skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a big assumption. Tax money need not be a constant. But for the sake of following the same logic: if companies pay bigger taxes, they also have to make up the shortfall. Actually, this last one is much more accurate statement. Companies do not pay taxes, PEOPLE pay taxes. So taxes are paid either by the employees, the clients or by the owners (which in case of the big tech are generally common people). With high taxation you are hurting: the customers, the workers and the middle class saving for their retirement. Who is winning the tax money: state bureaucracy, corrupt politicians and the business around them, people who live like parasites (or rather are forced to live like that, because they are electoral power).
The tiniest, most isolated galaxies grow unstoppably
Alexander the Great made his conquests by building a really good reputation for war, then leveraging it to get tribute agreements while leaving the local governments intact. This is a good way to do it when communication lines are slow and unreliable, because the emperor just needs to check tribute once a year to enforce the agreements, but it's weak control.

If Alexander could have left perfectly aligned copies of himself in every city he passed, he could have gotten much more control and authority, and still avoided a fight by agreeing to maintain the local power structure with himself as the new head of state.
The Artemis Accords: Principles for a Safe, Peaceful, Prosperous Future in Space
A Spy Satellite You've Never Heard of Helped Win the Cold War
I'm trying to get out of spreadsheet hell, not embrace it
That non-native....fire adapted..... species of plants are thriving, is as you say,due to the actual environmental conditions present. And at the same time there are hundreds of other
non-ative species present from rain forsets, mountains,and other environments, that are barely surviving due to inhospitable conditions.
Blather:
The difference between grass land and forests is primarily due to the amount of rain that falls, and California toggles back and forth across that line, depending on altitude and prevailing winds, with a natural order of succession in species taking place driven by climate warming, that changes in the resulting rainfall paterns.
If you believd in CO² then then blame resides in a mirror, and if not blame, then responsibility to
adress it personaly, and if not responsibility, then at least consider what to do, from a perspective of pragmatic self interest, because its not going away, and its now a non zero chance, that a major world city will burn completely, and insurance as we know it will also be gone.
OpenAI has upped its lobbying efforts nearly sevenfold
Full PDF: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Artemis-Acco...
JWST Photos Reveal Physics of Supernova Explosions
The author's assertion is true - complexity has to live somewhere. The nuance, though, is that all places complexity can live are not created equal.

Let's take the example of memory management: by pushing that complexity into the type system, Rust forces the programmer to deal with it and design around it. At the expense of some performance, we could instead push this complexity into a runtime garbage collection system. Since the runtime system understands things about the runtime characteristics of the program that can't be proven via static analysis, it can also handle more things without the programmer having to intervene, thus reducing the difficulty of the programming language. For most programmers this is a positive tradeoff (since most programmers are not writing software where every microsecond matters).

Similar tradeoffs exist in many different areas of software engineering. One monolith, where all the information is in one place, is easier to write code in than two microservices, which keep having to ask each other questions via API call. Yet, sometimes we need microservices. Rendering your web application entirely on the frontend in React, or entirely on the backend with templates, where all the logic lives in one place, is much easier than doing server-sided rendering then hydrating on the frontend. Yet, sometimes we need server-sided rendering and hydration.

Complexity is an irreducible constant, yes, but cognitive load is not. Cognitive load can increase or decrease depending on where you choose to push your complexity.
If we were dealing with pure cosmic background radiation, or inside a Faraday cage, sure.

What I'm referring to are things like radio broadcasts, 60 Hz hum from power lines, noise put out by switching power supplies, and that sort of thing.

Just having a bias, as in your example, would be still truly random. If you knew that every tenth roll you'd get a 3, it would no longer be random. When your random number generator can be influenced by the outside world, it's no longer suitable for cryptographic use.
>Guess it's nice to know

It isnt, why should I care?
... very anonymous because he was most likely using a VPN lmao
That’s not what it means at all. You threw a monkey in your own wrench.

The brain has infinite potentials, however only finite resolves. So you can only play a finite number of moves in a game of infinite infinities.

Individual minds have varying mental technology, our mental technologies change and adapt to challenges (not always in real time.) thus these infinite configurations create new potentials that previously didn’t exist in the realm of potential without some serious mental vectoring.

Get it? You were just so sure of yourself you canceled your own infinite potentials!

Remember, it’s only finite after it happens. Until then it’s potential.
> Yes but every policy is unfair. It literally is choosing where to give a limited resource, it can never be fully fair.

I don't think that holds for a policy of non-intervention. People usually don't like that solution, especially when considering welfare programs, but it is fair to give no one assistance in the sense that everyone was treated equally/fairly.

Now its a totally different question whether its fair that some people are in this position today. The answer is almost certainly no, but that doesn't have a direct impact on whether an intervention today is fair or not.
Didn't know notepad has tabs these days. It's been almost a decade since I last used it.
"0 x" is only valid if x is a countable noun.

"No x" is valid for any noun.

Liquids are an example of non-countable nouns - "I have no water" but "I have zero oranges."

Some thoughts:

- English requires the use of an article with singular nouns, because the question of "which X" is important.

- This question is impossible for plural nouns (no "which X" when X is 2 or more), and where the noun doesn't actually exist - because it's meant as a type or because it physically doesn't exist.

- So these situations require no article to be used.

- English is so flexible that a phrase like "two oranges" can be "singularized" and therefore a sentence like this is possible: "Take the two oranges and put them here." What's implied and meant here is "1 group of two oranges" so it's still consistent.

- That's all brought up because it's another place in the language where zero and plural obey the same logic.
People have gone to jail for longer for selling weed, I think the argument that finacial crimes get you longer prison sentences is absurd.
A FPGA friendly 32 bit RISC-V CPU implementation
Materials like this are actually quite good at not trapping humidity but allowing it to escape and evaporate. Turf and clay are actually making a comeback as an effective way to insulate houses for this reason. Turf and dry soil actually are a bit hydrophobic. They don't absorb water that well unless you completely drench them. That's actually a problem in dry regions. Because rainfall just erodes the soil instead of absorbing into it.

Having grass growing on the outside probably improves things. What little moisture is in there gets used by the grass. And the roots hold the whole thing together. And any excess water just runs off.

Mold is what happens when moisture can't get away. It's a problem in modern construction when using materials that don't let the water through. Like concrete.
That is it! Another HN genius knows it all! Perhaps end your sentence with a full stop if you are lecturing.
Show HN: The Meme Vaccine
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Elon Musk Reddit Ban: List of Subreddits Blocking X Links
Right, but $500 billion in data centers alone is not likely to get you very far in the grand scheme of things. Endlessly scaling up today's technology eventually hits some kind of limit. And if you spend that money to discover some theoretical breakthrough that no longer requires the $500 billion outlay, then like I said, China will trivially be able to steal that breakthrough and spend much less than $500 billion to reproduce it. Is "getting there first" going to actually be worth it? That's what I'm questioning.
lovely application!

Genuine question: why not use (Modern)BERT instead for classification? (Is the json-output explanation so critical?)
I was making a joke about how people also downplayed the benefits of chiplets when AMD released their Zen1 cpus. I am aware they also had an arm design cooking, but that wasn't the direction I was going. Apologies if this was a whoosh.
Free to the student sounds nice, but who pays for it in the end? And does an education lose a bit of its value when anyone can get it for free?
An interesting feature of ribbon mics - because the ribbon is open at the front and the back, they reject sound from the side (and top/bottom) almost perfectly. You can arrange these cleverly in live or studio settings to amplify one thing while rejecting another completely.

A typical usecase for this is a singer with an acoustic guitar - one mic can pick up the guitar and almost fully reject the vocals, and vice-versa. Pretty cool.
In the middle he says "I know you're not with me yet..." and you shouldn't be because he's about to say

In 2010, Hal Puthoff wrote a paper, Advanced Space Propulsion Based on
Vacuum (Spacetime Metric) Engineering, that suggested that observations
of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs, or what we used to called UFOs)
things like time manipulation, faster than light travel, and antigravity
can all fit with within GR.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_E._Puthoff was a Scientologist and ally of Israeli con artist Uri Geller. But then again you might think Joe Rogan is the greatest public intellectual in the world in which case this blog post would make perfect sense.
Tech Workers: The New Frontier in the Class Wars
He was steering the biggest black market on darknet, that is pretty bad
Let us know what you end up building ! Flux is really impressive
Simple CPU Design
It really surprises me that it's not widely used in the rest of the world
true game changer! please do :)
Theres a huge list of html templating languages that went nowhere, and its still growing strong
That’s not how system prompts work. You’re simply asking it to role-play a user-assistant chat where the user tries to circumvent the system prompt and asks who the assistant is. Unsurprisingly, the majority of such chat scripts on the web will have been created with ChatGPT. Hence the answer you are seeing.
I think you meant to type SpaceX. Which works as well as it does partly because Musk is kept at a careful length from the controls...
My understanding of the word "quick" in the title is that this code is quick to write. But then this brings up the question of why. Why do we prioritize code that is easy to write, which presumably means it needs to be written over and over again. Is this a reflection of the sad state of C library packaging?

A quick perusal of the hashmap landscape[0] in C++ shows a vibrant ecosystem where newer and faster implementations appear every year or so.

[0]: https://martin.ankerl.com/2022/08/27/hashmap-bench-01/
This is so off topic. Or maybe not.

I once walked home after an evening of some friends and beer.

As I came up to my house it was dark but I clearly saw a little person walking through my back garden. About 3 foot tall, at the most, it seemed. And they were holding the hand of a smaller person half their height. Walking together, no hurry at all.

I just froze and watched them walking away, and turn a corner.

The feelings of disbelief, but wanting to believe were crazy.

I came out of my shock. Ran the length of my home and managed to see mother and child raccoons now walking on all fours.

They must have walked 20 feet on their back legs together, holding hands.

For a minute of my life I was actually Alice in Wonderland and there were tiny people who walked gardens at night.
Nick Fuentes is celebrating the "Nazi salute" (his words) musk did on stage this week.

If you have actually neo Nazis saying you did a nazi salute, and you have leftists saying you did a Nazi salute...
Ask HN: Mobile games that can be beat
I recently downloaded and played an idle game that was taking up an inordinate amount of my time. What was originally a way to just kill some time here and there quickly spiraled into a major distraction to my work and relationships. I've deleted it off of my phone, but now I'm thinking about what makes these games so addicting, and one quality I thought up was that there's never really an "end" to these games. There's always a new objective, always some special event, always some challenge that wasn't there before.

When I think about the games I considered truly great (most of them from the N64 era), all of these games had something in common, mainly out of necessity: they had an end. Peach was found, Hyrule was freed, or all of the skaters and parks were unlocked.

I realize that this is antithetical to the objective of most mobile games. The objective there is to get you to watch ads and pay to win. It's more of a Skinner box than a piece of art.

Are there any good examples of "beatable" games on mobile, particularly iOS?
> IT professionals around the world should gird their loins for the inevitable friends and family support calls when Windows 11 24H2 makes a surprise appearance, and uncle Fester is surprised that things have suddenly started working a little differently.

I hate this take, UIs changing without user consent or control is just plain WRONG.
It also led to the ability to sing in a quieter, more natural way, and gave birth to the "crooner" style. The earlier popularized carbon button microphone (invented in 1878) didn’t enable this personal singing style. If you look at one you might mistake it for the receiver of an old telephone handset (which in essence it was).
> When you look into the data structure and organization that is underneath Google Sheets

I don't use Google Sheets very often, so maybe this is obvious to someone that does. But, how do you look at the data structure and organization underneath Google Sheets? Are you an employee or is this available to the general public? Through an api?
Apple TV+'s market share compared to other streaming platforms in the US
I doubt they prioritized it. To get normal maps you usually first need a high resolution mesh, but then need other steps to get good decimation for lods and normal bake. That's mostly extra work, not alternative work that wasn't prioritized. If by transparency they mean faking aggregates, you also need full geo there before sampling and baking down into planes or some other impostor technique.
Object Pascal has a substantial runtime library called RTL: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Pascal_Runtime_Library

Also per azakai in another thread, wasm-opt shrinks this binary to 14 MB. Still a lot.
the outcome would be exactly the same. AGI leads the human race off of a cliff, not in the direction of one human interest group vs another. the only difference would be that it was china that was responsible for the extinction if the human race rather than another country. i would prefer to die with dignity… the outcome we should all be advocating for is a global halt of AI research — not because it would be easy but because there is no other option.
It's unlikely he has a hidden stash that is truly hidden. Back then the government wasn't all over the blockchain (compared to today) and obfuscation was not like what is available today.

So even if he does have a stash, it is likely marked, and he will get a knock on the door real fast if it starts moving.
I do think the comment had something about how it was written that made it hard to follow. I understood the first sentence. But then I got to

> Having this tableau unexpectedly unfold right in front of my eyes

And the metaphor / tense shift caught me by surprise and made my eyes retrace to the beginning. I still got it, but there was a little bit of comprehension whiplash as I hit that bump in the road.

In some ways, we're treated to an experience like the author's as we hit that sentence, so in that sense it's clever writing. On the other hand, maybe too clever for a casual web forum instead of, say, a letter.
Yea, I dont follow ppl on twitter anymore,
but you can use nitter to turn any user into a rss feed.

https://nitter.privacydev.net/elonmusk/rss

For subreddit you can use redlib which has rss feeds, example https://redlib.zaggy.nl/r/insects.rss

Using this as a source, you can combine a bunch of subreddits you like to follow into a single feed for minimal usage effort.

Since you are processing the feeds by now, it is trivial to filter out crap you dont want, such as Musk news.
It has higher salaries for privileged people like senior engineers. Try making ends meet in a lower class job.

And you have (almost) free and universal healthcare in Europa, good food available everywhere, drinking water that doesn't poison you, walkable cities, good public transport, somewhat decent police and a functioning legal system. The list goes on. Does this not impact your quality of life? Do you not care about these things?

How can you have a higher quality of life as a society with higher murders, much lower life-expectancy, so many people in jail, in debt, etc.
Show HN: Industries Vulnerable to AI Agent Competition
For me, Google started to fail when they decided to start dropping parts of the query. And inevitably, the crucial ones.

E.g. I wanted to search for "CUDA on Fedora 41" and Google "helpfully" drops the "41" number from the query!

So I have to notice that and click on "41" to force the search.
Under "later modifications" he mentions an app for web site access limits and a "new browser", but doesn't say which. I guess this is not meant to help others?
There’s no statute of limitations on murder btw.
Oracle has a lot of valuable classified information about the state and its enemies due to its business.
One of the more destructive situations in capitalism is the fact that (financially) helping the many will increase inflation and lead to more problems.

When a few people get really rich it kind of slips through the gaps, the broader system isn't impacted too much. When most people get a little rich they spend that money and prices go up. Said differently, wealth is all relative so when most people get a little more rich their comparative wealth didn't really change.
Amazing! Would like to see more models!
I feel the phrase came into common use during COVID pandemic, so things certainly felt more doom and gloom then. The connotation I think is with the type of negative content being consumed, which exasperates your own feelings.
Recommend olauncher, a text-based launcher, in lieu of default:

1. No icons -> less temptation to open another app

2. Faster because you only have to type part of the name, eg typing 'po' opens Spotify (for me)

3. Probably less resource-intensive since we're just rendering text
Netflix price increase leaves fans furious
Yes, Actually I'm building an AI-powered logo generator.

And using multiple text-to-image models.
Show HN: Real-Time Visual Ping CLI Tool Built with Rust
I've recently started learning Rust, and in order to make myself proficient, I developed a CLI tool for visualizing the Ping command. I know there is already a tool called "nping", but "Nping" has another interesting meaning in Chinese, so I took this name, and I think I will still keep refactoring or optimizing its code in the process of learning Rust in the future.
What CRISPR, O3, and the Memphis Plume Show Us About Intelligence
People still use it and seems that has been an uptick.

Also people posting from Google Groups no longer sends their posts to USENET. That means spam has dropped quite a bit.

There are a few free providers you can use to access USENET, a simple search should bring them up.
AFAICT, what you write here is more-or-less the standard approach to open addressed hash tables since they were invented.

I'm not sure why Chris overlooked this in writing his article. The string comparison is supposed to only happen when the hash values are equal.
Very much depends on what content you consume. The shy has always been falling, but there's plenty of other stories.
Regardless, but my point stands - he was heading down a bad path.

Quoting from Wikipedia: The district court found by a preponderance of the evidence that Ulbricht probably commissioned the murders.[41] The possibility that Ulbricht had commissioned murders was considered by the judge in sentencing Ulbricht to life and was a factor in the Second Circuit's decision to uphold the sentence.
Oh, you're assuming an entire networking infrastructure as well. That makes way more sense, but the miracle there isn't AGI - without networking they'd lose alignment over time. Honestly, I feel like it would devolve in a patchwork of different kingdoms run by an Alexander figurehead... where have I seen this before?

The problem you're proposing could be solved via a high quality cellular network.
SDL3 Is Officially Released
This reminds me of when I tried to call the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. The system would say thank you for calling the office of personnel management, and then it would hang up on you. Every single time.

I think most phone systems are deliberately designed to make it as difficult as possible to reach someone.
The person you're replying to mentioned Lean4. In such a language, types can definitely assert that a change didn't break anything, in the sense that you can write down the property you want as a type, and if there is an implementation (a proof), your code satisfies that property.

Now, proofs can be often devilishly hard to write whereas tests are easy (because they're just examples), so in practice, types probably won't supplant tests even in dependently typed languages.
Where did I say it’s not JS? I said it becomes the most retarded JS imaginable. I have used the “whole optimistic UI layer”, hooks and commands. What happens is local diffs have to fight server sent diffs, at every level, resulting in more tangled logic than jQuery apps. This does not happen when you merely have to merge state and the view is a pure function of state.
Less to write means less to read.

It's comparing apples to oranges. If in C++ you removed allocators, exceptions, references, and generics, then unordered_map would be "quick" too.