skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most of the same tactics used to control colonies could be used to control Mars.

Those tactics only work when backed up by a credible threat of overwhelming force. I do not think the Earth will be in a position to bring overwhelming force to bear on a Mars colony. It's a lot harder to do that across tens of millions of miles of space than it is to do it across an ocean. And even across oceans on Earth it often doesn't work.

> Mars would probably be utterly dependent on earth for multiple generations.

I'm not so sure. We have barely even started exploring Mars; we have no idea what resources exist there. We are still discovering new resources here on Earth; I would expect that humans on Mars would be doing the same there.
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DALnet (Bahamut, a fork of Dreamforge which descends from ircu)

This is incorrect. DreamForge descends from irc2.8.20[0].

Also, if you look at the code they're basically the same with the exception of TimeStamps. They've also removed the "services" support stuff and adopted the U:line paradigm later.

[0] - https://archives.darenet.org/?dir=irc/servers/dreamforge
> For all we know Elon times his tweets to key horoscope events

That does not make it any less or more wrong. If someone takes actions to make the stock market fit horoscopes that does not make the horoscopes better or worse at predicting those actions.
Shrike.jl: Julia beats optimized C++ (Approximate nearest neighbor search)
I feel like they're trying to sell me 4 day work weeks when they include cut electricity cost and paper usage in their opening paragraph.
If the if/else is simple the compiler should be able to optimize that anyway.
How can you credibly assert he has friends at the GRU?

If it's not malevolent to write that, then I assert the same for you. You have friends at the GRU, and you're distributing toxic disinformation at the behest of foreign intelligence agencies.
The usb-A standard is rated for 15% of the plugs as usb-c. Large is not a feature. And the cost differential vs A is a rounding error on the price of a mac
Also notably missing: A Tribute to Jack Johnson. Any guide to Miles Davis missing Jack Johnson along with Live Evil and Dark Magus is … incomplete.

Miles’ fusion period is by far his most interesting work.
This is true. On the other hand, there are huge swaths that are.
Markets are human things. If a non-zero subset of humans turn to astrology (as Maren's 1MM+ followers might suggest), even if only partially, when making any decision, wouldn't it be reasonable and quite rational to think that the market might actually move in relation to astrology events if enough of these "stupid" people are participating? Wouldn't that be the "smart" conclusion?
Giant Inflatable Sails That Increase a Ship’s Fuel Efficiency by 20%
I'm puzzled by this attitude. It's as if a kid is a monkey of some sort that can randomly call someone. If a kid is smart enough to use a phone, he or she can understand your concerns.
True, but you'll be surprised at how many people want astrology and stuff like crystals and scented stones and magical beans across the United States. It's huge and truly a contest between literacy and the belief system.
I like the Versioning section:

The web devs tell me that fuckit's versioning scheme is confusing, and that I should use "Semitic Versioning" instead. So starting with fuckit version ה.ג.א, package versions will use Hebrew Numerals.
We're talking about a computer that costs several hundred times the price of the cable you're complaining about
My macro economic understanding is that real estate is a debt that hedge against inflation. Since inflation will cause raising cost, your mortgage is locked in while cost of everything is going up. Inflation punishes savings but help debtors.
English physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton produced many works that would now be classified as occult studies. These works explored chronology, alchemy, and Biblical interpretation (especially of the Apocalypse). Newton's scientific work may have been of lesser personal importance to him, as he placed emphasis on rediscovering the occult wisdom of the ancients. In this sense, some historians, including economist John Maynard Keynes, believe that any reference to a "Newtonian Worldview" as being purely mechanical in nature is somewhat inaccurate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton%27s_occult_studie...
Thanks for the correction! Updated.
This old school cracking scene is one of the things I think I really missed -- I was way too young back in the days, and maybe also lacked of self confidence, as assembler and hexadecimal looked like another dimension.
People aren't liking the response because it seems like it is saying "it isn't practical for me to take on this tiny inconvenience for the betterment of the world".
After learning about this and how to look at it I look at chicken closely now before buying. Most of the time I can’t even get chicken that isn’t woody, just less woody than the other packages around it. Even the more expensive “organic” chicken seems to suffer from it.
It's a problem everywhere, from bad KPI's to public policy. We have a bias towards metrics that are easy to measure.

It's much easier to measure large effects on a single metric, than small effects distributed over a wide range of metrics. Concentrated effects that affect one individual/org/group are favored over distributed effects that affect everyone. There are so many examples of policies where this thought process has been applied.
fork here is COW on the host kernel (i.e., copying EPT entries). We will post detailed technical documentation soon.
> There are many VPN providers in the US which don’t have logs

Many claim they don't have logs, and my understanding is that it has been sometimes revealed that they do have logs. Also, how do you run a server without logs? Many think those claims are BS.
It's worth noting that Apple has been trying to leave USB in the past ever since USB has existed. FireWire and Thunderbolt are more or less the same thing with the same advantages (over USB) for the same reasons, and with the exact same downsides (security implications of DMA on external ports, extra cost and complexity).
I block the entire element, and if moderate actions aren't enough will frequently just move on to other search results.
>The US government could tax the population at 100% of GDP and it wouldn't make a dent in the national debt.

Actually, it would cause the debt to GDP ratio to go up as taxable income shrinks. See Greece.

Paying off debt while everyone and their dog is saving money like crazy is foolish.
Actual serious students of astrology: "The stars incline; they do not compel"

The rest of the world: "If you believe in astrology, you think you can know the future."
Huge fan of both records. As a massive Miles fan they're probably the two that I can come back to again and again when I'm looking to get kicked in the pants, musically. I suspect a lot of people are going to be alienated by 'Dark Magus' in particular, but the energy of his bands in this era is astounding. Really wild stuff.

A personal favorite of mine is 'What I Say (Live)' off of 'Live Evil. That bass line is the foundation for a lot of my own playing and Keith Jarrett is on FIRE in this performance. It's a shame that his Miles performances are the only ones where we got to hear him in this idiom.

I'm also a huge fan of 'In a Silent Way' and 'On the Corner'. I suppose my fav Mile's records are the ones where he was really pushing the boundaries of music. It reminds me of the tag that started appearing on his record around the era of 'In a Silent Way': "Directions in music by Miles Davis."

Edit: Wow. The reviewer really just skipped right over these two records. I guess they're probably niche for most people. That's too bad, cause they're the most bombastic records in his catalog and really highlight his range and the depths of his innovations. Oh well.
This works as is but you’ll want to edit the window position numbers (at the bottom).

function search {
local query="${@}"

osascript -l JavaScript -e "
browser = Application('Google Chrome')

google_window = browser.Window().make()
ddg_window = browser.Window().make()

google_window.activeTab.url = 'https://duckduckgo.com/?q=${query}'
ddg_window.activeTab.url = 'https://www.google.com/search?q=${query}'

google_window.bounds = { 'x': 0, 'y': 0, 'width': 600, 'height': 600 }
ddg_window.bounds = { 'x': 600, 'y': 0, 'width': 600, 'height': 600 }
"
}

It could be improved in a few ways, like:

* Not opening the extra window if Chrome isn’t already running.

* URL-encoding your query.

* Auto-detecting the screen bounds (and Dock).

* Auto-detecting the active browser.

But I didn’t want to turn this comment into a full-fledged gist. As is, this works in Chromium-based browsers (replace the name in the `browser = Application('Google Chrome')` line). Adding support for all of them and Safari is simple: https://gist.github.com/vitorgalvao/5392178
Sqfmi / Watchy – Watchy – An Open Source E-Ink Smartwatch
> they printed nearly 60 percent fewer pages

What on earth are they printing at Microsoft?
You have a point, but at the other end of the spectrum, writing precise legal terms can cause problems as well.

If the terms refer specifically to "cookies" and "browsers", it'd be entirely possible that the advertising industry and other players would simply change their own wording to evade the law.

An effective legal claim might be able to find out about and catch up with those kind of tricks; but it'd be partly a game of time, and simply by delaying legal challenges while their operations continue, the ad industry would have achieved their goals.
I resolved the asymmetry by becoming an angel investor myself, and participating in dozens of deals. When I got to Silicon Valley in 2008 without any capital that was not possible. It took many years before I could afford sending my first $10K wire.

However, if you are just getting going today, things may be different. When I started there was no WeFunder, Republic, or AngelList syndicates. Now, you could plunk $100 into 10 startups on WeFunder, or $1K into 10 syndicates on Angel List, and start to build your own internal dataset on what the investing game is like. That might hone your skills faster for when you are trying to raise capital. Not sure if that would work, but if I was just starting today, that's what I would do.

edit: just realizing your question may have been tongue in cheek ;)
1) Combining emoji compose into a finite and reasonably small set of combined symbols. The set of mathematical formulas isn't finite in the same kind of way.

2) Layout of mathematical formulas is reasonably complicated. It doesn't make sense to force that complexity to be included in every text layout engine.
To counter matt_the_bass's example, I live in the NE US, I have always used the method (in this case, window upstairs open, window downstairs open, natural draft cooling the house by dragging the air through), but there is absolutely no level of filtering that will stop all pollutants and allergens from entering the house as long as you are not filtering 100% of the air.

Last time I noticed, nobody makes a window-sized AC-esque filter that works efficiently down to PM2.5 levels... and doing so would also eliminate said window being a window.
This is a bit of a tangent, but while it may be conventional to round to the value with the smallest difference, is that convention good? In a case such as this where it's fine for the prescision to vary with magnitude, then I'd argue it makes sense to round to the value with the smallest ratio.
I've found more often than not they can just be ignored?
An International GDPR seems increasingly necessary. Stop trying to right size, hide prices, etc; just give straight good deals and sell good products at good prices.
Cool new invention. The march of progress is astonishing, harnessing the wind to power a boat is sheer genius in its simplicity. I wonder what the next big thing will be, but it's gratifying to see that new inventions are still being created and that innovation isn't dead yet.
It’s a nice touch for sure. Someone’s got an eye for detail :-)
There is a proposal by the Julia language team

https://github.com/stevengj/subsuper-proposal
So why does the truth not change people's perceptions?
Rustdesk / rustdesk An open source remote desktop client software
I think you might have misread the post. His logarithm code became the most used snippet and had the bug.
(To clarify: two things make me feel the vastness that lies between my ability and expertise:

- Computer programming

- Landing an airplane (was student pilot for about 250 landings, until..

- Parenthood

- Expressing myself effectively in writing, and

- Counting the number of things that I need to improve.

)

- Counting the number of parentheses needed to close the s-exp.
People say this a lot too, but Illumos also uses shared-kernel isolation. Linux + gVisor is probably (significantly) superior to it as far as security goes.
WSJ News Exclusive – U.S. Housing Market Needs 5.5M More Units, Sa (Cont)
From 2019, this is a popular topic on HN!

210 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21433710

242 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21441689

149 comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26495933

30 commennts:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21919721
I live in a downtown of a medium-size city and right now when I look out of my window I don't see a single ad. This is because the advertizing is banned. Unregulated capitalism would NEVER allow that. A view without ads is not for sale without regulations. Same for 'a clean air', 'a clear water' and million other things where an unregulated enterprise would happily shit its externalities all over the commons to make an extra cent.

That is why advertising should be regulated far more heavily than it is right now.

As for why 'default response of so many adults today is to demand that an authority figure blah blah blah', as you have asked -- it's not, stop building strawmen.
America is famous for its small towns. People forget this.
Don't Piss Off Bradley, the Parts Seller Keeping Atari Machines Alive
Fully agreed. I spent my entire childhood with essentially zero electronics (we lived overseas), and didn't get into computers until we were back stateside, and I was a young teen.

As an adult, I'm proud of my technical accomplishments. But having no social anxiety, because I learned how to communicate face to face throughout my childhood, has been the biggest boon of all. Not joking.

[edit] I feel I should also add that not getting in to tech until already a teen has never felt like a deficit, or that I was starting behind anyone else. On the contrary, the non-virtual skills that came from playing with physical things like lincoln logs, tinkertoys, building models with friends, etc. gave me a intuition of how the world works that has helped me a great deal in getting my head around the nature of more virtual structures.
No problem. Check out their code there's pretty interesting stuff over there.
Wouldn't it be cool if you could call stack overflow answers directly from your code?
I'd rather they keep them out and raise either pay or quality of life instead. Quality of life hasn't risen with productivity increases in decades.
Far be it for me to get sucked into politics, but I think the difference here can be explained that more evidence came out. It is only now becoming clear exactly how detrimental, and for how long the CCP has been obstructing investigations.

The more time that passes, the more clear it is that there is some obstructionism, and that makes the CCP look guilty.

I don't think either US political party said that no further scrutiny should be applied. Everyone wanted more investigation.

I also think that we should focus on the issue. If you want to make another issue about bias in the mainstream media, that's a much larger can of worms, and I definitely support that and agree with you.
When using DDG I sometimes curse the bad results. Stupid DDG, I think, open google.com in a private tab, do my search, only to realize that google is not returning anything useful either. Modifying the keywords a bit, I get my results, and finally pasting the same keywords to DDG, surely, my results would have been the same too.
Thanks, that’s what I figured. And that’s very interesting about not even audit or assurance finding fraud.

> Basically, limited / negative assurance is not really that useful in most circumstances.

So what exactly can we glean from USDC having attestations? It’s certainly a step up from Tether in that respect but I’m also not sure it tells us all that much.

Or maybe a better way of asking is: how exactly would you prove that a stablecoin was backed?
…or even 0 minutes!
The name and format matches HTTP trailers which are also a thing (though no one uses them).
Another in a long line of unexpected causes for system errors, the classic being the cosmic ray:

"When your computer crashes or phone freezes, don't be so quick to blame the manufacturer. Cosmic rays -- or rather the electrically charged particles they generate -- may be your real foe.

While harmless to living organisms, a small number of these particles have enough energy to interfere with the operation of the microelectronic circuitry in our personal devices. It's called a single-event upset or SEU.

During an SEU, particles alter an individual bit of data stored in a chip's memory. Consequences can be as trivial as altering a single pixel in a photograph or as serious as bringing down a passenger jet."

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3171677/computer-crash...

Those of us who do high-level development generally treat these underlying systems as infallible, but as we continue to scale - and more money and lives are on the line - we'll need to get used to the idea of not only not trusting the underlying hardware as the article states, but may have to get to the point where we have "ECC at the system level." We already have this in various distributed systems tech, but this tends to be application-specific.
The next step would be to incorporate it directly into datastores generally.

This also suggests that heterogeneous hardware architectures can have an advantage in situations where data integrity is critical, even with the increased administration, hardware, and ops costs. Finally, it also highlights the importance of data audits and reconciliations for even non-suspect data on a regular basis, preferably with the aforementioned heterogeneous setup.
To be fair, in many places with universal coverage of health insurance, the owner doesn't know they won't get sued for medical expenses. The European countries that have often been mentioned here (Germany, Switzerland, etc.) most often use a system of private insurers with deductibles and co-pays that patients must pay, although the minimum level of coverage tends to be far more protective than in the US. Medical expenses wouldn't cost tens of thousands (USD/EUR/CHF/...) but would still cost hundreds or somewhere north of a thousand in a place like Switzerland.
I think I disagree, since mathematics cannot be reduced to logic (or any other instrumentalisation).

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philosophy-mathematics/#M...
If you want to see how an emoji will render on various platforms, or generally search what's available, Emojipedia is good for that: https://emojipedia.org/kiss-woman-woman-medium-dark-skin-ton...
Floating point is really really hard to get right, especially if you want the numbers to be stable. Which begs the question, why the heck does JavaScript, the most used language in the world, not have an integer type? Sure, there's BigInt but that's quite clunky to use. I know it's virtually impossible to add by now, but I'd love a integer type for all my bit twiddling, byte munching needs.
Circular firing squad is a fantastic (and sadly apt) phrase.
The ENTIRE point of the story is that industrial meat farmers raise a breed of chicken which has been engineered to only live a short lifespan before consumption. Laying hens are a completely different breed, so your mother's experience is not relevant.
Felleisen's entire goal with the Racket project has been teaching-focused from the beginning. I don't think anybody in the community doubts that he cares about teaching and evangelizing Racket.

The problem is that he has a very... how to put it. Matthias seems to believe that you must fight and struggle your way through academia and prove your worth to earn respect at even the most basic level. He is known for verbally abusing his students regularly. As I wrote elsewhere, I was explicitly discouraged from applying to Northeastern if I didn't feel I could withstand certain kinds of regular verbal abuse at his hands. That's unacceptable behavior, regardless of the "true intent" underlying it.
I already cut meat out of my lunch and I don't eat a breakfast during the week. No thanks.

It's not practical to demand the entire planet become vegan.
I guess the question is how much typesetting do you want to stick into unicode? It works OK for emoji because the results are always simple: it's just another individual emoji, with the same size & characteristics as the original.

That said unicode is not free from typesetting weirdness, see the character ﷽.
I don't think that test does much. The original point was that there's no such thing as objective news, but rather facts put into context.

If you're finding that context setting is consistent in its narrative, that's not a reason to recoil.

As an example, put yourself in a highly contentious context of a historical situation - say the apartheid in South Africa. If you found a newspaper that always took a position counter to the white south African government, you would have found a good newspaper.

That doesn't always work, but neither does a simple test like you've deviced.
The thing about textual evidence is that you can't cite an entire text (obviously). You have to selectively choose what to quote in order to support your claims. Additionally, people can write one thing, and then write other contradictory things. Or they can act in ways that contradict what they write. It is from this totality of evidence that non-quantitative methods draw their conclusions. To get to the point, I'm not necessarily claiming that Nancy Maclean (the historian "caught cutting sentences in half") is in the right here, but if you actually follow the debate it seems quite nuanced and the internet critic hadn't actually even read most of the book they were criticizing (and also clearly has certain political leanings to boot). Certainly nothing like "throwing away half the data that didn't support my findings."
We're talking about the tone. The author's point is not entirely whacko: "hey plz stop using astrology to make investment decisions, it's stupid". But the tone of "hey look at how stupid Maren and all her 1MM followers are how does this even happen I thought the humans were more sophisticated than this, wow such crypto much stupid" is really kind of unpleasant.

But to your first point: how do you make money on crypto markets? I must have missed this nugget of wisdom in the author's rant.
What makes that even more absurd in my books (apart from fostering an unhealthy academic culture) is that the purpose of a doctoral dissertation is essentially to show that you can do proper original research.

Getting a null result doesn't invalidate that in any way.
Correct. It’s the default but it’s no longer necessary.

Flex has had some work done to push it towards being able to generate Go and Rust code too, though this work isn’t finished. In principle it is now possible to generate any Algol–style language.
User Mode Linux is still around and works well. I use it when I need a "fakeroot" without any special privileges on the host.

https://rkeene.org/viewer/tmp/fakeroot.sh.htm
People live and breathe narratives. We are storytelling animals. We need to string those facts into a sort of coherent whole. We crave understanding, and we do it through stories. Facts don't matter, because they can be interpreted, weighted, viewed in such and such light, post hoc rationalized away...