skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not an argument against what you said, just an interesting anecdote.

I had a pool-related concussion a few years ago, and had to go back to the doctor because of persistent suicidal thoughts. The doctor told me, using more words than this, “This is normal, and statistically you are not likely to do anything about it. You should talk to your friends and wait for it to go away.” I was extremely frustrated that she hadn’t warned me about this at the first visit, in the way she had gone over other symptoms like light sensitivity and sleeping a lot.

She was right, though; the thoughts did stop after a few weeks. When I looked into it afterwards, what I found was typically doctors are advised not to tell patients that suicidal thoughts are a potential side effect, because knowing that made them more likely to happen.
> dropping GC, dropping runtime concurrency

Making GC/goroutine optional & customizable requires building a std works with no GC/goroutine.

> dropping std

relax, this is a new std, let's spare the baby some hope?
That really depends on your use case, doesn't it?

Assuming a typical 5-year lifecycle, 10 million writes means 1 write every 15 seconds. That's more than enough for executable code, CDN content, or a database index. I can definitely see systems with 75% UltraRAM for read-heavy data and 25% traditional RAM for write-heavy pages acting basically as L4 cache.
Sadly, no renunciation ceremony available
I have worked with Nicolas for a short stint, I'd highly recommend people to apply!
I see. Thanks for this clarification. This might be indeed the case, and if the publisher referred to any such restrictions I’d understood.

But their official letter which contains info on this said that restrictions only apply only to people in Russia or Belarus. Because of this wording, I have expected that the thing will follow the route of Binance or AirBnB, where you can work with the company without issues if you are not located in restricted country or have sanctions on your name. And up to this point all sparse info that I’ve received in replies just says the opposite: it’s based on nationality, and not location, and not backed up by any documented sanctions or restrictions.
https://archive.ph/F5aq5
The author does refer to Elixir further down:

> UPD: Erlang/Elixir seem to be doing the right thing, too.
But on the other hand you have one of the most powerful passports on the planet, so not all bad ...
So true, but had to downvote because of „fscking“.
The NY Times Daily podcast had a pretty good episode a few weeks ago about the experience of two women who took the drug. One had a good experience and the other did not - it was interesting that she ended up malnourished while still obese. As far as regaining weight, I would think that absent required lifestyle changes, you would expect that people would regain weight once the drug is discontinued.
If you really need to feed in a lot of text then look into Claude 2 because it has a 100000 token context window.

But Claude 2 or GPT-4 out of the box can probably do a reasonable job of that question without your having to feed the text in.

Try giving it a short description or name of each creation myth, asking it to provide a synopsis and then drill into main points for each at a high level. Then ask it to compare them.

Then finally just ask your question about the average. You could start with that but probably will get better results if you break it down first.
>Google is going to just sit idly?

Probably, that is what most companies the size of Google do.
Beneficiaries still have to pay an inheritance tax.

The loophole is putting all your assets into a trust and declaring beneficiaries of the trust. When you die the beneficiaries only have to pay capital gains from value at the time the trust was _created_. IE the closer to death the trust was created the less tax they pay.

There is slow moving efforts to remove this loophole.
> The “Public IPFS DHT” is henceforth going to be called “Amino”. This follows along with the trend from 2022 in the IPFS ecosystem to use more precise language to create space for alternative options

I'd argue that "Public IPFS DHT", if less catchy, is far more precise than "Amino".
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And now for something different: Python 3.12
Is there a similar aggregation website example for C++?
I wonder how that $2350 was calculated.
the interest in vector database rise as an external, specialized service in a system that runs in addition to the "single source of truth" data lake where the data actually resides.
like Redis and Memcached before, it solves a specific problem. Redis started to act like a fully fledged DB (with weird persistency method and guarantees) only after it was really wide-spread.
sure, every DB will support vector and every vector search engine will act like a DB. But that's missing the point that vector search is an expensive problem with tradoffs that justify a specialized design

btw I'm working in a DB startup - https://hyper-space.io/
May I also add: a "different" browser, that they're again trying to make unavoidable?
Below is my personal opinion on this matter. I'm a U.S. citizen.

America is one of the countries that grants the most rights to its citizens. This is enshrined in the constitution.

The constitution has always been a thorn in the side of anyone who wants to establish a top-down dictatorship in America.

Imagine a case where such a person or people decide to target certain Americans.

If it is possible to renounce citizenship and the rights it comes with, people might target them with demands that they do so, hence depriving them of their constitutional rights and protections.

The entire bill of rights only applies to U.S. citizens.

For these reasons and to avoid this possibility, in my personal opinion in order to safeguard liberty, it should not be easy, or even possible, to renounce citizenship and the rights it comes with.

If it is possible to renounce constitutional protections, someone could force people to do so.

Hypothetically, imagine if a police officer broke into your home and handcuffed you to a radiator until you were willing to renounce your citizenship.

I personally feel that this is not a scenario that should be possible.

To avoid this scenario, I think that it should not be possible to renounce U.S. citizenship and the rights it comes with.
Yeah, can I pay $2,350 for someone to transfer their citizenship to me?
You see it a lot in cable TV. They will periodically (for example) pull all Disney channels until they can get an agreement: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/01/media/disney-spectrum-cab...
And Canada: https://travel.gc.ca/travelling/living-abroad/taxation >Canadians who live or work abroad or who travel a lot may still have to pay Canadian and provincial or territorial income taxes.

And others if I start looking at their tax code. Americans just like to complain about their taxes.
My wife has recently lost quite a bit of weight; she's at probably her lowest adult weight in her life now in her 40's. Many people who see her ask what her routine is and how much she exercises.

As it turns out, the simple rule of "calories in, calories out" is true and possibly the easiest heuristic to follow to lose weight. She has hardly increased her metabolic activity (calories out), but primarily shifted her diet (calories in).

The mentality around weight management would do well to focus more on sustainable diet changes rather than on exercise (not that the latter isn't important, but that diet management seems to me more attainable and effective).
Yes, the United States is the #2 manufacturer after China, producing 16.6% of manufacturing output with just 4.2% of the world population.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/manufactu...
Heavily discussed yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37737519), but the Register's take may be of interest
Congrats!

I know the old Java based Android and the old obj-c based ios but haven't bothered to get fresh on all the changes of the last 5 years (swift, kotlin, jetpack, etc). I have been considering the Flutter option as a cross-platform way to do quick prototyping. Any good learning resources you can suggest (books, sites, tutorials)? Any particular libraries (e.g. image loading/rendering, parsing, etc.) you can suggest? Anything to avoid that seemed low value?
I don't think there are enough users of XCode within the EU to trigger it as a gatekeeper. I think the threshold is 45 million MAU
Unfortunately "improving" a medication to have a permanent instead of temporary effect doesn't seem to be a thing. E.g. Aspirin temporarily helps against headache, but there is still no pill you can take that cures headache permanently.
Why should it permanently ban them?
Everything in business is a negotiation: these loans will have been established with the same leverage-everything negotiation style. WeWork are announcing it because their position would be weakened if it was leaked by their lenders but this sort of behaviour happens every day in business — it’s just rarely announced. The lenders would engage in exactly the same behaviour it benefited their financial position, it’s a parasite eat parasite world.

I certainly agree that not paying suppliers etc. is problematic behaviour but this isn’t an example of that.
Enough people are willing to change it that just paying to be the default wasn't all that effective for Bing or Yahoo. Microsoft's previous strategy was to pay to make Bing the default and remove people's ability to change it. In particular, they took advantage of the mobile phone provider oligopoly in the US and other countries to pay off all the major providers to do this, so that consumers didn't really have a choice to not have their devices send searches to Bing. Google ruined that strategy by outbidding them without even imposing the same kind of lock-in that Microsoft did, and so Microsoft are trying to get the US government to ban them from bidding.
“…for two reasons:
1) NAR policies requiring a fee for the buyer’s agent on every listing
2) a pattern of alleged sexual harassment.”

That escalated quickly.
Not everyone want to be american: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental_American
>How often do you searched something and the first result happens to be the thing you are looking for?

Searched where? Every search powered by a large tech company has almost certainly been using vector search for years. Then combined that with other non-vector results. Then run that through numerous ranking models. Then showed that to you. It's far from perfect but absurdly better than the average ElasticSearch results you might get elsewhere.
US has the foreign tax credit. So unless you live somewhere with lower capital gains tax, you’d owe the IRS $0
this isn't even the first round.

the founder of WeWork took bajillions of dollars from investors and did all sorts of related party shennanigans to take more, then took half a billion dollar payout just so he'd fuck off finally.
Yes, most likely GLP1 is affecting the glutamate GABA balance. (GABA = Depression)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29129776/
Anyone got a gut feel as to whether you could use this to transform Whisper into a better streaming model? It's a bit of a hack using it that way at the moment.
Do you see any value in MBAs that are able to 'sell' other MBAs on the importance and value of Linux and OSS?
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Because the USA is a free and open society which should not punish someone just because they gave up their citizenship?

Honestly, your position is something I would've easily attributed to the Soviets at some point in time, and never thought an American would feel that way ...
I think the point is that amino is just one public ipfs dht, so they renamed it, so that other public ipfs dhts can exist without confusion.
Yup, people are really setting themselves up for losing a ton of important data and context in a knowledge silo they don't control.
Then renounce your citizenship.

You're gaining something by not renouncing it. The minimal cost of some trivial paperwork that you could if you wanted to offload to someone for a nominal fee is a really odd complaint.

> god help if you make an error transcribing that number

Why do people have such fear of taxes? No, it's not God. When you make an error the IRS helps you. They compute your taxes anyway and they send you a letter with your error and the updated number.
What was the lie in this case?
For those interested, the rules for the UK are set out here and are pretty clear: https://www.gov.uk/tax-foreign-income/residence

The summary is that if you have a full time job outside the UK or have spent less than 46 days in the UK (less if you were previously a UK resident) then you are never classed as a resident.

If that doesn't apply then working full time in the UK, spending at least half the year in the UK, or only having a home in the UK and using it for more than 30 days will automatically make the a resident.

If those don't apply, then there's a test to say if you have "significant ties" . The details for that are in the link and are applied on a sliding scale based on the number of days you spent in the UK.

To me, it looks pretty fair. You have a spend most of the year in the UK, have lots of "ties" here (property, family, etc), and not have a job elsewhere to be classed as a UK resident for tax purposes.
It's less precise because there are many ways one could implement a "Public IPFS DHT". "Public IPFS DHT" is a concept, Amino is a concrete instantiation of that concept.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Chinese_Novels

They're about court life and conflict, so of course they're full of court politics and intrigue
I think if you try and join ISIS they waive the fee. https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-isis-bride-shamima-begum-...
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> Believe it or not, this was common C practice back in the 1980s.

Was it, though? I used C back then (granted, learning it, and remember reading posts from Walter on what I think was FidoNet? BBS based, regardless), and never once saw anything like this OTHER than the stories of the bourne shell source code.

But, "common"? Feels kind of strawman.
They have gotten that backwards....
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A previous thread from 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21133181
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More and more, I appear to be an ideal candidate for GLP1 agonists. I saw absolutely incredible results for the 3 months I was on dulaglutide before I stopped being able to get any. At the same time, I already have a long history of suicidal thoughts and I'm on track to get a thyroid ablation for toxic multinodular goiter (another major risk of these drugs seems to be thyroid cancer shenanigans).
Responses to this seem to be missing the point. When you renounce citizenship, you pay tax on your assets EVEN THOUGH you did not dispose of them. It amounts to having to buy your freedom for a price based on your financial worth.
Honestly, I did actually wonder if that would work as an idea. Let people sell their citizenship to a (pre-approved and vetted) list of people.
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Taxes on these things are usually regressive so no thanks...
Being severely obese can make you feel suicidal. Many users of these drugs will likely be familiar with those thoughts before they start.

And a measurable drop in weight may be give them more hope than any antidepressants could do.

(Antidepressants can be like taking painkillers for toothache if there's an obvious physical cause of the depression. They may offer some relief, but the real problem remains, and may be getting worse, e.g. if the antidepressants lead to further weight gain)
Agreed. If you get kidnapped as a US citizen, I think you have the highest chance of people with guns falling out of the sky to save you.
People who aren’t American also have to pay capital gains tax if they invest in real estate or stocks in the U.S.

There’s a reason people around the world want to invest in America.
> I disagree. To me, Discord is a huge barrier. I use it when I have to. But it‘s bloated, slow and complicated. I don’t want to run it constantly because of that, and it takes very long to start up.

Yea man, that's a you problem. Discords popularity speaks to how little of a problem any of that is for other people.

Anecdotal I've never thought of Discord as slow or "complicated".
But in the last 20 years sales of Suburbans have not increased.
Some people are proud of where other people were born, regardless of where these other people work.

Some people are proud of where other people work, regardless of where these other people were born.

These are very different views of the world /shrug
Clearly a police officer breaking into your house to force you into renouncing your citizenship has no regard for the law, so why are they bothering?
Loads of quant and HFT funds run their trading software on Windows.
Exactly. Walter Bright also used to be a lone hero - he isn't anymore. But some habits stick of course. Also the languages he writes in might not have the best formatters.

I am old enough to have experienced the not so good formatters (in mainstream languages) and wasn't a fan. But after working with really great formatters, its such a benefit I don't like to go without it anymore.
"Lifestyle changes" (eating less calories) alone would be sufficient to lose weight, but people presumably take semaglutide because they are always too hungry and can't realistically make those changes. It doesn't seem like the drug makes behavioral changes and easier when it isn't used anymore.
How the hell do they do it! I can't even reduce 100 ms latency from my API calls.
> majority of people who discontinue, even after long term use, regain 100% or more of the weight

Is it known whether this is primarily psychological or physiological?

Or in other words, is the weight gain simply caused by people returning to their poor diets/routines or is increased hunger (or something) a withdrawal symptom of the drug?
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Ah the randomness of HN. I would have remembered the 2021 and 2020 references if I’d seen them.
Seemingly clickbait/fake info.

Another article says that the woman had been struck by a human driven vehicle and projected in front of the Cruise car that couldn't avoid her:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37748405

The actual issue is that the Cruise car sensed that something was wrong and stopped after having run over the woman trapping her leg under a rear wheel.
Looks like they made a whole OS, just to help Twitter raise their user views stats...
Do you need really to nuke it? Some low power explosives would work.
Thanks for the clarification, that's interesting.

My impression before was it would be considered a single "entity" (not the same as a roman-alphabetic word, but not a character either) containing 3 characters.
Modern Fortran (2008+) has built-in support for matrices, complex numbers, co-arrays (parallel programming), array slicing, etc. This makes it easy to write performant compiled code if you mostly deal with numerics.

Fortran has also added support for e.g. object-oriented programming, pure functions (no side effects for better optimization), and pointers. So idiomatic modern Fortran code looks very different from the “Fortran 77” code that many people might think of when they hear the name :).
That what courts and police are for. I am pretty sure it would be invalidated if you proved that it was under duress. But i have never heard about anyone forcing citizenship renounciation. But some people have legitimate reasons to do so, e.g. bojo: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/08/boris-johns...
Critically, in years when estate taxes existed they treated cash identically to stocks so it was still a loophole. 13 million in appreciated assets counts the same as 13 million in cash. You only pay estate tax on the 80k over the $12.92 million threshold even their capital gains would have been 1.5 million that goes away.

If you inherit an asset your tax basis is its value when the owner died. This may be significantly less than what it is when you actually receive the asset, but it’s likely higher than when that person originally purchased it.

PS: Estates may chose an alternate date 6 months after someone died, which again generally helps.
> just by incrementing a shared counter (which cannot be cached)

That's not true, a shared counter (i.e., an atomic integer) is cached – in fact, there's no guarantee that its value is ever written back to system RAM.

You're probably thinking of non-cacheable memory: the kernel can set the MMU attributes of a memory page such that the CPU will avoid the cache when it accesses addresses in that page. This is completely independent of atomic accesses on memory locations [1].

[1] At least typically – there may well be CPUs which disallow atomic accesses on non-cacheable memory.
I’m an Apple fanboy and a Google hater, but Apple couldn’t even beat Google with Maps.
Al is very self-aware (that second character is a lower-case ell), he's less concerned with legal entities than with his relationships with musicians.
VMT is strongly correlated with income, so people with higher incomes would pay more tire taxes.
Yeah, I'm just pushing back on the claim that crypto assets are fundamentally different. It's the same scheme, just faster and unregulated.
This section early on in the linked VisiCalc manual was actually helpful to me:

> The VisiCalc program was born out of the observation that many problems are commonly solved with a calculator, a pencil, and a sheet of paper — three nearly universal tools. Calculating sales projections, income taxes, financial ratios, your personal budget, engineering changes, cost estimates, and balancing your checkbook are done with these tools.

I've never thought of the spreadsheet as the computer equivalent of paper, pencil, and calculator.

That might sound odd, but coming from a programming background, I've always viewed it as some sort of limited-database-with-limited-scripting-abilities. I've even felt bad about using spreadsheets sloppily – not structuring data properly, applying formulae systematically, etc.

But "electronic paper, pencil, and calculator" does explain exactly how I often end up using spreadsheets, and now I know I shouldn't feel bad about it anymore!
Popular fast food drive-thrus are getting faster
I don't want to know IPs: encryption in TORRENTDYNE
I'm 40 and it's been more or less the same. I weigh more now, but when I was skinny it was because I'd eat a salad a day, and now I eat considerably more.

When I switch to salads and cut sugar, I still lose weight quite quickly.
Yes, I 100% would. To any software. The only positive in this case is that Debian is not run by the freaking Google - the overlord of all information on the internet with backdoors for all three letter agencies in USA, despite what Go authors will want you to believe.
I've used lots of the London WeWork sites since 2015, and carried on all through the depths of the pandemic and since.

For the last few years, I've been scratching my head how they are even staying open. Almost all of the centrally located ones around the City have been like ghost towns. Sometimes it seems there are only 2-3 people in the whole building, especially Monday and Friday.

In the last 3-4 months they are finally getting back to how they were. Struggling to get rooms, phone booths, hot desks etc and a bit of buzz is returning. I really think return to office is finally a thing after the summer.

My experience with their sales teams has been abysmal. I must have contacted them 5 times asking about upgrades, and I've never once had anybody follow up properly - e.g. email trails go dead, no availability for viewings etc.