skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In terms of increased thoroughput, hz for hz, compared to 4G LTE, 5G NR can send about 15-20% more data. That's not a huge improvement compared to past increases of multiple hundreds of percent (3G-4G). Because of this most increases in thoroughput have to come from using new frequency ranges. So they telcos pretty much stole half of the 3 GHz C-band from incumbent satellite operators (who were told to "just use h265"). But beyond this there's not much available spectrum that's even just decent like C-band. Most of it is crappy mm-wave.
Does source support any sort of hardware-accelerated raytracing? I don't think there have been any other graphics advancements of the caliber of hardware RT since Portal 2 came out.
We all studied STEM, which usually include a math minor degree, so we know math.

Physics is just applied math, so we know everything about physics

Chemistry is just applied physics, so we know everything about chemistry

Biology is just applied chemistry, so we know everything about biology

Social science is just applied biology, so we know everything about that, too
Wow. I am blown away by the photos in that FPB link. I'm not a boat person but it's unlike any boat pilot house I have seen before. A great room indeed.
Making art in the broad meaning of the word. I became an amateur actor. Then an amateur director. I forced myself to read poetry. That type of things helped me the most. I'm 54 now, but I started doing these things during my late teens.
You can do the same in PHP, but again, not as nice to read:

['abc' => 2, 'def' => 3][$x] ?? 'default';
Sadly paying salaries to people to improve an OS with even average designers and project managers will in time produce better results for a Desktop experience. Economic incentives can't be beaten in this case.
Open source works great for developer tools and things that developers use, but for "consumer-grade" products I haven't seen a scalable business model.
Can't this just be chalked down to acquired skill made possible through superior intelligence? i.e
if other animals could practice and learn as effectively at us, perhaps a silverback gorilla or something could throw better than humans
> This is very interesting, I didn't know this. This is a perfect fit for PHP, as it was always designed with this model in mind, and the programmers that use PHP are already used to this way of developing, as that's exactly how php-fpm and mod_php already work and always have.

Yes, but now you have to pay for every requests made to your app instead of just paying $4 a month for a shared Apache server and I also have to architecture my PHP app in a rigid way to fit whatever "serverless" execution model the SAAS runs with.
Spelling interface in locked-in patient enabled via neurofeedback training
I remember seeing mag amps in the computer PSU, back in early 2000s, before solid state regulators took over.
You may well be right that it's a toy (and judging from their docs it seems like it), but it's basically the first step in using an algo for trading. You always test on live market feeds first.
The irony is that the main case for 5G is reduced costs for operators.

4G blew the top off what people thought the Shannon Limit was but at the expense of extreme and expensive coordination between base stations. (If your digital front-ends are sampling at a rate of N Hz and a bit depth of d you need to bring all that data to one place!)

5G gets better spectral efficiency (serve more customers with expensive spectrum) with a simpler coordination model. (lower capital cost)

Of course since 5G is the new shiny carriers want to charge you more for it but they'd save money if they got you off 4G and onto 5G.
And how do you know if they are sensitive? Are you going to ask them, or not? If not, why not? If yes, would it still be the golden rule? Or perhaps platinum rule - do unto others as -they- wish, not as -you-.

What I am trying to say is that the golden rule and its applicability is far from obvious. You can consider interpreting it correctly the most basic "advanced morality" you asked about.
Just a century ago, people thought there's infinitely many stars. Any real number of stars pales in comparison. It's not hard to think of a criteria where only a handful of stars in observable universe will fit. Or even none at all (but non-zero chance of).
If you beat the game, the drifters will eventually devour your entire swarm. This is because you have converted the entire universe into a swarm and the drifters have nothing else to do than consume you.
filtering upstream is easy, just send all traffic to a linux wireguard server and run a snitch there. getting the gui prompt is a bit tricker. for maximum trust, that gui should probably be on another device than the original machine. ie a push notification to your phone.
bwrap is SUID.

>Bubblewrap could be viewed as *setuid* implementation of a subset of user namespaces. Emphasis on subset [...]

https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap#user-namespaces=
What do you think of Zig so far?

How do you recommend people get into it, especially those who don't have systems programming experience? Should you learn C first?
Search 'diffraction spikes' IIRC
Note that their goalpost can always move to "but does it justify the trillion dollar buildout" even in the face of incremental improvements or new use cases

They can calcify their opinions by imagining that they know what a company or ISP needs to do

They've already received many impressions and responses on twitter from their questions about whether 5g has changed anyone's day to day, and did a little survey when working with vendors, and its not likely most people did an empirical analysis on their own day to day to begin with. So it isn't really necessary to add more to that
Except for electron degeneracy pressure.
I’m using Firejail as an additional layer of defense on some machines.

It’s not a silver bullet, and I get the feeling that the jails for Firefox/Chromium are not terribly constraining.

I also don’t think there’s a good way to poke holes for things like libnotify or links in browsers that go to native applications. This is a shame; I’d love the ability to have a link from Firefox under Firejail to poke out and run in Zoom or Slack under their respective sandboxes, or just to get native notification boxes.

Still, I think practically it does a lot to limit the blast radius of potential attacks, especially if you don’t expect to be explicitly targeted.
Whatever Algolia is doing, it is amazing. Would it be possible for them to scale as a general search engine for the web?
> deep access to all customer data

"All" is not correct, they outlined what data was in the Superuser utility. It certainly has access, but not "all" data.

> the "SuperUser" app can apparently have logged in users idling around in a VM, waiting for someone to come along and use it without any automatic logout and re-authentication

Well it was an employee laptop, not a VM (so the news says). But regardless of this, the question is what is the session length of superuser? It could be 20mn, it could be 1hr, it could be 8hr. There is some balance for security and usability of the team who actually uses that tool. Even if the session length is reasonably short, this was an insider willingly giving up access to their machine. So likely the insider logged in and sent the attackers a message saying "here you go" and let them work for as long as the session would last. Heck, the insider may even repeatedly login for them.

> a single account accessing 300+ customers in a few days doesn't trigger any alerts

Almost every support interaction would likely require the access of that customer in the superuser utility. Just a dozen cases an hour for an 8 hour day, is nearly 100 accounts accessed per day. That doesn't even seem like a lot of cases per hour.

I'm not saying Okta is in the right here. But throwing around a lot of FUD doesn't help the situation.
Gotcha. Certainly sounds like it is only NTSC composite then.
True, I remember reading that humans are the only animals that sweat. Some animals like hippos create thick oily sebaceous sweat but I don't think any other animals just spill water from their pores like us. That's what gives us such incredible endurance
Yeah, fair point. I think I was more curious in seeing if there was a way to find ids that map to a specific avatar.
Doesn’t seem like an official release, but really cool either way. Time to dig in and see what I got wrong in my 2015 reverse engineering[1] of the data format!

[1] https://phoboslab.org/log/2015/04/reverse-engineering-wipeou...
Counterpoint (which I'm surprised didn't make it into the article, given its pop-psychology virality and 5.8M YouTube views):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psN1DORYYV0

It's also interesting to contrast recent Pixar portrayals of shame in Encanto and Turning Red, where shame deeply pathologizes a family and leads to a lot of dysfunction among younger members who can't let their true selves out.
I loved Photon. Proton added a lot of nice touches, but I never understood why would you want to turn the tabs into buttons. Tabs is a great metaphor from the real world, and they take less space. I don't see a single advantage of styling them as buttons. The whole point is that they're visually connected to the currently visible page.

Thankfully however I don't care too much because I can still completely hide the tab-bar with my userChrome.css, and use "Tab Center Reborn" to have my tabs on the side instead.
Google pays Apple ~$10bn a year to be the default search engine on Apple devices. They pay Mozilla a significant percentage of Mozilla's revenue to be the default in Firefox. Obviously Google is the default in Chrome.

You can't compete with that by building a better search engine. Even if you had the infrastructure, capital, and you offered Apple and Mozilla more money than they get from Google, Google could beat your offer.

The only way someone could beat Google, or even just compete with them, would be if they could make everyone understand that they can change their default search engine and give them a reason to do it and have Google screw up how they respond. I wouldn't bet on it happening.
That user (and developer) experience will always reign supreme.

That you can have the most open source, extensible, low-to-no-cost, powerful operating system, and still lose out to a UI/UX that appeals to and is accessible to someone who doesn't know what an Ubuntu is, never mind how to install it. Apple took it one step further by not only providing this UI/UX to the "what's a driver" crowd, but also to developers.

For developers, they get enough nonsense over the course of their day from npm version conflicts, build failures from compiling on unsupported architecture, and trying to figure out why their k8s pods are crash looping. To then add on more headache from trying to develop and compile with Ubuntu outside of the described use cases? No thanks.

OSX (in most cases) just works: most developer tools provide a dedicated OSX package, you get the UIX benefits inherited from the "what's javascript" customers, and the hardware-software integration makes things consistently smooth.

Unless one of the big linux distros finds the money to make the experience more appealing for the "Java? Like coffee?" userbase, this will continue to be the case.
> There are a lot of great things here but PHP just needs to embrace static typing (IMHO).

Static typing cannot be retrofited into PHP. Core already has hard time with generics. PHP Types will always be just type guards with dynamically typed variables.
psalm, phpstan, and phpstorm all support all these features as a static analysis level.
DDG uses Bing (like most other alternative search engines). I believe Brave's new search engine uses its own index though.
To be fair, assuming he’s a heterosexual male, isn’t it just assumed he would like young dancing girls?
Maybe this is a stupid question, but what's the point of an application that's intended to make your system more secure but actually makes it less secure? Do the firejail maintainers not realise? Or do they not agree that it's insecure? Or what? I can't reconcile these CVEs with anyone ever wanting to use firejail ever.
Starting a new CS papers blog
I started a blog to fill the void left by the morning paper going on hiatus. I needed a "papers-fix", and figured I might as well be my own supplier. I'm putting it up in the hope that other people find it useful as well.

https://www.abhinavrk.com/

Any feedback on the content is much appreciated.
The example in the article is poorly chosen, because an associative array (map) would be more suitable. What you wrote is almost the same with PHP:

['abc' => 2, 'def' => 3][$x] ?? 'default';

PHP's `match` is a kind of functional `switch`. For instance, in the following example, an associative array would induce several useless function calls, and `match` is more readable than a sequence of if+returns:

return match ($key) {
"id", "ID" => unique_id(),
"UUID" => generate_uuid(),
default => findExternalId($key),
};
Compared to phython2 vs phython3? What are you comparing it to? I can run php4 apps just fine. Good luck managing a phython2 app.
What do you mean? It can link against OpenSSL just like any other library. I don’t know if OpenSSL supports static builds, but if it does you can link it statically as well.
I was excited to dive into the investigation with the author but was completely underwhelmed by where things went. The author barely pays respect to the idea that you can’t just listen to something today and understand it’s acclaim and influence at the time. There was not nearly enough depth here explored. Like what did other bands sound like? What was at the top of the charts at the time? Paint a picture of before and after. Disappointed this is floating so high here on HN
I stopped using PHP. The language itself is fine, but PHP doesn't include a package manager. People will shout "but composer!", That is not PHP. That is a third party tool. What Rust understands, what Go understands, what Ruby understands, is how important the package manager is to the language.

No one is an island, and "batteries included" only gets you so far. In my mind, PHP is in line with C, with the mindset of "figure it out yourself" in regards to packaging. That's not acceptable.
I've never noticed an improvement from 5G over LTE.

What I care about most is reliability of some low but usable amount of bandwidth, as opposed to maximum bandwidth. Both 5G and LTE are annoyingly unreliable for me (wandering around in Silicon Valley).
Plan C Pills: A safe, at-home abortion is here
Which may be much cheaper than $4/month if you have very low traffic numbers.
Modernity and simplicity is nice an all, but the Proton redesign process was a big failure in my opinion. I've heard nothing but annoyances from basic users about the weird tab display, and many advanced screens (like in the settings) are being disappeared for the sake of simplicity without an equivalent implementation. The redesigns are welcome but left unfinished.

Up until around Photon, I considered every UI update an improvement. Photon itself was a bit of a mixed bag, but mostly contained improvements. That marked the turning point for me; Photon is where I actively started disliking the more prominent features. Unlike Photon, Proton was just a huge step back, with no real improvements to compensate.

Trying to get details about a TLS certificate, something only power users do and even then is done very rarely, is now a full page ordeal, with a small column down the middle of the page for content. Apparently the popup was too clumsy or something? I seriously don't understand why any UI designer ever cared. Everything is now bring dumbed down, information that doesn't satisfy the top 80% just gets completely removed and the space saved is dedicated to padding and margins making the entire UI more bloated.

Then there were dumb plans to make Firefox interesting (I think? What else were they doing?) like the idea of "colourways" being available for a limited time only, which was simply preposterous. Earlier they took over Pocket, a service everyone has now seen the icon for and barely anyone ever uses. When it comes to decisions about the browser, everyone who dares reduce telemetry gets ignored . Mozilla brands itself as a privacy aware company, but when you try to use that privacy it turns its back on you.

I suppose I should be thankful Mozilla isn't trying to ruin Firefox in desktop as much as it's trying to push users to abandon Firefox on mobile. My tab bar has gone through three changes I don't really give a damn about, collections have come and gone, and I've given up on ever using the addon API again. The text encoding settings and menu seems to have inexplicably disappeared, leading to some very annoying broken web pages that can't be fixed anymore.

You can't even enter an IPv6 address on Android. The browser engine can browse to IPv6 addresses just fine, the URL bar just doesn't accept them. The regex to determine if an input is a URL or not doesn't test for IPv6 and the single attempt by someone else to fix it was apparently too complex and therefore removed later. That person abandoned their efforts and the whole process doesn't exactly make me want to contribute either.

In my frustration I've actually considered (and quickly dismissed) the idea of writing a tool to spam Mozilla with telemetry to get the features that I use more hits. Telemetry warfare, of sorts.
The article would be stronger if it didn't overreact and exaggerate, but then again I do appreciate the sarcasm. The 74 zip files are the most egregious part of it though. You can't zip those mofos into one file? It's spiteful somehow, like you asked for water and Amazon said "Here you go" and threw it in your face.
> sinde 1948 when they took Palestinians land

I think the word “took” is a bit misleading here. The region was split and Jews were “given” the land by the UN to begin after UK’s colonial charter ended in 1948. You can certainly blame expansionist policies on Israel after that resolution 181, but that initial establishment of Israel was wholly a function of the established world governance of the time.
Switzerland locks you into obligatory health insurance, starting at around 200$ a month but with 2k franchise which you pay before you get covered or more like 400$ a month and then you're still liable for 10%of the bill...it's a capitalistic hellscape allright...sure you can get government subsidies...not sure what each cantons requirements are... the irony imo is that under the guise of competition people pay multiple management organizations of different health care companies a good cut ... they tried 7? times to vote by referendum to amalgamate them all but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯...
Also I've been through their "Urgences" triage in Lausanne with a menisque problem and they were incredibly inefficient and then had the gall to charge me 100chf and bill me for painkillers I didn't want...
> The real story is that the historical left no longer exists.

Is there any left left in the US? From an outsider perspective, the US political scene seems to consist of right and far-right.
Majorities have become so tired of disingenuous and untruthful nonsense and rabble-rousing.
I've once heard that we could theoretically destroy the universe if we just crammed enough photons into a tiny enough space. Would this help?

Asking for a friend.
Europeans have valued privacy and data protection for quite a while now culturally. The ePrivacy Directive is from 2002 (derisively referred to as the "cookie law"). And GDPR had a multi-year grace period. It's simply a result of companies ignoring building these kind of functionality for far too long.
Thats because many companies directly type in their data on Google My Business to make their business easier to find. There is also a community doing this (same with facebook). Smaller competitors could do the same with a community or at least manually typing in the data at least for bigger companies.
> jquery, lodash, etc all added prefixes (or TIL: sigil) of somesort

This is false they are not sigils at all. _ and $ are legal variable names in Javascript.
> variety in the store is freedom

Freedom is Slavery.
An SUID binary written in C, no less.
Here, from three years ago: http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~pjmaddy/bio/What%20do%20we%20want...
No.

The biggest improvement Source saw was in Source 2 with PBR.
There's mention of raytracing in Source 2 [1] but I don't think anything was released.

[1]: https://github.com/SteamDatabase/GameTracking-Artifact-Beta/...
When google got started, they indexed ~25 million web pages. Then they grew together with the web, compounding over ~30 years.

Today, it’s totally possible for a single person or a small team to build a domain specific search engine that indexes 10s or even 100s of million documents.

Building the index v0.1 that kind of working is not hard. But maintaining the index to handle countless edge cases is tedious and need non-stop investment (eg, infrastructure + paying salary for talents)

Also, a search engine is more than “keyword matching”. You need to do search result ranking. And it gets exponentially difficult to do as # of indexed documents increases.
I’d send the mods an email. They are very responsive.
Interesting article, especially Hofmann's description of the chemical processes he used and how unusual it was to find a complex compound like a lysergide in both a fungi and a completely unrelated plant. Note that much has been learned since 1984 about the brain receptors (serotonin 5-HT2A receptors) involved, however.

As far as the social problems with psychedelics, they're pretty minor compared to the effects of alcohol, tobacco, amphetamines and opiates (all drugs with various degrees of legality). A lot of the problems stem from consumer mentality across the board, i.e. advertisers have indoctrinated people with the 'more is better' mentality. Probably the most anti-consumerist sentiment ever expressed is 'Less is More' but that's then mentality anyone contemplating experimentation with psychedelics should adopt. The dose-response curve is more exponential than linear or logarithmic.

Incidentally, the psychiatric therapy models tend to involve a single relatively high dose in a controlled setting. This is entirely unlike the current (and much more profitable) pharmaceutical regime of daily dosing with antidepressants or amphetamine derivatives. Likewise, psychedelics have shown vast potential for helping people break free of addictive disorders involving alcohol, tobacco and opiates. Again, this is an unprofitable model for the pharmaceutical and recreational drug industries, who rely on the heavy users for the majority of their profits.

Finally, psychedelics have the interesting effect of distorting sensory perceptions, and if you can't necessarily trust your sensory perceptions, this has a knock-on effect - you might also start doubting things like the validity of government propaganda or the reliability of media publications or the pronouncements of the religious authorities. This can be described as an 'anti-brainwashing' effect - and such independent thinking can be a threat to established power structures in human societies. People who believe that unquestioning faith in authority figures is the cornerstone of social cohesion (aka authoritarian control freaks) are thus very alarmed by psychedelics.
Interesting, I’ve never seen the “maybe_db” style of variable naming. Makes sense but looks weird.
FWIW, a Caddy config for a Laravel app is just the following (which you can find here in the docs https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/patterns#php):

example.com {
root * /srv/public
encode gzip
php_fastcgi localhost:9000
file_server
}

Do you have any specific comments regarding Caddy's docs? What exactly did you find difficult? I'm a Caddy maintainer, and I'm always looking to find ways we can improve.
Couldn't you get an equivalent focal length by wearing reading glasses?