skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fine article mentions "Banks are extremely good at tracking one kind of truth, ledgers." In some cases that's - alarmingly - not even true. Or at least they are running their ledgers in ways that are so counter-intuitive and undocumented that they don't make sense to their customers. I.E. it's self-serving at best.

This is a problem from banks that are supposed to pay attention to large chunks of your money. No? Obviously? A little? Yeah it is.

Similarly alleging savage competition is self serving once you move beyond the most common low-balance checking account. FATCA for example took care of competition when it comes to running european bank accounts for US residents. Or try to borrow money against your financial assets - in the US - and find out how much competition there is there.

And yet, there we are. An actual mainstream (among the top largest on the planet) bank where 1-3 times a year, I roll my eyes, spend time reassuring myself that it's okay-enough, figure out how to present that nonsense to the IRS, make a note for my own tax reporting purposes and so that I don't have to do the research again after I forgot, and fiinaallyyy move on with my life. I'm sure that ledger works out for the bank.
> Considering you walk around and don’t have a problem with it...

I think humans are worse than this than you might think. Give it a try! Walk around and try to change directions on the fly, maybe have a friend shout suggestions to you. I can make maybe 2 or 3 adjustments per second, which gives about 400ms response time. That's about where RDR2 sits, and players criticized it for being unresponsive.
> df also lies on ZFS, bcachefs, and LVM+snapshots.

It is possible. Got any examples?

And more saliently do you have reports of disk corruption occurring as a result of falsely reported free space which was not in fact available? As has corrupted multiple Btrfs volumes for me, on multiple machines, in production, and with disastrous consequences and resultant need for complete system reinstallation?
Every country is like that, including the USA.
ffmpeg is LGPL so no need to release your code under GPL if you follow the LGPL licensing guidelines.
I still haven't been sold on a need for immortality. We have people live longer than they like now. Why extend any further past this?
Scientists reveal structures of neurotransmitter transporter
That one seems like a huge lie. They stopped building a bunch of subsidized builds locally at the end of August. All signs point to this being driven by financial considerations. Bell loves keeping their dividend high, and higher costs for financing compared to 2 years ago means that money for interest payments has to come from somewhere.
Hah, previous place ticks 3 out of 4 bulletpoints :) We didn't have an air conditioner, but thanks to leaky windows, CO2 buildup was not an issue.
Yeah like while getting a good shot is obviously a skill, there are shots of, for example, wildlife, that I fully can't capture because it's just too far away and I don't have a zoom lens.

Gear matters for things like that.
A few remarks.

> You feel like you accomplished something when you come out the other side. It is some kind of dopamine inducing validation of your ability as a programmer. I think this is a very negative trait in the context of tools used to complete work.

It is an interesting point. I have regularly claimed that you need to be heroic to program applications with weakly or dynamically-typed languages, because regularly, everything is going to come crashing down on you, and you will need large doses of heroism to debug through stuff that a strongly, statically typed language would have caught earlier.

Reading what you write makes sense, though, because it is true that you sometimes need to sacrifice live chicken to the compiler gods. So it could very well be that you are trading late heroism for earlier heroism.

> My impression is still that Rust is over engineered. [...]

Having worked on a few compilers and SpiderMonkey, I believe that I can tell you that most, if not all, languages are over engineered. Rust likes making choices explicit, while Go, Python or JavaScript try harder (with various levels of success) to hide this over engineering into the runtime.

That being said, yes, the Rust team has made a few choices they're not happy with and is trying to harmonize back the language.
The lighting/ISO bits are where I'd call it "deception".
You use the same phone to snap your lil Johnny having breakfast and end up with just as grainy/blurry denoised picture as any other mom.
Proper cameras with thousands of times the lens area are at least not trying to make you believe it's that cheap and easy.
At one point I tested that theory by literally creating a paid Facebook ad for getcryptolocker.com, advertising that getting your data held to ransom was just one click away. I had no problems getting the ad published and Facebook alleges I had a reasonable amount of clicks.
Honestly, given that Matrix is a spec and not just a first-party client, it reminds me a lot more of BitTorrent.

BitTorrent the client went full proprietary, but that did nothing to the adoption of BitTorrent the protocol, because open-source implementations are all over the place.

That's at least what I hope is the worst case here.
> ... On that call, Powell and most of his colleagues reluctantly endorsed buying defaulted Treasury securities — an unprecedented move to maintain financial stability — if a legislative debt ceiling solution did not come in time.

This is a red herring. The Fed doesn't "buy" treasuries. It can't, at least not with dollars. The Fed conducts an asset swap in which it accepts a treasury, and credits the Fed account of the seller with bank reserves. These reserves are not spendable outside of the Federal Reserve system. No new money is created.

QE has done nothing to aid economic recovery - not here, not in Europe, and not in Japan, except to influence the psychology of people who don't understand what's going on.

If it ever comes to the Fed doing QE on defaulted treasuries, the same thing will happen. Big psychological boost for gullible investors, but nothing in terms of actual help to the economy.
In HPC it's common to do a mix of MPI (message-passing / distributed memory) and OpenMP (shared memory) parallelism when running on big multicore (and obviously multi-node) machines. It helps with locality, among other things.
It's actually the range of policies that we won't literally riot about if they push on us.
I've been running Fedora for around 10 years and I'm pretty sure they don't have a different reboot for updates, except a system upgrade (F38->F39) which is opt-in and takes 30ish minutes on my PC. Normal updates overwrite the files in place, so whenever a daemon/app is re/started it will use the new files then.
Presumably this is exactly what Biogen-Sage Therapeutics is doing.
I felt the same way. Furthermore, it's a little dissatisfying to not have a unique solution, in terms of characters. If you think of character sets, it's still unique, but it's a bit unsatisfying.

I made more progress once I accepted (possibly) non-uniqueness and worked on finding some valid assignment, as opposed to a sole valid assignment.

The last dozen clues were increasingly interesting to solve, the intersecting constraints.
but y tho? I use (in addition to my carbon steel pans) the standard cast iron el cheapo version of Lodge and nothing sticks if you season your pan and heat to the proper temperature.
Right. So I'm just trying to figure which states do you think are/were actually socialist.

> held (textbook) communism

Not if bolshevism was textbook communism. They did reject some core ideas promulgated by Marx (already back in ~1918).

> outside of the USofA,

I don't think US is particularly special in that regard compared to most western countries.
> My complaint isn't with the customer, its with MISRA being a poor tool and ripe for this kind of abuse.

Any guideline/linter is ripe for abuse. I don't see MISRA being an outlier in this regard. Had everything been developed in house, MISRA wouldn't have been the bottleneck. You'd ignore whatever MISRA rules are not relevant, and note the exception down formally, and be done with it. My job in that company was primarily to understand the automotive ISO guidelines, and inform the team about what was OK and what wasn't, and to write those rationales for the auditor(s). As an extreme example, for one component, the ISO standard allowed us to ignore almost all the guidelines because if it has been tested heavily, it suffices as evidence the component is safe. For that component, we felt it cheaper to test the heck out of it than to conform to the guidelines. We tested it by running it continuously for months, feeding in random inputs. Cheaper to have a computer do it than highly paid engineers getting bogged down.

Even in a contracting scenario, this could have been avoided. You'd write your exceptions, and the customer would get an auditor to go over your exceptions, and be done with it.

Don't blame guidelines for poor organizational behaviors.

As I said elsewhere, the ISO guidelines allow you to be sane about it.

Think of the plus side, though. If you had gone the route you wanted, you would have to read several hundred pages of an ISO standard multiple times before you could be well versed enough to know when it's OK to violate the guidelines. Reading those documents is a lot worse than following MISRA ;-)
> The only point is that the iPhone is not a significant limiting factor on the quality of results you can achieve.

Which is a big deal.
In Taiwan, this type of truck is called 發財車 (發財: to make a fortune, 車: car)

https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/發財車_(台灣)
Well, at this scale, it would take longer to set up a SAT solver than it would for the SAT solver to list all valid solutions.
No, it's not difficult (cut/paste), nor a burden for reading in docstrings or even comments. The point is a short link that tells a long story, which should be accessible to non-developers.
Back when 10TB was enough space for the entire Sloan survey, Vera Rubin Observatory was expected to produce 1TB every night. They dug a trench up into the mountains to lay a fiber optic cable specifically (and only) for Vera Rubin.
Come back to this when you're old, or another circumstance where your life is failing. You might not have the same mindset as when death seems like something in the distance that is happening to other people, or you far in the future.
except Dish network, because they tried multiple times[0]

Ultimately they got some assets in the merger though

[0]: https://www.cnbc.com/id/100637184
The USSR had a state capitalist system (openly acknowledged early on as a transitional phase, but even though it stopped using the term it never transitioned out of it, and neither did most other Leninist-derived systems except a few into systems which incorporated more private capitalism later on while the “Communist” Party retained authoritarian power) with the claimed near-term intent of transitioning to functional socialism and claimed long-term intent of achieving communism.

The most actually socialist systems in the world are democratic states with mixed economies starting with the wave of reforms within advanced democratic capitalist economies in the early to mid-20th century that created them; that we tend to call them “capitalism” and the less socialist state capitalist regimes under Leninism and its descendants “socialism” or “communism” is largely a result of 20th century geopolitical block identities and not actual analysis of politico-economic systems against some set of clear consistent standards of what constituties “socialism”, etc.
For other confused people, "EV" here is an Extended Validation certificate, and this has nothing to do with Electric Vehicles.

The author's previous blog post is basically mandatory reading if you want to make any sense of this one:

https://scotthelme.co.uk/looks-like-a-duck-swims-like-a-duck...
This model is somewhat obsolete at this point.
Wedding photography costs $600 to $1000 over here, the equipment is typically 4 to 8 years old and costs about $1500 (body + 24-70mm lens + flashes, MPB.com prices).
The next section isn't better:

We built a new Voxel-Based Character Control that enables smooth navigation in cramped, complex and dynamic environments; it makes character movement more natural and fluid.

Fluid movement can be a problem, but "Voxel" is not what you did here, it's a marketing term. Maybe start with how a 2d collider for a 2d game should perhaps be a sphere smaller than the character (not a square, they get stuck on corners), and then say sth interesting about how you solved 3d. I am fairly certain that "voxel" isn't what happened, esp with the prior of "ECS".
>changing the control scheme

Controllers use analog input for the sticks. I guess you could create a system which uses a dead zone where the player "signals" their intention by partially moving the stick in their desired direction.

This would be incredibly cumbersome though, and the payoff would not be worth it.
you're right, what i said was actually false, because there were a number of individual people who had their own internet connections. i've met some of them since then. but we're talking about maybe a thousand people out of the millions on the internet. i didn't know any of them in 01993. literally everyone i knew on the internet got their internet access by belonging to an organization that had internet access
I like my employer very much but still do not trust that their frequent employee surveys are anonymous. But since managers get grief for low response rates, I do the surveys, but skip each of the questions.
It's some way down, in a section about community.

An important recent learning about programming adoption is that a good community is absolutely key to drive growth. Makes sense to establish the principles.
I know this isn't a literature review forum but I think the standard for commentary could be a little higher than what you've just written.
I won't answer this question because Canonical did it for me. As I mentioned in the parent post, they considered the gain so important that Ubuntu ships triple buffering patch starting from 22.04 LTS. Well, they actually come up with this feature - Daniel Van Vugt, author of the patch (huuuuge thank you, by the way) works for Canonical. So yeah, I promised not to answer, but I'd say GNOME should definitely have upstreamed the changes much earlier.
You're moving the goalposts. You said

> I want a 100% accurate accounting of free space at all times via the standard xNix free-disk-space reporting command

You don't get that on many modern storage systems, because of thin provisioning.

You don't get that even on old school unix if you ask separately in two different directories, and fail to account for whether they're on the same filesystem or not.
I do like how the end to end pipeline is captured with ELTP. Conceptually I find it lighter than: ETL + Reverse ETL. While I might personally find modular ETL to be even lighter, that moniker is particular to myself and I wouldn't ask anyone else to take it up.

Regarding control, that's something I've never felt with production data. It's such a wild beast. Once the data leaves your team/code, all bets are off.
USB-C Mac laptops will happily take power at seemingly any voltage in the spec. Can plug in a USB-A -> USB-C cable and it will charge overnight at 5V1A, or at least increase endurance during operation. 9V, 12V, 15V, 20V, all good too. I wonder if it will accept anything in-between as well... it should? And where it tops out. Solar panel rigged to a USB-C cable anyone?

With ooooolder laptops, I found, as you did, that it's happy to take 12V and buck down everything, but can't boost and wouldn't charge at all. I sometimes use "incompatible" power bricks with a modern Dell laptop and they sometimes top-out of where they'll charge. Probably expecting 20V but getting 16V and not enough to get the cells topped up.

Made the mistake of thinking that same modern Dell laptop would take in 5V over USB-C to charge overnight like the MacBook... it did not.
They were acquihired by Zynga of all companies which then promptly proceeded to kill off all their products.
> "Paradox of Tolerance" is a question, not an answer.

No, it is not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

> You can't use it as a cudgel to "win" any discussion.

Sure, one cannot in all cases, no.

But when the discussion is "must we extend freedom of expression of beliefs to those who wish to deny others their freedoms?" Then yes, it 100% does, and the answer is NO.

In other words, when the object is "but mah FREE SPEECH!" then the answer is "shut up, fascist."
That’s a separate discussion, and one worth having, but the juxtaposition between the dramatic title and what actually happened is ridiculous
Can anyone comment on Gleam's type system? Is it similar to Haskell's?
For Americans, this is comparable to Verizon going down. Optus is our second largest telco, with 10 million customers including many hospitals, trains, enterprises, etc… I myself am currently unable to make calls and use mobile internet.
One effect of this was that big companies and pension funds were desperate for some way to park their money. This lead to the situation that they would build lots of new appartment buildings in metropolitan areas that would remain empty for years, not returning any income, they were just a vehicle to park the money. At the same time, this development was detrimental for the towns, but the towns couldn't do much against it. In the towns, people would move from the old appartments in the center to the cheap new appartments in the outskirts, leaving behind a dead center. (There was an article about this effect in the "Tagesanzeiger" called "Die Huttwilisierung der Schweiz", worth reading.)
It'll be the insurance megacorps vs the automotive megacorps. There's no suggestion that the obligation to maintain 3rd party insurance will disappear.
Oh you just gave me an idea for another hypothetical. If the House was unable to elect a Speaker during the time the debt ceiling was breached, would they even be capable of bringing any action before the Court?

One stalemate averted by another!
A sad thing is that, on its face, this isn’t actually crazy:

> At the top of my list of concerns is that browser and client vendors (Root Store Operators) will have a legal obligation to add Government mandated Root Certificate Authorities to their Root Stores, bypassing existing approval mechanisms.

> Yep, you read that right. Government mandated Root Certificate Authorities...

> I could end this blog post right here because anyone reading this will understand the significance of such a statement, and just how much of a catastrophically bad idea that is, but it gets worse.

At the end of the day, (other than the EV-like “additional attested attributes”, which have been tried and were not a success), this makes quite a bit of sense: the EU is the authority as to the mapping from foobar.eu to whatever logically lives there. Norway is the authority mapping foobar.no. The US likewise controls .us, etc. So, if the EU says that foobar.eu maps to some public key, who is Google or Mozilla or Apple to question it?

Of course, all of this is ignoring massive technical issues. DNSSEC really does map domain names to attributes (but not individual names!) in a verifiable manner, and DANE can extend it to HTTPS, but DNSSEC is massively problematic. And the CA / WebPKI system is a baroque mess that is, finally, sort of under control. And the actual leaked text of the proposal does not respect any of what got the CA system under control.

I can imagine a situation in which the EU (through its qualified agents) could attest, cryptographically, which CT or its equivalent, that a domain name in .eu maps to a given certificate, and browsers should accept that. Except this is pointless — browsers already accept the equivalent of this.

IMO it would be more valuable for the EU to do the converse: require that browsers not accept a .eu certificate without attenuation from the EU. Raise the bar, don’t lower it! The EU absolutely has an interest in preventing a US (or Chinese or whatever) entity from falsely certifying an EU site.
Every place that I’ve worked chooses a subset of MISRA rules to follow and ignores the rest. A rationale for the ignored rules is written in a document somewhere which can be provided to safety auditors.

A deviation for a rule in the “required” set can be made for specific cases.

The “no commented-out fragments of code” is a weird one. It was not required at my previous employer, but it is at my current. It means that you can’t have comments like this without a deviation:

// This function is only called from
// main()

Which is much more readable to me than:

// This function is only called from
// main

I see what they are trying to prevent, which is people commenting out code instead of removing it. In my experience, code that is commented out usually means that it was committed accidentally, or the author didn’t really understand what the old code was doing so they didn’t delete it entirely.
wtf are you talking about? I know people from both sides and can assure you that the whole process was done transparently and legally. The external board which selected the winner proposal did a blind review (they only knew the proposals, not who made those proposals).

It's true that Qilimanjaro is a spin-off of BSC, but they are the only company in Spain that can fabricate quantum chips. Furthermore, the chips are fabricated by Quantware and IQM, while Qilimanjaro provides the testing, calibration and service. One of the requirements from the European Funds is that the providers must be European companies. There are not many fully european companies that fabricate digital quantum chips, I'm afraid.

If you have doubts about the legality of the process, I welcome you to contact the coordinator of the project.
And they are still trying to sell their beanie babies …
That wasn't even the same case. Furthermore, it could be that Kahn didn't offer a good assessment of Facebook's market share because it wasn't actually that large - but she was pressured or directed to bring a case against Facebook anyway.
> Does that give the executive the power to trump limits on the Fed?

The point is it’s unnecessary.
It's amazing he'd use "we did it like in oscilloscopes" and "everybody rips off our design" in almost the same sentence.
Same. I'll often use my iPhone for general shots and leave a zoom on my z5 for other shots.

When I was a kid just having a camera at all was a big deal. Now, every person has a great camera in their pocket almost 100% of the time. It's pretty amazing to be honest.
> There is also the tendency to establish more and more levels of management, on the theory that this gives better control. These are but different forms of shared responsibility, which easily lead to no one being responsible—a problems that often inheres in large corporations as well as in the Defense Department.

Observations from 1982, relevant even in 2023.
>Everyone is encouraged to rate anyone else in a variety of categories, as often as possible.

You'd think someone with as much experience as Ray Dalio would be vigilant against overfitting a model, and that's exactly what this is.

Just goes to show you that even the most successful are susceptible to ego-driven blind spots.
My wife and I managed to buy (half) a house (from the 1800s) this year, in Switzerland, considerably below 1M. It's in a rural area though (30 km from Zürich), and without central heating (tiled wood stove instead). I guess it depends a lot on your desired standards of living.
I haven't quite had a chance to set it up and play with it yet but one thing that I think is missing is that there is no clear way to write to it via api. I know it's not exactly the main purpose but I'd really like to be able to shoot data over from wherever and then let my friends/family easily see and edit it in the GUI.

Anyway it's a great looking tool and wishing you the best with it!