skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Often done when winds are more in your favor. Some of the internet buzz put it down to the decrease in inflation.

A general reason for doing it is the government isn't really working or passing many laws and some things they want to do seem to be questionable in their effectiveness
It's a gamble on the back of recent good economic news, leaving it longer is a risk that the good news isn't sustained.
This has to be the most comprehensive and informative reply to any question I've posed on the Internet in the last 30 years of being online. Thank you!

I'd not heard about the Arizona case; it actually tracks almost identically an Illinois case, People v. Madej, with a Polish citizen under the same circumstances (although zero information online outside of the court filings).

What powers would the ICJ have to punish individual actors at fault in a situation like this? Or to force an injunction? (outside of monetary damages which does you no good if you're dead)
> Rails [...] that's what ruby is most used for

I wish that wasn't the case, I use Ruby heavily for gluing different systems together.
If you think you're more popular today than you will be tomorrow, it's best to call the election today
The optimal time to call an election is when public support is highest.
If you expect it to go up, you wait. If you think it will go down, call it today.
Only that the current government can call it when it might be beneficial to them, i.e. if they think they are more popular now than they will be in the future/when it will be mandated.
Quite right.

> As long as an altruistic gene is able to detect another copy of itself in another organism,

AND it's not even "detection"... it JUST HAPPENS if the behavior in a population _results_ in a population where more copies of the gene survive, it requires no "detection" at all. That's the thing about natural selection, it just happens as a byproduct of genes changing and having differential survival, there is no need for the organisms involved to have any method whatsoever of detecting anything.
I'm not even sure inequality/poverty is the main driver. If there is no penalty for shoplifting then it just makes sense to shoplift no matter your financial situation.

It's just that for a long while, enforcement or the illusion of there being enforcement mostly kept everyone in order, but nowadays the illusions are breaking down. More and more people are pushing the boundaries and realizing that no actual enforcement is happening, so why should they stop?

We see the same in white-collar crime where companies constantly push the boundaries in blatant bad faith and this keeps happening because the illusions that kept everyone in order have broken down and actual enforcement isn't sufficient to deter the bad behavior.

Keep in mind that shoplifting isn't merely a survival issue, there are "professionals" who steal for resale.
Disabling features less attack surface
It's not a national holiday in the UK.
But whenever people talk about writing Bash, you always have someone advocating that you should write POSIX sh instead if you want maximum portability. To paraphrase Qui-Gon Jinn, "there's always a more portable language."

Underlying all of these discussions is an attempt to reduce issues of portability to 0. It's a good goal, but IMO interpreted languages will by-definition never be the solution.

I've started reaching for Go in situations in which I'd usually reach for Bash or Python, and it's a godsend, because I can control for portability at compile time. If you make compiling for various GOOS and GOARCH targets the norm, portability is never an issue again.
According to Merriam Webster's definition of injury: "hurt, damage, or loss sustained".

Do you think this article is not attempting to damage the reputation of Modi?

Dictionary.com has an interesting definition "Law. any wrong or violation of the rights, property, reputation, etc., of another for which legal action to recover damages may be made."

Seems like it could possibly apply since there is an attempt to damage Modi's reputation.

Do you really think Vox, a left leaning news outlet, is not intending to harm the reputation of Modi, a right leaning politician?
the economic picture is not getting any better. In part because so many people each month are coming off fixed-term mortgage deals bought in the ZIRP era. The more time they give Labour to govern, the more rope they give them to hang themselves with. Or so the theory probably goes. They're already massively, massively behind in the polls and if recent local elections are anything to go on.
> I kinda agree about researching the end of the Universe,

It's a fallacy to believe that people are specifically researching the end of the Universe. We research models. The standard model for example is parameterized by six numbers. You measure those six numbers, put them in the model, and the model will tell you how old the universe is and what will happen in the far future.

If it turns out that different probes yield incompatible sets of values for those six numbers, for example probes from the early universe vs more current probes (e.g. the cosmic microwave background vs super novae data), then the model must be wrong. Then we might look for another model, perhaps one with seven parameters, where the additional parameter characterizes the evolution of dark energy, which assumed to be constant until now, and see if that fits better. And what do you know, that model might yield a different result for the age of the universe and its fate.

It's a consequence of fundamental research, not a primary goal in itself.
Alpine Linux 3.20 Released With Initial 64-bit RISC-V Support
I assume you are asking from the perspective of the governing party?

There is a strategic aspect to it. If you assume that your position will become worse in the future you want to capture the moment. This is commonly done from a position of strength. When the opposition is in tatters and your poll numbers are great you want to "lock" the numbers in. I'm not sure if that logic applies now. Maybe they suspect their polling will get worse with time?
Retr0id, not sgarland want posix.

> Maybe full POSIX sh compat is WIP

Still - I sure hope it's possible to do a comparison in sh without spawning two processes.
SpaceX Demos Cellular Starlink Tech Powering Video Call Between Phones
It's so great to see other people engaging with RSS as well, and working on their own tools.

I also built an RSS feed reader, with a different twist. It focuses on filtering content, so that users can quickly remove content they're not interested in.

It's on lighthouseapp.io
Neat!

As somebody always having used Palm devices, has anybody here used both and can compare their relative advantages?

I remember being amazed by the tons of shareware/freeware available for Palm OS, but the OS itself definitely peaked at around version 4 (or maybe the early Palm OS 5/ARM devices).

In comparison, Symbian often felt clunky, but also much more modern in that it was built for persistent flash storage and multimedia, which always felt like an afterthought on Palm OS.
Osh is stricter than bash. Anything written to osh should run in bash with no issues whatsoever.

Ysh implements new, non-compatible syntax and semantics.

Osh and ysh are two different shell languages from the Oils for UNIX project. The release build generates a single binary, oils-for-unix, and installation creates two symlinks for the two different shell personalities, similar to how the bash binary will behave in its POSIX-compliant mode when it is invoked as sh.

There is no "Oil shell" now, at least not without ambiguity.
No, the negligent parents get rewarded with your house and assets.

Kids should not be supervised at all times, but parents should also assume the risk for what happens when they aren't supervising their kids.

Managing risk-reward is a natural part of life and being an adult.

Attempts to completely eliminate risk leads to miserable lives and societies.
GPBox, the Motorsports Fans Marketplace
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You can't do UI in small pieces. Most things like new algorithms or functionality can be added in a very localized way that doesn't impact other components. A UI on the other hand encompasses everything and also needs taste. And tastes are different.
It took me longer than I'd like to admit to realize that the full page is the editor, not just the code block. Pretty cool.

As currently deployed, it sure is logging a lot to the console.
Static ip is the problem where I live.
The valuation and money raised by Humane are actually very similar to Essential Products. (Though I'd guess Humane has burned more of their cash than Essential ever did.)

I'd contend that the Essential Phone was a far better product than the AI Pin, and Essential ended up shutting down and selling the remaining scraps to Nothing for (presumably) pennies.
I think git is OK, but one item I miss is what CVS/RCS has, "$Id$". It is very difficult to see the version of a binary if its source is tracked in git.

Yes, someone said there is a way to get a git tag in the source, but the tag is not as easy to view as "$Id$" thus it is not obvious if it is the latest version.

But, curious he did not mention CVS and RCS :)
Dude you are literally obsessively stalking me in your comments... what is the deal honestly... why?
Turns out the proletariat needs more than a minimum wage to survive.
Independence Day is not celebrated in the UK, for some odd reason?
This reminds me of Org Mode[1]

https://orgmode.org
I mean, fwiw sometimes "obscure data structures" really do cleanly, efficiently, and performatively solve a problem that would have been a nightmare to address with simpler, more well known structures. That said, for most of us, it's rare enough to be memorable - but it does happen.

I think you're right that requiring such knowledge off the top of one's head and in the context of a one-hour interview is almost always unreasonable, though.

What I'd really want to know is how well a person can do the research to arrive at performant solutions involving, as you say, obscure data structures. In an interview context though, I think you basically just have to ask them - would be nice if you could get a sense of it through doing, though.
The same system is in Canada, and typically the party in power tries to time the election so they have the best chance of winning. Any numbers of factors could come into this (polling numbers, expected news event during the campaign, length of campaign, etc).
Stability will beget over-confidence which will bring exuberance. If the system feeds on its own information it might be impossible to stabilize.

And do you even want stability? The boom cycle produces exuberance that allows funding risky projects of which a small number become smashing success. The bust destroys the rest of risky project, which allows recycling of labor and resources. Arguably this is a better model for economic advancement, compared to a steady state where stagnating businesses continue to stagnate, hoarding resources in under-productive pursuits.
Right, I agree -- much of the web has turned into slow superficial low info density high entertainment density video stuff.

I kinda thought the whole point of HN was not to give in to the superficial wave, and focus on more information dense, less superficial, technically or intellectually interesting content. Again, I don't have an issue with video as a form, but with low info density high entertainment density video. It's like a fast food version of what I want. HN is for steak content not McDonald's content
Perl was taken out of the FreeBSD base system ages ago.
Windows users will be Microsoft's lunch. I will warn whoever I know to avoid windows 11 at all costs. Whoever thinks this is a great idea, it's on them I guess.
You can have export restrictions in law, it's entirely different to enforce them. We can look at things like the drug trade to see how well that works.
The problem with python2 is that it's getting (very slowly) phased out of distros now, but you can also write a python2/3 polyglot (which usually isn't so hard).

But I agree on the perl front.
What's your reasoning behind saying "the design is good"? Everything thing I've seen says it's heavy, hot, slow, has an unusable menu system.
I began a Journey in my mid-20s that I'm still on. (38) I took math classes, starting at middle-school grade. Did most of the Khan material. Moved on to MitX classes in further math, and sciences. Now I am working on an ab-initio atom/molecule simulating for funsies.

Khan academy is an invaluable resource. When I have kids, it will be a core part of their curriculum!
Nice, I feel splashy.

You can grab a chunk of the goo, drag it up and let it fall.
That's a US holiday, not a UK one
Article starts out like clickbait. There has never been consensus that the universe would end one way or another. Today, there still isn't.
> Why would I ever use this instead of just using perl5

Because the syntax in Amber is way easier to grasp. For me that's a very strong selling point
I am a layman, not a psychologist with sufficient education to prove or disprove her claims. When I judge someone's credibility, I take into account whether they've spread misinformation in the past. In this case, she has. Or at least she holds those beliefs and believes them strongly enough to speak openly about it on a public podcast.

Yes. I judge people on that. We all have the freedom of speech. We do not have freedom from the judgement of others.
Britain is slowly turning into something like Italy when I grew up. They had new governments seemingly every 6 months.
Shinzo Abe was great at doing this - timed some early elections perfectly.
As I said before, [0] This company is no. where. near. worth $1BN. Even the Rabbit R1 (another solution in search of a problem) out sold them.

At this point, Humane should be 90% marked down if they decide to sell and once they do, it will be the equivalent of Theranos but for AI.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40146901
the bet is probably that the teachers will vouch for Khanmigo at schools but I’m sure Microsoft doesn’t mind giving away Khanmigo for students too
Perhaps a day will come when tools like Siri will ask for a confirmation whether you meant "fifteen" or "fifty" instead of making a guess when they aren't fully certain that they heard you correctly.
China could invade Taiwan anytime they wanted, and given the current instability in the world, it would probably be the most opportune time. Additionally, Taiwan's defences would easily be annihilated with several strategic hypersonic missile salvos. Taiwan wouldn't know what hit them. And since they're an island, China would prevent all imports until they surrender. As for your argument regarding its allies, no one is going to mess with China and its arsenal of hypersonic nuclear weapons.
They might get $1B on paper, but I’d be shocked if anyone is cashing out anywhere near that valuation.
Please tell me you're trying for a funny
Experimenting with LLMs for Developer Productivity
There has just been some economic 'good news' released that inflation has fallen to 2.3%. If there is a risk of bad news later, it's best to go after some good news. For example the infected blood scandal has just been somewhat dealt with by a mea cupla and announcment of large interim compensation payments, and the Rwanda migrant scheme is technically operating.

There was also concern from Conservative activists about campaigning in cold and wet November weather - these people are mostly retired.
In brief, Lisp's S-expressions (the parentheses) are a straightforward instantiation of the abstract syntax trees to which all other languages parse.

You can manipulate that tree easily and directly in Lisp, whereas other languages (that are not variations of Lisp) hide parts of it, to varying degrees.

All other languages are either equivalent to Lisp, perhaps with a different superficial syntax (there are very few of these; one is Mathematica) or expose only a strict subset of this capability (most other non-Lisp languages.)

In particular, Lisp makes it trivial to do (real) metaprogramming -- programs that write other programs, including the introduction of entirely novel syntactic constructs -- via macros. Lisp macros can create new language syntax that controls when and how code is evaluated, perhaps rewriting it.

Non-Lisp languages can't do that fully, only subsets of it. Ruby metaprogramming, for example, is clever syntactic sugar. You can give methods clever names and use clever calling conventions so that they read more similarly to English, which is called "metaprogramming" in Ruby; but you don't have universal control of the parsers from the level of ordinary Ruby code, and you can't completely control when and how code evaluation happens.

Now, how practical or useful is all that? Opinions vary, from hardcore "you should invent a full DSL with unique syntax for each particular application" Lispers, all the way to those who say macros are a fun but dangerous toy with limited practical value.
If UK celebrated independence from them there wouldn’t be any days left to work
I know it’s not done to comment only on the websites appearance, but on a small screen the website is a mess: https://pasteboard.co/JoVqLPM106ks.png
LOL/BOTN
"What’s reality? I don’t know. When my bird was looking at my computer monitor I thought, ‘That bird has no idea what he’s looking at.’ And yet what does the bird do? Does he panic? No, he can’t really panic, he just does the best he can. Is he able to live in a world where he’s so ignorant? Well, he doesn’t really have a choice. The bird is okay even though he doesn’t understand the world. You’re that bird looking at the monitor, and you’re thinking to yourself, ‘I can figure this out.’ Maybe you have some bird ideas. Maybe that’s the best you can do."

-- Terry Davis
El famoso creador de contenido Kl Kevin Lopez, ha actualizado su albúm musical, pero a la ves es verificado su canal de YouTube como Artista profesional con la corchea, en este artículo descubriremos la Biografía y las noticias destacadas del YouTubers.
> I think the main reason people get nervous about "the public" roaming their land is the liability and the personal injury lawsuit industry in the USA

This is somewhat a solved problem in the US, what you're describing is actually nefarious behavior by cities and counties. I'll give an anecdote and I'm sure someone will come tell me if I'm wrong :)

In Texas we called these "public easements". Back then in order for the city or county to establish a public easement they had to establish that there was a reason, they had to indemnify the area and some buffer around it, and they were obligated to maintain the land that they created the easement on. Sounds simple, right? Not so much.

Cities and counties would often short change the indemnification, leaving the land owner on the hook for things they shouldn't be on the hook for. Sometimes the city would also have vaguely phrased policies like, "all public easements must have sidewalks" and those sidewalks would often incur some amount of damage to the landscape. Think about, for instance, a sidewalk going from a road, through someones property, to what is a dirt trail through the woods. Doesn't really make sense - but the city has a policy it's obligated to abide by!

I think in general cities and counties could benefit from some non-court oversight to these processes with the public that don't need to involve expensive things like lawyers and are frameworked to understand the perspective of both the public and people giving access. There should also be a zero tolerance policy for underindemnifying the easement.

Since you mentioned homlessness - I now live in Portland. Here's the way I deal with it:

If you camp on public land around my neighborhood I expect you to be a good neighbor. Clean up your trash, no feces or urination in public, no leering/jeering/being creepy etc... I've generally provided water, heating devices, medical aid, etc to people that need it - the same way a good neighbor would.

Some amount of people don't care about those boundaries though and will violate every single basic human expectation you can have. City code enforcement is generally not setup to handle disputes like this and neither are the police so it puts the public in really weird spots. I don't know how to solve that, but those folks aren't using easement rights. They're using public camping rights, which are entirely different and have more to do with camping on BLM and forestry land.
Other thing is that they might expect things to get even worse and maybe world economy will enter proper recession/depression. In that sense either they are secure or get to dump it all on other side.
> Recent stats from the car security company Tracker has revealed that 92% of the cars it recovered last year were taken without using the keys. This is an increase from 2018’s figure which stood at 88% and a worrying increase of 26% compared with four years ago. The figure in 2016 stood at 66%.
What you think is ubiquitous is actually pretty narrow, and your perspective is biased based on your own experience; by "machines" you could mean containers, VMs (of a dozen different virtualization technologies), on a bunch of OSes and OS variants let alone distributions of same. You probably think something like an embedded Linux on a fleet of soft switches is a "niche case" but in the real world people work on these kinds of things all the time.

I don't think Python is as ubiquitous as you think is is; but regardless, mere presence is not the only problem. What Python are you even talking about? Which version? How is the user supposed to handle dependencies?

If something like this has utility, it's to minimize the configuration management problem you're giving the user. "Use Python" is definitely not the answer to that.

This doesn't seem to be a terribly good implementation of the idea, but it's not a bad idea, on its own.
It took me a few looks to figure this out, but out of all the various y axes on this chart, this appears to correspond to "business volume scale," which is exactly 0 on the flat line. The axis itself is found under the years 1845, 1895, and 1930.

What "business volume scale" means or how it is measured, however, I don't see specified anywhere, and after an admittedly cursory web search plus FRASER search of 20 minutes or so, I can't figure it out. The text blurb for "business activity" seems to mean it is probably some aggregation of industrial production and consumer spending, but what 0 is indexed to and what the deviations mean is less clear.
I wonder what the British would call it.... American Secession day?
Thanks, I've had thoughts about making it a bit more elaborate (possibly involving large language models somehow to help synthesize what's going on into the right format, and so that it's not literally the same thing every time), but there's a charm in making it literally the same thing every time with the details swapped out. It points out the repetition to the level that all you need to do is swap out the details next time. This is all so preventable, but sometimes these things just happen and there's not anything anyone can do about them.
“Nobody exists on purpose. Nobody belongs anywhere. We’re all going to die. Come watch TV”
First rule of marketing is people buy a story, not a product.

If people are bailing it could be the new competition is that compelling, or it could be that your customers have been looking to jump ship and this product was compelling enough to tip them over.
If you can convince the entire business world to get rid of formalities, please do go ahead! Otherwise, don't patronize people for using tools that make their jobs/lives easier.

English is also not everyone's first language, and sometimes details like a non-awkward salutation or signing off of an email do matter.