skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any government is fragile. Democracy is fragile. Look at the US for example. The institutions don't hold up on their own: people have to fight for democracy. Democracy is actually worth dying over, compared to what tyranny offers. The Americans got lucky, at the end of the day, with the coup attempt.

I am a dual US|Croatian (European Union) citizen, and I find your comment thoughtless and offensive. (I don't downvote.) In my country (Croatia), if you want to leave the EU, usually you straight up want war with our neighbors.

The history of the EU started with the European Coal and Steel Community, which was created as a solution for "what to do after empire".
"His Computers Will All Boot Super Fast"

Booting has disappeared.

Sleep (and hibernate) has made booting and boot times a non-issue.

I would be surprised if people boot phones, laptops and many desktops more frequently than once a month.

Even rebooting for updates probably happens without anyone present.
Yeah, I really wish people qualified where they're having the problems.

Seated experiences where you use smooth locomotion are bad. Aircraft (or spaceship) cockpit type experiences are even worse because not only do you have translation that's out of sync with your inner ear and sense of movement, but you have rotation as well (which is much worse).

also, newer headsets are much, much better than in the 90s.
Newspapers? I would have said those were pretty distributed. Yes, a couple of the big national ones are in NYC, but that's where the population is. Finance is certainly another example. Obviously at least a certain subset of tech. Oil.

Is this really that unusual though? And, to the degree it is, how many other large countries have the same sort of distributed large population centers?
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It is not as bad as some sensationalist headlines made it seem, but they should still implement some kind of rate limiting to prevent mass scraping.
I wrote pojde[1] a while back to solve that exact usecase, using my iPad (or any device with a web browser) to code from anywhere. It creates multiple isolated code-server instances on a remote server and handles toolchain installs, updates, authentication and TLS for you :)

[1] https://github.com/pojntfx/pojde
It's a heuristic. Although I bet you can find those things in use somewhere.

This article is a little different -- "things my son would use" implies that they're still popular, not just extant. Both questions are interesting, and influenced by the same principles.

The Lindy effect is one reason I'm working on https://www.oilshell.org/, because shell is now more than 50 year old, much older than Python/JS/Ruby, etc.

Concrete example from the last few days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26746280

i.e. When people want to explain a modern cloud platform, they use shell. Go would have been more obvious, but shell is clearer. Lindy prediction: shell will outlive Go :)
Statement on the Selection of Jeffrey Ullman for a Turing Award
Well, war and the resulting competition drove the space race. Once the Soviets and Americans decided that space wasn’t worth fighting over they spent their money elsewhere and we stopped advancing in that direction.

I usually give a lot of the credit for the recent push back into space to private companies like spaceX, but, now after making this comment part of me is wondering if I am just being naive and the real reason for space becoming a priority again is because China has started to make significant progress in their space program.
Some background:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dial-A-Joke
Samsung iTest
I totally agree.

My sleep was somewhat destroyed from having kids. Not that I was extremely underslept, but my brain somehow stopped sleeping deeply it felt like. I awoke from every minute sound the kids made.

Today theyr'e 7 and 9 and I still wake from silly sounds.. Some sounds the kids make is like driving a knife through my ears. It is getting better but still...

The upside from this is now I don't need anywhwre near 8 hours of sleep anymore! 7 hours is almost too much, 6 works perfectly most of the time. 5 hours though is when I get into zombie-mode during daytime.
I've been toying around with the idea of building a small device or widget to display things like this. There is hardware like this for temperature and humidity and such but nothing for internet health.

If anyone is interested feel free to contact me. Would love to learn about what you would want in such a device.
Yes thanks, also 2.5x is not supported by youtube, so i use https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-playback-s...
They are easy to explain.
I'm grateful that you would take the time to speak with me. I know it's an expensive thing to do.

I'll start with ~~a humorous point for an autistic person~~ the worst kind of pedantry. An object cannot be no one's and mine at the same time. If I own it, then it isn't no one's. To the degree the CPU is indeed yours, then it is someone's CPU. Obviously, there's some conversational implicature embedded in your claim here, and that's what we're here to clarify.

For the record, I'm on your side. Your overall argument is something everyone needs to hear. So, I'm not here to destroy your assertion, but I think it should be weakened. There's a lot packed in there.

I take your proposition to mean, roughly, that the CPU in your possession is something only you have a cluster of moral claim rights to (which corresponds to a cluster of moral obligations of others to you regarding that CPU), with no possibility of overriding reasons, caveats, or provisos. Now, you could be speaking about political claim rights, but I don't think that's the case here (correct me if I'm wrong). Is that a fair interpretation, and do you wish to maintain that? Can you think of any exceptions? Are there any adjacent possible worlds in which that is not the case?
“ Who wouldn't love to wipe Israel off the map?” - if you ever want an example of self hypnosis, go no further
> The rough heuristic is: the longer a technology has been around, the longer it will last into the future.

"The term Lindy refers to Lindy's delicatessen in New York, where comedians "foregather every night at Lindy's, where ... they conduct post-mortems on recent show business 'action'"."

And no more should be read into that. There are solutions to problems which are adequate, e.g. "chair", where further changes can be expected to be modest. And since the problem isn't going away (unless someday we're told that sitting kills us and that we need to stand or lay instead), the solution won't either.

Otoh, there are technologies which simply supersede and obsolete others. E.g. UTF8 has ASCII as subset and hence I don't expect to see the latter around for long.
Booting an Android emulator is a benchmark that only an Android developer would care about, though. It isn't directly comparable to booting real hardware, anyway.
I get very motion sick, but I do fine in VR. The only time I get sick with VR is when the motion is not correlated with my head movement.. for example, if you turn the camera with a controller.
byuu wrote a good article about this, unfortunately it's no longer available, but basically it should be self-evident that there's nothing inherently more accurate about hardware emulation.

If you've actually decapped the original chips and duplicated them exactly in an FPGA, that's pretty cool. But otherwise it's just another approximation. The lower power requirements are nice, of course.
I just want a nuclear car...
This makes me nervous, I’ve used Dragon Speaking before and would be nervous for it to be folded into a Microsoft Office-like feature.
Is there good documentation or ICDs out there that adequately describe the architecture? Looks like there’s only 50 that were ever made, and only 14 believed to exist today.
> Visual coding is still in its infancy. We have decades of experience for how to design systems with textual code, and a ton of tools (IDEs, static analyzers, refactoring tools) that work with text.

Visual coding has been around since at least the 1970s; we have decades of experience with it, too.
what i am trying to say is that if a government supplied sufficient upfront investment in education (which is basically what's going on here) then no student would have an incentive to add an additional lieu on their future earnings.

and governments should see education if their citizens as an investment repayable through future taxes
"rich-get-richer, poor-get-poorer form of taxation."

Is poor-get-richer, rich-get-poorer the purpose of taxation? Why?
Idk, this and the original article are just clickbait. Most of the predictions on that list were outright silly. Anyone who thought 3DTV was anything more than a fad is delusional, a better prediction would have been that his son would never have to experience 3DTV. Wireless will never replace wires and the same goes for desktop PCs, sure their market share will reduce but their demise is greatly over exaggerated.

Most of his predictions were based in fantasy desire.

I would argue that while his son will probably never use an actual dedicated Fax Machine, he will probably have to figure out how to send a fax at least once. Lawyers just can't seem to get away from those damn things.
That's not what the referenced definition of a "perfect" market says.

Besides, who would run a business that could not make a profit?
Hi, author here! I think you're absolutely right.

In my case, I found them a beautiful data structure that is simple to understand but very useful. I also draw the images for learning myself about a topic, maybe others find the format useful, so I have started sharing them.

But yes, I have definitely planned to draw/explain other data structures and computer science concepts. I did bloom filters now because I'm exploring concepts related to hashing and cryptography.
It doesn't seem to be the case. From their last 10-K: "The Company is a California corporation established in 1977."
But motion sickness is when there's acceleration. That is, the physical acceleration is the cause of the sickness. It's not the visuals.

VR sickness is when there's somewhat equivalent visuals, but not acceleration. So I could see motion sickness and VR sickness being essentially opposites.
Add the fact that even the businessmen and regulators, influential people, politicians and judges, they all build their image of the world mostly on the same sources as everyone else - and it's becoming worryingly apparent that all the control systems in societies are operating with very low visibility into the things they're controlling.

Imagine a PID controller keeping a boiler from overheating. Now imagine the temperature input to that controller is a thermometer mounted to the door of a metal cabinet next to the boiler, and thus it reports anything related to the boiler temperature only when somebody is looking for something in that cabinet (when the opened metal doors touch the boiler and conduct heat). Doesn't sound like a good control system.
And Maven makes writing custom build logic just hard enough to discourage people from doing so, which is a very good thing, from my experience of having worked with Gradle for 5 years or so.
How is that relevant here? The notional problem consists of Apple Inc. selling an iPhone and then paying a royalty on the trade dress to Delawapple Inc. There is no supply chain involved, so it doesn't matter if the supply chain is unaffected.

The proposal above is that California should get to assess taxes against Apple based on Apple's revenue from California. And they do. That's what a sales tax is.
Hey thanks for this info.

I am in a UK address and getting many details out of which I am posting just these, posting others might be extraneous -

“Your IP addresses - WebRTC detection

DNS Address - 1 server, 1 errors.

If you are now connected to a VPN and between the detected DNS you see your ISP DNS, then your system is leaking DNS requests.”

Ergo, I believe I can safely rule out WebRTC Leaks.

Also, the page gives some details on how to switch off WebRTC for every browser. I don’t need to switch off my WebRTC, right? It’s necessary. NordVPN should be taking care of WebRTC leaks, unless I am mistaken.
This is NINE YEARS OLD
I believe this is actively being worked on; there's a compiler backend being built using Cranelift instead of LLVM that will supposedly improve debug built times by a fair amount, and then the full release builds will switch over to the LLVM-optimized version. Last I saw, the improvement between the existing rustc and Cranelift-based one was something like 15%, but that may have changed in the interim.
Was the sleep issue not resolved by a BIOS update?

Tangentially, I want to mention that the archlinux wiki is a terrific catalog of machines and their known quirks (and sometimes, fixes for the quirks!).
It looks interesting but their web site can use a little magic. Would be nice if it explained their technology.
It is, and they promulgate a complete fiction on the importance of keeping Israel close to the US

Tell them to go cozy up to Russia, make good on that ‘threat’, have fun with that
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I don't think so because that is a property of hash-maps, rather it seems to test some properties of an item to know that it is not in the set or that it might be in the set
> App runs well on Pinephone but building Rust GTK App on Pinephone takes forever.

Have you tried Lazarus on the Pinephone and the Librem5? It already runs on different ARM boards and apparently it does on the Pinephone too producing fast code.

https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?topic=52217.0

Check also the video on mega.nz linked in that thread.
i've lost faith that bellingact is neutral. Just read the headlines on their website. It's obvious to me they have agendas (in the plural). Also, it's shadowbanned on HN.

Despite this, i still enjoy some of their articles, so it's a mixed bag.
Thanks for the explanation. Is it true that a node in HNSW can be a jump point for the next iteration of search, which means its neighbors can well be candidates of a query even though the node itself is filtered out? If so, skipping a node because it is not in an allow-list will potentially result in loss of recall? Will it work if we can keep expanding the search front until we find enough number of results that are both close enough to the given query and match the given filter?
Get a taller ladder.
Nobody would accept the fallout if it was a space launch either, given that crud might either hang about in LEO poisoning it for everyone else, fall out onto the planet below, or drift around in space forming a radiation hazard for future travel. You'd have to get its speed up to solar escape velocity to ensure it wouldn't be captured somewhere.
Hi there! Not a criticism, I appreciate that you are putting out educational content. Rather, it was a genuine question.

If you’re exploring cryptography, I highly recommend looking into Shamir’s secret sharing algorithm. It’s very elegant and doesn’t require much in the way of higher math to understand.
So, effectively—your phone is your computer? This is awesome. This is what general purpose computing was meant to be.

Marketing caused us to regress to the fragmented landscape of gimmicky special purpose devices that we have today.
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If you intentionally discount a product based on the fact that they advertised it to you, you’d be making a decision based on some property not intrinsic to the product, which means that you might not purchase the optimal product.

This would all be ok if the tradeoff was a strong signal to the seller that advertising has a negative impact on sales, but I’m positing that the impact of that one sale is negligible and well within the noise threshold of an extremely noisy process. For all you know, if the seller notices at all, they might conclude that they didn’t advertise to you enough.

However I’m totally ignoring any utility you might gain from a principled approach and if it works for you, then more power to you.
And to be clear, the objection is quite tongue in cheek.
Sarcasm. Iran are, amazingly for such a small economy, a massive polluter and they would rather drop dead then stop selling oil (fighter jets don't pay for themselves, the military owns most of their economy).

My point is: the nuclear industry exists to make weapons. That is it. It is baffling that other nations pretend otherwise (for example, the EU seems quite happy to pretend that Iran's massive interest in nuclear technology is for civilian purposes...unf, countries in the EU have a long record of supplying countries in the region with "civilian" technology that was later used to murder people).
But it's not like buying a software key, is it? I want to play Windows games in a VM, not compute protein folding or whatever. I'd pay 15€ more for a 1060 to unlock advanced virtualization features, but why should I have to pay 600€ more to get a Quadro just for that one feature?
That example proves the point. If UTF-8 exists then ASCII will exist.

It could have gone the other way: if UTF-16 was the ONLY encoding, then ASCII would be obsolete. But that didn't happen.
Seems useful for some quick administration, but I can't see this replacing a proper desktop application. With the number of results some of my data exploration queries come back with, Firefox would fall over and die.
Privacy isn't damage. Privacy is a threat to profits, it is a form of competition. The less competition, the more freedom to suck up more data and repackage it as product.

It's a long,layered, and sometimes difficult read, but The Age of Surveillance Capitalism thoroughly lines up the stones and turns them over. After hearing this, I was obligated to buy it , and read it.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/living-und...
In latency and power usage, yes. In compatibility and accuracy, no. Both are Turing complete, so there's nothing you can do with one that you can't do with the other.

If you take the SNES core, my software emulator has 100% compatibility and no known bugs, and synchronizes all components at the raw clock cycle level. It also mitigates most of the latency concern through a technique known as run-ahead. But it does require more power to do this.
Would you mind elaborating on that? My understanding is from a verification point of view, the Librem 5 is functionally at the absolute top-tier in terms of OpSec concerns, with everything from the bootloader up being open and customized, full disk encryption available, and the only binary blobs (I think on the modem?) being completely sandboxed. Are there additional concerns, and what kind of solutions do they currently use that do meet those needs?
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I'm really curious where you got "better" out of the quoted text. Because it's not there or implied, but people keep reading this into anything about fpga recreations of chips. There's nothing inherently better about doing emulation on an fpga or a cpu, other than basically the amount of electricity involved in doing it.

But people keep presuming an improved accuracy that there's no basis for.
I understand there's a horizon for cells (vhf and up isn't going to be reflecting off the ionosphere) but a whole lot of people can exist within a single cell. My argument is about the informational capacity per cell.
> People drop $1000 on smartphones all the time.

you live in a different universe
I had the same thing with a refi. They said they needed to send me a fax, have me sign it and send it back. I asked them what millennium they thought it was. They looked at me for a second, then said "We can send it as an email attachment".

So I suspect that they don't require fax. Fax is their normal way of operating, but it's not a legal requirement or something. It's just their default, and they'd rather not have to deal with changing it for you.

But who's paying who? Oh, I'm paying them? Then they can forget making me jump through their obsolete technology hoops. No, they can figure out a way to send me the documents that I'm already set up to handle.
Hi, author here!

I have created that site to summarize concepts I find interesting, while providing examples or use cases.

My biggest inspiration comes from Julia Evans and her zines[0]. I started drawing the things I was learning about, and I thought the format could be useful for other people.

Right now I'm diving into a mix of hashing functions/cryptography, data structures and databases. I usually spend a few days learning about a concept, and then I try to summarize it in a constrained drawing frame (I use Excalidraw[1] to do it and some logos from drwn.io[2]). I'm happy to accept suggestions about interesting topics to explore, draw and summarize.

[0] https://wizardzines.com/
[1] https://excalidraw.com/
[2] https://drwn.io/
> how you guys managed to effectively bootstrap industrial districts at continental level for the weirdest meta-stuff, from newspapers to movies to corporate accounting

This is a common market flexing its economies of scale. India and China do similarly. If the EU could get its act together, it, too, would reap these benefits.
> the country with world’s largest navy

Not particularly relevant, but this is only true by the metric "number of boats". If you weigh by boat size other countries are much larger.
Not if you can skim read.
I really hope this doesn’t come off offensive, but every time I read journalists describe the amazing levels of stress they deal with on social media I can’t help but roll my eyes. Especially in a piece like this, one that is apparently very personal to the author - why bother muddying the information with personal anecdotes everywhere? Why not let the events speak for themselves? Maybe I’m jaded, but the whole thing comes off as some performative, manufactured way to get clicks. Curious how war correspondents feel about such articles.
How does this work if you’re a “niche person in general”. Hell I don’t even solve half the problems I have because 1) They typically are more of a minor annoyance than a major problem and 2) When it comes to solving them, I quickly realize the solution is significantly more complex than I originally envisioned and the time and resources required to solve it aren’t generally worth it.
Out of curiousity, what distro are you running?
Re-frame (just like Clojure in general) seems to be much more stable than alternatives in a sense how much things change over time.
Firefox supports the name constraints extension.
Ah, echoes of the "why use this new Dropbox thing when I can use FTP, SVN, and some FTPFS" attitude. You're right, what you've suggested works.

It would still result with VS Code running more on your client than it would when using VS Code Remote.

Port tunnelling, while totally possible with an SSH command in a new terminal, is something VS Code just sets up automatically (and makes it easy to add your own).
> Maybe. Once you get to measures that have a negligible effect

No, always. Masks are mechanical, they reduce risk by some fraction, period. Some fraction of particles that would enter or leave the lungs and into the environment don't, because they get trapped in the fabric. That doesn't have anything to do with how many particles there are.

I think your logic mistake here is that you're assuming that all these mitigation strategies are correlated, that you need to stay distanced OR outside OR masked, etc... But that's not the way this works. All of those strategies help INDEPENDENTLY, and doing them all leads to less risk.

Now, if you're 40' away from the nearest person and outside, it's true that your absolute risk is almost certainly so negligible as to make a mask irrelevant. But believing otherwise isn't "pseudoscience" or "religion", it's just a calculation error.

Be nice.