skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure Americans would still kill each other without guns, but would they do so to the same degree? Even if the exact same intent exists, if things are harder to do, they won't get done as much. After all, many people have cars in Japan, England, and any other country with strict gun controls, and they don't see the same levels of violence.

If ice cream is 100 paces away from you, you're less likely to eat it than if it's right in front of you. It's basic psychology that the greater the friction to satisfy our impulses, the less likely we are driven by them. It's maddeningly obvious. Similarly if everyone else was eating ice cream. We're social creatures, we emulate what we see others do.

This is the frustrating thing about this topic: it's a discussion about harm reduction, but people don't treat it that way and just throw up their hands and say 'oh it'd be the same without' when the data and logic don't support that.

In decision making parlance, it's a classic perfect is the enemy of the good response. In HN parlance, this is a question of floats not ints. In gamer parlance, this is a question of DPS and AOE, and how much nerfing guns lowers it. I don't know how many more ways we can say it to get through to folks.
While virtual threads will be stable in Java 21, Structured Concurrency is still a preview feature. You probably won't see it in production anytime soon.

Preview features require a special flag when compiling and running them, and they won't run on newer versions of the JVM. I don't expect to see StructuredTaskScope in common production use before the next LTS version is out.

But it doesn't mean you cannot have structured concurrency before that. Even in language that mostly enforce Structured Concurrency like Kotlin, it's still a library feature. Even the original blog post which formulated this concept, described a library that implemented structured concurrency for Python[1]. You can pretty easily implement structured concurrency yourself by creating your own implementation of StructuredTaskScope, if you need it right now. You can even structured concurrency in C#[2] or Go[3].

[1] https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-g...

[2] https://github.com/StephenCleary/StructuredConcurrency

[3] https://github.com/sourcegraph/conc
> The idea that reddit mods are some great asset to the site is just strange, IMO. To me, they're one of the worst things about the website.

If you were the CEO of reddit what would you change? Replace the volunteer mods with paid mods?
The Mac Pro has a lot of significance in the professional media industry. Final Cut changed the landscape forever and at $3500 entry level Mac Pro that could compete with a $70k AVID station after a $1000 software purchase and an Nvidia card upgrade. Now as a college student I could go work for myself because I could (barely) afford the tools. I still work on a Mac to this day.

But that $3500/entry level and upgrade into your career machine isn't the goal in whatever the heck these are. Aside from maybe like a Hollywood editor who wants to use a mac and gets their way, I have no idea who these are for. I think the goal is to just look really cool in a fancy office.
We absolutely do not know the captain did anything malicious , and he could have been a hero. So let’s not make statements like that.
> I believe that a lack of domain knowledge is the root cause of a lot of very bad software that gets developed and I think that it is up to computer programmers and their managers to deal with this.

This is probably the best thesis statement I have seen regarding S/W engineering in a long time.
This is one I use a lot! I've found coffee to be very helpful for weight loss because of this. I have my coffee black usually, though. It's probably less helpful there if you use a lot of sugar.
I also know it as “swapping” variables and I’m a native speaker.
The First Video Game Cartridge
It's the most boring, but a text file with the urls and a title is probably your best option. Copy and paste to browser.

Encrypt the file if you want extra security and use a good password/password manager.

I understand it's not elegant UX/UI though.
To expand a little on this, by pulling out one key piece of the article:

This is what the footnote of the bit about &(i32, Cell<i32>) clarifies (which footnote was added due to this misunderstanding, discussed in https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/13y8a9b/from_stacks_t...).

> In particular, for &(i32, Cell<i32>), TB allows mutating both fields, including the first field which is a regular i32, since it just treats the entire reference as “this allows aliasing”.¹

> ¹ This does not mean that we bless such mutation! It just means that the compiler cannot use immutability of the first field for its optimizations. Basically, immutability of that field becomes a safety invariant instead of a validity invariant […]

This matter of safety versus validity invariants is key (https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2018/08/22/two-kinds-of-invariants...).
Yes, AFAIK to regularized regression which you would typically use in problems with more variables than instances, such as GWAS.
No, thanks for the link!
The thing that surprised me the most is there’s no mention of what makes a better product for the user. It’s all business strategy and scheming to build a silo. I hope regulators obliterate the platform owners.
If this is true, this sounds like a bad deal for Reddit. If I were them, I'd want my cut.
If the point was to be profitable, I would get it. But that's not the point. The point is to lock down their users into their app so they have a more solid looking IPO. But the guy planning the IPO is repeatedly saying that reddit isn't profitable.

If they wanted to make money, they could've charged an amount for the API that covered their costs and made them a profit. Or they could've required the apps to show their ads. Or they could've said that the free API access is now only for reddit gold subscribers. They're instead charging an amount for the API that clearly no app can afford, not negotiating at all, and locking nsfw content out of the API (it's already locked out of the mobile site).

The point is to lock down the users. Not profit, at least not right now.
I wasn't mentioning democracy, politics, or liberalism. At all. That has nothing to do with corporations.

If some corporations of the time were not multinational, they wouldn't have acted outside their own homeland.

Are you saying there were no investors or shareholders involved in colonizing the Amrericas?

Quite simply today's multinationals are direct descendants of the ones of old.

I naturally assume it can be easily seen that today's global economic and political system is fundamentally different than it was just a few years ago.

What alternative motivation would be an accurate explanation for the organizations founding the overseas colonies?

And who else would have been capable at the time?
in my bolg, i use vscode write markdown files，next run a simple nodejs script: use pandoc convert md to html and rewrite index.html.I'm happy with this simple enough build system that it gets me started writing lightly.

https://www.seazhang.com/, Link are given as examples, because blog content is Chinese and personal, not worth mentioning.
Hmm. I guess I use Firefox Focus. I’d actually forgotten that I’d set it up, and thought I was just using something built in to the OS.
Very good and informative table indeed, great base from which to start the codec comparison, pity it's an image and not fully interactive with extra info
mbasic.Facebook.com still works
It was my experience that Reddit stopped caring about its users a long time ago. I am convinced that Reddit unofficial motto is: "Moderators own the place they operate and are free to do whatever they want with it". So it isn't a surprise that the admins think they can do whatever they want with the entire site.

For a less popular opinion, I don't sympathize at all with the reddit moderators who are up in arms about the API problem. They have had full, unfettered control of their subreddits where their power is near absolute and they enjoy pushing their own views and punishments on anyone they don't like. But now that a higher power is enforcing their rules on them, they cry oppression (see u/awkwardtheturtle and the moderators of r/art). It is pure hypocrisy and almost hilarious to me.

I know not all moderators are the same, but with the way reddit is designed, power is only exercised in one direction and power abuse is unavoidable. The very culture of reddit at its core is flawed now and I think it is funny that only now, when the higher caste of redditors, who are in the minority, started to get affected that we see some calls for action.
I feel like reddit could serve better ads than Facebook if they tried. Sure Facebook knows what college I went to and who my uncle is. Reddit knows my hobbies and interests.

The fact that I subscribe to r/woodworking, r/diy, etc, is really useful for targeting but I never see relevant ads.

I’ve literally given Reddit a big list of my interests and the asked to be served content, and the ads are almost completely unrelated.
Vanlife is still very costly if you try to maintain any kinds of creature comforts. I think it is more so millennials seeing the romanticized side of it on social media, and then finding out its actually a lot of work and you are one break down from being literally homeless.
Exactly! I’ve lost 10lb just by replacing breakfast with coffee. The key is to make sure that you don’t over eat at lunch, so I tend to have two smaller lunches at noon and 2pm.
You're certainly doing a great job making public transportation sound appealing to us "techies".
Oof, was really hoping for a /s at the end of this one.
the silicon is not a critical cost here at all.
The Eternal Castle has a similar premise, a "rediscovered" retro game.
I’m so confused. Now that’s the case. But I didn’t dream being unable to open those in a new tab. WTF could be going on? I even looked at the git repo, no recent relevant changes
Same thing happened in 2000 at Bryce Canyon Airport just up the road!

https://lasvegassun.com/news/2000/oct/06/american-airlines-f...
Another weird syntax quirk is this:

e = 4
try:
b = 4/0
except Exception as e:
print("exception raised")
print(e) # NameError: name 'e' is not defined

The captured exception only exists in the 'except:' block, but instead of creating a new scope (shadowing the outer 'e'), it deletes it afterwards.
People retweet your post in order to draw the attention of their followers to it, which is often called a "dogpile" (or whatever). But blocking someone prevents them from retweeting you, so it's a decent (but imperfect) mitigation.
If by average you mean 'mean' that is not true - it's very skewed.

So most people loose money, and a rather small group (say 10%) is raking up most of the gains.
I remember ago Lars Blackmore of SpaceX released a paper on soft landing Falcon 9, that's the first time I'd encountered convex optimization

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Lossless-Convexificati...

It blew my mind that you could convexify non-convex curves into useful-for-optimization convex curves to optimize for so many things simultaneously (physics constraints, control thruster limitations, sensor constraints, g forces, etc) and it's cool that part of the spectacular landings we get from SpaceX relies on it
Correct, although they just go by RNZ today, the term "radio" is quickly becoming outdated. They're a general digital news org, funded by the government.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/
> Now, how do I upgrade?

Read the documentation, follow it.

https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes...

> Just apt upgrade?

Mostly (please do RTFM):

# update to latest point release of current system:
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt full-upgrade
sudo apt --purge autoremove

# Update sources list
sudo sed -i 's/bullseye/bookworm/g' /etc/apt/sources.list

# upgrade to bookworm:
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs
sudo apt full-upgrade
sudo apt --purge autoremove

> Does it matter that I have i3wm instead of whatever the default is?

Generally no, unless you've specified/use third party (or to a lesser extent "back port") software sources.
> that it is up to the user to bend backwards and make their brains work as a compiler

What do you mean? You always have to track lifetimes and what outlives what (i.e. work of a compiler). Especially in C++. Not doing that results in UB.

In Rust you have a compiler double checking you. And it errs on side of caution. And no, errors aren't horrible, they come with suggestions for fixing them.
I don't understand what's getting you all bent out of shape about this.

Unexpected emergent behaviors are extremely common in programming language design. Even when carefully planning every language feature, unexpected interactions can and do occur, sometimes these things are not ideal. I am not very informed about Python's history here, but it's not far fetched that this behavior was not planned and just happened due to unexpected interactions of other features.

Why would Python be immune to this? Are Guido and the rest of the Python contributors 1000x devs that can see infinitely far into the future and never make mistakes? All of Pythons quirks were actually planned from the very beginning I guess.
the various lemmy instances

https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances
I think you're right, partly. But I also think that a lot of the people who put up with it are the passive ones who don't really contribute much to communities anyway; they're just there.

The people who do the real contributing—posting, modding, defining the culture and building the communities that Reddit benefits from—are, as far as I can tell, more likely to get a lot angrier about abusive corporate nonsense, simply because they're more invested.

The more invested you are, the more screwed you feel. That's something that a person like Huffman is incapable of grasping, to his company's detriment.

I don't think the blackout alone will end Reddit. I don't think any one thing will end Reddit. I think, similar to Twitter, that it'll be a series of things: indignities large and small that successively alienate the people who matter most to these companies whether the C-level/marketer types realize it or not.

And at some point, similar to what I expect will happen to Twitter, Reddit will simply no longer be relevant in the way it once was. Whether they understand why is another question, but to me, it's always been clear.

tl;dr: Reddit the company is just a dumb pipe. Reddit as we think of it is a culture and community. That culture and community is defined by a relatively small collection of people who are on there because they care. When enough of them get disgusted enough to go elsewhere, Reddit—both the company and the community—will cease to exist in any meaningful capacity.
> Some have theorized that the lack of pornographic material and lack of anti-government views in the package may indicate the Cuban government is involved in its production.[10]

It seems like another conclusion could be they just don't want to give gov an easy excuse for a crackdown. Even in dictatorships optics matter, and its much easier to shutdown something for being porn
So, here is my problem: if the sakler family or drug cartels deceived regarding the harmful and addictive nature of drugs, sure thing, hang them for murder! But if an adult human makes a conscious decision, being fully aware of the consequences then it that person's responsibility.

I think you should instead be angry at the government. Your friend should have been able to go to a facility that administers fentanyl or heroin safely while making available counseling and any other help that could be provided to him.

If there is a dosage for any substance where it can be administered without causing near-term death or irreparable physical damage, the government should either ignore it or intervene by implementing safe ways people can can consume these substances. You shouldn't need to go to a street dealer, even if you don't have a medical perscription they should let you get addicted and consume it if you choose to do so against all advice.

Millions die in the US every year because... I don't even know why? It sounds not right to treat people?
This is one of those things where the math is actually pretty simple, but the notation is incredibly opaque (in part because things are generalized to hell) if you haven't been exposed to it before.

In layman's terms: you have a set of n variables, a set of m constraints on those variables (like x + y ≤ 3, or x² + y² ≥ 1), and some function you're trying to minimize. Oh, and everything involves real numbers, no fancy stuff like complex numbers or rationals or p-adic integers or Banach spaces.

The book itself gives you a taste of what you need to know to fully understand the material:

> The only background required of the reader is a good knowledge of advanced calculus and linear algebra. If the reader has seen basic mathematical analysis (e.g., norms, convergence, elementary topology), and basic probability theory, he or she should be able to follow every argument and discussion in the book.
Know how you value your free time. That you can know when it makes sense pay other people to do things you don't want to do, or which take away from time you'd rather spend on something else. Some examples:

- Cleaning the house (not the easy stuff: do your own dishes!) but bathrooms, windows, deep-cleaning carpets etc...

- Landscaping and gardening

- Grocery delivery or ordering online for pickup

Do you really wanna spend half your weekend on this stuff?

Goes triple when you have kids.
I don't understand? As long as someone has the relevant decrypted message chain it can be subpoenaed.
Gridlock: A lack of power lines will delay the age of renewables
https://archive.is/SzGfl
FYI

Now we updated the pricing page: https://modelz.ai/pricing
That would provide very limited benefit due to the search space being so small, and would have serious scaling issues with large block lists.
> Go look at google image search these days. Useless. Mostly to cut off access to millions of images to build models.

I think that was mostly due to copyright laws. The past few years, media companies, publishers, etc have been using copyright laws to paywall, hide or restrict more content - books, images, news articles, videos, documents, etc.
People don't complain as much when Apple does stuff like this.
My bad, thanks for the correction.
The Slate Star Codex that really spoke to me is "The Categories were made for man, not man for the categories"

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-ma...
Much “common sense” advice contains things are universal truths about living life and have long-term payoffs. These are quite clear looking backwards but not as obvious at the time.

In other words, about half of your life will be lived after you’re 40. Start preparing for that very long period.
See also hummingbird [1]

[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/hummingbird
The sandcastles are the communities built around subreddits. The subreddits are on a corporately owned beach, the owners are building a mall, and the sandcastles are in the way.
Care to give an example of something of yours that was censored? I've been on Reddit for almost a decade and only seen nasty ad hominin attacks and hateful speech censored. Seen plenty of right wing misinformation be downvoted into oblivion, but never censored.
Previously we were using flip chip where silicon was exposed. With backside power delivery, there's now wiring on both sides of the chip. The transistors are buried. The article discusses how debugging is harder since nothing is exposed, and how there's now more thermal resistance.

Intel's implementation has other factors, as discussed in the Anandtech article. Normally there's a fairly thick silicon base underneath the transistor layer, but Intel polishes that away to nearly nothing after the frontside signal wire layers are put down (to make hooking up the backside power easier). That greatly reduced structural strength & is a somewhat taxing process, so before doing the polishing down, they put a carrier wafer atop the frontside signal wire layers, adding some structural strength. And there it stays.

Which means now that the top of the chip has a carrier wafer just for structure. Then the signal wire layers. Then the transistor layer with a bunch of PowerVias also in it. Then the backside power layer.

In the first sample chip, there's still a quite a few signal layers, 14, Vs 15 on other chips. Only down by 1. But better chip utilization and other benefits (ir droop). The backside is 4 layer. Maybe maybe the backside power delivery might have (or maybe could someday) greatly let them cut down on the number of wire layers, which are all now between the transistors & the heatsink. But not yet. So there's a significant number of layers of things burying the transistors now.

None the less, the thermals here looked fine.

It's a great article.
Ask HN: What happened to fully homomorphic encryption?
With all the decentralized twitter replacements, I expected to hear about FHE a lot. It was "hot" a couple of years ago, google even has a nice lib for it. Is it silently being used withour any fan-fare or is there just not enough practical applications for it yet?
A blanket auto-delete after 2-years policy is reckless from an institutional knowledge POV>
When pressed by Gruber, Ternus says that there are PCI cards made specifically for Avid, Pro Tools, video capture cards, networking, and even some custom hardware configurations. The Mac Pro can also be loaded up with a lot of PCIe flash storage.

So yeah, a niche machine but there is a lot more to PCI than graphics cards.
Funny that when clicking the post link, Chrome warns me that I might have wanted to enter https://www.reddit.com instead of https://api.reddiw.com

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/2j8SkqB.png

When I click learn more it redirects to: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/99020?visit_id=6182...

What makes Chrome show this warning for a legitimate site?
Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence [Declassified] [pdf]
Yeah. Somebody tell Canada.
Your password manager may have a notes option.

Send links to yourself.
interesting. Can you expand on Elixir incompatibility? How is it different?
Tangentially related, some clients don't handle variable encodings well, putting another limit on efficiency improvements

indeed a pity progress is so slow even in these easier cases of widely available improvements
The one that really changed how I think about the world was "A Muscular Empathy" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/a-muscu...
For what it's worth, mutable default parameters do have their use.

def foo(x, cache = {}):
value = cache.get(x)
if value is None:
...
cache[x] = value
return value

This simple example, thankfully, is obviated by the @cache decorator as of py3.9, but I still occasionally find uses for the feature.
Book Will Ruin Television for You. But You Have to Read It
Well, crypto being illegal means not being subject to regulation, which increases demand for it because it fulfils it's purpose better. Thus crypto world wins.
> Remember the monthly donation bar for their server costs? It never got close to filling

Cynically, nobody is going to donate to a full or nearly full "donations requested" bar, so nobody is going to specify a bar that gets full.
Can I read the article for free anywhere?
More to the point— the US Government still hasn't released the classified documents that describe what happened to JFK.

I don't personally hold an opinion one way or another on JFK, but the fact is that the information on what happened still hasn't leaked out.