skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have always wondered did the boomer generation get to exploit everyone? Their parents were used to much lower living standards thus also accepted them in retirement. And now their children which there is less than them, have to also pay their retirement. While many of them might not have stored enough economic value during their working life...

And sadly I think they might get away with it...
Geolocation and your sexts are two separate things so your poll doesn't reflect what is purchased.
Japan: 377,973 km² [0]

California: 423,970 km² [1]

You are off by roughly 9 times. Not a small mistake.

[0]: https://www.worlddata.info/asia/japan/index.php

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California
The Egyptians had chariots, they definitely used wheels.
I have to admit that it's incredibly amusing to me that humanity could go extinct because we basically just didn't feel like bothering to keep the whole thing going. I'm certainly one of those who doesn't really see the point in it.

But I suspect there will always be some fundamentalist religious groups who will find reasons to reproduce no matter the economic or environmental realities of the future Earth.
> Does his agenda make him lie?

He accepted hacked emails from the Russians and released them in a way to effect his goal of having Clinton lose the election. That was his stated goal.

You wouldn't call it a lie, but calling yourself a journalist on that basis certainly is.

Most people who back Assange just agree with his politics and/or means to an ends. But they don't have that level of awareness.
This looks great! What vendor did you end up going with to do the printing and shipping?
At least they're large enough that that makes somewhat sense.
Whilst it's important to stand up to the US on this matter, is there any way Australia can arrange with the UK to send him home?

> the WikiLeaks founder is alleged to have “risked very serious harm to our national security”.

Where "national security" = "reputation"
How else are they going to get the clicks?
Read the book Just Law published by your own people
Not really in the intuitive sense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iph500cPK28

Someone actually went out and tested this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vrhk5OjBP8

The electric field is very tightly constrained around the wire. The amount of energy that reaches the light through the gap is incredibly small, not nearly enough to turn on a real light bulb. The bulk of the energy does indeed have to take the path through the wire. I find that video usually leads people to an even less correct understanding than the marbles-in-a-tube analogy.

The Veritasum video can essentially be summarized, "fun fact: two parallel wires act like an antenna, and an extremely small amount of energy reaches the other end before the rest of the energy takes the long path through the wire.
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Launching a sat from sea level through atmosphere to reach LEO at mach 24 would require heat shielding and velocities that aren’t feasible or practical even if you could find a country that wants fireballs traveling at over 50 times the speed of sound through their atmosphere.
> Game theory rises to the level of Solomon. Has it ever failed?

There’s a reason we study the Prisoner’s dilemma and its failure modes.

With regards to the cake example more specifically, what makes it somewhat trivial is that the state of the world is fully observable, utilities are easily computable (volume of cake), etc.
Germany is in an overall tricky spot right now – and likely at the beginning of a long term, downwards trend. It’s the only major EU country whose economy shrank last quarter, it’s mired in endless bureaucracy and red tape and its governing coalition is adding to the problem by discontinuing existing (nuclear) energy supplies, introducing cumbersome legislation and having an overall agenda that purely focuses on redistribution with no concern for value generation.

Germany had its Heyday when the technologies it specialised in – namely cars, industrial equipment, and components where at the peak of the technological demand curve. But this peak has long ago moved to software and Germany has nothing to offer in this regard (yes, I am aware of SAP.)

Having said that – and despite what this article says – I’m confident that Germany’s car manufacturers will be able to leverage their (in many regards world leading) abilities to succeed in the electric car sector. But Germany’s economy as a whole needs a fundamental change of direction if it is to succeed in the next decades.
I have seen people online accusing this guy of being a CIA stooge, and some other people saying he’s controlled opposition paid by the CCP.

If he has managed to get both of these monikers, his analysis must be fairly legitimate.
Wouldn't be easier to rename the branches on the case sensitive system (a throw away Linux VM would do), push, pull?

Of course if the solution is editing .git/config, that's even easier, but it probably takes more than that.
Historically, for most of the population in the majority of situations, children were an inexpensive asset, but things have changed. Raising children nowadays is outrageously expensive, and even owning a house that's an item of basic financial security for a family is already out of reach for a lot of people.

So the direct incentives that you claim that have never existed were there all the time, having a family with kids were the natural and expected thing to do. It used to go good and easy, but now all the economic incetives go against it.

I don't like to keep bringing back the old and tired trope of how the boomer discourse and worldview are completely out of touch with the reality, but when it comes to the debate about demographics it's completely impossible not to.
Can you turn your comment into an argument please? This is obtuse.
Of these, lying is most clearly (definitely, I would say) a term that applies to entities with agency, but I don't see hallucinating being so. Confabulation seems to me to fall somewhere between: insofar as it is not simply a synonym for lying, that seems to lie in it being a pathology, and one which tends to compromise the subject's ability to act with agency (a person fully aware that their confabulation is false is, if they hope their listeners will believe them, lying, and has apparently chosen to do so.)

Personally, I feel that the last two are useful analogies while the first is not, but they are all of limited applicability because I doubt an LLM's use of language follows from, or is indicative of, an understanding that there is an external world.
It was also surprisingly easy [1] to switch entire CPU architectures back in the "olden days" and it wasn't a given that x86 would even be a long-term architecture the way it ended up.

[1] for a value of easy that was something between "we made all the software and so recompiling on a new processor isn't customer painful" to "the thing is programmed entirely manually anyway so who cares".
Agreed.

Some rooms have so many user and so much chat history, that my own puny homeserver struggles to join them. I've tried all sorts of tweaks - from tweaking the PostgreSQL service, to using things like noatime etc. on the ext4 filesystem. This has helped immensely, but some rooms, like the Python room on matrix.org, brings my homeserver to its knees :)

Perhaps in the future the Synapse devs will improve the code so that mammoth rooms don't bring more resource-starved homeservers down. Alternatively I could throw more resources at the homeserver, but for my use-case, the 6GB ram and 6 cores I assign to the VM running the Synapse instance and the PostgreSQL service - and the IRC bridge heheh - is the bare-minimum I can get away with.

On saying all that, I like Matrix more than I like IRC, nowadays, and more folks should IMO get on Matrix.

(p.s. custom emoji's would be lovely on Matrix ;) )
> because it simply can't.

It can't for the same reason python can't - every part was designed without it in mind.

> Python already does support it

The language runtime might have it in a branch, but the vast majority of C code it is based on, and the scripts themselves assume otherwise.

> fast single core machines

Once again, if you are using python as a scripting language, with C libraries, and spawning processes, you are already utilizing multiple cores without any adjustment on your part.

> CPU bound workloads become ever more important.

If that's true, then you shouldn't use python. It's about 100x slower than C. How much performance can you squeeze out of dividing work into cooperating threads, that can't be easily achieved by having multiple processes.

In the "web application" example you are using, the norm is already to have many processes to handle incoming connections.
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Japan: 145,937 sq.m.

California: 163,696 sq.m.

163,696 - 10% = 147326.4

I said "10 percent" not "10 times." And it does so happen that Japan is roughly 10% smaller than California. (In fact it's closer to 11% smaller, but I rounded it out.)
Not every social problem can be tackled economically.
There are fancy gui's to search in text files even on linux.
That will come in next-gen adblockers. Ads will run in an emulated sandbox, unseen by the user. And many user-agent tools already allow randomization, a tiny fictional history.
The numbers are generated in order. They started with 0000-BBB, then 0001-BBB, and it'll continue until 9999-ZZZ. We're currently around MDB. This means that it's a good approximation to assume all the numbers are equally probable.
I think the right word would have been 'execute' programs. Not compile.

Thanks for explaining.
Not in line with what I have seen in terms of required GDPR work in small businesses. Pretty minimal as far as I have observed it.
> Japan is nowhere near the most densely populated country on earth. It's the 40th. Less dense than Belgium, Israel, India, Singapore, and South Korea, just to name a few. Calling Japan cramped for space is a stretch.

This is good rhetoric but poor logic. The mere existence of denser-populated places has no bearing on whether a particular place is too densely populated, any more than the mere existence of more polluted places has any bearing on whether a particular place is too polluted.

> Japan is also not having any kind of managed population decline, unless they choose counterbalance old people dying with immigration.

The idea that mass immigration is the only way to manage population decline is absurd and unserious.
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> the RISC-V instruction set (ISA), decoder, executor, and state machine

So does this repo define these things as F# function and as a user I can import this repo as library and call those functions and my function call would directly run instructions on RISC-V processors, with no "middlewares" like operating system and such?
Higher altitude circular orbits are slower in linear velocity too. Look it up or work it out by equating the centripetal force with the gravitational attraction, which is the condition for a circular orbit.
It's incredibly stupid and shortsighted to ignore obvious solutions and instead keep looking for shortcuts that could easily make things much worse, just to keep those profits up.
So telling the truth at the wrong time makes it immoral?

Stories of high interest, not coming from him.
Yeah, whatever you do, don’t use Mimir.

Operational nightmare, expensive to run, various parts of the entirely-too-many moving pieces it contains broke all the time and the performance was…unimpressive.

I‘ve heard that some people manage to run this thing successfully, and power to them, but I want nothing more to do with it.

Just save yourself the pain and use Victoria Metrics. Added benefit: you get an implementation of a rate function that’s actually correct.
Awesome, thank you. I knew about mypyc, but forgot. I just put it in:

https://github.com/lcompilers/lpython.org-deploy/pull/37

So now we have 25 compilers there.

Yes, the current syntax to call CPython is low level, you have to create an explicit interface. We can later make it more straightforward, such as using a `@python` decorator to a function, where inside you just do CPython. We always want to make it explicit, since it will be slow, and by default we want the LPython code to always be fast.
But can learned behavior persist in DNA? Could a gene activated by environmental triggers be later still be activeated after metamorphosis?
This is exactly why the US Government will not create a Citizen Network for authenticated social sharing among actual participants in our Social Contract. It's absolutely a path to despotism, and very few have the stomach for rebellion.
Quern: Undying Thoughts was extremely fun. I wish the team behind it would make another game. There were problems but the story, exploration, and puzzles carried it.
A tax on not having kids.... That sounds dystopian as hell.
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Unless you know you have a flexy nib, you shouldn't. Too much force can cause your tines to sproing, and then you need a new nib (or get a nibsmith to fix it, which might be more). Most of my pens have nibs that aren't designed for much line variation.
That makes more sense now :) Although now all the images in that first row appear distorted to me.
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Another interesting perspective is to look at it not as a more elaborate form of exoskeleton shedding, but as hatching from a very sophisticated egg.
In the fast-paced and competitive world of entrepreneurship, achieving product-market fit (PMF) is the holy grail. It is the moment when a product or service aligns perfectly with the needs and desires of the target market, leading to enthusiastic customer adoption and sustainable growth.
I know I'm replying to sarcasm, but China would literally buddy up to Australia as soon as any rift between between Australia and the US became publicised.

Australia potentially has more value to the US than vice versa.
SAP is one of the worst pieces of software I've had the misfortune of using in multiple companies that I've worked for in the past 10 years. I'm not sure it should be used as a positive example.
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The average Facebook user is not 60+ y/o person [0]. 60.3% is between the ages of 18 through 44 according to Statista as of April, 2023.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/187549/facebook-distribu...
I'm not sure what you mean by "not connected to a publication", but you can consider me one such individual and this is a public post.
I'm talking about the emitter rather than the source. (ductless) Air/Air is relatively unused in the UK (except for aircon) for the (stupid) reasons described, work perfectly well even in very cold climates) and offer extremely good COP values (4.68@ 8C, 2.46@ -8C) which is likely better than retro-fit of Air/Water, given the difficulty of right-sizing such a scheme in an existing, older building. If the government really wants uptake of heat pumps, they should be pushing for these to be installed in flats (like they do in most of the rest of the world).

As you say (and the original article points out) - whether it's economically a good idea depends a lot on the electric:gas price ratio, which currently is around 3.2, so the COP needs to exceed 2.95 or so for the OPEX to be lower (let alone the CAPEX of having the thing installed in the first place). And historically the gap has been even larger - nearly 5:1, meaning the gain would have to be 4.56 even to break even - "somewhat ambitious"!
"Users pay a fee in NYM to send their data through the mixnet. By pledging an initial bond of NYM, anyone can run a mix node."

Crypto is completely needless in this scenario. If you're mixing traffic, you've no need for pseudonymous payments, and creating yet another random crypto means the "reward" for running infrastructure -- only able to be potentially gained once you'e pledged your initial bond, mind you -- is also tied into something that has no real-world value.

Tor works without crypto BS, or needing excuses to say why it's "better" than useless number-crunching.

If your only incentive to decentralizing the network is the currrenly-meaningless "economic" reward, you're going about the whole thing wrong -- some "NYM" neocoin is of little value to someone who has their own infrastructure costs running a VPS for the node (once you've set up your NYM wallet first, of course)

The focus right now is the crypto push, and - by their own admission - not optimizing the throughput, which means node operators face higher costs for less reward.
Can we add 2016 to the title? The article starts with the "2016/02/13" date. Current title is just "Cyberdecks".
Why not? Historically, corporations have had armed private forces that they've used to kill people.

Although you may have miss the tamer recent version where Ebay sent "a bloody pig
mask, a funeral wreath, and a book entitled “Grief Diaries: Surviving Loss of a Spouse", practiced installing a GPS tracker and then travelled 3000 miles to install one, "The Defendants also posted the Steiner’s address on Craigslist
and other websites, inviting strangers to the Steiners’ home for sex parties, and
advertising yard sales".

The story has a happy ending though as "Defendant Wenig departed eBay with a $57 million severance package.".

> https://www.techdirt.com/2021/07/29/exec-that-tried-to-send-...

> https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.236...
At this points it looks like Germany is almost allergic to innovation.

Their government introduces more bureaucracy for companies, discouraging investments there. Berlin had a chance to take #1 spot as the tech capital of Europe post-Brexit, instead we rarely see any new unicorns coming from there.

Auto industry is another example - Volkswagen and Volvo groups are #4 and #5 when it comes to battery-only electric cars, and they're behind Tesla, BYD and SAIC (both Chinese). They're not innovators, they're still behind and I don't know if they'll catch up.

As an EU citizen I feel more and more negative about the economic future here, with UK having left and the biggest countries (Germany, France, Italy, Spain) struggling to stay relevant, especially in tech industry where AI can soon turn cause a major power shift.
People always mention "marketing" as a reason for Discord's success, and I always wonder what they mean. It's a poster child of adoption through word-of-mouth, I don't know if they've engaged seriously with advertising. I'm serious, you have absolutely no clue what the average user values and how your suggestions don't meet that while discord does. Discord may go the way of the dodo due to enshittification but the successor will be another option that actually adresses most users needs, not IRC (which I'm sure will still be around: gopher's still around, people are still tinkering with 9600 baud modems and the like, a tech like that will never completely die but it's also delusional to expect that it's not mainstream just because the alternative has better marketing)
Ask HN: Why do sponsored YT videos say “a part of” this video is sponsored by
is it just plausible deniability to weasel out of any controversial 'part' of the video later?

Of is the specific portion of the video that is sponsored actually specified somewhere in the contract?
I'm considering adding an RSS feed, but I doubt any of my client even knows what it is or its existence.
The Dutch Team Hoi game developers in the 1980s and 1990s
A retrospective of Team Hoi (previously known as Soft Eyes / SoftEyes), one of the first game development teams in the Netherlands, started in the late 1980s, creating games, tools and demos for 16-bit computers, such as the Commodore Amiga, CD32 console, MS-DOS and Windows.
yesss I loove buzzworks! you got anymore agile work for me, I love overtime!
Global sea ice is 3.7M km² below 1981-2010 levels (larger than India)
> Insect memories

That time a flea saw the Eiffel Tower - gone.
One of the better post-mortems I've read in a long while.
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> Anyone who has ever used IRC knows that there is nothing even remotely complicated about using it, but the terminology and the steps required to use one are ostensibly terrifying enough to reliably keep the technically illiterate at bay.

This remark, topped with the author's piece on "normiefication", is the kind of intellectual elitism that reliably keeps me away from IRC whenever I think of coming back to it.
Items two and three not happening atomically feels like an issue, though I assume there's a reason that it's not trivial to do so (I haven't looked at the code; really should at some point.)
And also acts as a vector for de-anonymizing.
> Nitpick: The "Documentation" button on the header links to LFortran, not LPython.

Yes, I noticed too, thanks. We currently don't have a dedicated documentation for LPython and a lot of the LFortran documentation applies. We will eventually have a dedicated LPython documentation.

> With that said, I love the fact that this can generate executables, and I'm looking forward to trying it out in the future! Python compilers are really cool. I recently used Nuitka to build a standalone version of an app I wrote for my own use, so that I can run it on hosts that don't have Python installed (or don't have the right Python packages installed yet). This seems to be focused much more on speed.

We focus on speed, but we definitely create executables (no Python dependencies), just like any other C or Fortran compiler would. You only get a CPython dependency if you call into CPython (explicitly). Indeed creating such standalone executables simplifies the deployment and packaging issues: all the packages must be resolved at compile time, once you compile your application, there are no more dependencies on your Python packages (unless any of them calls into CPython of course).

> One thing which I didn't understand from the homepage: can I take vanilla Python code and AOT compile it with this?

Only if that vanilla Python compiles with LPython (since any LPython code is just Python code, a subset). So in general no. If you call CPython from your LPython main program (let's say), then you will get a small binary that depends on CPython to call into your Python code. I thought about somehow packaging the Python sources into the executable, similar to how PyOxidizer does it, but that's a project on its own almost. We will see what the community wants. If we can make LPython support a large enough subset of CPython, I think I would like to use LPython as is, since it's nice to not have any Python dependency and everything being high performance, essentially equivalent to writing C++ or Fortran.
＞ I cannot imagine thinking about kids and having them for tax breaks.

The reverse is true though: many couples wanting kids will bail at the price to pay without serious aids, and feel it would be a disservice to their kids to raise them in too poor conditions. Many couples won't make long term plans (including marrying/having kids) if they don't see a stable financial path down the line.

Now, the gov aids and labor laws provisions need to be significant to have a visible effect (e.g. a hundred or two bucks per child per months won't cut it). I don't know how far Germany went.