skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody's really like Stephenson, but to the extent that he is something of a cyberpunk author, I'd say you might like some of these folks if you're not familiar with them yet:

1. William Gibson - Neuromancer, 'nuff said. The rest of the Sprawl Trilogy is great as well.

2. Rudy Rucker - I haven't read any of his stuff yet, but he is on my short-list of authors to start reading. Gets recommended a lot in these circles.

3. Richard K. Morgan - wrote the books that were the basis for the Altered Carbon series on Netflix if you're familiar with that at all.

4. John Brunner - not really "cyberpunk" but some of his work is often described as "proto-cyberpunk". The Shockwave Rider is one of his most famous works, and it is really good IMO. I haven't read Stand on Zanzibar yet, but it is also highly regarded.

5. Pat Cadigan - I haven't read any of her stuff yet, but she is on my short-list of authors to start reading. Gets recommended a lot in these circles.

6. Daniel Suarez - Daemon and Freedom were really good.

7. Vernor Vinge - I'm only part of the way through A Fire Upon the Deep now, but so far so good. His works are also usually highly recommended amongst HN'ers.

8. Bruce Sterling - I know of him from his non-fiction work The Hacker Crackdown, but he has also written some well-regarded science fiction.

9. S.L. Huang - The "Cas Russell" series is excellent, as techno-thriller / sci-fi stuff goes. I won't say it's anything real deep but the books are fun to read.

10. K.C. Alexander - The "SINless" series is.. um... well, I enjoyed the first two books (not sure how many there even are, that might be it). They probably aren't for everyone, but if you like them, you'll probably really like them. I'll just try to illustrate with one example line from one of the books: "You haven't lived until you've fisted a nun under the cheap light of a neon Jesus".

11. Charles Stross - fellow HN'er and famous author! https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cstross Writes radically entertaining stuff, including the Laundry Files series, Halting State, Glasshouse, etc. I'd say Glasshouse is an absolute "must read".

12. Greg Egan - I especially recommend Permutation City.

13. China Miéville - Check out Perdido Street Station
I just found about this here.

If I were to give a talk, I would do it on qutebrowser.

If you like using Vimium, you owe yourself to try out qb, where keyboard gets first class in the application, not second-class injected into some pages with JS.
But they can hate their parents for the rest of their life.
Reminds me of this short fiction: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
I don’t know much about Roblox other than it’s some multiplayer game platform.

Is it down totally with nothing working, or just extremely overloaded but with some requests still getting through?

If it’s totally down still after 24hr it must be pretty serious. I’ve seen my fair share of production fires but usually you can bring some of the service back up quickly and then fight with the thundering herds and load and eventually stabilise the service.

I hope they put out a public post-mortem afterwards.
Vaguely similar ideas existed in True Names and Neuromancer, but no, the metaverse as we imagine it today did not exist before Snow Crash.
My current best model of cognition involves no computation. Though arises through the amplification and dampening of information storage patterns as they are translated between different pattern matching regions.

Maybe the best way to describe it is like that kids game telephone. One region takes the sensory data and first listens, then speaks some partial thought. The thought comes back out changed slightly. A fixed point occurs when the idea comes back unchanged. A resonance occurs when a fixed point is shared between different regions.

This has some relation to wave interference, and holographic information storage.

I believe this model has parts that could be useful when modeling information transfer at all size scales, from brain regions to whole brains, and even to communication between individuals and groups.

The key is to find a resonant idea that can be repeated back almost unchanged, and which can therefore be repeated to others.

Memes in the original meaning of the word have this characteristic.
I think this is especially interiguing case to casual math enjoyers too, because it feels like the four-dimensional case would still barely be within a grasp of intuitive understanding. So, now that it's proven that they exist, if/when they find examples of the diffeomorphims that don't preserve the rigid structure, I'd love to see (attempts of) explainers about them!
Investors routinely replace founder management with management more couched in an institutional investor background.
Oh. That hits close to home!
Xdotool is actually (yet another) one of those things in X11 that is somewhat broken and due for a redesign. The APIs that it uses are not really safe for applications to use, they're meant for window managers, so in some situations your scripts can get overridden by the window manager and they just won't work.

For remoting to a smartphone you can just use any old VNC client.
In the case of Lycomings at least these valve guides have been hardened on cylinders produced since 1998, without having to certify a new type. On the Lycoming engines approved for 94UL I'm not aware of a restriction that these new guides must be installed for unleaded use.
What an odd interview. I got the sense that the interviewer was really looking for Stephenson to lash out with some juicy rant about how awful Facebook is, but he is so mild about the whole thing.
In snowcrash, p2p network IO is cheap, compute is expensive. This sets up a metaverse where users render themselves and their content for others. The renders are streamed. No one controls the metaverse itself as it's more of a self hosted, federated affair.

I think there is some sort of main street with some reserved space but it's akin to a url.
The issue is the internet doesn't provide the required service for individuals to find each other directly.

We need DNS for everyone, not just the rich...er those bothering to register a name.

Make it GUID based, and let people contact each other by GUID instead of phone number.

Preferably add privacy enhancing encryption too so that only those with your public key could decrypt your GUID DNS entry to then find your IPv6 address.

Or something smarter than that probably.
What is the limitation with external monitors on the new M1 MBP?
because the precedence rules of arithmetic are familiar to most people.

It's not obvious to most people what precedence to expect

Nothing is obvious to anyone who hasn't learned it yet. Where do you draw the line? The rules of a natural language are orders of magnitude more complex, yet humans have no problem learning and using them. There are twenty-six letters in the English alphabet, and "most people" wouldn't have trouble answering if C comes before or after J. Yet you look at the few more levels of precedence in this other language you use nearly every day, and "OMG too hard!!!!11" ?

It's sad to see this strange sentiment of "anti-intellectualism" or "anti-learning" that seems to be slowly growing in the programming community; and turning a linear one-dimensional ranking into a two-dimensional sparse matrix of comparisons seems like the exact opposite of a solution or reduction in complexity.
Is it not possible to visit one of their stores and pay with cash?
What’s the vim community’s take on kakoune[1]?

[1] http://kakoune.org/
It's just like the compiler vs assembly language arguments back in the 1970s to mid 80s.

Yes, you can get better results with hand-coding the RTL, and indeed with hand-placing the resulting transistors and even making them different sizes depending on the fan-out required etc.

The question is: can you AFFORD to?

SiFive use Chisel to design all their CPUs.

Their original 32 bit FE310 back in late 2016 ran at 320 MHz on a 180nm process -- absolutely killing the frequencies ARM Cortex M3/M4 were available in at the time (or now .. 180 MHz is still the fastest I'm aware of)

SiFive's FU540 with quad core U54 64 bit cores ran at 1.5 GHz on a 28nm process in early 2018, as do the quad dual-issue U74 cores in their FU740 this year.

Sure, you can do better with hand design, but it costs $billions. Only Intel, AMD, and Apple have that kind of money to spend.
Why don’t we use HTML to author web components?
The "substantial" nature is questionable. See, for example, the correction issued by the Mississippi Department of Health:

https://msdh.ms.gov/msdhsite/_static/resources/15400.pdf
Interesting! Still packing/unpacking could take longer I guess, in comparison to a modern bulk terminal, right ?
there are builds (macvim, etc) that are good with mice, if it bugs you too much. obviously, the terminal-oriented versions wouldn't do great on this front (as far as i'm aware). i find the mouse mostly nice for scrolling (which i believe does work for me for neovim on arch linux in dwm, but ymmv) at this point, but, yes, for the most part that feeling subsides when you really start to grok the navigation in normal mode (by paragraph, etc.)
Each utility should report water quality. For most of San Jose, it's

https://www.sjwater.com/sites/default/files/2021-06/ccr.pdf

The parameters relevant to plants (EC, pH, chloride, etc.) are usually in the secondary standards, rather than the primary standards most important for human health.

San Jose groundwater is terrible, EC ~ 700 uS/cm out of the tap. I wrote

https://hydromisc.github.io/hydromisc/doc/nutrient-calculato...

to model the custom fertilizer blend that I'm developing now, since the cal/mag in the water plus the phosphate from the acid I use to neutralize the carbonate significantly shift the nutrient profile. That's obviously beyond typical houseplant practice, but professionals growing in non-soil media (nurseries, vegetable growers, etc.) do roughly the same.
Oh I think it's an awesome project, too. It's just that it sort of makes concrete what were previously hypothetical arguments about simulating living beings.

I can't bring myself to care much about a C. elegans, but let's say we scale this up enough to simulate something the size of a dog plus its environment. Presumably it has subjective experience, like a real dog? What are the ethics of writing code that would result in its "suffering"?
A sprint cyclist Olympic hopeful would have been squatting for years at this point. Maybe rusty, but

> after finally graduating in 1994, Tom moved to Los Angeles to train alongside the U.S. Olympic team
Snowcrash was forgettable. Vernor Vinges Rainbows End and stutf in Orson Scott Cards books left a much bigger mark. Esp the way the chimp troupe gets manipulated by the network. We see Vinges "belief circles" all around us.
My company has quite a few IT architects (the "senior" ones are the worst). They always accuse you of "solutioning" when you propose something, drag you through weeks of meetings, produce a lot of documents and when they are done, they either do nothing or propose a "beautiful" solution that only works on paper.

After going through this a few times I have concluded it's easier to whip out a few prototypes for different aspects of the project. This allows you to understand the problem better while also exploring workable solutions. Often you don't understand the problem but you also don't understand ways to solve them well either and need to do some learning.

You just shouldn't fall into the trap of thinking that once the prototypes work, they are ready for production. Sometimes I wonder if it should be mandatory to scrap that code and start from scratch to development real solution.
I had this happen too, with a topical steroid. Went to another dermo a few years later and they gasped out loud when I showed them my old prescription. Overdose of topical steroids can cause permanent damage to the skin.
either :q! or :x, depending on how it goes xP
There is a TED talk about the same

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY2-0-QsuTE&ab_channel=TEDxT...
The magic CSS supports tags are clever. I haven't seen that technique before. Still I'd assume basically every iPhone running the same version of Safari would give the same results.
Well said. But you could also state your final sentence as “… would do the job that police are supposed to do but aren’t…” I see what you’re getting at, though. Another related area where we could reduce their use is ticketing for vehicle window tint violations. In California, vehicles can’t have tint on the front windows because it’s quite dangerous when other people can’t see drivers. Tons violate it, and it’s historically been “enforced” as a broken tailight-esque reason to pull over POC and search them for drugs, etc. In areas where parking violations are enforced, the parking enforcement officers could easily check this and issue tickets.
I wonder if it's really that risky to use hydrogen for party balloons that will be outdoors. Weather balloons and other un-manned lifting platforms already use it.

https://www.fp2fire.com/hydrogen-balloon-inflation/
"Shouldn't behave antisocially", as in e.g. that whole asbo thing that the Brits had until very recently? I'm very glad US doesn't have anything like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-social_behaviour_order
The Jiuzhang 2.0 Photonic Quantum Computer
Note that the data was based on vaccinations up until May 2021. Most European countries (I'm assuming Sweden was the same) prioritised vacinating high risk groups first, and only opened up vaccinations to the general population in June or later. So the vaccinated group is most likely a group of older people who are more at risk than the general population.

The data seems to reflect that as it only breaks down age ranges into above and below 80. Even the Israel data from a few months ago showed that someone who is 80 and fully vaccinated is at a higher risk than someone who is 25 and unvaccinated.
Knowing now that COVID-19 was most likely created in a lab, and that most governments lack the will or wherewithal to address it, what is to stop the "bad guys" from using this same information (natural antibodies) to create the next iteration that is more deadly? I personally lost trust in most corporations that can easily be bought out. In cyber sec terms, the same hands funding the Red Team (virology lab in Wuhan) are profiting from the Blue Team (pharma). It's like the Broken Window fallacy except killing people.
Here's how encrypted notifications can be decrypted on the device-

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/...
That's a great movie! Also with Peter Sellers.
> someone local to wherever it is you are. Satisfying honest intellectual curiosity is catnip to academics.

I live about a mile or two from Roger Penrose; I have wanted for years to ask him out for a beer. I believe he has views that are very interesting to me, that he hasn't published on (not his field). I know someone who knows him. But I'm terrified.

> what hairy even is

Several people have picked up on me using that word, and run with it. I was only using the word casually, to refer to something that looks like it could be cut with a Razor. I'm beginning to get the impression that it's sort of a technical term with an established meaning.

[Edit] I'm not sure if any such established meaning might be related to the observation that "black holes have no hair". I'm not using it that way, TTBOMK.
In the Philippines, I don't think these will catch on even though in this culture it's common for large families to sleep together in the same bedroom. These beds are simply too big to fit in the typical Filipino bedroom.
> Do you consent for us to send you marketing emails" (default unchecked)

I read that as Management (PHB) wanted that but some how the implementing engineer got them to do it the respectful way.
But this article is specifically addressing performance advertising where the advert is intended to directly influence sales through conversions.

Awareness advertising, like TV and billboards, is presumably coated separately.

(I admit I wasn’t clear about that in my post but it was my intent)
Wasn't there talk about a 1 Gigaton bomb? When asked how to transport it, they said it's not necessary because it would basically destroy the planet anyway. I remember reading something like this
Not true. The server can send encrypted (not plaintext) payload. The client can then use a NotificationExtension to decrypt the payload as it comes in.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/...
And they arc out power lines and cause forest fires..
Primeagen is a great presenter. I caught this at a good time, looks like its about to start again.
With a big hydrogen bomb you would also have a lot of radiation which may make recovery very difficult.
IIRC (I'm not about to go test it now) DROP TABLE is transactional. But yeah, TRUNCATE is an odd beast. In Postgresql 10:

> TRUNCATE is not MVCC-safe. After truncation, the table will appear empty to concurrent transactions, if they are using a snapshot taken before the truncation occurred. See Section 13.5 for more details.

> TRUNCATE is transaction-safe with respect to the data in the tables: the truncation will be safely rolled back if the surrounding transaction does not commit.
Canadians have renounced tomatoes because Xinjiang
Marik is a respected doctor and visionary sepsis treater. His treatments as prescribed have never been tested--just isolated aspects of it at different timings than stipulated.

Read up on Paul Marik's Sepsis Treatment in more detail before criticizing it.
Tutorial: Metacompilers Part 1 (2016)
Do you also think NULL should equal NULL in SQL?

Read that Chesterton quote somebody posted above. It sounds like you need to study the standard a bit more, because you don’t seem to understand why NaNs are the way they are. You’re arguing from principles that don’t apply.
It's spelt Ethereum
They also are against doing anything about homeless people. When people come up with ideas on how to solve the homeless situation, like trying to get drug addicts into rehab programs or mentally ill people into hospitals to get them the medication they need, the aclu is against it. They would rather addicts and mentally ill languish on the streets and live in tents.
The point of a hypervisor is that any instruction can potentially be trapped and either emulated or substituted with others. If your application uses a lot of instructions that get trapped and end up using slower emulation it will hurt performance.
Apple M1 Max meets/beats out popular gaming rig in new gaming performance test
Numeric equality is not the same as bitwise equality. Use the right operation for your intention.
Watch Trump’s social network grow to makeup 90% of Mastodon’s user base and the project’s code gets sold because a bunch of open source devs have no interest in supporting that.
Iain Banks. His "Culture" novels are maybe the smartest space opera ever written.

start with Player of Games. The various books have no common plot thread, can be read completely out of order; Player is by far the most accessible.
The video this article is based on: https://youtu.be/xRPPLrlUeSA
I find the proliferation concerns of this technology to be rather scary--if LLNL could cobble this together in a few rush months with slide rules back in the late 50s, what could an adversary with modern computational fluid dynamics and a pile of GPUs do?

With this sort of design, you could scale a fairly small amount of fissile material into arbitrarily large outputs adding basically just lithium deuteride.
That's just insane. Sites and apps I build these days usually include FontAwesome and/or another icon library, frequently along with a custom dingbat font for the company's unique logos and iconography (we bundle all relevant vector art as a font). Then you have primary and secondary brand fonts, along with sometimes readability fonts. Not to mention iframed forms coming off credit card gateways. I have no idea how a proposal like this could be implemented, but it definitely would destroy most modern layouts.
smarter than humans:)
TIL about long-range Wi-Fi; thanks again!
Ironically, under totalitarian regimes, citizens find themselves faced with the choice between either following the unwritten rules of the regime (which require them to break the laws as written) or following the written laws (which are an impediment to the regime, and thus cause one to be guilty of more nebulous crimes like "sedition").

I don't disagree that overly broad laws are a problem in non-totalitarian countries, but I think that regimes like Stalin's are a special case.
Poll: “Best Meme Coin?”
Using CRISPR to identify the gender of chicken eggs before they hatch
Did there used to be other comments here? I have showdead on and I'm pretty sure there was a big comment about no one in either arm getting a severe case and other statistical things. Possibly another submission? I'm not sure. Edit: Nevermind, it was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29043426
Study finds California condors can have “virgin births”
at first glance i thought this would be an opensource virus. which is a fun idea because as its updated it inspires people to patch their code. or an opensource virus that patches vulnerabilities is also fun.
Jay Wright Forrester – Inventor of System Dynamics
What do you do when you solve a problem with a macro and then find that you need to do that a bunch more across other files? Using vim non-interactively always feels awkward
If Mark Zuckerberg trademarks "Metaverse", William Gibson should trademark "Mark Zuckerberg".

https://www.wired.com/2015/04/virtual-reality-and-the-pionee...

>Virtual Reality and the Pioneers of Cyberspace: 25 years before Oculus, John Perry Barlow described what it was like “being in nothingness.”

>[...] And they were ready to make a product. They’d made a promo video starring Timothy Leary. Gullichsen had even registered William Gibson’s term “cyberspace” as an Autodesk trademark, prompting an irritated Gibson to apply for trademark registration of the term “Eric Gullichsen.” By June, they had an implementation which, though clearly the Kitty Hawk version of the technology, endowed people with an instantaneous vision of the Concorde level. [...]

moviesCyberspace: The New Explorers: Autodesk Demo Tape on Cyberspace with Timothy Leary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FC4UQDm_mQ
You don't seem to realize that the fingerprinting has nothing to do with what fonts you load from a page. It's what fonts you have installed on your machine.
Did they really put the code as a zip file in a git repo?
You know, you can express enthusiasm without tearing something else down. There was no need for your first sentence.

Personally, I loved Vinge’s “True Names” short story, which I believe may be the first “virtual reality” story. I also loved Snow Crash for its in-your-face gonzo attitude.
Lol. Literally did that a day ago. Now Facebook is called Meta.
Yet taoism is unchanged.
1. Stretch your arms out to their full wingspan and then have someone draw four straight lines around you to the smallest area possible. What shape do you get?

2. It is quite common for beds to be occupied by two people simultaneously.
If you like your vaccine passport, you can keep your vaccine passport!
Here’s some I’ve really enjoyed recently:

- Octavia Butler (Everything)

- Becky Chambers (Wayfarers)

- Martha Wells (Murderbot)

- Liu Cixin (3 body problem/ dark forest)

- N.K. Jemisin (Broken Earth & and cities we became)

- Dennis E. Taylor (Bobiverse)
I think you better ask a specialist, not random internet strangers.