skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The language sorely needs some sort of comptime interface / traits / concepts, anytype-everything is not nice.

I'm not sure I agree. Anything which attempts to constrain "anytype" makes the language much, much more complicated.

For example, if it were constrained, Zig "allocgate" would likely have necessitated compiler changes instead of just library changes.

And I often think that we conflate two different things--"Generic" and "Libraries like the big boys build".

I generally don't need fully generic programming.

What I do need is the ability to build a library that works exactly like the standard library. All libraries need to be precisely equal in expressive power and composability to those that have been officially "blessed".

Oddly, Rust fails at this due to things like the Orphan Rule even though its "genericity" is quite expansive. The invasiveness of Serde is a prime example. If an external crate doesn't support Serde, you can't add it. You have to literally copy the entire library over to your code in order to add Serde support. This blocks an alternative to Serde from ever arising because it will never be as convenient as Serde which has been "blessed" by the community.
Will probably be an expense on Adobe's books and income on Figma's. Lowering Adobe's tax and potentially raising Figma's.

Not sure about this exact scenario, but the government taxes legal settlements. Not sure why they wouldn't tax this.

Will definitely lower Adobe's tax bill.
ORMs are a critical piece of any modern web application.

Let's be real. Handling migrations and changes to data schema are going to happen all the time. Maybe over time they happen less, but not really. Basically any change to any functionality will realistically require changes to your database schema. ORMs give you a nice way to encapsulate your app model functionality in a way that works pretty well with database features. You're not going to get 1-1 parity in terms of every possible database with every possible ORM, but that's OK.

I like one particular FastAPI boilerplate lib that I use for stuff, and it is almost as good as using Rails with its amazing ORM, ActiveRecord.
Also infliction. "Oi!" and "Oi.." have very different meanings.
Maybe the machines can learn the value of human life, since it seems to have escaped us. Wasn’t that the idea behind “Terminator 2”?
Sorta? Compulsive licensing is something that only exists in a very narrow market for copyright material. Pretty sure it does not exist at all for patents.

You can argue that it is somewhat moot here, as Apple was not showing any willingness to negotiate. But the post above is somewhat accurate, in that there is no guarantee that negotiations will end in a license.
Soon you will be able to carry a lifetime's worth of music in your pocket!
Cory Doctorow as well.

I prefer to buy eBooks directly from the author, with a fallback to sites like leanpub.

The process sucks though: you typically get a zip, which contains .epub, .mobi, and .pdf. And the naming is bogus, with spaces sometimes replaced by underscores or hyphens, and sometimes with the author's name and sometimes not. So you have to unzip the file, get the contents, decide whether to keep them all or not, move them somewhere else, and then have your reader(s) realize that they're there, and try not to get dupes in the "shelf" view, and deal with the crappy metadata, and, and, and ...

It'd be super nice if we got some standards here! It's not like Amazon has to adopt them -- they're a separate ecosystem. But if all the "indie" eBook publishers did the same thing, the reader apps could make this so much less painful.
In addition, pretty much any new car you buy these days will spy on you by default. Along with any other Internet-connected services you use either directly or unintentionally by proxy.

(...and before someone argues, "you could just buy an old, non-spying car", you'll only be able to do that for so long. And pretty much never with a new vehicle.)
Simply from a factual perspective, Varoufakis presided over the recovery of the Greek economy, not its destruction. Now you may or may not feel that's something he should get credit for, but it's a fact that he rejected EU austerity plans, and a fact that Greece's economy is improving.

Personally I think his track record is impressive, and I'd argue that helping to save an EU-level economy is at least as impressive as what Jeff Bezos has done with his life.
What is a pre GNU toolchain?
I'm not sure why what I wrote necessitated a lesson on limits and asymptotes. My point was that given that N was the size of your tree, more often than not, big-O analysis would apply in this case since N is likely big compared to secondary fixed effects.
With respect to microplastics and nanoplastics, this study explored the mobilization of plastics when heating up foods in plastic containers (a few months ago) [0].

I was also surprised to see the pasteurization occur in the plastic container and after researching this a bit, it seems like it is the industry standard. I guess a good thesis topic would be seeing if there was a difference in micro/nanoplastics present in pasteurized vs unpasteurized tofu.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37624070
> I haven't seen a manuscript that could not made a better paper through peer review.

Authors don't object to revision suggestions, they object to arbitrary/unfair rejections plus 4-year delays.

> The main drawback is the loss of time if a rejection means you may lose a whole year (only for conferences, and only if you are not willing to compromise by going to a "lower" conference after rejection by a top one).

No, it's much worse if you're a masters student who wants to publish and have that publication accepted within 12-18mths for your jobhunt; you'll necessarily compromise by skipping most journals and aiming for middle-tier conferences (high accept rate and fast turnaround), then falling back on journals only if you get rejected. This was why arxiv was created.
(Some academic type here is inevitably going to retort "But conferences (not even those with official proceedings) aren't considered 'real' publications in my field", to which the counter-retort is "the job market doesn't care about that attitude".)
Ahhh okay, I can't believe I missed the irony of this post
Oh. I was on BBSs. I sent chat messages in the late 70s. But, no, I couldn't generally order stuff online and email most people I knew.
IA probably destroyed any legal basis of being a good faith actor with regards to copyright during their “Emergency Library” shenanigan.

And the courts take a very dim view of filing appeals based on PR ideals rather than basis in case law.

I don’t see this going well for IA.
Inflation has been hidden with outsourcing since the 90's. By moving manufacturing overseas the price of a lot of goods decreased while the items that you cannot outsource increased (Services, Healthcare, Education, Housing).
Wrong patent.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10912502B2/en
Japan's government to ban faxes in schools
I have a distant memory of a crapplication by this name that was preinstalled on Samsung phones and couldn't be removed from a non-rooted phone.
What is your definition of "patent trolling"?
CEO material seems like kind of a myth to me. Politics and business isn't like sport - you consistently see people at the top of the top with track records that simply don't add up and simple aren't what landed them there. So there has to be something else that lands them there...

To be clear, of course there are CEOs who really are the best, but in my experience yeah someone being a CEO doesn't mean they're smarter or better at business or whatever even than the average employee at the company lol.
And then we revert to the state where we don't federate with threads, which doesn't seem so different from not federating with them today. This is weird jealous break up logic. No, you didn't stop talking to me, I stopped talking to you!
This feels like deja vu: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38676779
Thanks. This is all very interesting, I love graphs like these.

I see the pvoutput page didn't pick up some days in May and June 2020. I'm curious why, since I can see them on your .csv dumps.
Yes, it is. People often talk about how HTMX allows for interactive websites without any JS. Well, there is JS, it's just that it was written by the developer of HTMX, not the developer making their web app.
That thinking is the problem.

Every government program will see fraud and I don't even see how junk food is a real problem? The point is calories. Sure, healthier food would be better, but there are other efforts to get people of all income brackets to eat healthier. The government should not limit what people are permitted to eat just because they're poor enough to qualify.
Check out Libreture's list of DRM-free bookstores [1]. I usually get my magazines and DRM-free ebooks from WeightlessBooks [2] and Smashwords [3].

Kobo and Google Play Books also offer DRM-free books, but you have to look at the book details (further down the book page) to see this information.

[1] https://libreture.com/bookshops/

[2] https://weightlessbooks.com/

[3] https://www.smashwords.com/
"it clashes with deep values of the people who aren't shareholders, but are no doubt vested in the product the company produces, mainly the customers. It ignores their needs completely because they don't own stock."

Presumably companies generate value for shareholders by selling things to customers and generating profits, which makes customers the ultimate beneficiaries. What companies are you thinking of that ignores their customers' needs completely and are still quite successful and valuable for shareholders?
Written in JavaScript, if you can believe it.
Spec ≠ Standard

Rust absolutely does not need a standard. Having a standard is a completely outdated way to design software in the internet era. Having a specification is a great idea and is what most people actually mean.
> That's not my experience at all. Full size cars have continuously shrunk since the 1960s at least.

You might be right that people are choosing larger vehicles, but wouldn’t that mean the average size is increasing?

When you look at cars with a long lineage (eg Golf) they are huge compared to what they used to be, however maybe this varies region to region or it’s just my bias.
Is one of the most widely used languages still relevant?
Sadly, this is only going to get easier and the results are only going to look more real as time goes on. I wonder what will happen once we've reached the point of 'upload picture here and we'll generate a full porn movie with the plot of your choosing'. Will it be so commonplace that it loses its meaning, or will it still be just as jarring?
As another small hint of Mikolov-vs-Le divergence: they're the coauthors of the 'Paragraph Vector' paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.4053) applying a slightly-modified version of word2vec to vectorize longer texts, still in a very shallow way. (This technique often goes by the name 'doc2vec', but other things also sometimes get called that, too.)

There are some results in that paper, supposedly from exactly the technique described on an open dataset, that no one has ever been able to reproduce – & you can see the effort has frustrated a lot of people, over the years, in different forums.

When asked, Mikolov has said, essentially: "I can't reproduce that either – those tests were run & reported by Le, you'lll have to ask him."
That's not right. Under controlled digital lending, the Internet Archive only allows simultaneous loans up to the number of copies they actually own. The difference between the Internet Archive and other libraries is that the Internet Archive does this with or without the approval of the rightsholders, whereas most other libraries buy in to services from copyright collectives that have negotiated for digital lending from the rightsholders, not unlike performing rights organizations for music or studio catalogs on Netflix.
Given what is being approved as a patent these days (basically anything goes in), I wouldn't consider this as an exception.

Generally speaking, the patents should describe the invention in such a way that anyone competent in the field could recreate it. So I don't see how the fact the Apple has hired that team has any relevance to this.

Maybe the patents should have been invalidated too.
Good articles on the difference between linearizability and serializability. They are not the same thing.

https://accelazh.github.io/storage/Linearizability-Vs-Serial...

https://ajaygupta-spark.medium.com/linearizability-and-vs-se...
DietPi is very nice! I forgot I've been running one for almost a year, no issues in sight :)
LOL some people complain that Rust is moving too slow, and others that Rust is moving too fast and adds too many features. Can never make everyone happy...
Patched, thanks!
Tbh I'd take a greyhound any day over a Spirit airlines flight.
If you had to guess what % of Americans are
Yet again a plug for Epubor Ultimate, which claims to, and in my experience, does remove DRM from pretty much any EPUB or PDF, and works on Kindle books as well. The workflow is much simpler than with the DeDRM plugin for Calibre, and so far it has survived at least one change in Kindle encryption. I have used it on books from Kobo, ebooks.com, and Amazon.It is pretty much the only non-free software I own, and it lets me have a completely free library.
This is really exciting, but there are a few things they will certainly have to work through:

*Services:*

Kubernetes expects DNS records like {pod}.default.svc.cluster.local. In order to achieve this they will have to have some custom DNS records on the "pod" (fly machine) to resolve this with their metadata. Not impossible, but something that has to be take into account.

*StatefulSets:*

This has 2 major obstacles:

The first is dealing with disk. k8s expects that it can move disks to different logical pods when they lose them (e.g. mapping EBS to an EC2 node). The problem here is that fly has a fundamentally different model. It means that it either has to decide not to schedule a pod because it can't get the machine that the disk lives on, or not guarantee that the disk is the same. While this does exist as a setting currently, the former is a serious issue.

The second major issue is again with DNS. StatefulSets have ordinal pod names (e.g. {ss-name}-{0..n}.default.sv.cluster.local). While this can be achieved with their machine metadata and custom DNS on the machine, it means that it either has to run a local DNS server to "translate" DNS records to the fly nomenclature, or have to constantly update local services on machines to tell them about new records. Both will incur some penalty.
I don't know much about it yet, but look into Zenoh. I think it can run on microcontrollers.
I suspect their point was more that CEO slots are much more winner-takes-all.
Doesn’t matter for the case
Now I'm wondering if it makes sense to cool them with water and reuse that heated water for washing and showers.
Interesting. They had a different situation, and different motivations, and perhaps humility and awareness.
Information Security Books of 2023
Well Putin is definitely getting more agressive. Somehow he's convinced himself that NATO is a threat and he's not going to stop here.
If the show was Seinfeld then it brings up an interesting point: the context of the show is that all of the characters are socially pathological. They are bad people who treat others poorly—that's the whole show. It would be fascinating if today's viewers might see it as an endorsement of those behaviours!
What do you mean "how are you going to do that"? Are you seriously trying to assert that ex. the FDA has never successfully blocked a harmful drug from going to market? In another comment you yourself concluded that not adopting nuclear exacerbated the climate crisis, isn' this exactly what you're saying is impossible? Scientists and engineers make estimates about the large-scale impact of technological adoption all the time, and often they're very good at it (for example we're very clear about what the combustion engine is doing to our environment).

> Are you gonna have a committee of bureaucrats who never invented anything in their life come in and promise they will protect you from any possible downside?

This is such an absurd strawman that I almost didn't want to address it. Nobody is asking to live in the perfect nanny state, although if that's how you view everyone who disagrees with you no wonder you're into e/acc. It is both possible and extremely achievable for a government to collaborate with scientific experts to decide how and where to deploy different technologies. The fact that this process doesn't have a 100% hit-rate is emphatically not an argument for just abandoning the concept of industrial/technology regulation entirely. I personally enjoy not having industrial runoff in my groundwater or dangerous drugs available for sale in the pharmacy, and indeed believe that this type of prudence is a major contributor to the progress in human quality of life that you touted elsewhere.

edit: also how is this not it's own form of "doomerism"?? In one breath you make these wildly sweeping statements about human history and the unstoppable power of progress, and then here you state that it's basically impossible to ever
make informed estimates about the consequences of our actions. It seems to me like you can only hold one of these two positions, consistently.
> I'm not saying AMD made a bad decision

No, just a cool trillion dollars of market cap are saying that, nbd :)
I'm curious, could you expand on what makes them bad for cold climates?
> No one is forced to adopt technology they don't like.

Except the opposite is true, and this fact is becoming increasingly pronounced. Technology doesn't exist in the vacuum - it costs money, resources and labor to manufacture and support artifacts like cars or CD players or CDs themselves. Almost everyone on the production side is trying to aim for where everyone else - producers and consumers - will be, while maybe steering it a little. As a result, you have a moving island of "what's current" speeding on the vast ocean called "you're on your own, and shit out of luck".
All the libraries I’m a user of (and there are a half dozen or so) have licensed all the content through Overdrive (Libby).

I don’t know how Overdrive licenses it from publishers.
The crux of the article is a call for techno-selectionism, which is neither techno-optimism nor techno-skepticism:

> Techno-selectionists believe that we should continue to encourage and reward people who experiment with what comes next. But they also know that some experiments end up causing more bad than good.
I'm surprised you found George Costanza to be so sympathetic.
I read this, and I'm not sure what concrete steps Newport wants us to take. Sure, social media sucks, and if Facebook and TikTok disappeared we'd all be better off. But what should we do? Declare Meta a monopoly and bust it up? This just seems like verbal flailing about.
Sounds like a great reason to ignore the reviews in both GoodReads and newspapers.

Not to single those things out. User-created reviews have been thoroughly poisoned by marketers and other scammers for many years now. They all deserve to be ignored.
Thanks. That didn't really explain much - apparently the bill isn't about banning the word "gay" - but it gave me context to look it up.

For others who don't follow American drama, apparently it's legislation[1] passed banning discussion on sexual orientation or gender identity from kinder to grade 3 (I believe 5-9 years old range in the US educational system).

Apparently Disney opposed it and has some sort of significant resort there, so the government fired back by taking back ownership of the land that the resort is on, which they appeared to have unfettered control over to the extent of being their own unaccountable government[2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Parental_Rights_in_Edu...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Florida_Tourism_Oversi...
Iceland volcano erupts on Reykjanes peninsula after weeks of activity
$1 is meaningless, $4-5 would be a real incentive.
I read “The Cuckoo’s Egg” in the late 00’s as a student and found it pretty interesting that Cliff Stoll (user cliffstoll here I believe) used many of the same Unix utilities in the 80’s that I was still using. That’s at least one piece of tech that I think has aged well.

I’m very nostalgic of the optimism of the 90’s, but I do also remember VHS tapes and photographic film (which I love as a medium but it’s amazingly inconvenient these days) which were clearly compromises.

On the other hand, the 90’s were amazing for gaming. The PlayStation and Nintendo 64 were breakthroughs that have held up quite well I think.
I routinely take a suburban or regional bus to and from O'Hare. It's way better than driving/parking and a Lyft from the suburbs automatically costs at least 50$, and I don't really give a damn about easy car access since I don't have one anyway. Incidentally, most American airports where I've ever looked do have decent bus service with or without a rail transit system, you just have to look/ask for it.
Go's defer is incredibly flawed:

1. It only allows function calls instead of any expression.

2. It allocates memory dynamically and attaches the function call expression to the function, rather than the current scope exit. This has surprising and harmful consequences if you use it inside a loop.

So, I wouldn't say that zig's defer is borrowed from Go.
> Cite?

You are correct that the numbers I cited were off, because I had neglected to check specifically for numbers at the heliopause. Here is a better set of numbers:

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019NatAs...3.1024G/abstra...

The plasma density in the outer heliosphere is typically about 0.002 cm-3. The first electron density measured by the Voyager 2 plasma wave instrument in the interstellar medium, 0.039 cm-3 ± 15%, was on 30 January 2019 at a heliocentric radial distance of 119.7 au. The density jump, about a factor of 20, confirms that Voyager 2 crossed the heliopause.

In other words, the density of the interstellar medium just outside the heliopause, as detected by Voyager 2, was about 20 times larger than the density of the plasma just inside the heliopause.
I wonder how much our human body is a ship of theseus.

I was reading about the hb1ac test, and it is a long-term test that analyzes the percentage of your blood hemoglobin chemically linked to sugar.

It is "long-term" because your blood cells have a life span of about 4 months.

(If you manage your blood sugar well, you have to do it for 4 months so that new cells won't be affected and a later test will show improvement.)

so, I wonder how many other cells turn over? You are not you, repeatedly.
I didn't vote it down but there's huge tradeoffs here:

1. Row bloat.

2. Bad plan estimation due to bloat.

3. Needing filtered indexes for anything that's a row based unique constraint.

4. All history in one table means changing schemas is a PITA, and you're backfilling stuff that's not real.

5. There's more but that's just off the top.
Your sample size of 1 out of 1.3 billion windows devices is a bit on the limited side. I think the article I saw said it breaks it for enterprise grade wifi so this may be a factor as well.
I think people are conflating hostility being the initial aggressor, or full war.

Hostile: opposition, unkindness, or unfriendliness toward something or someone.

Giving bombs to Ukraine is hostile toward Russia. That doesn't mean it isnt righteous, defensive, or anything else.

Giving arms to Ukraine certainly isnt doing Russia any favors, and certainly isnt neutral.
I see plenty of that. Technogym products integrate with the Apple Watch.

Why wouldn't they want to enter the the gym space at the least?
That doesn't mean legal matters can't be discussed. No one is asking for legal advice here.