skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The internet routes around failure" hasn't been true for a long time. It refers to the original topography which has been replaced with a hub and spoke model. Remove a few hubs and you have disabled a large portion of the internet.
In fact, personally (just my opinion) I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft sold my data - extra cash for them. Google's main business is ads though - they WANT that data, and I wouldn't say they'd sell it.
That is one vile post. Do you have any evidence that kids marching are doing so because of "organised-by-adult-pied-piper protests" have you read the latest IPCC report? If your life expectancy is anything longer than twenty years, do expect to see the other end of your misguided certainties. If not, there is still a good chance you yet will.
Life is better without Twitter.

Grandparents had a fit over me cutting FB. Grandkid pictures are a serious matter.
For me the real challenge was that, despite everything, deep down I really didn't want to go to sleep on time. Sure, tomorrow will be worse with sleep deprivation, but I LOVE the blissful peace and quiet of the night. My best and longest sleep is during the times when I can afford to not give a shit when I go to bed and when I wake up. But it's rare to be in such a position.

One thing that really helped me to keep a "normal" sleep schedule: 0.3 mg of melatonin 7 hours before planned bedtime. I think it was the Slate Star Codex dude who recommended this and, to my surprise, it worked pretty well!
Nice non-answer.
They haven't been revoked yet?
if you're not writing explicit loops then you must be doing something else. is that something else interesting? you'd have to dig in a little bit to find out.
Doh, of course. Thanks :).
Unless you exist in a state of wild over abundance and are very conscientious, most working infrastructure is always at a state of almost-disrepair. If I operate a machine shop and I have 4 partially-stripped screwdrivers, I might get a new one, but inevitably I will use it until it is as stripped as all the rest, and I don’t dare throw away a tool that is currently even in partially working condition since I might need it later if another driver breaks. This is true of every single thing in my shop, and the end result is a system that is robust to absolute failure but prone to constantly needing to be patched up.

As far as I can tell this is a truism across all fields: farming, skilled trades, build systems, transportation infrastructure, housing…
> The constraints are auxiliary.

Constraints enable reasoning, both automatic and manual.

Loops fit the single-core CPU hardware paradigm extraordinarily well. As soon as you start targeting modern hardware, more constrained recursion/iteration schemes start to buy a lot more in terms of both developer time and compiler complexity.
MINIX is the case I use to illustrate the difference between source available, open source and free software. The source of MINIX was available, but its license was very restrictive. Considering it was reasonably functional before linux, the world could be a very different place had a better license been chosen.

It eventually became open source and the 3.0 was even serious but it was too little too late. Besides serving intel's IME, there is very little use for it today.
:)
https://youtu.be/sShMA85pv8M
I can't believe that's real art from before the Greek dark ages.
Well done, great job!
That's why the proceeds of the carbon tax should be split up and paid out evenly across the whole population.

It's not just a uniform increase in prices. It's people who emit an above average amount of carbon paying the people who emit a below average amount of carbon.
Nailed it, I think this is exactly why they skipped Nu.
The problem is few SoCs offer anything better. And btw you can use NVMe on the PBP... But there are power considerations and bandwidth limitations.

The rk3568 has quite a bit of PCIe compared to its spiritual predecessor (the rk3328). And the specs for the rk3588 (unreleased as of yet) do look juicy.
Some have, but not all... yet.
I daily drive a Pinebook Pro AMA.

Applications:

* Firefox (Element, Slack are thickest websites I use commonly apart from video streaming)

* Supertuxkart

* thin client to my VPS

* Ardour for recording music (using a USB audio interface, only tried recording one channel at a time so far so good)

* managing personal files, KeepassXC, backups, et al

I have it docked to a monitor and keyboard, but I have taken it with me on the road before. The keyboard is decent and screen is nice but small.
The irony of being confined to my house during one of the best summers my country has ever known, to "fight" a disease that is well-known to be worse for vit-D deficient people.....
I'd have to respectfully disagree with the article. It seems like unnecessary abstraction that just obscure the logic, and it makes the code much harder to reason about in my opinion. There's this implicit behavior injected which may or may not be pure.

Here's my suggestion instead, break out your pure and impure behavior. Don't design it so that you inject the behavior, instead seperate them into independent units and compose them at the handler.

(defn get-article-id
[request]
(get-in request [:path-params :id]))

(defn make-response
[status body]
{:status status
:body body})

(defn get-article!
[data-source request]
(->> request
(get-article-id)
(db/get-article-by-id! data-source)
(make-response 200)))

This is often known as the Functional Core, Imperative Shell pattern. The functional core cannot call out to the imperative shell.
I got to talk to a few Bombardier engineers as a teenager when it still was in development and they showed me some parts, it's truly amazing. At the time what impressed me the most was the carbon fiber honeycomb floor, it was impossibly light. It felt like foamboard yet it was insanely strong. They were challenging people to break it in half and no one could.
I respectfully disagree. @marcan42 is doing the development work and firmly believes that, once completed, the M1 machine will provide a superior experience to Intel machines.

Also, while there is a ways to go, a shocking amount is fully completed: I2C, UART, Power Management, GPIO, Display Controller, USB, Thunderbolt, NVMe storage, the works. Hector says he is just rewriting a few drivers from other folk, going to merge it upstream, and then really only the GPU is remaining.

But he has a friend working on that and less than a year later and despite not being the primary focus, they're nearly at OpenGLES, which has shocked people for how fast the GPU drivers are coming together.
This is a multinational organization, funded by member states, built around consensus that we're talking about here.

It seems unreasonable to expect international organizations to be simultaneously accepted by multiple parties with divergent and conflicting interests... and somehow not be subject to politics.
I guess we deserve this for clicking into a crypto-zoology thread but I’m right there with you
What are some other/better proposals for how to organize a world-wide network? This is one area where I have not seen many articles. But admittedly, I'm probably not looking in the right places. Any suggestions?
VR was pretty hyped a few years ago.

Edit: Also, what exciting things are you seeing? Almost everything I see is either proposing smart contracts for intractable problems, proposing defi for intractable problems or is a straight up scam.
Well, scientists would argue that general relativity (I.e. gravity the way we understand it now) does predict a lot of things really well.

Now, the problem is that its predictions fall apart at quantum scale and cosmological scale. Dark thingies are just a way to make the equations work at cosmological scale.

There's always modified gravity, which takes an alternative approach by changing the equations.

That's how they taught me 15 years ago, so give or take:-)
Don't worry the anxiety is only there as long as crisis hasn't hit. Then anger takes over.
MS is probably one of the best positioned to give very accurate digital credit score, given just about everything goes thru their OS and browser.

There’s tons of such companies now - basically just scraping your Uber, Postmates, etc accounts and selling that to banks so people without credit history can have a start.
We absolutely can. Imagine a US president outwardly Trump-like but who was also a True Believer instead of a cynical, mentally-ill real estate huckster. They would have the unilateral capability to start a global nuclear war. And they might actively desire to do this, on the basis of religious delusion (“it’s time for armageddon!”).

We are frighteningly close to this scenario in 2025. It’s a bad idea to assume that the gop candidate will be a fascist-wannabe in on the joke (someone like desantis or cruz). We can survive run-of-the-mill fascism, although it won’t be fun. But it could instead be someone truly existentially dangerous.
> seems…nothing has had a meaningful impact on coronavirus spread

Not sure if trolling, but in case not, vaccination has had “a substantial impact on mitigating COVID-19 outbreaks” in America [1].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7709178/
While some see this as a marketing stunt, I think it's a successful founder that now dramatically over-estimates his personal importance:

> "I'm not willing to expose my customers to this harm, so it's time to take it out of the mix." {Lush co-founder Mark Constantine}

Trust me, they're not using social media because of your brand and less ads definitely won't drive them away. I bet he's gone within a year.
depends on how many different types of loops there really are. now _that_ would make an interesting article.
Fasting. 3 Days. Just Water and salt.
I think the concern were most regarding key theft than a cryptographic attack.
> the publicity that anyone can get today can create a simulation of normalcy.

It seems like it isn't hard for any belief or belief-system to obtain a critical mass. It feels like a paradox: if the threshold for critical mass has fallen, or the number of people required to reach critical mass has grown for every niche? I'm not sure what's going on, but I'm scared. Maybe this is the "old person scared" thing I giggled about when I was a kid watching my grandmother try to make sense of a computer...
Amaze.
Care to explain why you think it's a bad thing? Seems like it's mostly deprecating old JS ways of doing things and introducing new JS features and a better security policy.
I pay for Netflix but I don't use it to watch episodes....
Vaporware Has a New Name: Meta
Random question, but related: Like this example, I see lots of other applications that require a QR code storing binary data and chose to encoded this data as Base64 (or others) and then add it to a ASCII-only QR code format. Why don't they use a binary-mode QR code? Compatibility?
Code Checking Automation (with property-based testing) [video]
I make my morning espresso daily in a Bialetti. Has been since visiting my sis in Italy 5 years ago. Glad to hear they are making a comeback.
> Replacing a system where we collaborate with nature to one where we're dependent on a corporate lab grown product does not seem like it's being more integrated with, or compassionate to nature.

Are you really saying that slaughtering animals is more "compassionate" than growing meat synthetically? And are you saying that the massive environmental cost of factory farms makes it more "integrated" with nature?

It's like you're deliberately trying to attach a negative connotation to synthetic meat by using the words "corporate lab".

Literally all first world amenities originate in a corporate lab! Are you suggesting we stop taking COVID vaccines because they were developed in Pfizer's corporate lab?

What do you propose we do instead to curb the world's desire to eat meat? You say "factory farms are terrible". Yes they are! And synthetic meat is the only way factory farms will go away.
I think 2,3,5 and 7 apply to Rexx as well, another IBM created language. I wouldn’t call it modern however
Apple’s credit card is huge success.

Just about every big tech is doing the same since tech trust is so much higher than banks. Irony is - there’s still always a bank behind.
I invested some token money on OHM to learn more about it. The APY figures will come down in 1-2 months based on certain funding/staking levels. I stayed away from all forks of OHM.

Lot of interesting projects happening in DeFI 2.0 and DAO space. One example: https://www.klimadao.finance/
Because that's actually not how the world works.

With traditional company, some consumers are paying it for a service. Apple is making 300B$ a year because a lot of people are willing to partake large amount of money in exchange for some good that they (think they) need such as a laptop or a phone. The consumers have no expectation of getting that money back later, it's a trade.

If you think Apple is a good company and will be more successful in the future, you can decide to invest it in, and you buy a share of that company to some other investor against cash.
In theory, it's possible for every single investor of Apple to make more money than what they paid for through dividends: As long as Apple keeps making products that people are willing to pay for, it will make money, and investors get a chunk of that money.
Here value is created by work happening in the entire value chain needed to produce the good. Because if you had to make your laptop yourself with a pickaxe, it would be quite inconvenient.

Also, if everyone suddenly decides to dump all their Apple stock, it will go down a lot, but not to zero, because the company as an actual intrisinc value: they have hundreds of billions of $ in cash in their war chest, have a lot of valuable physical things, and will continue to make hundreds of billions every year no matter what people on the stock market think.

Overall it's not a zero sum game, because consumers are providing an external source of cash to the investors.

Now, the more a stock is overbought, the closer it becomes to zero sum. Tesla for example, if it fails to realise the bright future that everyone is betting on, then it will get ugly as it's current stock value is disconnected from it's current intrinsinc value.

Axie is very different, the price of the token only rise because of investors (here players), there is no external source of money going in that could make everyone richer.
It's a bunch of people sitting in circle around a pile of cash with the promise that they will be able to take a random piece of the pile later on. And if you want to be able to sit with them, you first have to put cash on the pile yourself. Looking at the pile of cash getting bigger and bigger is exciting, but you will have to fight everyone else to get more than you put in.
Oh and while you are sitting there waiting for the pile to get bigger, the people that organise the event are shovelling money out.

All (most?) crypto games today are zero sum. However it's possible in the future that they may not be. I am thinking specifically about the ones that brand themselves as "metaverse". If the game in itself is interesting enough that people are engaging with it for a long time, then companies will want to start advertising in it, and if shares of that revenue are reinvested in the in-game economy and not just entirely taken by the company behind the game, that could be an example of external influx of money.
Alternatives come along everyday for varied reasons

https://alternativeto.net/software/youtube/

Progress just happens now and then, newer people comes to the ecosystem and change things to their liking. And in this case the blockchain invention is to big and disruptive to be ignored

Someone is working on a blockchain related system for all the things you said

And probably in the future no one will trust a company without some sort of auditable public blockchain ledger
« Let me cherry pick one thing that has not gone wrong yet so I don’t have to worry about this » is how you become RIM.
Kaggle – Images and Transaction History of CryptoPunk NFTs
>UPDATE: French & Polish authorities found no sign of cryptographic compromise in the leak of the private key used to sign the vaccine passports and to create fake passes for Mickey Mouse and Adolf Hitler, et al.

Afaik it was a leaked login, not a leak of the keys.
Of course the WHO and South African government oppose travel bans. That doesn't mean imposing those bans isn't in other countries' best interest. Taking a risk-averse approach in a highly risky and uncertain situation isn't inconsistent with the WHO's recommendation to take a "risk-based and scientific approach."

I'm not saying that restricting travel is necessarily the right approach (though it probably is), but nothing in your comment really strikes me as compelling evidence that it's the wrong approach.
Completely irrelevant to the main discussion, but this got me wondering. Why is equating poverty to bad/meager/lacking considered distasteful? Wouldn't anybody in poverty agree that it's a pretty accurate comparison? Are there really any harmful stereotypes being perpetuated here? I can't think of any.
I am not a security expert, but this article seems to just be saying that the Internet is held together by trust, convention, and an ever-evolving set of technologies. In the case of Level3 (now Lumen), it seems they did not deprecate an insecure method that others already deprecated. And it seems that better technologies are on the horizon (RPKI) but not yet fully in use. To me this doesn't feel as bad as "spit and baling wire". We could be more secure by holding everyone to a stricter standard on adopting newer, more secure technologies. But is it really as broken as the title suggests? I don't think so.
I work a lot with common mark and hoedown for work. There's no formal Grammer for parsing markdown unfortunately. The closest thing to what the parent comment is talking about is pandoc which most people are afraid of because Haskell is scary and the markdown format they use is strange.

Also all of the parsers for md are very complicated.
> My primary goal of my writings are to promote better understanding between China and the west.

> China is different rather than universally evil.

I think I found the issue - you might be confusing criticisms of the Chinese Communist Party with criticisms of the Chinese culture or people, and those are two very different things.

I've seen very few comments on HN (or even in real life) that criticize the people or the culture - everything is about the CCP and its policies, which are authoritarian-for-your-own-good at best.

Every piece of evidence that I've seen points to the CCP being a very evil organization that has hijacked the legacy of a great and old empire and convinced its subjects that its merely the latest figurehead of it.

I'm an American, acutely aware of the many faults and malicious actors at work in my government, yet I'm capable of separating that from the ideals of my country.

Don't confuse criticism of your government with criticism of your people, history, culture, or national ideals. They're completely separate.
The SoC in the Pinebook Pro can only address 4GB of RAM, it wouldn't make any difference to add a sodimm socket.

The RK3566 that is used in the latest Pine64 products like the Quartz64 and PineNote can address more, I would expect a laptop using this chip at some point.
>Using this approach, this variant has been detected at faster rates than previous surges in infection, suggesting that this variant may have a growth advantage.

Really? I wonder how much of this is "it's very easy to spot in the pcr" and we don't have to Redeploy tests..
The mainstream vaccine narrative has needed additional supporting evidence to state with confidence that vaccinations after previous infection should be a requirement… it’s only natural a new variant should occur with the exact fit needed.
Yes, but there are apparently 76 active + 18 reserve. And notably only used by the USAF.

That's a lot of planes, and a huge contract, but it's not a recipe for growth.
The PDP-11 had a MMU, but it was an extremely simple MMU, even simpler than what was available in Intel 8088/8086.

When MMU is mentioned in UNIX context, a MMU like in DEC VAX is understood, which provided features like access protection, dynamic relocation and virtual memory.

The main purpose of the PDP-11 MMU was to extend the maximum memory size from 64 kB to 4 MB, but that was done in a very inconvenient way.

A single process was limited to 64 kB of program code + 64 kB of data. For larger processes one had to use memory overlays, i.e. to swap out parts of the program while other parts were swapped in over the same addresses, but this feature was not used in UNIX, but in other operating systems for PDP-11, e.g. DEC RSX-11M.

In UNIX, the larger memory was exploited by loading in memory many concurrent processes. It was easier to split some task into subtasks done by cooperating processes communicating through pipes, than to attempt to remap some of the 8 kB pages of the 64 kB address space while the program was running, in order to exceed the process size limit.
I don't know about that - 90s MS was a scumbag to any other company it could get under it but it generally didn't harm its users (other than of course being uncompetitive and limiting options) because its users were a form of customer (just not the enterprise level customers which were most important)

Google harms other companies as well that it can get under its thumb, but also harms its users.

In other words the only time I would have thought in the 90s how is MS going to harm me would be if I decided to start a company that would potentially compete with them, or would depend on standards they were likely to sabotage.

Today if I decide to use a google service I have to to wonder - how is google going to harm me?
Why scientists think the new variant may have emerged in an HIV patient
Did you pay the $1,000 entry fee yourself or did you get a “scholarship” like the article mentions? How does one invest more than the $1,000 entry fee? Do you sponsor “scholarships”? How long ago did you start playing and how much time have you put into the game? What return (if any) have you made on your time/monetary investment? What return (if any) do you expect to make and over what horizon?

Thanks for agreeing to answer questions! I’m very intrigued!
> Or imagine a digital casino

I find pretty much every casino game beyond incredibly boring. The only appeal seems to be greed-- if you take that away (or decide you don't value it), they lose all luster for me. I know this opinion isn't universal - some people will play simulations of those games for hours with no real money on the line - but I can't be the only one. There are so many much more enjoyable games out there that cost a lot less (or nothing) to play.

I've thought for a very long time that if they ever manage to come up with casino games that are actually fun for more people to play for long periods, it would be a catastrophe for gambling addiction. All the same, I can't help being curious what it would look like. I'm honestly amazed it hasn't happened yet; you have to wonder whether there's some kind of hard barrier holding it back. How anyone can sit so long in front of a machine which consists of nothing but pushing a single button completely befuddles me.
> They hate the idea of those people paying less.

They do? I think many people are just suckers who can't say no.
What original topology are you talking about? There was never a time when your end consumer device could be used as even a semi-reliable web server.
That post doesn’t quite seem to imply that people just contract in and out like freelancers, but more that they are hired at a per hour rate on a permanent basis.

Seems like an interesting idea tbh.
Saṃsāra, in both Buddhism and Hinduism, is something to be escaped. The connotation is either downright negative or at least sobering. Why name your company this?