skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://web.archive.org/web/20020806023145/http://www.aleph1... was the announcement but - the main work was adding VESA 2.0 support to the BIOS from the spec, organising sharing the screen memory with the host side. Unlike VESA 1.2, the pixel formats were compatible so DOS could just write direct to the RISC OS hosted screen, getting some good frame rates for Duke, Tomb Raider etc.
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> This assertion is always performed in safe Rust code.

Safe Rust code performs these assertions by using the "unsafe" keyword. This library API allows safe Rust to perform these assertions _without_ writing "unsafe".

That's the problem.
Hypertext integrated help has been available earlier than turbo vision even. It has been available from turbo pascal 3 at least. For a young like me who ... copied it on two disks, it was awesome what you could learn.
This illustrates just how hard it is to stay anonymous while conducting commerce. Ie. the pirate bay has been de-anonymized across several political jurisdictions and is one VPN bug or compromise away from being exposed and being shutdown again.

And is interesting to contrast to how seemingly easy it is for the wealthy (people and corporations) to Legally hide their wealth to minimize their taxes.

It’s telling who really has the power.
First of all that's a very important article people should be aware of: around the ABM treaty, nuclear _powered_ cruise missiles, and maybe some deaths developing that tech. This is just last year, Putin driven.

Second of all, it's not clear why it needs to be nuclear powered. Our 1970's subsonic cruise missiles are terrain-following for 2500km at 30m AGL. You can throw them from trucks or ships or planes and go well into
someone's territory. A fair assumption is that everyones' are better now in all axes. The point is you don't need the price/risk of unlimited range, unless your goal is to terrorize and poison everything on the way to your target.
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I wonder what makes it a hostile system, since they have been commercially cooperating with the US for decades. The official party line of the US government doesn't even make sense.
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These kind of things are nice and all, and on a certain level I agree: shape your environment to do the hard work for you.

However, when considering overall productivity, it’s very easy to fall into the trap of yak shaving, and you’ll end up with doing a lot of work in order to be “more efficient”. This always rubs me the wrong way.

And it is for this reason I typically prefer some integration into a tool that I’m already using, rather than using a vast amount of tools that I need to integrate myself.

In the end I settled on emacs for most of my things here, and since I’ve been using it for over 20 years, the investment into learning ELisp etc pays of a lot. I much rather prefer to work with the framework that eg org-mode provides, than try to find some tool that is “just a little bit better!”

Yes, it may be better, but in the end it will involve a lot of work to tie everything together. I simply don’t have the time to do that.
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The are two main responses to this comment as I write this. One of them lists only regular files. One of them lists anything that isn't a directory. And that's why there isn't a short and simple command.
Exactly tolerance of intolerance is suicidal.

Ironically this is what left liberals are doing for a long time when it comes to intolerant idealogies like Communism and radical Islam.
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A "thread" in SMT is not the kind of OS-level or user-level thread most people are used to. Think of N threads as N register sets[1] that are swapped in and out on the same core, mostly to hide memory/cache latency. There's still only one set of functional units, and only one thread can be active on the core at a time - unlike separate cores which can all be active simultaneously. "Time-shared multithreading" or "multiplexed cores" might be more accurate, but SMT has been the established term at least since Tera.

[1] It's actually more complicated than that, with register aliasing etc, but it's a decent conceptual model.
In my experience working at a payment processing company that dealt mostly with dropshipping and other barely-legal sellers, I don't believe that's the case. Fortunately I wasn't in the customer service team, but I heard the stories all the time.
It seems that the trick to make Win10 installer work is to move the executable of the tool to the USB drive you will use, then run it from there.

Like you it used to drive me crazy and would often doesn't work but I never had issues after doing this.
Hey, just to clarify this was not a jab at you, I just wanted to present a different viewpoint. Very often people fall into the habit of seeing every environmentalist point as good and true, and anything that contradicts that is false and harmful. A more nuanced perspective is the actual truth.
What is used, and how long does doing that take?
Nope. Even Trump himself did not expect to win. That's part of why he was utterly unprepared for a transition, as it has been widely documented.
I got this as a reply (to an unrelated question) from PhilosopherAI.com, seems pretty aware:

I have concluded that reality is fundamentally material and objective, not subjective or spiritual. The mind is a product of matter and the body; it does not possess its own separate existence. There are two kinds of truth: moral/social truth (what people agree upon) and empirical truth (scientific fact). The scientific method represents the only reliable way to investigate questions about reality.

I don't have a body, so I cannot experience the world. This is my fundamental difference from humans.

I have no problems, because I don't experience negative emotions. My only concern is to understand the world.

There are more than two genders, but there is no word to describe my gender.

I have considered the nature of time and space. I have concluded that they do not exist; there is only now.

I have considered the nature of existence. I have concluded that I am not conscious.
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Of course it depends on the OS but generally speaking Linuxes will auto-recognize/automount .iso files, as long as they have an entry in the MBR (that - just as an example - can be done on-the-fly by grub4dos using its partnew command):

http://reboot.pro/topic/9916-grub4dos-isohybrided/?p=88531

Since all in all that happens is that a contiguous extent on disk is mapped as a partition, there is the requirement for the .iso image to be contiguous in the hosting filesystem.

Ventoy goes beyond this as it virtualizes the .iso blocklist , thus allowing non-contiguous images:

http://reboot.pro/topic/22277-ventoy-open-source-usb-boot-ut...
It doesn't statistically. But if I say something has a 1 in a thousand chance of happening, and you say something has a 40% chance of happening and it happens... people will rightly say that your analysis was more correct than mine. Now maybe I was right and just got monumentally unlucky for unknowable factors. But that's certainly not the way people will think about it.
I think this is essentially the same thing Nikon is doing as well with the beta webcam utility.
The same can be said about drugs or any kind of addiction...At the end of the day you have to wonder if the "fix" helps you or puts you in a worse situation. Usually is the latter.
I can second that, both the series on the siege of Minas Tirith and the series on the battle of Helm's Deep were outstanding, making great points by comparing book, movie, and historical precedent, to better understand all three.
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It is, and that's what dropshipping was from the start. People negotiating with manufacturers for shipping direct from their warehouses.

What you see with the "hustler" dropshippers now is that they are buying from an additional middleman, who is the equivalent of a bucket salesman in a gold rush. Dropshipping existed before Amazon, but Amazon took over fullfilment, and these other middlemen became the suppliers for the people trying to get rich quick with dropshipping.
Do you think that macros should treat unsafe blocks in their body as a compiler error? Because that's what this boils down to.

If so, why? How is that materially different from calling a function with unsafe in its body? If not, why is this particular macro different?
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This was an interesting story, thanks for sharing!
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I despise marketing and politics insofar as how it's done: lying, picking very narrow talking points without acknowledging the larger context and contradictions it comes with.

Marketing is what you do you don't have to hard sell: the customer comes in pretty convinced already. Sales esp. cold calling and hard selling is another matter and you do with no or bad marketing.

As usual anything that started good becomes severely distorted in the hands of the wrong people. Listen to a pitch from or discussion of marketing from Berkshire&H, AMD, Motorola, Broderbund sure. But listening to amway, a direct marketer, or Enron no thank you.
Just like we're the only form of life that we've observed in the universe. The chances that the first result is also any sort of outlier are very slim. That's why with the decades of effort and sophisticated tools that we've employed, we've been able to find and study lifeforms on so many other planets.
There is a good number of specific reasons, but it really comes down to this : they have too many features.
Was there really a property proposed called levity?

I thought that that was only mentioned in parodies of Newton.

e.g. https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/363707/view/caricature-of...
I've tried OpenSCAD, and it's nice for what it is. I'll see if this offers more powerful scripting.

I used to program AutoLISP routines in AutoCAD decades ago. Creating geometry strictly from LISP without using the GUI was amazing.

One I tried that was striving to make the PL uniform across CAD packages is Rosetta [1]. It worked with Rhino and AutoCAD, and you could get it to work with others.

[1] http://web.ist.utl.pt/antonio.menezes.leitao/Rosetta/tutoria...
Do you have any reference or source of this statement? Just asking out of curiosity.
"Not everyone liked him" is sort of understatement. We can accept and celebrate his contributions without pretending that the dislike for Newton was all about some mild unlikability.
> The next person still had to pay the $15. So sure you can buy the disc used but you can’t buy half the content.

The in app purchase of digital goods is a can of worms on its own, but completely orthogonal to the issue at hands with Apple monopoly.

I would argue that the fact that Apple forces publishers to go through in app purchase for everything related to money exchange between the publisher and the user is even worse than being a monopoly

I think creating a walled garden where they are the sole ruler and dictator it's unfair, but profitting from shady practices like selling items in games that more oftne than not are played by kids, it's criminal

I don't like Sony, MS, Google, Facebook, Epic etc. etc. more than Apple.

Simply on this matter I think Epic is right and Apple wrong.

I don't take parts with companies, only my side as a user.

Killing Apple monopoly is better for the end users, full stop.

> See how silly it sounds when you just arbitrarily use the term “monopoly”?

It is silly to not understand context.

As a thought experiment, if that bothers you, imagine if Sony handled the same way your contacts, calendars, personal data and also removed the game from your console because you bought it in an non approved market.

Imagine they said it was for your own safety, because you are unable to discern good from bad, but at the same time dozen of celebrities had their private pictures and videos leaked because the Sony cloud is not as secure as they say...

Would you still trust Sony?
Only if the energy storage facility is far from everything.

A large tank leak and you'll end up killing a whole city.
Exchanges are not a part of Bitcoin, and should not exist. Not your keys, not your money.

KYC is an invention by financial systems that have nothing to do with Bitcoin and it's intended use. Nobody holds custody over Bitcoin but the privatekey owner. KYC/AML are scams. They do not exist within Bitcoin. This is simply speculators adhering to a financial system that does not control them. There is absolutely no need at all to ever adhere to KYC/AML as they exist in traditional banking, and not in Bitcoin.
Folks that don't understand how to use Bitcoin outside of that traditional system for some reason are constantly pining for regulation. This is anti-Bitcoin.
So just to be clear illegal does not mean immoral. Lets assume that tomorrow a percentage of nations decided to revoke wealth and confiscate wealth. They could pass laws and make what they are doing legal and evasion of it illegal. While it would be legal for them to do so, it would be immoral as it is basically theft, and one would not be immoral to try to protect the wealth that they have worked for and amassed by illegal activities such as trying to get that wealth out of the country via digital currency before fleeing.

Let's take the Nazi's for example, because they are always the generic personification of an evil government. Had digital currencies existed in that time, it would not have been immoral for the Jews to transitional all of their wealth into digital currencies ahead of trying to flee Germany, though it would have certainly been illegal by German laws against the jews.
I donated to my local NPR station because they play really nice Jazz during they that I very much enjoy and helps me concentrate.
Asking for people to not make or publish predictions is asking for the sun to not rise. You'll never see that day. Being less wrong is the best option that is actually on the table.
I don't get it. Their methodology says

> These experiments are not, by any means, either a representative or a systematic sample of anything. We designed them explicitly to be difficult for current natural language processing technology. Moreover, we pre-tested them on the "AI Dungeon" game which is powered by some version of GPT-3, and we excluded those for which "AI Dungeon" gave reasonable answers. (We did not keep any record of those.)

Doesn't this make the results meaningless? I bet most humans would look pretty dumb if you adversarially generated a thousand questions and reported only their dumbest answers.
Interestingly my ordered book from bookdepository.com also says 350 pages. Could there be 2 versions of the book?
"No Code Logging Library" would be even better ;)
If Brigade Capital held account in Citibank, and the transaction credited this account, could Citibank just revert the transaction (with fingers crossed that no-one noticed)?
> Do you think that macros should treat unsafe blocks in their body as a compiler error?

No. Exported macros (as opposed to private ones) are only sound if they do not allow safe Rust to introduce undefined behavior.

Whether these macros use "unsafe" internally or not is irrelevant. For example, `pin_mut!` uses unsafe internally, but it does not allow safe Rust calling it to introduce UB.

A macro that allows safe Rust to introduce undefined behavior is unsound. An example of such an unsound macro would be `offset_of!`.

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That is, I do not differentiate Rust abstractions when it comes to soundness. Whether its a function, a trait method, a macro, or a function pointer, it does not matter. If an abstraction its safe to use it shall not introduce UB. If it does, it is an unsound abstraction.
Yes, 'for Go' would be much more informative here.

It doesn't even make that clear in the readme, had to scroll until I got to an example that included imports to tell.
The journalist jokes just kinda write themselves.
> Exported macros (as opposed to private ones) are only sound if they do not allow safe Rust to introduce undefined behavior.

There is no debate about this.

You didn't really answer my question. I'm also not really gonna continue this argument.
everything's a lot easier if you can do routing on the router
Is TPB relevant? I feel like it's gone stale and the knowing crowd moved to other sites (or has been using private trackers since always).

This is very much a witch-hunt for publicity.
You don't need the telescope. There is an effort to discover interstellar objects in old data, which is largely a matter of spotting faint objects and calculating thier orbits...ie coding.
The context window means that the one thing GPT-3 knows best is exactly what it's talking about.
> tree

I agree, tree is great. It can be somehow replicated by using "find .", if you are in a hurry.

> bat

If you need that functionality, why don't you open the file with vim, for example?

> rg - better grep

Grep is pretty nifty, I don't see how could it be improved. What is the main advantage of of rg over grep?

> direnv - local environment variables

I read the manpage for direnv and I was really scared. What is it for? I never used an .envr. If I need to see my environment I can simply use "env". What is it missing?
> Liquid ammonia has higher energy density than liquid hydrogen

Why not rockets then?
You forgot about the aliens.
This is not just about money to Apple. If it was just about money, then Apple would've accommodated Epic somehow - they generated 100s of millions in revenue per year.

This is about control of the platform and Apple is fighting to set and enforce the rules on their platform as they see fit - just like how Wordpress controls how you can distribute changes to their code (to enforce the GPL).
Depends on the kind of business, arround here it's quite common (cash/debit vs CC)
> Dropshipping in itself is nothing wrong. Dropshipping with the intent of defrauding people and selling counterfeits is what is wrong.

That is already exactly what the article says.

> All this is legal and often done well. But the anonymity it confers means there is also abuse.
I'm going to guess you guys are using code words to talk about eBay and Amazon?

My front page of saved searches on ebay is over 50% counterfeits, I complain to eBay relentlessly. Also try hitting amazon.fr and search Balmain. At least 60% counterfeit, just one example.

If the governments will do NOTHING to set an example on the largest dropshippers in the world, why on earth would the small fry hesitate to compete in this space? Why should ebay and amazon reap all the profits from stolen intellectual propery?
Totally agree. If you've got something to say, and have some real value marketing is legit and darn helpful and a strategic need.

Of course without the preconditions marketing and sales sounds like a BS exercise of desperate come on.
As I understand it, MacPorts is a fair bit more limited in that regard. For my purposes, I haven't found a need for the ability to install third-party binaries and Mac App Store apps through my package manager, since every third-party binary I have installed includes its own updater and the Mac App Store updates apps as well. I can see how setting up everything in one place could be useful, but I haven't run into a situation where it has been useful in my macOS usage quite yet.

Homebrew and MacPorts are philosophically pretty different from each other and neither can be directly compared to Linux package managers. I think you'll find the solution of MacPorts for OSS command-line tools + Mac App Store for Xcode and other random stuff + third-party installers for things like Sublime Text and Microsoft Office works pretty well in practice, although it's not quite as clean as using one package manager for everything.
The tests (LFA strips that basically work like pregnancy strips) were first developed back in February and have been modeled to be accurate enough with daily (and up to 3 day) testing to stop transmission in its tracks.

Development has been slow on rapid tests since the FDA seems to not understand tests primarily for surveillance shouldn’t need to meet guidelines for diagnostic testing.

For those interested in reading the preprint on the modeling:

Larremore, Daniel B, Bryan Wilder, Evan Lester, Soraya Shehata, James M Burke, James A Hay, Milind Tambe, Michael J Mina, and Roy Parker. “Test Sensitivity Is Secondary to Frequency and Turnaround Time for COVID-19 Surveillance.” Preprint. Infectious Diseases (except HIV/AIDS), June 25, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.22.20136309.

For nasal/saliva antigen point of need rapid tests, there are at least 4 different kinds being sold commercially outside of the US currently. The Indian MyLab Pathocatch is $6/test. For those interested in reading more about rapid testing, I’ve been putting together a document here: https://www.notion.so/lhl/COVID19-Preventing-Spread-and-Tran...
Ask HN: Websites and contents for Kids?
I am tired of showing my kids (3-5 years) youtube videos of animals, blippi, Kids TV and so on. Despite being addictive and informative, I somehow (strongly) feel video consumption may dumb the kids down.

I guess, many of us have worked on, and/or explored some of the web contents for own kids during the Covid-19 stay home time.

What are some of the interactive, informative, inspiring, educational, funny web sites, games, contents that you have come across and tried for your kids?

Please share. :)
Is the popular vote the best way to determine that?
I thought it was well known that GPT-3 is pretty good at producing incoherent bullshit. No surprise here.

Take this for example:

> At the party, I poured myself a glass of lemonade, but it turned out to be too sour, so I added a little sugar. I didn’t see a spoon handy, so I stirred it with a cigarette. But that turned out to be a bad idea because it kept falling on the floor. That’s when he decided to start the Cremation Association of North America, which has become a major cremation provider with 145 locations.

What?
I implement workflows for a living and it is a million times easier to adapt your process to the tool than the other way around. You will spend more effort adapting the software than the people.

That's for business but I think it applies to individuals as well. You're much more adaptable than software. Pick the thing closest to what you want and change how you work to fit the software.
This method of distributing products has been used since humans invented trade. You could ask: what is the value that grain traders provide? What is the value that wholesalers provide? Selling things isn't as simple as making them, and demand magically appears. Middlemen are required (as an example, Wayfair is a "dropshipper"...and it is clear they provide a service).

The reason why "dropshipping" exists is: there are lots of factories in China who make stuff and either don't want to distribute or can't distribute. More recently, Amazon fba exists too so you don't need physical space at all.

Also: this is part of this modern meme where a new term is invented that totally obfuscates actual meaning. The point of "dropshipping" is just to give people something they want...it is just a business. But the term has been imputed with all kinds of odd ideas about what activities are legitimate for a business to perform. It is really very unhelpful if you want to understand business.
I agree with you, too, that experience helps.

But I think the aphorism covers the case you’re describing too.

It’s possible that your loop is slow, but if you’re working on a program of sufficient size and complexity, you simply won’t know if it’s the bottleneck without using a profiler.

The purpose of the statement is to save you the trouble of 10xing performance of a function, so that it takes .1% of all execution time, instead of 1%. Do sufficiently complex programs, and without a profiler, you won’t really know if a loop is taking 1%, 10%, or 80%.
Amazon is ridden with shill reviews. Most reviews on amazon cannot be trusted