skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To expand on this argument with a historical analogy, here is an interesting except I just stumbled across in the Wikipedia article about Enclosure [1]:

> In Tudor England the ever increasing demand for wool had a dramatic effect on the landscape. The attraction of large profits to be made from wool encouraged manorial lords to enclose common land and convert it from arable to (mainly) sheep pasture. The consequent eviction of commoners or villagers from their homes and loss of their livelihoods became an important political issue for the Tudors.[44] The resulting depopulation was financially disadvantageous to the Crown. The authorities were concerned that many of the people subsequently dispossessed would become vagabonds and thieves. Also the depopulation of villages would produce a weakened workforce and enfeeble the military strength of the state.[44]

From this my mind goes to the Highland Clearances [2] (and to America's Rust Belt and England's North).

In both cases, capitalists were more than happy to replace people with sheep, because that's where the profits lay.

The interesting thing about the quote above, is that it fits the pattern I mentioned, in which the interests of capitalists are not exactly the same as the State's.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure#The_end_of_the_Ope...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Clearances
Last Week Tonight claimed as much:

> [John Oliver] also pointed out that Disney has some registered trademarks that include the original Steamboat Willie Mickey, speculating that as the reason they included that version in the Walt Disney Animation Studios opening logo.

https://deadline.com/2023/04/john-oliver-tests-disney-lawyer...

The segment is worth a watch. They’ve used the character a couple of times already and probably would’ve done it more if not for the hiatus caused by the writer’s strike.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFRzy3b4pdo
Uh. Ahem. Clears throat

In a very Matty voice: different places have different life expectancies and that's ok.
Hard AI vs. Soft AI
Why is Denmark looking to ban tablets and smartphones? Is this a ban on use of personal devices in the school, or a ban of the use of them as educational tools?
When I think of "arena" related to memory management, it's not about "flattening", but just an arena allocator ... When you're allocating a bunch of items with the same lifetime, you can more efficiently allocate them from one or more large chunks of memory, and then at the end of their collective lifetime you free the large chunk(s) rather than freeing the items individually. The allocation can also be more efficient since you can just incrementally use the space in the parent chunk - no need for free-lists like a general purpose heap allocator.

In this context, the "flattening" aspect of this - using indices rather than pointers - could be viewed just as using pointers (offsets) that are relative to the parent chunk.
Is this a reputable science outlet?
Same here. Methinks that even just losing consciousness does something to recharge the mind.
Doesn't DMT also naturally exist? So lidke any time you buy a live anim you're buying DMT.
> Why ignore places like metafilter and Fark and slashdot.

Because they are not federated.
America has very decentralized governance and the states have a lot of power, especially when it comes to the medical system and Medicaid. You need to assess 50 states more like 50 countries when comparing them. Massachusetts has a higher population than Norway. There is a lot of nuance - we also allow millions of illegal immigrants every year, who can themselves get drivers licenses and access state resources, which further makes any discussion very difficult.

I find statistics that try to aggregate such a huge and dynamic population very suspicious. I do know that Canadians stream across the border to America when they are told their life saving procedures are months or years in the queue.
Feudalism had a mutual benefit. And feudalism isn’t sharecropping. Residents of the manor had some protection from the lord and the kingdom as compared to people outside of that system. Would I want to live as a peasant? No… but that was the human condition for a long time. And a small freeholder wasn’t necessarily better off than a serf at various points in history. Sharecroppers are just tenants, who often get trapped using the “company store” (ie captive suppliers etc) and make little or nothing.

YouTube is not the same as Reddit. A YouTube creator benefits from the platform and is paid for performance. It more like a record label type model. Reddit is different - as you said, moderators get no economic benefit. They just are the petty kings of a message board, and do a bunch of work for the company for free.

Reddit’s problem is there has never been a moat or a business. Their api made it easy for google to index them and gave them outsized influence. But they got too much investment and always had an ineffective team incapable of developing a coherent strategy to deliver the returns required to the investors. Examples are everywhere… old.reddit.com should not exist. If IPO was the path, it shouldn’t be a huge porn platform.
Sorry, I should have included a /nosarcasm tag or something, that is definitely not how I meant it.

I still enjoy the level of sleuthing and tinkering shown in the original linked post, I just choose to spend my time/energy budget on other kinds of challenges, rather than on my personal machine’s operating system. If I had the level of free time I had in my twenties I’m sure I would still be on Linux.
That is of course not Kosher at all. Compilers are generally free to layout and pad structs in whichever way they prefer, meaning that two compilers for the same platform might very well use incompatible layouts. It can lead to major problems if structs saved by say a 64-bit version of the program is to be loaded by the 32-bit version.
$3.4 million is a not even funny bad napkin mathematics. Just thinking of the work done by the moderators of /r/science, /r/AskScience, or /r/AskHistorians, not to speak of the moderators that handle celebrities AMA [1], and even $300 million would be a low amount if the platform really cared about the ones that make sure the platform is not a steaming pile of poppycock.

[1] "The Reddit moderators who coordinate many celebrity AMAs will no longer do so", https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/1/23781306/reddit-moderators...
How do you feel about search engine indexing?
The army is prohibited from operating fixed wing aircraft. This was part of the deal creating the air force out of the army. The air force is therefore on the hook to provide CAS.

The army has no qualms about operating helicopters even though they're vulnerable to fast jets and manpads, but the air force keeps raising the issue like its a deal breaker. The A10 can be thought of as an attack helicopter with much better range, armament, speed, and survivability. It is pretty dumb not to keep it going or replace it with something in the same category.

The air force position is that the F35 is the thing to do it. That's the case they made for the F35 - its a single aircraft that can take over these missions: A10, F16, F15, F18, F22. Completely bonkers.
It makes me sad the way people discount elderly people lives, as some lesser form of life not worth living anymore. It makes me skeptical about most proposals to regulate euthanasia, because once it's normalized, I suspect social pressure will start to build-up and press seniors to request it, even when they don't really want.
this isn't just a military production issue. Industry has always been bad at contingency planning. Healthcare was blindsided by the covid pandemic, even though the flu has been the most prominent pandemics in human history. Finance industry was blindsided housing crash. Supply chain disruptions make waves through the entire system.

Businesses barely do any contingency planning because there is no money to be made in it and it takes away from making money. so when a contingency finally hits, they're all caught with their pants around their ankles
I am not Aleklart, so I cannot logically confirm anything about Aleklart's history on reddit.

> If you think the average person that gets banned in a sub is some sort of freedom fighting martyr,

I'm saying that average people get banned from subreddits all the time for completely innocuous remarks. Never getting banned isn't a badge of honor, all it shows is that you're skillful at never stepping on the toes of mods despite the capricious nature of reddit's moderation. That's nothing to be proud of.
Twitter is basically a platform for social media managers, no one uses it to stay in touch with their 20 friends. Memefied prnewswire.

This "famous person/brand posts something medium witty 10 times a day, urge to consume intensifies" thing isn't that popular worldwide.
A 2022 study experimentally found the limit to be 30.5C ± 1C at 100% humidity, and lower in dry environments.

https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysio...
Apparently the BBC can’t deal with Fahrenheit.

> At what point the heat becomes unbearable is personal, but a study published in 2010 estimated that a "wet-bulb" temperature of 95F (35C) at 100% humidity, or 115F at 50% humidity is probably as hot as most humans can maintain a healthy core body temperature by sweating.

> But a team of researchers from Penn State University … showed that the upper environmental limit is a lower wet-bulb temperature of 95F (31C) at 100% humidity.

That would be 87.8F.
Somehow millions of us live here without living in the type of world that our mainstream media portrays. We have our issues for sure, but you’re kidding yourself if you think the USA is not an amazing place to live with incredible diversity of cultures and geographies.
Hetzner was just an example, because they are a well known.
Interestingly a similar sudden increase of German Tor users also happend in 2017: https://www.chip.de/news/Raetselhafter-Nutzeranstieg-Zahl-de...

Hetzner (and other German entities) seem to operate quite a few relays though: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#aggregate/as
not sure if this might have something to do with it...
Yes, and so is the content creation with original posts, commenting and even just reading and deciding to like or upvote content. That is all labor that adds value and drives eyeballs in.

The space seems ready for a model that pays everyone in the pipeline their true micro share of add and subscription revenue of what they contribute. I can't understand why something that does this hasn't taken over this space yet.

There's crude versions of this with 'Karma', YouTube and twitch streaming revenue, substack, medium, brave rewards and so on. But nothing that just automatically works without sign up and a lot of friction.
> In other words, his purchase was more political than economic, more ego than sound business judgment.

Not necessarily. I'm not a fan of the guy, but I do work in investment finance. The increase of interest rates might've been the reason he didn't want to go through with the buy. We went from a world where borrowing money was almost free to a world where it's very expensive. When Elon signed himself into buying Twitter loaning money for you and me was between 0.25% and 0.50% rate, when it finalized it was between 3.75% and 4.00%. The organisational loans are different, but not by much, and not only did those 6 months show the increase in rate, our financial industry also went through the realization that this wasn't likely to end as soon as they first hoped.

I'm not sure we can ever really get into the details, but I do think that going from free money to very expensive money likely had more to do with this than his ego and bad judgement.
You can reduce this risk with a Magisk module known as the "Advanced Charging Controller."

This tool will allow a limit to be placed on the charging percentage; I have my phone set at 80%, so the battery never spends time at 100% charge which is the most damaging.

https://themagisk.com/advanced-charging-controller-acc/

https://github.com/VR-25/acc
Other than RRSIG (which I would argue is not at all common), where have you seen it?
Entropy is mathematical force to be honest.
'Let it rip' is 'flatten the curve' for someone who unscientifically thinks zero Covid is practically possible.

China made the wrong decision and almost sparked an internal collapse. They lost the youth and the hopelessness in the country is palpable.
It's funny? Have you not seen the same phenomenon a million times now? Every social network-y thing does this. Once they get traction, it gets closed down slowly but steadily. See facebook, twitter, reddit, instagram... whatever bluesky is, its faith is set.
There is a big difference between making a profit and optimizing for profit.

Plenty of businesses make a profit - even a healthy profit - while respecting their employees and contributing to their community. Ones which optimize for profit inevitably become evil.
Texas climate refugees seeking safety elsewhere would be schadenfreudic in more ways than one.
Cities don't use public transport,people do. The public transport system for a given city, as compared to the personal transport choices made by individuals, is Worse Is Better in all the ways I said.
Your friend can discuss their needs with an occupational therapist.

It's what they do.

Sorry for your loss.
That 35C temperature is the upper limit, assuming that you're in the shade and have unlimited water and air fans to assist you. In reality, wet-bulb temperatures have caused fatalities as low as 28C

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7209987/
There has only been one copyright extension that affected Mickey Mouse that Disney might have had a role in. That was the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act

There was one other copyright extension that affected Mickey Mouse but that one, as far as I've been able to tell, Disney played no significant role in. That was the Copyright Act of 1976. I have little doubt that Disney was in favor of the 1976 Act, but so was almost everybody else.

That's because the 1976 Act was a major rewrite of US copyright law to take into account the massive technological changes that had happened since the 1909 Act, and to make US copyright law more compatible with the Berne Convention so that the US could join (which happened later with the the Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988).
Imgur is backed by venture capital. A stable, sustainable business isn’t enough; they have to make gobs of cash to repay their investors.
Piggybacking on existing communities for this feels very practical vs trying to bootstrap something from scratch.

(Particularly as it pertains to moderation, spam control, and so on)
That’s in effect what I’m saying. You’ve implemented a memory allocator using the “system” one.
How many instances or containers to handle that out or curiosity? And how long does the average request take?
Interestingly a similarly drastic increase in German Tor clients also happend back in 2017: https://www.chip.de/news/Raetselhafter-Nutzeranstieg-Zahl-de...

if you configure the graph to show more years you can see the similarities: https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?...
A toy programming language in 137 lines of Python code
Embattled physicist files patent for unprecedented ambient superconductor
I don’t know what’s the actual legal status on LLMs right now, but here’s my thought: if you created artwork in Adobe Photoshop, does Adobe own your art work? If you made a world in Minecraft, does Minecraft own your world? What about using the AI tools in Adobe Photoshop? Or WorldEdit in Minecraft?

I’m sure these question can be easily answered by looking it up, so why would LLMs be any different? You have control over what the LLM generates (prompts).
Yes totally, I keep seeing people mention these arena / flattened tree and graph structures, without mentioning memory safety.

And also weird claims that arenas solve memory safety problems in C, when it's equally likely (depending on the program) that they CAUSE dangling pointers, use-after-free, etc.

The same issue comes up in slightly different ways in both C/C++ and Rust

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My comment on this post from 2 months ago:

https://old.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/1350d...

Summary: the upsides are very real, but we should mention the downsides too:

- Arenas punt on memory safety; Ownership can be nontrivial (a bunch of examples)

- Mutation, and appending to list/vectors are complications

- Pointer representations are more friendly to debuggers

My wiki page is linked at the bottom of this article (which I appreciate because it actually has code and measurements!)

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Compact-AST-Representat...
Cuba is not in Europe. Cuba would in no way be considered a MED country.

I don't see what the challenge is. Which European countries count infant mortality differently to the USA? You made the claim.
The corporate blog collectives were always going to bust. Blogs from a single person or laser focused on a specific topic with very low overhead will always have a greater chance to succeed.
Collecting groups of podcasts and blogs and gaming them to generate revenue creates this layer of corporate slime that slowly turns off the reader/listener. Each article or show devolves into a funnel to click troughs. Never mind a group of writers who while in this corporate structure boil the frog and their careers.
Texas is like a small country with a climate gradient. Houston and east texas are hot and muggy like the South, and it progressively turns hotter but drier the farther west you go (with some plains wierdness up in the panhandle).

Hence the biggest thing about this heatwave, from my perspective, is not that its over 100F. Its always over 100F in the summer in DFW. But its very humid and over 100F in DFW, for a long stretch. That humidity is not normal here, and its not sustainable.
Timestamped filenames.
100% GPT
Sadly, that likely wouldn't deter this, as the county doesn't really "make" money, it relies on taxes. So it's not their money they're playing with, and the ones pushing this lawsuit probably aren't elected anyway, so they don't risk much.
I don't have any intrinsic issue with the energy export comment, just curious on the "how?" of it since Texas is a little over 40% of U.S. crude oil production.

Is it just that the spread of production minus consumption of oil is smaller that that of natural gas?
> There is little preventative practices going on because those don’t make money

Source? Testing and preventative care is both profitable and widespread in America. (It's not universal.)
It's called the Dunning-Kruger effect, paraphrased by Bertrand Russell as "The stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
No, but don’t act like you have to keep playing. Star Wars has been marketed to me my whole life, and I ate it up for a long time, but I’ve stopped paying attention to the new stuff because I just don’t think it’s good anymore.
People have many reasons for liking what they do. Just because marketing exists does not mean you can judge someone as being somehow brainwashed.

Some of it can just be nostalgia, and some people might be well aware of that and not, you know, have a "mental illness" because something from their youth evokes nice feeling in them as an adult.

There are plenty of Zelda fans who never played the original or any 2D ones at all, and just love BotW and TotK, even people who are older. BotW was my favorite Zelda since the original, partially since it shared its exploratory spirit much more than any other game in the series (TotK is unfortunately much too similar to BotW, not different enough to present a new experience).
One way to work around this (and the way cameras do it) might be a power adapter that uses the battery connector.

That should even be reasonably DIYable. 3.3V power supplies are readily available, and that voltage matches a (nearly empty) Li-ion battery. Make it beefy enough to handle peak currents at startup, add some minimum circuitry to satisfy the phone's charger and battery protection, and you should be able to run phones and tablets indefinitely.

Edit: some reports on stackexchange about people using this setup: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/309886/how-t...
If I were your boss, I'd tell you to follow up that nap with a coffee and then GET BACK TO WORK :)

But.. there is the alternative theory of the "caffeine nap" a.k.a. "coffee nap" - that you have coffee just before your nap, and then the coffee's first effect (dilating blood vessels) helps you fall asleep before the second effect (increased alertness) kicks in.
The "heat death" of the universe is a concept that deserves to die. The second principle of thermodynamics is true only if you ignore gravity. In the presence of gravity, systems tend to go towards lower entropy, just see how a planetary system can form out of a gas cloud.
Okay, that does help to know. It's a weird position IMO (you really spend less time/energy on another OS's quirks?), but it's nice to know that it wasn't intended condescendingly.
The solution exposed don't seems competitive enough to solve with good rank the problem exposed here https://highload.fun/tasks/14

That site is really good to play with SIMD code.
This is counting any % at all of female hunting as hunting.

So men are doing 99% of the hunting and women are doing 1%, it’s counted the same as if it were 50/50. Turns out that in most societies women do engage in hunting, but only a tiny percent of the time.

Sources:

https://twitter.com/ed_hagen/status/1674761975673532416

https://twitter.com/datepsych/status/1675080665413369861
Will Earth become too hot for humans?

It doesn’t need to be too hot every single hour of every single day, but a single event for which you are unprepared could turn averages meaningless.
I think that's the crux of the problem. Who needs stealth for CAS? You're putting wear/tear on an expensive airframe that best serves at air-to-air interdiction.

Even in lets say a theoretical Ukraine scenario, with overwatch from enemy S400 systems, is it realistic we'd run CAS missions without SEAD first?
There’s a difference between being able to iterate quickly and move fast, and the “move fast and break things” ethos.

The P-51 Mustang went from conception to flying prototype in 179 days by a company that had never built a fighter before. Fighters aren’t famous for being lower stakes than bazookas.

I know that complexity doesn’t scale linearly, but we can use the Dragon vs Starliner development to make the point that legacy military contractors have forgotten how to move with purpose. The Starliner capsule has been in development for longer than the entire Apollo program, is years overdue, and still has no scheduled crew test flight. The dragon, meanwhile, made by a company that famously moves fast, has successfully, and safely, been flying crewed missions for years. That seems pretty high stakes to me…
> The theorem states that the volume of a solid of revolution formed by a revolving shape is the area of the original shape multiplied by the distance traveled by the _centroid_. The centroid of a triangle is determined based on distances from the three sides, and this is where thirds come from. For example, the centroid of a a right triangle with points (0,0), (0,1), and (1,0) sits at (0.33(3), 0.33(3)). That's a third!

Isn't the centroid of an equivalent rectangle rotated to make a cylinder at (0.5, 0.5)? 0.33 is not 1/3 of 0.5
It is exactly that and you even can use the same proof for a triangle, a cone or higher dimensional analogies. You always get 1/dimension.

Proof: Take height 1 for simplicity of notation. Then we get the volume as the integral over crosssections (Fubini). Each cross section is rescaled by a factor (1-z), where z is the height. Rescaling changes the cross sections measure by (1-z)^(n-1). Integrate that to get 1/n. Done.
Are there any negative impacts to accessibility with the `<use href="#icon-name" />` sprite approach?