the air because there is a small amount of indirection.
I've tried this approach, but it's not allowed to create buffers and stream text into it for subsequent analysis/evaluation. What I found worked well instead was asking it to outline 3-4 alternatives as bullet points, and then explore different ways of prioritizing them. You can complexify the conversation by assigning labels and making the subject of instructions. This works well for small specific tasks but of course starts to break down with more abstract or general concepts.
I agree on the Brother printers, I’ve only had two Brothers in the past 13 years, and the only reason I upgraded was to go from Black and White Laser, to Color Laser, it was still going strong. The best part about it was you would buy a toner cartridge and when it would tell you it’s getting low, put some electrical tape over the clear hole in the side and it would continue to print for another 1.5k. On top of that I just press the reset button for the toner life and it resets it just like I put in a brand new one. Then I print till it starts getting light. This last round of color toners I bought an off brand from Amazon that came with all the colors plus two black for half the price of the name brand set. I typically don’t buy off brand, but figured I would give it a shot. Still going good since last year.
On iOS you can disable face and Touch ID with Siri “who’s phone is this” or by tapping the power button.
People keep bringing up Tokyo but it's not really relevant. Yes, Tokyo has mixed zoning. But it was developed the way it is because the people who live there want it to be that way. It's also only livable because the people there have a culture that makes it possible to live in high density without high levels of crime, noise, and filth.

Americans in the same situation would not have built something like Tokyo.

If you're going to bring up Tokyo you should also bring up Houston. Houston is what most American cities would look like if the people who lived there were able to build what they wanted. Most Americans want to live in detached homes that they own, and they prefer cars to public transit.
India's Unified Payment Gateway (UPI) is also created and managed by government. Private players are free to use the service and build products around it. It worked really well. Though I am more inclined to give more credit to people who built and maintaining it rather than to some model. Like ISRO and Delhi Metro, its a miracle since India's stultifying beurocracy has a well deserved reputation.
That boot sound was magical, even moreso with case reverb. It was space well spent!

Speaking of G3 iMac nostalgia, there's a modern Bugdom port on github: https://github.com/jorio/Bugdom

Thanks, everyone in this scene, you are helping me relive some beautiful childhood memories.
The scaling appears linear in relationship, though on some performance metrics it is super linear.

See Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07682

Scaling Laws for Generative Mixed-Modal Language Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03728

All this demonstrates further the "bitter lesson" http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html that surprising ability emerges from just throwing more data and compute at the problem and is seen more fruitful an endeavor than trying to find a deeper/analytic solution to cognition (like Yann Lecun's research, who has basically become a meme now for how much he poopoos LLMs and insists what we're seeing are LLMs only pretending to reason).
Almost all actually-existing cities replaced less intense uses on the same land. They simply had the foresight to get this done before we recognized a community’s right to veto such changes. The next ones will not come until we have stopped recognizing it.
On the other hand, I haven't seen a dword referring to anything other than 32 bits, nor a qword, 64. There's also oword, which is 128 bits.
Had quite enough "School should be prison" in High School, TYVM.
US drives 3.4T vehicle-miles per year[1]. At 3mi/kWh (which is low for an EV), that needs 1133TWh total electricity per year. Last year the US grid produced 4108TWh[2]. So to accommodate all that extra need, the production needs to grow by about 27%. Not all cars are replaced right away, so this can be a growth of a few % per year.

[1] https://www.bts.gov/content/us-vehicle-miles

[2] https://www.eia.gov/electricity/annual/
https://developers.redhat.com/products/developertoolset/

this greatly extends of what can be considered supported by RHEL 7 (unless we require - "don't install any packages")
Be careful what you wish for. Societal change comes with disorder.
Hmm, I got a color laser printer over 10 years ago. I think I replaced the toner once in that time.
> ...I highly recommend just biting the bullet and switching ... to Brother...

No bullets to bite. My brother laser is over 12 years old and works just like it did when I bought it. I like it so much I bought another for another part of the house. Did I mention it also groks postscript for those that might want to print from a BSD machine right OOTB?
The corpus part is the one that gets me. Presumably Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc have a mirror of essentially the entire public (and their private) internet communications. An enormous amount of published English literature has been digitized.

What more corpus is even available? If the corpus is a matter of human annotation, what exactly is being annotated in say the Illiad? A tweet that says, "You up?". The lyrics to 8 Mile. So on and so forth.
How much do you know about the soil nutrient mix, pH, and microbiome under your feet?
I remembered one called "Murder" which looks like it was a Twitter thing back in the day[0].

Looks like Facebook did it too. I guess there was a phase that tech went through in 2010ish.

[0]https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2010/murder-fas...
Ideally, people like me have access to these LLMs and successors and others don't. For instance, I appear to be in some sixth sigma of LLM users judging by HN comments. HN users are frequently dumbfounded by LLM errors but I can use the tools successfully even accounting for some errors. I find Copilot, ChatGPT, Bing AI, and Perplexity useful and pay for the first two and use them every day. HN users seem unable to get the utility I do out of these tools and frequently find their objectives stymied by the tools' responses.

Put simply, the average HN user cannot handle the tool, judging by many comments on LLM threads. And that's with a computer-savvy user. Imagine the inability of the non-HN-user when faced with a talking computer.
I think the question is how those problems are applicable specifically to CPython's use of C.

I agree that it would be better, all else being equal, if CPython were implemented in a memory-safe language (though it would almost certainly need to use unsafe escape hatches in some places), but I think this'd be more viable if it were done by incrementally migrating the existing codebase with the involvement of the current maintainers, rather than as a third-party rewrite from scratch.
CF Workers run straight on top of V8, IIRC? Which I think it was a great design decision. But I wonder how they achieve that w/ the other backends like rust.
> There is no use case for

There are a ton, computers are incredibly useful devices.

If I close the screen I can play music out of those speakers for a pretty long time. And if I can sleep/wake from a Bluetooth keyboard when I’m not using it, I can stretch that into a long weekend.

…or at least I can on Windows where this is possible.
I'm freaking out
How many sources would you like?

Of course it’s not going to be on the same order as literally dumping raw sewage into the surrounding area. But there is an enormous body of research demonstrating the overall drain of resources from economically-productive urban areas out to costly suburban ones.

Then there’s the carbon cost of enormous, congested highways and stroads where people idle in traffic for hours of their day. Or the overall inefficiency of providing general city services (water, power, sewer) to people in comparatively sparse areas (which ties back into the resource drain imposed on denser areas).
Vaccinating 20% of your population is not helpful. You need to hit 50-80% else you shouldn’t do it.

Supply being one problem and uptake being the other. Meant China never had a proper “opening up” option presented.
Evolving Past Customer Centricity: Why Web 3.0 Requires a Village Mentality
Musk’s New Twitter Dream: Become 'Biggest Financial Institution in the World’
https://archive.ph/sLihW
Isn’t The Last of Us currently one of the most popular shows on television right now? Its live viewership has continued to grow with each episode.

Episode 1: 0.588 million

Episode 7: 1.083 million

For comparison, House of the Dragon ended the season with 1.855 million.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/03/03/the-last-o...

The ratings are also worth looking at: https://www.ratingraph.com/tv-shows/the-last-of-us-ratings-1...

So I don’t think your assessment necessarily holds water.
When both FileVault and Guest account is enabled, logging into the guest account boots you you into a basically Safari-only sandbox.

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-guest-user-s...
I'm rocking the 1+ 6T w/ Android 13 still
It’s a bit of a streetlight effect. There’s lot’s of publicly available text datasets, not so much for robot telemetry.
It would have been pointless. 10% vaccinated would not have had a big enough impact rate of hospitalisation.

I think you don’t really understand the problem.
Relevant: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
Whoa, this seems to take for granted that devs targetting serverless infrastructure _must_ deploy up into the actual serverless infrastructure during development, unless I'm misreading? Why is there not a way to simulate the final infrastructure locally, so that development is possible without extremely inefficient pushes into a "dev" serverless deployment?
And it required making an account to play. Instant uninstall without trying from plenty of people.
If that happened en masse then the universities you ultimately want to attend will start requiring their courses and not accepting transfer credits or something else. Not saying it’s a bad idea or anything to take classes and then transfer them in.
Doesn't that require you have a Google sized army of engineers and tooling to stay in sync?
> or some mechanism to exchange that small piece of state for a more complete piece of state

using links to refer to information is, like, not a totally foreign concept to the web (and certainly granted: in some cases this issue of signaling via url can get quite ugly; but often it's not).
They run Rust compiled to WebAssembly.
> The best way to regulate it is for people to stop buying HP printers.

And to also outlaw those practices.

Some things just shouldn't be left to market forces.
Even if well-loved, a CEO has material leverage over employees that a pastor does not.
There is a problem i agree, but strongtowns does not see the real problems and so is not helpful in solving them.
> >You should not be crossing when cars are traveling at any speed other than zero, that's what the pedestrian crossing lights are for.

> You would never finish crossing then.

Well I don't know what to say, it is quite the wild west wherever you live.

Around here (California) and everywhere else I've happened to live, all kinds of people (including the very old with mobility problems) finish crossing safely all day long without any trouble.

And when someone particularly slow is crossing and doesn't get to the other side before the pedestrian light goes red, cars just wait. Nobody's going to run them over just because the light changed.
> ...and capture a sequential list of updates when you call setState.

In functional programming, functions are not allowed to do that. The only thing a function is allowed to do is return a value.

> ...you reach out up the stack to the component and store it there.

FP functions are not allowed to do that. In FP functions can only rely on the parameters passed to it (it cannot refer to anything outside) and it should not do anything beyond return a value.

> It’s why call order is important, because it’s how they know which is which

In FP, functions can be called in any order (unless one function needs the return value of another), and the final result is not affected by the order.

> You don’t modify any global state though.

If you have state it is not FP, whether it is global or not.
there are solutions for this. localstack comes to mind, but it is more expensive per user than GitHub enterprise and copilot combined. the localstack devs are very proud of localstack.
Example Security Decision Attack Tree for S3 Bucket with Video Recordings
Should drop anything below C++14. Everyone who is not happy could always stay on older versions.
Driving is straightforwardly bad for everyone around you. Carbon emissions, particulate emissions, traffic congestion, noise, safety, you name it. The more of it you do, the worse it is. Suburbia is built around lots and lots of driving. It’s not complicated.
That seems like a slight exaggeration to me. The linked Reddit poster put the word "cuts" in quotation marks, indicating illustrative use of the word. Most likely they meant harmless (but uncomfortable) pressure indentations from resting their forearms against the edges for a while. It does not seem likely that they meant the edges of their laptop drew blood (which is what you seem to be suggesting).
China is what the US used to be. Even Charlie Munger said that they are displaying more mercantile behaviour whereas the US is being protectionist and enforcing non-trade based policies across the globe.
The Intel ME chip runs Minix, so I guess Minix runs a lot more than it would seem![1]

[1] https://www.networkworld.com/article/3236064/minix-the-most-...
I think the question is whether it would suffice to port the few most popular native modules to directly use this project's bespoke Rust API instead of the standard CPython API. This'd probably be less work than building a real emulation layer for the CPython API, especially if they don't want to include the GIL. But if Python users need a lot of different native modules and not just a few popular ones, then that won't suffice.
Replace “degree” with “paycheck” and its a statement about how unions and corporations work in general. Yet unions solidarity still holds a lot of sway.
As Customer Problems Hit a Record High, More People Seek ‘Revenge’
I recently looked at upgrading my two laser printers to models that were ethernet and wifi. I got burned so badly by Epson and Inkjet I'll never look at that technology again.

Got the shock of my life at wifi printer hardware prices. Expensive.

I've an ancient, tank like, Dell 5120cn that I bought new from Noahs Ark or was it eBay in 2005ish?
Its lifetime page count has only just exceeded its monthly duty cycle. It will not die. A set of mfg. CMYB toners costs under $100 if purchased carefully. That's once every 3 years or so.

The back up laser is a donkey slow but reliable HP laser jet 2605dn. Solid, dependable. It was donated to me, free with a 1200 page count. The mfg. toner prices are still steep, so I avoid, and go for 3rd party cartridges. A set of CMYB is $60. I've only just put one set in since 2010.

I'll use these lasers till they or I die. Or I forget their lan IP address. Wifi connectivity is for the very rich.

I'm of the opinion that if printer manufacturers in the EU try pulling any 'use only my ink or toner' stunts they'll be facing a very very expensive showdown with Brussels or Strasbourg.
They want it enough that they're willing (on the whole) to watch enough ads to at least cover server costs. They don't want it enough to tolerate the inconvenience or financial impact of paying for it directly. Otherwise no one would bother to visit.
Like Nodejs, just have both, dedupe when possible, static compilation, still fight over getting both libraries to co-operate with different Boosts, rage a bit, curse thee, thy name is dependency hell!
I think this is a record for how fast I've seen an HN post flagged.
I haven't changed jobs much in my career, but when talking about pay I still find people need to be explicit if they are talking about including or excluding super. Most jobs advertise the pay excluding super, but some will quote total package.
Doesn't this only affect group chats?
I bet one could one train their house/domestic robot on a much smaller dataset to augment the disabled in a truly meaningful way. Was there code somewhere to reproduce a toy model somewhere in this?
15 years and counting here!
Amazing idea...!
>oxygen depletion

I wish people would stop conflating low oxygen with high CO2.

Even at 5000 ppm CO2 (which "significantly impair" attention, executive function, and risky decision-making[0]), the oxygen has only dropped from 20.95% to 20.45%. This ~2.5% difference is negligible, equivalent to natural variations in atmospheric pressure.

The buildup of CO2 is the issue, not the depletion of O2.

[0] https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/13/6/891