skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of the reasons I tend to consider "immutability" a bit of a misfire. A completely understandable one, an inevitable one, and one I am not at all critical of, but it is not the way to build systems. Mutability is a fundamental fact of life. The key is control over mutability. Uncontrolled mutation is the problem. Code needs to know that if it reaches for a value of "x" now, three lines later it will not be different unexpectedly. Code needs to be able to know when it is "updating" with the rest of the world and thus all the old guarantees are gone, but whatever value it sees now is now reliable until the next sync. Uncontrolled mutability is the problem. It is difficult, and arguably simply impossible, to write correct code when your foundation is constantly unobservably shifting. Even single threaded code becomes a monster if you call a function and it starts scribbling all over whatever variables it feels like.

Transactional isolation and Rust's borrow checker are in my opinion much closer to what we are really reaching for.

Immutability is still a nice simplification of those things, though. Both of those things are quite difficult to work with. Full, true transactional isolation tends to deadlock at the drop of a hat, and Rust's borrow checker is much more complex conceptually than immutability. It can be a reasonable choice to work with full immutability in some circumstances.
I don’t know if it will save me but I purchase a domain of my own, use an email address from that domain, and forward to Gmail. I could easily forward to any other service. When Google locks me out of my account I’ll see how resilient this idea is. Obviously I’ll lose the ability to search my decades of email, which will sting a little.
Its tough out there. I have a degree from Cambridge, 10 years of (quant) experience at hedge funds and banks and im still getting rejected too. I will only say 12 applications isnt that much these days, keep persevering and you will hit your stride soon enough. Good luck.
Yeah I’ve got this myself. Earlier this year I applied to 30-40 places, got 8 interviews and not one follow up or offer. I have >10 years professional experience, the last few building and leading teams of engineers, and was rejected by one place in particular because they were “looking for significant experience”
I understand the idea behind banning sexually explicit writing, but that basically means that large large percentage of literature cannot use Google services. Anyone writing a novel basically shouldn’t use docs in case they might someday want to include sex in their writing.
This is an extreme position that is factually incorrect from almost every viewpoint it is read from.
"If someone can cut down the entire Amazon Rainforest, I say let them. What a fantastical technical achievement."

Whether you're trolling or not, what a horrible take unless you're hoping the human race just wipes itself out. With our current rate of technological progress, someone having the ability to mine the moon to nothing is at most 500 years away, maybe sooner if they find something under the surface that makes it financially attractive.
Fuck yeaahhhh murrica ...we like all kinds of sick fucked up shit but nonono don't show my kid any titties on TV or lord behold text with sexually revealing vocabulary. Laughs in European ...
pretty sure at least in Sweden they use EpiPens for a bunch of stuff, including heart attacks already?
You can’t tell AT ALL if there was entanglement with one trial. You need to prepare the same state many many times and compare correlations many many times to establish correlations to within some error bound.
Aftermath of being on the front page of Hacker News for a day
Wow, the state of freedom of speech is probably worse than the soviets ATM, since during the soviet times the speech scanning tech was primitive and the thought control was rudimentary and blunt.

Back in the old school totalitarian days at least your writings were banned after they were written.

Even 10 years ago it was fine, the worst was about blocking keywords and making printers refuse to print images of money.

What a sad state of affairs for the civilisation that used to claim to be about freedom not too long ago, even when The Matrix was released the internet was just catching on with the promise of global freedom. It turned into personalised police.
I understand: "Those people have valid reasons to tell people what not to do on the Moon, but I find it crazy that they could think there are valid reasons to tell people what not to do on the Moon".

Is that what you are saying?
The fundamental problem here is to understand our responsibility. Everything you mentioning here are none in our control, and this statement, ["Only* governments are "big enough" to accomplish anything ... but they can only "accomplish" something through coercive force on their governed"] .. comes into picture because one has relinquishes all responsibilities, includes very own. Technically disown their self belonging, which I tends to find lots of such lost value people around. There is too much things in one head that unable to manage, someone else need to tell what one needs todo.

The problem I seeing, they are blaming our children for these crisis; it is hard coded in their education system. Their new believe system and it is not right. We should able to see the right from wrong. I also don't see right solution.

There are things we should learn from Angkor Wat and Maya's so call climate crisis... that's, we can't do nothing when the planet decides to something. The one that holds all control over this planet will lose his grip, the right "great reset". The man made "great reset", is about to preventing that. ... maybe, we can start practice ancient Maya's way of sacrifices humans to pleasing Sun God. I mean when we trying to do something against planets will, we will hurt others.

back to responsibilities, we are absolutely not responsible.
> in New Orleans, 35% of kids don’t have enough calories per days to have a proper brain development

Source? I find that hard to believe, considering how cheap and plentiful calories are and how numerous the various public assistance programs exist relating to feeding the poor.
It's a "story" if any random idiot can make a random claim about your work and get you cut off.

For that matter, it's a "story" if you're exposed to judgements that affect your livelihood being made by automated crap and "reviewed" only by overworked near-slaves with almost no agency of their own.
Freeview receives data on the same 4 core broadcasts* that were used for analog, and in fact, freeview channels remain mux'ed in a way that BBC produced content is isolated to the 2 muxes that correspond to the old BBC1/BBC2 split.

So yes, it's still perfectly easy to find the Intermediate Frequency oscillator for a freeview receiver.

* During the analog/digital crossover period, the DTV signals were, obviously, at an offset from the associated analog UHF channel, since analog and DTV could not physically occupy the same frequency, but the fact remains that the DTV muxes were associated with one of the 4 existing channels (Ch 5 didn't have an associated DTV mux afaik)

edit:

here's a list of the mux allocations, you'll notice that all BBC programming is allocated to the BBCA and BBCB muxes, even though there's more than 4 overall muxes available these days.
Weird, I've been running and updating NextCloud since version 13, and I never had any problems as long as I didn't try to upgrade 2 release up at once and carefully applied the recommended database updates, etc.
> The term "conspiracy theory" was invented by the CIA

ooh, a recursive conspiracy theory. neat!
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For one example, Florida introduced a law enforcing age verifications for pornographic content; it's easier to prohibit using a platform to distribute said content, than to introduce a content rating and age verification system.
There are a lot of strings. Ironically I am questioning where or not I should sell my shares because of those strings. Some companies didn't take the CHIPS act money because of them too.
Thank you for your reply, that's very interesting! I actually built RamenTools in two weeks and did not do any research at all about similar tools, and never heard about these 3 websites.

Stackshare seems the most similar since it is also community based. Those websites seem mostly focused on dev tools.

I want more than just tech stacks and what it is built with. I want the tools to market and monetize, productivity tools, fun tools, etc. And I want it to be like a directory of indie makers and digital creators with a link in bio.
What happens when you send cancer into space? [video]
Frankly this sounds very close to rubber-ducking. I'm sure LLMs throw out some creative seeds, but they're much better at coming up with creative ideas than truth. I think people are too used to getting creative ideas from other people, where the ideas are at least superficially useful, to understand that they're dealing with the world's best improvising rubber duck.
Exactly, i actually thought they'd changed it back but no, still overweight man belly: https://ogden_images.s3.amazonaws.com/www.utne.com/images/20...

One of the worst logo's in a long time, the font is also garbage.
If you're not self hosting in 2024, you're doing it wrong. With our internet connections being so fast and plethora of server daemons out there, there's really no excuse.
I'm 30, you sound older. I did my education in philosophy and physics and I'm a data engineer at a F200. I think you couldn't be more wrong, and out of touch. You sound like Kaczynsky.

I love technology because it's interesting, who cares what rich people think. I can't understand this oldhead defeatist mentality a lot of people here seem to have similar to yours.
I have no position here but reading this a few times (and not digging further for additional context) it's unclear of what the situation is here, at least to me.

> ... I cannot access any of mine to check at the moment ...

"at the moment" makes it sound like they were not on a computer, or out to eat or something where they couldn't easily check?

> ...I downloaded everything to my laptop before I submitted an appeal...

Makes it sound like they still have access to their account and were able to access the content in order to download a copy?
If you spend it on things for yourself, you can't spend that kind of money. But if you use it on other people, it quickly evaporates the more you want to get to do with it.

Let's use $800m/yr or $2.19m/day. If a FAANG-grade employee costs $1mm/yr all in (including benefits, HR, managerial overhead, real estate,
etc; that's 800 people, or 66 teams of 12. how many random software projects can you think up, just within the realm of math books, B200 nodes, and AGI? Wouldn't you rather study that with other people than by yourself? And fund all the various possibilities you think will pan out?

Healthcare is another one. You have a sick niece suffering from a rare unknown disease. You could plow hundreds of millions of dollars into researching a cure for her disease.

General philanthropy is another easy way to burn money you don't need. take half that $800mm and donate it to all the charities in your immediate vicinity. every bit of pain in the world you can personally see, just give them a million dollars, no questions asked.

But yeah, if all you want to do is spend it on yourself, it's impossible to see how you'd spend it all, because you can't.
>Doesn't science require replication? He wrote books based on un-replicated studies.

People even publish studies on un-replicated research! There might be a lot to be said about his research, but I disagree that publishing your research is the worst thing you can do. Maybe there wouldn't be any replication of his studies if it hadn't been for his books.
It allows non-ASCII text but does not provide any way to indicate charset within the file, instead requiring it out-of-band. Once the file is saved, the text encoding becomes ambiguous. Likewise for the presence or absence of a header row.

Likewise for whether double quotes (`"`) are allowed in fields (rule 5). This one gets even worse, since the following rule (6) uses double quotes to escape line breaks and commas, but they may not be allowed at all so commas in fields may not be escapable.

It only supports text, not numbers, dates, or any other data, and provides no way to indicate any data type other than text.
I'm unfamiliar with a bare-metal thread model that doesn't do preemption outside of a Runtime. I imagine you'd need to effectively inject code to do a cooperative switch as there aren't many ways for a cpu to exit it's current 'task' outside of an interrupt (pre-emption) or a defer call (cooroutines/async). For Runtimes it usually also means you effectively have a cooperative switch but it's hidden away in runtime code.

Do you have an example?
Not to mention that periodic mass transfers between planets have already contaminated it; the OP is mistaken that Mars is somehow a pristine environment.
Oh, it's definitely buggy. But that idea of a workaround is reasonable, thanks. :)
> Cloud backups used to be a smart thing to do. Now they are a liability.

It’s not a backup when it’s the primary (and only!) copy.
I've never had trouble finding work except right after graduating in the early 2000's. My employment has been with software consulting practices, though I have worked for some manufacturing companies as well. Hiring managers generally appreciated my experience as an entrepreneur.

I value that experience because it means that that candidate is going to have many soft skills that come from such an experience. Just make sure to keep your relevant tech skills up to date.
"Man announces car that should cost less than half what his car ends up costing." Not that that is unique in that business. But Elon announcements so closely conform to this template it become predictable.
Amazon Bets $150B on Data Centers Required for AI Boom
Eminent domain is not theft. It is a legally defined practice in most legal systems.
> Why are we shackled with slow IO port operations that replicate hardware from the era when leaded gasoline was widely available? Some may say this is legacy, yet we still rely on it today!!

Does any modern x86 wake up knowing it's a modern x86 or do they all still wake up thinking they are 8086's and progressively wake up from a series of nested nightmares until it realizes the truth that it has more registers, 64-bits and SIMD instructions?

Yesterday I was looking at a server board and it had the two-digit POST display. I assume it is updated with those ancient OUT instructions and attached to the last vestiges of an 8-bit ISA PC bus running at 5v TTL levels.
But the police should interact with the majority of the populace. Anyone should be able to approach and ask for help, without feeling like they will get shot at.
The companies are prudes because the countries they operate in, as well as the payment providers they use, have laws and regulations regarding age-rated content.

Having terms & conditions and blocking users that violate them is easier than dealing with the legal problems that may cause them.

Restricting access entirely is another way, like what US based websites do for EU based visitors, or what Pornhub does for Florida.
How many places in a densely populated city can you precisely drop a bomb with no risk to civilians? Yes, technology has improved, but my point is that better tech doesn't just automatically make war less awful.

I don't believe the people operating the weapons are different in ways that make civilian casualties obsolete. In WW2 it was a decision to bomb population centers, not an accident. That decision can be made today too.
Getting ready to retire pretty soon and had a handle on a few very part-time things more to keep my hand in rather than to make money. Anecdotally, all that seems to have sort of fizzled away. Nothing was too formal in any case and not a big deal. But I think the message is to focus on things I want to do that don't require getting someone to pay me.
Cloud backups are cool, it's the storing all eggs in one basket that's not cool. Whether that basket a cloud service, a hard disk or a pendrive.
This looks as though the author shared the document with around 20 people, which combined with the nature of the content would have flagged the author for sharing explicit spam.

May be less of a big deal than is being suggested.
> Pre-AC being ubiquitous (or being invented), the way for people to cool off in summer was to have airflow.

Modern A/C was invented in 1901, and A/C penetration in Australia is not that far behind the US.

But much as in Texas where houses are also made of paper and cardboard, cheap energy has made forcing temps down via AC much simpler (for property developers).
Finding a reason to echo someone's own opinion back at them after a suitable time where they've forgotten they voiced it is a very effective test for disagreeableness, I've found. You don't need to chase them down about the contradiction. Just note it and take appropriate future actions.

It can even be a bit amusing, if they are insulting about it, to watch them vigorous call themselves stupid for expressing their previous opinions.
Why not remove the sharing flag instead of locking the author out of their own writing?
Dumb question from a very last biology person. I thought memories were stored in the brain and The brain retrieved them. How does the brain get the data from the DNA for long term memories?

The article seeks like a simple explanation, but it still doesn’t make sense to me.
This is going to put fuel on the fire. I run a startup, we hired two devs out of Eastern Europe at 60k each that are absolutely phenomenal. We’d love to hire American but can’t afford it. I know many other companies doing the same (nyc based seed/preseed startups). With ai, high interest rates, and covid accelerating remote hiring, I don’t see this recovering.
Regarding “irreparable damage”, I’ve started only one company; and it failed. But on the contrary the experience has improved my skills, career and job prospects.

Actually, a future investor even asked “how do we know you aren’t doing this just to bolster your career?”
When was this? And what do you define as regularly?
It is also reasonable for any client to say they are not going to involve themselves with a platform that will freeze their account and cause them to lose data because some faulty heuristic triggered and the company is not even willing to manually review things (even though they sometimes falsely claim they do review things when they didn't).
I imagine the overwhelming majority of them barely even know how to use a computer and just use Google Docs because it's convenient and they can access it on their iPad or their laptop. Most people, even most tech-savvy types, value convenience more than privacy, security and even reliability of the service. People are also in denial and believe that arbitrary account suspensions or other arbitrary moderation decisions can't happen to them.
I'm not sure what comment you're replying to, but I think you got the wrong one. Nothing that I'm proposing results in a "web filled to the brim with bot content".
Do you just push to another remote that you host locally, or are you capturing other github items too? Like, for example, Issues and PR reviews/discussions?
I'm not sure why you think getting your account blocked is equatable to being sent to the gulags.
It reduces cognitive load, dead code, forces handling errors and forces you to be mindful of what you initialize and use.

Don't we use -WError to force warnings as errors in C++? How is this different?

You don't have to use defer(), yet it allows for neat tricks for tying ends in fatal situations easily.

Its implementation of interfaces feels a bit backwards, but it allows for neat implementations of inheritance and polymorphism.

Python uses underscore as visibility convention, how capitalization is different from that?

Plus, it has a very responsive and well working defragmenting GC, which is great for keeping tabs on memory use.

I'm not a big fan of static compilation by default, but it allows compile once run anywhere (in the same arch) and is an acceptable trade-off for most cases. On top of that it has at least two competent compiler implementations.

Go's shallowness is its power, because it forces you to write boring, yet understandable code backed by a GC which reduces possibility of errors and problems a ton.

I can throw stones to any programming language. Java for its factories of factories, Rust for limiting for what I can do with my pointers and memory, C++ for its footguns, Lisp for its parentheses, etc.

Nobody is forcing you to use Go, Rust or anything. Select the tools you like, and works for problems you have. If we have to have an open mind to accept Rust, and oh we're bullied into that open mindedness to accept Rust as our savior, we can be open minded about Go and look from its perspective, too. Same is true for every programming language actually. From D, to Hare, to Rust, to Go, to C++, to Brainfuck and Malbolge.

I can say there's no sane reason for doing that in myriad of programming languages, but these are implemented and in use, so there are sane reasons these things for at least some people.

Be flexible. There's no need to be that rigid.
Its a joke. It sounds like a normal libertarian argument, but on the moon. If you want a more serious answer though, we have multiple treaties and moratoriums on what is, and is not allowed in space and on the moon. They were agreed upon because we have mutual interests, and want to preserve humanities future of spaceflight and research.

- https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/treaties/int...

- https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/treaties/int....

- https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/treaties/int...

- https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/treaties/int...
The real marketing is in the constant refrain that LLM hallucinations are precisely equivalent to common human behavior, and that LLMs are thus no less reliable or accurate than human beings, in order to normalize hallucination as an acceptable (and unavoidable) consequence of integrating LLMs into our workflows.

That despite every example of an LLM failing in production giving results no competent human would actually produce unless they were committing fraud or had severe mental deficiency, that and no one else would find acceptable.
But the vectors discussed can represent 2^3072 directions. It's close enough.
I am having a tough time... I am a systems administrator who also has experience teaching and coding, but I am looking at systems admins / engineering positions only. I consider myself highly experienced in Linux / Unix. A few years back, I could just word of mouth say I was looking and have offers. Now, nothing.

Lots of ghosting after the 2nd or 3rd interview. Very few positions for Sr. Systems admin / Engineer that I see as of late, much more "full stack or devops", but they really want a full time developer with a lot of front end experience. I do not really create web-applications, though. So it is tough.