skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indecomposable continuum
> I feel like, in most cases, I could make due with JavaScript being 10x or even 100x slower, taking up 10x the RAM, lacking some uncommon features, and so forth -- if it meant being able to enable it without needing to worry about new zero-days.

Not on the "modern web" you wouldn't, even the current speedy versions of V8 and ${whatever}monkey now used by Firefox the thing often is brought to a crawl by the deluge of Javascript. Imagine your current browser, only 100 times slower and 10 times more memory-hungry.

Nope, the solution lies in getting rid of most of the Javascript on most pages. uBlock and uMatrix can help a bit but the real solution lies with web developers. If and when that goal is achieved it would be possible to browse the web using a slow-but-'safe' browser. Some pages (e.g. SPAs) really depend on all that Javascript and as such won't be useable withour 'modern' JS engines but there is no reason for e.g. your bank or payment processor's pages to depend on near-native speed Javascript engines.
I have been looking for a way to replace"singularity" (now called app-containers). Is it possible to use podman to run a cli program inside podman container and it would run the program in the container but use local files to work with?
This is exactly what i do, your site forces me to disable the adblocker? Goodbye.
I can sort-of see how that might come about, if the purpose of the philosophy class was to practice making arguments, using philosophy merely as providing something to argue about, but one thing I have learned about it (and most other things, for that matter) is that if you don't find out if your idea has been floated before (spoiler: it has, at least if it has any merit), and, most importantly, what responses have already been made, the class will spend all its time splashing around in the well-stirred shallows.

At first, it seems odd to me that your English professors acted in the manner you describe, but I guess most of them have chosen to ride the criticism wagon, rather than the creative one.
I don't think he lied about anything, I think you just brought up some edge cases he didn't address. His argument holds true for the majority of drivers.
Mine has 5G now!
> There’s nothing wrong with Electron as a concept.

There is nothing wrong with Communism as a concept.

Nack in the real world, open Whatsapp desktop and scroll though any chat dense with images, it takes me over 40 minutes to acroll back 1 year on a 12-core ryzen.

On Telegram Desktop, native client, this takes 30 seconds.

If you think this spitefull disregard of end users is justified, you live in cloud coocoo land
There's a lot of Fundamental Attribution Error all over the news. Removing Putin might create a pause, but it will not change the underlying politics.

Thanks to its history and geography, Russia must be expansionist internationally. If it succeeds in expanding, it is very likely to be totalitarian internally.

Thanks to its history, the job of any ruler of Moscow is "prevent invasion". Thanks to its geography, there are few strategies available for that, and the likelihood of internal strife is much higher than in developed countries.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error

2. Permanent Struggle: The Geopolitics of Russia. http://loewenstern.weebly.com/uploads/8/6/3/0/86302592/geopo...

3. https://www.amazon.com/Prisoners-Geography-Explain-Everythin...

The introduction and chapter one cover Russia.
If you have a social media account or still read the MSM you are already a lost cause
Julia advertises itself as solving the "two-language problem". This assumes that people first write exploratory code in python or something similar, and then rewrite it in Fortran etc.
So in this scenario, Julia takes marketshare from both.

Personally, I find that many Fortran codes are still used because they have been build for many years, and they can't be rewritten easily. On the other hand, new data science projects start all the time, and the transition to Julia is easy (and worth it in my opinion). That means that in my experience, Julia is mostly competing for marketshare with NumPy/SciPy/SKLearn/Pandas/R/Matlab.
Let's say you have a really complex UI.

Would you really define your UI in code over XML or HTML
> You believe that OSS would be better off with more bribes ...

I agree, but I'm very confused about the original proposal because I think fiat is not good enough for bribes.
This is a remarkably all-out brave strategy. I'm sure you don't need the congratulations, but well done!
>If you intend to use this adversarially, or if there's a chance it'll get tested in court

And if not, why have it at all?
I got over my awkwardness waiting tables. You just gotta interact with people, all sorts of people. That and coping with chefs, who in my experience are frequently sadistic maniacs. It was tough, but I came out completely changed, and I absolutely loved that part of my life.
Is there any evidence that Americans are particularly ignorant of the world relative to other nationalities?
But see this is my point, it's not just about "speaking to a human", it's about having an empowered ombudsperson who can circumvent the normal systems of authority at the company to resolve user issues for certain people.

That's a much, much, much bigger ask than just "speaking to a human".
Lisp at "read/maintain" time in a good environment is probably the most enjoyable time for me working with Lisp, assuming it's on a code base that followed some sort of coding standards. Introspection, debugging, and navigation in a Lisp environment are incredible.
> The trucking industry would quickly find out the same thing Uber found out about their self-driving cars, which is that when a person isn’t on board, the company is on the hook for everything that goes on in that truck.

Drivers do a lot more than just get the vehicle from Point A to Point B, whether the cargo is alive or not.
I use some projects that use vnc and also have setup novnc on them..

Here’s an example of one, https://github.com/accetto/ubuntu-vnc-xfce-g3

Novnc just allows accessing things via a browser too. I use it for quick checks but VNC when I want a client
Awesome, thanks. Signed up.
Thanks for the feedback. The file transfer ecosystem is very large and conducting a through review of the application level tools was not the goal of this project, as the overwhelming majority of them focus on differences at the application layer, not the transport layer.

We are specifically focusing on rebuilding a congestion control algorithm from the ground up that can better tolerate modern network conditions, including things like high bandwidth, high packet loss, and high latency.

With respect to Grid-FTP, wget2 multi-threading, and other multi-flow approaches: the problem with getting performance increases out of multiple, distinct traffic flows is that you become more and more unfair to other packet traffic as you increase the number of flows you are using. For example, if you use 9 TCP (or any other AIMD) flows to send a file over some link, and a tenth connection is started, you now are taking up to 90% of the available bandwidth (because AIMD flows are designed to be fair amongst themselves).
The median income in Portugal is less than the mean, but the difference is less than 20%. That still puts an M1 under a month's salary.
> FTL would imply time travel

But not "time travel" in the sense that you could go back and kill your grandfather. Only in the sense that different observers could not agree on the order of events.

And this doesn't seem so problematic to me. There always seems to exist some "true" order of events that results in the observations experienced by all observers, even if they don't agree based on their own individual knowledge.
I don't think so because some apps are only available as snaps. that is less true for 18.04, but 20.04 and 22.04 use snaps fairly heavily and some like firefox only available through snaps, although there is also PPA and flatpaks available.
I understand, but in that case I don't think we should compare/expect state of the art technology and build quality in that price range (unless there are specific discounts/incentives for those regions).

I think that the point of your initial comment was not related to the subject, which was more about the performance part than the pricing part.
The reality being that there are very few people like this who can genuinely do this.

Again, pragmatism
In a relatively terse language like Python, anything beyond a few screenfuls of code is already "large scale" development. It's unwise to keep it all in a single module.
Step outside your comfort zone. Also start attending these events by alternative crowd, do a yoga teacher training or do retreats in improv or yoga or whatever (this may be too expensive, in that case I recommend psychadelics or hitchhiking as a cheap way to break these walls). The key thing to remember is that when people look at you like you are taking up space and make you feel that you don't belong then you feel bad so DON'T DO THAT. Always strive to be someone who makes others feel like they are welcome and that they belong. That is how you would want to be treated after all.
RF leaks can be pretty directional. So simple tests like this phone test or waving a power meter around aren't terribly sensitive. (But pay attention if you get a test failure!)

There really isn't any substitute for a proper EMC chamber.
Yes, but it is prohibitively expensive for most people (ironically because the market is quite small...everyone tries to go through the NHS).

The level of underfunding is, however, such that mental health providers are a huge part of the private health sector: Priory Group is a very big one.

Another factor is that a lot of training for psychologists is paid by the NHS, and funding for training has been going down everywhere (even in Scotland, which has a left-wing govt running the NHS).

It is just a resources problem. Even in the private sector, there isn't a supply response to higher prices. Ironically, the UK has lots of people who do undergrad Psychology, just none of them actually go on to practice because entry is so tightly controlled (for some reason, the NHS in Scotland is attempting to train nurses to do psychology with a couple of days training...that is going as well as you can imagine).
Reading books out loud to my kids, hamming it up, acting out the parts.

if I go a couple of days on a deep project and my wife does story time instead then I start to stutter and my words become scattered.

If you don’t have kids, maybe just read adult fiction to yourself out loud.
It is better on a "keep it updated by the developer" grounds and that's all I need. I liek to have the latest with things like spotify, libreoffice, qbittorrent, etc. I like the sandboxing. Sure it ain't everybody's cup of tea, but you can't discount other people's opinion as "wrong". They're just opinions. I know other people value the aspects of .deb/.rpm only based system, and I have weighed the pros and cons personally. Don't expect that we haven't looked into it for ourselves by default.
I would pick things that align with your interests. Go to a museum, go to a play that has an intermission, go skiing, pick up a club sport, meetups, cooking classes, book signing, improv class, music class, fishing class, board game nights...

Lots of things to try.
At the moment we offer both options. We offer our own network with a pricing plan similar to massive.io (though 10c per gb vs 25c) Our licensing is cheaper but requires large volumes.
Well the GMO technology gets patented, and patents are routinely abused. That is unacceptable for our food sources.
You can try using the xray command that will give you clues (docker-slim isn't just minification :-)). The diff capability in the Slim web portal is even more useful (built on top of xray).
By this logic we should ban earphones, as those let people evade audial ads at gas stations, and also ban deaf people (the latter are bigger offenders). Otherwise how does it make sense, that the gas station is selling gas at a discount, hoping to recover the difference with ads, and those deaf freeloaders come over, simply grab what they need and leave, without paying their moral duty of watching ads?
Interesting! Neither myself nor my coworkers could get the snippet I posted working outside the context of an ndarray, so I had speculated at that time that it there was something else going on under the hood.

You seem to have a much better grasp of Python than us, would you mind posting an example where the snipped I posted successfully accesses data from an array in pure Python? That way I can not only take the L, but correct the record and learn something in the process.
I'd love to know who. The example apps in Lispworks site aren't commercial successes, as far as I know.
> it would be possible to browse the web using a slow-but-'safe' browser. Some pages (e.g. SPAs) really depend on all that Javascript and as such won't be useable withour 'modern' JS engines but there is no reason for e.g. your bank or payment processor's pages to depend on near-native speed Javascript engines.

I don't plan on my bank trying to 0day my browser. If anything, I trust them not to do anything malicious more than the sites that actually need to go fast.
Why are you so upset about words? if you don’t like a word, don’t use it or make up your own! it’s a beautiful thing.
Imo, it eats away at both. Julia makes it relatively easy to meet or exceed Fortran performance, but also gives you the high level abstractions and ease of use of a language like python. I think the biggest problem for Julia currently is the difficulty of AOT compilation and the lack of tiered compilation (like Java/Javscript). Making the story for either of these better would be a significant quality of life improvement for Julia, and would make it pretty much unrivaled for scientific computing in my opinion.
"I'm new to systems administration, and this thing is hard for me and for many others, so we should all stop doing it."

Does that about sum it up?

Why are there even hackers? People should stop doing tricky things because others might find those things difficult. We're making them uncomfortable and should stop.
> premature confidences in technological understanding

CRISPR-Cas9 (the method used here) was first successfully used seven years ago. According to the article, the meat may go to market in two years pending a safety review. So that's nine years from lab to table. How soon is too soon? What makes you think doing it now would be premature as opposed to ten years from now?

> It was to be measured and wary of bare professional and institutional assurances.

From where would you like to get assurances? Do you have to conduct the study yourself?

> Regarding the characteristics of plants and animals that we should feed to our children and mass rear in our environment - I am of the mind that the characteristics should be as well evidenced by the long history of life as we can afford.

That's all well and good till climate change reduces arable land and we have to extract as much as we can from the remainder.
I don't believe this is labelling anything - I'm simply saying that I agree with the fundamental principles of the ideology behind this piece.

Not decrying anyones first-hand experience, just stating that my first-hand experience is slightly different.
Yeah, it's kind of like how ATT says they'll re-encode your HD video streams to SD to save money. What they actually mean is they'll throttle your connection to ensure you get the SD stream from those available in the HLS options.
> I remain in awe that we trust the very cheapest plastic under repeat load and thermal cycling to form a -40dB seal, turning 700W into 70mW

It's the metal grid in the window (with holes smaller than the wavelength of the microwaves), and the metal shell of the cavity, not any "plastic." The same reason the metal grid works is why there doesn't need to be a perfect door seal. As long as as the gap is smaller than the wavelength of the microwaves, it's fine.

> Also, it seems that the outer metal shell of the device forms an active part of the circuit, so if it isn't plugged into a grounded outlet it sits at lethal potential.

The shell doesn't sink RF, it reflects it. GFCI outlets (required in many areas for kitchen outlets) trip at 5mA differential between hot and neutral. No appliance is designed to sink current into ground unless there's an electrical fault.

> Then there is beryllium oxide in the thing...

Beryllium oxide hasn't been used in microwaves for a long time, and it presents zero risk unless the magnetron is smashed.

Recommended reading for you:

https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/my-seatbelt-rule-for-judgment/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/dunning-kruger-eff...

Edit: They can interfere with WiFi because a microwave could leak a tenth of a percent of its nameplate power and it would overpower your access point by anywhere from 1x to 10x. Access points can, on certain bands, have radios up to ~1W, but 125-250mW is much more common.

It would also be completely harmless even if you were standing inches away from whatever the source of the leak was. Microwave RF energy only becomes dangerous when it is strong enough to heat up parts of your body that cannot cool themselves quickly due to having little/no bloodflow, like your eyes.

You could put a parabolic antenna on your home wifi AP and standing in that beam would expose you to more RF energy than your microwave.

I don't know why HN suddenly has a "DANGERS OF MICROWAVE OVENS!" boner this week...this is I think at least the second article on the subject of the 'dangers' of microwave ovens.

Regarding "the door gap is a long line" - that would be relevant if the beam were aimed parallel (or close to parallel) with the gap...
I was looking at this:

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/pr...

Kinda just went with the bottom half of the 2010-2014 era chips.
I still feel socially awkward sometimes, but other are surprised when I tell them this because I generally come off as pretty well adjusted socially.

I was very awkward in shy in school. In ninth grade I decided to go out of my way to stop being so shy. I started forcing myself to speak out in class, or talk to the "popular" kids whom I was always shy around. Over time it worked, I got more and more comfortable. There were some very cringe-worthy moments, but with time I just grew more comfortable not caring about people's responses enough to speak up in social situations.

When meeting new people I still often get a bit shy and uncertain, but usually can kind of fake it for long enough until I get their "vibe" and how to respond to them in a way that maintains banter.

If doing this as an adult, a version of what worked on me as a student might be putting yourself in social situations that you're not comfortable with a little bit at a time. Join a few different kinds of Meetups, take a group class. Hitting the gym as you say is good, I think it really helps with overall confidence. But being at the gym by yourself is often a solitary activity where you don't need to interact with others much. You can still feel self-conscious if you are new to the gym and don't feel like you know what you're doing, but just watching some YouTube videos to brush up on exercise ideas and lifting techniques can help that pass quickly.

Good luck!
I'd agree that this helped me a lot, but I'm still paying for it.

Alcohol in particular is a really nasty drug. Psychedelics are something I love to do every now and then, but they're really not for everyone and should be approached with caution.

A small dose of MDMA though. A little goes a long way, not a bad shout if you're open to it.
If your Electron app executes third party, remote code. But if it does, you should definitely not use it.
How much was SCP affected by TCP buffer size tuning?
It gives you a bunch of stuff you don’t get running the script directly, and costs nothing, so why wouldn’t I opt for that?

They even have an explicit, “run in container” mode.
that is exactly what this is intended for :)
look at this dockerfile: https://github.com/mody5bundle/capps/blob/main/container/san...
and this "config" lines
https://github.com/mody5bundle/capps/blob/aec6a118139c2008c3...
this will start a cheap "sandbox" aka a gnome-terminal window with its own filesystem and process tree.
you just have to change the config file to mount a volume on the paths you want and maybe tweak the image to your likings :)
Having a universal law would soon hit into some huge structural problems. Maybe rail actually is more efficient?
Maybe cheap prison labour isn’t the best way to do things? Maybe massive too management wages while the bottom tier get less than a living wage is bad?
"Normal people" often don't know they are using strategies, maybe, but it's a mistake to assume that they don't.

There are all sorts of strategies, big and small, being consciously or subconsciously deployed by "normal" people.
'Buying a gaming laptop, you can easily get 32GB RAM without paying a premium'

I appreciate gaming laptops, but it cannot be a requirement to run some basic electron apps that very user needs day to day.

Why should it take more RAM to run teams htat it does to edit 8K video?
I don't like that you have to update it so often. I like the idea of an LTS. On systems I want to update often I just put arch on them so there is never major breakage that I can't roll back easily with snapper.
> This goes beyond obnoxious comments, or Donald Trump’s tweets, or even targeted harassment. Instead, we’ve entered the realm of “weaponized narrative” as a 21st-century battle space

This sounds like a framing intended to justify force for or against a narrative. But the presence of trolls is a lesser evil than the enforcement of a narrative.

In Russia the "trolls" are the war protestors and the enforced narrative justifies large scale mass murder.
This is one of the rare situations where "fake it until you make it" applies.
With all due respect, you don’t know too much about this topic to have such a strong opinion.

There is no safe language, as that would imply the solution of Rice’s theorem, Halting problem, etc.
From their site, I’m on mobile so the paste is a little rough.

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>Is there a safer JavaScript engine folks can use without having to worry about this sorta thing? Even if it's slower, less compatible, more resource-intensive, etc.?

You can disable JIT in firefox[1], which makes it fall back to an interpreter. That should theoretically make it safer as there are less optimizations going on and less generated code being directly executed by the CPU.

[1] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/blob/b4225baaf2f8d15f856...
If you do a search for "ancestor worship" you'll find a few examples. It seems more common among Asian cultures, perhaps specifically those with a Buddhist tradition, but that's what I happen to be more familiar with so it may be common outside of that as well.
The projects i see on github ... most do not
Your results may vary
What’s the point you’re trying to make? Poor people can’t afford bleeding edge tech out of one month’s salary?

Apple doesn’t care, and they have never cared about this. There’s no profit in making ultra affordable state of the art electronics.
Then something like BlueIris the sibling comment mentioned is probably what you want in addition (various "recorder" products also offer remote access), assuming giving everyone VPNs to the boat isn't quite as all-in-one as you are looking for.
I stopped paying attention to the delusions I had about what people thought of my person, my face, my clothes etc.
Except that memory segments are already files in all but name. The two notions were unified already in MULTICS, and planning for "single-level storage" makes that unification explicit.