skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a really awesome list - I'm proud to have seen all but two of them.

But I would also note that the 70s gave us both Star Wars ('77) and Alien ('79). Of the two of them I actually think Alien is the most significant because it was the turning point where we lost the rubber suits, army guys, professors making long winded explanations, and hormonal teenagers and started getting the darker and more serious sci-fi.

Disney's The Black Hole also came out in '79 and it is an enjoyable movie if you don't know anything about physics. It is a serious attempt at sci-fi and kept me on the edge of my seat when I first saw it.
Doesn’t he make his money opining about how great blue collar jobs are and how “the kids these day” don’t want to do it. I’m not exactly surprised by his statement here.
>>the perception of people and governments of Europe is that the US is not as reliably staunch of an ally as they once were,

It is not a perception, it is reality and people need to understand that. The US can not afford it any more.

>>But it's not Democrats that are arguing for abandoning Ukraine and acquiescing to Russia,

I dont know about "acquiescing to Russia" but some member of the republican party have long understood the fiscal reality, where the Democrats, (and other members of the Republican party) live in the fantasy land where money, and debt do not matter and the government can just spend spend spend, with no limit.

>>most notably Germany

I will believe it when they actually do it, they have been promising that for almost a decade now. They still have not promised 3%, only 2%, and they will IMO never get there.

I hope Poland emerges in EU leadership taking it from Germany

>> Russia spends 4.1%. Ukraine spends 34%

Now lets talk about corruption...

>That'd be an insane spending on defence

Maybe, but the US has been spending between 3-6% for decades building up the military to what is today, while the EU has been spending sub1% for those same decades, just matching US Spending is not going to cut it IMO.

Current US Military spending is at a all time low since WWII in % of GDP numbers, largely because the growth in the US Economy, in real numbers we still spend an INSANE amount of money.
From a layperson's perspective, "discovered" is doing a LOT of work in the linked article given it appears to be a hypothetical construct (topological soliton) within a hypothetical construct (string theory).
So I guess the main issue is that it is not specific enough and is open to interpretation. I don't know enough about how laws are written to know if this standard or not.

> Simply not true: https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/597215...

This is what I was trying to say, the law was written, and then when people objected there began a discourse (which i don't agree with) that the only reason people would object to this is because they must be groomers. Seems like it was the law first and then this "groomer" thing.

I appreciate you explaining your criticism to me.
So how do you have “privacy” when the entire purpose of social media is to share your likes, dislikes, social graph, etc. worldwide?
Interesting that Silent Running is list as "underrated", yet I think it's way overrated. I mean, on the topic of sci-fi, the movie has been mentioned in lists and otherwise for years. The theme is good, and I like the idea of watching the movie. But then I turn it on, and man, it's sure can be cringey. My shoulders go up around my ears when Dern's character is lecturing his shipmates on "real food". IRL, they would have thrown him out an airlock after one too many sanctimonious speeches. And that part with Joan Baez screeching on the soundtrack, ugh.

And to digress into nit-picking, Invasion of the Body Snatchers? Saw that in the theaters because...it got good reviews.
It may be satire.
I could be a "risk assesment" service. For a given package it could run an automated web-of-trust on it together with an analysis of past history of vulnerabilities and of its mantainers.

You can also add watchers to check who is allowed to publish new versions ad see when that list changes.

Even without looking at the code you could gather a useful report.
TikTok's Threat to Fair Trials: Unveiling the Disturbing Impact
"At a fairly critical time in the war."

Not really. They mostly started coming after the USSR stopped the Nazis in 1942.

"complicated history of the USSR and the Nazis"

Too bad your school forgets to mention the Munich agreement between the Nazis and the West, and all the efforts of the USSR to forge an anti-Nazi pact with the Great Britain and France. All of which happenned before the M-R pact.
Liking to have clean and empty inbox isn't related to limited memory
I really like the website design, above all. I'd love to pen my thoughts online, but haven't had the energy to learn static site generation...
That study found a small effect size compared to placebo, and a large placebo response.

That seems consistent with OP's comment of "SSRIs...mostly don't differ from placebo" (emph added).

Also not addressed in the paper is the fact that SSRIs and SNRIs have well-known and pronounced side effects, with make it questionable whether double-blind studies are really fully blinded.
"It does not have any garbage collection and instead uses ownership combined with minimal ref counting to manage memory"

Because we only allow you to store values with ownership inside other objects, you cannot have a circular reference. It uses reference counting to know if something needs to be freed or not. But because we keep track of ownership and moved values we are able to run an algorithm that removes most of these counts.
There is a fairly clear subset of Nim which is memory safe. There are discussions once in a while to reduce that from a small set to one..two keywords, e.g.:

https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/9280#61243

which has links to some others. The resolution is usually: Eh - it's already a very small set.

There also may well be libs (that you feel unable to not rely upon) which use these language constructs, and trust sure is tricky (in any PL ecosystem as well as just in life).
There's also the pragmatic flip side to this coin. 'Bad' code that does something is infinitely faster than the perfect implementation that was never written.
Thanks for the tip, got it updated!
Germany has increased their defense spending by at least $100 billion since the start of the war.
In addition to this, `ON CONFLICT` is still susceptible to race-conditions if you have a highly concurrent application. This may be obvious to some, however, a lot of people expect upsert to be atomic and get bit by this.

I also dislike that `ON CONFLICT ... DO NOTHING` increments numerical primary keys. I understand why it happens but it seems counter-intuitive given the name "DO NOTHING". (And, yes, relying on the values of primary keys to never change is an anti-pattern. However, if you have a table of 10 values and the primary keys have massive gaps like 1, 500_211, 2_521_241, 15_631_121, etc., it feels weird nonetheless.)
I have used Asus, Dell and HP Laptops with Ubuntu on them. The battery management is so pathetic that within a few months the battery is fried. Now, I have Ubuntu on my Desktop and Windows 10 on my laptop although I hate it.
MDN – Remove docs for the <blink> element
Big win for free speech on the internet.

Not necessarily.

Using an "algorithm" to promote some posts and diminish others is not exactly "free speech" is it? It is actually distorting speech.

Why would a publisher do this? Maybe personal bias but more likely for profit. Should corporate profits really be protected in this way?
I don’t see the problem. The app is basically a generous demo lacking only creature comforts until you pay.

That’s better than every other pay scheme I can think of since you have the option to do without.
I just think that "enlightened centrism" is sort of intellectually lazy at this point.

Obviously you don't have to agree with everything that a side does, but I think it's extremely easy to just throw your hands up in the air and say "both sides are bad!" and then turn your brain off. It is the facsimile of an enlightened opinion, but you didn't actually do anything to earn it.

There are plenty of things that the American left do/say that I don't agree with [1], but I don't think the logical conclusion of that is to just act like both sides are equally horrible.

[1] For example, I fundamentally do not agree with the (at least one point) popular leftist opinion of decreasing military funding.
> If you sign up for a cost per print plan, you get some benefits in consideration for your payment. If you drop it, those benefits end. It’s no different than renting a car and expecting to keep driving after it ends.

This is more like paying for an aftermarket maintenance plan and then expecting to drive your car (that you bought) after it ends - like no fucking shit you should expect to keep using your car after that maintenance plan expires. When they expire they don't siphon out your gas, oil, windshield washer fluid, engine coolant, brake fluid, and automatic transmission fluid!
> As others have pointed out, it's what separates democracy from elitist technocracy - and, ultimately, oligarchy.

Having "random people" (or people without specific domain knowledge) in a democracy doesn't really do anything to prevent oligarchy, it's tangential at best and orthogonal realistically.

> The problem is that another cornerstone is the public's responsibility to educate themselves.

That seems like a tall order in a culture that consistently promotes ignorance as a virtue for the wide masses.
While subscribed, cartridges are free and you're billed per page. If you could keep the cartridges, canceling would potentially net you many hundreds of extra pages for free. And you could cancel again and again.

I think the incentive to cancel right after receiving a new cartridge would be extremely high, to the point of rendering the whole service non-viable.

HP would have to limit how frequently customers can cancel, institute a waiting period before resubscribing, or track individual abusers and issue lifetime bans.
Yeah, I would definitely be leaning into the "offline" word in the original title for something like this.
It was a great read btw, thanks for sharing it.
https://learn.cantrill.io/p/tech-fundamentals

I found Cantrill’s course pretty solid. It is free and you can just skip to DNS & DNSSEC.
Check out his book “Sled Driver” as that story comes from there and is only a single amazing story out of many from that book.
"began on 9 August 1945"? That's participation medal level shit; it's the day the second nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.

They waited until Japan was beaten, then grabbed some land.
Did you read the same page I did?

Because it’s called a “printing plan” the entire way until you get to the pricing section, where they use “ink plans” to obviously distinguish it from the “toner plans” next to it.

It also actively talks about pricing being per page, replacements per pages printed, literally everything talks about it being based on pages printed. It even explicitly tells you you won’t get cartridges regularly, but based on pages printed. It’s more than clear that the whole thing is based off pages printed and not the ink itself.

It even explicitly goes over this in the FAQ on the homepage:

> The subscription cartridges only work while your printer is enrolled in HP Instant Ink service, so you will need to purchase store-bought cartridges after your final billing cycle to continue printing.

It’s like you’re trying to manufacture the outrage on the spot based on a loose skimming and the appearance of keywords.
I've always been very interested in taoism, but never took it much further than reading the Tao Te Ching and a few other related things like The Tao of Pooh and The Te of Piglet. This form of meditation seems exactly right for me. Do you have any recommendations for how to pursue it? Thanks.
One interesting thing is that io_uring can operate in different modes. One of the modes enables kernel-side polling, so that when you put data into the buffer, the kernel will pull the data out itself to do IO. That means from the application side, you can perform IO without any system calls.

Our general take was also that it has a lot of potential, but is relatively low level that most mainstream programmers aren't going to pay attention to it. Hence, it'll be a while before it permeates through various ecosystems.

For those of you that like to listen on the way to work, we cover io_uring on our podcast, The Technium.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebpnd7rPpdI

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3MG2FmpE3NP7AK7zqQFArE?si=s...
I think this will be more mainstream if someone create an installable app (win/mac/linux), right now I did a bit of research and I have to install several stuff (with https://huggingface.co/), it was confusing to a non advance user, I wasn't able to do it.
Good catch, thanks. Fixed.

Seems like I've been listening to Crystal Castles too much these days.
Jesus christ dude don't admit to crimes on a public forum
Don’t forget ALL the meetings
> Drugs with overt recreational effects very frequently distract the patient from the therapeutic effect in unproductive ways.

How are you quantifying "frequently"? Does that necessarily mean that the recreational effects cannot themselves be therapeutic?
It's an almost verbatim example of getting to 1NF, the first and most basic normalization. The value (department name) is repeating and should be extracted and given its own ID.
Packaging Open Policy Agent Policies with Nix
For the elites who backed it - as opposed to the people who voted for it - Brexit was always a project about Americanising the UK. They're the same people forcing mayors on us, the same ones who wanted chlorinated chicken, the same ones who think american style private health insurance is a good way to run a healthcare system, and all the rest.

So I'm not surprised that they think invasive surveillance capitalism is also a good thing.
It's a particularly interesting contradiction for Mike Rowe, who has lamented the loss of skilled blue collar workers who can do the "dirty jobs", which robots certainly have not replaced yet.

Automation has made an impact on manufacturing, and will continue to, and AI will have an impact on knowledge work, but thus far technological leaps have lead to increased productivity rather than increased unemployment, although the changes in industries may cause displacements in the labor force. It seems logical to expect that this may play out similarly.
Even if the programs don't free memory, something has to allocate and free memory for the programs and channels.
> Take Linux as an example: every program you install gets full access to the system...

... which should be locked down by group assignments and file-system permission flags. What the hell am I missing? The POSIX model has worked extraordinarily well for decades. The issue you're describing would be no different in Windows or any other operating system. If you install a malicious program, it can embed whatever protocols and communication channels it needs to exfiltrate any data your user account has access to. It's great to advocate for absolute least privilege in programs, but the only people who want to manage a matrix of permissions for every application the system would be IT managers who don't have to deal with the hassle or the complaints. This is precisely why so many things slip through on mobile. "Ain't nobody got time for that."
If you adjust your priors in response to data and end up walking away from a faulty theory, I think the term is “scientist”. It sounds like the problem from your perspective is they identify themselves as “string theorists” first and “scientists” second.
The ink tank systems might be worth a look the downside is the printer is more expensive upfront but the ink cost per print is very low. Ours is a Epson/Ecotank ET-15000 but Canon, Brother and HP have similar systems.
If anyone is in Cali and wants to see the blackbird, there’s one at March Air force base in SoCal.
Nice article on general-purpose memory allocation approaches. While the article doesn't explicitly discuss it, these all seem to be list-allocation mechanisms?

> "List allocators used by malloc() and free() are, by necessity, general purpose allocators that aren’t optimized for any particular memory allocation pattern... To understand, let’s examine commonly used list allocation algorithms: first-fit, next-fit, best-fit and quick-fit."

That's from an article on custom memory management (aimed at embedded programming issues) I've found pretty useful, and it picks up where this leaves off:

https://www.embedded-software-engineering.de/dynamic-memory-...

You can practice writing custom memory managers in an application that runs on an operating system by only using the stack (just create a big array of int etc. and call that your memory space):

> "For the safety-critical tasks, the developer can replace the standard allocator with a custom allocator that sets aside a buffer for the exclusive use of that task, and satisfies all memory allocation requests out of that buffer... The remainder of this paper presents four examples of custom allocator algorithms: the block allocator, stack allocator, bitmap allocator and thread-local allocator. Custom memory managers can use any one of these algorithms or a combination of different algorithms."
That might have been the case up until 2008 when NATO put Ukrainian membership on the road map
The Meme App
Is there a reason to assume that beyond QFT being famous?
>I don't think NV sales sagging will happen any time soon

From what I see in the consumer market they already are. If the AI bubble deflates they could have another crypto mining situation on their hands.
Yes. It's not like Putin's playbook is new.
Yea you can sync cbc results directly from the lab.
somewhat ironic that most browsers disabled <blink> because it was annoying, considering the mess some sites do with javascript today.
Stippling and Blue Noise (2011)
"This time Russia’s only ally is Iran."

This time Russia has nukes and the means to deliver them to any address on this planet.
I went in expecting progress on "alignment" as in "how to make sure AI doesn't kill us all" and I saw nothing at all about that in the paper. Disappointing.

Using the term "alignment" for what they're trying to do is misleading.
Facebook is not the government so even if what you say is true, it's really off-topic. Being protected from businesses violating your privacy is a good thing.
Epstein Appeared to Threaten Gates over Affair with Russian Bridge Player
I believe they can still at any point stop operating in the EU and not pay the fine? How would the EU implement the fine if Meta pulled out? I thought their leverage was just the threat of blocking the service in the EU.
> I question the europeans and their lackluster response to what is occurring on their continent.

You need to look at Eastern Europe to see the opposite of a lacklustre response. Poland especially has been donating a lot of gear by themselves they are one of Ukraines biggest supplies of MTB's and aircraft.

Western Europes lacklustre response can be seen as a combination of thinking that Ukraine would fall quickly and not wanting to 'escalate' the conflict, likely borne at least partially from Russian intelligence efforts to stop western flows to Ukraine.

> Personally looking at things at home we have higher priorities than this. Other nations seem to be making a similar choice given their lack of financial commitment.

Tonnes of nations are contributing aide to Ukraine in differing amounts, a lot of other countries has militaries and supplies that are a lot smaller then American and cannot give as much.
> That line just says people should do better at this in future to get more accurate results

But it's also doubling down on the assumption that the subjective effects aren't the source of the benefit.
In London you can rely on good coverage _outside_ the train, and I suspect (having visited 3 years ago) that the hardware is OK. The real trouble is when you do suburban/intercity trips, often through routes that have less coverage than motorways (which are prioritised by operators).
The trip is very short, but the effect as a useful antidepressant has to last a lot longer. It's not clear why the trip itself would have anything but short term effects on depression.
So people in the EU just can’t have friends in the US or communicate with people in the US? How do I process a communication between a group of friends - some in the US and some in the EU - without the data being in the US?
> Is there any strategic reason the USA may have wanted this war to occur?

Any reason that Russia cannot just leave Ukraine?, it would be the best way for them to maintain there forces.
In my experience so far it is much more along the lines of the horse and rider than it is a useful decision maker.

I'm still in charge of telling it where it go, but it takes me there. Knowing where to go and why is the important bit tied to wisdom.
I mean, it's probably not underrated but it is relatively unknown - the Soviet version of Solaris, from 1972
While reference counting is technically a method of collecting garbage, in modern parlance the phrase "garbage collector" is mainly used for systems capable of collecting garbage of an arbitrary reference graphs, which reference counting by itself cannot do (cyclic references).
As giantrobot said, Symbolics is the name of the company. I'd like to expand more on why. One feature that is relatively unique to Lisp is that it has a symbol type. Lisp code can use this type to represent Lisp code - making macros and dynamic code generation / evaluation a breeze. The name is a reference to this feature of Lisp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-expression
DNA traces in the water, sand and air can identify who you are
One more name I'dd add to this list is Mike Bostock. The care and attention he gives to data visualization examples comes through in the finished product.

Communicating complex subjects through interactive visual displays is very effective -- it's worth the effort. Thank you!
Neal Asher writes (mostly) about The Polity:

Which is similar in concept to Ian M Banks The Culture series.
(which I also love).

Asher tends to be darker and more violent.
I dont think he is for everyone.

I would start with GridLinked.
His books are not a progressive timeline.
Some take place in earlier times, some farther into the future of the Polity.
I dont think it is intended så read them based on the timeline though.

(Cut and paste)
The Polity is a far-future society run by artificial intelligences. In the early years of space travel, as we spread out into the solar system, the political make-up of humanity is a mixture of national and world (or moon) governments, and large corporations. However, these separate political entities – polities – employ AI for gain. During this time Iverus Skaidon, a scientist, directly links his mind to the AI Craystein Computer and invents underspace travel, just before his mind blows like a fuse. The invention of this faster-than-light travel results in a diaspora from the Solar System.
I removed this section from the website. As others said, the text is not good and not really helpful.
Why are you not on Medicaid?
As far as I can infer I think they might be referring to NATO?
Lots of EU countries have ID cards, this is not something enabled by Brexit. I don't really get the dystopian angle to it either. Do countries with ID cards see them as authoritarian?
Neil Young is still on Pandora it looks like.