skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I meant that in the future, most sites will be made by bots and using them will be too hard for most humans...
Something being illegal doesn’t mean the blame for the fires to catch and spread so quickly has to go to the one who happened to be careless
Lots of things 'aren't Rust'. In fact almost everything isn't Rust. For now. That may change in due course but right now I would guestimate the amount of Rust code running on my daily drivers to pretty close to zero%. The bulk is C or C++.
I think you're right. We know ChatGPT-4 can do image analysis, so all Google has to do is say that they're down ranking articles that don't have relevant images, and we'll be back to having useful images in artichokes again.
Prescribed burns have been part of US federal forestry policy for quite a while now. However, I think many state agencies have yet to get the memo.
Suse IPOd in 2021 at 30€/share. Now they are buying it back at 16.

I think we should thank everyone who bought shares at the IPO for their charitable contribution to open source software.
To be fair, SUSE before Novell was in a worse state. If I’m not mistaken they were close to missing payroll and has tried to shop themselves to Sun before Novell agreed to buy them.

Evil IBM(TM) threw in $50m to help the deal along and preserve SuSE for its hardware.

Also, it didn’t help that SUSE folks and Ximian folks were like oil and water. Novell tried a combo that made sense on paper but there was culture clash.
14 years is hardly decades. I suggested that because that was the original period of time, but I'd rather something like 8 or 10 years.
Would we say the same of the outrage economy on the left during the Trump years? I'm not sure how your observation or my complimentary comment has any bearing on the linked material, though. Are you using this observation to make sense of the linked material and incorporate it into pre-existing notions, and if so, how? Genuinely curious what's afoot and what the connection is.
I know, I’m just saying that the platforms encourage different types of content and for YouTube it’s drawing out what could be a 3 minute video into 10 minutes because it’s better for the creator and the platform. TikTok doesn’t have long form content, but what it does have is someone saying “hey, check out this YouTube lecture, this is why you should watch it” which has helped me find interesting things on YouTube that I would have never clicked on.
Well, a quick search into this found this talk from John Cowan that appears to be from 2011 on R7RS - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC7xPBQWsVE

I honestly don't think there can be any value in a standard that takes so long to come up with. Now in an industry that moves as quickly as this one.
Climate change potentially caused by catastrophic comet impacts.
In Montana you are financially responsible for all losses incurred due to a fire you start. Of course nobody is required to prove billions in insurance coverage before lighting up their yarn brush pile...

Fires larger than 48" diameter are generally banned in the dry season here, although that's plenty big enough to set a forest on fire. Sometimes local and federal agencies (depending on jurisdiction) ban all open fires for a while during very dry/windy conditions, and when there's already a big fire to avoid their resource becoming stretched.
Whenever you feel comfortable doing that.
>Falcon cannot do what SLS does.

Thus far, SLS has only done once what Falcon does on the regular: Launch a payload into orbit
That's a classic of course, but for me, these exaggerated cartoon/comic style depictions are not as disturbing as the more realistic Thai posters, because they make you think of other classics (Road Runner & Coyote, Tom & Jerry etc.) where the protagonists regularly suffer gruesome mutilations, only to be perfectly fine again in the next scene...
systemic issues like what? the climate?

sure it's the climate, but that doesn't mean people shouldn't be careful.
This is the problem with these types of pharma-government conspiracies.

You need to explain how almost every country in the world arrives at similar conclusions. Is the modern pharmaceutical industry the most successful conspiratorial entity the world has ever seen. Able to bend governments of every persuasion. Or maybe the conspiracy theories are simply wrong.

Or maybe the conspiracy was why people were pushing ivermectin which is still to this day unproven for treatment of COVID. Maybe it was the ivermectin vendors ?
So...uh...after all that drama from SuSE about how 'IBM' destroyed RHEL after acquiring Red Hat, they turn around and get acquired by the nearest bidder. That's hilarious. Nowadays I often compare this kind of hypocrisy to the 'Avengers: Age of Ultron' scene where Strucker shouts 'No surrender!' and riles up his henchmen, then immediately turns to his second-in-command and says, 'I am going to surrender'.
I think what the GP means by "not sensible" is that proving that the code is broken in order to silently optimize it more aggressively is not sensible. If your theorem proven can find a class of bugs then have it emit diagnostics. Don't only use those bugs to make the code run faster. Yes, make the code run faster, but let me know I may be doing something nonsensical, since chances are that it is nonsensical and it doesn't cost anything at run time.
This sounds like something a robot would say...
sell support to other businesses, they dont care about it being open source. only individuals do and even at that only a subsection of technically inclined ones do
Apes/NFTs always felt like the crypto attempt to do tax arbitrage via "art" like ultra rich people do with normal art.

As soon as I saw an NFT art gallery in Zug,CH I knew something weird was going. Shame for NFT owners that most of them never got rich enough to actually try doing it.
War against war – Report from anti-war assembly in Milan
In current nature this can be blamed on incorrect maintenance or zoning and even education, not just the one who brings the spark.
It’s both.

Human populations were growing rapidly and simultaneously the period from 50000-10000 was the end of the last ice age

So the going theory is that the original areas of climate for which mega fauna were most populous, was effectively reduced increasingly over time as a result of warming, which humans were able to capitalize on to the point where we kind of “finished the job.”

This is effectively, how we see extinction patterns around the globe. Whereas humans aren’t necessarily the primary or only cause, but they do make a big enough exogenous impact to cause a collapse.
As oldgradstudent said: it depends on the exact corporate structure.

Move Starlink into a separate entity, have SpaceX build satellites and perform launches for them, and it becomes SpaceX revenue (and Starlink costs)

Have SpaceX rent out those satellites to Starlink, and the picture changes again.
Use of mmap itself is undefined in the language.

Posix provides a definition that programs rely on, instead. Implementers are allowed to define literally anything the union of all standards leaves undefined.
About FF and Rust:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30743577
Housing prices may not have gone down - but absent rate increases they would have gone up.
For an over ten years old dehumidifier?
For a hundred years, fire suppression policies prevented necessary fires from occurring in the West, creating a buildup of fuel. Today’s hotter and drier conditions are priming those fuels, making them more combustible.

My question: Is this something we should be planning for further east?

I always assumed that we are too wet here or it's different tree species leading to the forest fire problem out west, from Yukon down to southern California.

But then this summer parts of Quebec and The Maritimes went up in flames. Could we start seeing major fires in southern Ontario, and heavily wooded reaches of the northern US (Maine, NY, Michigan, Minnesota)? What about further south in the Appalachians?
If you consider Red Hat “on the dark side” but not Canonical, I’m curious how you’re defining dark side.
Do you mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37160878? I think it got moved.
It’s amazing that after hacker community got to see how full of shit guy making those promises is, with Twitter, some still believe that in other areas he’s not lying.
They said "qualified", heheh ;)
How the Army tried and failed to build a bicycle corps (2020)
How about ... no. If we want people to enjoy the wild and think it's something worthy of preservation... we have to preserve not just the wild spaces but also the experience of being in the wilderness. Contrary to popular belief, the stereotype of hippies being the main driver of forestry protections is just wrong. The main individual drivers and supporters of environmental protection are outdoorsmen and women, hunters, fishermen, etc. If we ruin all enjoyment of the outdoors, children and future generations will see no value in its preservation.

For example, America's conservationist Theodore Roosevelt was not only a conservationist but an avid user of the outdoors (and yes, a hunter, fisherman, a camper, etc).

It's totally reasonable to regulate fires, but banning them entirely... I mean the people not paying attention before are not going to pay attention afterwards. And anyway, it does require actual enforcement. On my last trip up to the Cascades, during the fire season, while fires were banned, I saw dozens of instances of fires and rangers / camp hosts simply looking away. What's going to make those campers change if there were a ban? Nothing. They'll still do it.
I don’t agree with some of this comment. But I agree with more of it that I thought I would initially.

The comment about him being on the right side of history is incisive.
"We use the Political Compass (PC)"

the "Political Compass" has always struck me as entirely rigged in favor of libertarianism.

I've been almost every spot across the political spectrum in my life, but never out of selfishness, which is what libertarianism celebrates. If you're not libertarian you're authoritarian? nonsense.

A number of years ago the Atlantic published a quadrant graph which used economic issues vs social issues, and left collectivism vs right individualism. Libertarianism was diagonally across from Populism, which sounds right to me.

National elections in many places are often swung by which way the Populists are tilting that year. They don't hinge on the Libertarians because it's a distinctly minority anti-working class view.
4X Revenue and 25 percent profit margin gets you there. Or 8x and a 50% likelihood of getting there. A gamble for sure

In my opinion, the more interesting part is the valuation in light of no tangible exit strategy.

I wonder what time frame investors are looking at in order to realize their gains.
I believe military service also qualifies a student as being financially independent.
And we have the core dumps to prove it.

When any Costco sells a desktop ten thousand times faster than the one I started on, we can afford runtime sanity checks. We don’t have to keep living like this, with stacks that randomly explode.
Deciding ROI to society is what the government does.

Consider questions like: Why did we spend so much money trying on a Covid vaccine but not to cure gall bladder cancer? Why does eminent domain exist? Why do young men have to register for selective service?
Being careless is not what's going on in these instances though. A lot of the time, these are arsonists.
Skimming it, there's all the hallmarks of a conspiracy theorist - coverups and tobacco industry playbook and accusation of using a nuclear physicist as a prop. There's a much higher burden of proof to take something like this seriously that's not met here.

I'll add that I find it pretty telling how hard HN comes down on some "conspiracy theories" - anything buy ultra orthodox covid views e.g., but loves to dive into something like this that has all the right people playing the right parts.
> I think if platforms habitually or consistently cause 'bad things' to go viral then the ownership and management of those platforms should be examined, and if it's determined that their ownership/management may be beholden to interests contrary to the welfare of the nation then sanctions should be applied, which may or may not include a ban.

Who gets to decide and are you okay with people who have opposite political beliefs than you having the power to make that decision?

> Approximately what dollar value of damage was done to schools as a result of the 'devious licks' viral videos trend from last year? And on what platform did those viral videos trend?

I don’t know. If you’re okay with holding TikTok liable are you also okay with holding conservative media liable for January 6th?

Would you have been okay with the government banning Doom because they think playing video games causes mass shootings?

Do you think we should sue the gun manufacturers for shootings?

In no other area of society do we think anyone should be blamed for criminal activities besides the criminals.
You can write a same gloomy article about invention of an electric bulb or even a wheel. Imagine cutting down an entire tree that also kills Fred when the tree fell, herculean efforts to then slice it off to create a wheel in which Cole the lost his fingers, and what do you do with that wheel ? Create a claypot ? You could have just used a wooden pot instead. Not to mention the clay pot broke.

Scientific "stunts" which author correctly points out pretend to be graceful but come at an extreme cost and failures. But anyone has done any science knows this far too well that this is how you push boundaries of science and make progress.
I get absentee landlords as a problem. I would totally not feel comfortable buying property like that, I put off buying a home after 2008 because I wanted to live abroad and didn't want the headache of owning something I couldn't take care of directly (I still kick myself for this, since I could have save $500k or so). The squatter problem is only one, but where I live property owners are held to a lot of crazy standards (don't let the half dead tree crush your neighbors house, but don't cut down the tree either, because we really love trees here!), there are just so many headaches in owning property remotely like that the hard way.

But I see that as no excuse to take my property away if I'm doing everything right. And the squatters can't tell who is absent and who is just on vacation. We have to deal with this problem seriously.
> Documentation is everything

What I learned after managing a small team for 2 years is that documentation is only good if the team can find it, if the team bothers to look for it, and if the team takes the time to read it. I can't tell you how many times I've linked pertinent documentation in Confluence from the Jira task, only to have the developer ignore it.

What black magic do you have to cast to get devs to look at the documentation?
Is it your impression that the brain isn't an organ that develops from birth and reaches maturity at some point?
Isn't it amazing that you can become the richest person in the world by building companies that lose money? By lose money I mean all money ever put into the company versus profits made.

The idea of creating a profitless company that somehow makes you personally rich used to be thought of as a fluke. Yes it's possible but it shouldn't happen and aside from extreme luck it won't.

Something has changed. Losing money and getting rich anyway has gone from fluke to something else, and it feels like we are lying about how the game really works.
Zoning, maintenance and education to name some. Around me (dry, forested part of Spain) there are almost no fires, and I think part of that is because everyone here is taught how to handle something that could ignite it during those crucial months, usually when it happens it’s because people from outside the area have no real idea of the consequences BBQ’ing during this time of year
I've never really understood this. I might go 10 or 20 tabs deep in a browsing session if I'm researching something, but if I want to save something for later I will either bookmark it or paste links into a text file. Having hundreds of tabs open all the time just seems inefficient to me.
Large fires can be started by quite hard to prevent things. We had a fire a couple of years ago that burned a bunch of houses that was started by a lightning strike on a single tree a week or more beforehand. The fire smoldered unnoticed near a popular hiking trail, inside the trunk then emerged much later when wind speed became high.
Do you mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37131782? I haven't read it closely (I rarely read anything closely - moderation works on floats, not doubles) but that comment does not seem to me on the wrong side of the guidelines. If you had posted something half as substantive and thoughtful as that user, it would have been fine.

On the other hand, I agree with you in the sense that we don't really need a lot of "Marx was so wrong" comments on HN.
This is a common statement usually by Americans with a limited grasp of European politics.

The fact is that Europe is not one entity. It is a lot of countries with a very wide spectrum of political views. Democrats would be considered very left-wing in some countries e.g. Hungary and centrist in others e.g. Denmark.

But it is definitely not "very right-wing" by any countries standard.
Cannot connect from Europe.
Yes, it's a victory for science (lowercase s, not The Science™).
> "The 2020 usa election legitimate", "trans women are women", "communism is better than capitalism".

Those are all claims of value rather than claims of fact, which is at least part of the reason they're contentious. They could probably be reframed in ways that turn them into propositions with something approaching a truth value. "Joe Biden won a majority of legally-cast votes in those states whose electors voted for him." "Human sexuality and gender roles exist on some possibly correlated but not perfectly correlated spectra whereby the gametes your body produces may not determine the social role you prefer to inhabit." "Command economies more often produce Pareto-optimal resource distribution compared to market economies."

Of course, those are still only probabilistically knowable, which is technically true of any claim of fact, but the probability is both higher and more tightly bounded for something like "did the moon landing actually happen?" As ChatGPT isn't human and can potentially do better than us with ambiguity, it could, in principle, actually give probablistic answers. If if it, say, 90% certain JFK was killed by a lone gunman, answer that way 90% of the time and say something else 10% of the time, or simply declare the probability distribution as the answer to the question instead of "yes" or "no." Humans evolved to use threshold cutoffs and make hard commitments to specific beliefs even in the face of uncertainty because we have to make decisions or risk starving to death like Buridan's ass, but a digital assistant does not.
For anyone as confused by the title as I was, it's about a UPS worker from Gillette, WY.
> It is certainly possible but actually doing so is completely non-obvious because the grammar for Rust is much more complicated than C, and Rust has no formal language specification (let alone an international standard).

The Rust compiler frontend is written in Rust. It doesn't matter how non-trivial writing a Rust frontend is if you can restrict the problem domain to writing a new backend for the existing compiler frontend.

And you can. As it stands there is the LLVM backend that everyone is familiar with, the GCC backend which is nearing completion, and the Cranelift backend which is written in Rust.

Zig is similar. Yes, they are going to replace LLVM by default, but they're not getting rid of their LLVM backend entirely. The main difference between Rust and Zig here is a matter of defaults, where Rust defaults to using LLVM while Zig will default to their self-hosted compiler.

> Meanwhile, to truly understand Rust, one must be an expert in C and learn the `rustc` code base.

Are you under the impression that the "rustc" codebase is written in C/C++? It is not... It uses LLVM, yes, but it's written in Rust.

> I certainly was not and I don't believe the GP you originally responded to was saying that "Rust is a second tier language due to [lack of self-hosted compiler]", so hopefully we can set that statement aside and ignore it now.

The discussion started with the statement that Rust will never replace unsafe languages without the ability to self-host, and then continued with the statement that "Self Hosting your own compiler traditionally was the "end-game" of making a compile-able language. It's a sort of proof of fitness that the language can literally stand on its own."

I don't think that was a completely unfair reading of these statements. The implication is that Rust is "not a fit language" because it "cannot stand on its own" and therefore "will never replace unsafe languages".
How timely. My boss just crucified a co-worker today in our meeting and I think something like this could help mend things.

Yes, my boss never heard of "praise in public criticize in private". Welcome to working with a hot-blooded eastern european
This is great new information helping to further the debate about causes of the Quaternary Megafauna Extinction (QME).

I’ll reiterate here my theory that the specific period following this extinction event, was catastrophic for human civilization and drove humanity to invent property and thus the system of capital and exchange.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_extinction_event

[1] https://kemendo.com/Myth-of-Scarcity.html
Tell HN: The recently shared Azure ChatGPT GitHub repo has disappeared
Repo: https://github.com/microsoft/azurechatgpt

Past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37112741
Camp fires are routinely banned around here in late summer (not this year yet). People complain a bit, but otherwise no problem. For larger intentional fires, people have become used to the idea that you don't set fire to stuff unless it's covered in snow.
It's not very easy to do. LLMs aren't capable of understanding, they can merely regurgitate what they've read based on statistical analysis of what words appear to be linked to each other. That doesn't help you when you need to do something new; at best an LLM can tell you what someone else has already done.

There are computer programs that do the kind of thing you're thinking about, for example, for protein structure analysis. They're incredibly complicated and generally require a lot of processing power.
Debian is great indeed (I am a a Debian developer myself although rather inactive) - but today’s news isn’t much of a change in whether SUSE is or isn’t on any definition of the dark side.

Why do I say that? Simply, as per the linked announcement itself, this takeover offer is by the current majority shareholder who already owns 79% of the company. They can already win any shareholder vote they want to win. They already control SUSE.

Most of what this will do is two things: one, pay the current minority shareholders of SUSE 67% more than their shares are worth on the open market, and remove the quarterly earnings pressures of the German equivalent of Wall Street from SUSE management, at least unless and until any future IPO or a sale to another public company. Not obvious that this transaction makes anything worse than it already was.

There could be a less obvious difference: SUSE currently has a German corporate structure with very strong worker rights including participating alongside management on the supervisory board. If they get rid of the German entity and keep only a Luxembourg entity, that may no longer apply, though German labour law certainly still would for employers based in Germany. I’m not an expert on any differences between German and Luxembourg worker governance participation rights, and in this paragraph I’m more raising a question than asserting anything.