skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pop Tarts are so awful these days. Not only have they relentlessly cut the filling and icing, you can visibly see the progress as time goes on. Kellogg, I don't buy pop tarts for the crust!
It's hilarious and reflects incredibly bad upon author.

C has more problems than PHP, yet as with PHP, it is dominant worldwide.

Just the linux kernel alone, its scope, forks, usage makes C god.

There are always a lot of "but!" statements to this reality, but they don't change fact.

PHP, modern PHP is a different beast than a decade, 20 years ago. Imagine if C took on some of the properties of rust, but was still just called C. And used as C.

That's PHP, you bunch of hosers!
One thing we focus on is not really looking at content at all, but instead, behavior. Mostly -- spam.

One way to see what we're doing is glorified spamfighting. Except the spam sometimes isn't fake ray-bans, but is instead doctored videos that call for lynchings in India.

Here's more on the subject. (My ideas, not the full institute): https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/governing-social-media-city
https://insights.glassnode.com/bitcoin-supply-distribution/
Launching a collaborative minimum security baseline
I'm sure marketing knows it's easier to sell remediation for "heartbleed" rather than "smurfkiss"
Considering this is basically design software, that could be a problem
One reason car companies are moving to EVs is the coming regulatory pressure from governments on fossil fuels and car emissions. They aren't doing it out of the goodness of their hearts.
What to Do When Reading a Book? (8 While-Reading Activities)
WikiLeaks' Assange should be extradited, U.S. lawyers tell U.K. court
Service looks cool. Just an fyi: Your homepage has elements misaligned - and while that's usually forgivable for most product MVPs, a homepage marketing a website builder should get that right.
First of all the title is wrong. Everything mentioned in the article is specific to Php. Secondly, interviews are more algorithm/system design specific rather than being asked what are the new features in latest version of a language.
The shifting sands of ‘gain-of-function’ research
I prefer to take perception or other subjective matters out of the equation and just look at raw tallies. How many high profile conservative/right/far-right authors and content have been banned, removed, de-platformed, or demonetized on these services? How many left-wing/progressive/ultra-left have? 10:1? 20:1?

(and if you answer with "source?" just take your head out of the sand and look around occasionally -- don't mean this offensively, but anyone who isn't a shill or with some self-serving agenda even bothers debating that the censorship is lopsided)

> it sounds rather asinine that a public force would want to nuke a platform that's "serving their agenda", albeit imperfectly.

This is exactly what communist/authoritarian regimes do and have done for decades. Sell people that it isn't perfect enough and convince others that state control would take care of it much better.
The Recentralization of Crypto with Proof-of-Stake
I actually read the play, it's very good. A "robot" is a simplified human, assembled in a factory, with no reproductive capability. There was an implied aspect of sex slavery, as well. By the end, a pseudo Adam and Eve have emerged.
If privacy is truly important to you, then you'll manually encrypt messages in your head using a one-time pad. Can't trust any program you didn't write yourself, including the compiler! /s

> Security and convenience are almost always in conflict

I think this is less true than people tend to think. See e.g. Signal/WhatApp rolling out relatively seamless E2EE to billions of people -- that was hard to imagine just a few decades ago!
The OS is smart enough to not render stuff behind it. You can test this by clicking a dragging a menu bar icon across the notch - it will immediately jump to the other side and not try to render a drag animation.
Russia. Saved you a click.
Realistically, the answer is probably to tax debt secured by unrealized capital gains.rffcdcxru
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No, this problem goes way beyond wealth concentration. The centralization of mining activities is extremely dangerous. The whole point of bitcoin is to be decentralized so that outside influences are minimized or eliminated. There is absolutely no point to this coin if it's centralized. All the energy spent mining it is being wasted on a useless coin that serves no purpose and whose only valuable quality is its brand.
> I don't know if this is what the judges said or if it is the Guardian's spin on what they said.

The court did say this

> "This is of particular concern when it relates to the freedom of the press, which is an important pillar of democracy. Such chilling effect on the freedom of speech is an assault on the vital public-watchdog role of the press, which may undermine the ability of the press to provide accurate and reliable information," the judgment said.

Source: https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/pegasus-national...
This has been a lot better with KDE for a while. I don't really understand all the love for the javascript laden, touch UI oriented gnome vs plasma. I suspect though the lack of attention though is partially why KDE has remained fairly stable. People working on it are focusing on fixing things rather than rewriting it.
If iOS was truly open, you could run that app in a container like you could on a non-locked down computer. Open is the best of all worlds.
Genuinely curious, what are the alternatives to the three?

1. Mine lithium
2. Drill oil
3. Do nothing

You have to store energy somehow, even if the entire world shifted to walking everywhere. Goods still need to traverse the world and thus far there hasn't been anything else with a high enough energy density to get close.

The argument being made is that if mining lithium becomes more popular, its likely to lead to advancements that do limit its ecological impact and provide a more sustainable method for storing energy...
GitHub/copilot-docs: Documentation for GitHub Copilot
> Is this a php thing?

More like a certain subset of company. I've seen this sort of "trivia/jargon" interview primarily at non-tech or non-tech adjacent companies. think like F500's far away from the tech industry.
I knew there were projects going on didn't know any of them were done yet.
Looks like there's an open role for an engineering manager in North America but nothing else right now: https://stripe.com/jobs/search?q=climate
the emphasis on resources as a low level 1 idea really sold me here.

urls- names for resources- are an axiomatic core part of the web. rest definitely emphasized that things have names, that we are using verbs to interact with individual things. dont get a /team get /team/42. now you've transfered that representation to you. i see this core idea of the web being made up of resources as fairly absent from the discussion here, or talked around, but martin did a good job really putting a pin on how basic, hiw essential resources are.

the real worlds restfulness start to breakdown when we look at how many objects have real urls in them. often the state has some id's. team may have an account id. but rest suggests this should likely be a url instead.

works like Marcel Weiher's In-process ReST work to make the server-side more restful, more url oriented. As opppsed to perhaps altering id's on the way out the door, a server can now think in terms of complete urls.
I think you're missing the context of what this is about:

> Strangely, the example she gave suggested that Facebook needs to have looser encryption in order to somehow protect Uyghurs in China from government attempts to implant spyware onto their phones. [1]

And Facebook responded, sticking up for e2e encryption:

> A Facebook spokesperson responded to The Telegraph with what we all should realize at this point is the responsible approach to encryption: "The reason we believe in end-to-end encryption is precisely so that we can keep people safe, including from foreign interference and surveillance as well as hackers and criminals." There is no such thing as encryption back doors that only the "right" people can access. If they exist, they can eventually be found or accessed by others. [1]

[1] https://reason.com/2021/10/25/whistleblower-absurdly-attacks...
> By 2030, the International Energy Agency estimates that supply from existing mines and projects under construction will produce only half the amount of lithium and cobalt necessary to meet international needs.

The mining has to be does somewhere at some point... barring a breakthrough in alternative battery chemistry in the next half decade. Not saying it needs to be in this mine, but the countries that do currently supply the world with lithium are securing a greater economic foothold. Of course I'd wish for every nation to be all honky-dory with each other but there are regimes whose optimization function is absolute domestic power and international domination.

Please refrain from pointing out the tired old truth that the US was or is such a country.
It's a rhetoric question. I don't think anyone was expecting that ending.
US software developers are 19.4% female. Also, a same profession couple counts twice, so only roughly 1/3 off the female population is required to marry 6% of the female population and get to an aggregate of 12%. Same sex couples complicate this math, but I think the overall proportions would hold true.

If you want a REALLY crazy number, look at physicians marrying physicians, it’s like 45%
Contemporary US defense policy is almost entirely based right now on concerns of falling behind China technologically in the next 20 years. So no, we're definitely not over that. We were, but we swung back hard in the other direction, with present leadership convinced that going all-in on asymmetric warfare, counterinsurgency, and foreign internal defense training and assistance was exactly the wrong thing and terrorism is small beans in the grand scheme, and we should have stayed focused on long-term strategic dominance of near-peer adversaries.

And it is illegal for the active military to do anything domestically. Different story for the National Guard, of course, and the police, so I guess we might want to neuter them technologically if there's a real concern the police are going to use murder dog robots to hunt suspects.
Both the SD card slot and HDMI port are on release outdated. SD card reader is limited to UHS-II when UHS-III is out and the HDMI connector is 2.0 instead of 2.1. I'm assuming they're using the pci-e lanes that would've been consumed by the thunderbolt 4 connector it replaces which would mean it'd require an additional controller to meet the bandwidth requirements for both UHS-III and HDMI 2.1 (which consumes 48gbps on its own), but I wouldn't exactly describe either of these connectors more "pro." I'd describe them as convenient.
In my view the problem for either China or the US using nuclear is still mutually assured destruction - you fire a nuke, and we're going to launch all of ours. If you start using nukes, you better take over the world, because if not, everyone's going to unite against you. Unless your plan is total world domination, using nukes is going to do more harm to a country than it will offer benefits.

The same isn't true with autonomous killer robots, because you can use them in relative secrecy at a small scale. If you fire a nuke, you've immediately escalated to total war. If you take out a strategic target with an autonomous robot, you haven't really pushed the envelope of war that far beyond where it's already at, so I can't justifiably nuke you.

I'd also say it's not just the ground we're talking about here - if we have autonomous killer dog robots, we're doing to have autonomous killer drones no question.
Another weird thing that vendors do is requiring work email. I put my Gmail at internal.io, it wouldn’t let me sign up.

I found two competitors, signed up to both with Gmail and paying for one. Not my loss, doesn’t bother me.

What is the logic behind all these stupid rules? Money is money, customer is a customer whether they have gmail or some other fancy email, right?
Yes, well, we jumped the gun. So now they need it because we have it. I’m not saying it wasn’t going to happen someday.

Unfortunately, this is what each step of the arms race looks like. The logic leads to phrases like “pre-emptive retaliation”.
Yes. I think MCL (aka Macintosh Common Lisp, an absolutely delightful environment from the 90s) and Allegro Common Lisp (the best Windows Lisp of that period) both called the REPL window "Listener".
Having a child is a key theme in Arrival and it is set in a context of communicating with mysterious aliens.
You don't need to get approval from ISO, ANSI or any other entity in order to standarize something _within your own organization_. Again, the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH variable has been standarized within the Reproducible Builds organization, and no one can say otherwise.
Yep, that's mostly what I'm talking about as you said with Nightfall. It's often unnecessary for its own sake imo.

It's true that Dune is based on that, but languages don't really stay the same. Middle English from 500 years ago is barely readable today. Latin was transformed into French, Spanish, Italian, etc. in a mere 2000 years. None of us can really imagine what would happen in 10 times the timespan, especially with cultures living very separated on different planets which would lead to different dialects and eventually completely separate languages over time.

It would still be rooted in the same principle, so the languages wouldn't be completely alien but they sure wouldn't be possible to understand for someone living today.
This, unfortunately, seriously affects the chance of clicking on the link, because it hides the most interesting bit of information.

Rules are rules, but shortcomings are shortcomings :-\
I wonder with crypto and the dysfunction of nation states growing if property tax or some sort of land value tax may be the only collectible one in the future?
They're still considered to own their home, even when they have a mortgage on it. Though, I'm not sure how many people do own their home at all - so I probably should have said "For the vast majority of people who own any property at all in this sense, the only piece of property they own is their home". I think the majority probably own no property in the sense of assets.
What if you replace your potentiometer with a DAC plus a low-pass filter (a RC circuit)?
But what is the 'functional programming' of APIs?
At this point I think the hate from journalists toward social media and tech more broadly is better described as "cultural" than literal economic self-interest. If you're a journalist, most of your colleagues believe everything they read in the news and therefore sincerely think FB is somewhere between "at least as evil as its size alone would predict given the typical progressive perception of large companies" and "just cartoonishly evil", so unless you're unusually indepedent-minded that's probably what you'll believe too.
> our digital lives are now lived within black box straight-jacketing walled gardens, mediated by undemocratically wielded algorithms and protocols.

> all i see today are walls instead of bridges.

Whenever I read these comments I wonder if people are using a different Internet than I am, because this isn't my experience at all.

I can access whatever I want, discuss whatever I want, and interact with whoever I want online. We have a multitude of platforms to choose from and I don't even have to pay for most of them. Honestly I don't even look at ads because I downloaded a free ad-blocker plugin for my free web browser and it all just works.

Even my social media is nothing like the dystopian claims I see online. I don't use Facebook much, but whenever I open the app it's just fun photos and updates from the people I want to keep in touch with. I have zero problems with that because I enjoy seeing the people around me happy, having fun, and succeeding.

I suspect these dystopian viewpoints come less from real-world experience and more from bouncing ideas around in echo chambers. It seems the people who are most opinionated about what social media is or isn't are those with the least direct experience in the matter, instead substituting hyper-dramatized accounts from news stories, HN comments, and agenda-pushing documentaries like "The Social Dilemma". There's a certain sense of elitism involved wherein the anti-social-media and anti-silicon-valley people feel that they are the only ones who see through the facade and understand what's really going on.
Link in bio is a slow knife (2019)
The same is true in software. The first people in a company or on a project have by far the biggest impact on the structure and future of the software. People who join much later focus on smaller parts, and they might even be geniuses and coding superstars, but they will (naturally) work harder for narrower reasons on a smaller part of the project, relative to the whole.

Papers in established fields naturally have narrower and more specific, i.e., smaller impact over time because most papers are fine-tuning things, asking smaller questions, and not building brand new theories or frameworks from the ground up. It’s expected that Newtonian physics is not going to be re-invented every year, right? Newton did it, and now the questions left are how gravity works at scales and speeds we can’t observe everyday on earth. Nobody will ever supplant Newton, because he was first.

I’ve watched this happen in my own field, computer graphics. The early papers that have lasting impact are the ones that were inventing the field and laying the frameworks for how to think about it. The rendering equation, the shadow map and Phong shading are ideas that wouldn’t get published today, however they were pioneering at the time. Now the questions we have are about things like what is the true microfiber surface shape of human hair strands, so that we can increase realism by 1% compared to the previous hair models.

If you compare them side by side in the context of today, increasing realism of hair shading is a more difficult question to answer than the earlier question of how to interpolate a shading normal across a triangle.

So, yes scientific progress is waning in the sense that we’re inventing fewer fields and fewer new theories. There are fewer papers that are expected to be or even trying to be foundational, because the foundations already exist. And it’s not waning in the sense that scientific output has never been higher, and today’s papers are answering harder (and more specific) questions.
If you consider the set of all things to be learned. Some of those things will be easier to learn than others. Any intelligence setting itself to the task of learning things from this set is going to learn the easier things first. For a time, the power gained from learning early easy things may allow you to accelerate the rate of learning. But eventually you will hit a point where the things left to learn are so hard to learn, that the rate will start to decline.

This does not imply something is wrong with our approach now, or wrong with people now. It is a natural and unavoidable thing, that the rate must at some point slow. Newtonian mechanics is incredibly simple to figure out, as evidenced by multiple people working it out about as soon as the tools were there to do so. General relatively quite a bit harder and more complex. Whatever rules tie the quantum world to general relatively appears to be trickier still. Hopefully we get there some day.
Installs Windows 11 on a brand new Dell laptop just for funsies.
Click Settings.
Type something into search.
Search completes immediately - a marked improvement.
Click on a result.
Click inop.
Click on other results.
Clicks inop.
uninstalls Windows 11.
> What matters in lithium industry, is chemical processing. Nobody cares about a lithium mining company. What matters is lithium processing

I've heard a lot about the difficulty in processing lithium into "battery grade" metal. Is there merit to this claim? If so, what's so hard about it?
I'm pretty sure one of the characters explicitly says near the beginning of the film that it's fast vs. slow that makes a difference.

It's not about the youth these days, it's about Hollywood -- the fact that Hollywood movies are more commoditized and generally "samey" than previously is a pretty well-known development. It's an industry thing, not a culture thing (or, well, it may be driven by cultural changes, but I don't entirely believe that, and don't want to speculate anyway).
Did I call them reluctant do-gooders? I don't see calling them reluctant do-gooders anywhere in my post. I gave unambiguous evidence of China's military escalation in the last couple of years and then used logic to come to a conclusion of what the likely outcome would be.
Beautiful, so content dense in those days
That perspective sounds like its from someone who never watched an average user or office worker use a computer.
No. Some limitations might be inherent (disabilities), some might be personal choices (spend rather than save, gamble). It also depends on inflation and what sort of returns one gets. It offers a chance at mobility, but no guarantees. There's almost no mobility in today's world without some sort asset appreciation.
It doesn't cost much to get a few inches of buzzword copy that makes people ask "why won't they just lift the regulations so we can have the free money?" without really writing anything that leaves readers better and truthfully informed about a topic.

We've got good responses by disinterested parties who know a lot about lithium and mining here, and it's the single sided argument funded by unknown sources that is generating the sticky "but what if"s.
Agreed. I only see my little corner of biology, but I am continually astonished at what is being learned. Often times the pace of learning and the diversification is such that I often don't find out about significant discoveries until a couple years after they happen, and I can still bring the ideas to others years later after that and people will say "holy crap that's amazing, I can't believe I hadn't heard of that." Even scientists can't keep up outside of their area of expertise, and there will be even greater discoveries as different specialties are connected together.

Media coverage is terrible, which is just fine because the fields are changing so quickly that who knows where things will be in a few years, ans the invention of understandable lay explanations take a long time to develop.

I used to learn about, say, physics from popular media, but I don't get that any more. Presumably some things are going on in those fields.

I think there are two effects: the expanse of human knowledge is now so wide that the human mind is having trouble keeping up even compared to a few decades ago, and also the media has changed massively over the last few decades as internet advertising has gutted its funding model.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Body_Electric_(book)

This one, the main relevance is that the author came up against bio and medical establishment that refused to accept even the scientific interest of studying the effect of small voltage profiles/current on tissue and bone growth. One reason was that the main source of info in the mid-20th century was a soviet scientist, but thats definitely not the whole reason as it comes back to debates about vitalism and the role of electricity in bodily functions/philosophy (etc). Theres a whole lot of similar work in studies on bioelectricity at the moment which if successful seems like it could become a dominant approach too lol. Pretty tricky to think about how that process works over decades or hundreds of years.
Out of curiosity, which ad-blocker/content-blocker on iOS do you try to steer people towards? Or do you propose a DNS based solution?