skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to be too glib, but investors are looking for sure things and on the internet advertising is a "sure thing"

For these kinds of company deals where they don't have 20 years of consistent revenue with a consistent product, like Coca-Cola or Apple sales, investors are going to push the company into doing things that they can understand easily.
I could be wrong here, but I think it's to significantly increase the barrier to spam senders. Today it's dead simple and effectively free to register as many fake accounts as you want and send millions of spam messages. The new rules + fees make that both time prohibitive and cost prohibitive. The latter is important because spamming is a business model - if spammers can make more off their scams than it costs, they will find a way to do it.
> Before anyone does the “but the quality” song and dance number, none of those works had any chance at publication, even if they weren’t in violation of our guidelines.

So what's the point in even trying this? Why would you waste their time with something that has no chance at being accepted? I don't understand what the motive is for these AI submissions in the first place.
I'm astonished that the BSD projects are merging un-Unix-like fluff like this.

Meanwhile, the Linux kernel has removed Shift-PgUp scrollback from the console.
The US has to make prison cruel because it also makes being poor cruel.

Brejvik probably has a better life in a Norwegian prison than a poor addict has in the USA. So if a poor addict can improve their life by going to prison, it's not much of an incentive to stay out of jail...

OTOH, Norway is one of the best nations of the world to be poor in. It's still no picnic, but being poor and free in Norway is still much better than being stuck in a "soft" Norwegian jail.
These are nice! Well-coordinated. If you just want the raw CSS, that's here[0].

[0] https://github.com/yeun/open-color/blob/master/open-color.cs...
^t (SIGINFO) works with a lot more than just dd. It also triggers kernel behavior (printing the current waitchannel, e.g., named lock, if one is relevant) which can be useful for diagnosing why a command (any command) is hanging. (Is it busy in userspace, or in the kernel? And if in the kernel, where?)
Even when paying, Google scares me a bit for anything important. Just last night I switched ISPs, and Google seems to have re-enabled 2FA via God-knows-what Android device and doesn't have a way to disable it (even after logging back in through a network where they trust me more). It's the kick in the pants I needed to finally de-Google.
spoken like a true idealist
Sorry, I should have been more clear. By returns I mean the impact on the economy from extracting money from the oil fund which first did in 2016. Essentially the fund had zero impact to their economy before 2016.

There’s significant debate around how much money should be taken from the fund to subsidize government services, but simply having money in an account they aren’t accessing doesn’t change the day to day finances.
> It is a social sensibility evolved from an earlier practice where keeping a useless lawn not used for grazing was a sign of wealth.

I'm familiar with the history but this is too reductive. I don't care about those things as evidenced by many other ways I chose (not) to maintain my image with my neighbors. But uniform, healthy, green grass looks nice. To me and many others. I don't even put in that much effort and I dont hate clover, dandelions, etc. I also appreciate the no lawn movement because it reduces maintenance.
Curious what the justification is for 0.9375% (very precise number), given the report 0.3% interchange fee cap in EU noted in this thread? The vendor can charge you more than it costs them to accept the card?
Will writers and publishers accept the ChatGPT poet?
You could make that a bit safer by first checking for SIGUSR1 in SigCgt mask in /proc/pid/status
To be fair, the amount people are forced(?) to put into pensions from employment income is pretty tiny and there are tax-advantages savings accounts which people can use instead of pensions, up to a limit. There are also limits on incentives for pension contributions.
What was cutting edge about the Switch?

It was innovative and a great product, but I'm not sure anything in it was cutting-edge from a technology perspective.

Something doesn't have to be cutting-edge though to be innovative, fun, well designed and a great product.
From what I recall, AGI was at first meant to be an intelligence on par with human intelligence in every way. It's supposed to do *at least* everything a human can. It seems as the recent wave of AI hit the public, the human component is deemphasized and the term "general" is more broad. I've seen the term "true AGI" used to disambiguate this so GPT-4 may show sparks of AGI, but no signs of true AGI.
Google's authorisation system Zanzibar (https://research.google/pubs/pub48190/) is not explicitly using SPARQL, but it's a good example of the sort of thing that a graph-based data model can do. I _think_ Zanzibar can be implemented with SPARQL: we implemented something very very close (and more powerful in some ways) with it
> If the EU is a mutal-defense agreement why are all these EU members trying to also join NATO?

Because mutual defense agreements and other joint security agreements aren’t mutually exclusive, and NATO has an integrated military command and more nuclear powers as members.
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Your example already exists, it’s called TSON, unless you are complaining about how they had to implement that

I also disagree that type validators like Zod/io-ts would benefit from plugins, they are just js code in the end that does defensive checks for you. Unless you have something else in mind
And any amount of work toward making AGI relatable to humans is entirely artificial; it would have to live an embodied human life to understand the world we live in, to comfort us, to laugh at a show with us, etc.

We will reach a point of AGI and then the goal will be to actually restrict what it's capable of / tell it lies to "humanize" it.
And most of that rain is going to go into the ocean again. Or be distributed in a large area. Neither of which can really be captured in any sort of predictable and scalable manner.

You know, unless we build a massive “roof” of devices to capture all that rain. Literally covering the entire planet. At that point yeah it would dev a reasonable thing to bring up in the context of fresh water reserves falling.

So I very much stand by the point that while, sure, it happens all the time, that does nothing to actually help with the topic at hand.
I imagine that if you work at home, have no children and have other people driving cars for you (delivery, taxi etc) it's not that bad. Not many people can afford this lifestyle though.
Have you tried using Privacy Pass? It is a browser extension which helps prove that your traffic is legitimate which should reduce the incidence of challenges from Cloudflare, even if your IP has bad rep. It uses advanced cryptography to do this without creating any new tracking vectors.

(Disclosure/disclaimer: I work for Cloudflare but in a different department; I'm not an expert on Privacy Pass.)
By far and large that is wrong. There is a proportion of people who have that negotiating power, and even then only some of them will be considering the aspects of their commute in those negotiations, and they will weigh the importance of that individually, and update only after some period of time during employment, if ever. The largest proportion of people are agreeing to "what the market will bear."

Much in the same way as I have no debt and a considerable savings account, but ultimately I'm competing alongside people who have considerable debt and are fraught with scarcity and thus the going rate is pressed down due to desperate individuals willing to make considerable compromises on both the side of wages and those of working conditions. Alternatively it may be those who are willing to eschew wages for work experience, or perhaps immigrants who are really only allowed to work in some such sector who are fending for their families and willing to go to relative extremes. And etc... And this sort of stuff is what informs wages, and sets the negotiating window, if it exists, for most people and most jobs.
As always the answer is "it depends". Smart pointers kind of 'encourage' that each C++ object lives in its own heap allocation, but this quickly becomes a problem if you deal with tens- or hundreds-of-thousands of small C++ objects that way, each in its own heap allocation, and on top a high number of those objects being frequently created and destroyed (for instance with std::make_unique or std::make_shared). I call this a "Java-style C++ code base".

Technically this works and it's reasonably safe, because RAII takes care of memory management, just like GC takes care of memory management in Java.

But the problem there is deeper: it's not smart pointers vs raw pointers, but that each small object lives in its own heap allocation.

That's the typical scenario where you will see memory management becoming a performance problem (for at least two reasons: (1) heap allocation and especially deallocation isn't free, and (2) lots of cache misses when accessing objects that are spread more or less randomly over the address space).

Ideally you'd group many similar objects into long-lived and compact arrays, process the data in those arrays in tight loops, minimize pointer indirections, and minimize allocations (ideally you'd only allocate those arrays once at program start, or when those arrays need to grow). Once you did all those things, memory managament suddenly becomes a non-problem (because you only have a handful of long-lived allocations to care about), and RAII becomes a lot less useful (because the 'objects' in those arrays will most likely just be C-style plain-old-data structs). This is basically the 'antithesis' to OOP. And before you know it you're back to writing C code, like it happened to me ;P

TL;DR: there is no silver bullet for automatic memory management if performance matters.
You could checkout Nixpacks - https://nixpacks.com/docs/getting-started - if you want a solution to build images as part of a CI/CD pipeline.
Meanwhile I implemented a little viewer (https://github.com/rochus-keller/Cedar/ ) and started to study the source code, but was very surprised that there doesn't seem to be any object orientation. I had a look at Lampson's Cedar language description some years ago and had the impression that it included OO support, but this was apparently not implemented. I'm particularly interested because Wirth created Oberon after his second stay at PARC where he was exposed to the Cedar language and environment, and Oberon has inheritance (and there are quite many similarities of his Oberon System UI with the Cedar UI).

The Cedar language version manifested in the now published source files (including the Solaris version by 1993) seems to be rather Mesa plus garbage collected structures implicitly "interiting" from ANY for late binding, but no general inheritance and apparently also no polymorphism.

Do you have some inside information about this?
This is Cloudflare's flavor of Fly.io?
Its not "we". Its the people who authorize and run guantanamo. And they have names and adresses.
Yes, Cloudflare handles load balancing and neat tricks like measuring the latency between your users, your code and databases etc. and moving your code around the network to make it run fast: https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-workers-smart-placeme...

The vision of the Supercloud is that you give us your code and we'll figure out where and how to execute it: https://blog.cloudflare.com/welcome-to-the-supercloud-and-de...
I want to give Gentoo another go. I do wish there was an installer though - I don't want to config everything out the gate. Ideally, I'd get my software on with default USE flags, then try recompile with small changes here and there.
Wow and I thought the CA exhaust sniffing on a dyno was a bit extreme. It's amazing how different states are in the USA in things you never think about.
https://archive.is/1U9JT
Yeah weeds are just plants that most people tend to not want but tend to thrive.
So when would someone use something like this? I learn better by example if anyone has any.

And for reference, here’s the original D1 announcement with some additional info https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-d1/
Mopeds. “Moppet” is slang for child.
We're in complete agreement. It does make things worse. It's a stupid partial mitigation with serious downsides for a profoundly stupid problem.
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> Or the more elaborated bmaptool can even skip empty blocks which are often found in disk images.

dd conv=sparse
I dont know about everywhere, but at least a few places i've lived it was required by law/code to have it vent outside if it was a gas stove.
>The conservatives have lurched so far right that I can't help but feel that Labour is having to move in that direction too just to have a fighting chance of winning the next election.

Oh no, political parties moving in response to the expressed will of the general public in a democracy. What an outrage! How dare a party in a democratic system change its policy to match voter preferences. Won't someone think of the people that know better??
It's just that, a talking point. If they add a huge parking garage underground the people who don't want the development will find something else to complain about.
Global warming means generally more water in the air and more rain, not less. Think of Jurassic Park, not Mad Max
>I'm not understanding what you are trying to say here. Do we not all respond to hostile rhetoric in unique ways? When you say that someone "does not respond", surely you mean something else?

"to respond" in the clinical world and what she or he is referring to here means having a positive reaction to treatment: https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-term...
Serta Simmons and other mattress companies have been robbing consumers blind for years with exorbitant markups on inexpensive materials and with private branding across stores that hides the name of the real manufacturer and model -- thus preventing any competitive comparisons.

Yet, with decades of market dominance using these unethical practices, they still manage to wind-up bankrupt! Good riddance to the "used car salesman" model of the mattress business.
> Like it being trivial to accidentally introduce potentially very expensive cloning or accidentally using a ton of unneeded memory.

You're describing things COW is designed to prevent as things COW causes. There is NEVER a very expensive cloning happening at once with COW. That's the whole point of it. Everything is shared until the last moment when it can't be, and even then only small parts are copied.

Makes me think you're missing something here. Maybe not familiar with how COW is used in practice. COW is used in your operating systems' memory management, and in your file system, as I already said. Do you assume they're like "oh yes, we want to have randomly triggered very expensive cloning and use a ton of unneeded memory!"?

You may call COW a "magic trick" but this magic trick is fundamental to how your computer works. Not only is it in your file system and OS. It's also essential to virtual machines and containerization. It's essential to virtually all backup & recovery systems. Do you understand how integral COW is to the world of computing? This scary magic trick you're so afraid of?

You're fine defending a "very useful mess" and rejecting clear improvements with inadequate or outright misleading conclusions. Most people just react superficially like this to change and I'm used to it. But I'll never stop pointing it out when I see it.

As for C compatibility without copying the memory model flaws, it's possible, but it requires more thought than Rust put into it.
Windows 3.0 can run in real mode: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.0#System_requireme...
The "road toll" may not be the best example.

At least in New York, you pay a toll every time you cross most bridges and every time you enter/exit a thruway (aka "freeway" in other parts of the country)
That's a small subset of all scenarios where a car making noise poses a danger.
I stayed a block from that giant train station thing but I couldn't (be bothered to) figure out how to get to and from the airport, and I had a lot of luggage and that flat-fee taxi is so easy ...
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I can see that happening, and I would frame it as a choice rather than absolute truths, i.e. "this set of strengths of C" vs "this other set of stregths of C++". Imo the sets are disjoint enough that "C/C++" is doing the users of both languages a disservice, but convincingnothers of this does require a better essay.
How do you personally know hundreds of people well enough to know about which football team they're supporters of?
I watched an interview the other evening: Woodward & Bernstein, interviewed by Amol Rajan of the BBC (he's a horrible interviewer).

As his last question, he read out a piece of prose about W&B; it was bland, uncritical, even sycophantic. It was also factually accurate. Then he told them it was ChatGPT output, for a prompt along the lines of "Write a report about W&B, focusing on Watergate and the influence they've had on other journalists".

(The actual question's irrelevant, and the answers were garbled, partly because Rajan made such a mess of the interview.)

I have no idea how you'd make an effective spam filter to catch GPT output. It seems like an impossible task.
In/Famous Memory Leaks
Thinking about programming lore. Are there famous stories of memory leaks that people know and are willing to share?
> small dwellings where you need to shop for food every day or every few days, extreme cold or extreme heat is a problem, as is rain...

These are very odd things to say. A domestic refrigerator and cupboard holds a week's worth of food easily, you don't need 3/4 acres for that. Temperature management is easier not harder in a larger building. As is good roofing. The idea that when someone else says "the store is nearby" they mean "there is literally only 1 store that I can possibly reach" is also a creative worst-case reading.

IDK, this feels more like a dump of ignorant projected fears than a serious criticism.
I live next to a large road in NYC and for me the cars that are loud intentionally are by far the biggest problem when it comes to noise, followed by sirens and horns. The things that are designed to be noticed are the most noticeable.
besides slightly different keymap, what are the main differences between this and DM42 (or DM41X)?
I cannot stand the music, or music in any video of this type. I don't need or want its loaded suggestions. I would love to be able to hear even simulated wind whistling, and sounds from the scenes below.
I also tried my hand on integrating the Google Earth Tiles with Cesium.js for GPS Track visualization: https://cubetrek.com/static/highresmode.html

It basically allows you to replay your hikes, running or biking adventures in 3D.

I wonder how much Google's gonna charge once it's out of experimental mode.
Small qubits count machines could be useful for teaching about qubit operations. I can see several lab assignments based around these machine: measure the readout fidelity, measure the gate fidelity, measure T1 time, etc.
Win95 was my first!
Fond dream: Major shareholders notice that the largest increases to profits can be achieved by replacing the highest-paid corporate exec's with AI's.
But how do you automate that?
"up to 37x faster" is NOT before: 37.81ms, now: 1.82ms

You can't just round down 1.82ms to 1ms.
In a recent worrying sign that I’m turning into a grumpy old man, I got on a bus and was instinctively annoyed that it glided away more or less silently (it was a plug-in hybrid in battery mode). Double decker buses are _supposed_ to be noisy, damnit! (Back in the day they sounded like they were constantly about to explode, particularly if faced with even a minor hill; even pure diesel examples are a lot quieter these days…)
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Semi-related, but can Nix hypothetically replace the need for Docker?
I don't think they're talking about the tuners, but rather the good ol' boys and their trukks, rolling coal being an extreme example.
And then remember to copy that to every machine you use, I guess. Including one-offs.
The absurd cost of finalizers in Go
https://archive.is/RC6D3
It's about sweet water. If it "goes away" it typically ends up in the ocean.

Previously it was in lakes, groundwater it glaciers. Glaciers which ultimately kept rivers flowing all year around even when not much snow falls in a given winter. Once all the glaciers are melted, the rivers can dry up completely. The glacier water has already made it to the ocean and doesn't need to travel there anymore via river. With groundwater depleted, we cannot use that anymore to substitute and some sources of creeks will dry up.
Freedom and security exist in perpetual tension. This is why we need to take security breaches in stride, put them in perspective. Imagine giving up 5% growth because someone killed .000001% of your population! And yet, that's exactly what countries do. The histamine reaction to violence is many OOM worse than the violence.

If that's too politically charged, the same effect happens when there's a shark attack. Never mind it almost never happens, world-wide, and has negligible impact on the human population, but when an attack occurs suddenly there's an outcry to spend millions on patrols, shark hunts, whatever. Millions that could have been spent on much more pressing needs, like feeding malnourished kids or researching a Covid vaccine. And putting pressure on wildlife that is already under pressure. It's always a poor decision, but it plays to the voters.

Who can read this riddle?
No. It's just looking at the current offset in the logical kernel file.
“The cinnamon can be eaten, and so it gets cut down; the lacquer tree can be used, and so it gets hacked apart. All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless!” — ZhuangzI
Life/partner changes required switching from owning a home to renting an apartment, at least for now. I have a strong preference for high altitude/views so ended up in a high-rise apartment.
I got a little microchip. Maybe an easter egg? Put it in my farm although it doesn't seem to do anything.
IIRC These can have thier own host of problems because the 'brine' byproduct doesn't mix well back into the ocean and can settle/pool and create marine dead zones. Although suppose that will be less of a priority if people are thirsty.
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I have been consistently amazed by Lukas Pope's creativity, drive and technical prowess, he truly is a rare person.