skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
for SA, no one's really stopping them. This is a site who's old owner banned furries because he didn't like furries. That's just the realities of Malicious Dictator for Life.

Reddit is the core opposite. They have a few rules regarding legality mitigation and very much do care if the largest subreddits try to change the culture. But otherwise, they really do not care about the prattle of the intersub politics (you know, until they conspire and make things hard for admins). Reddit is first come, first served, mods are based on seniority (no matter how long they leave their sub), and the dismissal to any disagreement is "make your own subreddit". There are easy ways to mitigate this, but no financial incentive to do so unless they are breaking site rules (or extremely rare cases when a "head mod" tries to destroy a subreddit. like the r/wow fiasco from some 14 years ago)

>Worse, there are bots that will monitor comments or subscriptions and ban you for participating in some subreddits.

definitely one of the breaking points for me. I do not believe a mod's moderation should apply to what other activity you participate in outside of their subreddits. nor should a supermod ban you from 20 subs due to a disagreement in 1. But it hasn't hit that critical mass for reddit to care yet (i.e. a big enough mod hasn't gone rogue and threaten Reddit's money).
The majority. This is a good place to start to get the general idea of where economists stand on a variety of US policy proposals: https://www.kentclarkcenter.org/

There are other places as well, but this is the most accessible one I know of for people without access to economics publications.
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Please don’t!

Weve had enough of such useless talks and people all over the place - from taxi drivers to presidents.

I’m begging you - enjoy your style as it is, it has enormous strength.
“Competency” is hard to evaluate, especially objectively, and that raises a whole host of other issues because it can’t be resolved expediently. Who raises a competency question? Who decides on it? When can the question be raised? What happens if we don’t have an answer by the time of the election, because it’s tied up in appeals?

Objective qualifications are much simpler. We could argue for months about whether a president is competent, but it takes like 7 seconds to decide whether they’re older than some arbitrary bar.
I think you'd really like Derek Thompson's essay on "Workism":

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/religion-w...
When mojo matures a bit I could recommend it over nim
That's a pretty well written bug report: https://github.com/wizenheimer/tinkerbird/issues/5

I hope you get the help you need for that!
Definitely not my area of either pedantry or expertise, but if I read this correctly:

> The input file can be of any type, but the initial portion of the file intended to be parsed according to the shell grammar […] shall consist of characters and shall not contain the NUL character.

Then POSIX doesn’t proscribe against appending binary data at all, it just requires that binary data appears after whatever portion of the file is intended to be parsed according to the grammar… there’s nothing stating that intention can’t apply to a zero characters.

> The shell shall not enforce any line length limits.

That seems to unambiguously allow a zero-length initial portion.

> If the input file consists solely of zero or more blank lines and comments, sh shall exit with a zero exit status.

And so does that, while also making an enormous loophole for any input file that is not zero or more blank lines.

In other words it seems to me on a quick reading that a decent rules-lawyer could drive a planet through that part of the spec, as written.
Hard agree. it’s sad to see that the funding for leading edge science has dried up considerably after the "cold" war ending, but this is a very unfortunate perspective to look at scientific progress.
It's in the name, but it had its warm points. SA more or less started the idea of "Let's plays" for games. Written walkthroughs that later transformed into youtube playthroughs that would spawn some of the first gaming content creators.

I joined very late, though. Wonder how the older days were.
If you think a little IP theft makes an entire country evil, I’d hate to know what you think of China.

Note: OP edited his comment
Same, I thought it was some sort of tool related to gyp but for client side.
I haven't played with it yet, but very impressive :) a full vector DB built on top of IndexedDB. That means it should run on all modern browsers, and should be able to handle large volumes of data (at least, proportional to disk space).
Wikipedia has this to say (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_voting):

Dowdall's method assigns 1, 1⁄2, 1⁄3... points to the 1st, 2nd, 3rd... candidates on each ballot, then elects the candidate with the most points. Ranked voting systems vary dramatically in how preferences are tabulated and counted, which gives each one very different properties.

Ranked voting systems are usually contrasted with rated voting methods, which allow voters to indicate how strongly they support different candidates (e.g. on a scale from 0-10).[1] Rated voting systems use more information than ordinal ballots; as a result, they are not subject to many of the problems with ranked voting (including results like Arrow's theorem).

That's a bucket full of problems. I remember that I had a similar problems years ago when I wanted to consolidate several lists about the "daily usefulness" of Chinese characters. How much does it weigh when you put A, B, C in that order? is A=1/1, B=1/2, C=1/3? or maybe A=0, B=-1, C=-2? To quote the above, "Ranked voting systems vary dramatically in how preferences are tabulated and counted". This should be a red flag! I'm happy to see that alternatives to first-past-post are tried out in some locations such as Alaska, Maine and Australia, but why ranked voting?

Ranked voting is only good when you think of yourself as a sole, lonely voter. You put the candidates into this order: A, B, C. But there will be other voters with other preferences. Let's say you're three people and the rankings are ABCD, EBCD and FBCD. Now you have three favorites A, E, F that are preferred choices, and there's that also-ran B who only was second best. But B got three second-best votes whereas each of A, E, F only got one vote.

So answer my question: how many second, third, fourth votes will it take to surpass a given number of first votes? If there's another ballot in the same election with GCBD on it, now you have B with 3x2nd and 1x3rd place. You cannot add, subtract, multiply or divide these numbers. There's no clear answer (although practical procedures can and have been proposed and used) and that bugs me. The entire thing looks like a game of Bridge, Skat or Poker to me, full of justifiable but ultimately very arbitrary rules, hard to explain and tricky to get right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method says that much to me. One also has to account for unranked candidates and decide whether it should be possible to give one rank to several candidates, and then whether (as done in sports) the next rank must be left empty.

It just goes on and on, the list of options to do the ballot and to do the counting is truly mind boggling. This is the reason I've come to much prefer preference voting over ranked voting. Ranked voting is much too complicated for general use in a general election whereas preference voting is simple and clear and the number of "design choices" as it were is drastically reduced when compared to ranked voting.
C predates x86, and was written with the specific intent of being independent of the particular CPU architecture being compiled for.

At any point, the C standard could have introduced a standard POPCNT function that compilers could easily compile in whatever platform relevant way they want; but such has never happened.
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Voting is already a pricey endeavor. Simply do the UX studies and find what works. Than publish the studies, and after a couple of cycles run a meta-analysis, and we should have close to optimal strategy.
>X-ray vision like Superman I gather... nice... ;)

That snarkyness is uncalled for. I repasted the laptop, ran benchmarks and checked the temperature sensors plus used my FLIR. It's no thermal issues. It's just AMD iGPU driver buggyness.

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> Its frustrating to read this over and over again.

Your account is 3 days old, you haven’t read anything over and over again.
As someone in the industry, or used to be...'for fairness'. So the registry is a neutral entity, and the registrar doesn't have to be.

The probable real reason? Because ICANN is a money grab full of completely incompetent people from yesteryear who've been coasting for decades. And without registrars, registries may just realize they don't need ICANN at all. Seriously, look at their DNSSec offerings and especially look at the ingenious 'Digital Archery.'
Yes, that sounds about right! I remember a series of very interesting blog posts by them.
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We’re rolling out a new databases backend right now, if you email jake@makenotion.com I’d like to make sure we’re optimized for your database views
The registrars play an important role in terms of services and support. As soon as you register a domain, the registry for the TLD gains monopoly power over you. That doesn’t create any incentive to provide good services or support.

Registrars have to compete in those areas and that benefits registrants. Instead of eliminating registrars I think they need to be empowered a bit at the expense of the registries. The registries don’t seem to understand the product they’re selling and only seem to care about price discovery and discrimination.
In 2020, when they asked him if he'd run for reelection, he said "I view myself as a transitional president," which is a pretty fucking weird answer if he were planning to run again.

Everyone expected him to drop out earlier, but I think the reason he stayed in as long as he did was to take all the bullets for Kamala until he felt confident all the other potential challengers would get behind her.

What he didn't want to do was drop out early, let Kamala get battered and bloodied by her own party nomination process, win the nomination, then lose to Trump just because she'd been dragged through the mud in the media for months.
POPCNT really doesn't have a place on a 16bit processor. Particularly one which can split the 16bit register into two 8bit pairs.
> Games are expected to have sole access to your machine, so if they use all the CPU/GPU resources, nobody cares. If my web browser was burning up my battery re-rendering the page 90 times a second, I'd be livid.

Games 20 years ago had sole access to machines that were much less powerful than even partial access to today's machines.

And eg Nintendo Switch games (or games on the Steam deck, or just mobile phone games) still deal with power limitations; people are very aware when their games burn through their batteries.
Show HN: ChatGPT don't have a native prompt library so I built one
I built it as a Chrome extension and it's completely FREE.

It was my first time building a Chrome extension and I really had a blast.

Used a framework called Plasmo which simplified a lot of things.
Yeah thats my biggest problem with people promoting nuclear as the end of all problems. The nuclear technology today is not good enough to be able to meet the world needs because of the nuclear waste it produces if they are able to get the tech to where the life of nuclear waste left over is less than 100 years than I think it becomes viable.

Now that the prices of solar, wind and batteries have dropped so much the need for nuclear is becoming less and less. Most of the world's population currently lives in the perfect area where charging batteries in the day and using at night can meet all the demand for electricity with solar, wind and batteries alone in summer or winter.
AWS does offer software development services.
Among everyone? In every European country?
PS2 is kind of exception as it was a fill rate monster, and still even to this day is pretty impressive piece of engineering. (Mesh shaders say hi)
A very important point in politics that doesn't often get discussed is that simply holding a legal office doesn't give you any actual powers. The most likely result of a sortitionist system would be that the bureaucracy controls the state, and that the officially appointed leaders are strictly figureheads.

Despite what the law says, people in the administration don't actually have to follow the orders of their appointed superior. If they feel that the senator/congressman/president/etc can be fooled, or simply that enough of their colleagues are on their side, they can just ignore even direct orders. What's the senator going to do? Call the police because their subordinates are ignoring them?

So one of the most necessary qualities in an official is being able to control the levers of power - through connections, charisma, physical power in ages past, money - whatever it is, you need your subordinates to actually do what you tell them. Government isn't a boardgames where people follow the law just because those are the rules of the game.
I mean, which non-extant countries have ended well?
He was dropping out no matter what, and Kamala losing is objectively worse for his legacy than Kamala winning. Anything he could do to help her is good for his legacy, and he took a ton of bullets for her the past few months in order to give her the best shot at beating Trump.
Actually they may not have a choice, since they have forced people to install their local windows with a Microsoft login, and tying bitlocker to this login, there is probably many situations out there that requires microsoft login supported winPE just to fix this
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Does it have a chewy texture? I'm imagining something like fresh mochi.
Nah. She stole it, it was wrong, and if democrats had policed their own after that happened, they might be having an easier time batting down complaints of political persecution today.
In a world of blockchain is there anything popular for truly distributed DNS?
Related recent submission: "The Tech Industry's Moral Vacuum" <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41029948> <https://www.shayon.dev/post/2024/203/the-tech-industrys-mora...>
In a national vote, your vote is exactly as strong regardless of where you live: one person, one vote.

In the current system, some people's votes, those of the least populous states, count for far, far more than some other people's votes (those in the most populous states).

Plus, today, if you live in a state that is overwhelmingly in favor of one party, your preference for the other party doesn't count in the slightest. If you're a blue Texan or a red New Yorker, there is 0 point to you even going to the polls. In a national voting system, your votes would truly matter as well.
I think you misunderstand. Let's take imaginary points for example.

Canada in 2023: 100.

Rwanda in 2023: 10.

Canada in 2024: 102.

Rwanda in 2024: 20.

Does it make sense now?
> are being used without consent

gatekeeping the information that is being learnt off these data is not a right they have been granted.

I do not see an ai weight/model as a derivative works of the individual works used to train it, provided that you can obtain new works that would not have violated the copyright of the original had it been manually made.
> “it only predicts the next token” doesn’t (in principle/theory) preclude it having such an understanding of concepts, unless no computational process ever can.

In my opinion, this is highly reductive and academic. Whether these models are transformers or not, lookup likelihood is not indicative of understanding of concepts in any reasonable way.

If the response to a algebraic equation was based upon probability of tokens in a corpus... and not an actual deterministic application of the rules of algebra, would that response know concepts? Would it be intelligent?

With math, specifically given the unbounded size of the tokens compared to language, it's clear that token prediction is not a useful methodology.

Let's say we're just trying to multiply two integers. Even if a model had Rain Man powers of memorization, and it memorized phone book after phone book of multiplication tables, the probabilistic likelihood model would fail for the very obvious reason that we cannot enumerate (and train on) all the possible outcomes of math and calculate their frequencies. We can however understand and use the concepts of math, which is distinct from their symbolic representation.
> How much of current carbon emissions are being factored into the cost of electricity (for any of the various sources)?

You can relatively easily do those calculations. The results are about what you'd expect: hydro, wind and solar don't get much more expensive; coal gets a lot more expensive, etc. Of course, details depend on what carbon pricing you use.

Funny enough, to go off on a tangent: if solar keeps getting cheaper and cheaper, that could make coal viable even with carbon costs fully priced in.

What I mean is: assume solar panels keep dropping in price so that electricity is approximately free when the sun is shining. But still has a very positive cost when the sun ain't shining. You can do some carry-over into the night with batteries, but seasonal storage all the way from summer to winter is much harder.

Now here's something that becomes feasible: when you have excess electricity from your solar panels, capture carbon from the atmosphere to build up a deficit. Then, when you need power but no sun, you can burn coal and use up your carbon deficit.

(I'm not suggesting this is in any way optimal, just that it might be feasible under certain circumstances; even if you fully account for carbon pricing.)
Anyone used replay.io and can compare both? Any limitations? This one is open source but there was no release in 2 years.

edit: actually they release frequently it's just latest builds are still pre-release.
Your attitude is as common as water in the ocean, but here you have come to the desert to complain. Do you not know what Ycombinator is?
One thing that I find hard is configuring the retention time. The docs are unclear and there are about 3 configuration parameters involved. It scares me as a non expert because I don't want to fill up all disk space but also don't want to keep too little logs.
Not to mention that BurntSushi is the author of the entire rust regex ecosystem
See [1] for ICANN’s historical and recent thoughts on cross-ownership of registrars and registries. They have already allowed cross-ownership for new gTLDs for a while (or am I mistaken?).

IMO one important function of registrars is handling international payment systems. If it were completely up to PIR, I wouldn’t be surprised if they only accepted Visa and Mastercard like so many American businesses selling digital products with no regional restrictions otherwise.[2] That largely wouldn’t be a problem for Americans and Western Europeans but would be terrible for most of the world’s population. This is not an argument against registries offering optional direct-to-registrant services, though.

[1] https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/bm/rationale-cross-own...

[2] Maybe PayPal as well, maybe even wire transfer. Anyway, the point is only US-centric or first world-centric payment would likely be supported.
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Do you really think it was an insurrection? Trump supporters are definitely in the gun owning demographics. Yet basically zero guns were present in the whole event, especially inside the capital.

To me that screams not an insurrection.
It's quite sufficient for logs that you'd just cat/grep anyways.
Well, it used to be correct until about 1600 or so. There are a couple of words like bijzonder where it is still pronounced as English "ee", and in the suffix -lijk it is reduced to a schwa.
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Nuclear has great engineering, but alas politically wind and PV is what's feasible. That's still much better than coal.

And if solar and batteries keep falling in price, they might drop below what nuclear can provide.

(OK, batteries can mostly move energy from day to night; they have more of a problem with moving energy from summer to winter. But we can solve that particular problem with eg very long cables; and lots of other ingenuity.)
"Our findings suggest that early childbearing, numerous pregnancies or nulliparity all contribute to accelerated aging and increased mortality risk."

=

Nulliparity contributed to accelerated aging and increased mortality risk.

Did the author speak inaccurately/different in that statement than the rest of the paper suggests?
https://archive.md/pyW91
Overall this looks nice, but I found myself stumbling over the ToSpan syntax:

let span = 5.days().hours(8).minutes(1);

It feels sort of weird how the first number appears in front, and then all the other ones are function arguments. I suppose if you don't like that you can just write:

let span = Span::new().days(5).hours(8).minutes(1);

at the expense of a couple characters, which is not too bad.
It’s against the rules for one