skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What will go wrong if one stores a Context in a struct?

Contexts are about the dynamic contour, i.e. the dynamic call stack. Storing the current context in a struct and then referring to it in some other dynamic … context … is going to lead to all sorts of pain: timeouts or deadlines which have already expired and/or values which are no longer pertinent.

While there are some limited circumstances in which it may be appropriate, in general it is a very strong code smell. Any code which passes a context should receive a context. And any code which may pass a context in the future should receive one now, to preserve API compatibility. So any exported function really should have a context as its first argument for forwards-compatibility.
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Love this, thanks for sharing!

If I had the time I would explore the following myself ... but I am guessing I will never get to them at all so posting my thoughts aloud:

- Could it be modified to optionally store the files online, say a selected git repo or s3 bucket (credentials configured in a local file)

- Could it have a flavour that accepts markdown formatting/preview

- Could we allow users to "paste" images from clipboard (or drag-and-drop image files) to have them saved alongside the txt/md files or in a subfolder

- obligatory Dark mode (toggle)

I know all this diverges from the spirit of original notepad but these were some things I desired in a lightweight awlays online notepad that i can access from all my devices. Kind of like a diet Obsidian with sync?
> Writing a good argument requires 3 things: be logical, be compelling and likeable, and have a solid reputation. It does not require purple prose.

That's a common misconception that young writers have. Their prose is first purple and overwrought, then they overcorrect and try to be Hemmingway, then they master the craft and discover that form follows function.

As such, the "purpleness" of prose is not an indictment of any sort except if the style doesn't serve the substance. So yes, purple prose is sometimes required and can be used correctly, just ask James Joyce or Hitchens or remember that first sentence in Lolita, for example.

Furthermore, almost every piece of writing you've probably enjoyed went through an editor or several professional editors. You'd be shocked to read early or even late drafts.

(Also, a having "solid reputation" has f' all to do with whether you can construct a good argument. Wanting that as a prerequisite is what the cool kids used to call "appeal to authority". Anyway ...)

But wtf are we even talking about now?

> Besides, surpassing most humans in an area where most humans are unskilled is not a feat, not even AI companies flex on that.

I don't care what "AI companies flex". What I care about, as a programmer, and as an artist, and as a writer who won a tiny prize in my even tinier and insignificant niche on the planet, is what tools we can build for the average person and what tools I have access to.

If I have a robot that is 50% stronger than me or 10x better read than the average human or 20% better than the average mathematician, that's a huge victory. So yes, surpassing the average human is a feat.

But it's not merely the average human who has been surpassed: the average mathematician (skilled in mathematics) and the average artists (skilled in art) and the average writer, have all been surpassed. That is my testable claim. Play with the tools, and see for yourself.
Both Notepad and TextEdit are some of the most insufferably feature-void applications I've ever used. Even for a basic note-taking app.
This uses the Rockchip RK3588 SoC with an ARM Mali-G610 GPU. In general, that's a nice chip.

My concerns are

- are there open source (Linux) drivers for that GPU available now?

- is this CPU really suited for battery-powered mobile applications?
I couldn't find details on the power consumption right away...
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That's true. Strictly technically necessary cookies do not need consent or even information with a banner. Guess it's nice to know, but probably not legally necessary.
I didn't intend it as a negative tone. It is meant as an observation: while the raw system speed has increased orders of magnitudes, certain high-level operations seem to remain constant speed over time.

The time it takes to booting an operating system, start a program, compile a program or run a test suite seems to remain somewhat constant over my career.

It indicates that the determining factor is not the clock speed of the underlying system but instead the pain tolerance of the users or developers.
For home use definitively recommend Ansible. I've used/uses both and for a handful of servers/VM and for a single administrator I'd always pick Ansible. Realistically what you want is just a tool that store a configuration in some VCS and an a why to apply that configuration quickly.

Ansible will allow you to do that with just "pip install ansible". Puppet requires you to setup so infrastructure, which you need to way of bootstrapping.

Personally I also find Ansible easier to work with, in the sense that you can more easily do stuff in small increments. Upgrading Ansible is also a lot simpler. Puppet really cool and powerful, but for home stuff or a small business I'm not sure the overhead of managing Puppet itself is worth it.
Perhaps more impressively: India, after India had been early to recognize PRC and worked to get them recognized internationally.
Look at any corporation or government to understand how a large group of humans can be driven to do specific things none of them individually want.
Yes, but it's theory vs practice. I'm interested in stories and impressions from people who are actually doing it.

Are you using twitter or blogging like this? How do you like it?
If I understand correctly, only one of the "murder-for-hire" allegations was dismissed with prejudice[0]. However, he was suspected of orchestrating a total of six "murder-for-hire" plots.

[0] https://freeross.org/false-allegations/
Clicking on any of the three buttons throws up this error: Oups ! Une erreur est survenue.
So all the people who got convicted for selling firearms on Silk Road, how'd that happen then?
Nah, that treatment is reserved for Telegram. Zuck does MMA and isn't Russian so he's cool.
> The federal government was never intended to be what it is today

Many parts of all our government were never intended to be what it is today, executive branch included. We have a system that at least kind of works, changes should be made cautiously because a world-leading economy and country is a complex system.
> That's moving the goalposts and doesn't address the issue.

Is this how you make a constructive argument? Perhaps I was expecting too much from a joke account but this style of whataboutism is boring.

My post that you responded to set my premise which was that China has its own form of colonialism that is quite different than Americas but it exists and it’s quite strong. To classify China as a peaceful loving nation that respects other cultures is as if we were saying the US has never started a conflict. It’s factually a lie. China has a long list of human rights issues, they factually do not respect other cultures even within their own borders. I am not defending America but pointing out that China is not what the OP stated.
How to build quality software products (2022)
It it possible to try it without an account?

The free plan says:

> 50 contacts

Why do I need contacts? My users have to create an account in Fingertip to get notifications?
Is this hypothetical person going to build a municipal water and sewer system for their toilet too? Or will they just dig a well, which requires no skills or effort at all? /s
Doom scrolling is when you endlessly scroll negative news and communities.
Did he actually sell the drugs, or did he just create a communications platform? Should all communications platforms be liable for what people do on them?
"this is a natural progression of _evolution_"? Chemistry -> DNA evolution -> cultural evolution -> AI evolution?

But yeah it's a new thing.
It makes me very sad when people act as if the rule of law wasn't important, or worse in case like this they do as if the rule of law was only a limitation of freedom.

One cannot be more wrong: there cannot be freedom without the rule of law and without the existence of a state that enforces it.
If I use Signal or Discord to send someone a link to anything hosted on a server controlled by me, provided that the user opens the link, I will get an exact IP address of the user. IP address is much more useful in de-anonymizing the user than the nearest CloudFlare datacenter location.
In some sense, it doesn't matter at all if the tax is paid on the employer or employee side.

But in reality, it matters a lot when the tax burden is raised or lowered. Either the employer or the employee will be paying more or less. It's not the same at all. And the people making the decisions know this difference, for sure.
Extracting aluminium from bauxite is notoriously energy-intensive. During the nineteenth century, European aristocrats used aluminium tableware because it was more expensive than silverware. (They later switched back to silver when the novelty wore off and they realised aluminium was too light to feel right in the hand.)
There's something to say for minimalism as a distraction-free mechanism. I've wasted a lot of time during my life reconfiguring Emacs or Vim, switching back and forth between various GUI note-taking apps, or tweaking my LaTeX preambles. The brutal minimalism of something like NotePad leaves you with less distractions.

I think it's the same reason I sometimes decide to leave the computer entirely and grab some pen and paper to really get things done.
I know. It is sad. Naming can also be seen as a way of showing respect to a hugely impactful paper if you want to be positive about it.
Not sure what you’re trying to say, and the (attempted?) sarcasm doesn’t help.

But yes, coining pejoratives like “woke” or “fascist” or “communist” and then going to war with the imaginary beliefs attributed to the enemies who themselves don’t even use the term is indeed not helpful. It’s just childish.
> I'm pretty sure he won't do anything like this again.

Famous last words, eh?
The doom refers to the news and info type.
You won't catch me defending ZIRP, but other than that and a weird dip in the 90s, M2 seems to track the value of the US economy pretty well. Why didn't things immediately go to shit after Bretton Woods? Why did it take 40 years and huge, long-lived Fed rate cuts before M2 started outpacing GDP? Could it be that floating currencies maybe aren't disastrous?

> And similarly Wiki has a passable section on the history of wealth inequality in the US [2] : "In the late 18th century

I'm not going back to the economy of literally 1774 to find proof that the gold standard works. "Are banks a good idea" is something you'll have to take up with Hamilton, not me.

> And once again many of the problems with our current system are already highly visible, completely quantified, and have clear causal backings.

Again feel free to post any evidence here, or respond to any of my questions (also with evidence).

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=eTtE
> Are you saying... you consider it harmful?

No.
Lethality of electricity is multi-dimensional, trying to reduce it to a single quantity does not really work (exposure time and electrical frequency are very important).
No. For small objects, it is typical to use a turntable to rotate the object; there are a number of commercial and DIY turntables with an automated motion system that can trigger the shutter after a specified degree of rotation.
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Old men looking at a child with training wheels and sneering that they’ll never ever be able to ride a bike.
Africa and South America and USA strongly disagree.
What's the symbology there?
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2025/01/infrared-photograp...

This one is something. What is making the rocks luminous, fungus?

The nature scenes are spectacular.
> the usual. Just like the astronauts to Mars thing will just shovel your money that might have gone to NASA into Musk's pocket.

The difference is that Musk can do twice as much for 1/10 what Nasa thinks the program will cost, which is never what the program will actually cost, and Musk will do it in half that time to boot.

The guy is an unhinged manchild, but if what you care about is having your money well spend and getting to Mars as cheaply as possible, he's exactly who you're looking for.
Cheers this is useful info. I almost made the same mistake.
There is no concrete example of racism in his testimony. He describes universal situations of professional rivalry ("opportunities vanish," "pressure amounts") but interprets them as implicit racism without tangible evidence.

The intangibility of racism paradoxically makes it more powerful as an accusatory mechanism. Its very invisibility becomes proof of its omnipresence - the more impossible it is to prove, the more "obvious" it becomes. The vicious cycle is perfect: the absence of evidence strengthens the belief in a hidden evil.

This structure mirrors the logic of primitive sacredness: an absolute but elusive evil that demands even more victims precisely because it defies empirical verification. The accused can neither defend themselves (since denial is seen as proof of guilt) nor confess (as the evil is portrayed as unconscious).

Some relevant Proust:

>"Miss Vinteuil might not have thought evil was such a rare state, so extraordinary, so exotic, such a restful place to emigrate to, had she been able to discern in herself, as in everyone else, that indifference to the suffering we cause which, whatever other names we give it, is the terrible and permanent form of cruelty."
Erving Goffman – The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Here is what the discussion looked like almost a decade ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9626985

Very striking to see how the sentiment has drastically shifted, while the facts of the case did not. There is a really cultural shift visible in how this issue is seen on here.
they don't get the 10 years back dude jesus christ
Turf housing goes back to the Neolithic era and was spread throughout the globe, including of course Norway where the Icelanders came from. I've always wondered how they dealt with pests? Does the sod harden somehow?
It's not like the current admin respects the rule of law anyways...
It would do more good in K12 or pre-K than it would paying off private debts held by white collar highly educated not rich yet due only to their young age university-bros.
Operating a street corner? You mean like in the capacity of a city municipality, providing sidewalk, road, drainage infrastructure, perhaps some street lighting.
Madoff is the exception rather than the rule--and even Madoff operated his Ponzi scheme for over 40 years before being prosecuted.

Madoff's arrest and prosecution was actually pretty ineffectual in my opinion. If an amoral person can live as one of the richest men in the world for 40 years in exchange for spending the last 10 years of their life in minimum-security prison, I think a lot of amoral people would take that trade.
Using the Remix loader on server and client (2024)
> I was expecting too much from a joke account

Are you the kind of superficial petty person who needs to take jabs at the messenger's name and not the message itself?

And are you really in the position to throw stones from a glass house with that account name? If you had your real name and social media profiles linked in the bio I'd understand, but you're just being hypocritical, petty and childish here with this 'gotcha'.

> To classify China as a peaceful loving nation that respects other cultures

I never made such a classification. You're building your own strammen to form a narrative you can attack but you're not saying anything useful the contradicts my PoV and wasting our time. Since you're obviously arguing in bad faith I won't converse with you further. Goodbye.
If you're an android user, try the Revanced App. I use it to eliminate all ads and enable SponsorBlock on YT, but it also allows you to customize a lot of the experience. You can turn off shorts by[1]...

1. Open YouTube ReVanced

2. Tap profile picture (top right)

3. Tap Settings

4. Navigate to ReVanced > Layout

5. Tap "Shorts components" at the bottom of the list

6. Enable "Hide Shorts in feed"

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/156lw72/the_be...
Did it on Twitter. It has no grid but has communities and lots of photographers. Now though a bit of an exodus and more spam
We should license them by the gallon: assault pools with scary slides will be non-transferable to new owners.
> Tech has been extremely Democratic for many years. The Democrats have utterly alienated tech, and now they reap the consequences.

Well, on the other side it can be said that Big Tech wasn't really on the side of democracy (note: democracy, not the Democrat Party) itself, and it hasn't been for years - at the very least ever since Cambridge Analytica was discovered. The "big tech" sector has only looked at profit margins, clicks, eyeballs and other KPIs while completely neglecting its own responsibility towards its host, and it got treated as the danger it posed by the Biden administration and Europe alike.

As for the cryptocoin world that has also been campaigning for the 45th: they are an even worse cancer on the world. Nothing but a gigantic waste of resources (remember the prices of GPUs, HDDs and RAM going through the roof, coal power plants being reactivated?), rug pulls and other scams.

The current shift towards the far-right is just the final masks falling off. Tech has rather (openly) supported the 45th than to learn from the chaos it has brought upon the world and make at least a paper effort to be held accountable.
On the contrary, his not guilty plea, his ongoing insistence on his innocence, and libertarian true-believer tendencies etc. suggest the opposite.
Appreciate the correction and additional context, I appear to be behind wrt current state.
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He's said it a dozen different ways but as of yesterday it was 10% on China. Maybe tomorrow it will be 100%, it's not like the narrative is consistent apart from that there will be some level of tariffs.
Ellison should be nowhere near this:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnip...

The man has the moral system of a private prison and the money to build one.
Also, hardware is rapidly approaching saturation point of the Moore's law. Software will have to adapt.
> It won't unless there's another (r)evolution in the underlying technology / science

I think reinforcement learning with little to no human feedback, O-1 / R-1 style, might be that revolution.
The Ancient Greek experiments with democracy seem to culminate in a system that “gives you the government you deserve”. But those citizens also faced dire consequences for causing any harm to society—-that’s an important characteristic we’ve lost.
> the sort of people who believe in any other conspiracy theory or magical belief system

Bad news: this has gone completely mainstream. We're deep into government by conspiracy theorists.
Sony and Microsoft don't need to interact with AMD's software, they just use the hardware. Just see that Sony made its own upscaling software via ML and even created hardware with several pieces of RDNA architectures, so much so that they called it RDNA 2X (RDNA 2 (compute) + WMMA from RDNA 3 and RT from RDNA 4).
But in this scenario, the amount of money doesn't change. It's just a matter of defining what percentage of the total salary cost of employee is attributed to the employer vs employee.

For example in Estonia, if you hired somebody for 1000 EUR gross salary (the number that you'd put in a job listing), the employee would receive 896 EUR on their bank account and the state would receive 442 EUR as taxes from the company. This means the cost of this employee's salary is 1338 EUR (1000 EUR gross * 33% social and 0.8% unemployment tax) to the company. This is not optional, the company can't decide to pay less or use the money for other purposes. This would show up as 1000 EUR in statistics for average salaries or comparisons like this.

You could shift this tax burden between employer / employee arbitrarily and say for example that starting next month, social tax will be counted as part of gross. However the employee would still receive 896 EUR to their bank account and the state would still get 442 EUR as taxes and the company would still pay a total of 1338 EUR, but the average gross salary just went up by a third, while nothing actually changed.
The remarkable team is good at marketing their product, and of course they’ll get it “calm certified” if they can. Keep in mind there are plenty of alternatives to it (boox, supernote, kindle scribe, many more). I bet you 90% of them are just as “calm” as the remakrable.
No. Malicious upstreams will have their software properly signed as theirs.
I don’t get it. Was every non-violent drug offender in federal prisons pardoned or only this guy? If so, why?
If you have an argument that is actually on topic with what I said please continue, otherwise save your troll account for someone else. The whataboutism/gaslighting is silly. You clearly cannot read threads or respond in a logical form to the right person. The conversation at hand was about China and in response to the OP classifying them as a loving and respectful nation. I made no attempt to defend the US and it has been you moving the goalposts. You throw about whataboutism around and then simply runoff with some flimsy excuse about multiple people being unable to converse with you. Troll account.
How do you know this? The USA still has secret (Australian) ballots last time I checked.
Tax breaks, i.e. a company extracting wealth from a community without paying into the systems that keep all the parts of that community running, forcing the community to ultimate subsidize that business's weath extraction from them.
Question from someone whose native language is not English.

I often come across sentences that combine "There is no" with a plural direct object, such as:

"There is no books on this subject"

Is this also correct English?
Nice one. If I'm reading this right, the chances of successful exit are roughly 15%? That seems like some good odds considering the potential asymmetrical upside.
It feels like maybe you didn’t read what I said, or understand it.

A car was never an example of its own intelligence.

It was an example of our natural human intelligence’s & our growing cultural knowledge’s impact on horses.

How much have horses progressed. Math yet?

More computation doesn’t necessarily mean more intelligence. Horses are smart creatures, I ride one. He is my friend.

But they are not us, not our joint culture, and not any competition for today’s machines in terms of adapting and growing in capabilities.

The fact that machines are far simpler than us or a horse, but advancing faster is much like we were weaker but used our minds better than other apes.

Simpler in the right way is smarter. As many major advances in mathematics have demonstrated.
It didn't happen.

Ctrl-F for "Products" on this page[1] and stop making shit up.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace)
Is this basically just the inverse of an electrostatic speaker? I've seen DIY builds of those using very thin films coated with some electrosensitive solution - would that work as an alternative for the foil/leaf used here?
Arrgghhh... Once more I wish I could edit things a day latter to fix all my stupid mistakes. (I blame is on diagnosed dysgraphia).

Oil is not carbs of course. I guess I meant fat.
I’m also wondering why a full pardon rather than a commutation.
Why are libertarians weridos?
In the free version? Never noticed it.
The fact you have to implement these is a reason to use something other than C.