skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently this system was called "Permits", I just found a description here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210625004816/http://www.dataro...

> Every Telescript place or agent has a permit that limits its capabilities in the electronic marketplace. Permits help protect the marketplace from malicious or misprogrammed agents by preventing their unbridled consumption of resources. Permits also protect the authorities under which agents operate by providing misprogrammed agents with a safety net.

> Because agents move, their permits, like their credentials, are of special concern. An agent's permit is established when the agent is created programmatically, and it is renegotiated whenever the agent travels between regions. The destination region may deny the agent capabilities that it received at birth as long as the agent is in that region. (The region may not extend the agent's capabilities, however.) The region denies the agent entry unless it agrees to the restrictions the region imposes. When the agent eventually leaves the region, the restrictions are lifted (although those of another region are imposed).

> Two kinds of capability are granted an agent by its permit. One kind is the right to use a certain Telescript instruction. An agent in the role of shopkeeper, for example, typically is denied the use of the go instruction. Another kind of capability is the right to use a particular Telescript resource, but only in a certain amount. An agent is granted, among other things, a maximum lifetime, measured in seconds (e.g., a 5-minute agent); a maximum size, measured in bytes (e.g., a 1K agent); and a maximum overall expenditure of resources, the agent's allowance, measured in teleclicks (e.g., a 50¢agent). (In theory, the teleclick is an abstract unit of measurement. In practice, however, an "exchange rate" between teleclicks and money is established.)

> The Telescript engine that supports an agent constantly monitors its resource consumption. If the agent exceeds any of its quantitative limits, the engine destroys the agent unceremoniously. No grace period is extended. The agent has, as the saying goes, "no place to run, no place to hide."

> An agent's permit plays an important role in the electronic marketplace by enabling the agent's authority to constrain the agent's activities a priori.
>canceling promising products

Like? I hope you aren't talking about Optane
Well. Don’t expect your readers to be journalism majors if you want to make a point, because elaborate hidden twists lead to reactions just like this one. Being all elitist about it doesn’t work well either.
I only read one of his books, a SciFi novella called "A Very Private Life" which I picked up in a second hand book sale on a whim.

I really enjoyed it. SciFi come with the thinking of the time it was written (1968) and some of that is evident, but the idea of a society ("the insiders") which never meet each other in the flesh and only interact via screens seems quite prophetic.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25958761-a-very-private-...
No doubt. But, considering they all get the question dead wrong, including MPT 30B, I'm inclined to think this question hasn't been entered into training data for most LLMs yet.
According to this tutorial [1] by Google, part of why LLMs are so verbose is a phenomenon called 'chain of thought reasoning'.

Basically, the LLM will formulate a better answer to the question if it talks itself through its reasoning process.

[1] https://youtu.be/zizonToFXDs?si=5f_IxvR7h0iJy2Db&t=678
Oh, well he wrote a lot of other stuff! My favorite would be 'The Tin Men' set in a research institute.

It has ethical robots, and universal headline language (UHL) among other ideas.
Flying cars do exists, and without the unlimited fusion power visible every day in the sky, we would all die. So there is a good chance you will see all three.
Most software was sold with annual maintenance/upgrades anyway.
Yeah we have one too, which is great when you're near the car... We don't usually carry it with us though. I suppose we could, never really considered it.
A Short Course on Time Series Analysis
There's a couple of issues.

1. Militaries generally feared their soldiers using too much ammo. Eg the magazine Lee Enfield was only supplied with one magazine, and early on was only intended to be fired single shot with the magazine used in an emergency.

2. Cost. You see all kinds of conversion proposals to update bolt action rifles for this reason. I believe the French actually updated flintlock rifles all the way up to breach loaders rather than buying new.
Maintainer, not creator. Smol was originally created by stjepang, who has basically disappeared these days.

EDIT: I originally incorrectly claimed that stjepang also created rather than maintained crossbeam, making the same msitake as I was correcting.
Stackless Python can do it as well, very cool: https://stackless.readthedocs.io/en/2.7-slp/library/stackles...

Eve Online uses (used?) it to move game server instances to more powerful hardware when more players joined one region than a smaller hardware server could handle.
High paid tech workers disrupting local economies has been a showcase for trickle down economics not working.
I probably should have substituted 70% with (some percentage big enough to attempt to draw conclusions). But I think I got the 70% from so ‘blank says 70% of exploits in our codebase are memory related’, but I could be mis-remembering. I tried to make it as broad and encompassing as I have seen the claim used in arguments for memory-safety-centric programming.
These calculations ignore that most homes are eligible for extreme amounts of highly protected leverage. Sure, you can trade on margin on the stock market, but you are subject to margin calls, which is not the case with a home.

So multiple that 16x by the typical 4x-5x leveraging, and homes turn out to be really great. And since the transaction fees and the non-existence of index funds in the 1970s made it harder to invest in the stock market at a small scale, and homes were a much better investment.

Add on to that that everybody needs a place to live, and your home acting as an investment vehicle with equivalent performance to the US stock market, and people from the 1970s have had had an amazing deal that younger people have not had access to.
Some of what you have written seems pre 1.0 release and some pre 1.9. I have never seen anybody in the community say the correct way to use Julia is in a notebook. As far as I have seen, some people use a simple editor and have the REPL open, and most just use it in vscode.

You can do real-time applications just fine in Julia, just preallocate anything you need and avoid allocations in the hot loop, I am doing real-time stuff in Julia. There are some annoyances with the GC but nothing to stop you from doing real-time. There are robotics packages in Julia and they are old, there is a talk about it and compares it with c++(spoiler, developing in julia was both faster and easier and the results were faster).

I have been using two Julia sessions on an 8gb laptop constantly while developing, no problem. LSP loads fine and fast in vscode no problem there either.

The debugger in vscode is slow and most don't use it. There is a package for that. The big binaries are a problem and the focus is shifting there to solve that. Stacktrace will become much better in 1.10 but still needs better hints(there are plans for 1.11). In general, we need better onboarding documentation for newcomers to make their experience as smooth as possible.
There was a comment on HN a year or mor ago, someone was making good money selling cheap and cheerful $1 (ish) games on Steam.. Steam of course banned micropayments that low.
10 year old boy arrested in Mississippi for urinating in public after he couldn't find a public restroom in August

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/08/us/mississippi-boy-arrested-u...
When your kid is actively pooping their pants, the last thing you want to do is waste time asking for the code, but yes, most people are pretty understanding.
Ask HN: Equity for Short-Term Contract?
Recently I have been in conversations with a founder who has some product developed, but is looking for significant additional development. Initially they were looking for a cofounder, but I think now they kind of are in the position where they want to hold out for a "unicorn" cofounder to meet some of their very specific needs.

I mean, yes: many red flags with that alone, but wanted to give some background.

They approached me with a short-term contract (less than a year) to do significant product development - essentially take their existing small product (which probably has 20-40 man hours of work into it, it's basically just a site with a login) and bring it to a point where they can generate revenue.

Ok, fine - but how things are evolving, it sounds like this is becoming a fixed cost contract that is paid solely in equity.

Does anyone have any experience with this? It seems like a strange arrangement, as there's a conflict with requesting what I would feel would be a fair amount of equity (which would be a significant amount) but since it is short-term, it also seems unfair to request such a large chunk of equity for such a short work period. The traditional model makes sense here: long term relationship with a large chunk of equity vesting over a few years, but trying to wrap my head around what a "fair" amount of equity would be for a short-term contract.
Again, what stats? Because that doesn't appear to be the case at all according to [1].

But let's take your word for it since you didn't provide a source. Here's an actual hard number: 170,000 tech workers cut this year alone (plus more last year) [2]. Let's use your 5% lower bound. That's 9,000 engineers. I hope you'll agree that's a lot.

[1] https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/4/21/23692515/tech-worke...

[2] https://news.crunchbase.com/startups/tech-layoffs/
> This seems like a made up narrative

It's not a made-up narrative. It's something that individual Twitter users can see for themselves just by reading Twitter.
...And created a lot of revenue for storage companies and headaches for email admins. When MS Exchange rolled out, people discovered that email database size was higher than typical for just email messages.

A little bit of investigation revealed that PowerPoint slide decks and other multimedia was consuming the increased storage since Exchange made it much easier to send large attachments to others.
"Scapegoating" in action.

Often lower that it could be expected, because wildfires are just a crime, and to understand crimes you must follow the money.

Eucaliptus plantations are --often-- [1] spared in wildfires, because: they have a proprietary (that could know the arsonist), aren't valuable wood to furniture (are useless as cheap smoked wood), resprout soon, and wouldn't be turned into pastures in any case. The arsonist can't benefit economically of it in any way, and could made some undesirable enemies.

[1] Often but not always. Last years the traditional reasons have mutated. Criminals had started to target Eucaliptus just for creating chaos or economical damage. As scapegoat to blame them for their own crimes, there is often a previous campaign to paint a target on the tree by ecological reasons and blame Eucaliptus in the media as alien species, etc... not much later, half of Portugal starts burning a Saturday at 3am.
There is a difference between steak and ground meat. Also: not sure what burgers you're eating but apart from the novelty factor it's not even close in favor of real meat
They’d just plead nyan compos mentis
Am I missing something here? I can suppose a universe where the premise is false (This is a conceivable universe, I’d argue). Doesn’t that mean that this premise really is false?
I think that percentage is a lot bigger if you only count the people who are posting regularly.
You wish. I am in the GPS based fleet management/tracking industry. Running even the most simple system like this is unimaginable to be cheaper than a subscription for a service until you have like 1k vehicles and ok with basically a pickaxe. People take more and more complex and convenient stuff as granted, so we'll have subscriptions and big corporations giving these away for free just to bleed each other out (Thanks though).
Are we talking ultimate dream desk that definitely won't ever be built or something more approachable? This is weirdly one of the things I daydream about.

In the latter case there's a few things I'd do, but in general simpler is better. I like clean desk surfaces, so starting with a nice piece of wood is great but entirely optional (and wouldn't do on first version). Most important thing to me would be to start with an adjustable height desk. Preferably a standing desk[0] but at minimum adjusting while I sit because I like to move around. The next thing is about ensuring a clean desk. The far side of the desk should have the apron inset so you can get vesa mounts on easily.

Now for extra bonuses. Back end of the table has slats so wires can be passed through. Only to be thick enough for the cable because the end is open (I hate wrangling port shapes through awkwardly sized holes, just go around). Front apron and back surface would be nice to have small usb pass-through. Back for things like mouse and keyboard so they don't have to reach wherever the desktop is. Then just simple LED underlighting because I like to work at night and don't want to always have the full lights on so I can fall asleep sooner. Thing that I probably wouldn't actually do but could always be added later: insets for wireless things like locations to put your phone to wirelessly charge without needing to dock.

But if I were actually to do this, I'd probably just get a butcher block like Blamazon and pre-built adjustable height legs.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djaebibxGdI
I've barred cats from the garden here after cleaning up a pile of trash for the nth time. It took some doing but it's mostly solved and it is incredible how quickly the birds seem to have found out that our garden is a safe haven. I've seen bird species that I didn't even know were in this region.
Do you think if they lifted those bans, how long do you think it would take for Germany to turn into say Chicago?
DJI may be the best of all the Chinese drone companies but it is ultimately still a Chinese company.
> Really? You mean the evidence you are ignoring from the CDC?

Where is the evidence? You never presented it. You linked to https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2022/s0901-covid-19-boost..., which literally does not contain the word "month". There's nothing in there about the vaccine "looses almost all effectiveness after 6 to 9 months".

> I haven’t in this entire thread cited any evidence that didn’t come from either the CDC or the DHHS.

Then it will be trivial for you to drop links supporting your position, right here, in a response to me. You still haven't done that. You don't even have to provide links to CDC or DHHS - I'll take something from a medical journal. Just don't get all uppity when you haven't actually provided that evidence yet.

> Why do you think the government recommended booster shots six months later before there were any changes in the formulation.

The human immune system slowly loses its resistance to disease over time after an immune response. This is normal. This does not imply that it's worthless after 9 months. That's the evidence that I'm asking for that you have not provided.

One more try: in your comment, place your evidence in a block formatted like this:

HERE: [link] "quoted section of text that provides evidence for your claim that the Covid vaccine looses almost all effectiveness after 6 to 9 months"
Yep. People from large coastal cities see nothing wrong with openly mocking Kansas when they're talking to me. I ask them about the public restroom situation where they live, and I tell them they're living in a primitive area if they don't even have easy access to public restrooms. For some reason they think I'm joking. They're just so used to putting up with that and other things that make life miserable that they don't know what life is like in the more advanced parts of the country.
> You have completely missed the point.

Incorrect. I'm strongly disagreeing with the core point of what you're trying to say.

> I literally could not care less what you choose.

Therein lies the problem. Your definitions are meaningless if you have no concern (aka tolerance) for how they'll be received.
Half of Glaciers Vanish with 1.5 Degrees of Warming
I just realized that by paying toll yearly, I subscribe to my country's motorways.
I assure you that rich white people defecating in the streets will be treated the same way as poor brown people doing the same thing.
This is cool, although I’m guessing you need to input your conversation history manually? Or is there a way to export it from WhatsApp?
The problem with garbage collection is that it doesn't work for other kinds of resources than memory, so basically every garbage collected runtime ends up with an awkward and kinda-broken version of RAII anyway (Closeable, defer, using/try-with-resources, context managers, etc).

Static lifetimes are also a large part of the rest of Rust's safety features (like statically enforced thread-safety).

A usable Rust-without-lifetimes would end up looking a lot more like Haskell than Go.
It should be handled by civil law. The leagues sell tickets to fair competition. If the players fix the match, then the league is selling a defective product, and common sense suggests they should refund the ticket sales. And the players were presumably contracted to provide fair play, so if they damage the league by breech of contract then common sense suggests the league should be able to sue the players responsible for the cost of the refund. They could require players to take out insurance to ensure they'll always be able to pay.

Making it a criminal matter is just a subsidy to the gambling industry.
Right insulin and such
What about human suffering? I get your argument for reducing animal suffering, but is this even viable considering the degree of development around the world and the reliance on protein from animal sources?
No, it's more of a Judge Dredd type situation.
There's no inherent truth of the universe that requires countries to have such disparate wealth that some are so much better to live in. I bet most people arguing for removing borders would also argue there should be much better global equality.
Unfortunately last time I used booking.com to book a flight I didn't get my passport registered on the ticket, and it's quite unclear if the fault is of the airline booking or the aforementioned one :/
That’s comparing people between rich countries and poor countries.
Doesn't it cause eye damage if taken for a long period?
You are making a point that uncontrolled railway crossings should be banned, correct.

Though what you don’t get is the concept of inertia at the train’s scale. You can’t just say “mass cancels out”. The specific energy to stop is the same per given amount of mass, however the amount of mass is not in the same league. Not to mention the CoF differentials between rubber/asphalt to steel/steel.
WhatsApp can export last 40k messages in any chat.
Nah, it's the coding.
Though not JSX, with TSX you get type checking with your markup.
Which articles? See my reply above.
Public toilets in France are frankly horribly maintained and smelly (wtf is wrong with ventilation there?) that San Francisco is a toilet paradise in comparaison.
Those boxes work when there is some inefficiency to exploit so you get good enough of apparent value. Like there is enough massively discounted stock. But as more of it is eaten or more players enter it will fail. And then you don't likely have big enough scale to get good value specially when you need to do curation, collating and shipping.

Amazon Prime is probably mostly workable model as long as you keep raisin price and making offering worse and including the actual costs in item costs. Or simply don't pay enough to where ever you get content.
"modern"
The English cottage where John le Carré wrote Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Do you mean Toto? I have the Toto travel bidet as well as a few Zojirushi products and I’ve never come across a bidet by Zojirushi…
Yeah, the day before/after full moon is still a really really full/bright moon that nobody other than someone checking the timestamps of the image would know it was the day of the full moon. Plus, a lot of times, the instant of the full moon is usually in the day time for me, so technically by the time the moon comes up it is already waning. I've been to places that the night of the full moon is crowded with photographers, but the night before/after leaves me there all alone.
The government issued categorical statements that Covid was NOT airborne.

The government instructed social media platforms to suppress "misinformation" that went against the official party line.

The government used extreme threats against platforms that did not comply.

> In an interview with MSNBC about anti-vaccine misinformation, White House communications director Kate Bedingfield responded to a question asking if Biden would change Section 230 to make companies “liable for publishing that information, and then open to lawsuits.” Bedingfield responded that “we’re reviewing that, and certainly they should be held accountable.”

https://www.theverge.com/22585152/biden-white-house-facebook...

I personally had a one decade old account banned on one social platform for asserting that Covid was airborne and many posts on other platforms deleted for sharing links that supported the airborne Covid theory as "misinformation".

We literally had platforms deleting links to information provided by sites like the New England Journal of Medicine or Nature if they didn't toe the official party line.
Random poweroffs could not happen, not with the current those devices are drawing.
The difference here is that you would make 44x from the spare change you can save every month after paying for rent, not from a loan worth >5x your yearly salary.
Yup. Stop reproducing below replacement rate. Embrace GMOs. Consume less. That's the only viable path we have.
Where I live we're completely overrun with squirrels. I'd have no problem with more roaming cats killing them, ditto for pigeons. Are they actually threatening species or just eating animals? If it's the latter it doesn't seem like a problem. Fewer cats is going to mean more vermin, we'll see how people like it then.
PP does not contain BPA. You might be thinking of PC.
In my experience in the USA, most fast food restaurants in the suburbs give away sauces for free, but the ones in cities charge for everything. Seems to also be correlated with whether or not the fast food restaurant has self serve soda fountains versus soda poured behind the counter.
They will if it's cheaper for the same quality.
> “We look at patterns of accounts that are discussing the debate topics, and during the interview as well, that are posting the same or similar content or the same links repeatedly within five seconds of each other,” he says.

> If two accounts did this five times, the researchers took this as a sign that they were automated accounts.

It sounds like they were pretty specific in how they identified the bot accounts.
“It’s not a tumor!” - Kindergarten Cop.
I think UBI, should be a supplement to social safety nets not a replacement.

I think it would be stupid to provide UBI and then turn society into an anarco-capitalist regime.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism