skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mass importation of cheap labor and rent serfs certainly does have an effect on worsening the cost of housing for citizens. It's simple supply and demand economics. To dismiss criticism of the current human quantitative easing that's occurring as merely nativism is reductive.
The smart money is buying property because they know there will always be demand for it. Adding over 1 million people a year to the nation ensures that their investments will remain profitable.
People talk about systemic change but I wonder what that would be. Effective policies that would have prevented this situation would have been a reasonable immigration strategy coupled with stricter application of money laundering penalties, but that horse is out of the barn now.
makes me wonder if I can unlock this feature by making the cancellation request from a California IP...
I just took a look at Sanskrit, and it doesn't represent everything.

It has a larger consonant inventory than any other natural language that I've ever seen, which is impressive, but that doesn't make it phonologically universal.

Some things that American English has that Sanskrit doesn't include /ð/, /θ/, [ɹ] as a realization of /r/, and contrastive /v/ and /w/ (like "vein", the body part, versus "wain", the old word for a wagon; or "vine", the plant, and "wine", the beverage made from it).

I'm unclear on the effects of the vowel gradations, so I don't know whether they approximate other languages' vowel inventories well.

It also looks like Sanskrit doesn't have any uvular, pharyngeal, or glottal consonants, and no velar or post-velar fricatives. For example, I don't see that it could represent Hebrew חָכָם 'wise, smart' (pronounced /χa'χam/).

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%97%D7%9B%D7%9D#Hebrew

I could see that Sanskrit might have been the best single choice for transcribing a wide range of unrelated languages at some point in history, but now that we have IPA, we can make lots of distinctions that Sanskrit doesn't.
That’s very interesting! Thanks for the link.
I thought of Wake, too, but those seem to be related to keeping watch rather than waking someone.
Meanwhile, Google's Gemini LLM doesn't even exhibit basic commonsense or self-consistency yet: https://i.imgur.com/QPEvrIA.png
Thanks for the video, it's really interesting to see a user test like this!
The article says:

This figure is significantly higher compared to the number of deaths among Korean nationals.
Yea, I was thumbs-down on ai-assisted programming because when I tested it out, I tried it by adding things to my existing C and C++ projects, and its suggestions were... kind of wild. Then, a few months later I gave it another chance when I was writing some Python and was impressed. Finally, I used it on a new-from-blank-text-file Rust project and was pretty much blown away.
At the moment, IA stores everything, and I imagine that most people are picturing a scenario where the decentralized data is in addition to IA's current servers. At least, that's the easiest bootstrapping path.

>What happens when someone storing decentralized data decides to exit?

They exit, and they no longer store decentralized data. At the very least, IA would still have their copy(s), and that data can be spread to other decentralized nodes once it has been determined (through timeouts, etc) that the person has exited.

> Will data be copied to multiple places[...]?

Ideally, yes. It is fairly trivial to determine the reliability of each member (uptime + hash checks), and reliable members (a few nines of uptime and hash matches) can be trusted to store data with fewer copies while unreliable members can store data with more copies. Could also balance that idea with data that's in higher demand, by storing hot data lots of times on less reliable members while storing cold data on more reliable members.

> who pays for the decentralized storage long term? [...] who is going to pay for doubling, tripling or more the storage costs for backups?

This is unanswered for pretty much any decentralized storage project, and is probably the only important question left. There are people who would likely contribute to some degree without a financial incentive, but ideally there would be some sort of reward. This in theory could be a good use for crypto, but I'd be concerned about the possible perverse incentives and the general disdain the average person has for crypto these days. Funding in general could come from donations received by IA, whatever excess they have beyond their operating costs and reserve requirements - likely would be nowhere near enough to make something like this "financially viable" (i.e. profitable) but it might be enough to convince people who were on the fence to chip in few hundred GB and some bandwidth. This is an open question though, and probably the main reason no decentralized storage project has really taken off.
Has anyone started a fork of the last FOSS version yet?
> I've long thought that that is one of the main functions of corporations.

Ambrose Bierce already hit the nail on the head in 1911:

"Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility."

It has long since baffled me this isn't being talked about more – I guess everyone is just so used to it. As far as I'm concerned the entire concept of "fining a company" should be abolished and replaced with the criminal persecution of those who did the illegal thing.
Simple hot reload written in Go and JavaScript
I can imagine devs throwing a fit about that, then. They’re the ones who’ll get bad reviews even if it’s out of their control.
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Definition of "value" here. Idea by definition is something new, which brings direct or indirect value for other kinds of things.
Whale oil used to be used for the things you mentioned, but you run into a lot of sustainability issues on top the ethical issues. (I mean FFS if the probe did what it did in star trek 4, imagine what they would have sent instead for your scenario.)

Practically speaking, you can't easily just let the whales go out into the open due to the risk of someone else hunting them down vs cost of captivity or having them be 'monitored' in the wild.
Don’t worry, they did that too a couple of years ago. They also lost their tenancy separation records.
You can refer to his bio on Wikipedia [1], but the question itself seems a bit off, as it assumes that someone needs to have accomplished something specific to be worth listening to. While I’m not talking about Kurzweil in particular, the truth is, you don’t necessarily need a list of achievements to say something valid or correct. For instance, Isaac Newton made groundbreaking discoveries, yet also devoted significant time to alchemy [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton#Alchemy”
Nor anyone prosecuted for the disappearance of the security cam footage of his cell during the alleged suicide due a "technical error".
My first distro. Not currently using it, but I'll always recommend it for new Linux users as a gateway distro
How do you know if you had have taken some advice, it might have served you better?
It's a sin + cos function.. you need an AI for that?
CAPTCHAs are the main reason I turned IPv6 on. No idea if it will actually help in practice, it's hard to measure.

The other Starlink hassle is the geocoding for user IPv4 addresses is wildly wrong. I'm in Grass Valley, CA near Sacramento but sites all think my IP is either in Seattle or Los Angeles, depending on the week. This makes streaming services a huge PITA, I have to jump through hoops to convince them I'm in the Sacramento TV market about once a month. IPv6 could help with this too, Starlink could give out more precisely geolocated addresses. Not sure they're doing it though, all I see are IPv4 addresses in the geocoding feed: https://geoip.starlinkisp.net/feed.csv
You'll still need a router to route. It just won't have to do NAT. It can still do a statefull firewall, just like it does with IPv4.
Yes and no, the concept that is being communicated is that your program inherently is asynchronous how-ever the context switching/block/unblocking is abstracted away from you so you can focus on what is important to you - which is solving your problem. Once you communicate that concept then it makes it a lot easier for people to create new mental models that better reflects reality. Then they can structure their programs that can take advantage of it.
How I Got a Digital Nomad Visa for Japan
I'm curious about the other examples? I get it though, as many of these projects are built fulfilling a specific need within MS infrastructure.
Play pong with hands (webcam and AI)
> We don't build products for a customer profile, we build the products we want to build and expect customers to come to us

Huh? Everything I heard from Jobs was the opposite. It was understanding users and building products for them, not from your employees:

https://youtu.be/oeqPrUmVz-o?si=dpQevrbA84Z3qQor
Well, finding out the author works at my alma mater the weirdest way possible: recognizing our Class B in the opening paragraph. I still catch myself typing 131.193 when I go to type in IP addresses on the numpad, just a force of habit.

Of course, my home network's IPv4 space uses the same 10 block as the subnets I worked with most of my time there.
Considering that models have been getting more powerful for the same number of parameters -- all of it.
This is yet another way they're ahead relative to the US.
"Which, if you’re like me and didn’t finish their college level math courses, means absolutely nothing. I dropped out of art school, so it’s mostly over my head."

This is why Ben Golus's posts on shaders are the best. Cause they're actually accessible.
I prefer kubntu too, I'm currently on 22.04 LTS or 24.04 LTS depending on the machine.

I don't like the fact that you can't surface the menu with standard cua keyboard shortcuts in dolphin, e.g. alt-v for view. As someone previously using windows this is a step backwards for efficiency.
I bet they can do something about it.
Requiring the rider to get a special license, force them to ride on the road and not on paths. If you want a motorcycle, then it should be regulated as a motorcycle.
You can host a blog using it using GitHub pages for free.
IIRC, when talking to our (USA) ISP, we need to upgrade to a business plan before we can then pay an extra fee per month for the static IP.
Werckmeister Temperment
Came here to say the same. The shipit program relieved a major pain point that prevented me from getting into Linux at the time: dial-up networking. It was a clever idea :)
Whoops, thanks for the correction!
what assumptions have to be true for such a universe to exist? did it just appear fully formed with N number of cells and defaulting to a color?

a hypothetical universe is mostly worth discussing seriously if there's a physics that is coherent, not just a mathematical landscape. At least it isn't that interesting in the discussion of universes, but might be in discussing mathematical ideas, but those do not necessarily mean there's a universe represented by it.
There's indeed a predictably present cost for checking for failure all the time. Exceptions, depending on the implementation, often do come with runtime overhead too. If the determining factor is a slight performance gain of exceptions over ubiquitous checking, that would be an exceptional (ha) case. I daresay there are almost always other more salient factors, if harder to rearchitect around.
> up to 50000 atomic, short-lived transactions per second

50000?

> You need distributed locking if the transactions can take seconds or hours, and the machines involved can fail while they hold the lock.
From my experience, locks are needed to ensure synchronized access to resources. Distributed locks are a form of that isolation being held across computing processes, as opposed to the mutex example provided.

And while our implementation definitively did not use a distributed lock, we could still see those machines fail.

I fail to understand why a distributed lock is needed for anything due to it's duration.
Exaggerations and rumors. See my other post on this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40006453
This is not my experience with Windows users. Tree hierarchies are very natural for us humans.
MLscript
I'd imagine that to be short lived. IPv6 having such a huge address spaces means the IP reputations are even more worthless than IPv4 so eventually the bots would use it too, and if the ratio of bots to real users become too high sites may refuse IPv6 traffic altogether.
As is typical in Rust-land, lots of talk but implmentations (let alone remotely complete ones) are harder to come by. Partly a procedural and social issue, not just technical queries, which is disappointing.

At least delegation (IIUC closer to concatenation as defined in [1]) is currently being implemented, but I can't say how much weight it can actually carry for the OOP efforts.

[1] "On the Notion of Inheritance": https://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~gfisher/classes/530/handouts/...
There's an item in the FAQ at jwz.org/xscreensaver that explains how to use a video as a source.
I guess that explains why that page won't load, I guess the user is down.
I'm sure the drug companies can't wait to fund more studies that might show their drugs are a waste of money.

With rampant depression, rampant obesity, this isn't a fringe issue. Consider the differential in national productivity between drugged depressed people and fit active people at the same level of treated mood.

Furthermore, I strongly suspect the long term prognosis of depression treatment from consistent application of fitness is far better than the sort of static state of people on antidepressants.

Fitness improves over years of application, modifying brain chemistry, increasing pain tolerance (which is a sneaky factor in depression), improving self image both in relative terms and in absolute comparisons with societal "standards".

Where is the NIH?

With the epidemic of male suicide and painkiller abuse, this could be millions of lives on the line.
After decades of being an ACM member, I cancelled my membership. CACM no longer reports on foundational computer machinery and software developments. It has become a promotional avenue for blockchain and AI/ML. Some editorials hold thinly veiled political views. It most certainly isn't the ACM that I joined decades ago.

Most of my keeping up with tech is via Hacker News. Obviously the quality of materials varies greatly, but for the most part I do find it useful. In many cases the comments lead to further interesting information.
This is exactly how we arrived at our solution. We needed to satisfy the constraint; locking was one means of addressing the constraint.

Maybe we were lucky in our implementation, but a key factor for our decision was understanding how to manage the systems in our environment. We would have skilled up with Redis, but we felt our Postgres solution would be a good first step. We just haven't had a need to go to a second step yet.
Even less ads than Ubuntu would be fine by me
The GC must interrupt the software because otherwise it would have no resources with which to execute. If I am running a standard thread-per-core architecture under full load with tightly scheduled CPU cache locality for maximum throughput, where do you hide the GC and how do you keep it from polluting the CPU cache or creating unnecessary cache coherency traffic? People have made similar claims about Java GCs for years but performance has never been particularly close, which is generally in agreement with what you would expect from theory. A GC will always lack context that the software has.
The other one I want occassionally is "or".

Imagine Left and Right contained data of compatible types, then I'd like to extract that data (regardless of tag) like so:

if x is Left(y) or x is Right(y) then ...

That way I only need to write the `...` part once. (This could be combined with the rest of the pattern matching machinery in interesting ways, and would probably need to have eager matching / short-circuiting semantics in case both cases match).
A better link is https://www.dbreunig.com/2024/10/18/the-3-ai-use-cases-gods-... - this is just my brief notes on the longer article by Drew.
It's even what the T stands for.
> Why are we still watching bluesky build features slowly in public? Every time they post something it's like, ok, a familiar topic/discussion from 15 years ago, being thought out on some also-ran network no one will really care about without actual mass adoption, a possibility that continues to feel like is years out.

"They" did not post this, I did. I am pretty sure that "they" hate me because I was out way of line in their GitHub issues after a few beers, more than once. (I wish I could fix this)

> Mastodon was around for years with no attn and only got handed this miraculous situation and mass migration opportunity but it just got lucky basically. And it's not even it. Despite a bunch of Brazilians or whatever headed to bluesky briefly, it still isn't happening for it anytime soon.

Why people should care is because this is a group of the smartest people around, who really give af about our future, and have not yet been spoiled by the inevitable mind effes that occur when you have to write an eight-figure tax check. These people saw it happen many times before, and created a protocol that prevented themselves from turning into the people whom we all tend to despise on Internet forums.

They have also created a user experience which according to many comments, "feels like old school Twitter." All that, while on an extremely well thought out federated protocol. This is a huge accomplishment.
I was also skeptical, but all the furries have gone to BlueSky, and furries are the indicator species of the internet. They only thrive in healthy ecosystems. So I wouldn't bet against it just yet.
How to you carry groceries (or, basically, function at all) if you can't handle a 500g weight attached to your arm?
Not having to pay $$ for an IP address is nice.
I don't think TPB ever hosted any copyrighted content, even indirectly by its users. Torrent peers do not ever send any file contents through the tracker.
Can't believe you get downvoted so hard just because you dislike Svelte, is praising Svelte the new PC in Hacker News?
"The complexity of theorem-proving procedures" Stephen Cook (1971)
The ideal scenario in my mind is that intelligent and benevolent AI takes over running things and then people have to figure out how to make their life meaningful with only leisure time.

There is no long-term time scale in which humans running things do not obliterate each other or end up sitting on a planet filled with trash.

Either we figure out how to colonize other planets or we hand over the reigns to something that can plan long term and not be irrational.

Maybe if we figure out immortality it might work, but with the short life span of a human there is no way to not be short-sited or eventually end up with the wrong person in charge the button.
It isn't what is explicitly touted as standard, but it is what many developers have culturally established.
Does anyone realistically shut down the Tokio runtime once it's been started? It wouldn't be a problem if the runtime is immortal once created; the runtime reference becomes more of a token demonstrating that, yes, this is running under Tokio.

Though I don't think this is such a huge problem. Yes, it's a runtime crash that could potentially be eliminated at compile-time, but realistically that will only happen once during development, and it will be an easy fix.
A few people here seem rather down on this process, but without giving any detail. What in particular is unpleasant about such job applications?
It's not you, it's the recruiters.

There is a wide cultural chasm between the startup world and established companies. The recruiters I have come across have very little real world experience. They are merely ticking boxes as handed down to them by management. So if management wants to hire people with a "solid" track record, then your startup experiences are going to be viewed negatively.
These are great. I am thinking when we look back on the 21st Century one of the major artistic movements will be artists delving into the lives of everyday, working-class, non-college educated people. Lynch, clearly was ahead of the curve on this, or maybe he never didn't look at those lives. But, man after 2016 a whole lot of filmmakers, TV show runners, comedians, musicians turned their eyes that direction.
Interesting that the diagnosis of autism apparently wasn't available to her. Do you know what she would have been referring to by the autism diagnosis being able to get children the services they needed, that the "asperger's" diagnosis would not?
I remember getting their free cds when I was in college. At the time I was a user of Conectiva Linux with widowmaker Desktop. Conectiva would later fuse with a french company and became Mandriva.

After sufering a couple of years in slack, I tried ubuntu for the first time and was my go to distro until I foun Fedora. And them I never really leave Fedora, but I still try new Ubuntu and arch from times to times.

I do ernjoy how easy they make everything, and while I understand that people dont like Snaps, they do work well enough for the use I do of a linux desktop.
I also run Ubuntu Server on my home server.
That's a very cool intentionally usefully design. What's the rationale behind a 3-kopeck coin though? I don't think I've seen a '3' denomination in any other currency.
>I don't like how vim includes political messages either

Aside from the part where you can explicitly `:help uganda`, I can't fathom what you might be referring to.
'The Great Stay' is preventing young workers from getting a foot in the door
>It doesn’t cause her to be any less attentive to her writing; it just makes it possible to write.

I was not really referring to accommodations under the ADA. For people that do not require accommodations, the use of them is unfair to their classmates and can be detrimental to their ability to perform without them in the future, as there is no requirement to have the accommodations available to them. This is not the case for someone with dyslexia.