skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...

"In civil forfeiture, assets are seized by police based on a suspicion of wrongdoing, and without having to charge a person with specific wrongdoing, with the case being between police and the thing itself, sometimes referred to by the Latin term in rem, meaning "against the property"; the property itself is the defendant and no criminal charge against the owner is needed."

In America, when it comes to civil asset forfeiture, if they don't have enough evidence to charge you with a crime, they will charge your possessions with a crime. If you have cash in your vehicle, they can charge the cash with a crime, like being used for drug trafficking. Similarly, they can charge a locked phone with a crime of drug trafficking, without actually having to prove it. Mostly because taking the item means they will begin an "investigation" into whether or not it "committed" a crime.

"In contrast, criminal forfeiture is a legal action brought as "part of the criminal prosecution of a defendant", described by the Latin term in personam, meaning "against the person", and happens when government indicts or charges the property that is either used in connection with a crime, or derived from a crime, that is suspected of being committed by the defendant; the seized assets are temporarily held and become government property officially after an accused person has been convicted by a court of law; if the person is found to be not guilty, the seized property must be returned."
Except we actually did make that extra capacity in several parts of the country in March 2020, those extra beds went almost entirely unused, were quietly disassembled in April 2020, and everyone forgot they existed.
Looks like they are just a reseller of Hetzner and Leaseweb?
Give everyone prime numbers and a N-way conference can be done with multiplication.
>An awful lot of people still don't have the luxury of being openly gay in the 2020s, because they happen to live in militant theocratic states.

Are you talking about Iran or Florida? :)

But more seriously, your overall response is quite cryptic. I can’t
answer for the ‘activist left’, whoever you take them to be.
Police agencies are desperate to hire. But they say few want the job
Thanks, we'll rephrase to say that it is impossible in most languages, not all.
BTW, the company that is behind the project is called Monada (https://monada.co), so we've heard of monads :)
Would be happy to hear what else you think about the language
> Europeans’ teeth would be white too if they smoked less.

err, maybe if they also didn't drink so much coffee and/or tea

Let's not ignore the fact that Americans have largely embraced teeth whitening as a norm.
I think we can infer that troll doesn't need time to watch video. So if a dislike came from a user with watching time is less than 10% (just as an example) it can be categorized as troll.
NUCs are great but they are often completely overpowered for a given application. The additional 200 you drop for it isn't worth it. Also 30w may be chips for a PC, but for battery powered or hybrid powered applications it's a lot of load.

Where NUCs become very attractive in my opinion is when you need reliability. Rpis are cute, but anyone who has ran one consistently for 6months has likely had some sort of issue. Bad SD card, random restart, or what have you. Most NUCs will not do that to you. But there are also other SBCs with a price range in between that wont either.
Python has an excellent interactive shell but I’m not sure this is such a blessing. It seems that nearly every package out there required you to use that shell to understand something mundane, like the type of a function result or properties of some object. I’d rather have good documentation instead.
There's some obfuscation going on fetching the actual audio and video, the URLs to which are never shown to the user. Those URLs are decoded with a bit of JavaScript. Youtube-dl (and yt-dlp) contain enough of a JavaScript interpreter to evaluate that JavaScript in order to decode the URL.

Since the purpose of the obfuscated URLs and JavaScript is to gate access to the video and audio through a browser hitting the YouTube site where they can't be saved, this scheme constitutes an "effective" copy protection measure. Bypassing this gating mechanism is thus circumvention, illegal under the DMCA.
It’s a very real thing.
That’s where I first encountered Lua.
The guess is accurate enough to be way better than nothing.
"First, we can be nice to everybody, then will come a time we will have to content ourselves to try to be fair... finally, we will have to choose: their children or ours."

Dilemmas...
I can't think of anything that's been ratio'ed hard where it would make me think that the dislike count needs to be hidden everywhere. For instance , Rings of Power trailers got hit pretty hard, and some of the more woke hollywood adaptations, but those things also bombed (at least given expectations) so it's hard to say the ratio didn't represent public sentiment.
We aren't talking about counting. We are talking about indexing.

Most programs don't need numeric indexing. They can either treat indices as opaque keys or they can use a foreach loop to avoid touching indices at all (or friends like map, filter, zip, and so forth). Even in an old language like C the only place indices usually matter is in the first line of a for loop. But sometimes you really do need numeric indices, and when you do zero-based indices are almost always cleanest.

Just think of how gnarly a flat 2D array would be if you had to use one-based indices. Gross!
There's a script available now - just installed it in FF with Greasemonkey.
Years ago I wrote a DNS-over-HTTPS proxy as an nginx / OpenResty module in Lua. The Lua code included a very stripped-down DNS message parser. The 1-based indexes and closed (instead of half-open) intervals were a massive pain in the arse. The code has a tricky mixture of odd and even offsets that would all have been even in C, and it would have been much easier to replace the magic numbers with named constants.

https://github.com/fanf2/doh101/blob/master/roles/doh101/fil...
Yes: the title of this post should be "libuv: introduce io_uring support", not what it is now.
When did the 21st century begin?
> There is a huge opportunity, IMO, for more players here.

There are quite a few embeddable scripting languages [1]. I think these days it's less common to embed a language mostly because there are good high-level languages that applications can be predominantly written in.

[1] https://github.com/dbohdan/embedded-scripting-languages
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It's at least good enough to release a game on Steam. Here's an experience report: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Shinmera/talks/master/els2... (https://kandria.com/)

> Overall we have needed to do surprisingly little actual performance
analysis and optimisation work to make Kandria run well. This is
definitely in large part thanks to SBCL’s quite good native code
compiler and type inference systems, and the prior work we’ve
done to design critical libraries to not be completely obscene in
terms of their performance characteristics.

> […]
It's not a fallacy if it's deliberate.
Ten tips that will help you build your academic reputation
In Germany you can definitely buy table salt with Fluoride in a supermarket.
We already do VSCode remote development. We'd rather just hack on our Macs.
Dozens and dozens, too many to list. Modern favorites include Celeste, Hades, Ibb and Obb, Shovel Knight, Paper Mario: The Origami King, and Cadence of Hyrule, just to name a few.

No life events really, it's just that when I code I prefer my music to not have lyrics, and soundtracks are pretty much perfect for that. They're often designed as background tracks anyway, and a given soundtrack tends to have consistent atmosphere, good for setting the mood for some task.
I’ll check it out.

What printer do you have?
You can buy a better specced laptop in a year.
Yes part of it works as you’ve suggested, the ID part.

However, there’s more at play. Somehow there is access to data about whom I contact (again only via iMessage) and the contents of messages (only via iMessage). It’s not an imagined correlation, some of the data shown on the app could only come from recent iMessages.
I will treat your comment as serious and explain why I personally use emacs.

The thing I love most about emacs is that it is joyously consistent. The same key combination to jump ahead by a word works everywhere, such as when you're opening files or navigating directories. This consistency means that I am often very efficient trying new packages that I have never used.

Maybe you've never seen someone use emacs in anger? If so, check out this video of Steve Yegge doing some stuff in Emacs:
https://youtu.be/lkIicfzPBys?t=142
The problem with 1-based arrays is that it makes the offset and location be different. For example, we want to place an item into a simple circular buffer with zero-based indexing:

arr[idx mod capacity] = 123

Now with 1-based indexing:

arr[(idx-1) mod capacity + 1] = 123

This is absolutely makes it a PITA if you're working with things like bitmaps, blending, or sound mixing. If you only need a language for high-level scripting, then it indeed is not such a big deal.
Does it need to? The whole premise is that he hates his “relatively” cushy factory management job enough to think jumping in a volcano is a better use of his life.
As someone who comes from an area with clean fresh water, that does not contain added fluoride, this is not a complex issue. It's simply not a question that comes up. People have good dental hygiene here.

To my mind, yes sure you can over complicate the entire debate, but all of that is irrelevant in the face of these basic points:

- Is there a chance that fluoride ingestion could be detrimental to human health?
- Can tooth decay be prevented by diet and brush/floss with good quality toothpaste?

Presumed safety of chemicals (at the behest of organizations) to human/environment until proven otherwise is shocking to me.

They irony of all this is that if you want to buy good quality toothpaste you are forced to import it from overseas, due to the FDA limiting ingredients in toothpaste.
I think it would be totally reasonable for a core member to say something like, "I'm uncomfortable with a keynote about this compile time reflection from Person1. I think it could look like we're endorsing it more than we are prepared for." That's exactly how I might think and talk about some extensive complex proposal from some outsider for a problem that I have some ideas on how we might want to solve. All the people upset about the keynote changes describe it in such like exaggerated form, that to me it's hard to just believe that they are the reasonable ones here.
Toothpaste, for the most part, isn't swallowed. Salt, you can get any kind you want. I think this gives consumers more discretion/control over what they want to or do not want to ingest.
Don’t have precise answers to your questions but let me reframe.

AAA games that pushes HW to the limit is a small fraction of all content. Among most popular content on Quest you have VR Chat, Gorilla Tag, Beat Saber, Job Simulator: Indie titles def not AAA that the browser would be more than capable to deliver today. https://moonrider.xyz/ for example has 60-100k VR MAUs (300k at peak on Holyday season 2021). Tech is no longer a blocker to build good WebXR content and grow an audience. Mozilla, Google and now the Meta Browser team have done excellent work to get us here
I agree that this is concerning. I'd also say that the only thing worse than PE running these would be the government running them (see Canada). This is a natural role for religious organizations (I'm not religious) and I don't know what most logically could take their place that would actually care about people. (Companies sort of have to due to competition, but after profits, governments don't have to care at all). Ideally incentivizing nonprofits to run these and disencentivizing for profit ownership it probably most reasonable.
Just scrolling around Israel, it seems text rendering for RTL is broken.

https://demo.baremaps.com/#12.91/32.06932/34.75969

Should be “תל אביב”, not “ביבא לת”. How do these issues even exists in 2023? Is a team building these renders not aware of RTL languages, or do they just not bother implementing it?
Yeah but again, if you have those options that usually are worthless, I will still buy them off of you because I understand that something that has a lifetime value between 0 and X is not valued at 0.

Anecdotally, I have worked at companies that had ESOPs (does anyone do that anymore?), options in public companies, stock in a private start up and RSUs. Often they were worthless but at the end of the day they were also worth more than all the salary I got. You can't assume an option will be worth anything, but I think you should take them.
A decent metric for community maturity though. That absolutely should be a factor in deciding on a language.

I'm having a real hard time seeing this unfold among the greybeards that call the shots in Java or C++.
It does seem like the author is looking for liberal failings to point at... but the underlying reasons aren't even that important. TSMC is publicly saying costs are extremely high compared to Taiwan, and however you slice that, it is not a good omen for even a small scale U.S. chip industry.
In what way is its documentation not useful? I did a project based on TreeSitter a year ago and the docs were perfectly clear and adequate, and I was up and running within half an hour or so
You can also use light userdata for that kind of thing.
Thats exactly my point.

Its clear why sam altman wants it, the comment was about why people should have fair, just regulation— not the ones pushed by corporate agenda.
High-speed digital and RF are more "magical" than a lot of other forms of electronics. It is quite a bit more approachable if you limit yourself to ~200 MHz signals at most, then you don't really have to worry about the RF properties of your circuits as long as you keep the wires pretty short.
Electronics as a hobby costs real money.

Software as a hobby costs nothing --- beyond a computer which everyone already has; hobbyist or not.
Yes absolutely. The politics is stupid crap. If everyone in the rust org quit the community would continue onwards just fine.

Rust is a great language with a lot of advantages and is absolutely worth considering for your next project.
Sure, but is this what we want, as engineers? Can computers be held accountable?
Now this is a lazy argument.

“My thing is true, even though the vast majority of medical professionals and societies disagree with me. And I don’t have to prove it to you, as that is best left as an exercise to the reader” is lazy, and a terrible argument.

Even if you didn’t validate the established guidelines, that doesn’t actually make you lazy; as humans, we cannot possibly hope to empirically validate every single thing we are told, as that would be madness. We often rely on various sources to validate claims for us by running solid, peer-reviewed studies and then we read those, and the vast majority of those studies do not agree with you, though more studies definitely need to be run, particularly with higher SPF sunblocks and mineral sunblocks.
Rust is technically excellent, and has significant buy-in from major corporations, who won't allowwz their investments to go to waste. I wouldn't worry about the drama.
Follow-up question: is there a way to "freeze" the GC? As in, I've done all my allocations, now I want to run a main loop uninterrupted, and force clean up inside at_exit().
The idea is that there should be an option for customers to extend their coverage for a sensible fee. Without a cap on the price manufacturers could charge insane prices.

Mandating a time to fix puts a lot of pressure on manufacturers to have security teams ready at all times and make sure their patch process works pretty flawlessly.

The implications on device prices is certainly an increase by 10% but a lot of knock off devices would stop making economical sense.
does anybody actually use Gemini exclusively, or is it just like Gopher where everybody ends up hosting a HTTP proxy anyway?
Yep! If I remember correctly, they lead into longer reading sessions, but the synopsises usually give you something interesting to think about, too.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36108241
The WorldWide journey of an iPad Pro left behind in a Las Vegas hotel room
Well, I don't know about that. I really want all algorithms and implementations checked out by at least a few people that write up a report. Even something like Blake3 could be a bit iffy under that criteria.
I think so, too, but my point is that it makes sense for other historical reasons—not the one the poster mentions. Those decisions weren't made due to mathematics.
A master of what craft? Fast entertainment?

Tom Hanks is a master of perfectly playing an unbelievably dull character -- with just enough subtle quirk that a half-awake audience can project their half-baked sensibilities onto.

No different than the New Yorker, that wafts on for ages -- that only someone looking too hard can find merit in.
What are some of your favourites and why? Any tips on how to design nicely optimised ones? I’d love to hear :)
> "How do these issues even exists in 2023?"

Have actually tried writing something that handles languages running in different directions? It might be 2023, but the libraries... aren't great...
This is a little harsh, upgrade cycles in these fields are very long. I'm working on a project right now where we are upgrading from iMX6 (quad A9) to iMX8 (quad A53).
Vitamin D3 can help avoid Covid-19 infection, IMHO elderly should take it daily. https://scitechdaily.com/study-finds-vitamin-d3-important-fo...
I like Rick. At least they got that it was the original coax cables that drove it. Then once you have lots of measurement equipment and cables, it's hard to change (even SMA is 50ohm).

You can still get 75ohm BNC cables (close to 77) and 93ohms (and I think some 150/300ohm antenna cables?). Once you get over a few GHz all the inputs are balanced differential anyway and you have T networks to optimize power reflection.

It doesn't mention at all that free space impedance that matters a lot to actual aerial antenna design is 377ohms. I don't know enough about it, but assume they're using transformers to balance loads (about 300ohms?).
The shortest non-halting brainfuck program will have exactly three instructions. Here is one them: `+[]` here is another one: `-[]`.

Brainfuck's state consists of an array of integers, an index into that array, a program counter, and some bookkeeping required to track which "[" corresponds to which "]".

Let's assume the array a[:] is zeroed and the index i is set to 0 before the program begins executing.

Then `+` increments the cell in the array a at index i, i.e. `a[i] += 1`; `[` begins a while loop, equivalent to `while a[i] != 0 {`; and `]` ends the while loop: `}` .

So the program `+[]` is equivalent to something like

a := (allocate a length N array of bytes, set to zero)
i := 0
a[i] += 1
while a[i] != 0 {
}

which will not terminate.

Why is this the shortest?

`]` is the only instruction that might decrease the program counter, otherwise the program counter always increases by one or more. Therefore, a non-halting brainfuck program must include at least one `]`. Brainfuck programs are syntactically incorrect unless there is exactly one `]` occurring somewhere in the program after each `[`. So the shortest non-halting brainfuck program must have at least two instructions.

There is only one syntactically valid brainfuck program with two instructions that might not halt: `[]`. But this will halt, assuming that the array `a` is initialised to zero before execution begins. So the shortest non-halting brainfuck program contains three instructions.
> Certainly not from me

Oh for sure. I’m just aimlessly rambling at this point.

> That behaviour requires algorithms, not statistical inference.

I’m not sure that’s possible. “Rational” systems may be an oxymoron and/or only applicable in extremely narrow domains. Like calculators.

I’m getting the vibe anything approaching generality will be by nature vague. I just hope we can increase the “illusion of rationality”-bandwidth so it coincides with our needs in the workforce.
Ahhh yeah. The "leave them alone" approach is only really suitable after a person has already demonstrated both competence and their own self direction / initiative.

If they're not yet at that stage, leaving them alone will generally make things worse (with a poor outcome) rather than better. :(

This is a very short book that explains the right approach pretty well, and seems based on the reality of how most people work, rather than theory:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_One_Minute_Manager
I believe this paper has an answer to your question - https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3487022
Ultrasound Brain Pulses Put Mice in a Hibernation-Like State
> I've never properly learned brainfuck, so the answer to this might be trivial without needing to write a solver, but what's the shortest non-halting program you found?

It's a pretty trivial question in any language, it tends to just be while(true); or similar in that language.
Influencer marketing on social media is a multi-billion-dollar industry
Oh, whooosh. Thankyou.
Solar dish reactor produces hydrogen and captures waste products
https://github.com/blyxyas/no-rust-policy-change
Debt ceiling deal: What's in, what's out of the agreement to avert US default
Direct detection of dark matter bound to the Sun with space quantum sensors
Clearly, I did some location-based pub/sub research in the past and the lack of open source infrastructure components was an important motivation for Baremaps. Today, the open source ecosystem in this area is moving fast and I think we are pretty close from a having high quality options for all the main infrastructure components (map, geocoder, reverse geocoder, ip to location, routing, TSP, etc.).
If you are doing a deep dive into Hersey’s article, you should read it in the context it was written, for an American audience (generally readers/subscribers of the New Yorker magazine) who had just directly and personally survived the struggles, and sometimes the horrors, of WWII.

The best way to simulate that in the 2020s is to read “Hiroshima” as the last article (of 70) in the compilation The New Yorker Book of War Pieces, 1947 republished 1988. It’s out of print, but affordably available in the used book market. Something about being embedded in truly major world events brings out the best in writers, so all 70 magazine articles are easy reads of sometimes difficult content. By the time you reach “Hiroshima” after 500+ pages of WWII articles starting in London 1939, you will have gained a bit of the mindset of the educated war-weary-but-victorious 1946 American reader for which the essay was written. And you will read the essay a bit differently.

[edited for Hersey, not Hershey…idiot autocorrect…]
I think intuitively I would've guessed the body of an electric has much less to do with the sound than the body of an acoustic, but it was super cool to see this tested with the air guitar. I never would've attempted to build that so I'm glad he did.
> he started to write his own, lower-quality books on all the same topics and place them on a giant shelf that sat in front of the regular stacks. He wasn’t an expert on any particular topic, so these books were just weak paraphrases or sometimes word-for-word copies of the original source material

Just like Amazon Essentials. Cheap knockoffs
Liburing is pretty recent, and it started with a really limited set of syscalls it supports.

Everyone is adopting it pretty quickly, actually.