skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nix has a facility for patching libraries without recompiling the world (the intended use case was for novel zero-days where waiting for hydra to rebuild the world was unacceptable). All I know about it is that I've heard it exists though.
I took trigonometry in 11th and calculus my final year of high school, and always thought calc was easier. Something about the logic made intuitive sense, rather than the extensive rote memorization that was trig.

Either way, what a shame that this is even being considered.
The rise of Chinese developers is highly commendable. The lack of English documentation on the website prevents me from considering the project. I understand that I may not be the target market.
I am glad to see that correct learning techniques are spreading(active recall & anki), but I am not under the same pressure as these students.

I used those same technique, even podomoro but I am under zero pressure. Instead I learn for pleasure and to achieve non-academic goals.
Just a counterpoint: I literally save every document to one giant folder, and give every file a longer descriptive name so I'll be able to search for it easily.

I've been doing this for almost ten years, and it works great.
Yes. One with a generic schema, and to which the user has full access rights.

Fundamentally, it's not the files that make filesystem great. You could devise different models, perhaps a relational one, and paper complexity over with well-designed UIs. They'd probably still be more complex than the filesystem - files are about the simplest data storage abstraction you can invent[0] - but they'd be serviceable, and users would learn.

What makes the filesystem great is that it's an old abstraction, designed in the ancient days back when computing was still about enabling users. Bicycles for the mind and all that. People cared about making things useful to users, instead of just shamelessly exploiting them. So, designed back then, the filesystem grants users the vocabulary to manage their data and freedom to do so, and it's so ingrained that - despite their best efforts - companies weren't able to completely take it away.

Filesystem persists for the same reason e-mail persists. Despite its warts, it's one of those technologies made before the computing industry became exploitative.

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[0] - Despite the frequent claims to the contrary, coming from the web and mobile world. But guess what, data magically held in app and "shared" by magic isn't easier to understand, it's just not understood at all - users have no mental model for this. The mobile app approach works only because it removed all data management features except the share button.
I agree that sandboxing should be decoupled from the distribution platform. Unfortunately, normal users aren't going to use bubblewrap or firejail directly until better GUI wrappers are made.

I also think that sandboxing is still a worthwhile pursuit for many FLOSS packages, since many programs--from moddable games to web browsers--run untrusted code. It also mitigates damage done by some forms of user and developer error (can't accidentally wipe a homedir if you can't access it).

It's similar to the rationale for not logging in as root unless necessary.
It's flat out terrible. Also a fantastic example of how "equity" is often just code for dragging everyone down to the lowest point.

They claim that this is elevating those lower on the rung, but rather, this is doing everyone a disservice. Either those of lower ability get thrown into the deep end without a float, or those of higher aptitude are forced into wasting their life doing things they already know.
This will only increase inequality by causing more middle class families to opt out of public schools.
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That's fine for the military, how does that protect joe random citizens?
Maybe the os core/kernel can live on the cpu and be able to make live optimizations and have its own assembly code...
There's a reason that they're cranking up lawsuits and rhetoric against the Apple "monopoly" on app stores, too.
I'm sure Intel and NVIDIA would also like to make more of their platform and driver-stack open, but they are bound by confidentiality clauses in third-party technology that they've licensed. That's part of why huge chunks of Windows aren't open-source: because Microsoft doesn't "own" all of it, there's a lot of third-party licensed code compiled from source in Windows.
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No matter how you try to reframe it, this really doesn't feel like "giving back to the community". It feels like "giving to Plato Incorporated". It would be reasonable if you charged something nominal like $20/mo, but charging $300/mo (or more) to be a gatekeeper doesn't pass my intuition of fairness.

Your pitch really does sound like Elsevier. Sorry.
You can search your tabs in Chrome now.
The decision is actually 5 different variables. Types are: boolean, a decimal percent and integer being a monetary value. The domain is fintech: making a decision on how much money to give and some other aspects about the loan.
> Some company making money using your information isn't with intent to hurt an individual

The Mercer family didn't personally want to kill, imprison, or cripple a bunch of people, but that's certainly what they achieved with their opiod business.
The whole "universal remote" thing seems like laziness to me, because e.g. Pioneer did this very well in their home theatre systems - the AV receiver obviously is the centerpiece of the system, so why would you need more than the touch-screen remote for that?
That's basically what file system access is like in Android, unless you give an app Storage permission. Seems sandboxed enough if no other web apps can view it.
Imagine a man with a stick or gun coming to your office to shackle you in chains for how you arranged your database schema.
> I mean, it arguably drives the out-of-control materialism that is currently devastating the environment.

No, that's Bitcoin mining.
Kids privileged with money will still get advanced math in private schools, and those privileged with educated or engaged parents will benefit from encouragement to learn independently via Kahn Academy.

If you’re a talented kid in public schools with busy working class parents, I guess you’re SOL?
The real victims are children. This is going to make them less competitive in the international arena.
Just in case you are looking for an alternative approach: if you write contracts in your code, you might also consider crosshair [1] or icontract-hypothesis [2]. If your function/method does not need any pre-conditions then the the type annotations can be directly used.

(I'm one of the authors of icontract-hypothesis.)

[1] https://github.com/pschanely/CrossHair

[2] https://github.com/mristin/icontract-hypothesis
It's probably less that they suck, and more that they aren't designed for the workload the developers want. Files are a good idea when you have exclusive write access to them at any given moment; less so, when you want to support concurrent access. Real-time collaborative creation happens at a finer level of granularity - people are manipulating individual aspects of documents, objects in the application's internal model. This doesn't work well when your atomic unit of synchronization is entire database.
I see this mentioned a lot but you know what?

One of the best lawns in my neighborhood is owned by an African American family. Impeccable.

The worst lawns are owned by white folks.

Doesn’t this comment assume that “only white people mow their grass?”

We’ve had issues with our HOA, and I wish they weren’t necessary, but some people won’t take care of their lawns unless they’re threatened with fines. Otherwise, they’ll let the jungle grow in their yards, and leave a couch by the sidewalk.

On the topic of race, homeownership, I’ve heard, is usually one main way in which a family can build wealth; if we’re concerned (as we should be) about racial inequality (financial inequality being a sub portion of it), any self-governance that encourages homes to be well-maintained, lawns to be kept, trees and bushes trimmed, and junk vehicles not parked in the yard is a benefit to any family’s net worth, since a main concern of an HOA is preservation of property values.

Real Estate is a supply/demand game. The nicer your home and neighborhood look, the higher the market value, which is of upmost concern if homeowner is trying to increase wealth.
That's true, I hadn't thought of LinkedIn. But my experience on there was becoming so ridiculous. Maybe it's more helpful for people who are in other industries but I was getting tons of recruiter spam etc. But yes, it sucks so much when you're expected to be tied to a platform and that's not to mention the serious privacy issues with this.

As an unrelated irony a local meetup.com group focused on Inclusivity now has switched some Facebook video platform...Supposedly you don't have to have a Facebook account but I don't want to give it a try on Linux and all the privacy issues are there :/
I've they want their device back, which they attached to my car (or planted into my apartment) I don't think I have any obligation to return it. Same if you send me some junk with a bill for which I never asked.

What they can do, of course, is find a judge who orders me to return it. Could be, though, that they have to answer a few embarrassing questions in the process.
If I've learned anything in the last 20 "get off my lawn" years of my life, this (fusion) thing will continue to make slow progress, until someone figures out how to marry fusion with The Surveillance Economy (e.g. some sort of AdTech) and then it will rapidly take off.

OK, got that (cynicism) off my chest. This is exciting to see. Fusion machines are like physics porn for me. Does anyone have any more links on this actual facility?
> Can you imagine using an actual productivity application in the browser?

I can't, yet many people do.
To be precise, it still is and Corel actively advertises it.
Multilayer interconnect or multiple layers of transistors?
Illinois condo law operates under the principal of no surprises. When you sign the sales contract, the HOA must give you a big dump of their records. You and your real estate attorney get a few days (I forget if it is 2 or 5) to look through it, ask questions, etc. You can cancel the contract and get your earnest money back if you don’t like anything at all. No joke - get a good real estate attorney.

Buildings with a reputation for being well-run sell for a higher price per square foot. Buildings that are really poorly run sell for cash only - banks refuse to write mortgages on them. In between the two extremes is just about everything else.

My advice is to look for a building that has lots of kids and lots of dogs. If the HOA is filled with crazy people that want to control every bit of your life, parents and dog owners will move out long before the single people will.
> I believe that the majority in the US would prefer naval disarmament to having Chinese ships and planes patrolling 13 miles off US shores the way US Navy ships have operated near China.

If they are in international waters than nobody will care. But China doesn’t have the resources to build ships to routinely project power off the US coast. Ask yourself - why are they building empty skyscrapers? Couldn’t they build ships instead?

Chyna fear is very overrated.
both of your comments are very interesting, i feel like there should be a way that Wikipedia could auto check facts using an algorithm to flag anything incorrect by referencing up to date reputable sources like NASA, Britannica ect.then use the editors/moderators to pick up anything that was flagged.
How do the thermals work out? The compute dies are already one heck of a hotplate, putting an entire layer of insulating silicon on top isn't going to improve things?
Asian American Game Developers Are Dreaming of Their Own Minari Moment
It's still disingenuous because they are being very selective with their facts. They are trying to imply that the People's Republic was somehow: 1) able to maintain control over the entire country in terms of security, food, governance, 2) actually had broad based support beyond small groups and that support was durable, 3) wasn't just a communist cover (as it was in Eastern Europe).

It's a nice "what if" story, but pretending a fully functional democratic government was overthrown by US and Russia for no reason is disingenuous.
Versus night sight? The single shot with wide enough glass is definitely going to be better: there just aren’t many photons on the little sensor! But the stacking that night sight does “in camera”, particularly since the Pixel 4, seems to outpace “cheap DSLR”. Here’s a basic Nikon vs Pixel 2 a couple years ago [1].

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/9rb53o/weekly_...
INJ didn't have a chance to e.g. invade California, but they had a plausible chance to redraw some of the map of the South Pacific, if the US had proved to not have the appetite for prolonged war.
> We just retired a Lumia 950 XL in my household.

Man, that's a lot of commitment! I gave up when an app I was using for work ended WP8 support and I updated my Lumia 640 to WM10 and wasn't happy with it (Mobile Edge is really terrible, but I already complained), I could give up that app and go back to WP8, but I wasn't willing to live with the notification center bugs in WP8 that were actually fixed in WM10. I still miss live tiles, and the janky photo uploader app I wrote. :(
That seems a very American perspective.

Not that cops everywhere else are just dandy. But, as for one example, compare the use of firearms in the US by police with just about every other civilized country.
> My data is worth money, that's why they want it. If they take it from me without permission, how is that not stealing?

Because it’s not actually yours and you didn’t create it. It’s about you which is a critical difference.

If you connect to a web server and it records a standard access log of a timestamp that it received a request from a given IP address, that’s data 100% generated by the server. That’s not “your data” any more than a recording from a surveillance camera at a gas station you frequent is “your video”.
There wasn’t a single country to really nuke. If it was a conventional military power then the U.S. would have went to war and began attacking actual things like ships or air bases. Taliban didn’t really have those. What are you going to do, nuke random places in Afghanistan for no reason?
This is packaging, the chips are still square (though they do have several layers).

A solid brick of compute would have to run pretty slow, square chips have the surface area for heat removal.
Many chips as in flash (and recently also DRAM), but stacking logic is fairly new.
My SO and I smoke when we walk the dog, which is 2-3x a week, at night. We've done this for 5+ years, neither of us have got addicted. Sometimes we smoke the last cig in a pack and I'm too lazy to buy another one for several weeks, and we're fine. I wonder if there are others who smoke occasionally like us...
Do you know if Ferrocene will be closed source or proprietary in any way? This is very worrying:

https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/sealed-rust-the-pitch/#fund...

And clashes with the entire development of the Rust language so far.
If you really want to cause some paperwork, drive it to Canada and leave it there.
Why should the remote stop functioning just because the company doesn't exist? That's a bunch of BS in my opinion. Remind me to never support anything from these founders in the future.
Not fully owning your own drivers/OS is something only a galaxy-brained MBA could think of.
Japan was certainly aware that in a long drawn-out war they had no chance against the industrial might of the USA. The attack on Pearl Harbor was essentially a gamble that by crippling the US Pacific fleet they could sue for peace on terms favorable to them. That is, the USA would leave them alone to continue their imperial ambitions in the Pacific region, and crucially, stop the trade embargo that had quite effectively stopped their oil supply. Well, as it turns out that gamble didn't work out in their favor.
These are already cheap enough with current fission tech. It’s just that no one cares enough to do it.
This is some very "hindsight is 2020" thinking. She knew there were cops at her place asking around for someone, and the next day she sees men attaching something to her car.

How is she to know that they were state vs local police, and whether they were working together.

Besides, it seems clear to me she only "didn't know if it was a bomb" at first, but at some point likely after taking to NAACP, she found out it was a tracker. So therefore at no point in time was she thinking she was disposing of a bomb. That's a fantasy.
A lot of my smoking friends preferred one brand over an other and even refused to smoke some brands. But I wouldn't classify that as being 'gourmet' in the same way as alcohol is.

A similar example is mineral water:

I have preferences around which mineral water I drink. I even dislike waters very high in minerals and will only have them if there is no choice. But in the end water is just something I drink to satisfy a physical craving; it is not something I will consume as part of a gourmet experience (although some 'artisan waters' have tried to market themselves that way...).

You won't hear many smokers say things like: "OMG have you tried the new XYZ cigarettes? The subtle flavours of tar and nicotine are just to die for!" (and the same is true for water)
There's also no 'craft cigarettes' market, or cigarette tasting tours and whatnot.
A third of HN works for adtech.
> Fiber (hikari) + ISP will cost at least 65,000/mo

That's one 0 too much as long as we're talking residential/"family". Or you'd have to provide sources/quotes.

I just had fiber installed (no previous connection here or to the closer neighboring houses) in a small house in a rural area. It was indeed 1.5 months of waiting, but the costs are 10% of what you're claiming.
The average Japanese “home buyer” will, upon purchasing the lot they wish to live, immediately demolish the previous house and set about getting the house they just ordered from one of a multitude of builders/designers/brands (Muji sells houses!) built within about a 3-4 months so they can move in.

Land has value in Japan. Houses do not.
Related: if your house is on fire, that’s an emergency. If your house is on fire every week, that’s a Tuesday
> executive director of ACHK, said the human-rights group is trying to draw attention to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) surveillance and intimidation without fanning the flames of xenophobia.

As a Canadian who has a lot of Asian friends (and likely half-Asian children one day), correctly walking the line of calling out the CCP while making sure to never call out the Chinese people or attract negative externalities for Asian people is a hard balance to keep.

I hope it’ll get simpler to make that distinction with more people educated about the topic. However, I worry a lot that it’ll get more difficult as more attention is brought to the subject because it’s almost impossible to appropriately educate “crowds with pitchforks”.

Meanwhile, the current/increasing political and corporate influence of the CPP the risk[0] just seems too great.

[0] “Those who sacrifice freedom for security, end up with neither.” - Ben Franklin
It may be worth pointing out that the original desktop metaphor is about extending available space. It's about stacking, overlapping windows as a third way, right through the demarcation line of the dilemma of switching versus tiling, to provide multiple views on a single screen. (The "tiling desktop" is actually some of an oximoron".)

Further, the desktop as envisioned at PARC, is explicitly not skeuomorphic. As Alan Kay put it, "it's magic", meaning, it's a magic environment adhering to its own concepts and genuine metaphors. That these may sometimes pick from everyday experiences is rather a matter of learning and intuition, which allows the user to construct a model space of the computer and its internal, hidden concepts. In this sense, folders and documents are really more an alliteration than a metaphor, rather an invocation of related, familiar concepts hinting at the internal metaphors of the computer than being the metaphor in itself. To the workings of the desktop metaphor folders are accidental, not essential. Icons, on the other hand, are in themselves crucial metaphors of the WIMP desktop, regardless of whether they may be hinting at real-life objects or not. Similarities to real-life objects or workflows is not what's meant by the term "desktop metaphor".

Spatial navigation, however, is yet another concept, historically imported from Dataland (MIT, 1979) [1]. – E.g., the Apple LISA was to have an abstract, tagging filing mechanism (the so-called "Twenty Questions Filer") and the spatial Finder was added last-minute [2]. Its limitations were noticed early on, even in development, especially regarding the integration of external file-spaces, but these were mostly ignored in times, when "external" meant floppies or maybe a 10MB HD.

I think, there's much confusion about this…

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200910041237/https://www.theve...

[2] https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...
What essay are you referring to? (Since the parent link is to a site rather than a specific essay).. I'm guessing it's this one? https://sfwriter.com/wordstar.htm
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Thank you and Hello ... the posts are all written, except for the artifacts/captions. I usually post on sundays and then one other day during the week based on the testing I've been doing for the first 20 or so posts. It depends on holidays and other events--I recognize this isn't a time sensitive topics and don't want to interfere with big events.

There's no prior restraint--no one is reviewing this and there are no constraints on what I am writing

(all of this as per the Author note and introduction)
This all sounds like a race to the bottom, where automated testing will drive further kludge upon kludge and the code will get less understood and harder to maintain and write tests for.

Whilst an automated test suite can at least check if the code may have broken - you'll never know if the break is significant or just an inconsequential side effect of a new piece of data. And if both the code and tests aren't understood, as you say the "right" fix won't be done and something will be added quickly to fix the test.
It was the (secret) investigation into the cooperation between the NSA and FE which was named "Dunhammer", not the cooperation itself, according to this report by DR (https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/forsvarets-efterretningstj...)

In other words, "Dunhammer" revealed the cooperation. A far more serious allegation, in my opinion, is that FE allowed NSA spying against Danish citizens. An allegation which (again, in my opinion) warrants a charge of treason.
The biggest problem is that these hypothetical situations are incredibly rare unless you're buying into an already bad/trashy neighborhood. Some of the nicest neighborhoods in the area I searched when house hunting (North Austin) had no HOA but were more expensive nicer homes.