skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're on different sides of the disinformation control debate but I completely agree with your take on the toxicity of HN.

This place is much worse than most of non-ideological Reddit.

Serious discussion of matters at the intersection of tech and policy, is not possible on HN when the downvote and flag tools are routinely used to suppress posts for ideological heresy rather than low effort, irrelevance, or bad faith argumentation.

Community moderation is incompatible with a community culture that values ideological conformity over respect for good faith argumentation.

An upvote-only karma system would be much more appropriate for tech policy threads.
I guess people into hot-rodding, especially for games, have never been Apple's target. (Even if they are numerous, and I actually have no idea how large this segment is.) Besides price-sensitivity, wouldn't they be bored if there were only 3 choices? Maybe we will find out when the M2-xs or whatever arrives.
Co-incidentally, I just did this myself. Picked up a cheap safety razor and even tried a cutthroat (the one that takes a regular safety razor blade snapped in half).

I was also initially nervous of using them. The safety razor is pretty easy to use, the cutthroat requires a bit more care, but on the whole a lot easier to use than I suspected.

No more Gillette 7-blade rubbish for me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_and_blades_model gives a bit more colour.
> so further advancements couldn’t be stolen

How would you ensure the advancements couldn't be stolen? I thought we learned over the years that if hostile power wants a technology, sooner or later they will get it.
could absolutely happen sooner. It is of high strategic importance to China - to their whole electronics industry, and the AI dominance race, which also depends on specialised chips.

State level AI dominance race is one of the main drivers of the US/China tech sanctions, I suspect
That was amazing and entertaining as heck. Loved how it was synchronized with the music. Brought back nostalgic memories!
No thanks, I don't want to watch slides mangled by video compression tuned for a camera. I'd much rather see them through screen sharing, which is optimised for compressing on-screen content without making it look terrible.

This should just be a feature of Zoom, Teams, etc. And it probably is.
What would people recommend to learn Blender? I like tutorials which you can follow along and explain the why of what you're doing (a bit like the Rust book).
Aren't HFT programmers highest paid?

If they do suck, then almost everybody in the whole industry sucks
I have lots of better ideas.
It is rather clear that iPad is primary a media consumption + light work (email + MS Office + ssh terminal = thin client) machine. With recent additions of Pen functionality it is also an amazing sketch book.

But proper laptop is just in the different league for productivity. I tried using my iPad with external keyboard as the primary computer when my laptop was undergoing repairs and it was bearable, but not more than that.
Advantage Builds in Path of Exile
curious to see how slack and others handle m1, are bad third party apps finally matched by better ram pooling?
My list of magic numbers for your turkey day enjoyment
It would be great to get your advice regarding my company. I've started a small company and have 5 clients currently, I manage social media, SEO, website changes, content writing, etc. I'm charging a small upfront fee (about £500) followed by a monthly retainer for a minimum term of 12 months (£300).

The problem I have is that it doesn't scale at all. ALL of my time is spent on SEO, Social Media Posting (Creating posts and then scheduling them), and finally content writing for blogs. I could hire people to do these things (i'm actually struggling to find jacks of all trades like myself) but the problem is that it's no longer profitable if I start hiring.

Any advice? It would excellent if we could chat privately somehow.
And yet we continue to have “all greens” on the status boards during outages.
I've been looking for an OBS plugin that does greenscreen-less masking. Any suggestions?
What you've written is indeed obvious, but IMO that wasn't the point of the article. Consider this quote:

"Consider what happens when you’re thirsty and drink a glass of water. The water takes about 20 minutes to reach your bloodstream, but you feel less thirsty within mere seconds. What relieves your thirst so quickly? Your brain does. It has learned from past experience that water is a deposit to your body budget that will hydrate you, so your brain quenches your thirst long before the water has any direct effect on your blood."

IMO the point she tries to convey is that the budget doesn't track actual, objective resource use, which also means that individual budget constraints are not only constrained by the actual physiology, i.e. with training (mindfulness and so on) one can move the baseline and thus e.g. stress resistance.

Not a new point either, but you'd be surprised how many people don't know their own feelings. My psych professor told countless anecdotes of patients who didn't know that the disquieting feelings they experienced when e.g. being inside an elevator were actually a panic attack.
Nobody looks good here. The researcher did far more damage than was necessary to demonstrate the vulnerability, and DO’s response sucks.
Origin of the trefoil radiation warning sign
> Is it headed toward functional parity with the Mac or will it always be hamstrung by Apple’s strict App Store policies and seemingly inconsistent investment in iPadOS?

I see this converging in two possible ways (aside from killing the iPad):

- Macs will have iOS

- iPads will have macOS

I don't see Apple giving that kind of freedom on the iPad, though.

Another possibility is Apple making some kind of 2-in-1 Macs with touch screen. The paddings they added to all kind of UI elements on macOS seems to point in this direction.
Multithreaded software is all over the place. The process on my PC implementing this browser tab has 38 threads.

For experienced developer using the right tools/architecture it's not even that expensive to develop.
This is the one in my opinion

https://makebook.io/
Does the rocket somehow counter the spin of the tether? If it's rigidly attached to the tether, I don't understand how it would stop spinning after being released. The rocket itself would spin very quickly, and due to conservation of angular momentum it would keep spinning upon release. Am I missing something?

Or do they somehow counter the spinning of the tether, so that the rocket's orientation remains static? If there's another bearing at the attachment point, I don't see how just the outer bearing would withstand the friction at 10000g.
I was AD free at the time.
Worth noting that Emacs has several builtin games already, including Tetris, Gomoku, Lights Out, Pong, dunnet, maybe a few others as well. All of which are implemented in Emacs Lisp!
Making the video, did you control the character directly or was it like a tool-assisted speedrun? And how much actually requires your own input, given how (iirc) there's some tracks that just run themselves?
Psychedelics are good generally
"Adopt a landscape-first mindset. Rotate the Apple logo on the back and move the iPad’s front-facing camera on the side beneath the Apple Pencil charger to better reflect how most people actually use their iPad Pros."

No. No. Keep the camera in portrait mode. Or add another camera (I would love the option of selecting portrait or landscape camera).
And what good is that? All computer memory is just an array of addressable bytes. So all you've said is you can store UTF-8 strings in memory. You still can't do random access on the string (ie. s[i] will not give you the ith character).
Intel 7nm line has non-economical yields and is effectively a failure. They’re backporting their 7nm designs on to older processes at huge penalty to buy time for a new approach while putting out a couple flagships on the 7n line at a loss for appearances.

At least that’s the word on the street.
That's quite the reach. I didn't read their comment to mean stardust is a good thing. It's neither good nor bad. In any case, remove the sentence about stardust from their reply and their point still stands.
The article is spot on. Right now i notice that when I grab my iPad, i end up merely consuming, not getting any work done.

Apple's decisions to

- block certain types of apps (development) and

- to charge outrageous prices for their keyboards (175€-331€ in Germany)

appear to be the biggest issues.
That sounds toxic.
I have simile personal anecdotes and do feel like the author is close to some truth. But I think it may just be my wishful thinking to confirm to what I believe.

Companies can coast on way past their prime and maybe Google ends up being CBS or something in 100 years (they were a big technology innovator in the early to mid 20th century). And IBM still has lots of customers even though they aren’t what they once were.

I remember using Novell [0] in the mid 90s and they stayed around until 2014 making money with 1000s of employees somehow.

So I guess there’s companies that stop being interested to me from a technology perspective and that’s a form “collapse” even though they’re still making gobs of cash and existing.

Maybe the author really means we’ve hit “Peak Google” and it’s all downhill from here. But I think it’s important that the peak of the Roman Empire was like 117AD but it took hundreds of years to really stop (maybe the peak was really 10AD under Augustus and maybe it still exists today, but you get my drift).
> When you write Java in a C like syntax

And C is faster still when you write it with Fortran like (column order, and "restrict" mostly) semantics.

An old mentor said to me 30 years ago that "A good programmer writes FORTRAN no matter what language they are using" (he was referring to speed of execution in the context of "good"). It seemed super funny at the time, but there's a lot of truth in that.
Okay, I pulled out the code and ran it on Firefox again to jog my memory. This is the error when doing anything with chrome.storage.sync:

Error: The storage API will not work with a temporary addon ID. Please add an explicit addon ID to your manifest. For more information see https://bugzil.la/1323228.

It's an error, not a warning, and set/get definitely don't work.

If I replace all storage.sync invocations with storage.local then it's okay, not error/warning, and setting/getting seems to work.

So the problem is limited to storage.sync, but it's not just a warning.

Edit: now that I googled the problem again, it seems adding an explicit addon ID according to https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/develop/extensio... should work. I don't recall what I did back then, but I definitely did quite a few things to no avail.
Disable mouse acceleration to provide a better FPS gaming experience
That isn't the choice.

It's billions of chickens get to live 3 years and get eaten or a million chickens die of liver failure.

But I think you're missing the parent's point. Death isn't cruel. Suffering is cruel and can only be experience by living things.

This kind of philosophy is a pretty active subject currently. The debate is, generally, maximizing happiness vs. minimizing suffering. The former creating more suffering overall and the latter creating less happiness overall.
I find the autocomplete in jira constantly doing absolutely preposterous things - e.g. I'll be typing out a query like "project != TheirProject" and, when I've finished typing "TheirProject" and hit enter, jira has just barely managed to raise an autocomplete prompt such that "TheirProject", which is correctly spelled, gets "autocompleted" to something like "!=" making my entire query "project != !=". I have no idea what's happening in this case as autocomplete seems to take a completed correct term and turn it to something that isn't even semantically valid. It happens to me in some variety at least once a day.
I think what we’re seeing has more to do with unaccountable invisible architectures (law/governance systems, IP and money) that obscure production processes, than that it’s anything to do with human nature or social media, or us being ‘hairless monkeys’.
Although it makes me nervous, I think iOS and macOS will continue to move closer together. Big Sur feels already much like iOS.
Well, honestly I don't know, and I'm not sure they know either. I think it might be a kind of chicken and egg. No point in thinking of products that would leverage having internet access outside your home coverage if there's no way for them to do so. But once there's a grid of outdoor internet to be used, maybe there'll be many cool products I can't think of that get released.

I think this is quite experimental in that sense.

For now, they seem to say it could be used to find a lost dog or cat that would have a sidecar enabled collar. Or it could be used for controlling outdoor smart lights. Or to be able to check on your outdoor appliances, like say, how much gaz left in your lawnmower, etc. Things like that.

It caps the amount of data it can use in a month from your WiFi to 500MB and caps the bandwidth to 80Kbs.

Also, the neighbor thing is probably exaggerated. Basically, if you want say outdoor smart lights and your WiFi doesn't reach. You can use existing Amazon devices as an extender, like an Echo or a Ring camera. It'll use low frequency signals to extend it to the furthest possible (though limiting how fast it can go).

The only thing is, this extended network won't be something you can set a password too and all that. Instead it'll form a mesh with like all other extended sidecar bridges. So those of your neighbors included.
You have Twitch Turbo that exists long before Amazon buyoff

https://www.twitch.tv/turbo

I never saw any ad since I have it and that works with every channel
>eBay

>I'm not a violent person at all. But if I ever meet the person who spawned reCaptcha and all its equally annoying clones, which are a pox on the internet, I won't be responsible for my own actions.

be careful, else they start sending you dead horses head and planting gpses in your cars https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/two-former-ebay-executive...
I have observed the former, written by exceptional coworkers, but never the latter.
Playing the devils advocate, and I think this is a pretty strong point against shrooms: while opioids cause harm, their harm is incredibly mechanical (it’s just addiction) and can be managed well.

Shrooms play with your brain. We barely know how that works and quite frankly a lot of the research into managing the depressive episodes with shrooms may just be that you become more stupid and therefore less prone to thinking in the first place.
I don't think I could legally do that
>They can give people profound religious experiences. Some people become an unsettling kind of prophet for a religion of the drug.

Like 0.01%?

For every McKenna, Timophy Leary, etc, there were millions doing LSD in the 60s.

And the "prophets" were mostly a fashion of the era too.

When that died, in the 80s, and 90s and so on, you still had LSD, and shrooms, and Ecstasy, and others, but no "prophets".
My definition of safety means having a size greater than the actual string doesn't turn an innocent looking call into a CVE database entry.

I bet the security industry agrees with my definition.
One good thing about binary search is memory access pattern.

The element in the middle of the array is tested every single time. Similarly, the elements at 25% and 75% of the array are tested very often, in 50% searches/each.

Modern computers have very slow memory compared to computation speed, and multi-level caches to compensate. Binary search RAM access pattern, when done many times, is friendly towards these multi-level caches. The elements at positions like 25%, 50%, 75% will stay in L1D cache.
Private Persona
> wouldn't they have to be incredibly coordinated to shoot directly on target

AFAIK sniper Swat teams do this when there are multiple targets. They coordinate through radio and shout on countdown.

Frankly I don't think it's complicated (for a pro).
Hmm I checked and I also have this bit of code I added a while ago to the manifest for non-release builds [0]: browser_specific_settings = {'gecko': {'id': 'promnesia@karlicoss.github.com'} }
Maybe this is what makes it just a warning (still not sure why it warns!).

[0] https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia/blob/b9e59262b2fc51ef...

Definitely agree that the docs could be improved on web extension development & testing in general, I often feel the whole ecosystem is a bit hostile.
... at the price a particular CEO is willing to pay for programmers. There, fixed it ! :)
You should read the book that was recommended. Mom Test is about how to talk to customers without doing what you did.

It’s also the most practical business book I’ve ever read. It actually tells you how to execute the ideas than just the ideas.
I am an artist and loving using my iPad Pro, so I didn't have any doubt about its usefulness.

I'm kind of astonished realizing that most people think "Apple has struggled to craft a cohesive, compelling narrative for the iPad".
>They have (hopefully) all moved to Windows by now.

Not sure why that's something to hope for, SCO (now Xinuos) is a big supporter of FreeBSD and OpenServer5+6 and Unixware7 are still supported and maintained.
Sure, but just delivering the first iteration is already a significant step up from just reporting an issue describing your proposed approach, which is how it would work for writing software.
If you believe in theories and falsifiliability, then you have even less reason to doubt "just my opinion" and think that the universe "cares for meaning/purpose".

What exactly falsifiable indications do you have of that?
According to the article, Google will collapse because people hate ads. It makes a point that Amazon has a more solid business model.

First both Amazon and Google have B2B products and are not only B2C. Second users equally hate fake reviews and deceitful product descriptions, and they are a real danger to Amazon B2C operations. Finally Google is still among the "less worse" ad companies, although most of the public thinks it is the worst one.
That's how humans think, we often can't fathom abstract ideas directly at all.

Consider the idea of "time". We only think of time as movement in space, with either us moving or the time moving. I left that experience behind me. Looking ahead to the future. She has a great future in front of her.
Not quite the same, but this reminds of defrag from various quake games (mostly quake 3 and variations). The idea of strafe jumping being in the original quake (well circle jumping more like which is kind of different) started as a bug based on how acceleration works in quake that was used to basically fly through maps and became a central part of movement in the game. Of course, in addition there was the more well known rocket jumping where you use the force of weapons as a means to accelerate. Later, people made entire maps that require mastering this movement, a little bit like parkour, and it developed into a game mode that had very large and intricate maps that require a lot of skill to complete.

Here's a good example of defrag[0].

[0] https://youtu.be/x0HpJvyLnxA?t=54
And that’s exactly how you get completely locked in the OS.

No thanks, let’s keep media consumption a primary thing on iPad and keep laptops as professional machines.
Ketamine is not generally considered a psychedelic. It's a disassociative.

I don't think I've ever seen a study comparing this in the way you describe, but from piecing together other papers I recall seeing I would say probably psiloc(yb)in, possibly DMT ("ayahuasca"), with LSD and mescaline (peyote/san pedro) being qualitatively similar. All of these are primarily serotonergic.

I'd be surprised if Salvia does jack shit in that domain, regardless of how trippy the experience can be. It acts very differently.
Why can't America build anymore? Is this a cultural problem, or a failure of public policy?

Healthcare, rail, aircraft, automobiles, shipping, pharmaceuticals, and now semiconductors. We can't make any of these things at scale anymore.

They turned GE into a financial institution. They sold Bell Labs off in pieces. Boeing can't safely update 1990s vintage air frames to accommodate modern engines. And yet, the market is on a tear. This is not sustainable.
Multiple front facing cameras in different locations could also be used for some sort of stereoscopic imaging too.

What about camera location as a configuration option at time of purchse?
Because giving nukes to someone is dangerous (more dangerous than giving stingers to the taliban) and subject to approval that Trump won't get. Taiwan is afraid to declare independence, they even have a mainland chinese governor to help the PRC keep up the pretense.
http://mikelui.io/img/c++_init_forest.gif
Thats not the problem, problem is TSMC (or whole Taiwan) having an 'accident' coincidentally at the same time SMIC reaches maturity.
yes, thanks for this discussion!

The point that I wanted to make about systemd is that in practice I'm again and again running into systemd vs. containers problems. Systemd isn't really intended to run in containers. There are workarounds (such as sharing special files from the host with the container or using Podman that has implemented similar workarounds for it). The reason is that on modern "fat" Linux distributions (like RHEL/CentOS or Ubuntu) more and more things depend on systemd. Postfix is just a simple example. Because of this clash the original promise of containers (package any user mode stuff into a container and run in anywhere) often feels broken. This isn't Podmans fault (Podman is doing what it can to ease the pain, but it only works when you use Podman). A container image that contains systemd needs special treating (not possible on any host or platform that can run containers) and isn't really a portable container anymore.

These kind of issues tend to let me avoid using CentOS/UBI as container base image and instead go with i.e. Alpine that doesn't have the things I like about EL (LTS, etc) but also never has any mixups with systemd. (It's a bit sad having to go that road when your workplace actually pays for EL support).

I wouldn't have any suggestion how to easily fix this though. Systemd will never fully run in a container I suppose (it's too much linked to non userspace) nor will all container tools and platforms support workarounds for it.

Aside from systemd here's another example where I think Podman UX could be better. Running containers in containers is an important usecase, even if it's insecure. Docker has provided workarounds for this early on. Yes, horrible in terms of security. But good enough for CI/CD runners. Either you can pass the Docker sock file from host to guest. Or in a --privileged container you can run a Docker engine and connect to it from another Docker container. It's well documented and there is a ready "docker:dind" (docker in docker) container image.

My #1 hope with Podman rootless containers was that I could just run "podman run ..." inside a podman container. But it turns out it's (sill) not that easy, even with "--storage-driver=vfs".

What's the recommended approach for running containers in containers with a version of Podman that is available today in the stable version of RHEL/CentOS? I lack to find docs about it. I assume you can do some unprivileged foo with Podman, too ... but how?

(I know latest Podman2 is providing a largely Docker compatible sock file, but I understand its early? Don't misunderstand me, this is great, will use it once it lands in RHEL. But until then ... Docker for this?).
> If your company has PII, then you by law must be able to produce a consented attestation chain all the way back to the source.

So...basically the GDPR? Well, not quite, since the GDPR doesn't require consent attestation, "merely" a legal basis. Of which consent is just one (the most useless one to use as a company).