skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is mentioned in the article, it isn't a contradiction. You need both periodic phenomena and the generation of entropy for a clock to work.

Consider what would happen if we used the earth's rotation as a clock, but without generating entropy. We would have a system which would go back to its original state every day, each rotation. This means there would be no way to discern how many days have passed, as the system would be in the same configuration as it was at the beginning of the rotation.

In order to encode how many days have passed, you need to increase the system's information, and by doing so you increase its entropy. The same problem applies to a pendulum clock: you can't have a pendulum clock as anything but an entropy-generating device, or else it will keep going back to its initial state without any changes, not measuring any passage of time at all.

In the pendulum clock, the mainspring provides the entropy flow that allows it to time-keep and register the passing of time on the indicator. In the sundial, the flow of light from the sun into the sundial and into our eyes provides the flow. The light flow gets interrupted by the gnomon, casting a shadow (an irreversible process). In order to register that this has happened, you look at the sundial and take note of the time (another irreversible process). You can replace yourself with light-sensitive paper, which gets etched by the light (yet again another irreversible process).

The other sources of entropy (like tidal friction, as well as atmospheric friction and friction between the layers inside the Earth) are irrelevant for the sundial's working, but could possibly be used to create timekeeping devices themselves.

I'd say the main difference between the Sundial and the Pendulum clock's working is that in the pendulum clock, the energy to keep the pendulum oscillating and to register the passage of time are both provided by the same source (the mainspring), while for the Sundial there are two different sources of energy: sunlight provides the energy to register the passage of time, while the Earth's inertia is the only source of energy that keeps it rotating.

We could make the two systems more similar by changing the pendulum clock so it's only a pendulum, creating a separate indicator consisting of a light shining onto a pendulum and a sheet of photosensitive paper slowly moving down and receiving the pendulum's shadow, registering the passage of time onto the paper without using the pendulum's energy for that.
I think that'd be a ripe thing for SCOTUS to determine (though, I personally don't trust them to determine much right now, so ymmv)

There's probably a good argument that the government should have to invoke eminent domain and proceed with manufacturing themselves.

I can't say that I've put an excess of thought into the matter, though.
"You're a hacker, that means you have deep structures to worry about, too."

"Deep structures?"

"Neurolinguistic pathways in your brain. Remember the first time you learned binary code?"

"Sure."

"You were forming pathways in your brain. Deep structures. Your nerves grow new connections as you use them - the axons split and pushed their way between the dividing glial cells - your bioware self-modifies - the software becomes a part of the hardware. So now you're vulnerable - all hackers are vulnerable - to a nam-shub. We have to look out for each other."

"What's a nam-shub? Why am I vulnerable to it?"

"Just don't stare into any bitmaps..."

― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash. (1992)

"The paraphrase of Gödel's Theorem says that for any record player, there are records which it cannot play because they will cause its indirect self-destruction."

― Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. (1979)
Yeah it was also great in high school in the winter when I would miss a day of school because I couldn't get the thing up the driveway. Best excuse ever, underpowered rear wheel drive in a Canadian winter.
I love that they just have A decline button for cookies. I’m so sick of the manage button, such terrible ux
When I went to Japan I knew the cliche that everything is miniaturised - but it really is! They even have 2/3 size 4x4s with the tyre on the back but the size of a VW golf. Wish they sold them in Europe
People keep saying that and I never quite get it. What was so unique about Google Reader? When it should down I imported my subscriptions into another reader and used that ever since, without problems.
Apple is fine with that since they have enough of people hooked.
Google is fine with that too for the same reasons.
Facebook just knows that it's an empty threat and they have WhatsUp, Instagram and Oculus to fallback on to.
Microsoft just laughs all they way to the bank receiving government and business money.
Japanese speed limits are in dire need of reform. Police need to prove that you were speeding so every speed limit is set 20km/h under the de facto speed limit for the road.

Driving at 60km/h on a road where people expect you to drive 80 or 90 just makes people mad and likely to do something stupid.
"their actions?"

I am not responsible for what my ancestors did, especially if it involved people who are only nominally my ancestors. My family emigrated here in the 1970s and, yet, I'm supposedly responsible for what white southerners did to African slaves a few centuries ago.

I'm sure this is obvious and I'm actually misinterpeting something. Such comments always provoke that response in the Woke. But, in practice, this is what boxing people into identities based on skin color, sexual orientation, and gender does.
The article is about IBM Z, not POWER.

Both IBM Z and POWER processors are vulnerable to a variety of spectre-style attacks.
> robinhood uses dark patterns to get you to randomly push the market.

I think we'd all sleep a little easier at night if we knew what these dark patterns were. Can you please provide an example of misleading language or anything on their site that would be termed a dark UI pattern? I do not use Robinhood anymore as they proved they are not trustworthy, but their user-interface seems to be one of the things they did pretty well.

> then they use opaque buy spreads to capture value.

Can you please describe the mechanism used here? I'm not sure where bid/ask prices can emerge from other than from buyers/sellers.

> regardless, the market is fucked by momentum plays rather than any fundamental values, which naked short selling is only one of dozens of meaningless "liquidity" plays

I think conflating naked short selling with other momentum plays is very misleading. There's 10,001 completely valid reasons for random short term price movements. To me, naked shorting is a fundamentally fraudulent price manipulation where more shares are now available in the market than should actually exist. This messes with the normal pricing mechanism which is a function of supply and demand. This is one of the reasons that stock trading eventually moving onto some kind of blockchain seems inevitable to me: nothing else can be actually verified and fully trusted.
By the way, why do you think social media is such a big deal? Cause it's fun to stalk people.

Stop trying to make things look sexist
Ibram X. Kendi is one person. You can find individuals who espouse any view you want. The question is are there any large groups actually pushing for this. Though the parent didn't, I would s/large/mainstream/ because the internet makes it easy to find large groups of people talking about any old topic.
I have lots of plans including database creation. It's in its infancy now but 2-3 months from now that should be possible.
Luck depends on the type of people around you. If they are ambitious, highly energetic, persistent then interesting things are guaranteed to happen. The more such people enter your life "luck" will keep increasing. But for them to want to enter your orbit or pull you into theirs you must create reasons.
Somewhat similar, here in Scotland we often say "youse" to mean "you and those with you", or "youse two" to mean "you two".

A similar concept exists in Mandarin Chinese, where "ni3" means "you" and "ni3men" to mean "you and those with you", but there is also "ta1" as a gender-neutral, singular "they" (that is, he/she), and "ta1men" as a gender-neutral, plural "they".
"The Firecracker Boys: H-Bombs, Inupiat Eskimos, and the Roots of the Environmental Movement" by Dan O'Neill is highly recommended.
I think the docs are not updated correctly, I have blur on my local Zoom client (Running https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/zoom)

Here's a screenshot of the settings: https://imgur.com/a/f1XgOwz
> It means you're not talking to your parents.

The article admits that she

• rebelled and for a time would not speak (shout) to the parents other than English

• moved to the other side of the continent.
One thing I do want to clear up - lots of people have been saying things like "Great! So if I want Copilot to stay away from my code I can just include one of these words!" But there are some problems with that idea:

1. The banned word list doesn't affect what gets put into the model's training data at all, or even what gets returned as a suggestion by the server. It only affects whether the IDE will actually suggest the completion to you.

2. Some people have suggested using one of the collisions instead of a real word from the list, but this will break as soon as they change the hash function.

3. They can always take things off the word list! And the likelihood that something remains on the list is probably correlated with how actually offensive it is, which means you may not want it in your code.
I am brown and I can’t believe what the western countries are doing with going back to racial segregation days. Instead of teaching everyone to work hard snd accomplish hard things, they are being taught that they can’t achieve hard things because the boogeyman is stopping them. Victimhood doesn’t help kids. Even the most successful black and brown people like Lebron James who achieved what they did via working hard know this but they don’t want to teach that to the kids. It’s mind boggling.
Now a days there’s literally no difference between a woke and a racist. Both believe in judging people by their skin color instead of the content of their character.

Relevant comedy skit:

https://youtu.be/Ev373c7wSRg
Seeing that another comment says that Kei cars are no good over 80, I think there's a wide difference between the two.
Yeah, if you’re going to be soliciting personal information for vigilante harassment, I’m not sure why you’d imagine that a standard mainstream host would want to touch you. This is going to violate most hosts’ ToS.
Reusing inodes is not that uncommon among filesystems, so I think tmpfs should have had an implementation like that.
It also works to switch someone else's mental state. When my wife gets really argumentative I'll switch to singing whatever I have to say and it often snaps her out of it.
Copilot Bad Word List
Here are some possible headlines:
"Copilot doesn't see genders, and that is a bad thing"

"Copilot accused of antisemitism after it treats Israel as invisible"

"Indy Mech game developers for 'Tank man' confused why Copilot refuses to help"
I’m not sure Linkedin has quite the same effect on people that Tiktok seems to. Certain social networks have a culture of amplifying drivel.
I remember this - and using the same CD opening closing joke on people in the college lab. The technicians had no idea what was going on. I don’t think they really knew anything about computers - we once found a word doc on one of the computers with every password for the entire college / website etc.
I actually feel this one a lot: Android Auto and it's contemporaries are surprisingly great experiences on the road, and it's going to be tough to drop it going forwards. As long as my PinePhone ships with Bluetooth, I should be okay.
Definitely something. There’s 3-4 comments in this thread relating this to being trans.
> A little collaboration is fine, .... Bezos structured Amazon so that teams were as independent as possible.

Maybe too much independent? It looks like AWS had roughly zero collaboration between teams. I wonder how they even get IAM to work with all the services.

* Basic things like how you call pagination fields is f%cked up. https://gist.github.com/ilyash/f845d050df5c7c0805183790b28ac... . That precludes straightforward implementation of wrappers and what not.

* Code being published of quality which says (99% sure) it was never reviewed (at least not by someone proficient in programming and the language).

* CloudFormation lags supporting new features of other services.
I might be missing something - it’s early in the morning - but a VC at another investor says Demo Day isn’t that good, and Axios runs with a story saying as much?

I think capital is plentiful for quality companies so there are certainly options out there. But from what I can see anecdotally, YC is, now as much as ever, a fantastic opportunity to gain visibility to high-quality investors.
Equity absolutely does not means equal outcomes. According to Merriam Webster it means "fairness or justice in the way people are treated".

Seems more like you have conflated its meaning in reaction to a movement you don't like.
No, just unmoderated social networks. One of the longest-running types of “social network” (going for centuries now!) is the academic journal—but those have the explicit goal of sanity cross-checking anything submitted to them before allowing it in, so they result in something else being promoted.

(I don’t want to say it's “good, rational discourse” that journals promote, because that doesn’t seem to be exactly what comes out of journals; they do have their own incentive structures that bias "the conversation" in specific directions, even besides the ones that are extrinsically imposed upon them by academic hierarchy.)
I just did this on my Linux box where Firefox is my daily driver. The only domains listed were firefox or mozilla ones.
Summit, the current #2 supercomputer on the Top500 list, uses POWER9 CPUs.
Famously unreliable undercarriage, factory tie rods, driveshaft snap like sticks.

Yes, but kids like them. The cheapest car to put an enormous turbo.
Ok right you are. What's weird though is that O2 were once BT's mobile arm (BT Cellnet) so it's all still a bit incestuous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O2_(UK)
Congress could always, you know, do their jobs and actually fix the law.

As to one bureaucratic choice or another, we've had enough turnover in the White House in the internet era that "the last guy broke this" doesn't really cut it. New executives can always issue new executive orders. It's just whether they want to bother or not.
You don't consider better software, better service, better results, better everything to be innovation? I wish these billion dollar corporations were as innovative as pirates. They pretty much invented digital content distribution years if not decades before the legitimate industry managed to understand what was going on. They reached worldwide audiences at mere fractions of the costs associated with legitimate services.
American pick-up drivers are by and large not buying their cars for their utility.
there is evidence that runs contrary to your last sentence
Everyone who can't reply to you because they are offline.
Seems like pretty lackadaisical coverage with no actual data backing it up other than a line about "many investors told Axios..." which might be interesting if we understood how many they talked to, quality of the firm, etc.

Generally, I'm actually inclined to agree with the article, but what is essentially an opinion piece presenting itself as real coverage annoys me.
You specifically used the word 'ruthlessness', approvingly, and cited the paradox of tolerance as justification.

People are really out there being ruthless, trying to hurt people, and justifying it using your logic. It's not a strawman if it's literally happening.
On Linux, this is fine. On some OSes (BSDs, MacOS, etc) the only stable interface to the kernel is libc. Linux doesn't doom you to a C interface forever, but the BSDs do. RedoxOS will likely require Rust forever. OSes don't have to define a direct interface to their kernel, they can (and often do) provide an official required abstraction layer.
How to render 3D model previews server side
I'm already there! I loaded up a distraction-free work laptop with Ubuntu, i3, 20 gigs of ambient Spotify playlists and all the documentation it's poor little SSD could hold. I seldom connect that machine to the internet, when I do it's only to clone a repo or install a package.
I think people generally know enough to argue/speak in favor of equality of opportunity, but many of the actions appear to be “of outcome”.

In many cases, you can take a view (and craft an argument) that a particular action is one or the other, depending on whether or not you agree with it.

Take admission standards for colleges. Some colleges (at least as I understand it) are requiring higher SAT scores for Asians than other groups to consider students to be equally likely to be admitted. If you agree that’s good policy, you’re likely to argue that this represents increasing access to higher education for underrepresented non-Asian groups and therefore is an equality of opportunity measure. If you oppose it, you argue that those SAT scores represent a measure of the students’ demonstrated scholastic ability (an outcome at that point in time) and that perturbing those results is being done in an attempt to equalize these outcomes. (The truth is that it’s almost surely a mix of both.)
The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo is a great biography of Dirac. Wholly recommended.
Is this part of the overall shift of computer interfaces to borderline useless tools which are more focused on interrogating and manipulating computer users than actually getting some kind of work done on the computer or is it a different kind of police state metastiziation?
I am not 100% sure that the author wrote this title. It is much more dramatic than the article.
“Tear things down” is practically the toddler core competency!
Here, have a free cup-holder!
Ask HN: Are there any “high-density” CSS frameworks?
Hi, I'm looking for a CSS framework for an industrial/embedded control application. All I can find are CSS frameworks with large spacing inside and between elements. Unfortunately that leaves a lot of unused whitespace. I'm looking for something with a more "technical" touch, with high information density. The closest thing I found is flakes (https://getflakes.com/), which has a modest look but still isn't very "dense". Are there alternatives?
simple: the elite schools trained the people who went on to take the propaganda positions in government, media, and secondary schools.
I'm in a weird position because I do understand why (particularly on HN) we're discussing infrastructure concerns, but all of the "do you really want companies to have this much power" conversations are happening in a complete vacuum from the bigger conversation of "do you really want governments to be able to sidestep constitutional protections this easily?"

We're allowed to care about multiple issues at the same time; you're allowed to be both concerned about Texas and the increased privatization of public infrastructure.

However, it's not really that we're caring about two things at the same time, there hasn't been much discussion about the tech implications of this law -- this law creates a template that can be used to attack tech companies and to sue platform providers. It can be used to bypass constitutional protections about freedom of speech. It can be used to attack constitutionally protected activities like encryption. It's heckin dangerous.

GoDaddy's move may or may not be prudent, but even if we think it's not prudent and that it's not the right thing for them to do -- it's still pretty objectively a much smaller story than the type of censorship that this law enables and the future implications of having the Supreme Court sanction a novel way for States to avoid constitutional scrutiny.

I understand that the abortion angle changes how people are thinking about it, but it's still disappointing to see this happen and GoDaddy being the main thing that people are focusing on. It feels like bikeshedding. What would prevent another state from using this same legal template to ban encryption? If people can't answer that question, maybe the ratio of conversation between GoDaddy and the law itself shouldn't be so skewed.

Again, you're allowed to care about multiple things at the same time, and nobody has to agree with what GoDaddy is doing. But it's kind of silly to say that corporatism is a bigger threat to freedom of speech than actual laws targeting speech.
Does anyone else feel like this is a clickbait article? I don’t really see anything that substantial here.
Planning to do this soon. Been looking for a reason to switch from the bloated docker for desktop.
I knew one Japanese guy with two cars. One Kei, for driving the hood, and daily commute. And one proper, large car for "showing off" in the big city. He said such was rather common.

The fancier is the car, the less people drive it so they can sell it at higher value.
This is completely different. The baker bakes cakes for some people. GoDaddy presumably doesn’t support the non-consensual collection of private information for vigilante harassment for _anyone_.

Not that the weirdos behind this site are a protected group, but even if they were, they couldn’t demand that a bakery, say, sell them plastic explosives, only things that it sells to other people.
It isn’t just the media. Here in Canada, the government literally passed the mathematics curriculum which claimed nonsense like “mathematics is subjective” and “mathematics is colonial”. I emailed them a long rant that I would rather ship my future kids to India for a better education instead of the nonsense they are teaching.
So no, it isn’t just some media. Nor do I follow corporate news.
70's Datsun pickups were good for that too.

In the mid-south US, those Kei trucks circulate at around $5k right now for "beater" bottom priced ones. $10k would be a decent price for one with "no known issues at the moment".

The "gator / golf cart" things from Polaris, Kubota, etc; jumped up 4 wheeler things, are nibbling at the bottom of that niche too; without ever really getting into a satisfactory fulfillment of it. Them things are the bane of the roads around here, people just assume its ok to tool around the highway with the dogs and kids piled on.
I’m not sure I agree. If I were to hire a Personal Trainer and they were in terrible shape I’d be doubtful of their skill. What shape the person is in _shouldnt_ matter for their ability to do the job, but because they haven’t gone through the process themselves I’d have initial doubts about their skills. Your actions say a lot about your values and thoughts.
How is that statement anti-trans? It literally provides a statistic.

What are you reading into it?
if I recall correctly, you could attach this to other binaries via silkrope so the receiver would be unsuspecting.

I think we did it to a classmate once :)
Dennett was also influenced by the (controversial) theory from Julian Jaynes that consciousness is possibly something that emerged in humans much more recently in human history. I’ve had a copy of the book on my shelf unread for a couple of years so I probably won’t speak to it accurately, but I find it a fascinating idea.

Main idea is that human brain has two halves, abs consciousness arrived from auditory hallucinations formed in one half of the brain, and acted on by the other half.

I think one of the arguments here is how humans centuries ago heard voices of gods/angels etc. He argues that this was the bicameral mind in action. I think he has another linguistic analysis that argues that human consciousness emerged around the time the Iliad was composed.

If anyone is interested, this afterword where he covers some criticisms of his ideas is a good entry point: https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~drkelly/JaynesOriginsConsciousne...