skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The EU thinks

I understand that it helps to have a name for something like this, but
there is no "EU". "It" cannot think.

Heed the Meehan quote; "Men are at war because each man is at war with
himself". It's not just that human minds are one psychotic insight
away from seeing our dissociative identity disorder just beneath the
surface... evey institution and collective is the same. What is wrong
in the "EU" (principally the Commission) is that it's large and
disparate enough for some extraordinary bad actors to hide within it
and exercise undue toxic influence. It is by lack of transparency that
they cannot easily be rooted out, named, shamed and dislodged.

Meanwhile much of the "EU" functions very well, and cares for its
citizens.
Some of the justices seem to care somewhat about what people think of them. Some don't seem to care much at all. In general I don't agree that the court puts that much effort into appearing legitimate.
> the intelligent dark-matterians speculate about the mysterious 5% of the universe which interacts with these strange oscillating electric and magnetic fields?

They would have a hard time figuring out the existence of electic and magnetic fields. They wouldn't feel them. And their devices wouldn't feel them.

They would be able to notice 5% of mass by gravitational interactions only. They wouldn't be able to see how magnetic fields reconnect on a surface of a star and conclude that it means there is some unknown field at work.

So to think, they probably have their own dark versions of magnetic and electric fields.
Thanks for sharing this!

And as a maintainer of ko[1], it was a pleasant surprised to see ko mentioned briefly, so that's for that too :)

1: https://ko.build
Nationalize them, make it a public utility.

Force the top execs to work in call centres.
Cite a source that doesn't have a conflict of interest. Inflated home prices and surging used vehicle markets makes for positive data, but not reality.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/pandemic-savings-in-u-s-running...
I think part of the reason I say that is... I don't want to say I have a lower barrier for more Mass Effect but at the end of the day more Mass Effect is a positive to me and I am willing to forgive a lot.

Same deal with Halo, I also have a tattoo of it and I have stuck with Halo Infinite this entire time (and that is finally paying off).

I feel like many of those that hated Andromeda are also those that said that the ending of 3 ruined the franchise. Which... yeah the ending sucked. But I don't understand how a crappy 10-15 minutes ruins a close to 200 hour playtime for the trilogy. It for sure hasn't stopped me from replaying the entire trilogy multiple times or waking up this morning, seeing the date and knowing to put on my N7 shirt.

> I often wonder how Andromeda would have been received if it wasn't branded a Mass Effect game, and launched like a week later.

I have wondered that quite a few times. Especially if it still had the BioWare name attached to it just as a new IP. People would have been a lot less critical and... out for blood frankly. And maybe more people would have just ignored it and the game could have just had peace...
I've been looking at Rust and Go and I understand their point. Rust is amazing but can be really challenging. It's easy to start building something, then followed by a long period of lots of frustration and wondering if I can ever get it to work, then once it finally works it's usually very solid.

Skill issue for sure, I would love to spend more time learning and practicing, but that's not always great when you need to get stuff done.

In Go it is really easy to just build the things I need, fast enough, safe enough. I expect it's somewhat the reverse of Rust, very productive and easy until it's not, but it will take you quite far! It's maybe more like Python, but with decent types, and a lot faster.

I think both are pretty awesome for different purposes, I would also expect that once you get to a decent level of Rust experience it probably gets a lot more productive, but it takes a while to get there.
Also we have pretty strong evidence that, at least in the observable part of the universe, almost all visible matter is regular matter.
I've also heard repeatedly in conversation people frequently admit to structuring financial transactions for a variety of reasons, completely unaware that doing so is a felony.
Seconded. The first Star Pilot audiobook is excellent. And of course read by him and he has a lot of experience in delivering entertaining spoken content.
The dealer was security-conscious enough to keep a $2+ million a month dark web drug business going for five years, but blabbed about hiding his assets in plain English from a prison phone he knew was being recorded? Wow.

Even if the phone monitors didn't know what Ether was they'd sure as hell pay attention to open talk about stashing millions in tax havens. The transcripts (https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-11/castelluzzo.complaint.pdf) are not subtle.
It's not. It should be. I have no issues with applying educational rebates for members of the police force, but it needs to result in less litigation. At this point police are costing taxpayers huge sums of money due to lack of understanding and short term training. I don't know if we'll every move away from the current thinking, but I think most citizens want protectors, not warriors.
There was actually a regress in this respect. Some ten years ago there was a "destructible physics" boom in many big games, but nowadays most games abandoned it. There seems to be a trade-off between graphical fidelity and the opportunity for physics-based manipulation of the environment.
Everyday philosophy: Happy birthday, Albert Camus
If you haven't seen Second Reality, it's definitely worth a watch, even as a historical artifact. Pushing the limits of what was possible in 1993.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFv7mHTf0nA
I wish waze would use computer vision to auto-report roadside police
Yes, not to mention, you might be able to outsource the decisions to a low cost call center...
The question isn't how much crime it catches. It is how much crime it prevents in the first place.

(No, I'm not suggesting that I have an answer to that question. Just that you're measuring by the wrong measuring stick.)
in a similar area, it absolutely pains me to see the amount of personal information demanded by online job applications. realistically how hard would it be for me to set up a fake job listing on Indeed and just hoover up highly valuable PII? you could even take it further with personality tests, IQ scores, RATs, etc.

if you were a foreign power wanting to gather data on defence programmers, for blackmail, corruption, surveillance etc, why wouldn't you do this?
I mean if you care for privacy above all else you wouldn't bother going online. Annoying as the adds are and ill-fit as the YouTube subscription price is (it should be an order of magnitude less for a compulsive cheapskate like me to consider it), the title is a bit over the top.
Has this ever turned up anything suspicious?
It would also be two deposits of $5k or 10 $1k deposits, etc.
>> Maybe one day, everything will just work...

> I've had the same hope since I started using Linux, back in 2004.

I've had the same hope since I started using Linux, back in 1994.

Driver support is better, and no X11 Modelines, which is nice.
> didn't have the technology to stack stones.

Obviously it's coded in a Python stack or something.
The MISRA guidelines are awful.
The Galaxy "A" series is their budget line, and so the A14 didn't bring back headphones; the A line never lost them to begin with. Because wireless headphones are a signal of wealth, headphone jacks are often still present on budget phones.

Sony's models are too inconsistent for me to figure out what it's the successor to, so I can't say whether it's a good example of bringing back headphone jacks.
> I'm not sure folks who're putting out strong takes based on this have read this paper.

They haven't read the other papers either. It's really striking to me to watch people retweet this and it get written up in pseudo-media like Business Insider when other meta-learning papers on the distributional hypothesis of inducing meta-learning & generalization, which are at least as relevant, can't even make a peep on specialized research subreddits - like, "Pretraining task diversity and the emergence of non-Bayesian in-context learning for regression", Raventós et al 2023 https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.15063 (or https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.08391 ) both explains & obsoletes OP, and it was published months before! OP is a highly limited result which doesn't actually show anything that you wouldn't expect on ordinary Bayesian meta-reinforcement-learning grounds, but there's so much appetite for someone claiming that this time, for real, DL will 'hit the wall' that any random paper appears to be definitive to critics.
Install Dark Reader. Mission complete:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-reader/eimadp...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/darkreader/
> 'This certificate is issued by the IT department of your organization and let's them see all encrypted traffic'

I'm a bit out of the loop on modern security implementations. In theory though, I thought the purpose of certificates and certificate authorities was to certify that you're actually talking to who you think you're talking to?

A browser can still communicate security with any computer out there, regardless of corporate certs, etc. Or do the corporate firewalls block communications that they cannot inspect?
if you own a house, there is a fictional “rent” income on your own property, which is “income” on to of your real salary income and gets taxed…

Is this essentially a Swiss equivalent of property taxes/council taxes?
> watched some cutscenes where the character miraculously figures out what to do next

Some of your criticisms are fair I think, but this is actually deliberate and explained as the story continues. Saga is clearly doing more than "profiling".
I have been using the HyperX Cloud 2 for years now. It's extremely comfortable; I don't like in-ears because they hurt. Also, audio quality is quite good and the mic is decent too. Lots of gaming headsets have boomy bass but these are relatively flat sounding and are pretty decent for listening to music. I have a wired version but there are also wireless versions of the same headset.
"Its two headquarters buildings in Rome enjoy extraterritoriality".

The article claims they have no territory, but what they mean is there is no territory capable of supporting a military + institution. I don't know this is a practical counterexample.

Nevertheless, it is interesting to note that clubs and private militaries, and independent autonomous intelligence agencies exist, even if they are on the extreme end of what could be considered a "government".
False. Kubernetes cpu request sets the shares, cpu limit sets the cfs quota
ORMs are not an either/or decision. You can use an ORM, save yourself time with the usual repetitive "CRUD", result set mapping, etc. and then drop down to SQL if you require something complex (like reporting.)

On the other hand, I've worked at companies where they built their own barely functional ORM. It was total garbage. The original developer did not understand prepared statements, so you can imagine how well that worked out. We'd regularly hit SQL errors in production because a quoted string came through.
What happens to your brain as you age [video]
From my experience, maintaining a standalone/embedded printf library - MISRA is a combination of two things: Common-sense rules, and pain-in-the-ass rules. The former are not very interesting and you probably have them in your head as coding guidelines anyway; but the latter, well, are a pain.

Example: Avoiding implementation-defined types like `int` _every_where, even in places where my code doesn't care about what sizeof(int) is; or when I want to store the result of a system call which returns an int.

I was able to accommodate most (?) of the MISRA rules (https://github.com/eyalroz/printf/issues/77), but mine is just a small library, so I don't know how restrictive they would be for a larger codebase. I suspect it would be painful and force you to avoid some legitimate and useful coding patterns.
I don't think that "privatize the wins, socialize the losses" fits the particular article, merely explaining the phrase itself.

I think reidjs was replying to the NDizzle's comment by clarifying the saying, not arguing that it's the case here.

I'm not entirely sure I follow NDizzle's initial argument, taken at face value I read their argument as the state government shouldn't interfere with local corruption because the state government because they allowed things like this to happen in the first place and they deserve it.

And to be clear, I on my use of corruption here, I consider it corruption because apple gets a kickback for directing all the sales tax to Cupertino instead of to all the municipalities where the product is actually be sold to. If apple didn't get that kickback I wouldn't consider it corruption, just stupid tax laws.
Halt and Catch Fire is not a comedy, but still an amazing show about the early days of personal computers
Or grow up and accept that a volume of emails and comms are expected when you're coordinating with dozens of other human beings.
> In their 70s, Swiss homeowners are 11 times wealthier than renters their age,

This doesn't mean anything. It just states the obvious, which is that people who can afford super expensive houses tend to be rich.
It is clearly not computing these algorithms. Getting close is more evidence of that than otherwise.

Being able to infer answers to math problems is a thing that humans can do, and that's fine. It's not as good as doing the math though.
Requiring users to manage their own root bundle is a recipe for disaster for ordinary users. You shouldn’t need to understand path building to securely initiate a connection with a website.

(Besides, macOS and Windows do let you tweak the trust store from their respective GUIs. There’s nothing stopping you from doing so.)
I don't personally collect, but as a (former?) archaeologist I have both some familiarity with the subject and a pretty strong distaste for looting. Provenance is just plain necessary for any sort of good academic work on historical artifacts.

Only time I've directly purchased coinage was for the purposes of melting down into a ring for my now-wife, and that had provenance paperwork just to ensure I wasn't enriching modern looters.
Bikeshedding over language selection for a tool ultimately built to support a PHP framework in 2023 is... an interesting irony.
Bell and Telus had mastered the art of extracting government incentives to pay for their fibre build outs as well. They would demand subsidies in the 100s of millions of $ in some cases.

In one example they had Fibre running to a city in Northern Ontario. Of course it was along a highway and already strung there for years. A subsidy was made availabel for providing highspeed internet to rural customers and rather than build out new infrastructure, the ISP just said they would connect anyone along the path of the fibre that was already there. That fibre had ALREADY been subsidized by a previous government.

Starlink has hopefully brought an end to that. Now instead of spending 10s and 100s of thousands of $ to subsidize the connection of a house, they simply need to provide a $800 subsidy for a Starlink dish.
I think it’s a bit messed up and could probably be done better, but doesn’t that tax exist to even things out between renters and homeowners?
It has, inflation is rising rapidly in no small part due to the gov printing money to cover its obligations, of which social security is one of the largest and will only become larger as the cost of living increases due to said inflation- a vicious cycle. If contributions don't cover the payouts (which they don't, and never will unless you tax the younger generations to death) then the difference has to be made up with printing, which will of course cause inflation

You are right that they will continue printing money regardless, and at this point it's too late for a 20% reduction to fix anything. Might as well just take the checks while you can and make the most of it, not much else you can do. But that doesn't mean its sustainable or will last forever.
This is art, and entertainment. A guy made a cool project and he wanted to create an artistic and engaging video to show it off, not a fact sheet documenting how to reproduce his efforts.

If you don’t want to consume videos for entertainment, then don’t watch it.
If the total power consumption at the supply is the same or lower, how is the voltage regulation circuitry generating more heat?
'"Well my little brother died during my employment there so I decided to take some time to myself to cope.". She cut the interview short right after that.'

Fuck that. You're better off not working than working for someone like that.
> who owns all the houses in Switzerland?

No one, apparently

> Many Swiss rely on perpetual refinancing to afford their homes. Switzerland is the land of luxury watches, fine chocolates — and lifelong mortgages. It’s not uncommon for borrowers to extend their loans until their deaths, which is advantageous from a tax perspective because mortgage interest is tax deductible. It also gives a lot of business to Switzerland’s vaunted banking industry.
No, the big draw of an ORM is you can map objects to your database relations. That's why it's an object-relation-mapping. When working with Postgres I think of database rows as instances of a class in my app's native language. I think of queries for the table as static methods, queries for rows as instance methods. Going with raw SQL queries means you not only lose good intellisense on query methods as well as composability, but for a non-trivial app you'll end up implementing much of what an ORM will give to you anyway.

It's the power of an ACID RDBMS with the level of integration of DAOs written in whatever language you want.
Now look at real-world data for how many (few) residences are actually owned free and clear. I'm with you that there's a personal strategy of having a paid off house and the sense of security it provides, but people-in-aggregate don't seem to be pursuing that strategy.

It seems that what almost all homeowners actually do is take out long mortgages, reset their paydown clocks by refinancing, finance equity back out in second mortgages and liens, etc, never actually reaching the "no monthly bill" stage.

So if people are honest about probably being in the same cohort when the time comes for themselves, then there's not so much distinction between paying a landlord forever and paying a bank forever.

You may know better about yourself, and people may have other reasons to prefer homeownership, but it doesn't seem to be about security in retirement. At least not in practice.
You should sit in on a call to dfas.mil sometime. Where they ask an 80 year old over a dozen obscure questions on their service record and hang up when you get one of them wrong, resetting the clock 24 hours.
Objectively Netflix worth $191.24 Billion USD.

Objectively Yahoo is worth $27.32 Billion USD, 1/7th as much as Netflix.
Of course that's ok. That's also how brains work, delegating certain tasks to specific specialized parts and processes within the brain.

But it's no longer a token prediction model.
Effectively, its all just based on what indicators have a sufficient signal-to-noise ratio. If the signal-to-noise is high enough for any detectable behavior, then it can become a SAR.

You can absolutely have a public forum to share tips on how to stop this from happening. Just know that said public forum will be mined by money launderers and fraudsters and whatever work around is posted will most likely fail to work within months.

You have to imagine that the banking system exists in an adversarial environment with money-launderers and fraudsters. And instead of code that will always do whats written, the interface is a squishy human for a majority of these interactions.
What advantage does a flatbed scanner have over a polaroid camera? They both capture light, but with different optics and for different purposes.

Copy and pasting a previous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36558940

Euclid is a deep sky survey space telescope. Like many space telescopes, it's designed to run cold (-140C) to extend viewing into infrared bands ground telescopes can't access. Being a sky survey instrument, it has a wider field of view than Webb, 0.5 square degrees versus 0.0025 sq deg.

It's something of a follow-on to ESA's Gaia astrometry space telescope, which surveyed the entire sky out to visual magnitude 20 and in 320–1000 nm light, while Euclid will specifically examine the 15,000 square degrees of the sky the Milky Way doesn't cover, out to magnitude 24.5 and in 550-2000 nm light. Both dimmer and more redshifted. (Fun fact: both Gaia and Euclid are made largely out of silicon carbide, including the optical bench and mirrors, which has become a ESA specialty.)

For another comparison, the first Sloan sky survey (using a 2.5m ground based telescope much bigger than Euclid) took 5 years to image 8,000 square degrees down to magnitude 22.2 and only out to 893 nm. Again, Euclid can see objects dimmer and more redshifted.

These press photos are of large, interesting objects, like nebulae and nearby galaxies. Amusingly enough, though, for Euclid's mission these are obstructions, which are getting in the way of all the dim smudges in the background that it's actually supposed to be capturing. A cloud passing in front of a mountain you're trying to take a picture of. We'll either need to send another telescope a thousand light years away to image them, or wait thousands more for Sol to travel along its orbit in the Milky Way and move them out of the way.

>Also, the Lagrange point is where Webb and some other stuff is located — is it getting crowded up there?

For stability reasons, spacecraft orbit around L2 rather than sitting at its center. Here's a diagram of JWST's orbit: https://i.stack.imgur.com/sBH2i.png It's a bent ellipse that's 1.6 million km in length along the long axis, considerably larger than the orbit of the moon. You could put three million telescopes on that orbit and they'd each be a kilometer apart.
I haven't tried this method, thanks I will check it out!
I agree with you again. My original question was asking "how many FIRE people can there be before it negatively affects society" so my thoughts and comments are scoped at that level -- how many FIRE people/families/descendents would it take to affect society in a meaningful way.

I haven't done a good job of making that clear at all, and I apologize. There are surely a lot of people trying to reach FIRE goals and if that were to be a meaningful 15% of the population, how would we be affected as a society?

One thing that's interesting in all this is that a common FIRE tactic is to live very frugally your whole lives to achieve and then maintain FIRE. If a meaningful percentage of Americans stopped spending as much money, the economy would feel it at a certain point.

These are the kinds of society-level thoughts I have been aiming to discuss. FIRE makes for some interesting futurism if it becomes the dominant American household financial strategy.