skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems either like his goal was treason, and going public was a bargaining chip to avoid being extrajudicially disappeared somewhere or whistleblowing was his goal and doing it in an adversarial country with loads of confidential documents that have nothing to do with any possible NSA wrongdoing was a bargaining chip to avoid US prosecution.

The latter seems far more likely to me as an observer, but in either case, both public revealation AND harm to the US were on the table.
After reading some supporting material associated with this topic, I became a fan of MMT. For those interested, I recommend Stephanie Kelton's "The Deficit Myth", and Randall Wray's work. The latter has recently published a really ELI5 for the subject: "Money for Beginners" (NOTE: pay attention to the author - there are quite a few books with similar title)
If you can find a primary care physician near you and ask for a standard "just checking to make sure everything's good" blood test, they'll probably order you something called a Complete Blood Count panel and maybe another that measures blood glucose. The CBC panel isn't used to diagnose anything particular, it's more of a general snapshot that gives you insight into all kinds of potential issues (or, more likely, tells you everything is fine). Mine always come back saying that I'm a bit anemic, but iron supplements don't agree with me so I just live with it.

Another benefit of semi-regular blood testing (and I'm talking once every year or two) is that it provides a good baseline for what your body is like. Then if you ever start having specific medical issues that warrant more tests, you know what your Healthy Levels are and can compare accordingly. For example, my MCH tends to dip just slightly below normal thanks to the anemia, so I know not to take that as an ill omen in itself. Conversely, I've never had abnormal blood glucose levels, so if that starts wavering I'll know something's up.
This so much. It works for us and there is no reason it wouldn't work for others.

Politicians here have a completely different role in society. They ain't hero's, they ain't badman's the are just smart people doing their democratic jobs.

And society talks about concrete topics and not politicians.
Exactly. Telling someone that holding hands isn't your thing is fine. Making them feel like they're abusing you if they do it is not.
Agreed. However, I wasn't trying to do prompt engineering here - just warn it that it's a tricky case, as if I was dealing with a candidate for a junior software role on the interview (however stupid this kind of test would be on the interview).
Usually a keynote speaker is invited, and gets his travel and hotel costs reimbursed. Without reimbursement you usually think twice if you visit a conference or not. And I never heard of downgrading a speaker before, even if I heard of plenty of conference drama before.
i just read the doc and saw a page saying stdlib only targets x86 arch at the moment ? so no arm ?
And Marmite https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmite
GPT4 still isn't freely available, is it? So it's not that surprising people aren't using it as much as the older ones.
So, was Snowden a visibly active protester against government surveillance before getting the job? If so, did the government fail to notice or did they notice and not care? How extreme should such activity be before it become a "real reason for Snowden to fail the security checks"?
Was it a talk that you submitted on your own choice, or were you asked to give the original talk? In this case, the speaker was asked to keynote-speak, when they had not planned on doing so.
> The token limit is 100% an artificial limitation.

My understanding is the token limit is an immutable property of the neural network once it has been trained, so definitely is not an artificial limitation - unless you’re suggesting OpenAI trained the NN with a higher token count then released it with a limit on the input to only allow smaller ones? Which I guess is plausible but I’m not sure why they’d do it, as they’d still be “executing” the same NN for every input so wouldn’t save any compute.
It depends on the conference; sometimes it's something like "creator of the language shares their vision for the next five years", other times it's "talk from the most famous person we could book", and sometimes just "the talk we liked best from a relatively unknown person". If there are multiple tracks then sometimes the keynote will be the only talk for the timeslot, other times it's not.

Looking at the schedule for this conference, it seems that there's just a single track and all talks are 30 minutes. I wouldn't expect any substantial changes beyond a different timeslot and title.
SIL: A high level IR for Swift to complement LLVM [pdf]
4'33" isn't a song either. If you call a tail a leg, a dog still has 4 legs.
Teardown of the Disneyland Entry Band
This technology goes way beyond that. I don't see why we should dismiss the many valid ethics questions because it is something that some gay people want. That may be a slight positive to weigh against all the other questions.
What do you think happens when someone refuses to raise the debt ceiling?

And who in power in the US both approved the current year spending budget, and is currently threatening to not raise the debt ceiling?
It's extremely unlikely to be air residue, since what they're finding is grain and yeast protein. That stuff won't be flying around in the air, particularly as the Danes did their brewing indoors.

But, yes, the Danes did brew a lot, into the 20th century, since beer was the daily drink for Danish farmers.
I feel like this post misses the point.

Do most people care if someone was a keynote speaker? No(Outside of academia). Is it a big deal if your talk was selected as a speaker or keynote speaker? No. But should you care if your talk is demoted from Keynote to non-keynote without following due process(and possibly because of personal biases)? Yes.

I don't know anything about any of the parties involved, but I feel like declining the talk was the correct thing to do and raising the lack of due process is also the correct thing to do.
The issue with thr US version of the dept ceiling is that the money was already spent. The discussions to raise it should be before they spend more.
> I think the debt limit is a good idea as it forces some consensus about spendings

Except it doesn't, as seen in the US doing this dance on the brink every other year.

What you actually are thinking of is a spending limit where either constitutionally or by statute you can't pass a budget that isn't balanced to some level.

Being able to pass a budget with more spending than revenues and then saying "wait, we have to agree to borrow too" makes no sense

> judicial branch (not only attorney general is one of the ministers

The attorney general is not strictly considered a part of the judiciary in terms of separations of powers.

The role of prosecutor is pretty firmly an executive one based on the model where the legislature makes the laws, the executive enforces them and the judicial checks they're being enforced as written

The problem with poland is not as much the system as the fact that they fucked it up by appointing judges illegally. Any system is a free for all if you just break the rules, and parliamentary systems tend to be on average less of a free for all than presidential ones

> wanna spend money? - talk to the other side about it

That's the point, you already need to talk to the other side in order to spend the money, it's called passing a budget bill. A debt limit just allows you to decouple the debt discussion from the budget discussion, meaning that when it comes up it's either "raise it, we'll see about spending next budget" or "well, guess we're defaulting now"
Similar things might happen in other communities but Rust drama seems much more visible, and this isn't because of HN bias - the foundation having weird guidelines, controversy around governance, prominent people in the community badmouthing other languages in bad faith, now this. It's quite ugly.
Who is Jigawatt and why is he relevant at all?
Exactly this. They tried to teach us French grammar without teaching us English grammar!

When I have discussed this with multilingual continental Europeans they have found their understanding of grammar to be a great advantage when learning a new language. To me it is a complete mystery!

It is pointless trying to teach English people foreign languages this way, unless they are going to start by teaching them their native language this way first!
The German YouTuber Drachenlord is famous and poor, and he has been harassed for years.

People vandalize his father's grave, break into his home, the police don't come any more.
It's cruel and the bullies want him to overreact so that they can also sue him in court.
Essentially a debt ceiling means:

* legislature determines the government's income by setting tax rates

* legislature determines the government's spending by passing the budget law

* legislature determines the maximum amount of government debt by law

Obviously if the budget law requires spending that exceeds the tax income, the difference has to be raised by the government by issuing debt.

Now the legislature can pass these different laws such that the executive has no choice but to break one of these 3 laws, as it is arithmetically impossible to follow all of them at the same time. I fail to see what the benefit of that would be for anyone.

If the legislature wants the government to spend less, they can simply pass a smaller budget.
This would be my take too. From all the past leaks of cables, the perhaps most hilarious revelation is the overall humdrum, including the speculative, often incorrect, and sometimes rude chatter between diplomats and intel people.
There isn't though, at all.

How much debt the US will take on is decided when the Federal budget is authorised. That's when it happens.

The only thing the debt ceiling does is have the US arbitrarily go into default on treasury bills.
I love Rust but the ideological posturing and swathes of people who in their hearts are grifters is truly disappointing.

Framing a technical presentation you disagree with as "making you uncomfortable" in highly manipulative fashion definitely deserves to be called out in public.
I encourage everyone to also look at his follow-up video called "Listening To My Stories With Nuance":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyQgWh-XAxs
> I think the debt limit is a good idea as it forces some consensus about spendings.

This is what the budget does. The same legislature that is full of people saying they won’t raise the debt ceiling already passed a budget that implies spending money beyond the current debt ceiling. It passed, with majorities in both houses, and the President signed it. The negotiations were difficult.

If we had an ounce of brains, we’d hold the debt ceiling negotiation at the same time as the budget negotiation. I’m not sure if there are congressional rules that prevent this, or if Congress just enjoys the idiocy.
It is, because saying "executive branch can simply borrow money whenever it sees fit" makes it seem like the executive has unlimited power to spend.
For more context, post from the previously invited keynote speaker about what happened: https://thephd.dev/i-am-no-longer-speaking-at-rustconf-2023
My First Two Months as a Prompt Engineering Intern
Some thoughts and insights on how I integrated AI into my everyday life.
A lot of people here are attributing semantics to the article that I don't believe it has claimed.

To me this simply reads, "If your application deals with colour, consider your user, and please also consider this standard".

In particular the line "If your software outputs colour by default, please consider not doing so", on one hand comes across as opinionated, on the other hand I mostly interpret this as a call to not have coloured output as a default without having first considered an easy way to disable it, which is sensible.

I like colours in my terminal, and have included them in most of my non-trivial work; I have also added NO_COLOR because I think it's a nice informal standard, but more importantly I support the --color=<auto|never|always> GNU standard.

The part where I lack a bit is the customisability; I'm not too sure how to use terminal themes, so I have been using absolute colour sequences instead. I need to look that up...
Not the commenter, but you can read Epictetus directly, very easy. Otherwise How to Be a Stoic by Massimo Pigliucci. Don't read any of that garbage from Ryan Holiday.
See Switzerland. Yes most of the time new ideas are not easily heart, but the whole population gets to hear it and vote on it.

Yes more often than not Revolutionary or forward leaning ideas don't get a yes on the first glance.

But at this point the whole population talked about the topic.

And here comes the magic. A few years later a new idea arises better than any idea before and suddenly people get it.

We talk and vote about topics and not politicians.
There is absolutely no merit to a debt ceiling. If you want to curb spending you do that when you set the budget. You don't do it when the bill comes. Can you imagine trying to get out of your mortgage payment because you said you wouldn't spend more than $500 this month? The bank would laugh at you and foreclose.
> Without it people currently in power can spend as much as they please on their electorate needs and leave the next government in a difficult situation.

Spending levels are set by Congress, separate to the debt limit. The executive is not authorized to spend money that's not in the budget; there's no blank check. Abolishing the debt limit would not change this at all.
Well.. start by reading the aftermath of the Lisbon earthquake.

The persecution took place through about a century to carefully avoid drastic events as you'd later see in France, thus reducing public opposition/outcry. Contrary to France, there was no need for "revolution" because liberals were already in power since the earthquake. More details here: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extin%C3%A7%C3%A3o_das_ordens_... (need to translate)

My home town is Coimbra. The whole Rua da Sofia (Street of Knowledge) was expropriated and left to abandonment or sold for whatever other purposes without shame on the 18th century. Worse destiny had the church of São Cristovão, presumably built by the father of the first portuguese king: https://www.cm-coimbra.pt/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/coimbra...

For a political movement aimed to bring light into the masses, liberals sure dived the empire into some really dark decades that we'd never recover from afterwards.
I don't know what you expect to achieve by calling those selfless women who choose to do surrogacy prostitutes. The surrogacy sector in the United States is highly regulated, and surrogates are highly protected (https://health.ny.gov/community/pregnancy/surrogacy/surrogat...). Yours is an ignorant, misogynistic stance.
This is exactly my experience in the UK too.
Calling the situation multilayered is just an excuse to partly justify this terrible mistake. There is no doubt that the cost of shutting them down far exceeds the cost of letting them run, so the remark about "extremely expensive" maintenance is just false.
There's more discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36090512 .
Just separate all critics in 2 parts:

1) Professionals in your sphere:
Take as much critics from professionals in your sphere as you can. Sometimes you need to even pay for this. Analyse and go forward. The more mistakes you will make the faster you will reach your goal. Act it as a game.

2) All others:
Just tell them magic words: "This is only your opinion, Thanks!" and do nothing.

Be happy )))
It is funny because at least for me personally, it is the other way around.

I am most interested in deeper technical talks (or cool lightning talks that broaden my horizons) and keynotes often feel like highlevel generic talks that are very skippable - often aimed at CTOs and not engineers. Also, "prominent spot in the morning" is exactly the opposite for me as well, because conferences are all about networking and evening networking means hangover ...
Getting eggs from women is hard because the current technology is very invasive and expensive, and there are challenges storing and maintaining the eggs. A technology that allows the creation of as many eggs as you want from skin samples totally changes all that, and removes the limitations for many reproductive technologies.
How long was the talk you originally wrote, perhaps they thought there wasn't enough content for a full one (playing advocate)?
You get an invite to a conference as a keynote speaker, which is then rescinded, for no good reason even? That's a big deal. I don't know about "heartless" and all that emotional stuff, it's just plain disrespectful.

You make up your mind about that kind of stuff BEFORE the invitation.
> Constitution explicitly prevents us from defaulting

This is far from settled law. What it means for a debt to be “authorised by law” within this context is unresolved and frankly unclear. (The 14th Amendment requires paying debts. Not issuing new debt. Maybe the solution is forced sale of public assets, et cetera.)
So the command line it's back.

Neal Stephenson was right with that book in late 90's.
Maybe, but now we are discussing scales of evil and not whether evil is actually done. Moral superiority is effectively lost.

Also, this is nothing compared to millions of deaths due to wars and entire vast regions fucked up badly for generations. In that aspect, US is much worse than Russia or China, if we check past few decades (which is way more relevant for present than judgling last 200-500 years).

It pains me to say that, because I strongly align most of my values with US ones in this world, but this is fucking horrible and cant be ignored or marginalized. All done for profit of few since day 1.
Scotland is on the verge of becoming a space superpower
Well, not removed, just downgraded.

But yes, it does smell a bit drama-queen.
This is also great! Thank you. I can't offer in depth feedback on the text-to-speech as I am also learning Spanish, but definitely enjoyable and understandable! Also the technical jargon in Spanish is new to me, so I listened to at least few words I didn't hear yet!
There is and always has been a problem parallel to this: People who are part of a group they believe to be fundamentally segregated and discriminated against are much more likely to let this influence their judgement.

A promotion of someone else quickly becomes favoritism, and a demotion or reassignment (or rescheduling) quickly becomes discrimination, even if those decisions were made on a different basis.

A lot of these kinds of public outcries are people of a minority group misunderstanding why some decision was made. Of course there is discrimination, but not as much as some people believe. Most people, in my experience, just dont think too much about skin color, religion, sexuality, or anything, of their employees, speakers, and so on.

As you said, a huge amount of the population, especially in tech, are LGBTQ+ or similar. Its incredibly difficult to do anything that really discriminates, because its not a minority group anymore.
Even a very large number of "white male" tech people are LGBT, they just may not care to tell you.
Easy to avoid. Ask the user to put it's own decyrption key coming from their own console.
For the Rust ignorants like me can someone be kind enough to explain who jntrnr is? The only info I can find is that he worked on Rust core. Can't find an about page or any other information about this personality?

Is his role significant enough that his departure from Rust will force Rust leadership to fix their internal problems?
I remember someone predicting this would happen in comments here a few months ago.
there are enough lots (or owners who are happy to sell their apartment, so the building that would get demolished could), but then the dear neighbors make every effort to prevent building a nice dense housing tower, so they don't get built. it's that simple. burning down a building doesn't change the drivers of zoning
ARM’s Cortex A53: Tiny but Important
A lot of the people on the left of the curve are likely doing different shades of manual work. This is often work that automation is struggling to replicate --think grasping and packing in a warehouse, or tidying up a messy shelf of goods-- and the GPTs won't change this.

I'd argue it's maybe the middle and even the right of the curve that's threatened. Is your job writing marketing copy, or communications materials or press releases, or relatively simple moulding and counting of data, or HR administration (or many other examples)? GPT's coming for your job in a short space of time.

(Which brings us to mft's second rule: if your job is threatened by the current generation of GPTs, it should probably have been largely automated by simpler means --or just eliminated-- already.)
Hard Mode Rust: Writing Rust without any dynamic memory allocation
crablang was started as sort-of satire...if Rust folks aren't careful it might just take off
Same. Definitely worth watching.

You have to allow yourself to be immersed in it. It's a slower pace than commercial film makers adopt, but the atmosphere builds.
The biggest step is being able to separate guilt from responsibility.

Yes, i felt bad, yes it was caused by your actions and you're responsible if it happens again.
But: You didn't know and didn't intent to hurt me, so you're not a bad person.
Different terms for the same concepts. You could call it high- and low-level requirements, customer/supplier requirements or requirements and specification. While the form is important, a common understanding is core to be able to work together.
That's not my (UK) experience.

I can get a telephone consultation with a GP within 24 hours; if I need to see my own designated GP, I can get a face appointment within a week, usually. If consultants are appropriate, I'm referred to a consultant.

There are some specialisms where it's hard to get a referral; podiatry is an example. As far as I can tell, NHS podiatry is mainly reserved for people with diabetes. I had to hire a private podiatrist, £50 per session, 6 sessions. I gather there are long queues for mental treatment (although GPs enthusiatically diagnose depression, and hand out antidepressants like jellybeans).

I don't like taking antibiotics; I don't want to nuke my gut biome, if I can avoid it. I can't remember the last time I was prescribed antibiotics prophylactically.
MMT as an academic concept is fascinating. MMT as a policy tool is useless; if we could predict when runaway inflation will arise we’d have a perfect solution to central banking.
As I said, application programmers expect and accept that their UDP packets might be lost or duplicated. This is sort of part of the contract. Even datagram integrity is in theory not guaranteed, as the checksum field of UDP is optional.

Sometimes people don't see a point at first in UDP because you eventually have to implement sequence numbers, CRCs, time-outs, retries, etc. that are similar to what TCP does. One can finds the reasons why one wants to do this anyway in [1]. In a nutshell, reliability is often insured by the application layer anyway so you don't need the transport protocol to do extra stuff you have no control over and might even get in the way (see the numerous esoteric ioctl and sysctl settings under Linux).

It is an obvious choice because, as I said again, a router dropping a packet does not necessary triggers a resend, e.g. RTP or syslog (over UDP). In TCP, this is guaranteed. If you are overloaded, you'd rather take the action you can get away with than probably just buy time.

[1] https://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/endtoend/endtoe...
In academia, yes. To some people these details are important and matter. They have professional and sometimes even personal impacts.
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>Let's keep this nonsense out of tech guys

That ship has sailed loooong time ago.