skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The trouble is that the presence of a state doesn't prove anything. There is no such thing as a stateless society. Every society is governed, even if the governing isn't formalized in some way that is identifiable to a particular understanding. Families, tribes, etc. are societies that, too, are governed. You just have to define "govern" accordingly, and the Chinese state is very keen to understand "the state" as overbearing, master of initiative, controlling, intrusive, etc. But when you look at societies in the past, something also reflected in the writings of Thomas Aquinas in which he discusses the duties of the state and its citizens, the role of the state was and was seen in rather restrained terms (the total sum of concrete things a given state does is partly dependent on circumstances, of course). It functioned more like a referee. And that makes sense. Citizens live their lives in time and place and so on, and the state responds when something concerning the common good requires its attention. It is bottom up, in this sense (though we cannot reduce society to the sum of its individuals). But the state isn't "running" things as if it were some godlike puppet master that animates the universe.

The trouble with the present Chinese state is the manner in which it governs and the deeply flawed presuppositions about society, the state, and the individual that it is founded on. And so in this sense, it is clear why they would want to emphasize centralization to argue in favor of their particular vision of statehood, a kind of Tsarist, or as Koneczny would say, Turanian domination.

Societies do need a state, but it does not follow that they need something like the crushing behemoth that bears down on China.
I would suggest to maybe replace the dropdown list with 12 or 10 tiles instead. would make navigation a bit easier (and the difficulty level less brutal, although that might just be me!)

this is a great game by the way! There might be scope for grouping the repos broadly by language. so when faced with some javascript code, the list of possible answers the user gets to pick from are all javascript-y repos. but this ofcourse makes it easier (maybe too easy).
What is wrong with stereotypes?

Snakes are, at times, quite dangerous. Granted, not all snakes, but in terms of being risk-averse, and unaware of which snakes are quite possibly deadly, am I not, at least in my current ignorant state, best served to avoid all snakes?

Feel free to substitute "snakes" with any existing stereotype. I personally am a fan of "people who eat pizza with pineapple".
The 0-day market does not only exist for iOS. There are many perfectly "official" companies in the west advertising and selling those.
Step 5: go to your local library, pick up a book and consume high quality content instead of filtering through tons of garbage for a few gems.
My guess is that reason is that Moonlight Sonata is not hard to learn, just tedious to teach a beginner, because of the endless repetition of relatively short phrases shifting and changing a little bit at a time.

This is what makes it fantastic, but learning to play it is mostly learning a few phrases and recognizing the shifts, which I can imagine would drive your teacher nuts until you're at a stage where you can pick up the changes rapidly enough sight reading to not have to remember every transition.

I'd guess - as a very mediocre piano player - that it's as a result low "bang for the buck" for a beginner on top of annoying to your teacher.

Upside is once you get even just relatively mediocre at sight reading it's fairly simple to work your way through yourself.
I find his work not so credible. He seems to assume LFP does not exist as a viable alternative for nickel/cobolt requiring chemistries. and He's also missing that the lithium reserves keep on increasing on a rapid pace. (I refer to his work a couple of years ago, if he has something brand new, I don't know about that.)
Do you have any links? I found a ton of publications from this guy but none on the particular topic you mentioned.

I also won't necessarily call that a counterpoint, it's just a related issue. It can be true that both a) replacing existing electrical capacity with renewables will be easier and cheaper than we thought in the past, and b) scaling up the grid to account for increased electrification in buildings and vehicles will still be very hard.
>I'm also happy to answer any questions anyone has about the movie or about that time at Fog Creek

Why was FogBugz for your server discontinued silently? I think you had build something really great at the end with the change to .net and the plugin architecture (which would have made it possible to do customizations even in the cloud). Also how kiln integrated was great.

Did key people leave so that FogBugz basically stopped to be maintained anymore? Where you still around when they removed the plugins and tried to put it back and maybe switched to elastic search etc.?
And the speed of package installs, bundling and test running might make up for very fast pipelines.
It sounds to me like the problem there is that Google is the gatekeeper, in that your ranking depends on their page speed metric, and also inserting their own tracking code which they get to decide to exclude from the metric
Who will clean the cleaners? Are they without bias and without blemish?
Not if you can sell carbon credits for pumping underground?
Exactly, pushing to natural gas short term seems better overall if you use current data for panels made using China coal.

Policy/math is based on older modelling that used greener European factories in early 2000's that are now replaced by Chinese.
I worked for Microsoft (not in Redmond) in 2020-2022, and remember seeing on Yammer posts about “Hey look, we’re turning these old abandoned offices (nobody wants to work in a private office anymore, amirite?) into [touchdown spaces/mini conference rooms/storage areas]!”

I don’t know if it was all private offices, but the general feeling was that private offices were going away. Moot point for us as we were a satellite office that never had private offices to begin with.
Alan Kay is generally credited with coming up with the term "object-oriented", so for better or for worse, many people defer to his definition and his embodiment of ideas when looking for a strict definition of the term.
And there are even different degrees of parallelization. Some things will scale almost linearly to CPU cores, some will share a little state and see diminishing returns, some will share a lot of state and maybe only make good use of 2 cores, and it'll all depend on the hardware too.
Good point! And I guess that also brings in all the gunk that I hear gets installed on Windows from a lot of systems integrators. Which, funnily enough, has been one of the clear market differentiators for Apple.
Well, you see, I found myself shelling out some cash for this tool for a spell, all thanks to a buddy of mine who was absolutely fervent about it. He managed to talk me into it, and I gave it a shot for my coding work. But let me tell you, it didn't quite pull its weight in terms of saving me time, not to mention the effort I had to put in. So, I waved goodbye to my subscription.

Now, fast forward a bit, I've recently jumped back on the bandwagon. Why, you ask? Well, it turns out that for my writing endeavors, this thing's been a real game-changer. I'm not using it for research or to conjure up new ideas. No, sir. I'm putting my own written pieces and even some off-the-cuff thoughts through it to craft polished, bona fide writings.

It's rather nifty, you know, to toss out a paragraph, then follow it up by pointing out where it missed the mark and watch it whip up a better version. I don't usually take its content as gospel, mind you, but it sure serves as a mighty fine motivator, and it's got a knack for rearranging sentences to give things that extra oomph they need.
The article is out of date, he is still talking about the Trump presidency.
It's no weirder than, say, the European obsession with their football programs.

The US has ~340 million people, and we're talking about 10-20 mega stadiums in college football.

$80,000 GDP per capita (nearing double that of France or Britain) with one of the highest disposable incomes and extreme amounts of wealth. It's surprising the stadiums aren't even bigger.
> Also, non-async/await solutions for concurrency and asynchrony result in a more verbose, complex and bloated syntax

I just write the same code that I would write if it were synchronous and it executes asynchronously.
There are no energy free ways to resequester atmospheric CO2. If you accept that we will have to do so to meet the world's climate change goals, then the question is really, how energy efficient can you make your process, and where can you get carbon-free energy. This company has a credible approach, although as soon as you look at any of the mechanisms being considered, the scaling problem is daunting.
If the device is stolen it can still enforce OS-level authentication (including potentially phoning home, invalidating its access to remote resources, or erasing itself), except now you can't bypass it by rebooting and running chntpw.

Will this stop a dedicated attacker? Probably not, although a fTPM with an up to date OS would require the attacker to find an exploit for this machine's early boot firmware (UEFI, etc) or burn a Windows zero-day, both of which are very costly.

It does however prevent your casual thief from watching a YT video "how to reset windows password using linux live cd" and then getting access to your sensitive data (browser's saved passwords, etc), so it's a major improvement.
The possibility of not being copied by cash-rich bigtech is miniscule without legal or patent protection
Only Cal starts so early, so their students can get preferential treatment and snap up all the summer internships because they end early.
There's been a lack of silly solo-made animation content on the web ever since Flash went away. Wonder if this could start a new era of kids making fun things.
> I don't understand how they can make something as good as Procreate and sell it for $15.

They get [kids] on the brushes and other DLC add-ons.
Looks like it was removed
While it is slightly about the money, it's mostly about the inequity of work.

You say "doing the work"...well, the person with the job is doing 8hrs/day and 40hrs/wk to pay for everything. You should be willing to put in some sort of equity of work.

If the household chores somehow took anywhere near 40hours a week, sure the argument goes out the window; but the easy solution is go get a job, and then just split the chores down the middle. They don't have to pay for your lifestyle anymore, and there's no argument about being someone's servent. But I don't see what's weird about saying "I don't want to pay and work for someone who does nothing or nowhere near the equivalent".

You're retired, you're not doing "the work"...it makes sense that you also contribute.
I've been trying to figure out if launching from boca chica is going to be a continuing thing for years, or will they transition to Florida when it stops blowing up so much and transitions into regular launches? I haven't found any details about the long term vision of the boca chica site. My speculation is they will need 3-5+ years of test launches from there as they test out their extensive technology road map before they reach some near operational level (landing starships, turning it around, being a fuel carrier, refueling, then the landing tests for the moon, and much longer term mars development). But when that happens, will they make commercial launches from there? There aren't that many places to do that in the US, Florida of course, what about the New Mexico space port, or Vandenburg? Hawaii, some southern US ocean site?

I've thought about buying (or maybe renting) one of the huge number of cheapo condos there so I could watch some of these launches. I could even imagine working from there remotely instead of sitting at home watching on the net
Yup things can/will get complicated but avoidance of risk doesnt solve the og problem of burnout. And with age/time/screwing up both sides learn that. There is probably no other way to build that trust.
I disagree, the whole point of this article is that the "fast breeder reactors" in your analogy are already here and widely deployed. We don't need any new technology and we don't need it to get cheaper, although it probably will. It's a description of the current world, not a prediction of the future.
Batteries and solar panels will not save us from an economic system that requires over-production and over-consumption.
Mozilla has a special program when they check manually and mark extensions which are trustworthy. It's been there since the advent of WebExtensions.
I've used all of the models mentioned. Personally I've found async/await to be the most annoying. However, I think there's an important option that's overlooked here. For many of the domains where these approaches tend to fall down hardest, notably network servers with very many connections (I was cited in the C10K paper on this subject BTW), arenas can absorb a lot of the annoying lifetime issues. They can be per-request, per-connection, per-something else, but however you do it is likely to leave you with a much smaller set of objects and lifetimes that can be managed by other means. Arenas for most things plus a few very well-isolated bits of code to handle the remainder worked for me from at least 1992 through 2017 in code bases up to more than a million lines (yes, highly concurrent the whole way) without having to deal with async/await or promises/futures. Maybe a bit of CSP/actor model here and there, but that's it.
Ring-0 only, and 640x480 as God intended.
I think it's more it's probably not a very effective piece to learn with. You can learn a few techniques from your teacher and then it's just practicing the variations and transitions, because it repeats roughly the same changes over and over. Learning the piece during your lessons is likely a waste.
Reaching 5 GHz is really difficult and I don't think startups can afford it.
An attacker still needs to use some kind of semi-advanced attack in the boot chain or DMA to steal the user's data, instead of just plugging in a LiveUSB and going to town.

Yes, there are a lot of vulnerabilities in the Secure Boot process on most devices, because the surface area is huge, but the attacker still needs _some sort_ of vulnerability to gain a foothold.

I agree with the frustration in the gist - Secure Boot and TPM-sealed disk encryption aren't nearly as good as they could be, because the surface area is gigantic and sure to get exploited. But this is a classic Security Nerd vs Reality scenario: while it is absolutely _possible_ to pwn Secure Boot + TPM-sealed encryption in almost any scenario, using it still makes it _much harder_ for an attacker to do so, and most will give up.
Wow. As if rescinding offers isn't bad enough, doing so with $1B in cash makes you a mega asshole.
Wonder how this is being delt with
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-_and_right-hand_traffic
If that was Greg Sankey, he made $3.7 million last year and the 5-year contract he just signed "substantially" increases his salary.

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/38005718/sec-...
Is GPT-4 available as an API? that’s the only reason I still pay for it. Also we’re developing a plugin so we need the plus subscription.
That's not what that says. It refers to unchecked drug use as not worse than firearms, not whether or not firearms could be worse than they are now.
Nasdaq gets SEC nod for first exchange AI-driven order type
There's the D-league for basketball and the minors for baseball. The problem is that the best players want to play where they'll be seen. This means college is the place to play for now for the revenue generating sports like basketball and football.
The name is really weird, like it was selected by a 12 years old
Thanks for this feedback! I admittedly am not sure, to answer your last question. I am approaching it as one of those "I will know it, when I get there" sort of thing - example: i have replaced (successfully!) individual gears within a 900cc inline 4 motorcycle engine, I have performed the replacement of many different systems / components to home HVAC and larger appliances (without any formal training - some of these endeavors took longer than the aforementioned motorcycle transmission work, due to lack of instruction/schematic access). Would I do these things again? Absolutely not! But I'm a little stubborn as I will try and complete something to best of my abilities and will either reach a cognitive or personal initiative limit.
Evidence that a small town of 500 (I'm guessing 100-200 households) can self organize some urban infrastructure doesn't contradict narrative of Xia state hydrology that operates on completely different scale and coordinated between different tribes. 9/10 of the archeology team were from PRC and fine making pronouncement that a few hundred people can get together and do home owner association tier stuff.

The drama over King Yu / Xia historicitiy is whether his mythos / achievements was game of telephone. Whether he exists at all and hence whether Xia should be considered as China's first dynasty where ruler successfully tamed water. Whether that comes later is matter of debate, but I don't think anyone has seriously suggested a large culture (i.e. millions of people over vast territory) can self organize huge, sprawling capita projects without centralized authority.
They tried this in 1912. Every county except San Mateo and Marin voted down for the idea.
They often implement soft preemption. Tokio and others like Glommio do. Usually, it's based on interrupts. The runtime schedules a timer to fire an interrupt, and some code is injected into the interrupt handler.

This is used to keep track of task runtime quotas so they can yield as soon as possible afterward.

This is the same technique used in Go and many others for preemption. If you don't add this, futures that don't yield can run forever, stalling the system.

You are right that it is not strictly necessary, but in practice, it is so helpful as a guard against the yielding problem that it's ubiquitous.

> I certainly hope that we didn't end up with colored functions in Rust because of such a misconception.

Misconceptions are everywhere unfortunately!
Not only that, trustworthy extensions normally have serious well-known developers behind them which decreases the risk of stumbling into something malicious.

To this date not a single extension which has been marked as recommended by Mozilla was found to contain malware.

Google on the other hand while being 1000 times richer has none of it.
Every fallback method adds risk. Realistically though, I don't think any of it really matters. By far the weakest link everywhere is SMS/Email based account recovery and it's almost impossible to avoid those.

Sometimes I think the average person would be better of with a highly secured email account and magic links for everything else. Even for me, I have YubiKeys, TPMs, etc. configured for everything, but if I forget to lock my laptop and someone walks off with it, they have access to my email which is basically my entire digital life due to account recovery via email.
My health inspector (restaurant) says she can't really turn in perfect reports. Her boss says "nobody is perfect"

So she tries to find something very minor, like an unlabeled item, to put on our report, if things are otherwise good.

Same with the fire department. They ignore obvious violations and nitpick small ones, and then never follow up to make sure a change was made.
> Then you know what will happen.

There is an interesting lesson you can learn from history: Google Maps vs Apple Maps.

Google set up their system to track each individual's location history forever, even if the user turned off the setting that Google said would stop this behavior. This data can be handy when you're trying to keep map data updated.

However, you don't have to track each user's location constantly to get the benefit.

> “We specifically don’t collect data, even from point A to point B,” notes Cue. “We collect data — when we do it — in an anonymous fashion, in subsections of the whole, so we couldn’t even say that there is a person that went from point A to point B.

The segments that he is referring to are sliced out of any given person’s navigation session. Neither the beginning or the end of any trip is ever transmitted to Apple. Rotating identifiers, not personal information, are assigned to any data or requests sent to Apple and it augments the “ground truth” data provided by its own mapping vehicles with this “probe data” sent back from iPhones.

Because only random segments of any person’s drive is ever sent and that data is completely anonymized, there is never a way to tell if any trip was ever a single individual.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/29/apple-is-rebuilding-maps-f...
What's a conspiracy theorist?
Total aside: it struck me as odd to post someone's signature online.
It’s sad to see blanket statements like this. Stable Diffusion can be an extraordinarily powerful tool for creatives.

I know two professional artists who both hated the concept of AI image generators. But since Photoshop added Generative Fill, I know both have enjoyed using it, and I’ve not heard another complaint since.

I’d bet Procreate add AI capabilities sooner or later. Once you’ve tried it in Photoshop, it’s impossible to look back.
Presumably the concentrated stream of CO2 output from the kiln is easier to work with than pulling dilute CO2 out of the atmosphere, to the degree that it is worth doing that way.

I'd love to hear a more detailed explanation from experts about how the output stream is sequestered. It doesn't sound absurd though; getting gasses in the right place at the right time is not necessarily a trivial task.
Final Thoughts on Cascade
> async doesn’t imply multithreaded

Async the keyword doesn’t, but Tokio forces all of your async functions to be multi thread safe. And at the moment, tokio is almost exclusively the only async runtime used today. 95% of async libraries only support tokio. So you’re basically forced to write multi thread safe code even if you’d benefit more from a single thread event loop.

Rust async’s set up is horrid and I wish the community would pivot away to something else like Project Loom.
I often have to tell it to not be so flowery. But that's part of the process. I can also tell it to use more of my voice. I just keep refining it until it's what I want. Version 2 is not normally how I would keep it.

Sometimes I basically say "I want to X about Y" and spits that out in English and then I can actually figure out what my thoughts actually are.

Sometimes just seeing something phrased differently is enough to find a better way of saying something even if I don't use it all.

... OR ...

I often tell ChatGPT to keep things simple and not too fancy. That’s just a part of tweaking its answers. I also ask it to sound more like me. I keep making changes until I get what I want. Usually, the second try isn't the one I stick with.

Sometimes, I just say things like "I want to talk about X with Y" and let ChatGPT put that into words. This helps me understand my own thoughts better.

Seeing something said in a different way can give me new ideas on how to put things, even if I don’t use ChatGPT's exact words.
That's the doomerism we all got to welcome.

The talk is about how the path is clear, so we should start to look at those bottlenecks and remove them. But well, the path has been patently clear for more than a decade. It was only propaganda trying to obscure it.

Whoever manages to abandon doomerism and walk the path, instead of resisting being dragged through it will get the first mover advantage over well, the entire future.