skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A little too much hand waving here for my taste. The ambitions set out by the author are huge and underpinning the entire thing is an individuals reading of some (Western) history books. Then there are a lot of personal inventions like ‘reach’ to describe corporate power. Surely there are well established academic concepts for this.
Given the amount of testing centers (probably in the numbers of thousands?), in practice that would be hard to guarantee the effectiveness. Sprinkle some potential failure rate, corruption and etc. I can see why people would support the blackout.
Thanks for your sponsorship. It really does matter, and I hope you get more than your money's worth!
You bribe them to not notice the phone you are using to help you answer exam questions. Without internet access that's more difficult.
If not for the drug, you cannot be addicted to the drug. QED drugs “cause” addiction.
If I might ask, how many times did you try before your mind was changed?
Do you have an example of the misinformation?
Just deleted the app. Not returning until Reddit undo this stupid decision.
He seems to have worked on projects that are questionable in importance / authenticity but likely to have made profits. Claiming that the video filmed in EU was from an "official EU conference" would be uniformed or mispresenting him, indeed. But I think it's worth watching; Phizer's patent application and other claims he made are interesting and haven't been repeated elsewhere (from my perspective).
free energy and the hostility of the environment are decoupled eg deep sea vents
Google Translate link: https://www-tsa--algerie-com.translate.goog/linternet-fortem...
I came off like an annoying neckbeard. I guess that’s expected of me and my type, but sorry for that.

You hit a nerve because software development is also art and highly creative. I have given a significant part of my life - basically my youth - to it and I feel “creatives” think they are somehow special and that their work is fundamentally different and I don’t think it is.

It’s just that we have been cornered earlier than you guys. My skills are now only profitable as boring building blocks in corporate settings because nobody else will pay for proper work. Everybody expects easy access for free instantly to whatever digital service they can get their grubby hands on. If I talk about “craftsmanship” I get laughed out the room. Nobody gives a shit.

Now I’m like, yeah guys, that’s how it feels to have your skills commoditized. Deal with it. That’s kind of childish though.
The main ingredient towards any body transformation, whether it's losing, maintaining, or putting on weight, is to eat the correct amount, yes.

Exercising, and eating adult meals, can help, but they're way lower on the list than simply eating the correct amount.

But you know this. I know that you know this. You just want some sort of collectivist answer that doesn't exist.

It's harder to e.g. make eggs for breakfast, or cook a roast dinner, than it is to just go and have a donut from the drive through.

There is obviously no way to "solve" that on a population level. You may as well ask "how do we get people to stop using social media and read books". They have to do it themselves. Many people will say they want to, but they really don't. Many just don't care at all.

Case in point, here I am on HN rather than doing something more healthy. These are my revealed preferences. Who cares?
> Reddit took $1.3 billion in investor money. What makes you say they're not having their chain yanked?

Took. Past tense. Limited need to take more. Look at Reddit's Board: it's ten people, only one of whom (Mike Seibel) is a VC.
Yeah, sounds like pretense to me
Can't GPU encoders be used for it? If they work for AV1 they should work for AVIF too.

And software encoders are improving as well.
WOW.

When I think of what I used when I started (Flight Simulator 4).
part of the problem is that it has to go to satellites since the Pacific exists. the other thing is that they aren't made to survive adversarial attacks by pilots. if the pilot wants to bring a plane down, they will, and a better blackbox won't tell you anything other than that you shouldn't have let them in the cockpit.
The Sinclair Method does have impressive results, and I've have some success with it in the past.

For alcoholics at a certain level (thinking of myself here – yes, anecdotal), there is the necessary accountability to take the naltrexone tablet and "deprive" one of the euphoria, which can be difficult to maintain over a long period of time.

With Vivitrol (an injectable form of Naltrexone that lasts ~1 month per injection), it is not difficult to simply "drink through it". Results in an absolute horrible hangover – sure – but that's not necessarily enough to stop the motivated alcoholic.

Overall though, MAT is a valuable tool in the toolbox.
> It's happening in lots of countries in the region.

Do you think that Iran and Algeria are in the "same region"? What do you call that region?
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/07/tech/twitter-earnings-q4/...

Thing is, Twitter was profitable in 2019. Then the venture capitalists decided "Now is the time to increase your workforce by a factor of two. You need to start losing money again or you aren't trying hard enough!"
A lot of questions in there! Taking these in order:

1. We aren't making standalone servers: the Oxide compute sled comes in the Oxide rack. So are not (and do not intend to be) a drop in replacement for extant rack mounted servers.

2. We have taken a fundamentally different approach to firmware, with a true root of trust that can attest to the service processor -- which can turn attest to the system software. This prompts a lot of questions (e.g., who attests to the root of trust?), and there is a LOT to say about this; look for us to talk a lot more about this

3. In stark contrast (sadly) to nearly everyone else in the server space, the firmware we are developing is entirely open source. More details on that can be found in Cliff Biffle's 2021 OSFC talk and the Hubris and Humility repos.[0][1][2]

4. Definitely not vaporware! We are in the process of shipping to our first customers; you can follow our progress in our Oxide and Friends podcast.[3]

[0] https://www.osfc.io/2021/talks/on-hubris-and-humility-develo...

[1] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/hubris

[2] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/humility

[3] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/
It’s never correct that a single party is to blame in such things
> ... PNG are good enough.

For a start it's 2023 and all browsers do support lossless webp [1].

Lossless webp (webp can be both lossy or lossless) is not only typically smaller than most optimized PNG files but also compresses faster than the optimized PNG encoders.

So, basically, the main reason to use PNG in 2023 for anything Web related is if you like wasting bandwith. For 99.95% of the PNG files (something huge like that) are smaller when encoded with lossless webp.

Heck, even my Emacs supports webp images.

Then other formats are already knocking on the door and promise even better compression than webp.

https://caniuse.com/webp
let's call it a national resilience test
If you're looking for a gaming laptop, then I agree that Apple doesn't have good solutions in that space. That's primarily because there's not much in the way of good games that run on macOS. Hopefully, that will change with the new game porting kit that Apple has announced, but there's no way to tell right now.

But while 13 hours of battery runtime is quite good by Intel/Windows standards, it's still not the 18 hours you can get with the MacBook Air 15".

It's very clear that Apple has decided to optimize for certain things in their designs, and battery lifetime is one of them. They'll take a slight hit on CPU performance to get that. And most people won't notice the minor loss in CPU performance, but they will notice the significant increase in battery runtime.
You have a point when you notice that I lazily used “socialism”, I did mean the bolsheviks and the communist revolutionaries.

I think the rest wouldn’t change much: the things you mention don’t have much to do with having moral scruples against Stalin’s mass murders. It seems to me that the main reason was still “we don’t do business with bolsheviks”. Of course the main reason is not the only one, and had the other powers realized who was leading Germany they maybe would have been more open to Stalin’s requests…
I mean, they also shut down internet access for other random other reasons. I don't think they need these exam events in order to test that functionality.
For me, one of chatGPT's most frequent uses is to convert all of these one-liner statements into logical multi-line code that my feeble brain can process.
Lol, your definition of “valid syntax” is wayyy different from mine. I wouldn’t ever use crap like that, it’s too unreadable to be “valid syntax” even if the interpreter can handle it. Can we all collectively agree to include our own brains in the definition of “valid code?”
Mark Zuckerberg described Twitter as "A clown car that fell into a gold mine."
You can pick and choose which facts to present or misrepresent which/what is important but... that's not going on here. JXL is actually just better by very many metrics. It's only lacking in adoption. There's not something that jpeg-xl.info is ignoring or glossing over. This is just lazy cynicism.
The Vision Pro’s biggest advantage isn’t Apple’s hardware
When has Algeria not been a conquered state? Even before the Islamic conquest it was a plaything of various powers, and after the conquest it became an endless warring series of dynasties and caliphates.
I guess this is an English-language version of the message on that page: https://english.nv.ua/nation/ministry-of-defense-releases-in...
They are about as far apart as NY and CA and yet we group those into one region so it’s not that strange.
Did kotlin ever add an equivalent of parallel streams?
As I understand it, you enter a fact into the data structure (A blocks B). Now every time you query: is “A blocks B” in the data structure, it will always return True. But also very rarely it will return True for “A blocks C” or anything else that isn’t true. It would make it harder to dump the full list, but it doesn’t solve the case of “does this user block me?” Because you can still easily query that.
Does any recent media actually glorify the drugs that are causing the worst problems right now? I watch a lot of TV but have less exposure to popular music so I'm genuinely unsure.

There's plenty of alcohol, weed, cocaine, and hallucinogens, I'll give you that, but they're not gateways to opioid addiction. Breaking Bad glorifying the manufacture and sale of meth is the only except I can think of - Oxy, fentanyl, and p2p meth aren't exactly the drugs musicians and Hollywood turn to as a lyrical/plot device.

There's also a fine line between glorifying and entertaining. I struggle to find any such glorification in shows like Snowfall, for example, which mostly shows the very negative impacts of crack cocaine in cities. There's only a single character in the entire run that manages to overcome the drug and the main character is a tragic anti-hero at best.

Any time heroin or another opioid comes up in pop culture it's almost always in the context of horrifying drug dens.
Not sure where this falls on the timeline, but their well-trodden “wizard” UI pattern that uses a series of modal prompt dialogs to walk you through a process also used to be accompanied by a literal cartoon wizard.
Man if y’all think this is bad try tom’s hardware. It usually crashes chrome on iOS for me after reloading on its own
It must be much easier to plan around it than cast any doubt over the integrity of extremely high stakes exam.

So the situation in developing countries tends to be much different from the west: The difference between going to a prestigious school and any other school or no school at all can be like the difference between being a caveman and being Elon Musk.

The successful students get on a track which gives them a life similar to the middle class one in the West, which is is so much different and often better than the life the rest of the population lives.

The other route to the western middle class are the immigrant boats, but it's much better and safer to get into a good school.
This is a very interesting perspective, thanks for sharing
I saw r/kpop in the list. You better not anger the most powerful collective in the internet.
Good thing that mediocre / barely programmers and script kiddies far outnumber experience and skilled ones. Copilot has the potential to go mass market.
How massive of an undertaking is this going to be? There is a mention they think they could get it done in 1-2 releases. https://pgpedia.info/postgresql-versions/index.html they seem to release once a year from what I can deduct. 1-2 years, not bad. I wonder how many people would work on this (full time/part time) and how many resource hours would go into this.

I wonder which layer would benefit the most.

You connect as pg_client to pg_server, you make a request (SQL query). It has to get tokenized/query planned, then probably some detection layer that already exists that says "do this all in a single thread or spread it across multiple". How does a single threaded process that spawns multiple threads -> a multi-threaded process benefit in these situations given the overhead of having to sync/message in between threads messages back and forth?
If you want to see a sincere take on it, read the writings of Thich Nhat Hanh.

https://www.lionsroar.com/food-for-thought/#:~:text=I%20hear...

I still tend to disagree because I have a hard time finding balance and not going too far in restricting the media I consume, but it's a nice vision.

A lot of the religious right in the US, especially the part that is led by televangelists like the late Pat Robertson, just wants to suppress it out of ignorance and they have no plan except to throw more and more people in jail, creating more X to prison pipelines.
Uh doesn't Reddit owe its community 10% per sama's Series B article https://blog.samaltman.com/reddit ?
"So, the Series B Investors are giving 10% of our shares in this round to the people in the reddit community, and I hope we increase community ownership over time."
Whatever happened to this? Will we end up getting it before or after sama gives us UBI, open AI, and fusion completely altruistically?
There are a growing number of people who think that drug dealers should be charged with murder in these circumstances.

It’s difficult to argue with the logic. The worse the problem gets, the more it seems like correct path.
>I refuse to believe Java has gone through 20 major revisions since 1.0

What's your take on Chrome and Firefox?
Because it goes against their politics. But as the uk is learning, immigrants (legal or otherwise) perform jobs that the natives show no interest in doing for themselves. Restrict them, and they don’t occur so things rot in the fields or remain dirty or …
I want a representative market basket of foods that poor people buy.
If you wonder what is a "silent Budanov" (as the site is in Ukrainian) it's a well known general who released a 33 seconds video where he does not speak at all.

He is the chief of the Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine .

https://news.yahoo.com/ministry-defense-releases-intriguing-...
It really shouldn't be phrased as an absolute. But read charitably, when you have low N combined with rates that low, to expect that you wouldn't see noticeable illness in a small group of young, healthy people.
Decriminalization is the thing you're looking for -- making people free to sell whatever drugs they want, rather than something like legalizing, which keeps the black markets intact
At "just a couple hundred thousand per year" and a $5/month subscription for "Apollo Ultra Monthly"... ( https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apollo-for-reddit/id979274575 ). Apple's cut of that is 30% for the first year and 15% for all following years.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_ca...

> Even if I only kept subscription users, the average Apollo user uses 344 requests per day, which would cost $2.50 per month, which is over double what the subscription currently costs, so I'd be in the red every month.

That's half of what the subscription costs... though he could update the subscription.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213252

> Developers who offer subscriptions can increase the price of a subscription without interrupting service only under certain specific conditions. If the increase does not exceed approximately USD $5 and 50% of the subscription price, or USD $50 and 50% for annual subscriptions, and where permitted by law, developers may change the price without interrupting service. Developers may do this no more than once per year.

> If the subscription price increase is above the thresholds, exceeds the annual limit, or occurs within territories where the law requires it, you must opt in before the price increase is applied. If you don't opt in to the new price, the subscription will not renew at the next billing period. You can subscribe again within the app or on the Manage Subscriptions page.

He could have limited free use and turned off push notifications or drastically cut down on the polling rate ( https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/9l3ema/apollo_13... "The server polls Reddit approximately every 6 seconds, so that's 10 requests per minute per user, or 600 requests per hour per user") and increased the price.

The full passage is:

> For some quick math, Apollo has well over 100K active users. The server polls Reddit approximately every 6 seconds, so that's 10 requests per minute per user, or 600 requests per hour per user (assuming they only have one account and one device). At 100,000+ users, that's in the realm of 60 million requests per hour that my server would have to handle, not to mention parsing the results, coordinating tokens, etc. I really can't do that for nothing, so the plan was to offer push notifications with a small fee associated to cover these ongoing server costs.

Note that the claim of the average user 344 requests per day and the polling rate of 600 requests per hour per user do not seem to be in agreement and may significantly contribute to the API pricing quote.
We Should Stop Using JavaScript – Douglas Crockford (Inventor of JSON)
As someone who is only tangentially familiar with jvm functional languages and hasn't written java in years, "symbol soup" almost certainly has a lot of the blame.

Java is simple. There were few operators, and really only one way to call a function. All function calls require parentheses. Conventions are available for pretty much any problem you can think of.

In functional land, you don't need to bother with calling a function a factory, or adapter, or whatever overwrought GoF pattern was maladapted. Despite being verbose and convoluted, Java was all basically the same things- classes and methods and a few annotations, and easy to Google concepts.

Enter symbol soup. Now, your conventions aren't named, you have to recognize them from experience. That creates writer's anxiety- even if I understand what I am reading, if I need to start from scratch I don't know that I'm organizing things right. There are multiple symbols that apply, combine or call functions, googling symbols is hard, asking questions is hard in meat space without a screen to show the unfamiliar syntax, and that's all table stakes before you get into understanding performance implications, code organization, maintainability, etc.

If I, hypothetical developer, don't know these things and don't have someone to hold my hand, but I DO know java, what's the point of learning the functional language?

This is the same problem F# had. Over time, C# kept getting all the good bits from F# without the baggage. Java has taken the longer road to get there, but today, if I were to pick one, the value proposition of the functional language appears to be on a trajectory of disappearing.
Necessary but not sufficient.

If not for alcohol, there would be no alcoholics but the vast majority of drinkers are not alcoholics.

Drug + ?? ==> Addiction
Tell me you've never moderated a sizeable online community without telling me you've never moderated a sizeable online community.
Perhaps these Tesla APs have achieved sentience. Whether these are murders or suicides, idk.
The scale is an artifact of the ease of publication today. I agree that the speech allowed today is greater than ever before. Your point stands.

The US First Amendment is indeed unique, but it came from a tradition[1][2]. And it's not so long ago that US citizens were prosecuted for sedition. And this is not totally unique to the US or Britain[3][4].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato%27s_Letters

[2] - https://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/england.asp

> That it is the right of the subjects to petition the king, and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal;

> That the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament;

[3] - https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/critics-of-empire-978085771177...

[4] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Reform_Association

> In the mid-1890s Edmund Dene Morel was working for Elder Dempster as a shipping clerk based in Antwerp, when he noticed discrepancies between public and private accounts given for the import and export figures relating to shipping from the Congo.[5] Morel deduced from the steady export of firearms and cartridge, against the disproportionate mass imports in rubber, ivory and other lucrative commodities, that no commercial transaction was taking place.[6] He concluded that the use of force was the only explanation: the consistency of the exchange could only be supported by a state-led system of mass exploitation.[7] Resigning from his role in 1901, Morel turned to journalism to investigate and raise awareness about the activities of the Congo Free State authorities, establishing his own journal in early 1903 – the West African Mail.[8]
Capriciousness of power
The moat is that it has users, not that it’s impossible to clone.

Though developers vastly underestimate the difficulty in cloning something as well. As someone who thought it would be trivial to clone phpbb, it’s a lot of work to reach just feature parity. Your clone isn’t even going to have users to motivate you beyond the first 0.1% of the work.
fn two_phase(mut x: Vec<usize>) {
let arg0 = &mut x;
let arg1 = Vec::len(&x);
Vec::push(arg0, arg1);
}

> This code clearly violates the regular borrow checking rules since x is mutably borrowed to arg0 when we call x.len()! And yet, the compiler will accept this code

Does anybody else wish the compiler wouldn't and would be even more verbose? I know one of the biggest learning curves (personally) for Rust is the borrow checker complaining hardcore and "getting in your way" preventing you from basically doing anything you're used to (passing around pointers in C or objects in JavaScript (even though you should be following immutable practices and not doing object mutation... most of the time))

I'm sure there's probably been discussions on how to make the borrow checker less "mean/rigid/obtuse" but silently passing something as "non mut" and it actually does "mut" stuff, I wouldn't have guessed Rust allowed that.

Edit: gah, I did not realize the function signature is (mut x), I thought it was just (x) and the mut was implied which is what I was trying to call out, apologies.
It’s obvious that we cannot know for sure since we have not found the wreckage, but no other theory I’m aware of can fit the facts as we know them.
Dealers who sell drugs laced with Fentanyl are increasingly facing manslaughter charges (homicide has a higher premeditation bar to clear)
So, like basically everyone in modern business.