skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Eventually RMS said something like "Okay, well, you proved a point. However, this is a pretty rare occurrence; on practically all machines, the GNU system..."

I mean, cool story/heckle aside, RMS wasn't exactly wrong here ... heck the guy even admitted himself he had a hard time working around the "no gnu" requirement, and had to bootstrap his own tools to make it happen.

Also I get the whole "FSF are dicks for punishing sr.ht for saying Linux - Linux is not always GNU" sentiment, but even disregarding the earlier point, FSF is pretty clear in their criteria here, and it's not about labelling all linuxes as GNU/linux:

> Avoids saying “Linux” without “GNU” when referring to GNU/Linux

Whether you agree or not with that rule being useful, I'd say in terms of criticising sourcehut's wording, then that's pretty accurate criticism. I don't think the rule was misapplied here.
holy hell. I have a garbage bag full of wireds from the 90s in my basement that I was looking for somewhere to recycle. Time to go on an archaeology expedition...
I've done this with my wisdom teeth when they needed to come out. I used this company: ndpl.net. There were a few competitors but it's been years since I looked into it. My stem cells are sitting in a lab, frozen, awaiting my command to send them anywhere in the world for medical treatment.
I wish wish wish Neeva was already good. I dig that they have a better aligned business model but their search quality still sucks. I was looking for a specific gun to buy and Neeva took me to a scam site as the first hit and I stupidly trusted it and completed the purchase through it (luckily was able to cancel it and get my money back). They also pushed an update which crashed their Beta iOS app and never fixed it. I’m rooting for them but I was not a happy customer so they will need to earn back my trust for me to subscribe.
Can you give us an executive summary for why the debt would prevent rate increases?

I have a bit of economics background, but generally try to stay away from YouTube investment videos with titles including stuff like "Red Alert".
I use notmuch for my email workflow. It has Python APIs. This is trivial to do with it. The downside is that it's for PCs, not phones. I suppose one could hack a mail server around its tags so you could use it via the phone as well. Never thought about it...

https://notmuchmail.org/
If you found a Volkswagen type thing, then sure. The problem is that it needs to be an utterly massive discovery to move the price of a company that probably has 100 factories.
Summarizes almost exactly how I feel. I also searched the title of the article, and one of the autocomplete suggestions was "why are google search results so bad 2021 reddit"
Discord didn’t end up selling to Microsoft.
And the identity of those two parties has changed over time- when a party loses touch with its base, it can and will be replaced.
I don't really want to add to the drama here, so I've chosen to be silent for a bit. I'm also not comfortable "ignoring" you.

What I described above is a persistent pattern. I don't believe I'm imagining it nor overreacting.

I don't know some means to escape it without talking about it some.

It's certainly not the entirety of my experience here. I wouldn't hang here so much if it were all downside.
(2009) https://www.cnet.com/news/samsungs-120hz-lcd-monitor-perform...
We'd love to build IMAP & SMTP integration into Shortwave! We'll get to it :)
As do most of the countries with "free world" Internet, Vietnam buys into the global anti China propaganda, it help that our relationship with them has been patchy though out history and we currently have sovereign dispute with them in the South China Sea.

Speaking of racism, the reason there are not that many Chinese in Vietnam anymore is that they were literally asked to leave the country when the 2 allies split.

I'm not saying China is a trustworthy partner, just find the idea that Americans are better laughable
> including provisions that prevent them from being remotely disabled

From the article, none of these implants were remotely disabled. The article's first paragraph is deceptively written to make it seem like that though. Further down it clarifies:

> But in 2013, after four years of regular use, Campbell’s system shut down in the subway station, and despite some repair attempts by Second Sight, never worked again.

So it sounds like a random hardware failure, which the company attempted to repair, but failed. Also in 2013 Second Sight was still 6+ years away from going bankrupt. Seems like this implant wasn't replaced/repaired because it would have required another surgery, not because of the bankruptcy.
Of the 3 fatalities during that riot 2 were self inflicted and the only remaining one was when a rioter breached the last line of defence between the people screaming "Hang Mike Pence!" and 60 to 80 members of congress. There's been speculation that the tunnel entrance down the hallway from where the shooting occurred was where Mike Pence was evacuated through. I was amazed at the level of restraint displayed by the capitol police in contrast to clearing of lafayette square in the summer with pepper balls, tear gas, flash bangs, etc. At that time the park police didn't even bother to order the crowd to disperse until after they had already started attacking the crowd.

They did all that for a photo op vs. Capitol police falling back as far as they could without risking the lives of members of Congress. Even in the aftermath once the building was evacuated and they were clearing the grounds they handled that with kid gloves compared to many of the BLM protests.
Over $3,000?!
Tort law sort of has it covered ;)

Lawyers will follow the money if any harm came to any people. And jurisdictions like mine have companies guilty until proven innocent.
I am torn. On one hand, this is great idea (exactly for such cases). I feel unbelievably bad for users.

On another hand. Lifetime support of technology (say 50 years) is damn expensive. Let say you need a dozen of engineers (hardware + software) + doctors to keep it going. It's 12 people * 200k salary (if you don't like this number, pick your own) * 50 years = $120M.

I think you can potentially argue that you don't need a dozen people to support this. However, I think it's a fair number to support aging hardware + software.

Unfortunately, such things work only with a scale. You need 10 people to support 100 customers, 20 people to support 1000 customers and 40 people to support 10000.

If they got to 10000 customers, I could see them getting enough money to fund such trust. Having just 300 customers won't be enough.

Looking at the crunchbase (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/second-sight). They whole funding was $130M.
As a person with the polymorphism I'm generally much less careful of protecting myself from other STDs since I know about it, so it increases my chances of aquiring another one.
In the context of OP's question, most things in businesses/products/leadership are zero sum as they need to compete against finite resources and time
Glad I'm not the only one.

I started using dc for shell scripts before I knew that expr existed, and when some UNIX systems I logged on to spat out a bunch of noise on the console whenever bc was invoked. As a result I started thinking in the stack arithmetic way, and just adopted it as my standard way of doing math on UNIX. Eventually I got so used to it that I also preferred using it on Windows (via Cygwin) over calc.exe. It was a sad day when the developer world moved to Git Bash which either never included dc or stopped including it at some point. After a few years of grumbling with calc.exe and ancient versions of GNU dc that didn't work quite right in a Git Bash console, I discovered Gavin Howard's dc, which works well in Git Bash, and now it's once again one of the first things I install on a new computer.

Remarkable how this program written ~50 years ago is still useful today, in whatever rebirthed incarnation. I can't think of many others with such staying power.
Flightgear did that too.
you.com is so refreshing -- I've been using it since learning about it and I see it getting better and better.

Been loving the twitter integration, the code blocks, stack overflow -- and the lack of adds. Love it!
Honestly the elderly grandmother test is meant to model discovery for all users. Not actually use meant for grandmothers or even non-technical user.
Google announces zero-day in Chrome browser
I remember her from my summer job in 1980 in the Computer Library at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ. She was one of the few women in computer science department. Nice bunch of brilliant people who patiently answered my newbie questions about Unix, Shell, C, etc.
Police aren't magic. Your anecdotal experience is unfortunate but it doesn't make them a "worthless institution". Property crime is very minor, and the resources it would take to systematically track down the thieves in your example is far more than the damages caused and would interfere with other investigations in far more serious crimes.
I did too, but I have to pull out old hardware to use it. It won't run on an M1 Mac.
> forum search has always been bad

Man, that's almost an understatement haha. I always wonder if it's just a "Hard Problem", as I still don't know any forum software that solved it.
Quite Right!

Any resources on where i can read up on these ?
i looked into it more and it was apparently actually unrelated to his crohns, hopefully my anecdote doesnt cause you undue stress
That's a really good write-up. We've been investigating somewhat similar approaches for a problem space we are in.

I wasn't aware of the huge space requirements to use a proving key. That's somewhat limiting, although we do have the advantage that we have a (mobile) wallet we could potentially allow running ZKSnark inside. Are you aware of any work on that side?
At some point, through mathematics or a sufficient resolution of simulation, we will be able to run software that achieves consciousness. Through rigorous proof, the first method will provide the basis for falsifiable conjecture and exploration of the phenomena of consciousness and subjective experience. The second path will require laborious, tedious, and methodical experimentation with the model to tease out the underlying math.

Consciousness exists. It ceases to exist when the brain is damaged or killed. We can predictably modify conscious systems with drugs and experiences. Particular types of injury and illness sometimes result in predictable consequences, letting us know things such as that the hippocampus is critical to memory, and that whatever hierarchy of semantic meaning is stored in the brain, neurons in the hippocampus represent ontological peaks in the mental landscape of constructed meaning.

With a sufficiently high resolution brain interface, you could record, replay, simulate, and share experiences between consciousnesses. If the mind is an emergent phenomena brought about within the confines of the skull, shared experience will be possible, up to the point that your subjective experience of being another person will be complete for the duration of the replay. If there's some outside factor playing a role in consciousness, it will be missing and likely prevent attempts at recording experience.
It does. Outside of MMIO which nowadays is just the control plane for device configuration and the main processing state machines (e.g., starting and stopping processing of command and completion packets in ring buffers in memory). So those commands which are the primary control plane for the data operations are even all in memory! Then the data operations themselves are all memory too of course.

It is possible for the PCI host bridge DMAs to load and store into caches, but in practice it can be difficult if not impossible to line everything up so the data is in cache when it is required, because of the data throughput and pipelining (many parallel pipelines) latency variations even on local NAND devices, etc.

Maybe you get your command/complete rings from cache (which would be nice since they have to come in order and the CPU has to operate on), but it's very hard to get all your data served by the caches.

The old favorite netflix serving talks show this

https://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/talks/euro2021.pdf
Opera and ‘Yat’ want you to buy emoji web domains that don’t belong to you
Sure, but would it be worth it? I suspect yes; the alternative is continued population growth leaving very little natural world on the entire planet and all of us eating an industrially farmed diet.
Warren Buffett bought – 15M shares in Activision Blizzard at end of 2021
My limited understanding is that the CPUs have two most-common interfaces to the rest of the system:

1) Reading and writing to memory addresses in such a way as to be interpreted by the memory controller to forward those actions to/from the PCI bus and other systems. That forwarding being controlled by reading and writing to addresses in a way that the MC interprets as commands to configure itself.

2) Ports -- which still exist for legacy reasons, but are long out of fashion.

What's #3?
Save the edited version to PNG first, and then back to JPEG?
I have no doubt that a domesticated silver fox is the fondest aspiration of more than one woman of a certain age.
Woah that's a weird test case! fwiw now that you've posted this, this link shows up for that search. But similar searches like "gulp adimzip" show similar issues. Is this simply a bug? Clicking on Missing: adimzip" ‎| Must include: adimzip" now makes Google search for gulp "adimzip""

Yes, that's double quotes at the end. Weird.
Sounds like what a lot of crypto project white papers try to do.
> what is deemed true might change with the winds of public opinion

Why do you imagine governments or YouTube might want to do that?
> As soon as transactional emails and marketing mailer scripts start to take over, or long-running CC noise, it's hopeless and fighting it's not worth the time. Forget about it and rely on search.

The alternative, which works very well for me, is to have a whitelist and only allow that to hit your inbox. Then allow humans to get on to your whitelist:

http://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2018/Sep/solving-my-email-proble...

It's trivial to filter out the noise, because by default it filters everything out. You do a tiny amount of work to whitelist the humans.

Inbox Zero definitely works with that setup.
According to https://spaceflight101.com/spx/spacex-raptor/, a Raptor engine consumes 194kg/sec of fuel (methane); adding the methane and the LOX (fuel + oxidizer) together, it comes to about 930 kg/sec.
Huh, they legally enforced the old saying "intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting tomato in a fruit salad".
I make it easy by Never using social login because I don't want the chance of being locked out and password managers are easy enough.

So they are always in my password manager, and that part of life is good.
Google is still a high-quality search engine, it just has ridiculously poor product and consumer focus. This could easily be turned around by better product management.

Some search results are poor, but they can be very easily changed by Google. Recipes, for example, are only poor because of Google's own published recipe metadata HTML format. Their results prioritize matches that include that format, and 99.999% of matches are pages from a single WordPress plugin that uses the format.
Windows 11’s first big update arrives with Android apps, taskbar changes, more
That should just render correctly thanks to the BiDi algorithm. The "override" control characters are a heavy hammer, and are extremely rarely needed. In fact, at this point I think it's likely that malicious use of these code points significantly outweighs correct use.

There are legitimate uses of BiDi control characters. My favorite one from my time on Android was the string "Google+", which would render as "+Google" in an RTL paragraph. The translators would usually "fix" this by just flipping the string so that it was "+Google", which would render correctly, but be incorrect when cut'n'pasted, read by a screen reader, etc. The correct solution is to use a left-to-right mark. The string "Google\u{200e}+" renders correctly in both LTR and RTL flow. And these "mark" characters are basically harmless, they cannot profoundly change the order, they just fix some of these ambiguous cases.

Correct use of BiDi control characters is explained here: https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-bidi-unicode-c...
I think the big blocker for an offline, subscription free Spotify-like experience is lack of a central repository where listening data from all users is stored. You could do some things with metadata on the songs themselves but automated playlists like Spotify and Apple Music have to my knowledge rely on models trained with vast amounts of listener data.

You could patch something together using last.fm as the data source maybe, but I don’t think scrobbling to last.fm has been popular for many years at this point, which is going to severely limit the quality of generated playlists for newer music. Additionally, last I knew last.fm’s API was still XML based which makes it not so ergonomic to use in today’s JSON centric world.
> entire elections were decided at times by the votes of 5K - 10K people.

Except for Epsom, Tauranga, and Coromandel which have continued their outsized influence most elections since.
The Intercept has run a number of articles on Teflon and the precursors.

I highly recommend that anyone reading these disable JavaScript.

https://theintercept.com/series/the-teflon-toxin/

https://theintercept.com/2015/08/11/dupont-chemistry-decepti...

https://theintercept.com/2016/03/03/new-teflon-toxin-causes-...

https://theintercept.com/2016/04/19/teflon-toxin-contaminati...

https://theintercept.com/2016/09/15/the-teflon-toxin-goes-to...

https://theintercept.com/2019/06/18/pfoa-pfas-teflon-epa-lim...
When no banks want to work with you, and when you offer a service that can be paid for in cash, it's not surprising that the entrepeneur will end up carrying a lot of cash at any given point in time.

Definitely not ideal, but what else can they do?
The booster is not orbital, and would not survive the trip home in any case. (Although one wonders if it could go single-stage-to-orbit without SS on top. That would be another first!) A 1100 mile sub-orbital hop past Key West aimed to splash down just short of the Bahamas in case of trouble, then boost north, then brake offshore and fly to 39A.

Maybe an unladen Starship could make such a hop by itself. If not, a booster could assist on the first leg and come back.
You’ve just repeated every myth that’s been intentionally spread by the fossil fuel industry, the food and beverage industry, and all the other industries who fought tooth and nail against renewable energy, actual recycling, and safe and clean nuclear power. Blaming the "environmental movement" for any of these things ignores the last fifty years of corporate action against progressive legislation and represents a true revisionist and reactionary perspective on history, facts, evidence, and data. Congratulations, the Koch Network couldn’t have said it better.
It's telling that the description (https://unicode-explorer.com/c/202E) even acknowledges that 202E is commonly used as an exploit. "The Right-To-Left Override character can be used to force a right-to-left direction withing a text. This is often abused by hackers to disguise file extensions: when using it in the file name my-text.'U+202E'cod.exe, the file name is actually displayed as my-text.exe.doc - so it seems to be a .doc file while in reality it is an .exe file."
> if there's a link on a website that the screen reader cannot see, a blind person won't report that as an accessibility issue because they won't even know it's there.

This is highly variable. As a screen reader user who works in accessibility with a software engineering focus, I don't consider a test to be complete if I've only evaluated what the page exposes to the accessibility API. Assessing the rendered DOM by hand, testing on different viewports where controls may be slightly or completely different, etc., are just as critical to the testing process as trying to simply use the page. But, I recognise that there are many accessibility testers out there without such a technical focus, and it is true to say that they may gloss over something if it is completely missing in the accessibility tree.
Easy to say but what about paying creditors? The legal system we have now needs to be radically rethought to allow a scenario where a company going bankrupt will be forced to give up its patents and copyright on software to the public, instead of selling them to the highest bidder who will then decide what to do. It's not simple, but we need a serious reform in this direction.
Doesn’t apple already have a search engine? Where do the results for Siri suggestions come from? (I really don’t know)

Just this morning I searched “air purifier” in safari and it suggested the wirecutter “best air purifiers” article
Not just IBM. Apple supported ECC ram in the Powermac G5, and shipped all "Cheese grater" Mac Pros with ECC ram.
Not American so I'm curious: couldn't anyone just register as one party and vote in the primaries but then vote the other party at the actual election?
It has, but it's pretty hard to find. I sent out about 100 applications every time I try to find a job, hear back from maybe 20 and get offers from less than 5. I've never heard back from an application for remote work. I have thrived in my short stints of remote work in the past (mid 2019).

I'm not really a tech insider here, more of an engineer in search of discourse more stimulating than reddit. Also, I think discourse with wealthy and influential people is one of the few ways I have to attempt to better the world.
That's interesting. I didn't think an extension could change the search engines available under Settings > Safari > Search Engine on iOS from the defaults (Google, Bing, Yahoo, DDG, Ecosia), or change the system-wide search used. Do you see different options now under Settings for search engines and did it change your system-wide search too (i.e. swipe down on home screen and then use the built-in Search)?
Yeah, looking up technical stuff now for anything outside of very major tech is an absolute nightmare. It's nothing but auto-generated pages made of random parts of random forums posts smashed together under some weird url like tech-helb-4-yuodbajdasdasd99234029242.co.xyz.com.org.

I've clicked on a few out of curiosity, immediately recognizing they were garbage from the description text, and it's just endless SEO links and completely random text.

You'd think one of the richest companies on earth could make a freshman intro to CS-level spam filter. If they can't, then they truly do hire the most incompetent people on earth. If they won't, then they hire the evilest people on earth.
We can actually show that consciousness persists even when surrounded by shielding that would prevent the passage of any known particle or radiation except neutrinos from affecting whatever is inside.

If you shut off all outside signals, the brain works just fine, there's no effect at all. (Except maybe the stress of whatever situation you're in that landed you in a super shielded bunker. )
I want random-text-overlay-pixelation (or some lookalike) as a feature instead of plain-text-pixelation. Giant black boxes everywhere is quite the distraction, whereas blur/pixelation is not, so just make the underlying data random.
This. The days of going to a hospital where you might acquire a nosocomial infection (ie, "super bugs" like MRSA, VRSA) will be long gone. We thought robotic automation might be the job killer for healthcare, but it's really democratized gene therapies.

Prevention will be the key, rather than reacting.
Distribution will come if the product is better, but it is a hard problem. I try every new search engine I can and they are always worse/slower than google.