skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> tight competition and selection process for leading party members

This worked until it didn’t. Now Xi is a dictator making dictator-like mistakes.

There are valid additions to political thought the CCP has brought. But its solution to executive power is little evolved from the Roman monarchy. It counts on a serious of rationally-chosen benevolent autocrats who each pinky promise not to abolish term limits. It works until it doesn’t, and when it doesn’t, it fails spectacularly.
Not exactly sure what they're thinking and certainly don't want to produce conspiracy theories but with their track record of the past 2 decades of "promising moonshots, not achieving much" and their recent ideas (weakening e2ee, chat control) and actions (e.g. against climate activists), to me it's pointing towards a more repressive state because they already know that they've lost the race against climate change.
that's not necessarily a good guide. Let's say you make a lot of money. You can pay your executives millions, have lush offices with swimming pools and tennis courts, company jets etc and report razor thin "profits". Not that they're doing that - but you can creative accounting your way out of reporting profits.

For instance, the star wars movies, forrest gump, lord of the rings, men in black and harry potter are all still not technically "in profit": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting

That's why money in - money out is a better barometer for insurance and people with star power negotiate different terms these days like percentage of "dollars in". I made a video a couple years ago with a writer friend who is now on strike about this.

(I'm cutting out the first 5 minutes of chit-chat and it's processing on youtube, but if you see this after that happens, just go to the beginning)
https://youtu.be/QZBqjZS3hZA?t=296
In my case it would be hard to separate cause and effect because math and proofs came before programming. "Back in my day," the public school that I attended had a K-12 math curriculum that included sets, proofs, and problems that had no answer. (You were supposed to write down "no answer"). I was kinda slow at memorizing my arithmetic, but proofs and weird stuff made math come alive for me.

Then my first programming class, in BASIC (in 1981), was taught by my high school math teacher, so there was a math perspective, plus my love of math probably biased my interests in programming. Today, I'm not employed as a programmer per se, but use programming and math as problem solving tools as a physicist.

I know programmers who are great at math, but most are not, and the ones who are take care of the math stuff in a team. Likewise with most engineers. So I'm hesitant to claim that math is a particular boon to learning programming. Rather, it is or it isn't, and that might influence what kind of programming you get into.

Like Joel Spolsky's article about programmers, I think there's a two humped distribution in terms of ability to grasp proof based math. If you discover by accident that you have a facility for it, then you might just try a few more courses because it's a boatload of fun.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/separating-programming-sheep-f...
I've worked on the server side with Axum and Rocket; both are pretty nice. I love SQLX to write queries that validate at build time, and had quite a blast using Maud to write HTML within Rust code.

I'd say the type system is awesome to help model your problems and make sure invalid states can't be represente

The biggest drawback is big(ish) compile times/feedback loops; I can get it down to around 2s on a project that builds SCSS and bundles assets within Rust, but it (and any other compiled language, really) can't beat the fast iterations interpreted languages give you.
The example does `try pip install ...`. So it does execute the network requests, I think it just impacts the file system. I can't imagine a way for the tool to know what the network request would answer without actually running it, right?
I found it meaningful and efficiently communicated, even though I disagreed with the person's opinion.
Yeah the only painpoint I have is that it's awkward to use async inside closures, otherwise, things are pretty smooth IMO.
What a strange perversion of Arendt to seem to make her endorse status quo opinion and authoritarian propaganda.

Arendt always seemed too muddled and verbose for my taste, but I could have sworn that her idea of commonality was soft of like Rashomon, needing to understand participant's perspectives. That kind of bottom-up reality is exactly the opposite of a top-down one that this author seems to favor.
Currencies are formatted differently in different locales, even foreign ones.
So would the expected outcome of this be an instantly-healthy reef, or are we tricking a bunch of fish into going somewhere that can't support them?
That’s super interesting and makes sense - even with persistence of trunks and branches there will be leaves to throw away / GC. Thanks for explaining!
Other countries are comparable in being rich and having safe cars. I don’t know what your experience abroad was like but plenty of developed countries do not have sufficient infrastructure for people to avoid cars. In Western Europe, for example you’ll find car ownership is high except for the cities where it is not necessary, much like you’ll find that car ownership is high in America outside of (central) New York and a few other places.[1]

One big difference is Americans tend to drive bigger heavier cars that perform poorly in collisions. I am not confident about other differences (rates of texting, drink driving, road design, etc). A commonly made claim is that Americans drive more. This is true[2] but I don’t think the degree is high enough to explain the difference, though there are lots of things one could say are lost in that data.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicle...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1013213/passenger-kilome... (remember to divide by population) or https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/bar4.htm (very old!)
Yes, I’m very aware, but renderToString is designed for later client side hydration.

To make your point you would have wanted to cite renderToStaticMarkup, but tellingly no-one ever does.
I know it went thorough ssl based confections to send the email.
this is exactly the software that came to mind for me.
EU is about 7.5% of global emissions, I'd call that a lot more than a drop. Also, one of the "main areas of action" here is "carbon duty on certain imported goods", which is quite close to what you're asking for.
I'd definitively recommend it, though! I think the frameworks are pretty nice, do keep in mind they are all more like microframeworks (think flask, not django). If you like writing Rust code and building your own scaffolding is not something you hate, definitively try it out!
You don't recognize the different kinds of rock? Those that are sturdy and those that are brittle? Those that will likely hold and those that will maybe hold?

But in case I was not clear, there is surely no 100% certainty. Just like you cannot rule out a rock falling on your head. But you can minimize the risk with experience. There is a difference between climbing in sandstone vs. granite. And the type of sandstone, how much iron it contains(color). How wet it is, etc. Do you debate that?
yea thats true. Fentanyl cannot even be touched without risk of death. There were police who had to he hit with narcan when they came near fentanyl. Its closer to a poison like cyanide than a drug.
> For the first few months until I got my white collar job, I did some part time jobs in London as a waiter etc. and worked at some high end venues and hotels. In these places there are some equipments(like climate control of the wine cellar) which are operated through control panels which are accessible to everyone and they didn't put signs that say "don't touch", instead the signs said "you have no reason to touch this". They were able to keep curious hands away from buttons that shouldn't be pushed by those who don't know what they are doing by simply emphasising the intent.

Do you actually know that the latter sign is more effective than “don’t touch”? If it actually is, there are other possible explanations. The fact that it’s personally addressed to “you” could make it more effective. The fact that it’s simply a more unique/unexpected way to convey the message may cause people to be less likely to reflexively dismiss the more common directive of “don’t touch”.
Seems that the issue is fairly pervasive and has struck a nerve with some who have contributed to it.
> Humans are approaching the point of no return

Putting it bluntly, humans will be fine. Civilisation, even, will be fine. The coming chaos is one of migrating people, economic centres and food production. Rich, cohesive nations will see depressed growth. Poor or fractured societies will collapse.
Obviously "it's a free country" and whatnot in terms of what you do and what you like to admire, but I can't seem to muster any respect or admiration for this sort of thing whatsoever. I see nothing here but potentially, literally, wasting your life.
Because there is an overwhelming global consensus on the impacts and dangers of climate change, and no consensus on the impacts and dangers of plastic and forever chemicals.
It's certainly a neat idea, I like where it's coming from. I think it might be better if we just had an easier way to checkpoint and restore systems, so you don't have to "try" anything, you just "do", and ideally we have a very reliable way to just... Go back 2 minutes in time if something goes wrong. Something that isn't painful or slow and does work intuitively.

Filesystem checkpointing/snapshotting can take care of most of the ability to restore a system after a big problem. The next best thing is something like process checkpointing, and after that would be checkpointing a whole system's processes, which would be much more complicated and perhaps not worth it.
I think there are so many other factors though. Regulations about what must be covered, competitiveness in insurance markets, expected payouts for various situations, and a big thing: Americans are much richer and drive more expensive cars than in basically any other reasonably sized developed country, so you should expect the insured value to be higher.
What a bizarre conclusion. I don’t agree at all, which by itself kibd of invalidates your conclusion.

“It’s clear to me, therefore it’s clear to everyone.”
People still lend money even in the absence of centralized credit scoring systems, for example in Afghanistan: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/asian-journal-of-law...
Not to be confused with Chinese instant messaging, social media, and mobile payment app WeChat, released in 2011.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeChat

WeeChat, that the OP link is about had its first release in 2003. 8 years before WeChat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeeChat
I'm thinking along similar lines - he must have been supported by some powerful people from the shadows. Not sure if it's the FSB and president though, they both came out against Wagner. Maybe a faction within FSB though? Maybe some oligarchs?

As for why he withdraw, I don't think it was because he got a sweet deal, but rather that his backers wavered in their support and giving him an offer of exile was the only favor they were capable of granting him.
If there was a credible threat to President Biden he would be on Air Force One immediately.

Where would he go? Australia ?
It is a little bit of a weird article. It seems like they alternate between pointing out that the new Epyc knocks the socks off the Altra Max, but also they the Max is a 2 year old chip and that we don’t know enough about the successor to compare it to the Epyc.

It is of course always possible that Ampere has completely shit the bed and the AmpereOne won’t be an improvement, but I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt I guess.
A Man Knows Why America Is Fat (2017)
Looks like around 60% payout when discussing premium/payouts alone. Operating expenses eats into almost all the rest. Then they make money investing the float.

https://www.alphaquery.com/stock/AFL/fundamentals/annual/com...
> Can we really actually electrify everything, everywhere, by then?

Probably not, which is why that quote is only about "new cars and vans". If that is achieved, most vehicles on the road will still be emitting CO2.
Not that it's impossible to improve things, but people (frequently techies) believe the problem to be solvable and relatedly think it's easier than it actually is.
We don't do public transit in the US, even where it makes sense.

Even where we do, we don't. For example, the trains in Salt Lake City stop running an hour or two before bars close.

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It's also with mentioning that speed limits are their own problem: they are a baldfaced lie that pits believers against disbelievers; endangering everyone in the process. The reality of speed limits put into practice accomplish nothing except to violently clot traffic flow. Drivers who aren't convinced to slow down are vilified, while the system itself continues, perpetually immune to the blame it deserves.

We can do better, but only if we are willing to recognize the issues present in the system itself, instead of blaming human disobedience in a country that celebrates it.
That’s an interesting observation. I would hope that as a species we’d realise that beyond the point of no return there’s still a path that we can take to make the outcome less painful instead of going scorched earth (pardon the expression) but I’m under no illusion that will be the case.
> Are there actually other comparable countries in terms of the quantity of roads and the car & driving culture of the US?

Just north of the border in Canada?

> While U.S. road deaths rose 19 percent between 2010 and 2020, the Canadian figure fell at almost the same pace. That means that around 118 in every million Americans died in a crash in 2020, 2.5 times more than the 46 of every million Canadians who died in the same year.

* https://www.carscoops.com/2022/07/why-do-canadian-traffic-de...

> While US road deaths are skyrocketing (including the fastest increase on record in 2021), virtually all other developed countries have seen a decline. In France, for example, traffic fatalities are now just a third of the US per capita rate. As Urban Institute researcher Yonah Freemark recently told me, 30 years ago the streets of France were more dangerous than those in the US, but “today the average French person is 40% safer than the average American.”

> It might seem easy to dismiss transportation comparisons between the US and France, a country smaller than the state of Texas where many streets were designed centuries before the automobile arrived. But what about looking at a North American cousin — Canada, a sprawling, car-oriented nation whose cities are comparably young and similarly configured?

* https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-01/why-canad...
What are the chances that the Porsche drivers have better lawyers and generally don't get found "at fault" as often as people who drive Toyota Corollas or Ford Escorts?
No. In fact, I didn't study any of that. I'm bad at math. I took a required Calculus course (again) about 5 years ago, and struggled mightily, although I did achieve an "A".

For the things I've programmed, I barely needed any math. I found it more beneficial to study things like systems architecture and computer science. Knowing theories behind data structures, functional/imperative programming, algorithms, networking, file manipulation and more, that was the sort of thing I studied and exercised in my programming days.

For the record, I programmed Unix systems and services in C, Bourne shell, Perl, and similar languages. That was my professional career. Of course I got a real early start with BASIC, LOGO, and a little bit of assembly.
Sure, but acknowledging them as caricatures seems to me to be to legitimizing the anti-semitic stereotypes since a charicature is a portrayal that exaggerates existing characteristics.

Thus I maintain that claiming that the characteristics exhibited by the Ferengi are an exaggeration of Jewish traits is itself racist.
I'd like to have a better model in place, before the current one breaks.
Want to do analogies, let's do analogies.

What if you had a doctor who told you to stop eating ice cream or you were going to die. He keeps making predictions, you'll have a heart attack in 5 years, you'll get diabetes in 6 years, you'll be dead within the decade. The years pass and his predictions don't come true. Worse yet, you find out that he has a fridge full of Ben and Jerry's at home and publicly supports government funded ice cream socials (wars).

At what point would you stop trusting the experts? Keep in mind it's really hot in many parts of the world and their economies could really use some ice cream.
Still going strong as a niche. Lots of good tools nowadays. Why not give it a go? And coincidentally this book just released. I got the PDF version and am loving it: https://if50.textories.com/#buy
Profit margin is money in minus money out.

Movie studios and their individual accounting for individual movies are not comparable to accounting for an entire audited and publicly listed business subject to regulations, since those are explicitly not accurate portrayals of an entire businesses ins and outs.

There is no reason a business’s owners, and in a publicly listed company’s case, shareholders, are okay with executives paying themselves lavishly just to report smaller profit margins and leave the business owners with less.

I certainly would not be.
When does the standard library lie in this case?
>Our debates on Twitter, Facebook, crypto, and AI are pithy because we all know the topics well, and have mostly made up our minds about them. Often there’s not a lot to add not included in the article.

they are pithy yet shallow. full of "grandiose rhetoric". "made up our minds" doesn't equal "sufficiently knowledgeable"
This looks cool, and the script actually seems pretty small, but I am not entirely sure I understand what it does.

My naive understanding skimming through the code:

1- It mounts the entire (?) filesystem in what I will call "overlayfs mount points" (doesn't it need root access for that?)

2- It executes the command on that "sandbox", which looks exactly like the rootfs, but is actually an overlay

3- Once the command returns, it knows what has been changed in the overlay, and shows it to the user. The user can then "commit" those changes (in which case I assume the command writes them from the overlayfs to the actual rootfs)

Everything that does not happen on the filesystem (e.g. a network call) won't be "tried", it will just happen.

Is that about right?
It said in the title it was open source. The code is here :

https://github.com/NayamAmarshe/writedown

The link was on the front page of the submitted page.
And in most cases where they are profitable, it's a result of the float that they can invest in the time frame between when they collect premiums and pay out claims. Some insurance companies actually collect less than they pay out, and make up the difference on the interest from float.

I think it's actually incredible and very unappreciated that society can insure against so much risk for the price of nothing more than the time value of money.

Plus, the insurance company takes the risk of interest rate movement. If you were to self insure, you'd be exposed to that risk. In the last year as interest rates have climbed, this effect has been very visible. Allstate for random example is in the red by several billion over the last few quarters because bond prices have imploded. But their customers are insulated from that risk.
> Whatever you might think of his views, he is pretty honest

He's been repeatedly caught lying through his teeth and he's on record admitting that he lies if he's "cornered or something." but that he tries to never lie on TV, but of course that was before we got all that evidence of the lies he spewed for ages on TV too, so I guess he was "cornered" when he said that. The man lies for a living. You may want to adjust your understanding of "honest".
Oh, in this case, sure -- but I think it's a great teaching tool in getting people to understand the difficulty in other cases, and perhaps more importantly, understanding that these things are not solvable and that the essence of the very purpose of law is to have a method to get through these "not fully solvable" things.
Given that not everybody drives a Porsche for practical or cost reasons and it’s only 2.38 points away from average, I would say that’s pretty high.

Like others have said, it would be best to see it normalized on a mileage basis to get a better view.
Nobody was ever fired for choosing AWS.
Because she was a woman? I don't understand your question.
I've always been intrigued by higher math, but I never got further than Calculus III, differential equations, and proofs by induction in discrete math.

Do you have a suggestion on how to get into real math?

Could taking a class in Abstract Algebra be a first step? I've thought about auditing the class at a local college, but the syllabus scared me. Groups? Rings? I've never heard about these things in any class.

Any suggestions?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08997

“arXiv will not consider removal for reasons such as journal similarity detection, nor failure to obtain consent from co-authors, as these do not invalidate the license applied by the submitter”

The submitter can mark the paper as “withdrawn” but it will remain available

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32780403
Seems like it's still on arXiv.
I think what you are noticing is the difference between a liberal democracy and autocracy. Where in one there exists a social construct of rules, where in the other rules require enforcement to exist, as they do not exist in the social consciousness
Indira Gandhi was a woman.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indira_Gandhi
His troops are the only life support Prigozhin has
Perhaps at one time I'd have called the entire situation unlikely, on many levels.

But we're talking about brinkmanship in a decades-old personal relationship between two individuals (Prig. & Put.) whose senses of context and honour patently are warped by ordinary standards, as evidenced by their past and ongoing actions.

It seems not at all far fetched to me that, in such a strange relationship, each others personal family would be seen as sacrosanct... up to a point.
> I don't want a transactional layer to accompany every interaction I have with my Linux system (or most other systems, for that matter)

I guess you don't use journaling filesystems then ?
> Every generation since has been dominated by unremarkable competitive FPS games.

PvE games are for unskilled gamers. PlayStation and Switch are the preferred platforms for unskilled gamers. PC is the preferred platform for skilled gamers who can afford a good PC. Xbox is the preferred platform for skilled gamers who are poor (Xbox controllers are better for shooters than PlayStation controllers).
They say that instantly healthy isn't expected, but I expect that this could help some reefs that are recovering, especially since:

> However, he said that his previous research published in the journal PLOS ONE found that despite not having ears, coral larvae also seemed to use sound to find and settle on reefs.

...

> "[But] there's the opportunity that if you play healthy reef sounds you may bring back a much richer reef community than just fish."
How does this work if you run a database insert query from the command line? Or to a remote database?
I mean if the dude submitted the work without the permission of the actual lead authors that's a pretty big violation, which also could explain in part why the methodology was so bad.
Maybe the content strikes a chord? I’d absolutely judge a six-figure earner with a mattress on the floor.

I won’t bother you about it, but I’m judging internally if I see that.