skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to break some eggs to make omelettes. How many families have been broken up and sent into poverty because a white collar criminal was thrown in jail and their assets seized? Obviously I wish side effects didn't happen, but unless there are consequences it will continue to happen with impunity.
USB Power Delivery handles these issues. I suppose if the house is large there'd unfortunately need to be multiple transformers, maybe one per room instead of per device.
It's a stupid excuse. I guess all those 'Fail' videos will be de-monitised now?
It's worth noting that it's much less of a problem in Python due to the lack of ergonomic closures/lambdas. You have to construct rather esoteric looking code for it to be a problem.

add_n = []
for n in range(10):
add_n.append(lambda x: x + n)
add_n[9](10) # 19
add_n[0](10) # 19

This isn't to say it's *not* a footgun (and it has bit me in Python before), but it's much worse in Go due to the idiomatic use of goroutines in a loop:

for i := 0; i < 10; i++ {
go func() { fmt.Printf("num: %d\n", i) }()
}
>Don’t like the product don’t buy the product.

This has never worked, because in a single product, a myriad of concerns are bundled together. Just like how people are complex, and you can't simply avoid toxic people. Or you can't just uproot and go live in a better place.

Individuals have much less liberty than the "free market" and "vote with your wallet" sentiments imply.
You completely missed his point. Pick a DPI, make a raster circle - it's accurate to the DPI you pick. Now use a Bezier to make that circle (and rasterize it to that DPI). It's not accurate to that DPI.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitrokhin_Archive

They did a lot of shit in North America but one of the points of Sword and Shield was explaining how assassinations were mainly directed towards ex-Soviet dissidents and not American citizens. I'm not excusing what the Indian Government did here, I'm just saying that the Soviets (and the United States for that matter) regularly performed actions on this level in a number of western countries.
Glad to see you deleted your other reply that was just rude.

I'd agree with the other person (and even if I agreed with you, I'd still point out that your language and attitude are quite against the HN guidelines, which are worth reading: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html )

I'd personally be surprised if Russel Brand had more than $1M/yr in sponsorship deals relating to his YouTube content, which would be 50/50 split between that and ads (I think likely to be more like 75/25 in favour of ads for him).

Yes for many celebrities, and even YouTube content creators, their sponsorships will be far more valuable than the platform's ads. But I doubt there are big-money deals lining up for the kind of conspiracy nonsense he puts out now days.

(And sure, Brand also makes money from work other than YouTube, but that's not relevant to the question of what % of money for YT content comes from YT ads vs. sponsors.)
I also want a real case of this happening, right now even for high profile targets they just use software attacks.
You understand that USG in reference to the twitter files means Donald Trump as he happened to be in charge of the executive branch during that period?
UK is all in on Dystopia.
Version 4 has been implemented in and widely used in Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Microsoft Windows...

I'm not sure what value of "much adoption" you're using, but I think it's had great adoption.
Why do I have to waste brain space on this absurd hypothetical?
in fact everything is a graph

really
Elon Musk has greatly accelerated green energy innovation through EVs, battery technology, and solar. Are these actions appropriately described as "alt-right"?
It's also in chocolatey for windows
> I'm not economist, so can someone tell me what does such high debt mean in short/long term perspective?

Not an economist either, but in the UK this means ever increasing taxes and lower quality services and infrastructure. And it's not going to change anytime soon.
I don't know anything about Russell Brand but I am just browsing through his recent videos and yes it's very much woo and conspiracy. His latest videos, chronoligically (I won't be clicking any of them, so some are hard to assess),

* So, this is happening - appears to be about the scenario under discussion here

* Hang on, Biden 9/11 Speech Was A Lie?! - conspiracy nuttery

* Bill Gates Has Been HIDING This And It's ALL About To Come Out - with an anti-vax symbol in the thumbnail, conspiracy nuttery

* Hang On, Obama Did WHAT?! - hard to say what this is about

* So, Trump Just Said THIS About Vaccines And It Changes EVERYTHING - conspiracy nuttery

* So, They LIED To Hawaii Victims About THIS - conspiracy nuttery

* So… They Fcking KNEW It Was A Lie All Along - conspiracy nuttery

Tucker’s Countdown To WW3 Has Started… - doomer nonsense

* The FBI Have Been Harvesting Your DNA?! - conspiracy nuttery

* So… Trump Just Changed EVERYTHING With This Move - no idea

* Shoespiracy EXPOSED: The HIDDEN Truth Of The Shoe Industry - conspiracy nuttery

* So… Tucker Just COMPLETELY FLIPPED The Ukraine Narrative - no idea but sounds stupid as hell

I didn't cherry pick anything, this was purely chronological.
That doesn't seem likely, F150s are built to be light and agile, as well as environmental friendly.
The key words are “reasonable” and “concentration risk”.

Companies not run by shareholders but employees are often unremarkable but do well in long term. From time to time family owned companies choose that path.
It’s not that we can’t quickly transition, it’s that this isn’t dangerous enough to force a rapid change. If this was killing millions of people we could do something extreme like rapidly swap to dual use vehicles with road tires that can operate on rails. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_track

It’s worth remembering how quickly large scale shifts like using private cars and highway infrastructure happened in the first place. Core blocker for such change isn’t the inability to change infrastructure, its lack of urgency to change.
The WFH era should stay.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1001874

Remote work can slash your carbon footprint — if done right. Remote workers can have a 54% lower carbon footprint compared with onsite workers
Can somebody please explain to me why this doesn’t constitute a major version due to a breaking change? Maybe I didn’t read precisely enough but it sure sounds like a breaking semantic, esp. with the fact that “this will only work for versions 1.22 and later.” Sounds like a version upgrade trap to me? What am I missing?

Or is it just because it’s Golang and they’re “we’ll never release a go v2 even if we actually do release go v2 and call it v1.x”
Gah! Thanks, corrected above.

(I run the command far more often than I install the package.)
I had a buddy that wrote a Java 1.1 JVM from scratch in C back in late '97. He created it completely from the defined specification from Sun and actually found bugs in the spec. IIRC, the found bugs in the thread(s) specification. I believe his JVM was one of the first clean-room JVM implementation outside of Sun's efforts.
>Don't buy into the bad faith arguments.

the little known super-power : spotting bad-faith arguments flawlessly.
I think a compatibility layer is a better approach for most things as LLMs aren't that reliable with this sort of thing, but I guess there's room for both methods
New revelations from the Snowden archive surface
Well, Apple has to think worldwide.
> ... I think using the material of Mercury to build these spheres is beyond our technological base

This is presently true. My point is that it's a conservative estimate to say we'll be capable of it within the next 1000 years. Our biggest issue currently is the high cost of getting payloads into LEO. For Apollo and the Space Shuttle that cost was ~$50,000/kg. Factoring in reusability it's now estimated to be $1000/kg or less. There are paths to get this much lower (eg <$10/kg).

Mercury has specific issues and advantages. The biggest advantages are access to energy, high orbital velocity and no atmosphere. A thin atmosphere like on Mars is the worst of both worlds. It really just makes landing difficult and creates dust storms to cover your equipment in dust.

The high orbital velocity of Mercury is both an advantage and a disadvantage. It makes it really difficult to get there, which is why there have been relatively few missions there, but once you are there, it means the delta-V of getting anywhere else in the Solar System is quite low, whether that be finished products or just raw materials.

Mercury is metal rich but probably lacks elements like oxygen for, say, smelting steel (and, of course, living). The long day/night cycle is an issue too.

My point in relating the mass requirement to Mercury is because, even though 1% of Mercury is still a lot of mass, it would still leave Mercury relatively intact. It's also metal-rich.
I think he just found it harder to draw the line at where the lies end and real lies begin..
Then why were you crying the other day that the US needs to nationalize SpaceX to help Ukraine? Can’t they just built their own space based internet network?
The Twitter Files revealed pretty definitively that government censorship was taking place.

Caring about free speech does not make you alt-right, despite mainstream media’s attempts to paint him as such.

Elon and co’s have done more for progressive causes than basically all other companies combined.
His channel went from 500k to 20 million viewers when he went off the rails. It could all have been an elaborate 4D chess gambit or alternatively he could just like money and attention.
Interesting conflict of interest there.
The slaves were useful, the slave-owners were "useless" (because why pay one to do the work when a slave could do it for free?). How is a society in which 99% of people don't need to work because slaves do all the work for them different from one in which 99% of people don't need to work because robots do the work for them?
> most people can't accurately eyeball a perfect circle anyway.

https://lessonstream.com/the-story-of-mr-os-circle/
What does this mean anyway ? I tried googling but no dice.
> His decent into outrage-bait, alt-right friendly nonsense struck me as abrupt. One minute his channel was reasonable enough, the next it was totally nuts.

An observation of mine going back to the 90s when I was a kid and liked listening to the radio: Talk show hosts would always lure you in with something that sounds reasonable, and use it to segue into a topic that sounded absolutely nuts.

That overall trend into insanity sounds like taking the exact same concept and doing it over a much longer timeline lol. That way they've established themselves in the community as a trusted 'podcast' source, and once they have an audience they start blasting crazy shit with hopes that at least some people will listen and consider it "thought provocative"
There are people whose main income is YouTube and if YouTube can do this to famous people, surely they can do it to smaller creators who are paying their bills with YouTube money.

Don't be confused by the situation and the precedent it establishes.
Liability. It all comes back to liability. I can't tell you what kind of cases have legal standing against YouTube for showing videos of an alleged abuser, but I trust that many smart and less scrupulous lawyers could.
Technological civilization may be harder than you think it is to keep going, even in the absence of a hostile AI out to conquer the world. You need food, water, air, energy, materials, spare parts. Nobody has yet achieved anything like a closed system that can sustain itself.
“self-harm” is a broad category as well. A lot of things that people do are harmful to the self in some way.

For harm to others we have the bright(er) line of consent, but for harm to oneself, who is to say?
If you are misplaced by 1dpi, then your "1200 dpi" is actually 600 dpi.

If you got a machine that's accurate to 1200 dpi presumably you want 1200 dpi and not 600.
Do any of us know what percentage of his income is from YouTube currently?

I think the point stands in the abstract. It doesn't even matter for him specifically, because there are people whose income is primarily/entirely from YouTube.

And so we should appreciate what a serious action that is, to turn it off. It's not like it's just play money, that we can pretend it doesn't matter. It's real income.
Related:

Nushell and Uutils - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37560121 - Sept 2023 (17 comments)

The case for Nushell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37313733 - Aug 2023 (141 comments)

NuShell: A New Type of Shell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36313694 - June 2023 (15 comments)

Writing Shell Scripts in Nushell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36084564 - May 2023 (2 comments)

Nushell.sh ls | where size > 10mb | sort-by modified - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35124056 - March 2023 (203 comments)

Nushell: Introduction to a new kind of shell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33419944 - Nov 2022 (247 comments)

Nushell 0.60 Released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30772042 - March 2022 (40 comments)

Nushell: A New Kind of Shell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30718349 - March 2022 (8 comments)

GitHub – nushell/nushell: A new type of shell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27525031 - June 2021 (398 comments)

Nushell: A New Type of Shell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26712741 - April 2021 (2 comments)

One Year of Nushell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24259914 - Aug 2020 (47 comments)

Nushell – A New Type of Shell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22880320 - April 2020 (37 comments)

Introducing nushell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20783006 - Aug 2019 (369 comments)
The actual formula is O(n^6) scaling, and for circles it's very easy to achieve that. So a circle divided into 16ths has 4096 times less error than one in quarters and one made of 128 nodes is a (binary) billion times better.

This is true for curve fitting of arbitrary curves, not just circles, though arbitrary curve fitting is a bit tricky (it requires solving quartic equations). I personally think you can take this as evidence that cubic Béziers are "good enough" for all practical tasks requiring curve representation, though for specific applications there might be other representations that work better.
That's a consequence of him being a [alleged] rapist. It's not a consequence of him publishing nonsensical and pretentious conspiracy theory videos.
But there is no point to it in this comparison if it can block a whole thread to itself - that can be done with java as well since forever.
I guess it depends on the way the brain works. I have very bad memory, but I prefer the expressiveness of Rust to the verbosity of Go. I value much more having the whole context on the screen that navigating countless words of boilerplate code. I do agree that it gets a bit of getting used to, but I find it easier to recognize by eye.
Urgent to whom? We live in a multipolar world now.

Countries already use criminals as political tools to advance their goals on the world stage. What makes you think expanding these efforts will somehow change existing geopolitical behavior?

All systems of law break down into the imposers, and the imposed upon. You don't have to impose anything on the voluntarily compliant, but what about those that refuse? Are you going to invade or kill innocent people just because a few leaders don't want to play by your rules?

Sanctions don't work for their intended political purpose. The only reason politicians talk about them is because it enables their corporate masters to swoop into markets and make a lot of money. (And if you disagree, I ask you find a study pointing to how sanctions were politically successful.)
Not really. My mother still had her materials from school (and could still read it), and I drilled the alphabet a lot.

I think the biggest benefit is had by giving someone else your steno outlines and having them pinpoint where your strokes need work.
I'm subscribed to hundreds of channels, and I rarely see their content in my feed. It is so bizarre.
Easy now. It's not like I did anything mean like accuse you of being in ad sales.

Also, kettle, you're the one telling people they're behaving unethically.
Of course it has, and we all know it. He's now been proven to be "that guy who had rape accusations" by "multiple women". Or the "controversial figure known for his wild antics and potentially non consensual dealings with women in the past".

It's all just the start of a large machine thats been set in motion. Every news outlet that doesn't like him or doesn't want to portray him in a neutral or positive light will use this. They'll never say anything that can be factually proven wrong. This allows them to have selective bias which drives an agenda and is steering the thoughts of their readers into a specific direction.
It's impossible, yes? Let's see what happens next US election as a good start, I can't imagine what becomes 'misonformation' or 'harmful,' no matter which party wins.

And still you wasted brain space to respond, very witty.
This seems like an admirably honest, reflective and eloquent report of a pain point in a tough new field. I don't see the need for the sneery dismissal.

I hope they get the support they need and succeed.
Which Apple marketing person invented that "theft" argument?

Apple is pulling the exact same kind of shady bullshit that John Deere did with its tractors - except that in that case, the tech community was up in arms and actually spearheaded a right-to-repair movement.

Meanwhile, when Apple does the same thing, everyone seems to be falling over themselves trying to find an excuse why, well actually, Apple really only has the best interests of its users at heart.

What's going on?

Kudos to iFixit for at least showing some stance, but even their post is weirdly excusing in places:

> While it’s an improvement over the status quo of just a few years ago, when Apple wouldn’t sell parts or supply instructions or software tools to anyone outside the Genius Bar and a few select “authorized” repair outlets, it’s still a major problem. Apple has made some real progress here—and we’ve been reluctant to criticize manufacturers taking meaningful steps. There are good people inside Apple working hard to make this situation better.

Since when can investing a huge amount of resources to build your own DRM scheme and then paddling back a tiny bit when there is too much political pressure be called "taking meaningful steps"?

Would you applaud Microsoft for "taking meaningful steps" after they spent years on hardwiring Edge-only links into the OS, then eventually carved out a tiny exception after EU pressure grew too large?
Food largely gets to grocery stores on trains and boats and then to peoples homes in private vehicles. The last mails delivery from distribution centers to retail is a tiny fraction of overall transit.

Saying we can eliminate 99% of pollution but that last 1% is hard therefore why bother isn’t a rebuttal, it’s just insulting the intelligence of your reader.
I think Elon was always what I'd call "silicon valley libertarian" at best. Nothing he's said or done is really all that surprising, if you go back and look at the things he said and did 10 years ago.
Framework should eventually move into phones. Repair-first devices are needed for sustainability and also innovation in hardware.
But it's not really that much work. Disclaimer, I'm the author: 1) https://gruchalski.com/posts/2020-09-07-certificate-authorit..., 2) https://gruchalski.com/posts/2021-03-28-firebuild-rootfs-grp.... There are many options for various levels of entry.
Was more excited until I read the "Heroes of" part :D I know that HOMM 3 (and 5) are absolute classics, but I'd really love for a new interpretation of the original Corak/Sheltem Quintology. Might & Magic X's engine was pretty alright actually, if something like that exists as open source, that would be awesome.
China has more warships than the US and can build them faster. It's also further along with the development of hypersonic missiles than the US and it has a much larger population to draw from in the event of a war. The US military is probably still more powerful overall and it definitely has a lot more real world experience, but the gap has been closed to make it a lot smaller than it used to be.

I also strongly suspect that if a war did break out in Taiwan, other countries might start making moves knowing the US can't fight a battle on all fronts. For example, North Korea might launch an attack on South Korea, there might be more coups in Africa or Latin America in countries with critical resources etc. It would be difficult for the US to support the Ukraine war, a Taiwanese war and all these other efforts. I don't know about the US but it's well known that a lot of UK military equipment stocks are already quite seriously depleted from the Ukraine war alone. Ben Wallace was trying to get this addressed pretty urgently when he was the UK defence secretary, but the UK has so many systemic problems that need financing at the minute it's unlikely that much is going to get done about it unless something like a World War breaks out.
By letting you specify a language version requirement? Not exactly backwards compatible (because it is explicitly not, as per the article).

Python doesn’t make breaking changes in non-major versions, so as mentioned by the upthread comment the appropriate place for this change would be in Python 4.

Given the above, I’m really not sure what point you think you’re making in that final paragraph.
At least part of the issue for me was that many keywords/syntax rules don’t match anything I’m familiar with, even considering “C-like” languages.

I have similar issues with Rust actually. There’s a lot of sugar used that you have to grok and that takes some time.

On the other hand Python, C#, Java all stick with a set of fairly familiar conventions. In terms of syntax (and only syntax), the learning curve is more intense with Go; perhaps similar to the initial alienation provided by JavaScript.

My experience has been that once you are being paid to learn a language these problems mostly disappear. Alas, no one ever paid me to learn Go.
I don’t think it’s so complex. Without i := i, there’s only one i. With i := i, there’s one i per iteration.

Closure captures are always by reference.

Heap vs stack allocation don’t affect the language semantics.
> You can stream messages into a buffer and process them in parallel, and commit the low watermark offset whenever it changes, as described above. I've implemented this in .NET with Channels and saturate the CPUs with no problem.

And there are libraries that will manage all this for you e.g. https://github.com/line/decaton
Moving stolen electronics for phone components has been a consistent revenue stream for a long time and there's a lot of organization that goes into it. No one is pretending this solves the problem, rather that it creates a negative incentive for targeting phones specifically.

The world of scamming and petty theft is vast. I've known some real slick thieves, and they are of the opinion that lifting a phone is just not worth it these days. However, this deterrent is obviously going to be effective on a spectrum. If someone is trying to sell you stolen goods, are you going to buy a new iphone from them on the off chance you can get parts out of it?
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