skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically, the Cardassians were an authoritarian, fascist regime bent on destroying a species different from them. With the brutal oppression, "work" / death camps, religion on one side, fascist regime on the other, a nebulous Gestapo-alike secret service, "pleasure" girls, etc.

Isreal-Palestine conflict is not the first one to come to my mind.
I agree. Securing computer systems is a part of doing business, not something that needs wheedling and cajoling. Bottom dollar that these outfits will come for a bailout when (not if) they're compromised.
Tech people care about money. This whole thread wouldn’t exist otherwise. It’s just that they also derive some part of their identities from the cult-like, eschatological fantasies that are very much a part of Silicon Valley culture. By contrast, people in finance would never try to claim that they’re building a god. They already know the only god is money.
India was not a US enemy but had food shortages during it socialist period.
My experience has been that to efficiently write computationally expensive operations I need to know the low-level libraries that Python interfaces with. Other languages provide me this functionality natively and I only go to the low-level stuff only after a few iterations.
Are you assuming that the moderator can’t actually see the harassment?
Hey dude, awesome work and thanks! I'm mostly interested in a curious kind of way, I really enjoy programming procedurally mostly but sometimes being able to utilize OOP for certain things is very nice.

Really in the end I should just make my own language but who has the time right.

In any case, fascinating stuff and thanks again!
Yes, using slotmap you can get "use after free"-style bugs that you would not encounter if you strictly stayed with the borrow checker. So if the borrow checker fits your purpose, by all means, go ahead.

But the borrow checker can't represent circular/self-referential structures you see very often in graphs. Nor is it convenient in some cases as it has a strict separation between references that can mutate, and those that can't, which doesn't fit all problems either because the mutable references are by necessity unique.

Note that a "use after free" in slotmap results in a None value, or a panic (exception for the C++ people), depending on which API you use. In other words, it is detected and you can handle it. It does not trigger undefined behavior, you don't get ABA-style spurious references, there are no security issues. It is not the same as the issues pointers have at all.
Tried it, safety filters seem better than openAI. However the model lacks the depth of technical knowledge.
Not entirely correct, Rust’s “unsafe” marker doesn’t pollute only its scope, it actually pollutes the whole module; You need to make sure that the invariants in unsafe code are met even in safe code. (An explanation of this in the Rustonomicon: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/working-with-unsafe.html)
In what way is this a violation of those rights? The right to face your accusers arises from the sixth amendment and applies to criminal cases being prosecuted by the government. Due process comes from the fifth amendment and, again, only applies to actions by the government.

You can be upset that this is happening, and that it is legal, but there are no constitutional rights in play here.
Explain why China is not helping these countries.
Citi Sees More Startups Embracing the Once Dreaded ‘Down Round’
Looking at otherwise expensive country Finland. We can get 2 pairs of regular glasses for 29€ including eye check... Ofc, that is absolutely nothing fancy. It is surprisingly cheap when free market works.

That should be in range of what nearly everyone can save up here.
It's pretty impressive - but too aligned to be anything more than a customer service bot. It just feels like a corporate drone that continuously is friendly and upbeat. Which, maybe that's their goal.
These helpers just return existing information about an object, they don't wrap the object passed in. The generic gets inferred from the argument. It's not possible to pass in an object where 'keyof T' is anything other than string, number, and/or literal strings or numbers.
As someone who has been using FSD Beta for a few years: LOL
Consciousness is something some beings experience. We have direct knowledge that it exists because we experience it. We can assign a word to this experience, but we can't define it objectively such that a non-conscious being would understand it. That doesn't mean it's useless to talk about this real experience we have. It just means we can never be entirely sure we're talking about the same thing.
> It’s weird to see downvotes on this comment.

I saw it stand at 0 (i.e. 1 downvote) shortly after I posted it; I don't know if it went lower than that, but probably not. A single person downvoting something shortly after it was posted can make something appear "as if it's downvoted", but more often than not it's just a single person. I wouldn't put too much stock in it.
Yes. It’s a combination of those factors for sure. There are just so many more constant disk hits from 8 and on, and a good deal of them are from Defender. I do PC service and repair on the side and tossing in a cheap SSD makes most people happy because the drive being slammed was the only thing “wrong” with their computer.

Thankfully we’re largely past that.

That said, I rarely see malware on most of the machines I touch. I get more calls about automatically fullscreened browser windows with scare text and a phone number to call than any actual software problems.

Defender does work well enough for any average person and I’m happy if only because the vast majority of AV software is sold in the most disgusting way. Just as bad as the malware scare tactics honestly.
Yes, that’s basically the algorithm, but it took me a while to understand why it works.

The subtraction from base^n is the radix complement, the subtraction from base^n-1 is the diminished radix complement.

Example base 9: with a fixed number width of say four, e.g. 4781, you take the radix complement by subtracting from 9^4, which is 10000 in base 9. But to take the complement, you again need subtractions with nasty borrows. But you wanted to reuse your adder and not have a subtractor to take the complement.

So you observe, that the formula is the same as 10000-1-4781+1 (subtract one and add it back). Subtracting the one gives you 8888. this solves your problem, because every digit is the highest one in its base, so you will never have to borrow. This is the diminished radix complement, to which you add one to get back to the radix complement.

Back to base 2: you take the diminished radix complement to avoid borrows (which is conveniently just a bit flip in base 2) and add one to arrive at the radix complement. Thus the familiar algorithm: „flip all bits and add one for two‘s complement“.

I hope I did a better job explaining it in my post linked above.
> “That could be a weedwacker,” a Thales spokeswoman, Beth Larson, added.

This just reminds me how thankful I am to live in a city that has outlawed gas powered weedwackers.
“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.”

– Charles Bukowski
I worked in embedded development and sorting large lists of files was a surprisingly big bottleneck for many of our projects because of the very slow microcontrollers. Even worse we couldn't cache the results because of no memory.

So I was tasked to improve that and I had to write inline assembly to abuse specific cpu instructions that could effectively do much more char comparisons per clock cycle. We ended up not using it because of the usual reasons (not portable, hard to maintain) and our customers had to live with the 20-30s delay when entering a large directory, versus the 5-6s my code achieved.

(Sorry this has little to do with the topic at hand, I don't really know when sorting becomes a problem on a multicore 5ghz cpu)
Microsoft are killing it. Perhaps surprisingly, they seem to be the only ones who really "get it".
> 3d printers are the shitty version of replicators.

That's fair. I was thinking of the ability to work with arbitrary matter as a fundamental change rather than incremental improvement, but I can see the point.

> This is not a trivial problem to solve.

Of course not, and if I implied such, I apologize.

> things get really weird and capitalism probably breaks a lot of people and/or itself.

Probably, property only really makes sense in a world with scarcity. Which is why intellectual property always seemed weird to me.
The case in which semantic similarity is encoded by Euclidean distance, and you want to perform similarity search (retrieve the nearest neighbors).
Yes, the technical term for that is "lift induced drag".
> The last part of your statement seems angry?

That was from the original web page.
> was data of original works downloaded? yep. was that data processed? yep. was some kind of output based on that data created? yep. so what is that data, if not a derivative?

If I have a program that downloads an image, process the image, and simply returns a yes or no, single byte information, of if the image is blue or not, are you really going to call that derivative work?

Because this "is it blue" program does ever single thing that you brought up here.

And clearly my "is it blue" program is not derivative work.
peak Hacker News
Way to move the goal posts and waltz right past my point without meaningfully engaging. I thought we were talking about engineers making $250k-$400k at big tech companies and what makes people productive. Now you're talking about the impact of small teams with the right talent in the right place at the right time. That's great, if you were at OpenAI over the last few years, or Google in 1998-2004, or Facebook from 2005-2009, I'd love to hear your thoughts on those moments that teams caught lightning in a bottle. For the rest of the 99.99% of industry, a reductive view of "fire your underperformers" is not necessarily going to net them better results.
The genetics researcher that claimed humans are pig-monkey hybrids is a professor at UGA. His website has some wild examples of real and possible hybrids: http://www.macroevolution.net/about-me.html
Another unpopular opinion: If I think about the reasons why asset managers PMs in finance are overpaid, it's because they created elaborate rent seeking structure in society and industry, with disequilibrium in penalty vs reward. Same thing for lawyers in big firms.

I would argue the engineers in big techs also have benefited from the rent seeking structure. The only reason why they're not enjoying bigger payout is because the actual structure was created by the big tech companies, and not through coordinated effort by engineers. As a result, they reap less reward as they're just highly paid henchmen, and not the bosses.
> Ease of use, less ceremony, huge package ecosystem including several de-facto standards for many use cases/industries, suitable for glue work, are benefits.

Sure, these are operational advantages. But purely from an computational perspective (GPUs, multi-core, concurrency, etc) does it offer anything natively without interfacing with C/C++ that validates it to be called a general purpose language.
Turns out socialism isn't a great way to organize a food economy
> because they are dorks, and often lacking any humor. Marketing dudes definitely are more fun and know how to party, AND how to assess possible connotations.

> And why would Softies think in those directions - fannies are considered black scary animals down there, i heard.

I understand that some stereotypes exist for a reason, but in this case the reasons are decades out of date, so you may wish to update your understanding of the world.
Leptos, a cutting-edge full-stack Rust framework
Why would I ignore the parts of a cited source they don't agree with or that's counter to the claim being made? You don't think that's important?
> many small props cover less surface than a single big one

Well, things change when you make a lot of small props.

This one has an entire ring of them, and they fit a larger outer diameter than a helicopter would. That's quite possibly the reason they are quiet, because they have more propeller area, operating on a smaller speed.

Very likely, here the amount of noise is a better guideline for efficiency than the usual characteristics of the basic design.

(There is no mention of the cost. It is the first thing to suffer when increasing the propeller area.)

Anyway, about the car question, the article says it is as noisy as a small grass mower... I guess an electrical car is much more silent than this.
Only if he uses it for work (exclusively for work, if you ask the IRS). And he’s paying double in payroll taxes - sole proprietors/self-employed workers pay 15%, employees pay 7.5%.
Not sure why they'd do that. Both Putin and Prigozhin were basically accusing each other of treason as Wagner was marching towards Moscow and shooting down Russian helicopters and planes. And now they're both just basically backing down, leaving behind a bunch of destruction on Russian soil.
Ok then. Steering away from Redditisms, let's make this into a deep reflection upon the state of modern application software that's consuming hardware resources faster than hardware can improve. We have these incredible CPUs yet our machines offer barely the same experience they did twenty years ago and even succeed in getting strictly worse as in Teams case. The newer the software, the more wasteful implementation we get, our performance budget spilled and absorbed by layers upon layers of abstractions. Of all this immense computing power, I can only feel the difference when compiling stuff and other specialized activities.
Many have mentioned Machiavelli on the untrustworthiness of mercenaries, but looking at it from their point of view (eg. Xenophon's 10'000) I'd guess most mercenaries are well aware that with little loyalty going the other direction, they're the most likely to get tossed under the proverbial bus/off the proverbial troika.
1. I think we’re still deciding. 2. Quieter, easier to pilot, no fuel smell or storage.
Seems so: https://robocop.fandom.com/wiki/Pretoria

Only in the movies though. No country would risk a tactical nuke in their own territory, that's self-defeating.
There are. I worked as a copy editor in consumer publications and dreaded editing one particular guy’s stuff because he took the “no passive voice” thing as gospel and really went through contortions to observe it. His copy had a really harsh and jagged tone as a result. Other editors who were aware of the “rule” but weren’t strident about it had writing that was so much more enjoyable to read.

These days I’m working with engineers and product managers in a very technical environment, and the passive voice is everywhere, so I find myself rewriting a lot, and rewriting improves it. I’m not eradicating the passive voice, but people use it in a lot of places where it doesn’t work well.
1. I propose "more quiet helicopter"
I absolutely want a pilot in the aircraft. Things go wrong and fail, you need someone trained to respond
Oscilloscope/AWG/Logic Analyzer: Analog Discovery 3
And even their paid extended service option is over:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-clien...
Until the stresses of life make you vulnerable, and you get depressed or anxious, start drinking heavily, start eating a terrible diet, and stop exercising, which ruins your health progress
I’m on my phone or I’d link you to one of a slew of reports stating that the cost savings that come with universal healthcare.

Let’s be real here, that philosophy of sustainability has no place in this discourse and can easily be rebutted with CBO reports from say, the Obamacare bill.

The US government and by extension its citizens is angel investing a military complex at the tune of 1 trillion a year with no return. I’m not saying there aren’t any benefits to it but healthcare and other safety nets like food stamps are not only a drop in the bucket but yield very tangible long term benefits…

You can’t put a price on having a healthy adult population. And for that your people need to eat during those crucial years (I’m going on a tangent here) and it helps if their teeth are rotting out of their mouths.
How do you quantify best?

The bests have cool stories to tell.
It's always been creepy to me that whenever the topic of US foreign policy brought about from the angle of "other nations should impose to the US the same geopolitical policies that it imposes over other nations" some US citizens are quick to talk like bullies threatening to retaliate with their military forces if any of those suggestions were to come to fruition.

However, when that same topic is kicked off with "the people of an enemy state are struggling" they act as if they were nothing but concerned, compassionate humanitarians. The wording of the message changes, but the intent does not. The desired result is still intervention without consequences.
Sunk cost fallacy. And the cause of the continuation of so many horrible wars. Take Quark's advice on the third rule of acquisition: https://youtu.be/hdQcGzbpN7s

> Never spend more for an acquisition than you have to.
I assume it’s the customer account number on the invoice with your phone provider since you need to attach it.
The emphasis on expectations being the problem bothers me. I've heard this argument many times before and the claims that average people feel entitled to the same mega wealth as someone who owns a 4000 square foot home. Actually, I think it's more correct to say that average people believe that the 4000 square foot home owner is not entitled to such an obscene waste of resources.

The value of fairness is not arbitrary, as the author seems to imply (intentionally or not). He keeps saying things like, "you don't have to believe that this was right or wrong, but just that it happened that way." I don't think we're ever going to get out of this mess by ignoring the question of what's right and wrong.
yea, I'm afraid I'm not adding much to the discussion. In the end, it doesn't matter if Germany really is like this - the idea of an orderly country still exists.
One hopes that russian Permissive Action Links are not coded to « все нули » (all balls).
Dollar sign goes before the number, cent sign goes after, other units go after: $7, 7¢, 7 lbs. You can’t pretend convention doesn’t exist just because it’s weird! That’s why it’s convention and not common sense.
> does it offer anything natively without interfacing with C/C++ that validates it to be called a general purpose language.

In fairness, a huge amount of C/C++ functionality is managed by the kernel anyways. I'd bet most of the stuff C is used for in this situation could be replaced with Python code, but isn't for maintainability and performance purposes.
This seems absurd to turn around after commiting this -- an armed rebellion.

I've just read a Russian telegram channel post (https://t.me/volyamedia/703) theorizing and referring to anonymous sources in higher ranks, that this was a push from the president administration and FSB against MoD, with Prigozhin being just the public side. This is of course based on anonymous sources and must be taken with caution, but it is a good explanation of what could have happened.

If we assume just 2 sides, Kremlin+MoD vs Wagner, this agreement looks impossible or a fake move.

From Kremlin position, leaving Prigozhin go away peacefully means this kind of uprisings with big demands are going to repeat. From Prigozhin's position, this means to step back after becoming an existential threat and try to co-live peacefully. Very implausible.

So I had only 2 explanations: 1) he lied and was preparing more offensive, or 2) he actually got some undeclineable offer: get some money, go abroad, or to say Afrika with another mission. But still, for Kremlin, (2) looks a very short-sighted decision and undermining of own position.

Thus, the version of an internal fight seems plausible. If we assume that the PA & FSB were ready to let the state lose this much reputation, or put their frontlines at risk of collapse during the counteroffensive, then things seem to agree with each other. (And collapsing front lines are a liability of MoD, not FSB anyway.)
I'm more worried about risks of these falling from sky or making emergency landings all over the place. Specially in 10 or 20 years when maintenance goes south... Or someone hacks one for their own fun use.
Last year I bought an Xbox for the first time to give Game Pass a try.. And I sold it to buy a PS5 w\ Plus a few weeks ago. If there's a reason to own an Xbox I couldn't find it.
A broken car is still a car! If I pushed a broken down Honda Civic into the park with the gear shift set to neutral and left it there, surely that would break the rule?
Don't use Cisco equipment; they put (quite sloppy) backdoors in their products. Absolutely zero trust with them.

Snowden: The NSA planted backdoors in Cisco products --- https://www.infoworld.com/article/2608141/snowden--the-nsa-p...

Backdoors Keep Appearing In Cisco's Routers --- https://www.tomshardware.com/news/cisco-backdoor-hardcoded-a...

Sinister secret backdoor found in networking gear perfect for government espionage: The Chinese are – oh no, wait, it's Cisco again --- https://www.theregister.com/2019/05/02/cisco_vulnerabilities...
Don't worry, your AR goggles will filter out whatever elements you don't like in a given scene. Personally I think it would probably look pretty cool so I'll leave them in.
ChatGPT Function Calling Helper Functions
I wrote a few helper functions that let you define your functions using Python objects and generate the JSON schema dict with a method call.
To extend on it a bit, flow has really good story with:

1. nominal types for classes (with correct variance/liskov substitution principles)

2. structural types for the rest

3. explicit annotation for exact structural types

This setup is brilliant.
Why has Mastodon adoption stalled?
program may not be, results could very much be. they are based on something. "but what does the word "derived" mean anyway" lol. i don't know, if you really don't want for those 'results' to be 'derived' from something and be a 'derivative', do a coin flip and just pick that random result.
He has returned to the topic, this time with a focus on those who are capable of exposing the fraud but instead turn a blind eye. He calls this 'passive corruption'.

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/06/23/its-worse-...
Every Mastodon user has an RSS feed
There is a logic to it though. On a bicycle you are mostly risking your own life, so you are likely to make good judgements about when you can break the rules. In a car, you are mostly riding other people’s lives (bicyclists and pedestrians). Different incentives.
I’m going to disagree. Even code that makes sense when read is easier to read in human language reading through comments. Especially if you’re looking for an area of code you’re not very familiar with.

Comments are basically free in most languages. Use them.
Cars can't cross over lakes and mountains so there are advantages to having an airplane inefficient or not.
Living in one such country, with one such authoritarian dictator - this is one of most accurate explanation of why is this happening.