skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They’re typically health influencers who attempt to get you to buy vitamins and supplements and programs you don’t need.

Sometimes they sell sacred geometry pendants and whatever other made up bullshit too.

Point being, they’re almost never honest. So, if they’re telling you raw milk is not only safe, but will cure a variety of modern ailments, just… grain of salt.

They rely on having an audience of gullible and health insecure people.
At the risk of dating myself, I suspect the author of that self-described rant either has forgotten how long it took for C++ to mostly dethrone plain C, and perhaps practically more relevantly, how painfully long it took for new versions of C++ to be widespread enough that people dared to rely on them. This stuff isn't easy at scale; adoption is slow.

Doesn't mean rust will ever grow like that, but merely slow adoption doesn't sound like a death knell by itself to me.
Rust is slow to develop and prototype in. It's good if you're a big company not the average Joe.

We need a better C++ ("systems") base language that could have an optional borrow checker or bounded model checker enabled.
One will never see evidence when one is unwilling to see it. There is no discussion to be had when one side has no issue arguing in bad-faith.
How do you pay taxes for something that doesn't exist with money you do not have?
Pathogens that cling to microplastics may survive wastewater treatment
> Anybody earning a wage pays tax on revenue, not profit

Not really though. You do have deductions in the US (though limited).

https://www.irs.gov/credits-and-deductions-for-individuals

And lots of places don't tax houses or real estate.
You might be interested in n2, from the author of ninja.
A talk by Loïc Marleix about this language:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK-lBdVTulo
For Hetzner you rent actual physical servers. There is nothing virtualized there, it's real hardware without abstractions.
Had exactly the same experience. I even provided my real drivers license -- something I normally would never do. Didn't convince them I am a real human being that matches what's on the ID.

I never understood why people think so highly of Hetzner.
Maybe. The writer notes other technologies that were superior (on some axis) and won second place:

> But Rust is better in the same way that Betamax was better than VHS, Mastodon is better than Twitter, Dvorak keyboards are better than QWERTY, Esperanto is better than English and Lua is better than Javascript
He's not "painting" a picture. He's citing statistics. You've countered with an anecdote.

Of course data is not perfect, and there are often issues with methodology, data quality, or analysis the data. Even so, I usually find data more persuasive than anecdotes.
There's a huge amount of legacy code that cannot be replaced overnight. There's thousands of person-hours invested in such codebases and they need to be maintained. There's also a much greater number of experienced C++ programmers available versus Rust programmers with the same level of experience (especially working experience, not just the language itself), so that's another factor.

So companies with lots of earning potential in greenfield projects might indeed have a competitive advantage, while it's more difficult for those with products that have a large existing C++ codebase.
Check out the DMZ in Korea and Chernobyl.
Taxing people for going into debt certainly an... interesting idea.
I deeply appreciate the mood, but when the NSA started pushing memory safety and TRACTOR launched, I doubled down.
Used Linode for years. Brilliant service. Not sure how the Akamai takeover will pan out.

Anyone else looking to migrate. https://www.serverhunter.com/
Gonna try this product, but "actual" is a really good option for people who just want to self host and forget about it. Really love seeing some basic info about my spendings, as well as detailed transactions when needed.

Wish they supported more advanced graphs, and let me choose what I want to see. We'll see!
RFK, who is backed by our president elect, is an anti-vaxxer. Our soon to be head of the department of energy doesn’t believe in climate change.

The medium matters a lot. Any idiot can get on a soapbox now. Decentralized communication to the masses like never before.

You can see the spark of populism after each new medium. The printing press, radio, television - all accompanied with a populist movement of their time.
Is this tax because the state needs the money or is it social engineering?
You changed china with ccp for both statements and then corrected them.
Wealth tax is a long-established practice in Germanic Europe. The list of countries that collected it in 1965 is kind of interesting: Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. Most of them eventually abolished it.

It made more sense in the past, when speculative valuations were less common and capital flight was less of an issue. It was collected from wealthy people, who could probably afford to pay. And it served as an additional incentive to invest your wealth productively. But then globalization arrived and made the drawbacks bigger than the benefits.
You're making choices like that every single day. Sometimes with reversed percentages. Even posting this message may be on average a tiny loss for the world. (It's meaningless in the end and burned some energy to give one person a mini dopamine boost)
They are still in business because 99.99% of customers are not affected by this.

I'm happy customer for years and will be even with these changes.
How many wildly successful finance firms are running COBOL somewhere on the backend? How many successful healthcare systems are running MUMPS? Bad languages don't seem to kill companies, just make disgruntled developers and bad products.
In some states there are, which is also a bad & unjust practice. The difference is that the rates are between 0.49% and 2.5% and reassessment period differs between the states/localities (these are local taxes).
This is way less that the proposed Norway taxes and "value" can be established much more justly than a "startup shares".
Yes and property taxes are terrible.

Tax. Vacant. Land.
Thanks, I guess what I meant to ask is that is it normal for people to virtualize their own dedicated server these days by default?

Would this be a best practice to avoid hosting vendor lock-in?
It makes cross-compiling a lot more difficult. Instead of being able to build on whatever OS/architecture you use and produce binaries for any other OS/architecture you want to target with a single command (one of Go's superpowers), you need a complex build pipeline.
If their business grows at a rate higher than interest, there's no reason why the bank wouldn't be happy to add the interest to the loan. If their business is growing at a rate lower than interest, it's a poor investment and they ought to sell it off and put their money somewhere else. Such as lending it out.
Government controlled access to internet is a disgrace in any form. I can control my child without the government.
Show HN: A word guessing game based on text vector embeddings and cos-similarity
Try to find the secret word that computer holds,
by guessing and getting feedback in form of how similar your guess to the secret is.
The fewer attempts the better.
There is also a hint and a give-up button.
Thank you, please give it a try )
Well the Akamai takeover was 2 years ago, so fairly certain whatever you have now is how it ended up panning out.

I did panic a bit when it happened but my Linode just keeps working so I’m not unhappy.
That but also privacy too. The damage is real, yes, but the negative effect on privacy will also be. (And the Aus gov is extremely far from any kind of principled actor in this to trust them with this experiment. Though I'm very curious of the results now that the experiment is underway anyway...)

Also, of course, quite ironic how everyone is worried about kids' mental health, while brain rot of the voting age population of "the West" had been ongoing for decades. And now the eggs of neopopulism have hatched. (One more unfortunate but quite interesting experiment.)
If it's optional, people are unlikely to use it, and we'll be back at square one again regarding pervasive memory safety issues.

That being said, keep an eye on Carbon.
Just give me a modern C++ like language with fast compilation, easy to pull in packages, and build tooling. Basically Go with no GC.
How much of that value was created by the food markets?
I recall a study from a few years ago that showed that Acinetobacter bacteria can eat the detergents that NASA used to clean spacecraft to prevent contamination: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/06/bacteria...
They specifically mention tarifs, maybe its political. Can't expect that kind of thing to get thrown around without international response.
Being in the uk, we were fortunate enough to choose rust as a main language with my co-founder about two years ago. We chose it after trying it out for some toy projects, and with no real experience with it (but both of us having heavy experience of C++, C#, Python, Ruby, and having tested many others).

We chose it because it felt "right", giving us c++ performance, productivity when writing, and a feeling of cleanliness from its type system I had not experienced since ... Ocaml.

But what we did not expect was how great it was from a talent perspective. We started hiring at a time where lots of rust developers were being laid off crypto, and the caliber of candidates is just ... amazing. Rust devs enjoy working with the language, and you get a type of developer who likes producing good code, and is usually quite passionate about coding.

So, I understand rust jobs are not easy to get by, but being on the other side of the table, it's a wonderful talent magnet for our team, allowing us to hire great developers.
Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men (1930)

Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker (1937)

Rather difficult reads for me as a non-native english speaker, but it was worth it. It is hard to imagine a more epic science fiction scenario than "Star Maker".
Funny enough, there's a bunch of Javascript tooling for which being written in rust, as opposed to thee one they are replacing written in js itself, is their competitive advantage.
OTOH there is Azure where a very sophisticated Twillio phishing service was hosted. When reported to abuse Microsoft replied they were a valid customer. A week later it finally came down.
Check Odin.
Show HN: Using AI to Connect People on Shared Journeys
Hi HN! I’m the founder of Kuky, an app designed to connect people who are navigating similar life experiences. This video demo highlights how we’re using AI prompting to match users based on shared health and wellness journeys.

Whether it’s two people experiencing their first trimester or someone looking for a supportive mental health network, Kuky leverages technology to foster meaningful connections.

We’re excited about the potential of Kuky to help people find the support they need, and we’d love to hear your feedback:

What do you think about the demo?
How can we improve Kuky to better meet user needs?
Are there other applications or ideas you’d explore with this tech?
Which community do you think needs this product most?
Exactly. VSCode and Chrome already have Rust code, although only a very small part. But if giant, complex projects like these can find places where Rust fits, most other projects can as well.
This is particularly difficult for drugs that affect the brain, like MDMA for PTSD in veterans. What do you use as the control group for that, when patients and clinicians can tell that who got the real thing and who did not. I call this the bridge problem. In order to do science, you have to have a control group, but if I built a bridge across a ravine, we don't have to have cars drive off a cliff and fall into the ravine in order to scientifically prove that the bridge works and exists. We engineered a bridge and put it there and obviously if there was no bridge cars would just fall into the ravine so we don't need to test that the bridge exists. We design the bridge, we rate it up to a certain capacity, we don't test it until it fails, we simply prohibit really heavy trucks from driving on smaller bridges that can't take their weight.

We can't do any of that for drugs that affect emotions and consciousness because we're barely in the stone age of our understanding of the brain and the technology we have to affect it.
Are they going to use some kind of video verification (which is just some AI/ML guessing the age based on the video?) and usual signals (ie. if the user likes too many stuff that kids like they will be flagged, and their account suspended)?

Well, I guess it will lead to kids getting a bit better at asking older folks for help.
> Please stop trying to act like a moderator here, it's against HN guidelines.

Read that out loud to yourself, slowly.
100% this. It's still absurd to me how codebases in some industries are still basically C++98 and haven't even begun to transition to at least C++17 (which forces new code that adds or changes features to be written C++98-style as well).

Hard to imagine those companies switching to a different language anytime soon. Maybe the new US government push towards "memory safe" languages will help with that.
If the borrow checker slows you down, the C++ you write instead would just be buggy
Isn't that just D? No one uses D not because it's a bad language, but because the actual language isn't nearly as important for adoption as the community behind it.
Great post, OWL! I love a good mathematical diversion with cultural context wrapped around it, it's like a beef wellington for the analytical mind.

Codepen is great for discourse like this but I want to put the conventional Genji-mon in a unit test and then go hog wild with rule construction, because I remember running out of steam exploring more robust rules that still satisfy `width` = 5.

I'm bearish on LLMs, for better or worse, but you seem to know your way around them. Do you suppose this problem could be attacked with some sort of trained rigmarole that writes rulesets?
Norway has a good oil refinery industry though. They refine oil from other places because they're so good at it.
looks beautiful, great execution! do you mind sharing which fronted tools you used?
Well you got a human answering the support hotline.

I think that alone kinda nullifies the threat of an algorithm. The entire reason why they're such a massive problem is because Google et al. refuse to operate proper support hotlines to help people and even if they do have a support line (Facebook infamously doesn't have one and wants you to go through the courts to contact them), the support staff aren't actually equipped to help people beyond regurgitating canned support page links. You can't solve a malfunctioning algorithm with another algorithm or by forcing a human to behave like an algorithm.

It's not a big secret that the best way to get yourself in front of actual support if GAFAM screws you over is to complain about it on HN because this is where SREs lurk that can actually punt your requests through to people that can look into it.

Hetzner at least gave a direct answer to explain the reason.
That is, unfortunately, not how anything works.
Yeah, for a production model you'd likely see the chamber dropped down to a reasonable height, and whatever is in the pedestal can be hidden behind an adjacent wall or under the floor or something. There's no real reason it needs to be up on that pedestal apart from just being visually impressive
Currently, my waste water goes right back into the Mississippi. Fresh water galore. That's not the case on the west coast. Residential (lawns aside) isn't a drop in the bucket compared to agriculture though.
That’s not it. That’s too general.

Applying a tax when the financial purpose of the loan is solely to avoid paying any taxes on realizing the gains is what I’m talking about. This is demonstrably a vehicle of tax avoidance used by wealthy individuals to avoid taxes on what they would otherwise have to because they would have to sell the asset otherwise
Don't you think their actual advantage is that they are compiled to native code?
Before breakfast. 'spoons opens quite early in the morning for a reason ...
You got a user friendly easy to follow guide? You can start by telling me what you mean by keys...
Replying here as your other question is at max thread depth:

A non virtualized Linux install isn't more locked in than a docker install, as for a bare metal server you are choosing your own OS. I have done the docker thing on a bare metal server, but that's because I wanted to run multiple services on it and isolate them operationally.
What country are you looking in? Everything I’ve seen (US) is like the linked post describes. There’s a fair amount of C or C++ jobs, while the Rust ones are all either crypto startups or extremely specialized (5 years professional rust experience plus 10 years professional Linux kernel development experience, or 4 years professional rust experience plus 8 years compiler development experience, stuff like that).
Yes, and it would die rather quickly if it would be a typical low power 2mA LED. Cam sensors can consume quite a bit of power, certainly more than 6mW at 3.3V when active (easily 200-500mW). Even if it would not die, it would be irritating, because light intensity would vary with power consumption of the sensor module.

Nobody sane would hopefully design it this way. :)
There's no lock-in possible. It's a bare metal Linux machine, you do whatever you want with it; you can replace it with the PC under you desk if you want.

If you want to run k3s, k8s or docker, you can, but personally I find those too complicated. NixOS is much easier to deal with, and achieves the same result.
Strategically speaking, Europe lacks the natural resources to build renewable, wind turbines and solar panels have to be imported, most of them from Asia.

Nuclear is still a bit cheaper per Watt and less carbon intensive, as it involves less infrastructure, logistics and batteries overall. It's also somewhat more reliable, as it doesn't depend on sun or wind (the former of which France often lacks).

Also, I am hopeful that nuclear power plant construction delays will only improve in the near future, as Europe rebuilds its expertise in nuclear engineering, which it lost after the past decades of anti-nuclear waves.

Finally, I don't see fossil fuel usage going down much in Germany in the link you gave, if at all. Which is the only thing that matters, ecologically speaking.
Over half of the value of exports is oil and mining, but oil production, mining and quarrying directly employ only about 23,000 people, compared to 190,000 in manufacturing for example.

Because such a large portion of the oil proceeds are banked, it also distorts the rest of the economy far less than it otherwise would. Unless you live in very specific parts of Norway, you can go your entire life with hardly any exposure to the oil industry directly, or secondary interactions with major suppliers to the oil industry.
they separate out oil activities in their national accounts. “Mainland Norway” GDP is also not bad compared to neighboring countries.

although it doesn’t measure indirect effects of oil wealth on other sectors. but still, “petrostate” isn’t really accurate.
Isnt the first stable language version from 2018?
It means the sample was spoiled. We can't exactly use it to understand the possibility of extraterrestrial life or life's building blocks.

But since they were very careful, it is still useful to understand other meteorites and how they could have been contaminated as well.

It also serves to predebunk anyone who would want to imply that those microbes were of alien origin.
Tell me more.. there's a X lange and it's superior in every aspect. Wouldn't new apps be written in that language? Why?
I think most people take showers but most people don't irrigate their fields.
I think you are missing the point. The "problem" is the question of what you baseline you want humans to restore it to and then actively maintain.

Many people want to restore nature, but the natural state is usually one of flux which is deeply unsatisfying to many advocates of it's restoration.

It is an interesting question.
That value buys excellent public transport, and generally wages that let you trade in £1000 banger for £3000 one.
What do you even mean by "work". You live in a fantasy land if you think the government will say we expect outcomes A, B and C from this law and will repeal or adjust it if all outcomes aren't met in 3 years. It's either a power grab or lobbying as others have suggested.

SERIOUSLY! Is anyone claiming that childhood depression and suicide will go down to some range after this law is put in effect? Of course not. Will grades go up? "Government says I can't use social media, guess I'll study, go to sleep on time, and become a productive worker." - Average Australian kid? Will the number of sextortion caused suicides (in the <16 bracket) go back to 0 from 1 to the glory days of 2021 when social media didn't exist (nope, because he was 17 when he died and that was last year). Will the number of girls being sextorted for cash decrease? (reading this [1] you can just ask and they'll tell you, that's great, also it's the general sentiment between students that social media should be banned, another big win! Isn't it convenient when reality bends to ideology.) How exactly can you measure this? Is there a counter of the number of <16s who have seen porn/gore on social media and became too misogynistic or too autistic (or too much of a gay, trans, pedophile, brainrotted, degenerate, debauched, profligate, libertine, licentious, effeminate, wanton, vicious, perverse, recreant, lascivious, unrīht sodomite) for the government's taste? Anything more than a vague sense that cyberbulling will go down and irlbullying will go up a bit? probably Who knows, who cares! We allegedly have vague public sentiment! So grab away!

It's blindingly obvious that this ban can't and won't change <16s habits past switching from their favorite app to whatever their friends are using now.

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/australian-father-of-te...
Most languages exhibit Isomorphism, and necessarily so...

People are happy in Ivory towers, and often ignore better high-level llvm compiler options. =3
If you ask a socialist to describe their ideal world, it is one in which everyone is equally poor.

They see "taxing the rich" first and foremost as punishing an ideological enemy, with little thought given to actually maximizing the tax revenue they can collect from them over time.
Context is a challenge for LLMs, but the challenge feels of a different quality to me, than the challenge of incorporating local context into automated decision-making AI like algorithmic hiring, banking decisions, and real estate valuation like Zillow. These examples are more like "pre-LLM" machine learning, and it's not clear to me that LLMs are inherently limited in the same way. If anything, I think there's potential for LLMs to more flexibly handle a much broader variety of local contextual information by ingesting natural language rather than non-LLM machine learning systems where how to featurize or represent this information is typically quite bespoke. Take the neighbors' practicing death metal in their garage every Sunday and its impact on house valuation - it feels harder to get a non-LLM ML system to "understand" this, as a very sparse "feature", than an LLM.
doesn't always work apparently
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42269262