skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The conclusion holds since there are a great many homes in CA alone that cannot be insured against fire. They were built before that was an option, or were otherwise grandfathered in after fire codes were established. Same with floods and other threats
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Faggin

He's one of the physicists arguing for that, but I still have to read his book to see if I agree or not because right now I'm open to the possibility of having a machine that is intelligent. I'm just saying that no one can be sure of their own position because we lack proof on both sides of the question.

Regarding the rapidity of development of quantum computers, that's debated as well. See e.g. https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2022/11/quantum-winter-is-...
Personally I think living in a country that has been in a state of war for last 70 years makes you reassess your morality.

I'm not making a moral judgement on this, I'm just saying I understand why there are a lot of companies that create weapons in a country at war for most of its existence.

For someone in such position deciding "do I want to work on things that rip people to shreds, or would I rather work on surveillance software?" The surveillance software choice can be considered a lesser evil and potentially something that can save lives etc.
They’re hard to find because you’re comparing arguments for god to arguments against god.

They’re both more or less evidence free so the better argument is the one that is more intellectually satisfying, which the positive case always is.
This is US-only though, in most the EU, it's explicitly allowed
Languages that don’t have a built in police squad don’t have issues like this. The ‘community’ around Rust is its biggest handicap right now.
The right analogy would be "elbigbad's Theory of Relativity of the Web", wouldn't it? Not quite so bad.
Large scale meta studies dont provide any form of substantial evidence, they point to vague correlations, from which you can look for causation.

Feel free to do salutation to the false god of large scale metastudies :).

Here you already know causation. Early diagnosis is proven of great benefit for many diseases. It's more effective to specially study different groups of people and see what does and doesn't work.

Btw here breast cancer is biannual indeed, annual if you had it. Might differ per country.
I agree but would also note that your proof isn’t very fullproof. You can pull 4 students and send them to a tutor under any condition, and those students will come out ahead. You prove only that a teacher with a 4 person classroom of students of concerned parent-types tends to outperform the baseline, a pandemic remote learning environment with a mix of students and public school salaried teacher.
“You guys” is the plural form of “you” for the majority of American English-speakers in colloquial contexts.
Not having the solution ready doesn't mean it wouldn't exist at all.

Humans are very diverse in their abilities and society needs to account for that. Division of labour is key here.

Not everybody needs to decide on or be informed about everything. What is necessary is transparency, accountability and the resulting trust in those responsible.

Our societies are so messed up in that regard, we don't even consider that being possible anymore. But it is.
> Valve's ToS likely allows them to take down anything for any reason they want.

This is all you need to read. If Valve doesn’t want the headache of poking the bear that is Nintendo, they just don’t poke the bear.

For anybody that’s shocked and upset by this, well welcome to the world.
The figures are inflated because they focus on outliers. The vast majority of employers in EU are plain boring companies, telekom, industrial, automotive, and products that have a market but not that of Google, Facebook, Amazon. There's little difference between the salary of a software developer and that of a teacher or police officer, developers in EU here are less of a privileged caste isolated in their hundreds of thousands of dollars per year bubble.

I myself live in Eastern Europe and make €60,000 per year gross, which is about the median pay for a developer in Western Europe. Tax rate is 35% so I'm left with =~ €40,000 net. Apart from real estate, prices are on par with Western Europe, meaning that food, energy, transportation cost about the same. I could make more but that would erode my competitive advantage, the employer needs to feel they're getting a good deal, so I also don't need to go above and beyond to prove myself, just do my job. With work from home there are also other possibilities which I won't discuss here, only that they landed me another €30,000 net last year, there's a saying in my native language which goes about "the gentle lamb sucks on two sheep" ;)

What makes the difference is real estate, my 65 square meters apartment + garage sells for about €100,000 and I'm renting another one as my home office for €300 per month (not including expenses, which add up to another €200 in the winter). My cousin who lives in Paris owns a 30 square meters apartment evaluated at €300,000+ and was asked a million euro for an 80 square meters one. Ridiculous if you ask me, he doesn't make vastly more than I do, in order to be able to afford the larger one.
In law it's only criminal damage...
I knew the people who come up with a compiler and syntax which just screams drama would also love drama in their real lives. That's why I stick with Go. No drama syntax, no drama conferences.
You would. Of course. But not necessarily because of western rule causing famine, perhaps because of improved record keeping. Just looking at the spans in GP comment, it seems the gaps are getting shorter.
Is it that clear cut? It sounds to me like the interoperability clause would apply:

> (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (a)(2) and (b), a person may develop and employ technological means to circumvent a technological measure, or to circumvent protection afforded by a technological measure, in order to enable the identification and analysis under paragraph (1), or for the purpose of enabling interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs, if such means are necessary to achieve such interoperability, to the extent that doing so does not constitute infringement under this title.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201

Isn't this exactly what Dolphin is doing? Isn't Dolphin an independently created computer program providing PC interoperability with Switch games?
Next you will go and justify English colonization by stating that the railways British built for transporting goods for their industrial empire actually helped Indians access more grains than they would otherwise get.

In Winston Churchill's case there is a lot of evidence which suggests that due to WW2 priorities he let a few million people in India starve. In any case he did not have any love for Indians and considered them to be inferior race anyways.

Just because famines have happened in India before, no way does that mean that the damage due to certain famines in British empire could've been reduced especially given that India was the crown jewel in British empire providing so many inputs to the British industrial empire.
I may be wrong but pretty sure I ran into some information that our current lithium battery tech can last 50+ years if you cycle it from 70-40% SOC and under low load / charging conditions.

Will this run your 12,000 btu air conditioner? yes but that's a lot of batteries ($50k is my guess for my climate).

Tech ingredients on youtube has some fun experiments heating / cooling if you're looking for inspiration.
No famines in India that resulted in mass deaths after 1947. If the difference was just governance, Indians vs. British, then the fault lies with the British. The Indian governments inherited British institutions in India but Indian leaders lacked administrative experience. They also did not have the resources of the British empire and had to face the mass horrors and disruption of partition.

All this lays the culpability at the door of the British for the Bengal famnine.
Linux was started by one man, and the qualification as “framework” is immaterial to your point.
> I don't think Banksy meant for people to make such a big deal over his graffiti, let alone force random people to pay thru the nose for its preservation.

His painting shredder piece suggests that he's specifically making the point that his art is temporary and that ties in with his general graffiti style. If he wanted it to be easy for people to buy and sell his art, he'd do it on something a bit more portable than the side of a house. A lot of his art around Bristol (where I live and Banksy's home town) is very much designed for the public to enjoy rather than to be traded.
Life expectancy at birth and life expectancy at age n are two different numbers.
People hunger for simple good-guy/bad-guy narratives to help make sense of a complex world, and there are many charlatans eager to serve up a big ol’ helping of simplicity that just happens to suit their interests.
Algorithms: Parallel and Sequential
What are your favorite Weinberg books?

I've read Are Your Lights On (liked it a lot) and Secrets Of Consulting (just ok).

Checking out Exploring Requirements now.

Is Exploring Reqs 2 as much worth reading as Exploring Reqs 1, and any other must reads?
>An exploration of the problems and possible futures of flooding the web with generative AI content
Reminds me of "Flowers for Charlie" which is a parody of "Flowers for Algernon" (Sunny episode)
That's a good point, we probably only know most of the really bad ones or historically relevant ones. Just like volcano eruptions.
I have never heard of this!! Please share some resources that you think are unbiased, would love to learn more.
I still don't want to do them the favor of normalizing such dramatic language by accepting it. Just call it "unprofessional" if you truly feel that it was.
One thing I noticed while trying out the demo is that there is no option to view and download the invoices.

I think that should be what's implemented next.

I like it though, it's very simple and practical, something many small/medium sized businesses want.

Good luck with it!
I used to care now I couldn't care less. American tech companies spy on people and target them constantly, companies that pray on teenagers attention and now $MS/ClosedAI have taken so much IP, used it to train "models" that are closed source and then sell the data for a profit without attribution ? We're under surveillance, just surveillance capitalism. Ask Snowden and Assange.

Honestly, I don't care if China took some inspiration and built a plane, stealing IP is a first class business in 2023 in the west too.

If we want China to stop playing shit games, we shouldn't play shit games either. We should lead by example and build trust within our own populace, then talk about what China can and can't do.

So yeah, used to care, couldn't give a shit anymore. I'm personally tired of being whacked over the head by the Chinese and Russian boogeymen it's getting tiring. Until I see some proper improvements here from a policy perspective I'll say it again...

Good luck to them for having their own airliners.
I was just thinking about this yesterday, when considering setting up Syncthing or just using Warpinator. There's a small number of people I email regularly, and at least one of them might be interested in a version controlled text file or some other form of letter-writing that doesn't involve email and which is faster than the USPS (handwritten letters still have their place, though).
and gene therapy
I am old. The problem is people shouldn't be making policy decisions that they don't have long enough to live in order to see the ramifications of those decisions play out. Skin in the game vs one foot in the grave.

This would be completely straightforward in a rational society. Not to mention, it is pretty weird for an 80 year old to still be wanting to hold on to power.

The ageism knock is total bullshit but I am sure you know that.
one might even say that all form is interpretation. Or that all facts are assertions.
Serious and trustworthy research is done on peer reviewed journals, not websites where everyone can post whatever he/she wants
I don't get it at all. Why would this would be inappropriate to cover in a keynote. Whether or not it ends up in the language, it's interesting material. It seems like it may be a case of people taking themselves too seriously; "we can't have that topic in our precious keynote!". Nobody cares!
Not sure how much the empathy levels of someone -- not an objective metric -- should be used when making professional calls about speakers in a foundation but you do you.

The underlying problem seems to be: sidestepping democratic processes. IMO that is what should be addressed first and foremost.
I’m beginning to wonder whether conferences themselves are worth it in general. There’s so much content on YouTube that if your objective is learning new things, hitting that up or reading a book may be simpler (and much less expensive).
This is an area where RISC-V could be come a major competitor, e.g. SiFive has a

https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/sifive-aims-for-arm-with-hig...

> "The Performance P670 and P470 RISC-V cores are designed to take on ARM’s Cortex A53 and A55 cores, Drew Barbier, senior director of product management at SiFive tells eeNews Europe."

A compare-and-contrast article would make for good reading.
That was my worry as well, especially with how misrepresented the cited evidence was.

I’m very supportive of the intellectually curious looking at evidence for themselves, but directly evaluating primary medical research is challenging even for a trained academic physician. Like in all fields, a lot of the papers published (even in reputable journals like NEJM and JAMA) are biased/flawed.

As one example, there was a landmark trial 40 years ago that claimed screening mammography doesn’t improve outcomes which was discordant with other smaller trials and mostly ignored by the medical community. That study was recently exposed as borderline fraudulent[0][1]. Had we stopped screening undoubtedly many women would have died of breast cancer. Those of us involved in colorectal cancer screening/diagnosis are well aware of the Nordic trial, but it is not practice changing.

For the curious HN reader wondering why we do some of the things we do in medicine, my strong recommendation is to refer to the USPSTF or Google “society guideline on [disease/intervention]” where you will always find an excellent summary of the evidence, strength of recommendation, rationale and limitations written by domain experts in that specific area rather than risk misinterpreting a single study, it’s how physicians practice too.

[0] https://academic.oup.com/jbi/article/4/2/108/6555324?login=f...

[1] https://academic.oup.com/jbi/article/4/2/135/6555326?login=f...
Minimum 5 years seems like an okay one, second half is a bit weird… Capped at 5%, and mandatory to offer? Seems like it could influence prices of phones.

Mandating fixes for CVEs in 90 days sounds nice on paper… Not sure about the implications of that
Yeah, figured that out in thanks to another thread on here. I got confused as all the examples were primarily sql ones.
Wow this is a crazy coincidence. I was a brand new software engineer that actually worked on the original implementation of SEL’s SDN software. Was my first real job out of college! My name might actually be on a patent somewhere even though I was just a code monkey at the time…

I wonder how much it has changed since then. My former boss is still working on that project AFAIK, I should reach out to him…
Great point. I feel like statistics could have been so much more fun in school had I really embraced the joy of mystery solving.
According to wikipedia

> So far, few historians have researched the famine, making it an understudied subject of modern history.

But otherwise there seems to be plenty of information there.

It also mentions:

> In recent years, the famine has been subject to conspiracy theories, polarization and historical revisionism in Iran. The official website of Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, published an article in 2015 asserting the view that the famine was a deliberate act of genocide committed by the British, whose documents have been intentionally wiped out in a cover-up attempt.

So it's going to be full of online vitriol by competing nationalists, just like the Bengal one generates every time I've seen it brought up.
Mostly because of Reflection. The "black dude", who was already featured a bunch of times on HN and works on C/C++ (we'll have #embed thanks to him) was invited as keynote speaker (start of the day).

Now, since he was working on his own rust compile time reflection framework/proposal/vision, he decided to talk about that. Made it clear immediately to anyone he interacted with, and made clear that the whole idea was his own and doesn't reflect any opinion of the language team/etc.

Someone probably felt like making this a keynote talk would give the impression that his compile time reflection was actually going to be implemented. So after a week or so someone awkwardly decided the talk wasn't going to be a keynote, just a regular talk. After this, JeanHeid simply refused to attend RustConf at all: no one was accountable, no one really told JeanHeid they had a problem with his talk up until later, it wasn't clear if the decision came from RustConf organizers or Rust foundation, blah blah.

On the racism part, I can't say it's entirely irrelevant. You only see white rich dudes complaining about "all the woke stuff and the inclusivity". The fact that "no rustconf keynote speaker has ever been black" isn't really shocking to me, but simply because I don't see "being a keynote speaker" as something relevant. But when you could've been the "first black keynote speaker at rustconf" and then suddenly someone changes his mind about it, it's probably going to ring some bells if you've faced systematic discrimination for your whole life.
Keep in mind that the author is on the spectrum, and the way they process emotions might not be the way you process emotions. Different cultures, different thought processes, different feelings.

I'd err on the side of believing people, unless and until they prove themselves to be insincere. Which is very much not the author's reputation, as far as I know.

People can be melodramatic sincerely. There's no reason to look for cynicism here.
It was free to use.
The First 'Apple Silicon' – The Aquarius Processor Project
Found it in 3 seconds flat. RTFA and Carry On:

https://onezero.medium.com/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-int...
I'm tempted to add a CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md to my main project repo with the following:

Be direct. No bullshit. Don't worry about offending anyone, including the project leader; just say what needs to be said about the technical merits of whatever is being discussed. We're all here to [insert project goal]; let's do so with a minimum of drama.

But it's probably better to continue to not have a CoC, and just quietly lead by example instead.
What the GP said is not justifying their actions but rather outlining what their interests are. It is a morally neutral statement. Explanation is not justification.
That's ridiculous. I hope the community fixes that.
Sorry, flying cars does not give anything of value compared to helicopter. You will still need a pilot license. You still need to communicate with traffic control. They still be noisy as helicopter is. And on top of that, any minor fender bender on a parking lot will automatically revoke their flight-worthy status.
All this is painfully predictable if you remotely pay attention to their initial public facing culture, statements, etc lol.
Garbage take. The terminal is quite good to work with when you are dependent on a screen reader, because its is already a serial text stream that can be converted into speech quite easily. This is a contrast to regular GUI which needs to be serialized first.

And yes, you need to patch your screenreader to ignore CSI color sequences because many programs are not well-behaving and outputting them even when terminfo doesn't specify them as supported.

And yes, you cannot use all TUI programs (like vi for example), but you can reliably disable these programs by using a terminfo with the hardcopy flag set.
I believe businesses like Microsoft, AWS, etc. all make their enterprise stuff super complicated as an excuse to sell support contracts. I remember trying to set up Windows Deployment Server, and the whole thing was very unreasonably complicated. I got it working, but I can see why businesses would pay for support contracts just so they have someone to call to walk them through all the esoteric steps, menus, options spread across the whole OS. The other side of it is, if you make your cloud offering super complex then you're pretty much locked into that platform because of sunk cost. Switching from Azure to AWS or whatever would be a huge undertaking.

That's really what frustrates me the most about modern technology. It's like tech and software developers love to rube-goldberg things, and everything is vastly more complicated than it needs to be. The thing is, tech people seem to like complexity for the sake of complexity. It gives them a fun [read: masochistic] puzzle to work on and makes them feel smart.
> the desire for MORE

Sometimes you need to know when to stop.
I love chocolate and am looking for ways to eat less, reserving it as a rare, special treat rather than a ~daily one.
Recognizing the impact of the luxuries I enjoy helps me consume less. Pausing to consider at a time when I might be eating mindlessly is a big part of this, though- that continues to be a challenge.
The odd appeal of absurdly long YouTube videos
I definitely think automatic copyright should be very short (5-10 years), and then the holder can extend it for 5 years at a time, at a (slow initially) exponentially increasing cost based on total duration (up to a maximum of, say, 60 years).

That way, defunct titles fall out of copyright protection automatically, unless someone is there to extend them, and pay the costs associated.
Someday somebody will say that about someone else's DNA.
Are you really comparing this little spat to marital infidelity?

This further emphasizes OP's point—nothing the Rust team can do to you should approach the emotional impact of marital betrayal.
That's pretty much how CGA emulation worked on Herc. Neat hack!
The context here is that the BBC recently produced a documentary about Modi that has been controversial in India. Hence the attack on Churchill and the explicit mention of the BBC.
Have you had experience with the system?
Debt ceiling deal: What’s in, what’s out of the agreement to avert US default
PAM provides authentication, authorization, session management and password changing.
They are called requirement engineers :).

Spot on regards the what and the how. Additionally to specify the what, i always document the rationale WHY. We can see this in sentence patterns for specifying use cases, epics, etc.
Why with a feral human ? What's wrong with politicians ? They apdo only care about their income source.
Personally I didn't wanted to invite to more guesses, however if this was because of any of those reasons, it does not look to me there was anyone in a hurry:

txti @txties 15. Juni 2020: "I realize txti is broken at the moment, and I'm going to try to fix it. Truth is, I haven't really been doing web development for a few years and projects like txti have unfortunately taken a back seat to life."
I'm not from anywhere close to the US cultural sphere.

This aspect is one of the reasons I'm very uncomfortable with all the classification of people into races. There's always a hierarchy implied, even inside the white category, a ranking of more or less white, questionably or unquestionably white etc. It's not the world I want, I don't want to internalize these (unspoken) classifications of people.
This seems like the best play since it is so locally relevant.