skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's Antora which is... sort of an SSG, built around asciidoctor source. I say sort of because it's really meant for compiling documentation for code (git is a built-in concept), but it's not hard to finagle it into acting like a regular SSG that you'd use for blog posts.
Keeping Time in San Francisco
This is exactly my point. Proved. Any other metaphor or synonym for what they do.
I work in info sec. The emphasis is never on securing things but rather on "risk management" the entire field of information security from a business perspective is the quote from fight club

"A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one."

That is literally what the entire field exists for. Here's the kicker the cost of X is so monumentally low right now because there are no consequences for it other than firing your CSO (Chief Sacrificial Officer) that there is almost never a reason to issue the recall.
Ozempic Threatens Profits at Food and Beverage Makers Worldwide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobbyist_operating_system

I am not personally familiar with any of those OSes (other than reading about the...bizarre TempleOS), but many of them have last release dates within the last 5 years.
The incentives in the online advertising industry are a bit broken, so there are a lot of bad actors out there.

Adblock is not "wrong". And you should not disable it "so services can make money". Would you disable your virus scanner "so services can make money"?

There's plenty of ways to make money that don't include predatory behavior.

Meanwhile, keep your security posture up. Make sure your money goes to people who deserve it, not random people who spy on you or worse.

Keep your adblocker on at all times. It keeps dishonest people at bay, and keeps honest people honest too.

Tell your friends and family to do the same.
A lot of this is simply that Canadians do not desire to be rich and prioritize not being poor. That is not aligned with entrepreneurship. Our culture is very poorly suited to it.

I know because I am one of those people.

For example, I have participated in numerous entrepreneurship accelerator programs, as have my friends. How many of us spent any time on our companies after finishing the accelerators? Zero. I know people who put the winning of 200K on their resume, went to get a corporate job, and just returned the 200K in prize money later, as the purpose of the prize was to be publicly named as winning the prize. This person now works for RBC as a software developer.

I won 20K with a friend a few weeks ago for our startup (which was generated just for the competition). We intend to hand the money back at the progress deadline, as he is a new grad and it helped him to get a job.

Canadians are also very suspicious of people who do go into business for themselves. American companies will hire entrepreneurs. Going to YC is not a career derailer. In Canada, we would assume that if you started a company that you couldn't find a job. I have been in the (virtual) room as resumes are tossed as the hiring manager assumed "Co-Founder" was just a synonym for unemployed.

Anecdotally, Canadians need more money to work for a startup, not less as in the USA. Americans take pay cuts to work for startups in the hope of a giant return. Canadians demand a pay premium to work for a startup, over say RBC.

The other issue is that Canadian consumers also do not take risks. We don't try new products or switch suppliers. Consider our high internet costs. There are tons of other options, but even when CBC went out and told people about them, they refused to switch as they didn't want to take the risk.

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1196815939737
So the only proper car is a clown car?
I think I read that the slavs don't like sour things and preferred to drink kefir during a state it was early stages of fermenting / bubbling, which is rather sweet, if you've ever made it yourself.
"Pigeon Shits on Windshield, as Deer Crossing, an Old Junkie Says" - journalism in 2023.
The question isn't about whether it's good to just let people self destruct, its whether criminalization helps. Not every problem is a police problem.
Funny thing I was just thinking I have to replace Pop_OS! with something else because it's completely broken, or at least it is for me. I wish it worked as smooth as it did when they first released it.

I was hyped up about Cosmic DE when they announced it but not anymore. Not because anything they've done but because I'm being kind of pessimistic about the linux desktop.
Maybe but I imagine his future at the company will be strained after this. Is he willing to do this on exit? Since there is no financial issue I’m not sure what he would win.

Not a lawyer… etc…
I've sat in that TM queue during a big sale a bunch of times, sometimes you get in, sometimes you just sit there until you realise it's not actually doing anything. I don't think sticking a broken queuing system on the front is any better than going down. It's maybe actually more frustrating because you think it's all working.
It provides feedback to the author, and it also has generated quite a significant discussion here about the topic.

It could have been worded more constructively sure, but given that the entire point of this website is to have discussions about the material posted, I think it’s added quite a bit.
just left, but I'll take one when I get in tomorrow - so check back. padding aside i think having a tall work surface and a stool is really alot more natural and convenient than a desk with motorized screws.
Actually we have a mission critical application running Java 6. 8 remains a dream.
I don't see how increasing demand solves supply problems. Surely there are multiple problems here, not just supply.
First you need to scale to 1,000 users, then you will know how to scale to 10,000 (or maybe not). Other than that it is just daydreaming.
> But it's not art (as defined as something that challenges the audience)

That’s a pretty restrictive definition of art. While I appreciate that you’ve defined your terms, I think this definition is nonstandard.
This is what I immediately thought of when I saw the O3DE post on the front page. "Oh! Is Ogre still a thing?" Sad that other thread wasn't it, glad to see that it is the case, otherwise.
testosterone replacement therapy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgen_replacement_therapy
> I think part of your comment might be based on the idea that vegans are playing a social virtue game rather than being compassionate for its own sake and you feel challenged and offended by that

Not quite, I find the chosen solution to be arbitrary and that the chosen solution continues to move with new information about what suffering is. Echoed by the less verbose quip someone made earlier in the thread about needing to switch to a rock based diet.

I think several other rationales for the same dietary preferences are stronger, for example being against factory farming has nothing to do with only consuming plants it has to do with not consuming factory farmed meat.

I think several other responses to the mammalian suffering observation are stronger, for example, regulating or reducing how much of it occurs, which would have a greater impact than your dietary preference.
Is anything they write about that organisation, some of which I quoted, false?

That's what you should focus on rather than trying to shoot the messenger.
There's been a surprising amount of academic work on this. Crecganford's video lists some 13 sources, the one I think he references the most is: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234273399_Emu_Dream...
> In a regulated securities market, this would be considered insider information, and this could lead to jail time

Per the SEC's definition (and thus prevailing law of the land), this is already illegal insider trading. That said, it's a low enforcement priority, largely on account of the victims being unsympathetic.
> If the idea is that the public sector’s wonderful services are supposed to help the private sector flourish

That isn't the idea. The services are for the people, not to help you line your pockets.
It's not the magnitude, it's the mens rea (motive and intent).
"Even if you drive your car every day, its battery will die and you won't be able to start it."

How do you figure this? Seems unlikely to me that a 15 min drive would not bring a car batter drained my occasional failed phone connections back to full
They’ll buy the company that makes it and stop selling it, and everybody will be fat again! ;)
I think such fears are way premature:

Not every obese/overweight person who takes these drugs loses a lot of weight. some lose a lot, but others may only lose 8-13%, hence there will still be a lot of obese or overweight people even with full market penetration

Some people discontinue usage due to side effects or other reasons

It's possible that these drugs eventually stop working. This is a common problem with weight loss treatments in general, such as bypass or band, in which lost weight is regained after many years due to the body adapting or other reasons. The body is really good at resisting weight loss and will do everything possible to try to return the weight to its set point.
I'm not clear on what legal grounds Ferrari could even make a claim here. The owner of the custom made look-alike car didn't create the car and never tried to sell the car. If Ferrari could prove that the car was substantially similar enough to infringe on their trademarked design AND likely to cause confusion, they might be able to impound the car and have it destroyed, similar to fake Rolex watches or Mickey Mouse t-shirts. But collecting punitive damages or prison time seems crazy. Maybe Spanish law is weirdly different but most western nations generally conform to WTO standards around IP. I suspect we're not getting the whole story here.
Back in the day, google recognized that people linking to other people on the open web was in fact a form of human feedback.

Of course, these days many users don't have their own personal websites anymore. (or in % terms, probably less than when google first started). But that's a story for another day.
An easy way to explain this is increased health care and old-age care costs due to an ageing population. I haven't verified it for Canada in particular, but I'd be surprised if this wasn't the cause.
Population change over the same time period is +23%. 31.6m to 38.8m

Where did all the jobs come from? Are people not retiring? Spending less time in schooling?

It's wasn't a massive decrease in unemployment that could explain that.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/CAN/canada/population
I see a donation button, but not a link to the source code.

Not sure this thing is open source hardware, or available to anyone in any form, or even real.
Our Dumb Century
I use asciidoctor (via a simple filter for the nanoc static site generator[1]) for my weblogs. It works especially well for footnote-heavy essays[2] (at least compared to my attempts to use various markdown flavors for blogging), and also for code snippets[3]

1: https://nanoc.app/
2: example: https://americancynic.net/log/2018/12/3/kivas_interest_rates...
3: example: https://catswhisker.xyz/log/2020/12/7/deranged_sinterklaas/
I'm 99% certain that the spacecraft computers were not programmed in Fortran. Several years ago, I investigated this meme for my own interest and all arrows seem to point back to this 2013 Wired article as the source (also referenced in your muckrock link): "Interstellar 8-Track: How Voyager's Vintage Tech Keeps Running" ( https://www.wired.com/2013/09/vintage-voyager-probes/ ) .

The 2013 article was based on an interview with the current (2013) Voyager project manager, who began working on the Voyager project in 1984, a few years after the 1977 launches.

First off, I'm guessing that project manager said "Fortran Five" (while thinking "Fortran V") and the writer wrote down "Fortran 5". The Wikipedia article for Fortran (which also references this Wired article, erroneously I think) says there was only one Fortran 5, introduced by Data General in the late 1970s. Other companies offered Fortran V.

Second, I think the key phrase in the quote is "control and analysis software". To me, this connotes the ground system: mission control and science data analysis. And Fortran was commonly used in ground processing and such code could be ported to Fortran 77 and later C.

The on-board spacecraft flight software would be another matter. Voyagers 1 and 2 were launched in 1977. I can't imagine trusting the flight software to newly introduced Fortran V compilers (or even a pre-release DG Fortran 5 compiler). And then switching compilers to Fortran 77 and then C. Possible, but IMHO, not likely.

I am open to being corrected. Regarding FOIAs, I had not thought of going to that extreme and, as your link to the muckrock request verifies, I had also learned that the papers were the property of Caltech, not NASA. Which is unfortunate as the documents and communications mentioned in the link below promise some fascinating reading just begging to be made available online!

I highly recommend reading "Computers in Spaceflight: The NASA Experience" at https://history.nasa.gov/computers/contents.html . (The author of the history did visit the JPL archives and was able to read a fascinating assortment of documents in hardcopy form.)

Chapter 6, "Distributed Computing On Board Voyager and Galileo" ( https://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch6-2.html ), describes the Voyager computers in some detail. There were 3 computers:

(1) Command Computer Subsystem (CCS) - command processing/sequencing, etc. This computer was carried over from the Viking missions.

(2) Attitude Control System - used a revamped, beefed up CCS computer.

(3) Flight Data System - telemetry and science data handling/transmission. Because of the high data rates, a new computer was needed. A hardware engineer and a software developer collaborated on the design of the computer. Knowing the timing requirements, they developed the CPU's hardware and instruction set on the fly until the software (a changing mock-up I assume) could meet the requirements. (Some of this I might have read elsewhere.)

As I noted, what a treasure trove their memos and communications from this time would be if they were online!
I do not believe it is possible to run an Xbox 360 game without copyrighted code from Microsoft. So we might see it from projects just like this one, but I wouldn't hold my breath for Analogue to ever release anything past the PS2.
I don't have time right now to go through a textbook I'm not familiar with, but here's an example from a different area: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37903860

This is about computability, not analysis, but I think the point still applies: ChatGPT is quick to give you an answer that sounds plausible but is actually complete nonsense.
Or just straight up low-density immediately next to transit hubs.
Novo has a market cap of $430.47 billion. Eli Lilly is worth 555.00 billion
Good luck with that
Very nice! Are you using the dbsp implementation from the paper authors for this (e.g., https://github.com/feldera/feldera/tree/main/crates/dbsp)?
"Cities and neighborhoods are deeply attached to their reasons for resisting various densification projects, and breaking through arbitrary red tape here is an immense and intractably expensive undertaking."

The large-scale tolerance of this is basically permanently resigning Canada to degrowth. So no, lets not accept this. It is what most cities are facing and the provincial governments need to put an end to it.

What we need is massive training/re-training + labor importation program for the construction industry (and probably also healthcare, but I digress), and WW2 level mobilization in construction, anything short of that and I'm betting the economic and entrepreneurial problems get entrenched for a century.
No, it doesn’t work like that.
Everything you’ve written bolsters my argument. Sure, with your past experience(s) with BladeRunner you find the cut narration versions of BladeRunner to be more enjoyable, but what about people experiencing the film for the first time?

Wait, the theatrical cut is still on sale?
Does that matter in practice? Large private-sector entities can employ organised criminals to assassinate you. Pragmatically, how is that any different? Dead is dead.

At least with the government, you (theoretically) have due process. True, the Constitution (or equivalent documents in other countries) is worthless if not enforced and observed, but the private sector has no such guarantees.
I see religion or “mass think” as a cult. No matter its source, doctrine, humble beginnings, or commercial perversion. Free thought, respect for all life, and a moral compass on the “Lawful Good” side. I can take metaphor when the content suggests it or if it adds a layer to the story. In this context, it’s completely out of place.

I also respect your right to follow the group think. If you find comfort in turning off your brain, go for it. People do it in different ways. For me, riding a wave or skateboarding has a way of turning off my brain and rejuvenating my soul. I studied Catholicism, Buddhism, Judaism, Tao, I Ching, and many more. Today, in the name of religion, there’s a war going on: so to use this kind of rhetoric or metaphor for explaining your blazingly fast sql engine is just extremely poor taste. Yes, I will bash religions, all of them, until they stop waging war in the name of them.
Barely anyone is going to go to the github, especially outside of HN, and only some of those people are going to read past the first image, so it's important that you get the most important information out there immediately. I glanced at the extended explanation and decided it would be faster to figure it out by putting stuff in the website. The instant visual feedback means you don't need to tell users every nuance of every command, but you do need to pick the specific details that users can use to learn everything else.
Can you pull the breaker or cut the wire. Seems like it would be a simple ish hack but maybe access issues
Guide to Recommendation Systems
Worked out pretty good for everyone. Look how far we’ve come.
So rust should solve all their problems right?
It’s what people say when you complain about a very heavy social bureaucracy.
> It is laughable that a country with as much land as Canada or Australia have housing issues.

While true, I think it's important not to conflate "land" with "land people actually want to live in". Most land is cold and inhospitable. Perhaps people would have gladly moved to North Ontario in exchange for a parcel of land in the past, but nowadays everyone wants to be in Vancouver or the GTA.
All optimizations rely on the assumption that things have well-defined semantics. Even something like rewriting 1+1 into 2 is only valid if you assume that no one is going to patch your executable code to replace the add with a multiply. The concept of an optimizer that does not make any assumptions is just nonsense.

There’s a lot of very reasonable assumptions that compilers make and some less reasonable ones, but there is no clean line between the two. Ideally the standard would have clearly specified what assumptions compilers could make, but this whole thing is the result of GCC following their interpretation of what the standard says they can do and people not liking the result.
Don't store the state like this.

Just append an update to an immutable data store, and program the logic to unfold from the latest records.

See Diatomic: https://docs.datomic.com/pro/getting-started/brief-overview....
Ferrari is a particularly litigious company. One of my good friends who is an independent Ferrari mechanic got a C&D from them for having the image of a Ferrari dealer sign show up when you searched him on Facebook. He didn't even post it. It was a local driver's group who tagged him in the post for an event that was sponsored by said dealer. He briefly tried to engage with their lawyers and explain it really had nothing to do with him, but was basically told they would bankrupt him unless he complied with their wishes to take down the Facebook post that wasn't his. They have harassed him in the past for advertising that he fixes Ferraris, even though it has been settled law for decades that this is legal.
Either they're their own resellers and don't want to change, or they can't get enough FPGA cores so they turn to silliness to market their very limited inventory.
Also not a lawyer.

If they do “strain his future”, wouldn’t that be retaliation for a complaint, and wouldn’t that then be illegal? Again, not a lawyer.
The severe rent seeking behaviors throughout the Canadian economy are making things too burdensome to try entrepreneurship.

For a Main St type business, rents, costs and regulations are too high.

Rents again come into play for the entrepreneur, being so insanely high that they discourage risk taking and encourage people to stay at their current relatively high paying company.

As with so many things in Canada it all comes back to housing lol.

We will not have more entrepreneurship until it is dramatically cheaper to live in Canada, and that means lowering one of the biggest costs that people have, which is housing.
> Someone once said: "A democracy with advanced tech is less free than a dictatorship with primitive technology"

Someone was an idiot. They should read about life in ancient Egypt, Inquisition-era Spain, Nazi Germany or the GDR, each of which was less technologically advanced than Switzerland, New Zealand, Denmark, Estonia or Ireland today [1].

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/freedom-i...
If Google ran a Tiktok-like system for long enough, it would be gamed too.

Honestly, Google search probably needs to burn to the ground to get better. That seems to be the most reliable antidote to enshittification.
TIL: Apparently, there are flip phones that support Waze:
https://youtu.be/zbhIiCtAk34?si=Bc6TrBqCSQbqSUCN&t=194
Sunbeam F1 Pro
I mean historically
"The current King of Canada is Charles III, who has reigned since 8 September 2022."

That's what's different between USA and Canada.
Iagree, Seems like it's a bad study design. Unfortunately this will not be discussed in these types of articles. and at the end people only remember the headlines.
We didn’t get our final check. The class action suit went on for several years and the lawyers got all the money. I believe I was entitled to something less that $100 in the end and I declined.
This article itself is a great case study. The implicit structure of this article is that Lynn got fired and became an entrepreneur because he was forced into it. They never asked him anything about what it would take to get more entrepreneurs or make his life as an entrepreneur easier.

Instead they asked 4 professors of entrepreneurship & govt. ministers who probably weren't entrepreneurs. These people mentioned twice that one of the reasons for low entrepreneurship is because unemployment is too low and jobs pay too well... the whole push for this is coming from callous bureaucrats who've never been anywhere close to entrepreneurship who apparently believe its so bad that the only reason someone would do it is if they have no other options..

What a joke.. it's hard to believe this level of stupidity , it might just be malice (a pretext to justify raising interest rates and increase unemployment)