skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The Enterprise play sounds like a Holy Grail project.

To me it sounds like they want to do what most other social networks do, make businesses pay for their profiles and features.

The trading part I'm doubting as well. That's something quite difficult to set up and scale. So it doesn't bode well when they don't offer a proper explanation.
> Today on the show, Sally Herships goes to Iga to discuss the city's plan to use ninjas to fight depopulation.

Ninjas should be well suited for kidnapping children at night and raising them to become ninjas. Maybe they just need a more cutthroat leader.

I would apply, but I'm pretty sure the idea of American Ninja was killed off after the movie of the same name was released.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clA5lOsa6O4
The Relay patterns are are decent starting point, but even if using Relay they're more-or-less optional

Relay connections (cursor-based pagination) are decent for many reasonable use cases, but if you absolutely do need random access (let's say you have a virtualized list where a user can scroll quickly to a specific point and load only the data local to it), you'll have to bring your own pagination solution.
From a comment on the article

> Looks like one of the Thunderbolt ports on the right-hand side, probably the one closest to the headphone jack, is connected to the T2 by way of a USB switch. This is probably the port that is used to perform a DFU restore of the iBridge, like on the iMac Pro ( https://help.apple.com/configurator/mac/2.7/#/apdebea5be51) It’s possible that data recovery could also be performed via that Thunderbolt port given the right tools.

The T2 ARM coprocessor secure enclave with encryption keys is connected to an external PCIe bus that is also connected to the main x86 CPU? Is there a risk of DMA attacks like PCILeech? What policy restricts devices that can pair with the T2?
I've been using a 13" MBP for years, and am almost astounded by how much I take it, and its trackpad for granted from reading this thread. Also-- Would love it if you could share an example of the bash you execute to restore everything right up to the sessions (redacted where necessary)!
Check this out http://efficiencyiseverything.com/food/
I consider fundraising a part of trying. Without funding it's just not possible to do anything and maybe that's the reason why there are so many open points here.

With regard to your point on the business model. I've criticized exactly this in my comment. I think they need to put more work into this.

If people are willing to donate without a better understanding of their plans then I'm disproven (for now) and it's their right to do so :)
http://efficiencyiseverything.com/
Okay. What were you doing CBT for?
What do you need for auth other than some mechanism of providing an auth token with each query (usually via an HTTP header)?
Wikipedia is not a social network, but it definitely does get better as more people use it. Users-editors grow together, and wikipedia is a massive collaborative effort. It takes millions to make a wikipedia.
What makes ETH a security? Its not an investment in a company equity, its a store of value.
There cannot be THAT many different touch pads or drivers for them out there that this is impossible. I bet there are only three or four types of main brands at most which probably all come from the same factory in China.

It’s not like every time a new pc laptop comes out the dell and HP folks say: “Yee haw! Roll up yer sleeves boys, it’s time to write another touchpad driver!” That’s just insanity.
When the 2013 Mac Pro was introduced, their SSDs didn't use a standard connector so you couldn't buy a replacement drive but third parties then did make SSDs for the Mac Pro. What helped create the market for them was Apple used the same form factor in some laptop models.

https://www.owcdigital.com/products/aura-ssd
Not knocking this effort, but why are all decentralized, open social networks that hope to compete against Facebook and Instagram so...dull?

Their marketing is all the same wholesomeness and positive messaging. There's no "rebellious" streak to it at all.

But wholesomeness didn't help Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram grow. Facebook was the "adults only" social network that required a .edu address when it was challenging MySpace. Snapchat was pretty much a sexting app. Instagram is basically semi-nude models in its search feed.

I get what these people are trying to do, but you're not going to do that by being boring and corporate.
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Plastic dipping to its best
Threadripper may come close in core count, but it cannot use registered memory, which means it's limited to 128 GB of RAM (based on the current maximum UDIMM capacities). That's not competitive in the server space.
Assassin's Creed elevator pitch haiku?
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You are not! It is the main reason why I refuse to attach an external mouse and keyboard to my work laptop!
deterministic as that when you apply class names to your templates you get deterministic resolution eg:

class="red green" makes your element green
class="green red" makes your element red

i.e. there is no cascade anymore but classes are applied in the order they're used.

DSS is pretty much like CSS, the only constraint is that it must be compilable to atomic CSS classes so there are a few restrictions https://dss-lang.com/supported-css-features/

As for an example you can take a look at the source code of the components that make the website: https://github.com/giuseppeg/dss/tree/master/website/compone...
What do you mean by modern niceties? You mentioned food in the other comment, but these (elite) people generally had enough food. Compared to me, they have warmer climate. Winter adds threats that would kill old people without medicine sooner. You need also exclude contemporary poor people lifespan - which is around 8 years difference between English poor or rich by quick google search (found 12 for Americans but that seemed to be most pessimistic I found).

If you compare demographic of people who have enough food, good shelter, does not have to work hard physically, did not get sick or disabled until later age, did not died as children, had good enough hygiene (they bathed), did not get injured, could rest when sick, did not had childbirth (fist childbirth was risky) then you must end up with similar lifespan - human genetics does not changes that fast. We are same species.

I don't understand why that would be surprising or informative.

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I aimed to compare overall aims - average person to average person. So I could compare overall gains/looses.
Mozart was writing symphonies by this age. Prodigies exist in every field.

Is there a geographical bias in your skepticism? Would you be as skeptical if this kid was from Norway or Sweden or Austria?
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Medicine, not that much actually, I think most of the progress we have seen comes from food security and the sanitary movement.

With those 2 items, you can basically get to a life expectancy of 70 years in most places, then you add modern medicine, and you go up another 10 years or so.
honestly you've got to wonder whether we're the primitive ones considering a lot of those tribes work less than 20 hours per week

I've read that a leading theory as the transition from hunter-gatherer to agricultural societies was that agricultural societies incentivized larger populations, were able to sustain them, and that their desire for arable land led them to fight - so the transition was not as much towards qualitatively better lifestyle but towards a qualitatively stronger lifestyle. As much as I enjoy beer, I find this more compelling than the theory that people chose to pick up farming just to drink
Biggest difference for me is, that I had already been taking notes in markdown since before I heard about it. The only change for me was the welcome relief of not having to be creative any more about what headings or links should look like. Rest of the syntax I already used because that's how I've always made text files "look good".

As for your orgmode example, it's not a very good example of "just plaintext" if the metadata code in between the bits of text is larger than the content of the note. I imagine that with nice syntax highlighting it becomes easier to parse in just a glance, but then it's no longer "just plaintext" in the same way that e.g. YAML isn't.

It probably works very well, but to me it looks a lot like a plaintext encoding of a database record or something. It's a different use case. Not a simple note that is "basically plaintext". For instance I would not feel entirely comfortable editing your example without worrying I'd mess up the structure or produce a syntax error. Though maybe the format is really forgiving, I can't tell. What happens if you forget the :END: bit, for instance?
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And the convictions of revolutionaries, their interpretation of what was required for a transition to socialism, etc. is extremely salient to a discussion of how socialism plays out in practice (despite the fact that you shrug this off as "politics" and "economics", yet another form of argument that must be beneath your pious bullshit), and there were in fact examples in history to demonstrate this.
oops, you're right, good point
But $85k is an extremely high salary in Japan... A software engineer in osaka/kyoto starts at $35k a year.
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Or he could be dodging bullets. He's probably not looking for such a relationship. If he's not willing to accommodate, than not accommodating filters out the people who need accommodating... I'd say that is pretty much working as intended.
Federation is a sub-category of decentralization, so if they reject the latter it's usually obvious they don't plan to support the former either.

Besides, their reasons for not running a decentralized service do apply for a federated service as well, and as far as I can see, they're using the terms synonymously anyway.

Whether those are good enough arguments, that's another debate.

>At the end, none of those three questions are answered for me.

Well, it's still their answer, and that's what my post was about.
The most interesting thing about Göbekli Tepe the oldest megalith structure discovered, is that a study based on the drawings on the structure correlated with Younger Dryas period might explain why nothing was found about the ancient civilization that built it.

https://phys.org/news/2017-04-ancient-stone-pillars-clues-co...

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2128512-ancient-carving...

Science might just have found the cause for the flood myth that is present in most cultures around the world.
Note that the GPS spoofing is Iran's claim, and has never been proved. I find it highly dubious, since for military aircraft the primary navigation device is an Inertial Navigation System (INS). If in the case of a large departure between INS and GPS data the drone chooses to rely only on GPS only, then it is grossly, almost negligently ill-designed for military operations.

That said, GPS spoofing against civilian drones that do rely on GPS only has been consistently demonstrated and published in the literature, see https://doi.org/10.1002/rob.21513 or https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2016.10.412 for interesting examples. Here's a demo video of the first paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qQXVUze8oE
To me this was the big benefit of the pressure-sensitive MacBook trackpad —- since clicking is just pressing harder, you can use it with a thumb while your fingers are on the home row.
"So before I tell you about this nacho recipe, let me tell you my entire life history, really diving into every time I ever at chips, cheese, or any combination thereof..."

Whenever I find a recipe that doesn't start like that I bookmark it. This is my gold standard for internet recipes (in Spanish): http://www.lapaella.net/receta-paella-valenciana/
Turns out Matt Pharr, the author of this article, is also the author of this book.
> "Is there a geographical bias in your skepticism? Would you be as skeptical if this kid was from Norway or Sweden or Austria?"

Nothing in the parent comment implies a so-called "geographical bias", yet there you are accusing them of being racist.
Apologies for the self-plug but this is what I built for GitHub to do exactly this: https://github.com/MikeMcQuaid/strap. Add Homebrew Bundle and a Dotfiles repo into the mix and you get what was described. This is obviously pretty Homebrew and GitHub centric because I work on both.
Cores! Gigahertz! Terabytes! Odds are... still f-ing busted.

How will the numbers look after the next Spectre/TLBleed/etc patch?

I'd be more impressed by a boring processor that works.
"drag and drop your old social media archive... import all your photos, videos, chats and more".

Photos/videos I can sort of understand, but 'chats' - they're done with other people, none of whom would have been granting permission for their content to be migrated to openbook. Am I being too literal here, or is this a privacy violation being promised on day one?
I have an Apple Magic Trackpad 2 attached to my Linux workstation, and configured using synaptics and a custom kernel driver. The experience is almost good, but not quite there.

The most annoying thing is scroll zoom in some apps (mostly Chrome), that makes hitting ctrl while the trackpad is "coasting", result in zooming to oblivion. I've sort of solved it with a chrome extension that disabled scroll zooming.

But in general it just doesn't feel as smooth and took a lot of time tinkering with to get to reasonable results.

I'll gladly contribute a bit to a kickstarter or something.
If the tribe gets too big, it can quickly deplete the resources in the area, especially when helped by natural phenomena like drought.

N.B. animals have evolved in harmony with their environment. In general you get the perfect ratio of predators to herbivores to plants. If there are too many herbivores in an area and without natural enemies, that can quickly turn the environment to a deserted land. There are actually stories around like how introducing wolves in the Yellow Stone national park has saved its rivers.

Humans on the other hand are too adaptable for the environment. We can live in any environment and without natural enemies to keep our population in check, nature’s laws don’t apply to us.

So could we deplete our resources 15,000 years ago?
Hell yeah. In fact that’s the number one reason for the migrations of early humans between continents.
This has the potential to be dangerous if it can interfere with the raft of self-balancing 'personal transporters'.
Assembly Language for Beginners [pdf]
It's pretty well documented that a lot of the lavish philanthropy of gilded age barons like Carnegie and Rockefeller was motivated by their guilt and concern about not being able to thread a camel through a needle. I don't know about the religious motivations of our current crop of billionaires, but presumably a lot of the same motivations are at play, since human nature hasn't changed substantially in the past 100 years.
Magnificent! Which company is this?
I've always been fascinated by asynchronous hardware design.

When you first learn about H/W design in Verilog or VHDL, it feels like your mind is immediately shoehorned and molded by both the literature and your teachers into thinking synchronously (everything has to be clocked, and signals crossing clock domain boundaries are to be treated like they're some form electronic nitroglycerin).

As a matter of fact, HDL courses often go without so much as a mention of the possibility of asynchronous design, or if they mention it, it's to say something along the lines of "just don't".

It almost feels like designing things asynchronously is a sin to be avoided at all cost.

Even further, the synthesis tools themselves will yell at you when you try to do things asynchronously (probably because many of the optimization that can be done with a clocked design don't work).

Granted: asynchronous design is harder and bug-prone, but - at least to someone like myself with more of a software engineering background - it also feels a lot more natural than being forced into the straight jacket of clocks.

This all leads to the unfortunate situation that while there's been a lot written about how to design with clocks, I haven't come across much literature about asynchronous design methodologies.

If anyone on HN has a a reference on asynchronous hardware design methodologies, I'd love to dive into that.
If you work with confidential information, you should be using strong full-disk encryption. Forget about sending your device for repair - what happens if a device is lost or stolen?
Really?

Why not?

Why would you use a mouse if you're on a laptop? Especially a macbook, where the trackpad is fantastic to use and offers gestures which give you features you don't get with a mouse.
If someone had invented inexpensive drug monitor that could be installed in a waste pipe outlet, then they could make billions.
I get that. But spending a lot of money on things that don't make it to the final cut always felt like a waste to me. I'm very very marginally into filmmaking (see bio), and I've always had the impression that costs and time could be cut drastically just with better planning.

I often wonder what would happen if you applied startup principles to making a movie. Thinking in terms of MVP, customer value, efficiency, on top of the artistic vision. This is not just talk, I'm putting my ideas to practice by producing two zero-budget feature films with an extremely lean mentality. Let's see how they turn out :)
>I do forget to remap the esc key each time I do this, or the name of the thingie that helps you do that

I don't suppose it's Karabiner[1], is it? This is the one I'm most familiar with, as it's been around under a few names for a very long time.

If so, this is in `brew cask`[2], which I am assuming is somewhere in your script's mix.

1. https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/

2. https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/...
I find it (on my 8 year old t410s) far more precise than any trackpad I've used, and more precise than the old ball-mouse and trackballs. I guess it's what you know.

I actually just used the touchpad on said laptop with my thumb, to move the arrow to the 'reply' button (I have an inbuilt distrust of tab on websites). And now I used the trackpoint to resize the text box to read my reply, again without thinking about it.

I suspect that when I'm in "doing" mode I use the trackpoint, when I'm in "consuming" mode I use the pad.
Happy Birthday!

I used Slackware only for a short while before moving to FreeBSD, but I really loved its simplicity back then!
Anyone that's ever owned a cat, or known someone that owns a cat, is well aware of this. Come on Scientific American, slow news day?

Related, I've been sprayed by two different white Bengals. Yeah. Yeah, that stuff lingers... not as bad as skunk but... yeah. Why would you take tigers to a state fair. Why?! To be fair there were signs posted that said something about them not liking umbrellas and signs warning that you were very much standing in 'the spray zone'. I should have taken that more seriously. That first one sprayed me which immediately got the other one interested in spraying me while I was still in disgusted shock.

Pro-tip, large cats do NOT like shutter noises and/or light shining off of lenses.
Just as a note, breakfast in the rest of Turkey is also similarly diverse and excellent :-) You'll notice that each region has its own small specialty additions of spices, jams, pastries, eggs, etc. And often different fruits and vegetables depending on what's seasonally available in the area. It's true that breakfast in Istanbul doesn't quite compare to breakfast on the beach or in the mountain with tomatoes and cucumbers picked freshly from the garden, but still, quite a great breakfast can be had in the city.
> And now a days I think it goes without saying that the average person exerts substantially less energy per day than even our luxurious Ancient Greeks did. Lives are much easier.

That right there could be your reason. The human body was not designed to be stagnant. I read recently that the whole reason for the evolutionary development of brains in both animals and humans is to facilitate complex movement. Several studies done throughout the decades show a correlation between greater physical activity and better academic/learning results. The ancient greeks also believed there was a connection between improving the body and improving the mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsVzKCk066g
Bitcoin is a failure as a transaction system - it doesn't scale and fees rocket as the network gets full.

Lightning appears to be a failure too - it requires a lot of money to be comitted to the network and constant vigilance so as not to lose your funds.

Further, the market demand you talk about doesn't seem to be playing out - if anything the accepting of cryptocurrencies for actual transactions (rather than just speculation) seems to be on the decline.
I imagine many here would kill for some peace and quiet at work. The idea that I'd want to add noise and conversation into it is horrifying to me personally.

Even at home, I would never want to have some random thing blaring in the background. I only watch things that are worth my full attention.
I think there is still space for open source on premise competitor. I don't trust Dropbox or other services, but I'd love to run something like this myself for full control.
The South lagged considerably behind the rest of the union in education, and for that matter prosperity,before the Civil War: see de Tocqueville writing in the 1830s or Olmsted in the 1850s. Slavery did have something to do with the latter anyway.
Medium.com sites everywhere with different domains?
Question - why does there seem to be so many different websites, which all seem to be part of medium.com?

Time after time I'll click a link to some article, realize I'm on Medium... but it's a different domain? Yet it looks exactly the same, and I'm already logged in?

Is is some kind of spam marketing, or a look-alike platform, or...?
Gestures are awful... They're nonstandard between boxes, and often flaky as all hell. One of the first things I disable on a new OS install.

Why wouldn't you use a mouse, and get better precision, a standard form-factor, and universally solid drivers? Besides, you can take your mouse and plug it into any machine you need to work on.
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This is not true in every state in the US.
Yes, thanks for pointing that out. I so easily forget to mention things that seem obvious to me :(