skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the appearance of some works in various places on the map is equivalent to their vast abundance.

As I said, historians know that some popular works not only appeared across the map quickly, they were commercially sold in the marketplace such that the educated class was able to purchase their own copies of prominent recent works with, of course, no money going back to the creator. Again, I don’t think your definition of “abundance” is good faith.

With regard to your last point, why should the artists’ desire for compensation outweigh the desire of audiences to consume the media for free, or other artists’ desire to rework prior art for free? This is a moral debate that is quite culturally dependent, and though you want to claim that your views are the right ones, that just won’t fly on a forum as international as HN. Many posters on HN grew up with pirated DVD and cassette/CD stands at the market (some might even still have them where they live), or in their countries Bittorrent or now pirate streaming sites are things used by ordinary people.
It's theoretically possibile that it's ineptitude, but only barely; if "I don't think that this feature is ready yet, so I will anonimously lobby behind the scenes to avoid it being talked about in public" is the strongest exculpatory explanation that someone can find for their actions...

Also, being inept and clinging to one's position isn't a good look either.
Write Hypertext, Not Plaintext
Living a plaintext-only life is tempting. But the further one goes with plaintext, the more they re-invent Markdown or HTML. Let's just give up and live hypertext life instead.
FTA:

"By Andy-Python-Programmer on Monday, September 4, 2023

This is a continuation of https://redox-os.org/news/rsoc-virtio-1/

Over the past few weeks, there has been significant progress with the virtio-gpu drivers, resulting in working 2D acceleration! "
What's the legality of this? In many jurisdictions, at least my former one, you can't be made to work overtime I believe. I had a job where I had to sign something that said I agreed to work overtime (unpaid as a salaried employee) but understood I could refuse and be accommodated.

I know it's a startup so if that's what they want to do, cool (even if I think it's misguided) but I'd expect everyone would have to have some vested equity ie be an owner and not being forced to grind as an employee.
As a homeowner in Southern California, this type of policy (not necessarily driven by climate) directly negatively affects me due to the risk of fires and earthquakes. However, I don’t think there’s a great solution. The basic problem is that natural disasters represent a correlated risk. Insurance pools only seem to make sense for uncorrelated risks such as house fires or pipe bursts or whatever, where the high individual cost of many relatively independent unlikely events can be smoothed out into a low guaranteed cost.

Perhaps a sufficiently large insurer could dilute the risk of an earthquake destroying a large percentage of homes in Los Angeles by also covering large swaths of other high-risk parts of the country or world.
First, there's absolutely nothing wrong with publicly discussing the Rust project/community's impacts on your choice of language.

Second, he had already publicly talked about doing a project in Rust. Should he have ... somehow avoided making it public that he was changing what language that soon-to-be-public project uses? How would that work?
What's your actual goal, that is furthered by inventing computers? What year are you traveling to, and where? Can you bring tools, books, valuables? Solo traveler or group? Are you stuck or can you get something you "forgot" if you need it? How much preparation time is available? How much implementation time?

(You might also ask: If a shipping container full of solar panels, 74-series logic chips, & all necessary manuals went back in time 100/200/500/1000 years, what USE would people have for any of it)

If I had unlimited time to prepare but couldn't take anything with me but knowledge, I think I'd concentrate on mechanical computers and figure out what "modern" developments would have made machines like Babbage's Difference Engine not largely a dead-end. Are there just a few small things (I have no idea -- better bearings? a high tech lubricant? improved machining tolerances?) that would have made them downright practical? As a bonus, your better manufacturing will be good for a lot of things, from better (or any) pocket watches to better firearms, so you'll be able to make plenty of money while you concentrate on your 'computer' creation.

A similar line of argument might lead you to decide on vacuum tubes as the base for your technology. Glass blowing's been around for a long time and materials purity is probably not QUITE the problem it is for semiconductors. Batteries are pretty old inventions, too. Mechanical relays are pretty plausible too, and you can build digital circuits from them as well.

The concept of "stored-program computing" would be important to bring back, including the "subroutine". So would the concept of "assembling" a symbolic program into the computer's own representation. If you've got mathematicians handy in the past they'll catch on fast and work out data structures and all that other "CS stuff", albeit with some twist you'll be surprised by. I wouldn't worry about bringing a specific modern language like rust or python back to the past, personally.
These are not statistical models, they're physical models.

Please don't equate your ignorance of a field with knowledge.
Poisoning people is exactly what FSB is known for.
But also the most memed by the mechanical keyboard community. Although I do think they are a good compromise for open office use, but personally I prefer more “click/thonk”
What’s the difference between not providing a service and bumping the price 20x in a year?
> Instead, we'll be single-pass: code generation happens during parsing

IIRC, C was specifically designed to allow single-pass compilation, right? I.e. in many languages you don't know what needs to be output without parsing the full AST, but in C, syntax directly implies semantics. I think I remember hearing this was because early computers couldn't necessarily fit the AST for an entire code file in memory at once
I will say it aligns them much better than authoritarianism, but also I’m not at all saying that democracy is bad or that because politicians are effectively sociopathic we should not have politicians. Famously, the worst system of government except for all the others.

I’m only saying that effectively sociopathic agents do not deserve the courtesies, the benefit of the doubt that we afford regular people.
Nah, she's made her views clear on the matter.

I'm not even angry
I'm being so sincere right now
Even though you broke my heart and killed me
And tore me to pieces
And threw every piece into a fire
As they burned, it hurt because I was so happy for you

Now these points of data make a beautiful line
And we're out of beta, we're releasing on time
So *I'm GLaD I got burned*; think of all the things we learned
For the people who are still alive

(emph. mine)
What are the possible use cases for this tool? Why would I want to find out the total runtime of all videos in a directory?

Also, you might wanna limit concurrency[0] instead of spawning many ffprobe instances at the ~same time.

[0]: https://github.com/sourcegraph/conc

In another note, ChatGPT suggests this shell command to do the same thing. It doesn't process files in parallel though.

find . -name "*.mp4" -print0 | \
xargs -0 -I {} ffprobe -v error -show_entries format=duration -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 {} | \
awk '{sum += $1} END {print sum}'
This is a solved problem. How to you buy a car from someone?
They probably want to move in the direction of health insurance - which is to basically take on no risk, have the state mandate you have it anyway, and charge you a lot of money for almost nothing.
To complete the sentence you incompletely quoted: "but in deference to the opinions and wishes of the other slaveholding States, she forbore at that time to exercise this right."

What are those "frequent violations of the Constitution"?

> In the present case, that fact is established with certainty. We assert that fourteen of the States have deliberately refused, for years past, to fulfill their constitutional obligations, and we refer to their own Statutes for the proof.

> The Constitution of the United States, in its fourth Article, provides as follows: "No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up, on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due."

> This stipulation was so material to the compact, that without it that compact would not have been made. The greater number of the contracting parties held slaves, and they had previously evinced their estimate of the value of such a stipulation by making it a condition in the Ordinance for the government of the territory ceded by Virginia, which now composes the States north of the Ohio River.

> The same article of the Constitution stipulates also for rendition by the several States of fugitives from justice from the other States.

> The General Government, as the common agent, passed laws to carry into effect these stipulations of the States. For many years these laws were executed. But an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery, has led to a disregard of their obligations, and the laws of the General Government have ceased to effect the objects of the Constitution.

It's all about the injustice that they are not able to keep slaves like they want to.
Gonna disagree here. At some point, people have to do the same due diligence the insurance companies have done. Anyone building a sea level house in the keys shouldn't be surprised that insurance won't cover them. And no company should have to..
With LibreOffice Draw you can edit the PDF (modify the text, move or change images, etc), then save as pdf, but it can't parse and save it as .odt, .doc, .html or similar.
It's not paranoid, the scepticism is completely warranted as this is security theatre. People are afraid Microsoft will screw them over with a text editor but run random binaries provided by people for whom a thousand bucks may as well be enough motivation to ship you malware.

It's like buying your heart medication off an anonymous guy on Craigslist to stick it to big pharma.
Thanks! Yes it is fully supported on AM4 and the latest bios, I'm using 128G, 4x of Micron 32GB DDR4-3200 ECC UDIMM 2Rx8 CL22, ref MTA18ASF4G72AZ-3G2R
This seems to be missing an important point: at the end of PDF is a table ("cross-reference" table) that stores the BYTE-OFFSET to different objects in the file.

If you modify things within the file, typically these offsets will change and the file will be corrupt. It looks like in this article, maybe they were only interested in changing one number to another, so none of the positions change.

But, generally, adding/removing/modifying things in the middle of the file require recomputing the xref table and thus become much easier to use a library rather than direct text editing.
At least they’re honest?

I see this as a good thing to disclose, rather than finding out that overtime is expected after you start the job.
They seem to have confirmed it: https://www.techinsights.com/blog/techinsights-finds-smic-7n...
> Perhaps a sufficiently large insurer could dilute the risk of an earthquake destroying a large percentage of homes in Los Angeles by also covering large swaths of other high-risk parts of the country or world.

At a certain point, this is just all taxpayers as a whole.
Oh, right, it's on the blog now: https://www.aartaka.me/blog/write-hypertext-not-plaintext
Made it to the front page at least, you did.
Okay. Say you're in a situation where you have publicly talked about doing a soon-to-be-public project in Rust. Then, something happens and you no longer want to use Rust. What do you do? Keep it secret that you have reconsidered your choice of language? Why?

Honestly, the only emotionally manipulative thing I see here is you. You're trying to make something huge out of the simple statement of "this is making me not want to use Rust for the project I was gonna use Rust for". Someone choosing a different programming language is not a Big Deal.
Ask HN: Is it feasible to move an iMac around your home daily like a laptop?
Anyone try doing this?
Cars 20 years ago weren’t what they are today. Browsers weren’t, politics weren’t, heck, light bulbs weren’t.

Things change all the time. It’s okay.
If AI Is a Gold Rush, Nvidia Is Selling Shovels
Thank you for the explanation. I thought it’s the other way: the dark mode somehow provokes your eyesight to become worse. For me, I used white-on-black since the dawn of time (with CTR displays) and even then it was much easier on my eyes. Right now, I have an iPhone’s frontal sensors dirty (have a broken screen) and it manages auto-brightness wrongly to some degree. I have a dark theme all the time, and I tried to make it automatic (light during the daytime and dark during the nighttime, obviously). So so so horrible to me! Switched it back almost immediately.
The yarn.lock includes checksums, if yarn is not checking checksums properly then that affects every project in Node.js, not just this one.

Malicious code with the correct checksum? VSCode team is not auto updating dependencies but I also doubt they are reviewing the source code of every package they update. I've never worked anywhere that does. So yeah, "gulp-vinyl-zip" (or any other package used at build time) could add some code that secretly triggers when run in the VSCode repository and makes some malicious source code changes. But, it's still going to be the same code in VSCode and VSCodium. Unless the attacker decides to use specific logic to target one or the other.
Every mile of you driving causes a non-zero amount of risk of injury to other road users. The specific crash might be "accidental", but by driving you're making a conscious choice to cause harm to other people.
The Rolling Stones 'Start Me Up'.

I was in grade 8, my friend's dad worked in IT and took us to the Launch/Demo event at a convention centre that was packed.
Thank you for the pertinent reply.
model = not science.

Model is probabilistic by nature.
Science is deterministic by necessity.

Both can create knowledge for sure.

My only point is this is not science. The article even calls it research, not science. The article doesn't mention the word science, even once.
Did you read the post you’re replying to, which quotes the article being that it is measuring specific plots of land on specific trees? There’s no estimates or simulations here. The only excel models I bet are just formulae executions.

By that logic if I measure the weather outside every day, and say the average weather for the past month outside my house is x, I’ve created a model and therefore not real, lol
Google Summer of Code and Chrome Extensions
Photography.
Is the app you are building really that important that it will need to survive 15 years, but not important enough to update it to newer tech?

I find that's not uncommon in large corporations. The app does what it does, and nobody particularly wants to rewrite it. It gradually both petrifies and rots, and yet a ton of workflows go through it.

For that scenario you want it in a framework that lasts, even if it's not the best one. Some poor schmuck has to keep it limping along, and then pass it off to some other poor schmuck.

Eventually the whole thing comes crashing down and you have to deal with Conway's Law -- the whole corporate structure has been built to reflect the scope of that elderly piece of software and everything cobbled to deal with it. You get to re-do it in the latest-and-greatest -- but hopefully one that will last another 15 years.
Very clickbaity title, this is definitely not "just Javascript you already know":

<script>
import counts from './store.ts';
import {onMount} from 'svelte';
</script>

<button on:click={() => $counts.a += 1}>
Increment A ({$counts.a})
</button>

In that tiny snippet there's so many non-js things, like "where did that onMount go?", "why does $counts come from? is it from 'count'?", "how do events work?", "does the onclick update the value later on?", "can I do $counts.a++ instead? once? twice?" etc.
>Windows Defender (or whatever it’s called) looked like it might help similarly on Windows, but I haven’t seen it being used that way.

It is more and more, but you need the expensive Microsoft 365 license to use the web portal for it for, key word, MANAGEMENT.

You want to be able to scan computers, lock them out of all network access besides the AV management, block usb/peripherals etc etc when an attack happens.

You DONT want to just let it run headless.
It’s possible to build such that earthquakes aren’t that big of a deal, see Japan.

I don’t think it’s possible to build something resilient that’s consistently flooded with salt water. Unless it’s a boat. And those cost a lot to maintain.
Normally it requires two people to make a baby. So 1.7 is less than the number of people requires to create it.

Rates are normally calculated by couples. 0.85 per person is a decline.
Where are you getting the 20x number from?
Why would you want to reboot your pc so many times?
Sentinelone et al. places canary files that when encrypted flags for ransomware to central management.
If you're into this kinda thing check out Ringway Manchester:

https://www.youtube.com/@RingwayManchester/videos
I believe that Crusader: No Remorse and No Regret used MODs for music.
Is possible, but is not what I mean. I mean anything large (on this scale, for us it's still tiny) will only ever cover a few of these spikes.

bad analogy: Take a beach ball, and put it on a chess board. It will only cover very few squares, because "covering" (in the sense we use it here) needs surface contact.

Again, I am not an expert on the micro-level, this is just extrapolation from the little bits I do know.
Full article, open access, is at Nature Climate Change:

Sensitivity of South American tropical forests to an extreme climate anomaly (04 Sep 2023)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01776-4

First time I've seen the word, "necromass" though:

> "Among the key processes governing the carbon balance of tropical ecosystems are the rates of tree growth, which takes carbon into the biomass pool, and tree mortality, which transfers it to necromass. In turn, both growth and mortality are likely to depend closely on plant available water, temperature and their fluctuations."

Curiously old-growth forests seem to slowly draw down CO2 even at mature stage[1], it may end up sequestered in soil (see also peat bogs, permafrost carbon, etc.). This leads some credence to the notion that recent human activity has 'refertilized' the environment with CO2 - although since we're apparently back to CO2 levels last seen in the Pliocene, 3-5 mya, now would probably be a good time to stop. Re-creating widespread ocean anoxia is not a good idea, even if that's what allowed most oil & gas deposits to form some hundred million years ago.

[1] Old-growth forests as carbon sinks (2008).
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature07276
Personalized AI Photoshoot Platforms 2023: Overview of “AI Headshot Generators”
> You're free to have a national bank, it's intervention if you force me to pay for it or use it.

I am not clear what you are saying.

Are you currently forced to use the US Dollar, and by extension national bank (the Fed) in the United States? Would you prefer to see every private bank create it's own currency?

Given that: "Under 18 U.S. § 486, it's a criminal offense to make or pass any metal coins "intended for use as current money, whether in the resemblance of coins of the United States or of foreign countries, or of original design."

> There is also no such thing as stealing intellectual property.

According to the FBI official website: "Preventing intellectual property theft is a priority of the FBI’s criminal investigative program. It specifically focuses on the theft of trade secrets and infringements on products that can impact consumers’ health and safety, such as counterfeit aircraft, car, and electronic parts."
At least those people moved on from raping refugees at German christmas markets and new year's eve celebrations. At least it some kind of progress...
It is a 5 person engineering team, so I’d give them the benefit of the doubt. But more importantly, where are the salary ranges? You are required by law in California to post salary ranges.
Sorted Food do a tonne of “mid-week” recipes and they actually sell an app that lets you plan your weeks meals with recipes that reuse ingredients, so they very much cover the “minimise total effort” side of cooking.
Boys tend to be more active and do more sports, which causes a bit of a virtuous cycle where because they're more active, they get better at things like sport than girls simply because they're practicing. Girls raised with brothers tend to also be more active and better at sports.

I recently read Pink Brain, Blue Brain by Lise Eliot, which explores a lot of these differences, where they come from, and to what extent we can find biological causes for them. It's really interesting, and she gets into a lot of details analysing various studies and theories.
And that's on top of Azure's recent appearance in the news.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36979532 (Microsoft comes under blistering criticism for “grossly irresponsible” security)
I'm not familiar with the price restrictions.

I thought, the way insurance worked was, I take a little money from a lot of people, and when some rare event happens, I pay out that one person whose house burned down. I don't know the math off the top of my head to calculate how likely a lightning strike, or bad wiring or whatever might cause a house to burn down, but I'm sure such tables exist. So I bet every month that no more than one house will burn down. If no houses burn down, I'm in great shape and put that money in the stock market or whatever and get a better return. Maybe I get unlucky and have to rebuild 2 houses.

The sort of sense I get is, the insurance companies can't calculate the probability of catastrophic weather. So there's no way to pick how much to charge for premiums.

I get that it's a continuous curve. But if the cost of the premium is half the cost of rebuilding the house, why buy insurance? If I can squeak by one year without having to rebuild, I should just keep the money and rebuild out of pocket.

Perhaps I'm way way wrong. But insurance is cheap. If it's not cheap, why bother? if it's annually a big chunk of the total value of the asset, is there any point? Why put a $100 lock on a $50 bicycle?
> Has anyone done this?

Kinda. As I recall this happened by accident with French in (GPT-2? Not confident which LLM) — even though it wasn't meant to be in the training set, there were phrases just lifted directly from the other language.

"Hasta la vista" et cetera have a certain je ne sais quoi, but I suggest a better Gedankenexperiment would be the language of the people of the North Sentinel Island — with whom you cannot interact by both law and them being homicidally xenophobic, and will therefore be limited to remote sensing with parabolic or laser microphones only.
It looks like linking to jwz.org doesn't show that picture anymore.
I once worked at a university where the Physics department was in such disarray that they installed an english professor as chair of the physics department for a few years. Maybe some other language that's grown past its teen drama years could lend a hand with Rust? I don't think the current leadership are up to the task, frankly.
Isn't it a lot cheaper than a MacBook Pro?