skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's entirely possible to add permissions and access control on any modern dbms.

My understanding is this is all mandatory access control which is cumbersome as usual.

> Maybe you are using an OLTP when you meant to use an OLAP dbms?

"It's slow" was too pithy. When it's fast it great, but it's too easy to write things that are slow my mistake. I want things to be rejected if it they don't use an index in many cases, not fall back on a slow table scan.

The most key part is that I posit that the "when are table scans allowed?" policy is very similar to the security policy.
Another point is that the CPU can sequence the multiple calls to its internal SIMD unit internally without that having to be done by user code. This in extreme case degrades to the Cray-1-like vector unit, which still has measurable preformance impact and can be implementated even in very resource constrained environments.
That's an interesting point I hadn't thought or learned about before. What else do you have to say?
I doubt even Nietzsche would call red and green styling "Christian propaganda" if he saw it.
Did you own another car, or was the Leaf (24 kWh) your only car?
Maybe you find it easier to read in this format: https://github.com/oberon-lang/oberon-lang.github.io/blob/ma...
> The debt clock [0] shows each citizen is owed $100,000

Nitpick: “owes” (not owed)

> so a few years of wages lost is not the end of the world.

How would anyone pay off a few years wages, while using their wages to live, and paying interest on the balance until it is zero?

Essentially, every tax payer has a small mortgage on the past to pay off.

And the debt is growing!

Sooner or later, the debt will have to be paid down with printed money. Which both reduces the balance, and devalues the balance (due to the increased money supply).

The ability to do that at any time is the primary reason a government can run otherwise unsustainable debt without going bankrupt.
Dirigera still does not support Matter. I bought it for 'coming soon' Matter support, but it's still not there. Have been waiting for looong time now.
> those toxic effects are real and taking the benefits of using those substances while shuffling off the toxic effects onto someone else, is evil

*is capitalism, ftfy :)

More seriously though, there is always a dicothomy between the "healthier" features of capitalism (competition, private initiative, etc) and the rest: rent-seeking, pocketing the profits and dumping externalities on others, enclosing the commons, etc.
Not too many big thermal plants are bidding that way. The ones that aren't dispatchable at all don't actually offer into the market as a price maker. Instead, they just act as price takers and likely make up for it by being part of a vertically integrated utility playing in the energy market - as in they can have any losses factored into rates.

It is far far more common to have wind/solar offering in negative prices as they want to run at any cost to take advantage of the extremely lucrative subsidies. There is limited transmission available, so those various wind farms are competing against each other to just run. Also, you can have negative prices just due to congestion.
The only way for the analogy to hold no water at all would be for bans and deceleration to not harm anyone; that's not true in many cases.
ELI5: Why is euthanasia often the only option when a horse breaks its leg?
> Rather than deal with hypotheticals let's focus on reality

Imagine coming into a discussion telling of a thing you experienced and then the reply is: I don't want to discuss hypotheticals, which is great because a) this isn't a hypothetical, it's the reason I quit my last job and b) you replied to my comment, which is the only way you could possibly even have the chance to discuss this.

I am explaining (admittedly with low detail because Internet) an actual situation I experienced, and it's not like there aren't all manner of entertainment product available on the market which requires a floor of technical power to consume in a way the average consumer would deem acceptable, be that hardware requirements like VR or other bespoke controlling apparatus, or looser ones like the minimum requirements on videogames, or more is-or-isn't ones like the ability for streamer boxes, phones or tablets to playback video of a given resolution and at a given frame rate.
Don't forget about the Nobel Peace Prize named after Alfred Nobel: The inventor of dynamite.

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel

From the link:

"There is a well known story about the origin of the Nobel Prize, although historians have been unable to verify it and some dismiss the story as a myth. In 1888, the death of his brother Ludvig supposedly caused several newspapers to publish obituaries of Alfred in error. One French newspaper condemned him for his invention of military explosives—in many versions of the story, dynamite is quoted, although this was mainly used for civilian applications—and this is said to have brought about his decision to leave a better legacy after his death. The obituary stated, Le marchand de la mort est mort ("The merchant of death is dead"), and went on to say, "Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday." Nobel read the obituary and was appalled at the idea that he would be remembered in this way. His decision to posthumously donate the majority of his wealth to found the Nobel Prize has been credited to him wanting to leave behind a better legacy. However, it has been questioned whether or not the obituary in question actually existed."
Pick a reliable WiFi vendor on Linux and you have less problem on Linux than your average windows machine crap. It's not like Windows has a working [fix WiFi] button.
> Usually starts with a "okay, just trying to level set...", or "just so I know I'm on the same page".

Great teams are the ones where no one has to preface questions with this sort of throat-clearing remark (and so they don't).
Apologies for the post-eggnog grammar there.
I've got the Netherlands spending 10.02% of their GDP on health care in 2018 [0], and the U.S. spending 16.68 in that same year [1]. If it were just a matter of money wouldn't that mean that the U.S. is already doing more?

Or is something else making a difference?

How does the Netherlands handle end-of-life care? I see in 2013 that 3.4% of all deaths in the Netherlands were people who chose euthenasia [2]. Maybe that saves their system a lot of money? Maybe they look at end-of-life differently?

In the Netherlands how do they make decisions about who gets possible life saving treatments versus who does not? does anybody who wants state of the art chemo get it, even if they are 80+ years old?

[0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS?locat...

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS?locat...

[2] https://vivredignite.org/en/2014/09/recent-euthanasia-number...
Yeah it’s getting worse. As a commenter points out, we now have fucking chat and email clients that take up literal gigabytes of ram and who knows how much on disk, and despite orders of magnitude more computing power are slower than ever, which is idiotic. And self serving as it may be, I don’t believe it’s because of unskilled, lazy or noncommitted devs. Most devs do the best they can within the constraints imposed on them. When a PM comes with the latest idiotic pet feature that isn’t as much for actual users as to pad their resume and enable them to climb the next step on their career ladder, devs have to make do, and often that amounts to mild protest, being overruled and then throwing their arms up. And I don’t even blame PMs - likewise, they’re just playing the hand they’ve been dealt. No PM or developer gets promoted for increasing reliability or speed, or reducing RAM or space on disk. Often, you get promoted for adding bloating buggy junk that no users actually use. How is that possible in this age of data driven decision making? Oh my friend if you only knew the ability of people to come up with fake and misguiding data to justify even the least used, most pointless features.

I will end my cynical rant here.
Not the Cray-1, but the Navy used a Cray 90 a few years later for CFD calculations modeling flow around ship hulls (code written in Fortran).

I wish I had access to the code I wrote back then - what took minutes or hours on the Cray could probably run in seconds on a RPi now…
There's no virtue in ignoring tax loopholes, it makes you into a schmuck if you pay more taxes than you're legally required.
Was going to recommend them too!
The time comes when 90% of all social network accounts are completely fake. Maybe its already the case. Who knows.
Why Rails, instead of a lighter-weight framework, if performance is such a priority? Obviously that wouldn't get you to [anywhere near] the performance of compiled Go code, but Rails has a lot of overhead.

What database is on the backend, and is that db serving cached content? What happens if you cache it with e.g. redis to avoid the heavyweight rails ORM stuff?

Do you have granular benchmarks for the db query, requests to other services, and the web processing itself (using artificially pre-cached responses from db and those other services)?
I’d rather they lose the cases then not take them at all. The ftc has been asleep at the wheel so obviously they aren’t just going to wake up and become competent overnight
Your license include a flight test on Flight Simulator 2000
KG in the intuitive 90's sense is fundamentally worse, but with llm-era rethinking, potentially useful

- kg DBs have the same retrieval scale problem, and often built on top of the same DBs

- traditional kg mining would still use LLMs, except instead of storing rich text ("in a clearly friendly and playful manner, the dog chased the cat") or less-rich high-dimensional chunk embeddings of the same, they get discretized down to much lossier rdf ontologies like (dog,chased,cat). There are uses, like building an entity index, but I wouldn't use for core RAG operations like answering questions accurately

- kg can be useful in the sense of, after chunking & embedding, adding *additional* linkages, such as adding summarization hierarchies and then linking related summaries back to source citation chunks. So runtimes can look up not just similar chunks, but also those that are a logical hop away, even if the embeddings are dissimilar, and via pre-summarization, incorporate a lot more insight. Though that's not a traditional kg, it highlights needing non-vector linkage tracking.

We are working on real-time large-scale projects like teaching LLMs to understand the news as it breaks as part of louie.ai, and if folks have projects like that, happy to chat as we figure out our q1+q2 cohorts. It's a fascinating time -- we had to basically scrap our pre-2023 stack here because of the significant advances, and been amazing being able to tackle much harder problems.
I find the opposite. Ruby has a longer list of String, Array and Hash methods/functions and they're also more useable.

Another issue I had was that Python's test frameworks like PyTest were just so weak compared to the likes of MiniTest and RSpec.
> We do not have a relationship with any entity other than the government itself that "fines" us. This is not normal behavior for a business relationship.

That’s where I’m gonna have to disagree with you. They might not be common when a business is offering a fairly commodity product like SMS messaging. But they certainly appear in business contracts all the time. You must be familiar with the concept of a chargeback, and fees/fines business are slap with when chargebacks occurred. I can also tell you that in contracts between payment networks (Mastercard, Visa etc) and issuers/acquirers (banks, stripe etc) there’s a hundreds of rules, and associated fines/fees for non-compliance.

I’ve personally never seen a meaningful contract between two businesses that didn’t include clear expectations of performance, and monetary consequences for failure to perform. It’s a perfectly normal way for businesses to incentivise their partners to uphold their end of the deal, without having to endlessly resort to the courts for redress.

> The important change is that the new language prohibits anything that could be illegal in any state, regardless of whether the message originates or terminates in that state.

It’s not new language, the November 2020 copy of T-Mobile code-of-conduct contains the language, include the explicit requirement that content must be legal in all states.

> I already gave you the example of abortion - you continue to ignore this example. Several states now ban emergency care for pregnant women that could result in the termination of a pregnancy.

Utterly irrelevant. It’s not T-Mobile job to decide which states laws are morally acceptable to ignore, nor is it reasonable for you to expect them to take on that legal liability on your behalf.

Also none of this impacts you anyway. Your relationship is with Twilio, these changes impact Twilio only. Twilio can make their own decisions about how they want to handle the costs and risks, which may include passing on the fees/fines onto their customers, or it may not.

> The carriers are doing too much. They are prohibiting legal traffic.

Welcome to real world. Carriers are allowed to prohibit anything they want, in the U.S., that’s protected by the first amendment. Everything you’re complaining about has been true for years, you just haven’t done your research before. Realistically these changes are a complete nothing burger, carriers aren’t interested in actual scanning messages etc, they’re just looking for a fig leaf to demonstrate they’re doing something about the scrounge of SMS spam and phishing.
It reminded me of orxata, which now gives me a craving
Are you excited for that future?
#metoo. I love it. I wish it did carbon monoxide among other things i havemt thought of yet.
Hahaha so true. Flying things aren't more abundant and prevalent because there must be insane lobby machinery and regulatory capture around the aviation industry. Plus economics of course.

For example, Zipline[1] is innovating in a part of the world, which wouldn't be possible elsewhere.

[1] https://www.flyzipline.com/
GTA 5 source code reportedly leaked online a year after RockStar hack
Sure; these are non-exclusive properties!
Says the one who did not know that Fukushima had six nuclear reactors, with four of them being destroyed.

Nuclear power is a lot "magically thinking". People obsessed with technical solutions are unable to see the other aspects around it: economics, safety, security, public reaction, environment, political, ...

Use a spreadsheet and calculate energy needs, built times, costs, etc. and then try to get a feeling for the impact nuclear will have in the next decades compared to other energy production (coal, renewables, ...). It's not much. I've showed you in another answer the nuclear built-up over the last decades, world-wide. It stagnates mostly.

https://world-nuclear.org/getmedia/332179b1-b865-47cc-a239-7...

Above are real numbers. We are far away from getting 3 times as much electricity from nuclear. Especially given that many of the reactors currently running are several decades old. In the past 35 years nuclear has not expanded at all in west&central europe. Just holding that seems to be a challenge.

For a long time the German engineers lobbied for new nuclear technology. One of the ideas was the brilliant pebble-bed reactor. We build one. It later died a silent death, because it did not work in the real world (maintenance was too costly) and the industry was closing it. We were involved in the EPR (-> Siemens). Which is mostly a failure.

> Similarly, what the German public "knows" about nuclear power is mostly patently and even ridiculously false.

Others will say that about your opinions. I have yet failed to see a convincing argument from you, just the old stuff like that nuclear fuel has not been used to its potential. We heard that argument ten years ago. Twenty years ago. Nothing has happened. How many re-processing plants have been built in Western/Middle Europe in the last twenty years? None. The UK can't even clean up the one it has.

What happened to the Thorium reactors? HN was full of news about them.

What happened to the Small Modular Reactors? Where are they, beyond the ones used in the military? Too expensive.

The technical solutions to make renewable large scale viable are an order of magnitude simpler than the "next nuclear technology" to be developed. Plus they will be easier to deploy.

What is Japan doing with its Plutonium from reprocessing nuclear fuel?

https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2018-10/features/japan’s-mis...

A bunch of countries would be happy to get nuclear technology under the idea that it is to "save the earth", while at the same time they'll want the option for nuclear weapons. In the middle east we have Israel with nuclear weapons. Iran is working for a long time on that, while claiming to develop nuclear power.

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

That's another reason why a world with lots of countries with nuclear technology is not desirable.
Thanks for mentioning it, I dug into the website of AssemblyScript and found that the compiler does indeed run in the browser. The demo loads a web-build like:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/assemblyscript@latest/dist/web.js"></script>
<script type="module">

import asc from "assemblyscript/asc";

And how they compile AssemblyScript to WAT/WASM/JS:

https://github.com/AssemblyScript/website/blob/main/src/.vue...

Here's how the compiler is built to target the web.

https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript/blob/main/s...

How fun! This inspires me to explore further what I could build with it.
> I don't get how we can reason about God existence (or not) using plain logic.

Aristotle has you covered:

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/07/first-way-some-backgrou...

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/08/first-way-moving-tale.h...

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/09/first-way-part-ii-two-l...

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/10/first-way-part-iii-big-...

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/11/first-way-part-iv-casca...

* First 30m of this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfQldsGrMfk

Book which covers arguments from Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine, Aquinas, Leibniz:

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35592365-five-proofs-of-...

The TL; DR is:

1. Some things in the world are changing. (Observation)

2. Whatever is changing† is being changed by another. (Lemma 1) https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7SKlRTfkUieN3dGVkhNTi1SQUU/...

3. There cannot be an infinite regress of instrumental changers. (Lemma 2) http://www.academia.edu/4415427/There_Must_Be_A_First_Why_Th...

4. Therefore, there must be a changer that is not itself being changed by another.

† From kinēsis in Aristotle's Greek.
You could say the exact same thing if federation could be forced. You can make whatever facile analogy you want; my point has always been there's bad scenarios no matter what.
Can unicode be implemented in a thousand lines or so of C?
Why is it that one can have a Happy holiday, birthday, thanksgiving, halloween, etc., but only have a Merry Christmas??
As much as I want something to replace Linux, I think the big selling point is the bottom end, all the driver and community support. That said, even Microsoft gave up trying to emulate Linux userspace
I’m surprised to read software quality as part of what works. I test drove a Y and found that every setting had to be changed through voice commands. I saw the glass roof and thought it might be retractable. I issued the voice command “Open Sunroof” and it responded “Opening Sunroof.” Nothing happened. I said it again, same thing. I said “Close Sunroof”, and it said “Closing Sunroof”, but again nothing happened. Finally I drove it back to the dealership, where I was informed there was no sunroof! What was the software doing??
SMuRFs to Help in Nuclear Decommissioning
I think medical research has progressed far beyond what clinicians are capable of using. I won’t claim to have any great understanding of health myself. But I’ve had issues where qualified doctors told me there was nothing to be done about my health issues, yet with some research I was able to find evidence-based interventions that I tried on my own, that helped. A Google search by an engineer should not outperform twelve years of rigorous medical training, but it did on multiple occasions. And many people have these types of experiences. It’s not unusual at all for people with chronic health issues. There’s something very wrong with that.

But also, I agree that our understanding of health is still very limited, and I am ok with that. But MDs seem to think that their knowledge is much greater than it is. They tend to have a certainty in their assessments that is unwarranted. For example, instead of saying “Your bloodwork is within the normal range, so I’m not sure what’s causing your symptoms,” they will say “Your bloodwork is normal. You’re healthy.” Those are two very different statements. One shows empathy with their patient and allows for further investigation, and the other one says, “I did my job. You’re on your own now.”
extern "C" { ... } unfortunately only turns off C++ name mangling for symbols, it doesn't switch the C++ compiler into "C language mode". Such a feature would be incredibly useful though for mixing C and C++ code in the same source file.
Woman pregnant in each of her two uteruses gives birth to twins
John Lennon disagrees: "And so Happy Christmas...." https://genius.com/John-lennon-and-yoko-ono-happy-xmas-war-i...
The Toxic Truth About Your Christmas Tree
I can't believe this has become so over-complicated. It's very straightforward:

You can respond however you want to my HTTP request. I can then render that response how I see fit.

/thread
Yes that would be good, but I'm OK delaying it. People are used to capabilities without revocation from functional programming, Rust, WASI, etc., and don't mind so much in that context.

(Well, weak references allow revocation, but they are relatively rare.)

Yes, interprocess vs intraprocess is different, but the above makes me at least think there is some juice and first exposing the lower-hanging fruit that people are already familiar with and seem to like, and then using the success of that to motivate/fund revocation.
It's simple - you don't. Just close the tab and move on.
I don't think anyone is saying that you cannot get the best healthcare on the planet if you have the required money. Lots of money.

The problem is that most people don't have that kind of money and the system as a whole is designed to take advantage of regular folks by not providing the care they need (regular care, not the best care).
Honestly, the EFF should be IPR-ing all of these instead of complaining about the patent system in general.

It sounds like the lawsuits over this patent are probably for minimal amounts of money.
> Who cares? This is both my initial reaction and, on reflection, something I’m genuinely curious about. If one can’t tell the difference without deep investigation, the consumer likely doesn’t care (I don’t).

"I was reading something to learn about some topic I don't know about, and it might've all been a bunch of bullshit, but since I didn't know it was bullshit, who cares!" What the . . . .
Least for email, you don’t have to use the bloatware. Mutt still exists and works just fine. If there are features you want in the bloated clients, that’s on you as the end user to make that choice.

I do agree with your rant in principle and doubly so with chat clients.
I wouldn't expect them to publish those details, cost structure is something most companies keep close. If you are a potential partner or investor and sign an NDA, then you might get details. The rest of us will have to wait and see
You'd still have lines referring to a callback you've writtem. I found it that with coroutines, not even a single stackframe refers to my code , other than the one starting the loop.