skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
have you noticed that the quality of movies has been progressively declining? i think it's because the pirated movie boom ended. there was a theory that DVD movie piracy increases the box office revenue. bring back movie piracy?
> What makes you think Mercedes would be better at doing that?

I didn't say they are. You're the only one making assumptions here :)
You seem to have it exactly backwards: we have 200 years of practical evidence in favour of modern fluctuation theory thanks to things like steam turbines. Structure does sponataneously appear in a gas in thermal equilibrium, one can show this in a classroom experiment.

Landau and Lifshitz vol 5 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course_of_Theoretical_Physics#...> is the standard textbook. There's an older copy on the Internet Archive <https://archive.org/details/landau-and-lifshitz-physics-text...>. (Having the background of L&L vol 9 makes a classroom demonstration even easier: a small handful of electronic parts for a resistive-capactive low-voltage DC electric dipole, a decent oscilloscope or other apparatus to measure and record fluctuating voltage, and a thermometer).

The probability of an out-of-equilibrium structure spontaneously fluctuating (briefly!) into existence depends on the complexity of the structure, and Boltzmann brains are much much much less complex than the whole Earth, solar system, Milky Way, or the early universe in which these structures' precursors originated. So therefore any theory compatible with statistical physics in which the early low-entropy state of the universe is a fluctuation in a higher-entropy "gas" is imperiled.

For the philosopher or two who wrote comments above in this thread, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/statphys-Boltzmann/ is probably of interest.
I don’t know which type of corruption I prefer to be honest, Democratic corruption where Nancy Pelosi has $240m net worth on a salary of $233k or Donald Trump MAGA GOP corruption whose son in law received $2bn from Saudi for reasons unknown.

It seems not much changes but the names and the bank account balances.
Thanks, you made me think, but not in a way that makes me doubt my original point.

Browsing HN for 30 mins is a better investment for someone who's life revolves around tech. If you're not a massive nerd, you're probably going to get more understanding and value out of 30 minutes of what TikTok serves. (I say that as a massive nerd who's never used TikTok).

It seems a pretty common trope in the comment sections of Reddit and HN on the subject of social media for people to act like they've solved the problem they had because they only use Reddit and HN. I do it too.

All that's happened is I've found a place in social media that's comfortable/familiar enough for me that I don't consider it as social media (unless it's really forced in my face). I imagine the experience is the same for a non-nerdy Facebook addict.

> Light use of social media can be a greater net positive than complete abstinence from all forms of social media.

I can't disagree with that, but it feels like a false dichotomy to justify our social media usage.

Getting info from individual sites and sources that you've personally and organically discovered and vetted feels like it would be a far far far bigger net positive overall than even light social media usage.

I keep meaning to get on mastodon, bluesky or other platforms that are meant to be more decentralised and slightly less algorithm-driven to find more interesting sources that I can just add to a local reader client or something, but HN/Reddit is more comfier/familiar/easier for me.
C was written as a portable assembly language, so I think a memory address is a number that CPU considers to be a memory address.
> based pretty loosely on the Clarke short story The Sentinel

The Sentinel provided the idea for the monolith on the moon being an alien 'intelligent life detector' (i.e. to detect when humans had achieved spaceflight). But it has no man-apes, no Jupiter mission, no HAL, no star-gate sequence. The bulk of the plot came from the Clarke-Kubrick collaboration, which had numerous other inputs [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey#Writing
I disagree, I know many Asians that came here and worked in restaurants to survive. They definitely were not wealthy at all.

All of their children did exceptionally well in school because the parents were very involved in their schooling.

These kids were often the first in their family to ever get into college.
> The end effect will probably be even more subscribers and money for Jones

That seems a very foreseeable outcome.
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A conforming C compiler is allowed to emit that function to perform the write and then return the constant 1. Should that be allowed?
Golang and Typescript mainly, haven't looked back since.
>> Performance monitoring data shows increased pressure on the decoder in SMT mode across all integer workloads.

That's probably why AMD put 2 decoders in Zen5.
Well if you take into account that Peter Thiel invested heavily to fund the Vice President, and Elon Musk funded Donald Trump and optimized Twitter to promote Donald Trump (that cost is not factored in the funding I believe), and now will have a direct say on government bodies not to mention influence and direct access to the President.

So it's not a takeover, but direct government access and influence, out in the open.

This is all under the conspiratorial premise that the "deep state" was captured by private interests... all to be replaced by the private interests of the richest men alive.

It's a highly confusing narrative, and I'd love to understand those who see this in a positive light.
Hey, i didn't decide on this yet. Initially i added the author names on the card so people can see who the idea came from and authors possibly get a little bit of credit.

But then i thought maybe some people are too shy to give their name away so it's best to remove them.

I was still in dilemma, so removed it from the UI but not from the api reponses ( will do it now )

In future, i'll just add an option in the profile, so you can choose to show your name if you want to
not "mass support"... only half of registered voters "chose" Trump... because they just want change, and our system doesnt give us any actual choice
You are missing a crucial element. Good rules must be competent AND not evil.
I think you are right. Appreciate it and I’ve edited my comment.
Investigation Launched into Queensland Virus Lab Breach
It's not, as defamation should have legal consequences. A one billion dollar payout verdict is just orders of magnitude off in terms of proportionality.

Unfortunately, Alex Jones the person and the nature of Sandy Hook means that most people won't be able to look at this situation with any sort of sanity. The verdict could have been 100 trillion and people would have said it was deserved.
If the Judaical system enforces content regulation selectively, that is objectively worse than pure free speech since it encourages propaganda AND suppresses dissent of that propaganda. Also no one cares what you're ok with, go report some facebook posts if you want to feel like an idea authority.
Huh, I wonder why they stopped at 20.
The numerator might so up but so will the denominator, so it effectively cancels each other out. More to the point, I feel like this argument is over relative vs absolute. It might be noticeable" to a single person, but given that we're talking about the healthcare system as a whole, it's fair to say that it's not "noticeable".
The numerical value returned by oracle might physically match the address of the stack slot for 'x', assuming that it exists, but it doesn't mean that, from a language point of view, it is a valid pointer.

If forging pointers had defined behaviour, it would be impossible to use the language sanely or perform any kind of optimization.
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it’s common (however charged or derisive) vernacular.

the name stuck. most people can’t name more than 2-3 people in the “PayPal mafia” but they know the term “PayPal mafia.”
It’s not so much unclear as premised on a number of false distinctions that make it unfalsifiable. For example, at what point and under what conditions does a foreign-born child of Polish immigrants that immigrate to the U.S. become white such that they move from one group to the other? How would you correlate however said group membership requirements correspond to test performance? Why does your curiosity about the relevance of Simpson’s paradox disappear when discussing the category of immigrants, a group with more diverse membership than any of your racial categories, and thus more probable to being prone to its effects?
They earn a non-negligible cut, yes, but stating that they're "taking 1-3 pennies" is simply not true (or rather, you'd have to expand your statement to "the card payments industry in collaboration with consumers").

Rewards and interchange foster a very bad market structure (it's a kind of "tragedy of the commons" in that it's the rational move to participate in this scheme as a consumer with good credit, and consumers with bad credit are ultimately paying for it), and the EU (in my view correctly) recognized that and capped most interchange rates significantly.

But if you look into the details, you'll find that they did not do anything about Visa's or Mastercard's share of the card fees (at least so far).

> we could rework national schemes like Girocard

That would need a lot of reworking to be a real competitor. Girocard does not have a viable story for online payments (no actual processing capabilities beyond some Apple Pay only pilots, importantly no dispute resolution mechanism, which is critical for online payments, etc).

It is a great low-fee payment method at the POS, though, and I'd love to see it compete EU-wide!
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Though if you look at the history of the earth the climate has fluctuated constantly, millions of species have evolved and gone extinct, 99% have been wiped out by meteors at times. Humans have only been here for like 0.0025% of it and tech for like 0.000001% of it. It's a bit overdone to panic over it getting slightly warmer.
One thing that I wish I knew was the conflict between the parent short-term vs long-term benefits.

Imagine there is a big meltdown because the child wants a snack. The parents are exhausted and you just need it to stop. You will have a strong interest in finding a quick short-term solution (ie. give the kid a snack) because it will produce immediate benefit (end the meltdown). But in the long term that may have side effects (e.g. the kid will expect snack at any time they want).

The long-term goal (eating schedule) has a high short term cost (meltdown will go longer and be harder) but often ends up paying off in a big way over time.

I wish I had paid more attention to that, but I don't want to be too hard on my old exhausted self :)
Yay, The US is polarized that an election victory is to be celebrated like a sports event.
Right the problem here is the targeted, selective enforcement -- really, overenforcement -- of laws. Nobody would argue that people hit with $100 million judgments for copyright violations while torrenting music actually had copyright on that music. They didn't. But the point of the eye watering judgments was to send a message. Same here.
That’s the point. C allows this function to be optimized to always return 1. A “pointers are addresses, just emit reads and writes and stop trying to be so clever” version of C would require x to be spilled to the stack, then the write, then reload x and return whatever it contained.
Ignoring the fact that he lost for not participating and for lying throughout the process...which is why we are were we are...its worth reviewing what he actually did.

A really entertaining podcast has actually done a series of episodes on the depositions in the case. If you are curious about the facts heres a list of those episodes:

https://knowledgefight.libsyn.com/size/25/?search=Formulaic+...

Be warned they are...long and detailed.
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They're not the arbiter of wisdom, they're the arbiter of commercial success & market viability, which is always a bell curve to the bottom (see Stanley Cups and cupcake, boba, and dumpling retail [in the US]).

I worked in the film industry, in DVDs, at the height of that market. Sales of DVDs tumbled. End of story. There was nothing for the studios to do because the ROI was dead, and their previous efforts (which were terrible natch) to manipulate the DVD market (cheaper, limited play product) were dumb.

DVDs were great, streaming ate their lunch.

Calling capitalism's market economics an idiocracy is.. tautological.
Yes, and even easier than tradfi since the ledger is by definition public. At that point it's allbjust passing dicta from on high. The crypto nutters kind of played themselves if they thought their medium was taxation proof.
Region locking stops (or is designed to stop) someone, for example, in the USA buying a DVD sold in the UK market. The localization of the product on sale isn't relevant to the decision not to sell the product.
Let's not discuss "proper processes" when Jones illegally hid evidence and refused to participate in our legal system to the point of getting a default judgement against him. Everything he was accused of he did - he refused the right to participate in our justice system and accepted full liability for his actions.

On the point of "any award in the billions (much less trillions, as they initially demanded) is exorbitant for mere defamation" this is a pretty clear misunderstanding of our legal system as it is today. Initial claims are a mere formality that do nothing but potentially limit damages - the judgements rendered against Jones were 965M in the Connecticut case and 50M in the Texas case - no other numbers are relevant. Finally, referring to 1.015B as "Billions" feels rather dishonest - the total award is technically above a billion but the families will see nothing near that amount in the final resolution.
> now I feel FOMO creeping in, perpetuating this incessant need to find others like it…

this.. this is what I forgot the mention in the artice. When you find something really good, really relatable, inspiring while you're consuming content, you'll always be wondering what if there's more? and you keep consuming, you keep adding to your bookmarks, your reading list etc.. It gets bigger and bigger, overwhelming at the same time. It's hard to suppress this feeling
Intel Compute Runtime 24.45 vs. ROCm 6.3 vs. Nvidia R565 Linux GPU Benchmarks
Importing * is universally discouraged by most Python linters and best practice docs. You can always "import helium as h" if you're looking to type less.

This looks largely like common workarounds that most people will write using Python-based browser automation. Most of the time, we accept that those capabilities aren't there by default because they are not explicit enough and can result in bugs and undefined behavior even when the elements that we expect to be on the page are actually there.

Given the adage "explicit is better than implicit", I worry that a layer like this might create more trouble than it's worth for the sake of readability. When we get into the nitty-gritty of browser automation, it might just make it harder to debug than going straight to Selenium or Playwright.
In the US, reporting true things is literally never considered slander [0][1][2].

The legal system has recognized truth as a wholly adequate defense to claims of defamation (which includes slander) dating back to 1734 [3] - before the Constitution even written (1787).

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[0] - "Under the United States law, a statement cannot be held to be actionable as slanderous or libellous if the statement is true but has "slight inaccuracies of expression", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substantial_truth

[1] - "Truth is widely accepted as a complete defense to all defamation claims." https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/defamation

[2] - "Truth is an absolute defense to defamation." https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/privileges-defenses-...

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Peter_Zenger
My point is that this isn't uncommon at all.

I know tons of people who have nothing. Literally nothing other than things like, I dunno, their cell phone and clothes. _Anyone_ has more than a thousand of them combined.

If you choose the correct group of "the least well off" then it's like trying to divide by zero.
> you telling me you cant find 4 hours a week to read a paper?

For me, four hours a week is sufficient to stay up-to-date on an active research area but making forward progress requires at least twice that.

> You are awake for at least 16 hours of the day, you telling me you cant find 4 hours a week to read a paper? So 4/112 hours or around 3.5% of your week...

Using awake hours as the denominator is misleading because most people have other non-discretionary time commitments besides sleep. For me I'd estimate ~60h/wk sleep, ~50h/wk work/commute, ~30h/wk non-discretionary upkeep of children/relationships/home/body. Assuming 8+h/wk to make progress out of the remaining ~28h/wk of discretionary time means I can handle about three non-discretionary priorities. (Pre-kids I could handle about five.)

Therefore, when someone with a job says "I don't have time" to pick up a hobby, skill, language, outside research area, instrument, volunteer position, etc I don't interpret their statement as meaning it is physically impossible for them to rearrange their schedule to accommodate it. I (and I suspect most people) interpret the statement as them admitting that it's not one of their ~3-5 non-discretionary priorities.
So you marry this guy and collect your $120k, then he takes half your $1M in the divorce next year. I'll pass.
Ive always seen the american govt really as a tool to support american business, it seems others have that opinion too.
> typical American businessmen

But the job description was for "typical American statesmen". Business
skills are great. But I think people over-estimate their value on the
world stage.

Here's a reminder [0] of the brief.

[0] https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/job-vacancy
I don't think the PayPal Mafia are concerned with what goes on at PayPal now.
As a Trump supporter/Republican voter I support the free press, I don't support whatever the fuck "journalism" these days (read: at least the past ~10 years, and likely longer than anyone realizes) is.

Whether it's blatant lies like the fine people hoax or the koi fish feeding, or more subtle manipulation like constantly and endlessly sensationlizing the commons into fear and rage, I detest all of it. Free press is good, but "journalism" as it stands is a cancer upon human society.
TSMC founder says Intel has neither a strategy nor a CEO
Yes, but a billion dollars. It's 30x the sale price of Minalyzer, a very cool Swedish firm which was bought by Veracio.

It's a level where, when it is an international case, it makes sense for states to get involved with diplomatic pressure. Surely your legal system must be more reasonable than this, because if it's like this, how can it function?
After reading Yuval Noah Harari’s book ‘Sapiens’, it made me realize how little humans have changed, even as we approach creating AGI. We still form tribes, vilifying anyone who doesn’t conform to our rules. A dissenting opinion is strictly forbidden.

Elon Musk, on the verge of running two trillion-dollar companies (Tesla and soon in the future SpaceX; xAI might become one also), is single handily driving humans to become interstellar species. Yet, because he doesn’t align with certain ideologies like transgender issues or immigration, he’s labeled a fascist and his achievements dismissed.

Despite searching, I find no evidence of legal or moral wrongdoing on his part—just bureaucrats finding ways to stand in the way, like the Delaware judge repeatedly undermining shareholder-approved decisions on his pay package. Musk may be arrogant, childish, or linked to the manosphere, but his contributions far outweigh his flaws. It’s not even close.
Just because there's demand doesn't mean it's thriving.

Is usage growing?

How many new projects are being started with it relatively to other languages?

I certainly don't think it's dead but it probably peaked 10-15 years ago.
It looks like some borrowed Go convention, where package statements don't need to be quoted, but import statements may include URLs and, therefore, they are expected to be quoted.
I love Odin, and I'm glad to see it getting more attention. I've been working through Dave Churchill's COMP 4300 course[0] in Odin/Raylib rather than C++/SFML, and it's been a blast.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_xRyXins84_Sq7yZkxGP...
> mourning routine

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger

/i
I want to do business, but without all that nasty business stuff
I did, and it worked okay too, but it makes less coffee than I want to have in one cup :)
It seems to me that the Andrew Carnegies of the world had a sense of noblesse oblige which led them to try to use their wealth to make the world better. Then we had more modern businessmen who were just focused on making money. However, now with people like Musk we have billionaires who are proactively making the world worse.

Don't get me wrong, billionaires have always hurt people, but at least there used to be some sort of norms that they followed.
Don't take my post to be exhaustive of what they learn in those grades. I'm only focusing on the major elements required to succeed in 4th grade math.

While not a focus, very basic forms of algebra is introduced as early as 1st grade through problems such as "4 + _ = 9".
And I think this analysis suffers from ignoring the increased environmental cost of creating a new electric vehicle. It takes 15,000 to 20,000 miles of driving for the average EV to "break even" with new ICE vehicles due to the much worse environmental impact of creation.

Reduce, reuse, repair, recycle. Vehicles should be reduced first (drive less), reused second (keep using existing one), repaired (keep using existing ones), and finally you can recycle as best as possible.

All of this should happen prior to replacement. If you replace an existing ICE with an EV, the EV not only has to catch up with a new ICE, it actually has to "catch up" with your existing already made working ICE that has no new cost for construction. That's much worse than 20k miles because the cost of building your existing car is sunk. It could take as many as 50,000 miles of driving to break even against your existing used car.

Consumerism and early replacement of working goods has always been the mortal enemy of environmentalism.
> the general public doesn't care

DVD "extras" help bootstrap film students.

Less film students, less future films for general publics.
I have the most shallow but irritating indictment against PHP. I cannot, and probably will never get past the stupid `->` syntax.

Not only are those keys not nearly as accessible as the humble `.` but there’s literally 100% more keys to type than a simple period.

I know it’s pedantic and stupid but I hate it.
The PHP ecosystem and community is thriving.
Talk to Elon about Delaware judges overstepping...
Privately held companies, yes. Not all.
You can tell by the silly casing that it is obviously sarcasm
sure, but that has nothing to do with your last statement, which was nonsense.

That's like saying 2+2=5, then when someone points it out, saying the sky is blue.