skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
@adnanaga looking at you as a future AJ.
And @chan you as the DOPE(Department of pentagon efficiency).
I mean the "bar" is too low now. All you need to do is Pass the bar. Pun intended. Love it guys.I just posted a continue and persist letter to you guys. You guys made me smile and laugh. So Thank You on this Thanksgiving day
I'd prefer we seed life where we go, but I know that's against some others philosophy
In the context of time synchronization, my gut feeling is no, as you can't guarantee that the atomic clocks on other GNSS tick at the same time as GPS. Even if they have the same frequency.

I can't find any benchmarks though that measures this
Absolutely. It is a better designed language by far.
I'd much rather see a bike used for a purpose than a bike lost in the back of a barn!

What's the alt. timeline for the bike? Stored as a collectors item?

Ships in the harbor and all.
I wonder how much of this love of Rust stems from the fact that he actually didn't have a full time job programming in Rust. When one starts off doing hobby projects in Rust the experience can be very pleasant thanks to cargo (btw, it is a bit puzzling that vcpkg is not adopted more broadly in C++ land since the gap from cargo is not that bad).

However, once you get a job writing programs and find out you need to quickly prototype, refactor the code or make changes under a strict deadline, not good, it quite literally is the worst language to make large scale updates beating even C++. This is not counting the other memory safe languages (golang, C#, Java, Kotlin, etc..) which is where you should first target.
> Esperanto is certainly not better than English

Agreed. Until Esperanto starts having actual native-speaking communities, I will look at it the same way I look at Klingon or Elvish.
And then you realize you weren't paying attention and have to skip back several minutes. (Which can happen with a book too !)

Also, "podcasts" go quite a bit back : since it became practical to record radio (wire already, or did that only start with cassette tapes ?)

TV got that too with it's own tapes, but the portability and diversity was much worse until digital video got cheap enough.
> Most people writing small scripts were probably using an API key with development mode.

Yep, me included. Since my apps were never meant as anything more than utilities for myself, I never applied for extended access. Nevertheless, I used these tools multiple times a day, especially for sorting and filtering playlists by audio features such as energy and valence. Now, apparently, they will never work again. I'm sure there are plenty of other hobbyists in the same boat.
It's not a false friend, it is the same word.

Not only do they share an etymology (the word "tariff" in English and "tarif" in German both come from the same Arabic word), they also mean the exact same thing. It's also used in a bunch of other European languages in essentially the same way, with either a similar or identical spelling.

It's only US English where some of the meanings that are still common elsewhere are no longer used. It's actually kind of amusing that Americans would struggle to understand the meaning of an English word, but a French or Italian speaker would understand it. I wonder if there are any other words like this.
The Daemon series along with the Magicians Trilogy by Lev Grossman are two of my favorite sci-fi/fantasy series.
Been around programming for ~20 years, professionally engineering for 13 of them, and I think I first heard the term (and have heard it consistently since then) at least a decade ago.

Rejoice! You are one of today's Lucky 10,000[0]!

[0] https://xkcd.com/1053/
Sure, but they effectively had one - 99% is pretty close and customers don't have a lot of real choice in such a scenario. Allegedly this investigation is about Azure, which isn't even the market leader let alone a monopoly.

There is a big difference between having 99% of the market, and having 20% of the market.
It would be nice to have a pdf copy of the letter downloadable for those who are outside of the USA.
They can be terrible. But it is dirt cheap. So if you use their stuff in a way that you can recover somewhere else if they have issues, you save a lot.

As you mentioned I would stay away from them for things like domain hosting. Just use them for cheap compute, etc.
They should not. It’s not their war. Instead, just give Ukraine what they need to defend themselves.
Umm, proceed and persist sounds better imo.
I am not opposed to it in most cases for any moral reason, but if we did accidentally contaminate an example of even incredibly simple ET life it would be an enormous scientific loss. What one second example of life could teach us would be massive. Contamination would mean we could never be sure we were studying the authentic thing.
> Regardless of what you think of Elon this is dishonest

It is Elon that is dishonest. He has been selling "Full Self Driving" for how many years now?
It’s uniqueness is more how they manage their petrol dollars through a government investment fund rather than subsidizing government services directly or giving back the money to buy popular support like you see in Alaska.
How I wish andlibs/ui (actually native widgets) wasn’t abandoned in a half-done state. Now to build any GUI in Go that doesn’t look abominable I have to use Wails, this is no exception.
I don't know of any hospital pharmacy that has a full fledge biochemistry lab and production facility.

Drug production is very different from the typical work done in a hospital pharmacy.
This is cool. I want to use this combined with NotebookLM to create a podcast with my mom and my dad’s voice covering a concept like gradient descent, Explain Like I’m 5 (ELI5).

I wonder if certain familiar voices like that of your parents would lead to higher understanding and retention.
My experience is the exact opposite. Rust is slow for the initial programming, but great for making changes in, because the type system holds your hand and makes sure your changes are sound.
In accounting terms I guess the tax burden just decreases the NPV of all assets.
Funny to hear there were ~8 models because my impression has always been that they sold ~8 of them total.
I see terms for hosting and domain registration and managed databases, but not colocation. Do you know if they really not care if you actually use that connection to the stated allowance?
> They’re ‘unrealized gains’ for a reason

The bridge that governments are attempting to make is between "you can't tax me on these, they're unrealized gains!" and "I'm going to fund my billionaire lifestyle by borrowing against these unrealized gains."

Maybe tax people on those unrealized gains if they use them as collateral?
By eliminating cgo, they cut the supported platform list in half.
Like sending you gifts via Amazon? Or exposing your address when then send any mail at all? Your address is public record this seems like not something you need to concerned about.
>Rust is a superior technology to C++....it disciplines you to do the things the right way.

>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: in communication technologies, adoption and critical mass are 90% of the game and the other 10% are bikeshedding, at best. And programming languages are a communication technology, they're means to communicate ideas to other programmers.

Love this. May be I should repost this every time there is an argument about Rust. And to expand on that, in communication technology, the one easier to use is going to get wider spread / adoption. And while there were never much hype around Go, I think it is a very good example.

But a lot of Rust [1] ideas are now being polished and used elsewhere like Swift. I am sure we will continue to be experimented in other languages and real world to test whether the trade off is worthwhile.

[1] ( ok may be Cyclone or something earlier in case someone wants to nitpick )
It sounds like your entire point is "stop liking things I don't like". The very fact you say "I condemn people who say those in honest admiration" shows this is more about you than the person who made the comment.

You've provided zero evidence to back of your claims of "grifter" (whatever that is).

It's not hard. Businessmen run businesses. Musk runs many and in a very successful way. You're entitled to your own opinions, but that's what they are - nothing more than your opinions.
> This is way less that the proposed Norway taxes and "value" can be established much more justly than a "startup shares".

The Norwegian wealth tax is 0 up until ~$150k, then 0.7% local tax and 0.3%-0.4% to the state.

So 1%-1.1% above the threshold. But this is of taxable value which for shares is discounted 20%, so the actual tax rate is ~0.8%.

But again, for unlisted companies, the taxable value is the taxable valuation of company assets excluding goodwill, so in practice, it's even lower than that.
Is "budweiser wassup commercial" the new rick roll?
I wonder if there’s a 3D printed version somewhere online
Costco hotdogs have been underpriced for decades. It's an intentional choice, a loss leader. It raising would be mostly meaningless.

But no, last I looked a week ago or so it was still the same price.
Norway has done this for many decades. It's worked just fine.

Morality is subjective, so it's meaningless to argue it is morally wrong without making an argument for why.
Liftoff was super interesting. The start of SpaceX and the Falcon 1 is an incredible story. Didn't know about "Reentry", will have to check it out!
Like everything, “it depends”.

I used to work on a product that handled video, and I would regularly spin up prototypes where I’d stitch together gstreamer pipelines with different plugins to try things out. For reasons that aren’t important, it was easier to use an app linked against the gstreamer libraries than to use its CLI.

There were all sorts of ways I’d evaluate some plugin I was trying out. Maybe I’d look at some test pattern for artifacts. Maybe I’d measure latency. Maybe I’d profile its resource usage. But I can confidently say that in all of those cases, the memory safety of the 100 lines of C++ code that told gstreamer how to plug things together had absolutely no impact on what I was evaluating.

Sometimes the code you’re writing is basically unrelated to what you’re interested in from a prototype.
If you want to know what they’re paying interest rate wise you aren’t going online to find it. We are talking about private bankers and exclusive preferred lender terms. These do go below (sometimes far below) market rates.

We are talking about folks who typically have 50 million USD+ in assets. They may even do all this via their own private corporation investment vehicles which further skews things.

This is why I was talking about wealth qualifications. all these loan types can be used in other scenarios, but the scenario I reference has a certain pattern to it that is unique to tax avoidance schemes. It’s a combination of factors not only one thing.

Let’s take it at face value though. How fast do you think Mark Zuckerbergs wealth grows in a year? Or how about the CEO of any major corporation for that matter? Or even someone who heads a private company with say $150 Million ARR?

Do you think it’s less than 8%? Heck do you think it’s less than 15%?

And this is before we start accounting for things like tax deductions for the interest paid on the loans
I think the issue that these laws are trying to solve (and perhaps not with sufficient nuance) is that the ultra-rich get paid in stock or options, which then go up in value. Those "unrealized gains" aren't taxable (because they're only theoretical at this point), but they're still able to go to the banks and borrow against those gains anyway to fund their lifestyle tax-free.

Obviously you need to be a bit sane about it; I have "unrealized gains" by virtue of having stock options in a company, but while I'm paid well I'm definitely not rich by any stretch. I'm just some dude with stock.
So please provide evidence how Tesla, SpaceX or Starlink have benefited from "a close relationship with state power".

You realize that prior to the latest election, the government generally was opposed to Elon Musk. He was investigated by the SEC, and attacked by politicians.

That sounds like the opposite of crony capitalism.

> So if cronyism is prevalent in US to some degree then a person who does that best shouldn't be criticisized?

Maybe you should start with some evidence first? Honestly, it sounds like you just don't like him and you're mad that others do like him.
> implying that people supportive of LGBTQ rights are (in comparison to the rest of the population) significantly more likely to be pedophiles.

Please don't put words in my mouth, but I'm sorry if anyone "accidentally" misunderstood. What I meant was that 99.9% of teenagers have had one or more contacts with a paedophile via "established" social networks.
The fairest system would be a flat tax per person, surely. Each person will use a pretty average amount of state resources. It's expensive to live in California, after all.
Then use a language with fewer footguns?
In my experience with both (currently subscribed to both) Spotify is quicker to extrapolate from less information, and Apple is more patient and observes longer-term patterns. They both eventually get to my tastes, but I can more-rapidly alter the primary genres of my Daily Playlists on Spotify than I can of the various weekly playlists on Apple Music.

I like each for its own reasons, though if I had to choose one forever, I’d probably pick Apple, but it wouldn’t be by a landslide. :)
I'm thankful that I was born after the widespread availability of antibiotics, vaccines for Polio. I'm thankful for having seen the hockey stick curve of computing thanks to Moore's law... getting newer, faster, cheaper computers every few years for a few decades straight.

I'm thankful for the friends I've made, and the family I share this journey with.

I'm thankful for the roof over my head, with reliable infrastructure for potable water, sewer, power, natural gas, and Internet. I'm thankful for effective local governance, even if they do make some bone-headed decisions some times.

I'm thankful for the time I have left, and freedom to explore technology that was only available to a handful of insiders in the 1970s and 80s, like TinyTapeout, 3d Printing, CNC routers, etc.

I'm thankful for all the stuff that came before, surface plates, gage blocks, cheap mass produced steel and other materials, hardware, and all that enables.

I'm thankful for Grainger and McMaster-Carr... and lots of other wonders in the world.

I'm thankful for digital photography, and the 1/2 gigabyte of photos I've taken since 1997. And for the cheap mass storage that makes it possible.

We live in amazing times, and I'm thankful for as much of it as I can be.
How does that human nullify anything if they don't unlock the account? Presuming GP entered real information, which we can only assume at this point
It's obvious once you think about what enables our current industrial activity: millions of years of biological growth and sedimentation. But it's all equivalent to solar radiation that was incident on the planet over millions of years which we have burned up in less than a few hundred. Once you understand this basic reality the logical conclusion is very clear and obvious: the current rate of consumption is unsustainable. The obvious next question is what can be done about it but no one wants to think about it so it never gets addressed. Presumably someone higher up the political and economic hierarchy is thinking about it and they will manage things as best as possible but based on how people reacted to COVID lockdowns I'm not sure they know what they're doing.
1and1 were also notorious for aggressively trying to collect on "debts" - more than one person I know had 1and1 send debt collection letters to their parents over renewal fees for hosting plans they didn't even want.
In any event, good luck with whatever plans you think will restore natural balance. I've made my points as clear as possible.
Because of baseless nostalgia, you’ll always prove yourself right in this matter.

Focusing on the things that are good and beautiful and making the future better than today would be a good start for someone with your mindset.
As best we know single called life formed about 600M years after the earth (at least the earliest evidence we have for such life). And we don’t actually have evidence as to how many times it occurred. Our mathematical models for defining life and making predictions are just starting to take shape.
I don't doubt it, but I don't count it for sh_t because, using some words from the great Suzi/Eddie Izzard, they were in the service of "a mass-murdering f_ckhead."

Every culture has a moral compass, because each is a sum-total amalgam of its free-will-endowed human members, and some cultures just need to be stripped of their power to callously and cruelly oppress innocents.

The Abrahamic books do not mince words about oppressors. Life is meant to be joyous, free from stress, with enough for all of us, in a pristine environment purpose-built for our physiology. But we must choose that Path of Peace and Love, each of us. And, as always, the Paradox of Tolerance must be contemplated and honored. Love's dictate is that no one is compelled to help anyone, but no one should be permitted to harm innocents.

"Know your enemy." --RATM
Is a man not entitled to the unrealized sweat of his brow?
Hypothetically, if I had to violate someone's personal privacy like this, I think I'd be leaning toward doing it for someone I don't like. And even then, I would never.
It is utterly insane to me that this is still a conversation.

Ukrainians have been sacrificing their lives to defend us all from Russian imperialism, and all they ask for is weapons. It's almost three years on now, and yet here we are.

POV: EU/US dual citizen, in EU for the last 8 years.
European Federation of Journalists to Stop Posting on X
You have to develop subspace (i.e. faster-than-light) communications for this to work. The distance between two points in Europe, after bouncing off a satellite in geostationary orbit, is very, very far, and EM waves can only travel at lightspeed, resulting in very long latency. It's significantly faster if your satellite is in low-earth orbit, but you can't keep a satellite in a fixed position there, so now you need a whole swarm of them so you have sufficient coverage at any time, and you need a way of periodically boosting their orbits or replacing them as they fall into the atmosphere.

There's a very good reason the world likes submarine cables for internet communications.
Land value tax is the most effective tool in creating market conditions for real estate
“On Tyranny,” by Timothy Snyder
Well yes, you go to court if you can't agree with the merchant on anything. They're the competent authority to settle disputes

When I pay for something, now the other party has the money, that's how money works. If I trust them that little, I should probably be using escrow but this costs extra and so it imo doesn't make sense to pay that fee for every transaction - as one does with this chargeback guarantee thing. Probabilistic societies where you're excluded based on bad odds or credit scores is what you get with that system (I've been on the losing end of that, not because I've ever had any debt (too little money) but precisely because they had no positive data because I never needed a loan, and so you can't pay for stuff in certain countries because they require a credit card)
I was thinking about this earlier today. I decided, albeit probably in a manner way too naiive... use Go if you want to write an app and use Rust if you want to write a program.
The default model can search the internet just like Google
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=g...

Google trends only go back to 2004, but it's older than that.
Ask HN: Is Computer Engineering a worthwhile MS degree?
I’m a software engineer with a CS degree. I was accepted to a school for ECE. I have the option to go either CE or EE, but can’t decide. What things outside of typical software dev to CEs do? Should I focus on the hardware side or the really low level software side? It’s all interesting to me but I’d love to hear more from expert engineers on the different paths.

My hope is to combine my CS and programming experience along with my masters program in interesting ways. To understand the stack all the way down to the hardware level and be able to implement end-to-end solutions that way. My issue is not knowing anything about the fields in industry
Well, programming is now a career choice for extraverts and sociable types, because Agile methodologies and "beware a guy in a room" have normalized more studio meddling from the top. So if there's a pill I can pop to make me more sociable, sign me up if it'll help me find or keep work.
The disadvantage of doing a big refactor in Rust is that you can't do a partial refactor -- it won't compile until you've fixed everything.

The advantage of doing a big refactor in Rust is that you can't do a partial refactor -- it won't compile until you've fixed everything.
nit: double entry accounting only goes back to the 13th century, not thousands of years.
Cloud providers make their money with the high bandwith costs. I can get 10 gbit/s line for ~$3,000 a month with a dedicated server. That's 3 PB of data and according to AWS cloudfront calculator it would cost ~$90,000 with them...

So yeah, people get ripped off, just like with SMS in the past. Most don't know this or think it's fine, because "cloud" has benefits that justify the costs in the end ("I don't have to pay for sys admin!").
Agreed. The problem is that many SaaS products want to integrate AI into their systems in ways that strike this balance, but in my experience, giving individuals an OpenAI account and letting them figure out how to automate the boring parts of their job is more effective. However, different people in the same job will likely use AI slightly differently, and it can be hard to find the right abstraction that suits a SaaS product.

And then, like it or not, companies are hopping on the agent train hoping to automate out a percentage of their headcount because that’s how they’re being pitched on it behind closed doors.
> which only happens to fools and fakes

Lots of people have directly stated otherwise. Are you super sure they're wrong?
Discussion (15 points, 11 days ago, 9 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42166405
Unnecessary attack. You disagree on what "grind" refers to and that's fine, but your comment was personal and mean.
Or the environment of Earth is hospitable to only one structure for life. Or all life we’d find anywhere has the same structure. We don’t yet know enough about the phase change transition from inorganic chemistry to biology.
This reminds me of how my father (a lawyer) sent fake subpoenas to invite people to his brother's bachelor party. Most found it hilarious but it freaked a few people out. I suspect that this would have the same problem.
Rust was specifically designed to be refactorable and in my experience it is. It was part of the dogfooding process of building Rust in Rust - lots of changes to the language, lots of changes to the compiler, lots of churn. Rust's strong type system means you can refactor and be confident that programs continue to work.
I do not see anything particularly ugly in provided screenshots. And many "modern" utterly unergonomic applications with lots of wasted whitespace, low contrast invisible text and "clickable" elements that look the same as the rest are pure abomination. But I guess it can be a generational difference.

There are rather pleasant exceptions of course.