skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Isn't this an unavoidable curse of all maturing democratic/capitalistic countries and economies? As the society matures, and people's incomes and standard of living rises, and the apparatus for doing such projects grows, it gets more costly to build the infrastructure that powered the very same improvements to get there?

Not really. Numerous examples world over of first world countries/ expensive cities managing to get infra done (Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore)

What's really happening in many western capitalist societies, both the rich landowning class as well as the unions dominate and capture the regulatory authorities and use the "system" to increase friction and costs for things that could reduce their own wealth extraction (land being taken away, more efficient construction) even if it's in the broader interest of the nation. Indeed this awesome flex of power of individual or small group wealth extraction over total system efficiency is seen as a highly positive ideology and is not all that far from third world countries where wealth extraction from corruption is seen as just a way of life.

As usual the key is how a society strikes a balance. The Western democracies of the 20th century did know how strike a balance pretty well - perhaps because of the existential threat of first the Great Depression, then the Nazi and then the Russian threat. Perhaps removal of existential threats that necessarily require a society to come together encourages private profiteering.
Shotgun pellet will pass through flesh.

Source: animals (not endangered!) that I've shot and eaten.
Did you wrote your own garbage colector? Is it a moving one or a not moving one?
Perhaps more precisely: the defacto Apache-as-runtime + PHP model simplifies a ton of things. Namely your request state is created and destroyed all within the context of a single process, and you don't have to reason about shared state with other in-flight requests (unless you explicitly choose to go this route). It makes some bad programming patterns workable, because your state doesn't linger over a long-running period. Deploys are also super fast, you just have to swap the application code on disk and it'll get picked up on the next request (in-flight requests will keep processing with the old version IIRC). It's productive if not necessarily pretty. Also it has a type system now!

As a related thought, a lot of the modern serverless stuff feels like it's reinventing the ideas of Apache + PHP, or perhaps CGI?
I don't really mean to crap on Go, I actually think it's a reasonably ok language all things considered; if nothing else (at least on one machine), it gives you nearly the highest performance-to-effort ratios.

It just annoys me that people see "Go is good at concurrency", and then see "Erlang is good at concurrency", and then assume Go ~= Erlang, which is not the correct conclusion.
There's a big difference in both material and size between rebar and rail track, but that's just an aside.

I believe the point being made is the difference in level of intent required and the known (or hoped for) outcome from the action.

Grabbing a traffic cone from a nearby construction zone and chucking it in front of an autonomous car at a traffic light is harmless to the health of everyone involved, but is a pain in the rear for many. Meanwhile, it makes a statement, and some chunk of everyone's annoyance gets directed at the autonomous car company.

On the other hand, cutting a section of railroad takes concerted effort and a lot of premeditation if the individual hopes to get away with it. More importantly - the person cutting the track hopes/expects to cause death and destruction.

The two actions are wildly different, and should be treated as such.
I mean thats the whole schtick of JO. This is serious in same sense as few of my friends who think that by listening book summary in 5 min they have gained serious knowledge and being effective with time management.
Certainly. Especially when they load the cheap stuff with all the useless Bluetooth/wireless smart phone app crap. I guess people think a crappy grill with flashy widgets and an app is the next best thing. Or maybe it's what companies think people want.
Please check out: https://www.cve.org/ProgramOrganization/CNAs
Can you explain wherein it is asserted directly or indirectly that using a neural network serves to repeal the laws of computer science?
No offense to the article author, but this is written like someone who has either never used a good IDE, or never learned how to really effectively leverage a good IDE (mastering all features, memorizing keyboard shortcuts, adjusting configuration to match your style, etc).

Yes, obviously the most time consuming part of developing software is thinking. But with an IDE, I can sometimes do some of that thinking out loud in code and rapidly prototype as I go with refactoring helpers, etc. This is not always the best approach, but it's a technique that has its place and is simply impractical without an IDE.

A strong senior engineer in a text editor can likely beat a junior engineer with the best IDE. But a strong senior engineer with the best IDE (and experience with that IDE, this is important!) will absolutely run circles around an equally strong senior engineer with a text editor.

For reference, my daily driver IDE is Rider.
As someone who passed up getting married several times, not specifically because of disagreements about diamonds but with women who would certainly have responded to such a disagreement as a huge red flag if not a deal breaker, stories like this remind me why it was worth wading through 20 years of heartbreak and occasional loneliness until I stumbled into someone who - in addition to checking all the usual boxes and then some - could not care less about "authentic" chunks of rock. at. all.

Ironically her degree and academic research career are both very much concerned with authenticating the provenence of ancient stuff dug out of the ground. Just not lizard-brain shiny rocks.
Usually the responsibility falls on the individual to not reveal their true name, though. Once known no-one gets to litigate knowledge of it. Usually one must change their identity so much that their true name changes as well, or forever be vulnerable. Everyone does have a right to privacy, to not be tracked and surveilled, what’s being discussed here is an extension of that that argues it’s unethical to retain any data about anybody period, even with their consent. I’m having a hard time making that much of a leap.
I am not suggesting parents change standardized curriculum every time they have a problem.
I kinda agree with the idea in abstract ( make things miserable for everyone and things will improve ), but it never really works like that in practice. Humans always find a way to fuck with ecisting system. It is a nice idea and maybe a way to scare some people into thinking a chunk of population had had enough. Me? I am not gonna sacrifice my kid to make a point.

I don't want to enter the argument with healthcare analogy.
There is no such thing as "capitalism". That is a smear-word created by socialists to mis-describe the "system" (which isn't a system at all) wherein people are able to freely trade with each other. Commerce isn't a system, it's a human activity that has existed for all of human history.

So yes it is a cornerstone of socialism to falsely claim that (evil, greedy, immoral) "capitalists" exist, who "acquire capital" and in doing so "acquire power" as opposed to the (noble and virtuous) workers who are actually the ones that generate all the value, but who suffer at the hands of the evil greedy capitalists who exploit them and steal all that value.

Somehow we're meant to believe that despite these noble and virtuous workers generating all the value and far-outnumbering the evil, greedy capitalists, that the fact they haven't revolted and changed the system is because they're so oppressed and powerless (even though apparently they generate all value? what?).

It's just an incoherent mess of ideological nonsense. It puts people into two categories, even though actually most people are in both categories. Everyone with retirement savings (vast majority of people) is a "capitalist" and everyone with a job (vast majority of people) is a "worker".
I've found it difficult in writing information theoretic/statistics papers anticipating what is obvious or assumable and what is not. Things I think are obvious or established beyond doubt because they're so self evident become points of contention, and things that were not obvious to me at all are called out as common knowledge.
Thank you for sharing. Having gone through public schools for (parental) reasons not dissimilar to your own, I agree entirely about "skin in the game": a society that encourages its most privileged to turn away from public resources is not a healthy one, and not one where anybody's interests (including the privileged) are ultimately well served.
Linux 6.5 Last Minute Fixes a Performance Regression, 34% Drop in a Benchmark
> parents homeschooling for the purpose of religiously or otherwise ideologically indoctrinating their children

No, I think you do get it.
> What you are taught is going to vary greatly depending on the teacher.

And that's why you home-school: you don't want the education that your children receive depend on the school's choice of the teacher for your child.
Secure private data from your deepest secrets.

As a cybersecurity researcher, I have noticed a great lack of innovation in encryption algorithms in more than two decades. But in January 2023, an event changed everything, after Chinese researchers managed to crack the 2048-bit RSA algorithm with just 372 qubits. This fact highlights the urgent need to evolve our cryptography against the power of quantum computing.

Source: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.12372.pdf

After learning about the above, being inspired by Moore's Law and the concept of #bitcoin halving, I envisioned a future with crypto that would adapt over time. Thus was born temcrypt, designed to protect highly sensitive data.

Create a Scalable Complexity Factor incorporating 18-month cycles to increase the complexity of temcrypt and a custom clock that advances and adds one hour every 6 months.

The dependency to decrypt the data is based on a unique key, the time it was encrypted, and the processing power of your machine. If you don't apply the exact key at the exact time (hour and minute) in later days, decrypting the information becomes “impossible”.

You can read more in the following repository paths:

▪ Readme: https://github.com/jofpin/temcrypt/blob/main/README.md

▪ Knowledge: https://github.com/jofpin/temcrypt/blob/main/KNOWLEDGE.md

With temcrypt, you can have many use cases. Some I can mention include protection for your seed phrases (cryptocurrency wallets), business data, military data, medical data, and much more.

I hope you enjoy temcrypt and share it with your friends, coworkers, developers, lawyers, journalists, and people around the world who deserve to protect their most sensitive data.

This is a big step for a new era of new ways to encrypt and protect data.

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city council from allocating designated musician pods on the streets

'Sorry we don't like your new song, you have been designated a trespasser and fined $10,000, this decision is not subject to appeal or further inquiry.'

A city run by SV elites will be just as well run as tech companies terms of service are famous for fair dealing and customer cooperation, ie not at all.
Do they? Or is it the only game in town because of decisions made sixty years ago and housing pressures and cost structures mean that if you want to live at an affordable level in that area a car is functionally required?

(Hint: in almost all of America, it's this one.)
This has been the basis for a quite well done movie, "Balloon" (2018) [0]. I highly recommend it. I think it paints a pretty good picture of how everyday life as affected by the STASI.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7125774/
of course it will thats the whole point, but this not 100% The case.
tell me what you think about:

https://d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/...
How would one compile such a list?
Bumper-Sticker Computer Science (More Programming Pearls)
Anyone want to guess the over under on the eventual cage match between the Right to be Forgotten in one corner, and the Right to Remember in the other?
> I, personally, don't have interest with this tool, I prefer proper programming stack. However I can suggest this kind of tool for someone with lacking programming skills (however it's expected that you understand some SQL, some databases fundamentals, some HTTP fundamentals).

It's an interesting dilemma. End users who are directly generating the requirements can do amazing things when empowered by these tools. But they have zero understanding of some of the unreducible complexities that bedevil almost any system that gets beyond a toy level size. Transactions ... error handling... race conditions ... throttling / load balancing ... computing costs etc etc.

We use Apache Camel for something similar to this and it's a full programming stack (mostly JVM based so you have to be in that scene really). You can get diagrams out the other end. It's not too bad if you want to do all this programmatically. But the end users have zero mechanism to do anything. I wouldn't mind having something that was hybrid and we had a graceful / gradual mechanism to let users build simple things and then onramp them to fully engineered solutions.
The main thing I've learned from these comments is that apparently most people either don't have a right mouse button or don't know how to use it.
My wife and I have Kindles for one purpose: reading outside. We use iPads inside (I’m posting from mine), but there is nothing like eInk for reading in the sun, because it looks like a book.

In a world of uni-task devices, that is one worth owning.
12/13 of the circle of homeschooling families that made up our socialization group in the 90s/00s have gone no contact with their parents now. Congrats on your success, it’s not the norm.
It's a 3rd party package that rustc and cargo already internally depend on themselves. If you're okay getting those distributed to you as binaries, this package too may as well come with a precompiled binary.
Which has nothing to do with being a part of a "team". I don't understand where you think this is going.
If you're into the details of railroads in Utah, and especially the really detailed details about the engines that ran on them, utahrails.net is an amazing site. Don Strack is an authoritative source of information.
He left at the top of his game.

I remember reading about one of the great English middle-distance runners of the 80s, Coe or Ovett, that one day he had finished a workout, and understood that he wasn't going to get any faster, that he had peaked. He quit that day, and didn't run again.

The comics pages, if you can still find them, are full of strips by people who ran out of ideas twenty or thirty years ago but keep on publishing. I think that Charles Schultz hit his peak about 60 years ago, but not even his death could prevent the publishers from keeping him in print.

By the way, for all you comic-book nerds out there, Watterson contributed a few strips (three?) to Stefan Fatsis's "Pearls Before Swine" a few years ago.
Cells are not about guarding against AZ failure, but about partitioning the production infra to protect against bad deploys and configuration changes. Every AZ is split into many different cells.
Great tool and great choice of video, it keeps the reactionaries away from your project
Who is still using Gatsby?
Progress on Jetporch Tech Preview 1 Release: Template Module
> Through a mix of primary and secondary research, we identified thousands of investors from every edge of the glope. We then verified and validated the data.

We did not, however, run a spellcheck on our site.
> I made the acquaintance of an Afghan refugee who got out with nothing but his skin a couple years ago. He was operating a thriving car service. I had little doubt he'd be a millionaire soon.

A bit too "n = 1" there. What do the statistics of Afghan immigrants in your country in general show? Do they support your overall argument?
My commute on the M&E line is often (~1/month) cancelled or delayed by normal every day things (tree fall, branches, etc). All trains into New York Penn from my line get stopped.
Reading the article makes this headline look pretty sensationalized.

- This is from studying only dead birds found near power lines in Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, and Oregon.

- That is "birds" in general, only some of which were bald eagles.

- Out of 410 dead birds, cause of death was determined for 175. 66% gunshot, 17% electrocution, 17% collision. Of the 410, that's 28%/7%/7%.

So "Illegal shooting along power lines a leading cause of death for bald eagles" is an indefensible summary for several separate reasons.
This begs the question. What is the oldest hardware that can boot modern Linux but still be used as a daily driver?
I could care less about faster, but I would sure love to switch from Jekyll to something that builds from a statically linked binary.

I only put our blog posts a couple times per year, but it seems that the Jekyll dependencies move beneath my feet and break routinely. This is especially a pain because Jekyll and homebrew are the only ruby projects I work with frequently, and so I'm always at a loss for how to fix things -- rbenv, updating gemfiles, do I need to gem or rake or bundler something, architecture-specific problems with C dependencies, yuck.

For now I just put everything into nix which seems ok, but I think I may make a third attempt at switching to Hugo soon, or maybe this, or maybe cobalt.
Right, you think hollywood is an example of unions helping out people based on merit. Do you know what kind of connections you need to get into a union? You think it is merit based?
As noted by goatsi downthread, "suppress 95 percent of all fires when they are 10 acres or less" is at the top of CalFire's webpage: <https://www.fire.ca.gov/our-impact>.

The NYT account is confirmed.
> To play the devil's advocate: what you described in the last paragraph is exactly how I imagine that classes about evolutionary biology or earth history feel to evangelical Christians. :-)

Teaching a kid about evolutionary biology does not force them to believe it. Just the same as teaching a kid about Hinduism doesn't turn them into a Hindu. Or more extreme, just like teaching kids about harry potter doesn't turn them into wizards.

The more extreme evangelical christian (which to be clear, isn't broadly held) position is that "if my kids learn about this, they might reject the faith therefore they shouldn't learn about it." But that's a silly position. Just like it's silly to say "If kids learn about electricity they might reject Zeus".

Withholding information because it might damage faith is toxic.
A $5 instance runs almost any php stack just fine. Even if they have a build process.
So, the war is between state imposed ideology versus parental ideology, whatever the ideology might be?

What if parental ideology are whacky? What then? Yes, state ideology can be whacky as well, but at least it is in the public and in the open where that can be challenged on a field, instead of uncontested at home.
Johnson's algorithm appears to run Bellman–Ford as a sub-routine.

At that point you are already spending |V||E| time, so you are not getting anywhere close to the performance of Dijkstra and the new algorithm.

But I guess you are saying that this preprocessing is OK if you need to run many single-source-shortest-path queries on the graph.
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"Five O'Clock World" by The Vogues
Reminds me of Shi Huang Di's Forbidden Tomb's "curse" is... Mercury. We today preserve it for scientific reasons but before, ain't no thief will try to do anything about it.
The prevailing culture in large city public schools turns those ideas on their head. The focus is on individual self-actualization, and questioning authority, hierarchy, elders, and norms. It’s about what society owes individuals (“rights”) instead of what individuals owe society. There’s a veneer of cooperation and obligation, but it’s framed in terms of what “privileged” (whites, the rich) owe everyone else, not what each individual owes society.

That is a very bizarre fantasy that sounds like something a Fox News talking head that has never been within 2000 feet of a public school would say.
I have migrated from Jekyll to Hugo for my own website, but the whole Hugo project is just weird. It took me like a year to migrate my simple website because of all the different paper cuts that drained my will to work on it.

You are only able to only use partials in HTML pages and shortcodes in Markdown pages. Why? They use 2 different syntax, so the best you can do is awkwardly wrap a partial in a shortcode. What's the point? They serve basically the same purpose.

Want to set up RSS? Oh yeah, for some reason by default it will not show full content in your feed reader, instead only a small extract. The the only way to fix it is by making your own template[1]. But wait, why are we using RSS instead of Atom? Who knows, but if you want to use Atom, you have to use your template and insert some stuff to your config.

Also don't look at the bug tracker, that thing is frustrates me to no end.

You of course have the everyone's favourite Stalebot that you might have noticed in my previous link, but if you look at older issues, you will see the maintainer self-botting as a Stalebot[2][3] for some reason.

You will also see the maintainer moving issues between milestones for years with no end in sight[4]. That's not a one-off, click on any issue.

Changelogs can sometimes feel a bit, odd too:

> but also a big shoutout to @dependabot[bot], […] for their ongoing contributions.

And commit messages sometimes are just… a bit too long[5] (it is truncated by GitHub, you can append .patch to see the full message).

Their documentation is awful to read too[6]. Oh and the templating engine? Yeah, not documented at all. Also the quick start guide will tell you to git clone some random theme, but I don't want my website to look like someone's, I want to write my own styles and have my own structure, but they don't really tell you anywhere how you should go about it. Because of it, I would search GitHub to sometimes find answers on how to do some stuff, but you would quickly find that most people had no idea how to actually use it. For example you can find a lot of people making opening and ending partials to have a common page layout instead of actually using the built-in Hugo layouts.

So why have I bothered switching? i18n support, so far out of all SSG I tried, Hugo does it in the least painful way.

[1]: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/4071

[2]: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/385#issuecomment-283...

[3]: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/1035#issuecomment-28...

[4]: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/448

[5]: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/6dbde8d731f221b027c0...

[6]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30527884
Not the norm within your social group, which was presumably mutually selected by your respective parents. That suggests that these families are not 13 independent data points, but rather a group of 13 families that all had similar predispositions and evolved along similar lines. I'd like to see the stats overall before coming to a conclusion about what the norm is.
> it might even generate a correct answer that has never been seen before.

How so? Examples?
These animals are considered "Least Concern"[0]. They are nuisances in many parts of North America[1], and nothing can be done to control their populations because they are the national bird of the United States.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald_eagle

[1] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/explore-...