skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rust isn't an "RC" language like Java is a "GC" language. It's more flexible than that. Rust has actual unboxed/value structs; it has Box (heap allocation without reference counting); it has Rc (single-thread/no-atomic reference counting); it has Arc (atomic reference counting); it has epoch gc libraries. And, regarding this phrase:

> RC languages do need to free memory used to hold the values later

It also has arena allocator libraries, so you can group allocations that will be freed at a similar time. You don't need to walk through these to find them all and individually free them. Any Drop impls (destructors/finalizers) get handled via a lifo; then the arena's relatively few, large blocks get freed.

I've used this in C++ to squeeze some more performance out of a high-request-rate server. I haven't done it in Rust, but it's the same idea (but safer of course).

btw, little confused by this:

> [RC languages?] have to run expensive compaction and locking steps

Was this meant to refer to GC languages? I've never seen a non-GC language that does compaction (we're talking about the same thing? moving all the heap allocations around to reduce fragmentation?) That's more of a GC language thing that e.g. Java does; it would require the language/runtime to be able to precisely spot pointers and be able to throw in a trap when one it's changing is dereferenced or to entirely stop the world first, and I don't know why you'd take on that complexity and expense if you're not doing GC...
Agreed. It should say "new risks organizations face when starting to leverage the power of Azure" or "the power of cloud computing". But as clickbait worthy a title.
Someone logged a 500 hectare plot in Borneo. They split this into 125 sections and planted 0, 1, 4, or 16 "tree species that are frequently targeted for logging". After 20 years, satellite imagery shows that the more tree species you planted, the more recovered the land appears to be.

I'm left wondering:

1. Why did they plant only tree species that are frequently targeted for logging? This makes the whole experiment very suspect. The linked article talks a lot about restoring forests, but why restrict the tree species to those that are profitable to log?

2. Is the satellite imagery actually representative of on-the-ground truth? A lot of logging land in western America gets replanted with logging-friendly trees in very regular grid patterns. These areas may look like forests from satellites (or to uninformed ground-level visitors), but the regrown tree farms do not behave like forests. The dense growth crowds out the ground-level plants, which in turn makes the entire tree farm a poor habitat for local fauna. If your goal is to grow more trees for lumber, tree farms are great. But I'm not sure the claims about "forest restoration" are honest/true here.
Not the original poster, but to add my experience:

Two-bay NAS, two drives as a mirrored pair, two SSDs as mirrored pair cache. Only makes data available on my home network. Primarily using Nextcloud and Gitea.

It backs up important files nightly to a USB-attached drive, less critical files weekly. I have a weekly backup to a cloud provider for critical files.

A sibling comment makes a good point: do you want a hobby or an appliance? Using a commercial NAS makes it closer to an appliance[0]. Building it yourself will likely require more fiddling.

If you want to run a different OS on a commercial NAS, dig deeper into the OS requirements before buying a the NAS. Asustor Lockerstor Gen 2 series' fan is not inherently supported by things other than Asustor's software.

[0] A commercial NAS will still require monitoring, maintenance, and validation of backups.
My in laws live literally a block away and watch our kids multiple times a week. The girls sleep over there sometimes too.

In no way are either of them a third 'parent'. This idea that grandparents and aunts and uncles can actually be a third parent has to die. No one who actually lives in these situations is confused as to who's who.

We lived with my grandparents as children and while again, we loved them very much and they watched and cared for us like parents... The relationship is fundamentally different.
Seems like raising a kid requires exposing them to many different experiences growing up, and generally speaking fathers will provide different experiences mothers.

Do I have evidence? No.

Do you have any evidence that any other form of parenting is just as good?
Because you didn’t mention any photos? You just said you found a piece of tritinite, not that you found photos and stories of her involvement.

Sorry, not trying to “cast shade”. Just trying to clarify they tritinite by itself isn’t exceptionally rare nor did it require involvement in the Manhattan Project to acquire. You can buy pieces of it online from places like United Nuclear.
If you Google it, it's a pretty common phrase referring to magnetic disk as opposed to SSD. Could even be applied to drum, I suppose, if you could still find any...
I recently found https://github.com/Rodrigodd/gameroy to be a very complete implementation
I mean I gave an example in Oregon but you seem to have skipped it.

That's not an example of what you're saying. It appears to be in ongoing discussions. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

On a more local level, how many regulations are voted on by people in cities, but will inevitably affect rural people? Or heck, any people who did not want those regulations?

What level are you talking about? I mean, what locality spans city and rural areas? These are great hypothetical situations, but you gotta put real examples behind them to show that there is some conspiracy about oppressing people living in rural areas. Even at a state level, due to the nature of districting, urban areas don't have any more representation in state legislatures.

As you can see you have several states that have always voted for the same party for decades.

You're now changing your argument from urban-rural to D-R?
> A multi generational household occurs naturally when grandma and grandpa had a stable two parent households and now mom and dad do too.

More importantly, young people need a reason not to move hundreds or thousands of miles away from their stable household. Investing in community resources, local economies, and infrastructure that promotes health and opportunity are all necessary.
Show HN: A murder mystery game built on an open-source gen-AI agent framework
Hey HN,

Michael and Scott here. We’re open-sourcing an interactive murder mystery featuring LLM-driven character agents. Solve the mystery by finding clues, taking notes, and interrogating agents. They all have distinct motives, personality, and can impact the game in different ways (attacking you, running away, etc). Try it out, it’s pretty fun!

We’re also open-sourcing the framework that we used to make and refine the agents. The goal is to create an intuitive interface for storytellers to create, debug, and test game agents. We then take those game agents and expose an API beyond just chat - such as actions, player guardrails, emotional queries, etc.

We’re not done yet - there are a lot more features coming on the way: scenario-based agent evals, agent-storyline consistency management, automatic agent generation, etc.

We would love to hear your feedback.

Thanks!

[0] https://github.com/mluogh/grontown

[1] https://github.com/mluogh/eastworld

[2] https://discord.gg/qRaWE2jp
AI has magnified the use cases, though. Before, Big Data was an advertising machine meant to tokenize and market to every living being on the planet. Now, machine learning can create "averaged" behavior of just about anything, given enough data and specificity.
The plane-sized drones are capable of some autonomous operation. It may or may not be possible to spoof that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incid...

The smaller drones are not usually autonomous. See the Starlink alleged incident.

Inertial guidance is popular but very expensive to do accurately with laser gyros. I'm surprised there haven't been more "terrain following" systems.

There's probably always going to be a continuum between manned and unmanned platforms, and a discussion about SEAD.
If you'd like to see what Donn's BASIC was like, you can! The Internet Archive has a version that runs in-browser [1].

Although the Folklore article says there were two books describing Donn's BASIC, I believe there were at least three: Introduction to Macintosh BASIC, Using Macintosh BASIC, and The Macintosh BASIC Handbook. All three are available at vintageapple.org [2].

[1] https://archive.org/details/mac_MacBASIC.335

[2] https://vintageapple.org/macprogramming/
What that means is that it takes parents and extended family and the close-knit community you'd find from a church and from schools, for example. Millions of people do this today. It's odd to see people think this is a revelation or something.
Many people live in countries different from their citizenship. If you have an Indian passport but have lived in Germany for 5 years, should you pay taxes to India?
There aren't any tax credits for married couples. There are tax credits for parents, and they aren't reduced by divorce. The tax benefits of filing "married" isn't any better than filing as "head of household" (which doesn't require marriage), and filing as either sometimes provide a disadvantage when both parents are working and earn similar incomes.

In the US at least, the financial and legal incentives for women to divorce is far, far greater.
People don't want to have children because:

1) they can't afford it, or

2) they don't have a reasonable apartment/home (same thing as 1. really)

3) they don't want to give up their lifestyle

4) they're genuinely afraid the future is dystopian and dark (which is rather interesting since I can't imagine a future more dystopian than one without children)

So if you want to fix the society to want to have children again you have to make it

1) affordable,

2) less inconvenient,

3) (not really sure what to do about being afraid of the future)

if that sounds like socialism... too bad. Capitalism evidently makes people prefer capital (both money and time) over children.
> Also, base load is a very loosely defined notion that somehow never gets nailed down to actual GW of capacity or GWH of storage needed. Can you be specific?

An energy grid must have a capacity to produce a given amount of energy over a certain period of time reliably, and this is called the base load. The capacity varies according to the region or grid - for example, for Europe you can find the average amount of energy consumed here: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

We cannot use renewables for that, because they can be unreliable. Even if we saturated Europe's most suitable spots with solar panes and wind turbines, there will be days in which not enough energy would be produced in this scenario. Energy production from renewables is also seasonal, obviously. Therefore, you need a stable energy source that you can use to accommodate for that.

So, your alternatives for when that happens are essentially nuclear or carbon-based power plants. The latter are heavily favored at the moment, as you can see in the link above. They are currently what Europe largely relies on as a reliable energy source generator. Therefore, nuclear is the only existing alternative to oil/gas/coal.

I would appreciate if you read my comments carefully and realize that I am not arguing against renewables, so you can save your lectures for someone else. I am merely pointing out that renewables are not a solution for a reliable grid without another energy source, and that every alternative people like to cite to nuclear in this scenario (batteries, hydrogen, you name it) are currently not viable.
My point is to separate the absolute toys (CPUs which are on a level with the 6502) from the somewhat more complicated designs that can be used to demonstrate fundamental concepts beyond just decoding and executing instructions.
Well sure, they would not use it for everyday standard cases to limit exposure. Intel does have something to loose, if this would became public knowledge.

But I cannot believe they resisted the temptation to use that opportunity to get such an easy access to so many devices.
Queue Theory is known as Management Theory in Soviet Union. Soviet Union did not have managers and US did not have queues though.
Which is why the regulations on passenger aircraft got tightened up, it's easier to get rid/impede the attack vector than to overcome the physical limitations of a radar antenna in a fighter jet's nose cone vs a many meters large ground radar antenna.
I think your first paragraph makes some strong points. I think your second paragraph veers so far off in a policy direction that is utterly untenable, that it made me carefully re-read your first paragraph to make sure I hadn't missed something borderline insane in it.
We migrated to Zuora and, while there are limitations, they’re far less than your own limitations. Honestly, if you can’t model it in Zuora, what you can do is likely close enough that it’s not worth the 100x extra effort to build your own system.
SpaceX is not fully under operational control of the US government, if some of the reports from Twitter about geofencing are to be believed.
There may be some element of truth to that, but jobs aren’t the only reason why highly employable young people tend to move to urban areas. There’s other big reasons, like there being a lot more to things to do and a vastly wider variety of large hobby/interest communities and cultures in urban areas.

This is why the bulk of people moving away from city centers during the pandemic moved to cheaper cities or the suburban metros surrounding cities rather than small towns, and unless small towns stop being small towns it’s not going to change.
AWS does not publish what IPs are active and assigned IE: customers are paying for vs. addresses they own.
In a large company the engineers , regional distribution etc are already there and pis for by other parts of the company I think. Your math is otherwise correct.
How would it know the code was pre 2024?
They're auctioning the signatures of the pilots as war memorabilia. I think that part's beyond any defense. Even if you kill someone for a legitimate reason (I'm side-stepping that), it's not moral to glorify the killing, and monetize the killing, in this way. It's just ghoulish!
>instead of making it hard to write incorrect programs, Zig makes it easy to write correct programs.

Or May be rephrasing it ( To avoid the word "instead" which may anger Rust supporters );

Rust Makes it hard to write incorrect programs, Zig makes it easy to write correct programs.

I think this single sentence captures the philosophical difference between Rust and Zig. And of course there is no right or wrong in philosophy.
The distraction is dredging up edge-cases to weigh down progress.

Should every vehicle made be wheelchair accessible because some people have wheelchairs? Same logic here.
Does it matter what he thinks?

I don’t understand what his relevance is here.
It's a typical boom/bust cycle, isn't it? Plus tech is going through a recession, there's less money tossed around, inflation is cray cray, people have less disposable income, etc.
The vast majority of people aren't serious weightlifters and consequently don't need to eat like they are.
When I was growing up the recommendation was to eat a lot of grains/carbs and avoid red meat. Beyond incompetence I think partly this was because cheap calories were needed historically to feed a manual labor force. Now that much of our labor is knowledge work, and people live sedentary lifestyles unless they exercise, the dietary recommendations should be altered. Whole foods and animal proteins, lower calories required, two meals a day.
> NOBODY WANTS TO ADOPT IT except by force, even now.

Hi, I've adopted it for many reasons and I'm happy. You'll need to update your count. Seriously though, there's lots of people who adopted it - you'll need some more data for a generalisation like this.

> We have to keep shoehorning apps into 64k ports

With ipv6 you typically get a whole range assigned to your machine rather than a single address. Why expand ports, when you can assign millions of apps to different addresses, with the same port that correctly identifies the service type? As a bonus, this already works with DNS AAAA entries so you don't have to mess with SRV to find the right port.
> Isn't the US Military like 3 times the size of the 3 next largest militaries combined or something?

The PLA is larger. The PLAN is larger. China is situated far closer to the likely contested areas.

> _existential_ threats

Your head is firmly embedded in the sand. If you care you need to do some reading. A shortcut to your learning looks something like this: The CCP's ascension and probable downward spiral is only reversible through control over resources contested by the West and regional players. The parties cannot cooperatively resolve the disputed issues because more resources are required than are available and no viable alternatives exist. War is probably coming, perhaps inevitable, unless one of the key players implodes domestically.
The Catholic church requires marriage school (often the priest goes over a large standardized list of questions about how the marriage will be structured to verify you've thought it all through).

Catholics have significantly lower divorce rates: https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/28161/catholics-cont...

From my priest friends, I've heard horror stories of couples they've managed to convince not to marry. We are talking couples who could not agree on kids, or who had major family issues or resentment, or couldn't agree on finances.

It's best for everyone if these just don't marry.
Pentests where people actually get out of bed to do stuff (read code, read API docs etc) and then try to really hack your system are rare. Pentests where people go through the motions, send you report with a few unimportant bits highlit while patting you on the back for your exemplary security so you can check the box on whatever audit you're going through are common.
Privacy Adversarial Framework
The truth about nitro-meats: my seven-year search for better bacon
At least in Canada, inflated house prices have destroyed this unless you plan on living in your parents or in-laws house with your spouse and child.
I'm not interested in providing a public subsidy to Uber. If they want two lanes of the highway dedicated to their vehicles then they can pay for two lanes of the highway dedicated to their vehicles. I expect their road tax to be considerably higher per mile.
Perhaps Haldane was making an analogy between fascist autocrats and the commissars that run a Leninist society.
Increasing? This has always, and will always be an issue. My approach is to roll with it - rather than banish them altogether, I treat all devices like this as such and no more, holding others to the same standard. This, hopefully shifts the meaning away from the scientific and towards the domain of “quaint sayings.” For instance, I invoke the concept of the “lizard brain” quite commonly as a way of expressing how base instincts can override my better judgement. But I’m careful to never imply there (in the words of the article) “a scala naturae view of evolution in which animals can be arranged linearly from ‘simple’ to the most ‘complex’ organisms.”
Attacking machines directly over the network is dangerous for them from the standpoint of detection, though. You can bet that any ME/PSP remote access exploits are used very carefully due to potential detection.
Psychology can barely make any predictions. This isn't a meaningless technicality like the not-to-scale diagram of atoms used in old textbooks. Correcting poor assumptions to find new models of understanding is still important in this field.
Which reminds me of a quote attributed to Newton: "I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men."
Partially agree. A guide like this helps combat the potential overwhelm of feeing like you still have too much to learn/can’t possibly get started.
Is there a memory exhaustion scenario where Rust does something other than panic?
And further incentivize divorce? It's a dual-headed problem. Much of what has fueled the breakdown of family structure are policies that incentivize women to become single mothers. Children being raised by single mothers is not a good outcome. We need to stop pretending that it is.
For the most part - they are good for delay, tripwires, anti-air and scouting.
I remember reading a reddit thread that detailed the broad outlines of one of Renaissance's trading strategies. From memory it was basically arbitraging indexes of certain groups stocks by buying/selling the underlying stocks using leverage when the index deviates from the price of the assets. They used predictive modelling from lots of data sources to determine when this would occur.

Does anyone have the link?
C++11 gave us variadics which opened a new metaprogramming world. For true horror try cons-based typelists in C++98.
Y Combinator Podcast #4: Sam Altman Interviews Elon Musk (2016)
> The same way the F-35 does I guess.

No, because that's in part "let the human pilot make decisions".

> Besides, it's pretty common for AI systems to overtake human capabilities these days...

Not in the realm of "should I shoot that thing?" sort of decisions.
Even if this is accurate, it's still marketing material from the manufacturer and doesn't belong on HN.
> It's not very useful to come 20 years later and re-hash the exact same discussion all over again.

I'm not complaining as if to say "yeah guys, let's stop the ipv6 rollout and do ipv10" or whatever. But I think it is useful to see why the problems of ipv6 came about. A great comment from one of the linked HN threads said "ipv6 was a product of it's time", a time (I put it at mid 90s to mid 00s) when there were a ton of over-complicated, over-engineered specs that were designed by committee. Some examples:

1. XML, and all its complexities and incompatible versions (I still have some PTSD from some Java XML version incompatibilities), vs. what the industry discovered to be the much simpler and now much more widely used JSON.

2. The insanity of SOAP vs. something like REST.

3. The original Enterprise Java Beans spec. Feel like "'nuff said" is good enough here, what a nightmarish shit show that was.

Thankfully I think the industry has largely learned its lesson when it comes to valuing simple even if imperfect specs. But I still totally disagree that "ipv6 is the best we could have done".
Interesting to see, as I still encounter these banners from time to time. I also have Wipr Extra enabled. Apologies for the mistake
Nuclear reactor run by Reed College students
What do you think "encryption at rest" means
A lot of pirated games and office software were distributed as multi part RARs.

Uh, a friend told me.
Is 1blocker trustworthy? I have a vague recollection that they pulled some sort of bait and switch a while back, and deprecated their paid app in favor of a subscription-based app. I see that they at least offer a lifetime license, which is a prerequisite for me to consider using it, but I don’t really want to pay twice for the same product, or find my lifetime license abandoned a year or two from now.
Fortunately not a whole of of data and for sure with a little bit like that there wasn't anything important, confidential or embarrassing in there. Looking forward to Microsoft's itemised list of what was taken, as well as their GDPR related filing.
Eventually people will figure out that monoculture was a horrible and anti-nature idea.
What ever happened to cursive writing?