skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a no true Scotsman argument. If you define socialism as purely being policies that don't work, of course socialism doesn't work. If you accept that you can stick to your principles whilst being flexible about the implementation strategy, socialism seems to work out pretty well in some places.
Is there any MCU where `size_t` is 16 bits but `int` is 32 bits? I'm genuinely curious, I have never seen one.
One benefits directly while the other doesn't. Plus many people complained.
i didnt make it through all the comments but i havent seen anyone mention college sports. from a PURELY financial perspective its the other major reason for college to exist. sports are on life support. its turning into a minor league pro system.

personally, i think this is long overdue and overall good. colleges shouldnt be so sports-centric and i think sports would benefit overall if there more more popular local teams in sports beside baseball and hockey.

the doom and gloom on the state of college sports is loudly lamented on ESPN and the like. learning academics are circling the drain makes me expect to see many colleges shut down.

then i start to think about the midrange medical professionals because my spouse is a nurse. nurses cant LLM their way through college because they have to pass the NCLEX. will colleges only exist for scientists and nurses who need lab access and need to pass a monitored exam to complete their training?
That makes sense, specifically for technical guides.

It not well designed for those cases for sure.

Would you be up for a chat if i drop you an email? More than happy to learn your general views :)
I heard you, so we decided to now tweak the dials a bit. The dial for 'capability' we can turn back a little, no problem, but the dial for 'reliability', uhm yeah... I'm sorry, but we couldn't find that dial. Sorry.
Free speech means a lot of different things. I like Ken White's framework

https://popehat.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-free-speech-ped...

Free speech rights - The government shouldn't restrict speech

Free Speech culture - Private institutions shouldn't punish speech

Speech Decency - Individuals should judge others by their speech

Incoherence - Nobody should be judged for anything they say
Well, 1 year is still made up of a lot of 5 minute increments in which some node.js app is spewing 500s as fast as computers can go
> One of the reasons I prefer NetBSD (and the BSDs in general) is that they don't change gratuitously.

I like BSDs for the integration and the performance.

> So that ends up meaning that how-tos just don't work any more

Complexity (or change) doesn't come out of nowhere: sometimes, new tools must be learned.

> isn't good enough when clean, well thought out systems already exist.

I also love well thought out systems, but I think systemd is one of these "well thought out" systems.
>What is the external pressure on you or the dean or university to make things easier for these people?

Mostly that students are all giant piggybanks that spit out tuition every year. And, from experience, a lot of administrators view themselves as doing a service for marginalized students (who are often more likely to come in ill prepared and wash out like this). They are generally old and paternalistic (and sometimes a bit racist) and often just assume that all such students need lowered standards rather than what they actually need (a kick in the pants and plenty of resources to help them get their shit together).
I am working on https://wakana.io an open source alternative to Wakatime
I mean, I'm not planning to become a nurse. There are a lot of patient-facing roles in healthcare that don't involve being on your feet all day.
Postmarket actually wound up porting systemd somewhat recently.

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2024/03/05/adding-systemd/
They realized that they don't stand a chance against the cartels, so they're trying to scare the populace instead.
Antifungal resistance is actually a thing. Fungi can evolve or acquire resistance mechanisms against antifungals, just like bacteria and antibiotics.

Arguably it's an even bigger problem than antibiotic resistance: fungi are eukaryotes, just like us, and in practice this means we have less chemical weapons to fight them with. Losing the relatively small arsenal we have would be quite bothersome to say the least.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5587015/
"The Shanghai maglev is the world's first commercial high-speed maglev and has a maximum cruising speed of 300 km/h (186 mph). Prior to May 2021 the cruising speed was 431 km/h (268 mph)..."

That is right around 500 KM/H. I think we are technologically capable of this if a government really _wanted_.
POP is a little simpler, but IMAP is designed for concurrent access by multiple clients to the same account.

What this article doesn't address is OAUTH, which is required more often now.
Even maps. I was driving to Chicago last week and Apple Maps insisted I take the exit for Danville. Fortunately I knew better, I only had the map on in case an accident might require rerouting. I find it hard to drive with maps navigation because they are usually correct, but wrong often enough that I don't fully trust them. So I have to double check everything they tell me with the reality in front of me, and that takes more mental effort than it ideally should.
The top schools can compete for the best students, but below that, not so much, just due to basic demographics--the number of high school grads is dropping.
Anytime Oracle is brought up is a great time to repost the famous Lawnmower quote:

> "As you know people, as you learn about things, you realize that these generalizations we have are, virtually to a generalization, false. Well, except for this one, as it turns out. What you think of Oracle, is even truer than you think it is. There has been no entity in human history with less complexity or nuance to it than Oracle. And I gotta say, as someone who has seen that complexity for my entire life, it's very hard to get used to that idea. It's like, 'surely this is more complicated!' but it's like: Wow, this is really simple! This company is very straightforward, in its defense. This company is about one man, his alter-ego, and what he wants to inflict upon humanity -- that's it! ...Ship mediocrity, inflict misery, lie our asses off, screw our customers, and make a whole shitload of money. Yeah... you talk to Oracle, it's like, 'no, we don't fucking make dreams happen -- we make money!' ...You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't think 'oh, the lawnmower hates me' -- lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, lawnmower can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don't fall into that trap about Oracle." - Bryan Cantril
Basic systemd is really not that complex.
I think a lot of people point to parenting but don't lay it out as well as you did here. On the subject of God, Church used to be a place where kids practiced reading. Now it's just some VC backed dude talking at people about personal and political grievances for half the day. Reading/literacy tutoring is also now some VC backed business that becomes more expensive every year.
Since enough comments seem to focus on consolidating writes and security issues, please see the post. They explicitly state this as something they're working on.

> we're working hard on the following features:
>
> Automatic and manual conflict resolution

As such everything within this thread is conjecture unless otherwise informed by their work.
In adtech and social media it is a calculated strategy to maximize user compliance.
Truly an r/europe moment.
Is there an API for Grok yet? If not that could be the issue.
A perfect enshittification process?
> And obviously there are better justifications for this than "we made the semantics of the language easier for programming language nerds to understand".

There are not. For all the noise that we make on message boards about signed overflow being UB, there are very few actual security problems traceable to it. The problems from it are largely theoretical.

That entire blog post talking about the 0.3% regression illustrates just how much of an effort it is, and how unusual it is, to make those kinds of changes. The reason why Google engineers managed to justify that change is that memory safety results in actual measurable security improvements by enforcing spatial safety. Signed overflow being UB just doesn't make the cut (and let's be clear: at that scale the cost of a 0.3% regression is measured in millions per year).
China almost got 500 KPH. They were running >400 KPH up until 2021.

"The Shanghai maglev is the world's first commercial high-speed maglev ... Prior to May 2021 the cruising speed was 431 km/h ..."
> you are failing your government and your own interests when you don't vote.

This is a representative democracy. How exactly am I "failing my interests" when I don't vote?
how is this data collected?
No, but in practice it was Win98SE3. Also, it was obsolete before it was even released. There was basically no reason to run WinME instead of WinXP, especially on a new machine.
I guess I wonder which groups modern groups in your eyes have net social cohesion. Seems highly subjective
I am always wary of "should" sentences. As best I can tell, it's only ridiculous if every human in the whole chain executes flawlessly. I am cognizant that very few space shuttles blew up, but the amount of development and testing time that went into them is similarly impressive
As a Penn State grad I feel like WSU and PSU need to have a creamery-off for charity or something.
I noticed that as well. Not sure what the differences are though its still very clickbaity. It also seems fairly inaccurate from the statistics out there. Except for the part about phones but thats really just like his opinion man.
Be that as it may, when it comes to winning elections in the United States, comparisons to the Rest of the World aren't carrying much weight.
It’s a subjective account though.
Nope, the shredded cheese I buy uses potato starch. And it's definitely a trace amount, not 10%.
There is actually an expectation that any movie that happens in the future to be a SciFi one. I we _do_ expect some sort of change from today. Either mad max style, terminator style or expanse style other more positive ones, you name it. But would be quite unexpected to make a movie, set to 2094 and everything looks the same. We just know, as a civilization, that something changes.

But I expect in 2094 we still live in the same houses, work on the land, enjoy sun and the sea, maybe still employed, but some change will be happening.
Now that you mention it, at least on Wintel compiler vendors did not preserve the definition of `int` during the transition from 16-bit to 32-bit. I started in the 386 era myself so I have no frame of reference for porting code from 286. But Windows famously retains a lot of 16-bit heritage, such as defining `DWORD` as 32 bits, making it now a double-anachronism. I wonder if the decision to model today’s popular 64-bit processors as LP64 is related to not wanting to go through that again.

Edit: of course, I completely forgot that Windows chose LLP64, not LP64, for x86_64 and AArch64. Raymond Chen has commented on this [1], but only as an addendum to reasons given elsewhere which have since bitrotted.

[1]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050131-00/?p=36...
Yeah.

Not sure how you collect all the necessary consent clicks without at least two clicks if a third party is involved?

Do they get a pass on collecting a consent click for one of the parties?

Or do you only ever need the consent for the third party to track?

My understanding was you needed to get consent for every company in the chain. Is that untrue?
Persistent epigenetic memory of Covid vaccination in macrophages from monocytes
Here's a good snapshot of that page as it appeared in 2010, when this article linked to it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100430182802/http://www.latera...
"Although parents and other advocates of spanking often claim that spanking is necessary to promote child discipline, studies have shown that parents tend to apply physical punishment inconsistently and tend to spank more often when they are angry or under stress.[18] The use of corporal punishment by parents increases the likelihood that children will suffer physical abuse,[1] and most documented cases of physical abuse in Canada and the United States begin as disciplinary spankings.[19] If a child is frequently spanked, this form of corporal punishment tends to become less effective at modifying behavior over time (also known as extinction).[1] In response to the decreased effectiveness of spanking, some parents increase the frequency or severity of spanking or use an object.[1]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanking
Have you measured the performance cost? I highly suspect it is not negligible, given that it's the most common way to write inner loops, which are the most performance-sensitive type of code.
> It also seems wrong to me that these kids are accepted in to the university to begin with.

Free revenue for universities. Also, when your high school counselors, teachers, and administrators tell you to apply to college or else, this is what you get. When you convince employers to require degrees for middle class wages, this is what you get.

If these professors don't want to deal with illiterate kids, they should put the blame on the group that didn't prepare kids for college while telling them to apply anyway.
Wifi? You mean the thing where people often resort to running a Linux VM to handle it?
I was driven in this from the ice runway to McMurdo station in 2001.
It was very loud and slow and bouncy. I loved it.
It sort of was debugging because I'd written a ton of stuff for them in 1-2-3 (on site). This was their accounting system for a small business and I was "debugging" something rather simple: they weren't getting all the columns printed on their dot matrix.
That's a hugely important use case, especially nowadays. People have mail clients running at the same time from multiple devices; e.g. desktop and mobile. Also multiple browser tabs with an instance of their webmail.
There indeed is a regression if the method is only called a few times. But not if it is called frequently.

With BenchmarkDotNet it may not be obvious which scenario you intend to measure and which one you end up measuring. BDN runs the benchmark method enough times to exceed some overall "goal" time for measuring (250 ms I think). This may require many calls or may just require one.
This is a duplicate of the article posted yesterday and discussed here. It's on a different site and has a different URL but the content is identical.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43522966
> The article specifically says that many apps feel like they need additional consent

Are they right about that? Does Apple provide the app with confirmation that the user consented, and if they do, is it legal to rely on that confirmation?
>Most parents either are not interested or don’t have the time and resources to provide the at home educational support kids need. Teachers cannot do everything, and they are already stretched thin and underpaid (~1600 school districts across 24 states in the US are on 4 day weeks to attempt to retain teachers).

My central question is what are other countries doing that we aren't? Because other countries aren't seeing such a dire and systematic drop in student's academic ability. Germany being the most notable for how it directs its resources, even though its a fairly rigid in many respects.

I don't get the sense that parents in Europe are overwhelmingly more involved in the schools either, but I have limited purview into that specifically, having only had the pleasure of meeting europeans of different backgrounds (UK, Sweden, Germany most specifically) via work, its a limited subset of understanding, however most of the folks I've worked with who grew up in any of these European countries really seemed to believe in hands off parenting even more so, and experienced it often in kind.

I have one theory, which is that education is highly politicized in the US in a way that perhaps its not in other western countries. This has been happening since the 1960s but it really accelerated in the last 30 years or so.
What changed in the last 4 years?
They did drop the anti-gun stance and nobody cared or believed them. Kamala was on stage during the debate telling the crowd that she and her running mate were both proud gun owners. Meanwhile Trump is fairly anti-gun.

You can't expect people's mindsets to change overnight though. Organizations develop a reputation of years, decades, or longer. It might take just as long to change that reputation. It takes consistency over time, not just one or two people getting on stage once and saying "I'm a gun owner."
Perhaps your average college student is now illiterate in the style of what your academic or Pulitzer Prize board would consider essential to comprehend. Acclaimed fiction novels usually gain acclaim not by how direct and to the point they are, but how they twist at words and portray things in a particularly long winded fashion.

Could it be that people of today that have grown up reading prose that is mostly to get to the point, and convey what is needed now do not have the ability to meander like that? If so, does this make them "illiterate"?
I'm currently hosting this in my private homelab while I build it out, but if you shoot me an email (profile), I'd be happy to share it once it's up and running.
>The illiteracy level of our children are appalling.

Yes they are.
FWIW, PDAs go back to the mid 80s. The IBM Simon had been out by 95 as well.
My high school calculus teacher would assign homework every day, anywhere from a couple problems, to a dozen or more, depending on the work. 5 points for the homework, no matter how many problems. One point off for each problem missed. Sometimes broken down by steps if it was very-few problems (but still with way more opportunities to lose points, than there were points)

Assigned every. Fucking. Night.

You could spend two hours on it, get a majority of the problems right and get extremely close on the rest but make some identical mistake on each of them at the end, and still get not just an F, but a zero. It could be an insanely large assignment, and also you have other classes and other things happening in life, so you only get half of it done because these were not small assignments, but at least get all the ones you did right. Zero points, because you missed 5 or more.

To say it was demoralizing would be an understatement.
You didn't address my argument though, my second sentence.

It's one thing to not trust some entity and say they do bad things a lot, or to assume they're being evil in certain areas where they have established motives and patterns.

It's quite another to be so general about it that if a single person flippantly accuses them of basically anything you start off believing it. That's going too far and leads to some ridiculous early conclusions.
I definitely echo your comments about this point:

> The fear of God had been put into them by nightly news and the understanding that an unsupervised child could invite a call from CPS. But walking alone to school or playing outside alone is not neglect. Giving your kid an iPad and letting them rot their brains with Cocomelon is neglect.

But I don't at all agree that the logical conclusion to this is that we should encourage corporal punishment. I would estimate that fewer than a fifth of the well-adjusted people I know were beaten or had their mouths washed out or such similar things. I would say that as a proportion, many more of the badly-adjusted people I know in adulthood experienced corporal punishment or similar.

We can give children rights, agency and protections from abusive behaviour without locking them in a padded room and melting their brains with iPads.

I really think that overexposure to technology is a huge part of this. It's doing something negative developmentally, stripping away children's agency and curiosity. I often feel addicted to tech, but I grew up in a world without nearly as much of it.
Test Driven Vibes
What strikes me as odd in the video: why would the author not fill the paragraphs?!
I spent a couple of months in Switzerland for a project and supermarkets there often have this booth that me and my friends referred to as the "Kingdom of Cheese".

The Kingdom of Cheese is a climate-controlled enclave with just cheese - the person there is happy to help you decide because they know you'll be back eventually as indeed the products there have those crystals.
No-one uses it because there are better and cheaper and faster and more open models out there. Had they released it right after the announcement they could have surfed the hype wave. And of course do these models simulate the world to some degree, they have to. It's not a universe simulator to be sure, but stuff like gravity, momentum, etc. is kind of inferred,
Your comment is proof of otherwise…
Like sibling is saying it's not $5M upfront but on the order of 1 year cloud spend for large enough accounts. There are also such things as leases and loans.

One justifiable excuse is you simply don't know how much hardware you will need to buy if you're hitting hockeystick growth. That until you realize you can also go hybrid...
I assume you hold the same consistent viewpoint on say, Abortion, correct?
Still buy your cheese in blocks and hand grate, but sodium citrate is better made at home for sauces I think. Titrate baking soda with a tart citrus juice (e.g., lime or lemon, whatever fits with the dish) over medium heat till incremental juice doesn't induce extra bubbles. You'll have a roughly neutral pH, citrus-flavored solution of sodium citrate suitable for nacho cheese and a variety of other dishes.
IIRC the Virgo Supercluster is gravitationally bound. Pure speculation but my guess would be that galaxies are revolving around the center of the Virgo Supercluster and this creates the galaxy-level Coriolis effect.
> an unsupervised child could invite a call from CPS

Unfortunately, that's a correct assessment.

Of course CPS goes after such children IF AND ONLY IF they have been raised well. Why? They are paid per child and that's the only way for them to get access to a child that doesn't destroy the place, or worse, the people. Leaving an obviously well-behaved child unsupervised gives them an excuse to use in court, and an easy child to whose life gets destroyed ... but they get money and jobs (and parents that they can "prove" aren't good)

> We can be good parents again

Nope. The state would never let us. You can mitigate this problem by having a lot of kids (minimum 3), in rapid succession, at which point there's a bit of a society at home. But you cannot fix society.
Appreciate you having a look and for that feedback, thanks - I do agree I have work to do to prove that my idea is better than alternatives. We'll see...
I recently graduated from university, and I share some of these views. I became particularly frustrated by the school's practice of lowering the level of courses to allow more students to pass.

Before I started, a teacher was fired for failing too many students, so there is definitely a trend toward reducing the quality. But I got through my master of science just as the AI chatbots rose to the mainstream, already frustrated that the courses could have easily included 30% more material.

I don't even want to imagine how bad things get when people currently in middle school or high school reach university after having had access to "word salad machines" their whole schooling.
Wow, that's terrible! Who might those gorillas be? If I have names and sports I'll know what to avoid!
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TIL the universe has a specific "up" direction to even call things counterclockwise. I guess I should have already known this from Star Trek's quadrants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_coordinate_system