skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Petty stuff and I am pretty disappointed that people who bill themselves as "engineers" refuse to see objective evidence and hold on to only what they know.

I think it is widely accepted that Rust is more safe. (There comes the NPM factor too so it's not entirely clear). The thing is just, you are excited about this technology, and you are equating "engineering" with "security". You are willing to pretend that other merits and factors don't exist, including ergonomics of iteration, or inertia. I tried writing my usual explorative Win32 code in Rust for an evening. Well, it was painful and I went back to do it the way that works for me, that is supported by all the official tooling, and that the official documentation is written in. I also can't see myself reading reasonable Rust code quicker than I can read and write reasonable C code in a year down the line. It's just too intricate, too clever, too condensed / abstracted and at the same time too verbose. Another time I went to download a couple simple projects (e.g. text editor) to dabble a bit with. But the stuff was too opaque and had _hundreds_ of third-party dependencies, and I couldn't understand it well. So I lost interest.

Choice of language and ecosystem is an economic matter. They get chosen based on what one knows and what one wants and how one evaluates the possibilities. "Security" quite frankly is not the most important of concerns in most situations, and for a good reason. I frankly am not getting paid in finding the nicest or "most secure" way to write a piece of code, but to get it done. I am not interested in following the development of the hundreds of dependencies of my Rust project, and to change my data structures when they learned a better way to design the API to those "safe" data structures.

But you are seeing only "security". Well, it's most secure to just shut your computer off. So much for "objectivity". Maybe you _are_ the zealot!
> It allows the smugglers to move the maximum potency with the minimum risk and minimum quantity.

Mostly true but there's another factor: fentanyl is synthetic. There's no dealing with opium poppy crops, farmers, processing of crops (in places like Mexico and Afghanistan), transportation and as a result it's cheap.

> Legalizing opiates ...

I agree that the legalizing these drugs is better than prohibition but, by itself, is an insufficient solution.

As an aside, the US loves criminalizing things. Building prisons is jobs. Prisoners are slave labor. Felons count for the census but can't vote. Often you'll have private prisons thrown in there too. These are an abimination but still represent only a small minority of prisoners.

The Louisiana State Prison, known colloquially as "Angola", is basically a cotton plantation with slave labor.

People need access to their basic needs like housing, food and water. A lot of drug addiction comes out of homelessness as people self-medicate. A bunch of heroin addicts were originally on an opiate prescription. The American medical system compared to other countries hands out opiates like candy.

People need access to mental health care, have security and have hope and dignity in their lives. All of these things are substantially cheaper than our carceral state but there's no profit in it and nobody wants to live near "homeless" people.

At the core of this is the American belief in the myth of meritocracy because the other side of that coin is that homelessness, drug addiction and other awful circumstances are viewed as deserved or at least a personal moral failure. As such, such people almost deserve those outcomes.

So my point is that legalization just barely scratches the surface.
Tar heroin cheaper to make probably. If it were legalized we wouldn't be optimizing for ease of smuggling which is largely dictated by potency instead of manufacturing costs.
Seems like its simply a more private option

it being encrypted but routed through a single companies servers means its just as centralized as if it were unencrypted though
yeah, that seems quite reasonable

reversibly transforming a data sequence into a more easily compressible one of the same size (sometimes called 'whitening' or 'predicting') is a very general technique for data compression, and first differences are a very commonly used transformation here. others include the burrows–wheeler transform, paeth prediction, and linear predictive coding
Work feeds in to quality of life, quality of life is unbounded. If we had nuclear power plants in every town we could have nearly anything we could imagine.
They don't have to push "Anti-Elon" opinions. It's more than enough, FAR more than enough to simply quote what Elon is writing on "X" in verbatim.

But where I agree: Tesla's image and stock sure would be in better shape if nobody would publish what Elon says at all. But here is the problem: He bought a social media company due to his narcissism.

Again, I'm from Germany. Yes, it's relevant to the news here if the (ex) richest person on the planet is spewing conspiracy theories and bullshit that quite often in some form or another feels like praise for the Nazis, and support for the Neo-Nazis.

Those in my country who may actually like his positions typically are not able to afford a Tesla, so at least when it comes to Germany and a couple of our neighboring countries who also aren't exactly in the Hitler fan camp, all in all that's just not a very good marketing strategy when it comes to Europe.

:)
Legalization is the easy part. Dealing with the consequences of legalization would take more effort.
The multitudes of pearl clutching types that use Windows vastly outnumbers the number that use Photoshop. If some body goes online and says that Microsoft is allowing Windows to make kiddie porn, the backlash would be for greater than if some company famous for making software used by artists. To even think it would be different is just not being honest with how the world works
Also the reddit version of the story: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/lly7po/comment/gnvzi...
We live in the world of the "I". A self-centered, sociopathic generation that doesn't care about anyone else besides themselves and their close relatives and friends. This pervasive attitude has led to a decline in empathy and community values, where individual desires and personal gain overshadow collective well-being. People are increasingly focused on their own needs, often at the expense of others, creating a society that struggles to foster genuine connections and support systems. This shift in priorities has significant implications for our social fabric, making it more challenging to address common issues and work together towards a better future.
I don't even understand what was built in emacs. A "message router"? Its job was to take messages in from a set of links and transfer them out some other set of links? How did it know what links led where, or how to make progress towards the final hop? How was the path computed? If TCP/IP was already available as a layer, why not just use its routing capabilities? What was DCE and how did it help?
After LLMs? I prefer a better, more accurate LLM.
This is false, you are breaking your duty of confidentiality towards your employer. Read the numerous Matt Levine columns about this.

I don't know that the specific information collected in this qualifies as material information but it seems like it might.
The more we have to pay for each other's healthcare (insurance costs going up, ACA subsidies, maybe a future "single payer" situation), the more other people's health decisions are going to be our business.
I believe that your interpretation of what’s actually happening is what’s baloney.

The fact is that you Haskell people only talk about the optimizations that can sometimes open on immutable data in specific circumstances. What you generally ignore is the optimizations that immutable data permanently locks you out of with no recourse.

As with most things programming, immutability should be considered a tool, not a rule.
You’re just shooting the messenger.
I think the obvious problem here is the manager's attitude:

While I was proud of it, there was suddenly a problem when I talked to my manager about it.

"While I understand how complex this was, when it comes to performance reviews, this code looks trivial. It looks too easy, too simple.
I would recommend writing an implementation doc of this module just so we can demonstrate that this was actually quite complex."
Ok. Thanks for your clarification, that makes sense. I see you're being downvoted, possibly because your tone is weird but I think it would do to know that he's not wrong... People expect an AI to both interpret fuzzy inputs and give definitive answers out. I call it the "Mr data fallacy". Unfortunately the reality is that garbage in, garbage out... Our inputs are garbage so there must be some likelihood of garbage.

I think maybe the best we can hope for is to push garbage responses to the edges: when it gets it wrong it does it so obviously wrong (e.g. completely misformatted) that the answer is not acceptable to the user and obviously so.
I think an issue here is pointing out Amazon. A corporation should take every inch of the law available to them, but no more. They are only evil if they then lobby to make things worse. Amazon workers needing assistance is not an issue with amazon, it is an issue with us ('us' being the US). We make it allowable to create a job that doesn't cover the minimums. 'part time' allows benefits to be slashed. 'gig' allows even more to be taken. Every job should have a living wage with usable health benefits and a path to retirement. Every job that doesn't do this, inevitably, is being subsidized by the tax payer and I for one don't want to pay it any more. There should be laws that heavily tax workplaces that don't meet the minimum standards in order to pay for the programs their workers are forced to use to survive.
It is still being vandalized. Trying to find someone that can lock the page for now.
Thanks for the website, it's very interesting.

From their statistics, it seems that WebGL gives far less info than things like the list of fonts, the Canvas properties, or the audio input, and more comparable to effective height of the screen (or even just user agent in my case, using Firefox on Linux, though I have to admit I'm surprised about that: 0.02% sounds really low).
It's impressive how many otherwise apparently intelligent people here comment to state as facts what are really their entirely made up opinions growing from some pet dogma. Even when a statement could be debunked with a minimum of consideration (such as in this example) it gets put forth as if it were a sophisticated truth.
All it would take is a tweet that says someone used MS Paint to do something that the MS AI system allowed them to create, and the internet would go into fits.
well they called their x86 to ARM translation layer Prism, just like the covert NSA program they were revealed to be part of by Snowden. I guess they don’t really care about naming…
> If "shareholders" suddenly sold the stock, would the workers dump money into the organization to keep it afloat?

Mature businesses don't make money by selling shares, they make money by selling products and services that the workers make. Share value is not of that huge importance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument

Also, NY has operational speed cameras while NJ doesn't:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/speed-camer...

Location metadata can and will be used for Kafkaesque tracking of people for economic and surveillance purposes, guilt by proximity including charging people with crimes, putting people on various kinds of watchlists, and pre-crime harassment.
Probably fair to say that neither are any good.
Building a Futuristic Lisp Workstation
LTSC IoT will get you to 2032, and something is likely to change by that date. Of course, if you absolutely insist on using a "genuine" license (even though we're taking about a company that has zero respect for its users — eye for an eye IMHO is a suitable option), there is no choice but listen to the overlord.
Interesting thought, but if one is legislating a wage ratio, one can also outlaw outsourcing executive functions/positions above a certain level, no?
Labor is worth more because there are "choke points" which need human intervention to run. Logistics companies need legal, support, drivers, operations, etc. However as certain domains prove entirely automatable via different tools, human labor will be redundant. There will be thousands of "ghost factories" and "ghost stores" which operate perfectly 24/7 with no human employees once intelligence and robotic physical labor become cheap and reliable enough.
Well, wrap it up in something more ergonomic, but it works. I'm usually putting strings into some sort of I/O API (like a logger) instead of hardcoding copies to stdout everywhere.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/72575650
Run them out... where? Into the woods? Into other cities? This whole "just make homeless people go somewhere else" mindset is part of why things are screwed on the national level. It just results in money being set on fire to bus people around in giant circles.
... and therefore, saying they're "profitable" is meaningless.

Allocating costs for things from Google that they use (e.g. the Ads system) is difficult. The problem with any subsidiary.
Any statistics on success rate and cost of treatments?

It is hard enough to treat alcohol addiction, and that makes people feel awful. I am skeptical about broadly treating opiate addiction, which surely makes people feel much better than being high on alcohol.
Your notification for the launch woke me up several times last night because you had the notification change hourly for 4 hours.
That's the point though. Most addicts don't want fentanyl, they want other opioids. If they could legally buy said product, they would. But they can't, so they buy the on the street, and they get the easiest drug to smuggle: fentanyl.
The concern is that if the government is tracking where you go while you're inside the car, they also have a pretty good idea of your actual destination, which could be a problem in e.g. states with laws against abortions even in other states or if, say, a school teacher was tracked to a known gay nightclub in Florida.
The virologists I know are much more concerned about this than they were about covid. I guess it's presenting neurological symptoms in bears/small mammals. Last fall there was a rash of small mammals showing rabies signs, that were euthenised that wound up negative for rabies, so they're now retesting them for this influenza.
We've been here before, shortly after the industrial revolution. Some countries tried communism, some countries tried fascism, and the US tried Roosevelts. The results speak for themselves. Large, meaningful compromises to labor can thread the needle well enough to avoid bloodshed. We need us another Roosevelt.
Has the oldest city in Russian history

This is like saying -- we just have to accept that England belongs to Italy because after all London was once known as Londinium and was one of the most important cities in the Roman Empire.
Sigh append would be such game changer for us. Pulling a big S3 object over the wire to append to it and send it back is far from ideal.
> there are a ton of occasional recreational oxy users in the world.

Today, virtually all of the ‘oxycontin’ that is used recreationally is actually fentanyl and binders that looks like an oxycontin. Unless it’s in a prescription bottle (and even then,) it’s almost certainly fentanyl.

> In 2023, DEA seized more than 80 million fentanyl-laced fake pills and nearly 12,000 pounds of fentanyl powder. The 2023 seizures are equivalent to more than 381 million lethal doses of fentanyl. [0]

If they seized 80 million, just imagine how many weren’t seized.

[0]https://www.dea.gov/onepill#:~:text=In%202023%2C%20DEA%20sei....
Probably not a new idea, but something I've been wondering is if the US implemented progressive taxation, and instead of a UBI implemented a stock buyback program where the government buys shares and then redistributes ownership to citizens.

Even though this is totally wealth redistribution (which is politically unpopular, socialism and all), I bet you could market it as super American like Andrew Yang did with UBI as the "Freedom Dividend".

This way you could "work within the system" and still keep stonks going up, but also help redistribute wealth to poorer citizens.
Nobody said intent doesn't matter.
> The noise is not at all the sounds from an engine.

One reason is of course that engine noise is the bane of many neighborhoods and not a sound they want to keep hearing for centuries.

Noise pollution has been taken way more seriously in recent years and we sure need to find a balance with security in cases like this.
since someone else has made a statement easily verifiable, please ask that person to support it.
In a real sense, so is the other argument. It is not based on any real principal. It is literally reducing the argument to the absurd difference between the richest and the poorest.

I'm happy to see evidence on any studies that focus on optimal ratios of income for different people in an organization. Resting this on "relative income from the warehouse workers to the CEO" would need more than appeal to emotion.

I say all of this as someone that is all for taxing rich people.
There are times when I wonder if calling GNU Emacs an editor is really descriptive. Editing is just one window, to what's really an integrated Lisp development and runtime environment. Compare some Lisp Machine features to the GNU Emacs features:

Zmacs -> Emacs, Zmail -> Rmail (or Gnus), Symbolics Document Examiner -> Info, Lisp Machine Lisp -> Emacs Lisp (both children of Maclisp). There may be other examples that I'm not aware of.

GNU Emacs might have started as an editor, but it's certainly grown beyond that. Maybe its become a sort of Valinor, a realm for uprooted Lisp machine users to continue the craft.
I feel anxiety when watching videos with the thumbnails for other videos visible below. Also, I was unable to find the description of videos for waaay too long. Absolutely horrible.
You and the oil paint commenter are missing a very obvious difference. Oil paints and canon lenses are just tools. Dumb objects even. They do not suggest or create from thin air something. The lens just directs photons in front of it to a sensor. The oil paint just is and gets smeared around into whatever the painter does with it. This is totally different in that you can draw a simple stick figure, and it creates the realistic work on its own. It did it, not you. Thinking that paint and a lens are on the same level is farcical.
Think of their revenue in an ecosystem.

Google announced 2 weeks ago that its Q1 capex for datacenters and servers was $12B. This was up 100% y/y. Goog also expects for this capex spend to be ongoing... A healthy chunk of that is all going to Nvda
Been on this thesis for the last few months. Any companies you think are interesting or have potential to grow during the energy crisis? Looking for more prospects to evaluate.
This is false because you have a duty of confidentiality towards your employer.
I really hope something more transparent, understandable and debuggable.

Also preferably something that wouldn't trigger the third contest about who can waste the most energy (after first crypto's proof-of-work insanity and then trillion-parameter models that needed a datacenter full of H100 GPUs just for training) while the climate change trajectory is already becoming more and more dire and we all really ought to reduce energy usage as much as possible.
This looks pretty nice, I'll have to try it if I ever switch back to X11. What surprises me the most is that it's written in Go.

Not a bad thing, I love Go. It surprised me is all.
> they will have no incentive to quit.

I don't think legality is the main thing incentivizing people to quit.
yes you can. they put it in patches and prescribe them at the hospital. people go to work on those. dead addicts can't go to work the next day, but you don't hear about the ones who haven't died yet unless you know them very well personally.
I can hardly write a correct Hello World in Java. I can read it, I can probably write it, but I've never really used it.
Yet I've been writing Clojure daily for the last 9 years.

This means that you really don't need Java in order to use Clojure.

Coming from a C++ background, I used to dislike the JVM out of principle just like yourself, especially since it needs to run on my local machine and it uses so much memory and is slow to start up.

However, once your app is started, you're in the REPL and that's the only time you need to start your app.. You can keep developing for days without restarting your app once.

Once I finished developing my app and I deploy it to a server, I'm kind of happy it runs on the JVM - that thing is super tuned, very fast and runs on a myriad of hardware platforms.. I don't have to spend one minute thinking about those details.

So while the JVM is somewhat inconvenient on the dev machine, it helps a lot when you deploy it to production.

Things became a lot simpler when I stopped worrying about it and just used the language for its power and beauty.
> It's not hard to predict that, sooner or later, Microsoft will want to send that information to be processed somewhere in the cloud

I really don't believe that. It reminds me of the hysteria about Windows 10 telemetry (remember when people called it a keylogger?). Putting it in the cloud would cause huge backlash and brand damage. But somehow they're getting that backlash despite not putting it in the cloud.

> absent explicit recording, we treat everything that's output to the screen and speakers as ephemeral

Computer forensics experts would like a word. Your past activity has never been private from "yourself". The added privacy risk here is highly marginal. If I steal someone's laptop, I can Rewind and see what was in a PowerPoint slide they opened 2 weeks ago. But that PowerPoint is almost certainly still on the local drive anyway, so that makes no difference.
The month-day-year format drives me crazy, especially when using a cloud product.

Cloud provider: “All our servers are UTC because that’s the international standard! Adapt your code!”

Also the same cloud provider: “We print all UTC dates using US format because that’s the local standard for less than 4% of the population. Nothing outside of North America exist or even if it does.. it doesn’t matter enough for us to care to learn about ISO 8601.”
Well you could just look around like I did back then at orders and even linked documented Twitter posts (from analysts funnily enough) on the massive backlogs. https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/14zhy7f/com...
Because people don't care who it is. If it's a Republican candidate, he will be portrayed as devil incarnate.

Mitt Romney was a smart guy who actually had plenty of on-ground experience. But no, deliberately interpreting everything he said in the worst light (anyone remember "Binders full of women"?) was more important.
'Big Short' investor Steve Eisman: Apple is a 'hidden AI play', coming AI apps
I'll do it one better. As a gamer when I was younger, I knew they were the future. I asked for shares for my bday at the time and got them at least at $22.88 a share as that's as far back as my records go.
It proves nothing. AI is sometimes wrong. So is everyone. Most of the time it's regurgitating publicly-available data.

So rather than assserting it's all wrong, why don't you find one thing in it that is?
Ben Titzer, Co-Founder of WebAssembly, on the Microarch Club