skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm confused about the fizzbuzz example they provide.

```js

let array = new Array(100);

let evil = { [Symbol.toPrimitive]() { array.length = 1; return 15; } };

array.push(evil);

// At index 100, the @@toPrimitive callback of |evil| is invoked in

// line 3 above, shrinking the array to length 1 and reallocating its

// backing buffer. The subsequent write (line 5) goes out-of-bounds.

array.fizzbuzz();

```

I'm probably missing the point, but I thought indexing into an array in Javascript outside its bounds would result in an exception or an error or something?
Except on most modern large CPUs on each recursive call the entire processor register state including program counter offset etc. are pushed onto the stack.

Seems very inefficient for the risks it brings.

I think we all agree this is still very interesting to consider. =)
The sand is gravity-fed into a heat exchanger which transfers the heat to a fluid that drives a combined cycle turbine, in this case. I'm curious what the conversion loss is here.

To add to that, what is the energy expenditure of building the battery compared to sand containment plus heat exchanger and turbine - i.e. mining, refining, transport, manufacture, delivery?
> It was local regulations that prevented building homes.

Wealthy old homeowners tend to control those.
That claim is not supported in the source you linked. In fact, it's directly contradicted several times. For example, toward the end, it quotes the OED:

"The theory that the origin of the phrase [‘beyond the pale’] relates to any of several specific regions, such as the area of Ireland formerly called the Pale … or the Pale of Settlement in Russia … is not supported by the early historical evidence and is likely to be a later rationalization.”

Throughout, your source draws a distinction between the histories of the separate phrases "beyond the pale" and "pale of settlement".

So I guess your statement might be true in the narrow sense that "many believe" the false etymology, just as you can find many who believe that the earth is flat. But that's not a good reason to go around chiding people for using a common expression.
Nobody goes skydiving expecting to be 100% safe. Nobody. The thrill of danger is the whole point of the sport.

Unless they're providing skydiving to young children or the severely mentally disabled - which as I understand things, they aren't.
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>not in their charter

I can't tell if you're pretending or not. Are you?

ARTICLE 7:
"The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews."

INTRODUCTION:
"This Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS), clarifies its picture, reveals its identity, outlines its stand, explains its aims, speaks about its hopes, and calls for its support, adoption and joining its ranks. Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious. It needs all sincere efforts. It is a step that inevitably should be followed by other steps. The Movement is but one squadron that should be supported by more and more squadrons from this vast Arab and Islamic world, until the enemy is vanquished and Allah's victory is realised."

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp

Etc. etc.

>coming up with numbers

They are accepting 10% casualties according to the article (probably bullshit). I didn't expect to have to explain this, but the % symbol implies it's divided by 100. That means there are 90% unacceptable casualties.

>absolutely no one, thinks the article is saying that.

I think most people here can subtract 10 from 100 and get 90. Am I the only genius on HN? I hope not. Help us all if I am.

Or are you talking about the 100% number for Gaza? I took it from their charter. I assume that "O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him" means that they want all of them dead. I didn't find any mention of rogue or rebel trees or stones that would allow Jews to hide behind them, so I have to assume they mean all of them.

But, I'm intrigued by your accusation. Where are you finding different numbers? I'd love to see even a single document that allows for saving a Jew authored by Gaza's government. Let me know where this document is.

For clarity, I'm no Zionist. I just don't understand why anyone would support a government blatantly claiming a hateful purpose in their founding documents.

If you want me to feel bad for people in Gaza, I do. I very much do. But this discussion is about governments, and you've made a comparison between governments where there is a very clear cut difference. One has the moral high ground and is attempting to minimize civilian casualties, while the other is blatantly maximizing them in practice and inarguably as their stated purpose.
Shouldn’t that be compared to the median house price instead of the average?
"This page summarises a limited number of long term abusers"

but then

"Only add vandals"

> it also reports spam, bias, and copyright violation.

Yet "Only add vandals".

> Is there some missing category of abuse you think should be here? Or are you saying that vandalism isn't abuse?

I am saying abuse does not /equal/ vandalism yet this page promotes the opposite.
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I'm not complaining, I'm doing alright, I'm just agreeing as a general generation thing.

Keep in mind though that I didn't buy a house until my late 30s. My parents, in contrast, bought their first house in their early 20s. Also they had me in their early 20s, and my brother in their late 20s. I'm in my 40s and I still haven't had children yet (might not ever at this rate).
I don't know, on a lot of projects the last 10% seems to take 90% of the time.
Alternatively we could withhold aid and make it clear we will only send what they need to survive until there has been a full month without attacks.

Since Israel doesn't attack first that will be the end of the hostilities.

We can then start discussing when and how to normalize the borders and reopen the airport as the situation normalizes.
You're right, but it's "Fed", not "FED". It isn't an acronym.
It's what got me pissed of enough with xmonad to discard it.
Investomat – a tool that takes volatility and drawdowns out of crypto investing
After realizing it's actually really hard to make stable profits on the crypto market, I did a solid 3-year research and built a fully automatic investment strategy that mitigates the worst risks of crypto investing - volatility and massive drawdowns while providing predictably high returns. I'm using BTC holding and the S&P 500 as my points of reference.

The algorithm has been heavily tested in all market cycles. The key differences with other tools:

* Optimized for all markets, not just bull markets
* Vastly reduced risk of drawdowns even on short timeframes (1 year)
* Fully transparent historic performance
* No settings, only one strategy that works

Under the hood: a proprietary custom-built algorithm based on technical indicators. This is an explainable algorithm based on scientific research. No machine learning, which is known for overfitting and finding correlations without causation when applied to financial market forecasting. The algorithm was created in 2020 and had a small tweak in December 2022.
Open to your questions and feedback.
I find it somewhat hilarious the way that he dismisses the possibility that it could have been a five eyes attack as it would be illegal and the five eyes guys are too good let their backdoors to be open to a replay attack.
It creates a massive money transfer from small businesses to credit card companies, transfer partners, and wealthy consumers.
No legal issues?
The best strategy is to do what the EU does and ban them unless proven safe.
I honestly don't know, I am just a mid-level who wanted to post the job application here to make sure it is seen by the Hacker News crowd. If it were up to me, a salary range would be included in the job posting.
This seems like a really cool technology that also doesn't need much engineering to make it viable. Why isn't it already widespread?
Careful, believe it or not "turbo cancer" is actually a thing in the crackpot anti-vax community.[0] Well, it's not really a thing but they're convinced it is.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_cancer
> it’s time to level the playing field.

West being on the receiving end IS levelling of the playing field.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
> Charging to 100% cost me $7 but took 30 minutes of my time

Did you really charge to 100%? I guess people unfamiliar with Teslas aren't used to the idea of charging to 80-85% as a default
Yes, goddam the pusher.
No, but they are expecting a certain level of competence that will minimize risk.
Stable Diffusion did cost 500k to train ... I wouldn't call that "minimal effort". (And that is only the computation cost.)
Google plans to charge for AI-powered search engine, FT reports
And who do you imagine will buy these homes? Alphas struggling to save a down payment, or investment firms looking for more real estate to add to their portfolios?
My mind hasn’t been this blown by AI since GPT4. You owe it to yourself to check out Suno.ai. As a non-pro musician I’m excited by this. Some version of this could become a _starting point_ for me, rather than an unreachable end goal. I can see how pros would be horrified by this, too. For quite a few people some future version of this could be an adequate replacement for a music subscription, but of course not for a show.
> It's the ultimate victim blaming religion - you're poor because you were a bad person in a previous life.

You don't think Calvinism is worse? There, you're poor as an indicator that you're destined to go to Hell.
Indiana will do that to you.
>Criticizing government actors instead of blindly trusting every ruling without reading it is how democracy functions and grows.

I did read the ruling[1], and unless the ruling is straight up perjury the EPA dropped the ball.

Criticizing the court for not ruling the way you wanted, and presumably without reading the ruling because you're grossly disregarding their value, is unreasonable and erodes rule of law.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39876314

>a country where citizens get to distrust their government.

And the court called out the government (the EPA) for being unworthy of trust in this instance.
Huh, have you asked them if saying "I wish I was an enlightened super-being" carries similar fate-affixing virtues? Because if so it seems like a neat short circuit
There's some evidence that higher order cognition is negatively impacted by small changes in carbon ppm. I don't have the study on hand.
I would be worried about marketing through any org not actively developing AI enhanced marketing tools.

At some point, the AI powered marketing orgs are going to start being the standard, and anti AI orgs won't be able to make the crazy AI powered ads that people will have learned to recognize.
Stuxnet was us. And there have been zero days that we know the NSA has had for years. I'd say we are more rarely being caught, our goal isn't to knock their internet offline for weeks but to be inside their machines for years.

The rarity of "being caught" could certainly mean that we're very good at this.
Idiom doesn't work that way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnfM-7py58E
No doubt TSLA stock holders will breathe a sign of relief that Musk is altruistically snapping up these people for an AI company that's not part of Tesla, rather than letting them go to work for an AI company that's not part of Tesla.
I can’t stress enough how important deliberate practice is.

In all environments where i had some learning/testing/staging environment i just thrived.

I’ve had a couple of jobs so far where you can do all the learning you want, in prod, and of you break something it’s your fault. They’re awful, and are those kind of job where the only people thriving are those who have been there long enough to know where all (or almost all) the sharp edges are.
For us it clearly were dynamic memory, formatting and console output that killed (realtime) performance.
In Iran, pregnant women are advised to significantly reduce Saffron consumption. Note that the base level consumption is much higher in that country.
Price is only part of the story, what about in the mid 80s when the house was $105k but interest rates were double digits? I'm curious what kind of buying power the average household needed back then and how that compares to today.
The renting experience absolutely sucked. You were expected to pay a premium, there is meaningful variance in the quality of the different cars and they needed you to bring it back charged (as if everyone has an extra 30-90 minutes on their way to the airport).

They should have treated these like any other car in the same class and done a market price fee for the battery.
Japan moon probe survives second lunar night
It takes about 10m to figure it out. I rented a Tesla, was confused for a few minutes, and then no problems for a 2000 mile road trip.
I am absolutely not ashamed.

I am just smart enough not to make it trivially easy for the entire internet to harass me.
Sounds like a great faith for therians to get into, ngl, if just wishing you were a given species increases the odds of getting to be that species
With water you lose some due to evaporation.
I'm not sure what your argument is. Yes? Is not the standard suggestion 3 copies and one off site? And consider that the post is about low egress storage. And what, you're going to tell me that business people don't want to sell more things?
Why the 386? You could do preemptive multitasking on a 286 or even an 8088.
I feel this was largely predictable, and for one reason I almost never see mentioned - the millennial generation just being larger than the one before or after. Millennials are noted as being the largest generation since the boomers, and their coming of age as far as prime home-buying time coincided with the collapse of housing construction post-2008.

There's other things at fault, of course - zoning, economy, interest rates, etc. etc., but the current stress on the housing market lines up pretty nicely 80s-born millennials (particularly those that graduated into the great recession) finally hitting their stride and having the wealth to move out/stop renting/have kids, after most of a decade of that being suppressed.

I'd expect this to continue being a problem for the rest of the decade and peter off in the 30s - it feels like governments are taking action (years late as usual, but better than not); movements like YIMBY have matured, boomers are hitting the age where they start to pass, and housing construction has ramped up slowly in the last 8-10 years, and millennials will have mostly bought by then, with gen Z being the new, smaller crop of buyers by that point.
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Ukraine's naval drones are a combination of automated and remote piloted using StarLink (with some lag). So it is possible that these aerial drones are some combination of automated and remote piloted.
I live in Oakland.

Right now, we have some ... issues. In fact, the area around the airport has some of the highest rates of crime, specifically rental-car break-ins.

This cynical name change would create confusion and lots of unhappy people. (Happy gangsters, though.)
What about the link contradicts the point that it's pro-colonialist?

The etymology is in doubt for any particular area, not the concept of what a pale was and how it was used to colonize.

That is the point of "many believe."

Also keep in mind that the major doubter is the Oxford English Dictionary...
> And what should the 12 million people living there now do?

Accept the idea of a single state where Palestinians and Israelis have true equal rights and live together as the best solution. The opponents to this are the religious fundamentalists on both sides, especially the Israeli-right. Or, alternatively, accept the two-state solution by creating a State for Palestinians.
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Not every company is urgently looking to fill a role. It might be more acceptable for them to wait for a candidate who is a better fit, than to hire someone they're not thrilled about, and increase the costly risk of it not working out.
Now do average cost of houses.
Nothing ever bets https://pudding.cool/404
I'm surprised that the "!!1" title on https://google.com/404 has survived so long without some manager making it more corporate.
I've yet to meet someone who's used crypto to buy something legit. After more than a decade of it being known about.

After one year, hard to find anyone who hasn't used ChatGPT.

So no they're nothing alike, one being useful.
The CIA destabilises (not only - it also props up some) foreign governments to further US interests. In the US it's the FBI's job to thwart the efforts of foreign governments (who support these outlets directly and indirectly) to manipulate US elections to their interests (which might or not align with the interests of Americans).

All the big ones play this game with everyone eles.

Trust me. I grew up in a US-made military dictatorship because the US didn't like the idea of a less US-aligned democratic government.
[x] Windows 11 with WSL2, excellent.
Maybe I just have a warped view of the market. I use rental cars about a dozen times a year. Inevitably, I am picking up the car at the airport, at midnight, and then driving 100 miles to the place I need to be. In a few weeks I am going with a team to the UK. They have us landing at Heathrow, picking up five rental cars, and then driving three hours north. (That was deemed cheaper than a more direct flight.) There is absolutely no way I would accept EVs for this trip as I have zero confidence that we would have access to chargers. We normally end up fighting just to get our cellphones working properly. Paying for parking with an out-of-country credit card is bad enough. I don't want to attempt getting a charging station working after midnight, in the rain, after already spending a dozen hours on planes.
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It takes under 8 months to get permits and build homes end-to-end in parts of the US. It taking years is a local problem. As long as demand runs much higher than supply, prices will keep growing.
The funny thing is that most creatives are quite open about their influences.
You do not need credit card for that. Debit card is enough.
Why? Not everybody has a house. A house going for the median price is going to be purchased by someone well above the median income.
My guess is that the "piracy" direction got killed by higher ups because we've likely already infected many of the foreign systems that we want to control. Piracy would just make them look a bit too hard at their existing systems, we don't want them to look, we want them to think they are winning because we're not retaliating.
To add to your point; there's an IMF paper[1] backing this claim of "massive money transfer from the poor...to the rich".

I'm quoting the summary below

"We study credit card rewards as an ideal laboratory to quantify redistribution between consumers in retail financial markets. Comparing cards with and without rewards, we find that, regardless of income, sophisticated individuals profit from reward credit cards at the expense of naive consumers. To probe the underlying mechanisms, we exploit bank-initiated account limit increases at the card level and show that reward cards induce more spending, leaving naive consumers with higher unpaid balances. Naive consumers also follow a sub-optimal balance-matching heuristic when repaying their credit cards, incurring higher costs. Banks incentivize the use of reward cards by offering lower interest rates than on comparable cards without rewards. We estimate an aggregate annual redistribution of $15 billion from less to more educated, poorer to richer, and high to low minority areas, widening existing disparities."

[1]

https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2023/03/10/Who...
One of the worst things about Autoconf is the way it is deployed in the GNU Project's own programs.

Typically, GNU project programs assume that anyone working on the program (cloning the repo, looking for bugs, making changes, ...) has the Autotools installed. Not just any Autotools but the exact version the program wants.

Only the "release tarball" if a GNU program contains the generated ./configure script that can run on a machine that doesn't have Autotools installed. You have to do some "make boostrap".

So to make a source code release, they can't just tag a code baseline and serve that; they have to generate the release source!

See the stupidity? The source code that is being released has to be compiled from the real source source.

Now this makes life hell if you have to, say, git bisect to find a commit that introduces a problem. To be sure you're building each bisect step correctly, you have to disclean everything and re-run the autoconf bootstrapping, then ./configure and so on. The old code you're checking out may call for different Autotools versions from the trunk head.

Working with some GNU programs is basically hell.
I've seen it both complain that I didn't have sufficient disk for an install, and then, after I've made room on the disk, have the same installation fail due to a lack of disk space.

However they're doing it, their disk space calculations are either wrong or estimates.
Having been on the other side, hiring is really hard, and it's usually worse to have a bad developer in place than it is to have no developer. So the smart thing to do in most situations is err on the side of not hiring in marginal cases.

> I did well enough in my honest opinion

At a previous employer, I helped design the developer hiring process. The first step in the process was to ask candidates to pass a "do you even know C?" test. Simple stuff like writing a little string handling program from scratch and identifying coding errors in an existing file. It wasn't a lot of candidates, but a significant minority would actually argue with us when they failed these super basic tests, even after we pointed out their errors. I'm definitely not saying you are doing this, but it was not at all uncommon to have applicants that way overestimated their own skill.

Hiring is just hard, from both sides. There's a lot on the line for all involved, and a wrong decision, in either direction, is costly for everyone.
The issue of finding a location that has dramatic elevation change, a basin capable of storing vast amounts of water, and a suitable source/sink for pumping make pumped hydro difficult to deploy. Then there are additional logistics challenges such as environmental damage and proximity to human settlements for maintenance and engineering teams (prior challenges mean you don't really get to select the locations).

Heat sinks meanwhile can be built wherever you have a big rock by drilling some holes. Additionally, gravity definitely does lose stored energy in its "stable state", through evaporation and water entering the water table. Losses depend on geology and local climate, but it's not negligible.

Not to say that pumped hydro is a bad technology, it's just got it's own challenges and uses. It's most applicable in the form of electrical grid storage. But specifically on the scale of keeping towns and cities warm, heatsinks outperform almost across the board.
Just a periodic reminder that the origin or words or phrases doesn't have bearing on their meaning today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymological_fallacy
I'm 6'1" 350lbs and 56 and have no problems using my tiny 2016 Kia Rio.

People can make whatever choices suit their desires and circumstances, but most people shouldn't pretend huge SUVs and trucks are a necessity.