skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"held out the promise of an efficient state-led economy that would uplift the downtrodden Black majority. And for a while, it did."

There it is, the perpetually-available deal offered by all politicians: give us power and we will fix problem X (or maybe all problems).

Maybe intentions are good and the power is used to alleviate problem X. But soon those interested in solving X are replaced by those interested in the power.

And then the people are left with at least as many problems as before, but they've already given up the power and won't get it back.
People have been openly selling drugs on Instagram and Snapchat for years. This isn't really any different.
>Well, for one, they're 51% of the world's population.

Asia makes up 59.4% of the world population, and Africa makes up 17.6%. Europe and North America by comparison only makes up 9.4% and 7.5% respectively.

>We also have studies that demonstrate positive influence in more gender-equal workplaces.

There are studies that do the same for ethnicity. With a cursory search I found:

https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/diversity-and-inc...

"In the case of ethnic and cultural diversity, our business-case findings are equally compelling: in 2019, top-quartile companies outperformed those in the fourth one by 36 percent in profitability, slightly up from 33 percent in 2017 and 35 percent in 2014. As we have previously found, the likelihood of outperformance continues to be higher for diversity in ethnicity than for gender."

>The distinction of sex occurs everywhere throughout nature. At a broad level, it's consistent.

>The amount of melanin in your skin is not.

But no ethnic/racial diversity proponent would claim that the benefits comes from the difference in amounts of melanin in someone's skin, just like no pro gender diversity proponent would claim the benefits come from the shape of someone's genitals. The equivalent would be something like "distinction of cultures/language" occurs everywhere throughout nature, which as so far as we know is true. Whales of the same species have different calls depending on where they're from, for instance.
This is corruption, not socialism.
There are plenty people who are making money in real estate in other market though, why is office space special? No one cared when my Great-great grandpa Willy the wagon wheel maker lost his job because of cars.
Steinbeck was a hack. There aren’t enough calories in breastmilk to sustain life for an adult male. Also, equal opportunities for your whole population is a noble goal. Twisting that into, “Americans are delusional to think they could ever succeed”, just makes it seem like you hate America. You could twist socialism into, “You were afraid that not everyone could win so now nobody wins”, and be equally wrong.
Critics are getting less cruel. Alas
Asking how long someone has used the internet in order to undermine their opinion on being treated like a resource is moderately patronizing and doesn't feel constructive.

I'm glad you are happy with how folks use your email address! I understand the above post's perspective as well and probably lean more that way.

I think there are some good comments here about throttling new accounts on an existing, scaling product (feels good faith and positive to me) vs collecting emails saying something exists or is in progress when it's really just someone trying to decide IF they should make it at all (feels bad faith and very mildly exploitive to me).
But per them, a short while ago whites were being exterminated and South Africa was facing famine as a result.
> I don't think anyone is saying he should be in jail because he's saying misogynistic stuff.

For what it's worth, I do. The shit he and others of his ilk teach to young, vulnerable men is inspiring a lot of real-world violations of women, some even get drawn to outright terrorism and murder.

In Germany, we call such persons "geistige Brandstifter" for a reason. They may not light a fire on their own - in general they keep their hands very clean and shiny to be able to spread their message far and wide - but they sure as hell have no issues when others do the dirty work for them. And of course when someone follows the stochastic terrorism strategy, the preachers disavow them.
> Instead we get one where you can’t even be anonymous without rubbing elbows with child predators.

Says the person posting under the name "sillysaurusx."

> Whonix community who wanted to nix google maps entirely; he spent a lot of time downloading maps and trying to make a way to view them locally, which I think is going to be prescient one day. It already is in many parts of the world — you don’t have cell service

Here's an idea, maybe he should print those maps out, bind them together into a larger map, and then find a really complicated way to fold them up so he can keep them handy when needed.

> In some sense cp is the ultimate test of anonymity, since you’ll be thrown in prison pretty much instantly if caught.

And yet.. it is still produced in the physical world where none of these constraints actually exist. It's only promulgated and marketed through anonymous means.
Archive link: https://archive.is/dGpHw
What FSD issues are the most problematic?
Not to hijack his comment but I am open to betting my HN account that those charges on him will be cleared. There is no evidence on what he is accused of, and he has since appeared in podcasts with people who have done a lot of great interviews in the past.

You’d have to be a complete idiot to associate with a trafficker unless your gut made it clear as day that there isn’t much meat to these potatoes.

—-

Oh no… the “i downvote but don’t comment” brigade has arrived.
This page is over the top.

The first time in almost two decades. Wow. Reminds me of Dr Evil saying "one...mILLION dollars!" Most gilded domes last many decades longer than that.

And "...arguably the world’s most recognized college landmark"? That would take a lot of arguing! I'd never heard of this dome nor seen a photo, and there are so many "notre dame" colleges that I'd only heard of this one from my gf who got her PhD from Northwestern nearby.
It’s calculating the derivative. 0 and 1 aren’t used for their truthiness, but as values. d/dx x becomes 1 and d/dx y becomes 0 (the two cases, same variable and different variable).
I wonder why there's no true modern replacement for Excel that preserves the same versatility and ease of use for nontechnical users.

Every user could just have their own file, in which they could stash records(Or updates to other people's records), and you could have interfaces to view the data that look like a typical spreadsheet.

The data itself could live in an unsorted set of JSON objects with UUIDs, but the UI could be just as easy as Excel, you'd get tables that you could add or remove columns to and from, and put formulas in the fields, and query in some stripped down language with similar power to Excel.

And it could be 100% compatible, you would be free to put your data in the spreadsheet like the old fashioned way, sync with any cloud including SyncThing and no cloud at all, and data files could just be plain CSV you could version.
I very much miss Pete Townshend’s articulate and incisive commentaries on music and society which were more frequent in the press many years ago. I knew this story but not the part where he wrote a message to the family on Scott Halpin’s death, very kindly.

He lives just up from my local, but now closed, record shop, Sleeve Notes, and popped in on the way back from shopping one afternoon to sign copies of the last album and chat with Ken, the owner. Top lad, old Pete. RIP Scott Halpin, immortalised in rock legend.
With Rust it is the learning curve that is hard.

I find every other aspect of "developer experience" excellent
"Dyes have electron delocalization. That's why they're optically active."

What do you mean by that?
Apples speech recognition is pretty good, at least for me. I always assumed the delta was because it does it in near real time, which is not possible with whisper.
Ask HN: Which distro do you use? (2023)
What are your daily used distros?
I mean, you've got to draw a line, and wherever you draw it, some countries are going to be shitholes.

But, the GP's claim was that countries that recognize Kosovo are mainly non-shitholes (without naming names, there's certainly some in the list). There's no claim that the non-recognizers are or are not shitholes.
Remember that a society is not homogeneous and a single concept of right would require homogeneity. How that is achieved will be up to you, if you gain a measure of power and cleave to this idea. In the past it has led to tragedy and infamy. Have a care....
Then you know first hand how truly wonderful it was. I've heard nothing but good things.
It is likely the OS that is clearing those tabs from memory. The app may not get any notifications. IOS does not have virtual memory that can be saved to storage and restores on request. IPadOS does now have that on the newer M1 processor versions. They also have 8GB of RAM so they are less likely to need to purge or swap.
Is USA the reason they have 12h long "load shedding"/power cut sessions?
Go was designed by a couple of well known UNIX folks that dislike C++.

With exception of Kubernetes, most of Google's software keeps being written in Java, C++, Kotlin, and nowadays Rust.

Its use is much more widespread outside Mountain View walls than inside them.
I'm upvoting you because that's excellent link I hadn't seen before. However, it does tend to confirm what I was saying: the policies and procedures of syncing are so damn complicated. It also confirms that your photos and notes are typically not encrypted in a way that prevents Apple from reading them. I.e., Apple can read them unless you are (a) running iOS 16.2 or greater, and (b) you have "chosen to enable Advanced Data Protection".
What's not mentioned in the comment you're replying to is the postgraduate-level type theory you need to learn and constantly refine to work with these languages at a practical level. So be aware that even if you put the time into learning them, it's unlikely you'll get to use them at work.

Look up Coq, Agda, Lean, and Idris. I would start with Coq, it's the most used. Idris is more like Haskell and programmer-oriented.

Edit: Nevermind, apparently they were just talking about Haskell...
https://archive.is/8hq4e
This thingy: https://extranet.bundesbank.de/ams

How they describe it: https://www.bundesbank.de/en/service/reporting-systems/exter...

Any single transaction exceeding 12500€ entering (or leaving) Germany has to be manually reported here. So for example if you're living in Germany and working remotely as a contractor for a US based company you'll probably have to report your income every month.

There are many exceptions that don't need manual reporting though, like if you're buying physical goods from overseas. I guess those are already automatically tracked through other ways.

For fun, I just tried to login at ~9:30 PM local time on a Sunday, and it said:

"Access Denied"

"You cannot access the resource you have requested at this time."

"The resource you have requested is protected by a policy restricting access to specific time periods. Your request has occured outside of those permitted time periods."
Is this a salient signal for US to find a different Lt. General to oversee US military AI? Pretty sure even AI would say, "yes."
The whole point of this HN thread is customers weren't getting regular updates. If they had they wouldn't be on a random community forum trying to get support's attention.
> I'm worried people might die. The only solution is to kill lots of people.

You know that, when productivity goes down, people that can barely survive already will die. Right?
The US installed 11.8GW solar last year. That is 453MW/every 2 weeks. :-)

Yes, that’s nameplate capacity, so you can’t count on solar to delivery the power to get us over the line by itself. But we are nearly on track to the net zero goal when you add in …

… wind.
The good power supply is a good thing, I used old Samsung USB chargers, I imagine they deliver an ok quality, but perhaps not as much as a phone has a big battery that can work as "big capacitor"/filter of sorts. The UPS is a good idea too, I probably need one here and power going out where I live is something that does happen occasionally.
I was born in the People’s Republic of Poland, and I think most of the suckage you’ve described are due to oppressive authoritarianism of the former Eastern Bloc countries, and have little if anything to do with collective ownership of means of production.
History class, Objective-C++ was created by NeXT.
Imagine that some LLM starts to communicate body counts due to these types of writings.
I am from Ethiopia. I can confirm that it does not work. I wouldn't recommend tourists to drive here unless they stay at least a month observing how traffic works. Years ago when I started driving, I use to slow down, be attentive, allow people to go first but through time I learned (was forced?) to be like the average driver or I couldn't get anywhere.
This[1] place is renovated now but there are other squares where people drive like this. It's prone to traffic accidents

[1] https://youtu.be/UEIn8GJIg0E
OpenBSD has soft updates as an option. I don't recall ever having to manually fsck a FreeBSD system with soft updates enabled.
> We utilise legacy IP addresses that cannot be revoked by RIPE

What does this mean? It sounds like ASN spoofing/squatting.
“Math” is used in USA and Canada. “Maths” is used by the rest of the English speaking world.
> But publishing vulnerability without a responsible disclosure can be considered unethical.

Yes, there is debate on that, and there are arguments on either side. But given ejmr went 12 years without changing their "anonymization" scheme, and then changed it a short time prior to an article being published that demonstrated the scheme was broken, I think it's reasonable to presume ejmr was notified prior to publication, and had time to correct the flaw, which is the canonical example of responsible disclosure.

That ejmr did not tell its users is an example of the behavior that the anti-responsible disclosure folk point to. Organizations that say "you should tell us about vulnerabilities in our products, but you cannot tell our users, and neither will we" are a large part of the reason some people oppose responsible disclosure.

> No. If they were informed about this issue, after changing the schema EJMR could take down all preexisting posts made with the old schema and request public archives to remove them (and reindex new ones).

There are multiple existing libraries online to support scraping ejmr specifically, as well as who knows how many archives and search engines we don't know about.

Every person who posted need to be made aware that their posts could be tracked at least to the IP (though at any institution you're behind a NAT so generally IP != person, and the idea of ISPs having per hour IP<->user logs from a decade ago seems suspect).

Also we know that ejmr found out about the gaping hole somehow - we don't know exactly, we just know they addressed the incompetence, though I assume they're still doing it wrong - and they didn't even pull and re-index their own archive let alone ask anyone else to do so.

> It's not foolproof because many posts may happen to be archived independently but it would be something.

Either you're anonymous or you're not, so you can't just say "we doubt there are any other archives so you're safe". The user IPs are not secret, as they were never secret.

We also have no way to know if anyone else had already done this, and we likely never will.

> And of course notify users.

Which they also did not do.
Existing BEVs are already good enough for city dwellers. Only hybrids need to be charged ~daily. BEVs have batteries 10x their size.

BEVs last a week or more between charges. If you have a charger at work, supermarket, gym, or such, you just plug it in when you have a chance.
Continuous Benchmarking eBPF in Rust with Bencher
How would salt end up back in sewage?
-Ofast also doubles the performance for me to 200tok/sec, and -march=native got me up to 230tok/sec.

-Ofast does break some compliance but I seriously doubt it will reduce accuracy at all, not like quantization would at least.
We already have American WeChat, it's called "Android" and "iOS".
Humans are infinitely adaptable, I believe that most of the wailing and gnashing of teeth is purely psychological need for middle managers to lord over people in their office fiefdoms. My productivity has never been better not having to commute and listen to infinite office gossip and random phone calls while in my cube. It could be a personal failing that I'm easily distracted but it is what it is. I work better from home and will continue to seek out those opportunities over driving an hour to and from work. Consider it my contribution to the lower CO2 effort.
Is this really blamed on Apartheid? Whenever I have talked with South African Blacks about the various tribal affiliations of the country, they claim that each community did not much like each other (and everyone hated the Zulus) since long before white people arrived. Indeed, it was white oppression that gave an impetus to pan-Africanism where, for a time in the ANC, people might have united across tribal affiliations.
You still need to pay property tax in perpetuity (in the US at least). Taxes can only be paid with USD aka “system money”, so you’re not really outside of the system in this situation. Plus there is eminent domain.

The only way to avoid needing system money would be to live on national land for free, but then you cannot have a permanent dwelling like a cabin.
https://archive.is/fZEU4
No response. Not that I was expecting one.
Yes and no to this, IMO. I think the best interfaces have a "happy path" simple usage that doesn't require documentation to intuit one's way through without any dangerous footguns but also doesn't do very much, and then an arbitrarily deep path into more powerful use cases requiring more detailed documentation.
Yes, you're right to a certain extent. If the job allows, working remotely should be allowed for everyone.
The persistence of the Saturday Evening Post (2021)
A tool is only as useful as the one wielding it, and it doesn't have to be perfect to be useful. I'm faster with LLM guided development than without in unfamiliar territory. Jack of all trades, LLM-grade proficiency in all of them.

See, the thing is I don't actually want it to take my job, I like having a job, for many reasons. As a translator that turns Jira tickets into English and then turns them into code, if it makes my job easier and I'm more productive, great! If it takes deep domain knowledge before it's useful and it can be tricked into missing subtle things, that sounds like job security.
Only if you don't care about cyclists and pedestrians who now have no protected time to cross intersecting roads.
> The cost of going slower all the time will add up, so people will go back to going fast.

Interesting hypothesis but where is the evidence? I can think of country-wide counter examples such as the UK (among the safest roads in the world) where they've been removing central line markings on country roads for years in the name of safety. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/04/remova...
This theory was quite popular in manosphere. Some hardcore haters were even making videos to warn women. If you check sources, studies like this go back to 1970ties. It will be interesting to see, if it gains traction now.
If this is legitimate, these people are idiots. If it's not legitimate it's a honeypot. Either way I'm sure stupid criminals will fall for it, so kudos
Here's a different hot take: GPT/LLM/AI will eventually make all languages obsolete. You tell it what you want and it'll just output machine code directly.
That's the page I'm on: https://files.catbox.moe/kyql13.png
Nailed it right here. Lots of people don't think of it this way though :)
> I was hoping to polish it a lot more and even add some more content before posting on HN later next week :)

That's on me, I'm a fan of your work and saw this pop up on my GitHub feed. I probably should have considered if you were ready for it to be shared. I hope the attention was mostly positive!
We tried that in 1910s.

What we got was a whole lot of dead people and no one wanted to ride bicycles anymore.
USB-C Power Metering with the ChargerLAB KM003C
Idk.

Using HDI [0] you can see that ZA was middle of the pack developmentally in the 90s, but platueaed until 2007, when the commodity boom and BRICS fervor saw ZA's development skyrocket. Yet by 2013 onwards, that development began to plateau again.

Furthermore, ZA is a country that is traditionally compared to other rising economies like China, Brazil, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Thailand, etc. In the 2000s, ZA was far ahead of China developmentally and comparable to Mexico and Brazil, yet all 3 countries have overtaken ZA.

Heck, in 1990 Malaysia, Thailand, and South Africa were all comparable developmentally yet Malaysia and Thailand in 2023 have hit the precipice of becoming a developed country (HDI at 0.8 and above) while South Africa is still stuck.

Even Vietnam, a country that in 1990 was one of the poorest countries in the world has now in 2023 caught up to South Africa developmentally.

This absolutely constitutes a collapse. Mind you it's not as bad as Venezuela's (China in 2023 has only just hit developmental indicators that Venezuela had in the late 2000s and early 2010s, yet Venezuela had regressed to the same level as China in the early 2000s), but it is absolutely a massive regression.

[0] - https://countryeconomy.com/hdi/south-africa
There is some small value but you can rectify that by working closer together over phone calls and such. It's not nearly worth what middle management says it's work to cover for their need to have everyone in the office to lord over, which is the 99% reason for it.
You can power it by pumping down an equal amount of surface water
Right now i'm using what was manjaro, but has become more Arch after all the changes I've made. It was installed 4 years ago. I've been looking at getting a Freebsd install setup for laptop use, but haven't gotten it working enough to make the switch.
Apple is calling their typing correction a “transformer”. That is a component of LLMs, but Apple may not be using a full LLM in that case. This feature seems like a sandbox for them to try out some of this tech in the field while they do work internally on more ambitious implementations.

Apple is also dogfooding an LLM AI tool internally also likley to gain a better understanding of how this works in practice and how people are using them.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-experimenting-wit...
I see socialism like unions. Instead of addressing the underlying problem they seek to build a permanent detente with it. To that extent, people are much better off seeing themselves as "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" otherwise they risk becoming the "permanently politically exploited underclass."
GCC isn't that compatible with everything post Objective-C 2.0, there is only a kind of partial support.

At WWDC 2023 there were a couple of sessions with Objective-C++ content, e.g. how to extend PyTorch on macOS.
> Really mostly nimbys. Greens have relented.

Head in the Sandies is probably even more encompassing. From people that tink the solution is drilling for oil in national parks to people thinking suing developers and separating their trash is all you need to do. They're stupid people. Neither should be influencing policy.

Seems to me that the usual historical options aren't acceptable. Business as usual looks bad. The traditional solution, genocidal warfare seems like a really bad idea for someone living in an industrial civilization. We could degrowth. But the Khmer Rouge tried that in the 1970's and back to the rice fields didn't work very well for most people.

So seems like technological mitigation is all we can hope for.
A cool way to keep things cool: the electrocaloric effect