skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The U.S. wasn't a (geopolitical) superpower before WW2, although it was definitely a strong rising economic power. Britain was considered the world's superpower, with other major Great Powers being the U.S, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, and Japan. The U.S. became a geopolitical superpower by virtue of being the most undamaged of the Great Powers after the war.

Similarly, it's likely that whichever industrialized high-tech region that's unaffected by WW3 would take on the role of the post-war superpower. I can't tell what that be - it could be a country like Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Scandinavia, Kenya, or a region of an existing superpower like California, Ireland, or the Pearl River Delta - but it's likely that there will be some portion of the globe that is not destroyed and yet still retains enough technical knowledge and capital base to rebuild the rest of the world.
Spy vs. spy: How Israelis tried to stop Russia's information war in Africa
"Percepto’s experience in French-speaking Africa offers a rare window into the round-the-clock information warfare that is shaping international politics -- and the booming business of disinformation-for-hire."

"Politicians the world over -- from President Biden to the head of the United Nations -- have decried disinformation, calling it one of the greatest threats to democracy in modern times. But there is no consensus on how to regulate it because virtually every country engages in influence operations -- even though few will admit to doing so."

"'If we’re going to not accept what Russia is doing, we need to articulate what we’re not going to do. said Graham Brookie, senior director of the Digital Forensic Research Lab, a unit of the Atlantic Council think tank that studies disinformation."
How much worse will the roads become with electric vehicles that are traditionally quite a bit heavier than their ICE counterparts? Will it require more repairs/taxes?
Zaw: Zsh Anything.el-Like Widget
Maybe states should decrease their amount of roads in conjunction with this decline in revenue. That would make an even greater contribution towards lowering emissions by reducing the number of all cars, EV or otherwise.
Consider using Datalog (the incredible subset of Prolog) for this perfect use case. Compared to Prolog, you get:

1. Free de-duplication. No more debugging why a predicate is returning the same result more than once.

2. Commutativity. Order of predicates does not change the result. Finally, true logic programming!

3. Easy static analysis. There are many papers that describe how to do points-to analysis (and other similar techniques) with Datalog rules that fit on a single page :O

Souffle[0] is a mature Datalog that is highly performant and has many nice features. I highly recommend playing with it!

[0] https://souffle-lang.github.io
I can’t read the full thing due to the paywall, but having read the intro I would recommend states against adopting what Victoria did here in Aus - introduce a special EV tax.

While the rest of the world is trying to incentivise the move away from fossil fuels any which way, Victoria decided that buying EVs was cheating your taxes and represented a loophole. So they slapped a special tax just on them. With EVs being more expensive than ICE cars anyway, it really doesn’t help make it attractive to make the switch.

Yes, states need revenue, and a fuel tax has effectively been a good way to tax by road use. We’ll need another way. But let’s not shoot ourselves in the foot while doing it eh?
- 2010 mortgages are not that low, unless you bought a travel trailer
- $1million actually doesn't buy you much in Toronto, Vancouver, or even a smaller city like Victoria
- a millennial working at big tech ($200k+) can still afford one of these absurdly priced homes

Yes housing in Canada is messed up. But very well paid tech workers are actually some of the few young people that can still make it work.

Heck, I know some millennials that managed to buy in the Bay Area where it's even worse (they work at Tesla).
Mojo was mature enough for a person I know in the community who ported their Python port of llama2 to it. Also, others pointed out other languages they would rather use.

The rationalization in your response obfuscate the real reason you were triggered to down vote, which is that you are too emotionally vested in Python and afraid to try a better alternative.
re: squatting, that used to happen in the form of using a mining claim on government land and some theater to acquire land for non-mining purposes. They changed the laws a few decades ago to curtail that kind of abuse so it isn't really a thing anymore. Claims that you effectively abandon have a cost in that they have to be defended against encroachment or you can lose them to an encroacher.
There are broadly two places a corporation’s money goes: expenses and profits. Expenses are either paid directly to individuals as income, or to other companies, where the money still ends up as either expenses or profits. There’s also the fact that everything a corporation sells is generally considered valuable enough by someone else to be a good deal at that price, so all the revenue they generate also represents value being provided to their counterparty.

In economics there is a thing called deadweight loss, which is the value lost when some kind of policy (like an inefficient tax) distorts the quantity supplied:quantity demanded relationship. When you tax only income and profits, you generally avoid deadweight loss because you shift the taxation to be “after” the supply:demand has already been determined; by allowing for expenses paid to other companies to be deducted, value isn’t taxed twice because ultimately that money always ends up as someone else’s income or profits. If you’re purely interested in more taxes to capture value for the government more efficiently (and not as a vice or pigouvian tax) instituting more taxes introduces double taxation that shifts the tax before the transaction and introduced deadweight loss which lowers overall output and value generated.

If you do mean to suggest the tax should be Pigouvian, that kind of already exists. Corporations have to pay a lot of the costs for compliance and remediation. I’m pretty sure to avoid all the issues of the past, companies have to put a bunch of money/assets in escrow so if they fuck up the government doesn’t get stuck with the bill. It is true though that all taxpayers pay for eg the EPA and the fees paid by corporations generally don’t cover the full environment cost; generally this means the externalities of production aren’t being accurately priced and it would be better to shift those externalities into the companies.

But those kinds of pigouvian taxes have a major flaw in that we live in a global market economy, so without full international cooperation they just make your local industry uncompetitive and shift production to places with less regulations. Also, even though natural resource extraction generates some profits for private individuals, we generally all benefit from it. So it’s not too bad to tax some of the environmental compliance costs in a non-pigouvian manner.
Sounds like the dose was before general anesthesia. If ketamine helps with depression, we should expect to see improvements in depressed people who were given ketamine vs placebo. The surgery is immaterial, just a clever way to try and hide people from knowing if they got a placebo (it sounds like ketamine has a pronounced effect/high, so a person tends to know for sure if they got drugs or saline) .

From the article:
> Their study involved 40 people with major depressive disorder who were scheduled for routine surgery that required the use of general anesthesia. Half were randomized to receive a single dose of saline solution, the placebo, just before the surgery, and the other half a single dose of intravenous ketamine. The act of going under, the researchers theorized, would eliminate the chances of people going on a typical trip. Then they observed the patients for up to three days.

The article does mention small sample sizes, which should be emphasized.
You seriously don't see the pattern? Sorry to make you my outlet for this rant: It's the same reactionary (as in, anti-'liberal') response to everything; it's the same pattern, rhetoric, tone, etc etc. It's completely predictable; it's been going on for years. When will people stop playing this helpless role, to play it safe, to avoid confronting the obvious, overwhelming problem?

They don't give a crap about veganism; they just are following the reactionary playbook.
Just an idea: Could the effects of trauma from slavery be trans-generational, via biological or cultural channels, and impacting ability to compete in the workplace?
Needs [2013]

Unikernels are great idea, but they bet everything on OCaml and Xen. Those did not become super popular.. OCaml never got the kind of popularity languages like Go or Rust got; and Xen began to disappear once CPUs started provided their own virtualization extensions.
Vue 3.3.6 Faster Thanks to WeakMaps
Process development is closer to chemical engineering and that’s not bad when compared with their salary.
I don’t understand the title of the article. The article essentially talks about what RepeatableRead isolation levels of Postgresql cannot do and how to remedy that by Serialize Isolation. But both need lock at some level, and tradeoff performance guarantees for
weaker/stronger consistency guarantees.
Interesting open source (freemium) publishing business model.
In these cases, the work is usually about connecting the systems together than the data modification itself.
It really do be that simple sometimes. If they can convince people that “the lottery is here to pay for schools” I’m sure they’ll figure something out.
Yep, e.g. https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/21/texas-new-law-electr...
Maybe we can have fewer cars and fewer roads and just focus more on building sustainable cities that are more focused on people instead of vehicles?
i'll keep an eye on it!
Graz in Austria with its Marxist mayor is an example of a wealthy, left-wing city. No such cities exist in the US. Just look at the recent scandals with the LA city council, the place people would probably describe as the “far left” of the USA. The leading Democrats were recorded spewing racism, plotting to screw over renters, and destroy the “left wing” council members who are in favor of what would at best be centrist policies in Europe. People idolize Canada because it seems to have a slightly more pragmatic baseline than the US, although in reality both places are pretty far to the right.
Which persons has Xi had assassinated?

He was first name in your reply. I assume you have some evidence right? Cite your sources.
Probably not, road damage is mostly from heavy duty vehicles (think semi trucks) or weather. See: https://www.insidescience.org/news/how-much-damage-do-heavy-.... A few x heavier car will damage them more, but probably still trivially compared to heavy duty vehicles.
Winter in Toronto (lattitude 43.6) isn't really much different from Chicago (lattitude 41.8) and pretty much the same as most of the US northeast and not nearly as bad as a place like Minnesota (or Vermont or Maine, etc.) etc. Toronto sits at the same latitude as northern California, and while it has plenty of very cold days the total length of winter isn't any longer than much of the northern half of the US.

It ain't California or the PNW, but it also doesn't fit the stereotype of the Great White North, eh? As a person from a part of Canada with actual winters, calling this never-ending winter seems like a giant distortion. Most years we don't really have proper snow on the ground until after Christmas, and it's gone before April. Where I grew up in Alberta it's snow from late October until April.
I was contemplating on various ways to achieve this at my job for last few days, here's something worth considering.

[0]https://clickhouse.com/blog/analyzing-aws-fow-logs-using-cli...
> First, if you ask me "Describe an Indian Person" I'm going to... not do that? Like straight out the gate 50% of Indians are female, 50% are male, so the first choice I'm going to make in order to do that is to discount 50% of Indians. And the more I narrow it down the less representative it will be. So I wouldn't.

The thing is, the prompt is not "[give me an image of] an Indian person" but "[Give me multiple images of] an Indian person". If I generate 100 images from the prompt "an Indian person", I would expect those 100 images to include a few tens of men and a few tens of women. I would expect some of the people in the images to have lighter skin and others to have darker skin. I would expect some of the people to wear X kind of clothing and others to wear other kinds of clothing. (I would also expect the images to have different lightings, but I digress.) I don't have to be familiar with many real Indian people to expect that I would get different-looking images. Even if an image generator is going to tend to show stereotypes, different images could contain different subsets of stereotypes.
Can you cite a reference explaining this ability to re-form new warps from existing threads?

I ask because I’ve seen posts from NVIDIA support saying that divergence is still very expensive and I’ve also seen benchmarks that force divergence in each warp by evenly splitting the warp, and the benchmarks result in 2x runtime when that happens vs. when the control-flow is dynamically uniform.

One thing to keep in mind is that even if you were to dynamically reform-warps, there’s still a potential expense because you then lose the advantage of doing things like accessing adjacent elements of data in adjacent threads. You’re bound to now have more bank conflicts, fewer memory accesses being coalesced, etc. Perhaps they do actually do this warp re-formation, but that itself does have this additional cost.
Some jurisdictions literally tax cars as property. This technique will just become more popular.
I found myself in the same situation a little while ago. The closest thing I found was MarsEdit: https://redsweater.com/marsedit/.
Taxing the trucks hauling around freight containers? Their vehicles were always the ones tearing up the roads the most anyways, because they were heavier. Now electric cars are heavier and giving them a run for their money, but still.

Companies opt to move their stuff on the road instead of by train, even with financial incentives to use trains, because they don't want to have to wait for their materials to be loaded onto the train. Right now the roads are too cheap for corporations not to take advantage. If they are already willing to pay the premium for faster transit, why not milk them a little harder?
Dunno about other cities, but City of Toronto proper didn't add any net new hotel rooms from 2000 - 2015. And only up 22% in the "Greater Toronto Area", which is way less than that area's pop'n growth. I doubt things improved as airbnb became a thing.

p. 10 here:
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2016/ed/bgrd/backgroundf...

When your residential construction market is so on fire that you don't even build hotel space, you end up with STRs as a symptom.
Just read through your twitter thread, I really appreciate this perspective and I completely agree, a manager's job includes ensuring the right circumstances to foster intrinsic motivation. I think where I might quibble is there are often circumstances where there are genuine skill gaps and, a manager acting as coach, can accelerate someones growth and performance.
The Victorian government, in my opinion, is a backwards looking state in every sense.

In any case, the High Court recently had something to say about it:

https://www.drive.com.au/news/high-court-rules-against-victo...
Is there a bog involved?
It does extend to other departments. I’ve worked alongside entire teams of longtime federal employees who would spend 10 minutes cleaning up and changing out of work gear, drive 5 minutes to the building with a cafeteria, take a 15 minute union mandated break, then spend 5 minutes driving back to a work site, 10 minutes getting back into their gear and readying tools, only to work for 20 more minutes to finish the job at hand. Then get cleaned up, change, put tools away, and drive back to the building just about in time for lunch.

Overall nearly a thousand dollars in salary being wasted in a single morning because the idea of not taking a break at exactly 10:30am instead of finishing the job and taking a break at 11:00am instead is inconceivable.

There is absolutely zero incentive for efficiency and motivated individuals will actually burn out from being in a culture where trying to improve anything or making your colleagues look bad by being too productive creates a toxic work environment.

That’s not to mention the absurd “use it or lose it” budgeting system, whereby if you need to replace a million dollar piece of equipment every 5 years, you need to piss away over a million dollars every year to ensure you’ll have the budget when it’s actually required.
Costco has a lot of good stuffs, but not those chairs. I have tried all of them in the warehouse I visited, and they are all bad.

No of hours rating is a good proxy. I once bought office chair from Office Depot that’s rated for 10 hours of sitting. That chair is not bad. I think it costed around $300.

I later developed a lot of pains throughout the body. And officially I have tendonitis on my left shoulder and both wrists. My shoulder blades are also very tight. I since visited a lot of therapists from different professions. One of the many reasons caused this is how I sit.

Rather than telling you which chair I sit, I’ll tell you what I learnt. First, the more expensive the better. The one I now sit is ~£1000 (recommended by professional service). Once tried that out I know how limiting my previous chair is to achieve good ergonomics.

Basically you want everything to be adjustable so that the chair fits you. Every chair allows you to adjust height, and also how much it leans forward/backward. But the relative position to where you sit to your thigh is also important. And also adjustable lumbar support in both height and amount (how much it protrude). Head rest should be adjustable, for instance my neck is tighter than other people so it needs to be adjusted to be more forward.

Once your chair gives you enough degree of freedom to fit your body, you aim to make it neutral, and have movements. Observe any tension you might have after adjustments. Then re-adjust accordingly to eliminate tension. But don’t just keep that neutral position and think you’re done. Have natural movements, make small changes often just so that you’re not in the exact same posture for too long.

Repeat the same for other things, keyboard, mouse, monitor, etc.

After all those therapies, my body just never went back to normal. Those treatments and exercises just help me not worsening it and manage the pain. It’s here with me forever. Prevent it before it is too late. Take care.
It's amazing how you went from 'there was no agricultural revolution in Australia' to 'Aboriginal Australians never figured how seeds work, or the link between pregnancy and sex'. I've witnessed firsthand from many – of course, not all – Australians that they are motivated to believe that indigenous Australians are mentally deficient as a way to paper over past atrocities and to justify the degradation and exclusion of them from society.

You might want to give 'Guns, Germs, and Steel' a read, which provides a different and more compelling hypothesis to 'eurasian man smarter' for the beginning of the agricultural revolution.
> so instead we basically do UBI through inefficient, unnecessary jobs.

Your first 3 bullet points make sense, but this last one is where I think the normal theory behind "bullshit jobs" really falls apart. Every individual business has a large, strong economic incentive to not hire these bullshit jobs if they don't need to, so why should we think they would be so generous to engage in this "bullshit jobs charity"?

I think what is really happening is that as society advances, lots of rules, regulations and processes just build up and up over time, and this complexity eventually becomes self-sustaining, even if it greatly diverges from the original intent of the original rules.

Case in point (which is a common case I know) is the complete, total insanity of the US healthcare system, specifically how healthcare is paid for. Literally every single person I know that has ever gotten into some aspect of healthcare payments (potentially with an idea to improve the madness) eventually comes to the conclusion "The whole system is completely fucked, it should all just be torn down and greatly simplified." The problem, though, is now there are a ton of entrenched interests who depend on that complexity for their livelihood (I heard it referred to as "an abusive relationship" - Company A exists to "simplify some aspects of healthcare payments", which means they depend on the underlying complexity in the first place to exist), so there are no real incentives from the people that control the levers to simplify. So a lot of those bullshit jobs come about to manage that complexity, but it's not like some company thought "let's hire people to do busywork so they'll have employment."
> he puts his pants on one leg at a time much like yourself

Who are these people who don't know how to put on pants while sitting on a floor/bed/chair/etc.?
Have we reached the end of nature?
"Left wing" in the US (and TBH much of Canada) is just reduced to being about a bunch of cultural issues. Nobody on the so-called left in North America actually espouses any real socialist economic program. It's blasphemy, and "going too far" even among people who wear the t-shirt.
Go is famously not memory safe. Not only can you trivially create data races, if you data race on an interface fat pointer then you can corrupt its vtable (entirely in "safe" code; no `unsafe.Pointer`).

It is of course better at memory safety than C and C++, but these issues do come up in real deployments.
I might be late to this, but I was wondering, do you use a special audio player for this?

I've dabble with these kind of audio tracks in the past (although without the bone conduction headphones) and a major issue was that i couldn't listen to anything else on the phone without stopping the tinnitus track. Not because it's on the same audio player, but because Android has some sort of system-wide control about which app gets to have audio "focus" at any moment.
Barry Kauler uses this for his homespun ShellCMS:

https://bkhome.org/shellcms/
In my midwest state, yearly registration is an extra $200 for ev, $100 for hybrid.
I suggest road tax measured by miles and vehicle mass. it would be a good incentive for dropping vehicle mass.
I believe the point is that this is http/3 support added to the nghttp2 library which has been around for a long time, longer than Rust's mainstream popularity started to build. While I haven't used it personally I have heard good things about the library it's good to see it continue.

Dismissing a new feature in an existing library seems quite excessive and possibly zealous. Or perhaps we should just stop using OSes entirely because they continue to release new features in memory unsafe languages.
It's to the benefit of the parasite to make it easier to feed on its host. It is also to the benefit of the parasite to ensure that its host cannot get rid of it.

Bureaucracy will always seek its own survival, even at the cost of its chartered mission.