skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If he put an app on it, written in Rust, to monitor your gut bacteria, that would be peak HN.
Telegram, too. I know its not the favourite of this community here, but it offers everything else that these clients can't even imagine.
Can't wait for the return of Tipper Gore and labelling anything that offends. /s
Most likely the police will soon have the ability to stop or remote control them from a special app.
"...We find real-world evidence of apps computing and agreeing on a fingerprinting-derived identifier through the use of server-side code, thereby violating Apple's policies and exposing the limits of what ATT can do against tracking on iOS...

...This is especially concerning because we explicitly refused opt-in to tracking in our study, and consent is a legal requirement for tracking under EU and UK data protection law...

...We find that Apple itself engages in some forms of tracking and exempts invasive data practices like first-party tracking and credit scoring from its new rules, and that the new Privacy Nutrition Labels were often inaccurate...

...Overall, our findings suggest that, while tracking individual users is more difficult now, the changes reinforce existing market power of gatekeeper companies with access to large troves of first-party data..."

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2204.03556.pdf
Ukraine’s 'iron general' is a hero, but he's no star
He's an eccentric antisocial gadfly who write lots of interesting opinionated stuff about esoteric philosophical, technical, political, and emacsual topics that I enjoy reading about, can't find any where else, and a lot of which I agree with.

I'm fond and respectful of his work, but he will never convince me that Emacs Visual Line Mode a not an Evil Tool of Satan sent to suck our Precious Bodily Fluids by breaking our Beloved Keyboard Macros and Trusty Type-Ahead. But I do love it that he cares so much, no matter that he's on the side of Evil.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28187525
Seems like you agree that there isn’t a simple way to do it.

The browser-as-editor didn’t even survive into the next generation of web software — Mosaic already was read-only. And that’s because Berners-Lee’s vision lacked any unified solution to hosting the web creations.
Tu-204? It's performance and efficiency are horrible by Western standards, but it's by no mean bad enough to be unusable.

Irkut MC-21? Most of the actual aircraft don't need to be big to be effective. Russia actually has a small population for it's size.

They actually (well, not anymore) build a substantial ammount of Ukranian aircraft as well, most of the Ukraine Antonov aircraft was more or less actually manufactured in Russia.
Obviously you do not read European websites as I thought the button you dislike is mandated by their enhanced privacy laws for computer usage (along with things like restrictions on file retention).
That doesn't contain anything related to copyright infringement.
That isn't really true. "unsafe" specifically means "memory-unsafe". The checking is left to the humans, and so is the justification, but the meaning is not.

See https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch19-01-unsafe-rust.html

Check out also the "Rust considers it safe to" section of https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/what-unsafe-does.html
Paul Graham, post on the front page.
How It Started – Bluesky
You mean like the random checkpoints set up by border patrol in the southwest where they stop all the freeway traffic? Been around for years.
I don't think gcc or CPython should do this, but separate programs that flag and correct errors could be useful. The would not correct silently but give messages such as

"line 5 needs a terminating semicolon -- add it?"

Has this been attempted?
It was a typo sorrry.
Cookies are a thing that should be solved client-side.... so basically, no third party cookies, cookie jars per domain, and default wipe-on-tab(window)-close + a button to enable cookies per domain somwhere, for the logins to work.
> Who do they support?

Tsar Putin and Mother Russia
This is an opinion that is unironically held by a lot of people on Nextdoor.
On Fastmail, at least, this isn't a big issue. For a catchall account, if I reply to an email[0] it automatically addresses the reply as from the alias. It is editable in place, too, in case I want to give it some other name.

[0] In their webmail client, of course
There is probably room for a consumer appliance (like a souped-up NAS) that puts a facia and marketplace around Docker, letting end-users run self hosted apps. I know QNAP (at least) tried something similar to this, but it seemed to be fairly constricted.

Or to take it further, the same thing running in the cloud, but costs could pretty easily blow out of proportion with end-users not being fully aware of the costs of their actions.
I've just started doing this and it's so nice. "Gee who signed me up for a newsletter... why, it's that hotel chain I stayed at 3 months ago! Naughty, naughty." Makes the management much nicer, and I can maintain my fun username for silly projects and a slightly more professional one for business inquiries and such. Highly recommended! Domains are cheap and Fastmail makes the process absolutely painless.
Ideal governance (for companies, countries and more)
Just being pedantic, but the president actually doesn't have the power to create national parks - only Congress can. The president can create national monuments, though, which are pretty similar for all intents and purposes.
It's massive right now, yes. Especially because of proof of work. It will get better, but I don't think we can expect it to be as good as everybody hosting their own services in the cloud. That is a big disadvantage of Ethereum, but I still think it is pretty interesting that it essentially handles devops for you forever.
No, fiber is actually significantly cheaper.
"The tests being done in conjunction with TSA are designed to evaluate how a system that has proven to be highly effective in providing safe travel in the airline industry will work most effectively in passenger rail operations."

Highly effective, indeed[1]. The US would probably be better off dropping the pretense and paying the 55,000 employees of the TSA to do nearly anything else instead. Even continuing to pay them their entire salaries while eliminating their jobs would save money in the form of increased airport efficiency.

[1]: https://www.vox.com/2016/5/17/11687014/tsa-against-airport-s...
> amazingly rapid appearance of a wide range of effective vaccines

It was amazing. All testing was compressed from ~10 years to less than 1. For a brand new type of medical procedure using rna - that had previously failed to gain to approval. Hmm.

> effluent testing

I have heard about this sort of testing.. But again, since when did this become a thing? What does this sort of testing actually do, why is it something worth evaluating at all?

Edit to add my findings on effluent testing, from https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-020-0690-1

"It is not currently possible to directly convert concentrations of viral RNA in wastewater to disease prevalence in a community. First, the biological variability in viral RNA excretion over time and between individuals creates problems in this estimate. This variability is then compounded by variability in the sewer systems across communities, particularly their size, configuration, and whether they include stormwater and industrial waste. However, longitudinal trends of SARS-CoV-2 RNA levels in wastewater can still be helpful in complementing traditional surveillance methods to understand trends in community transmission."
Which is actually what GDPR requires. Essentially, rejecting must be as easy as accepting.
The concentration of nuclear fuels isn't that high in the ground. If one were to dilute nuclear waste down to natural levels the fact that it lasts thousands of years shouldn't be a problem.

However, what I usually see are proposals to put all the waste in the same spot, with a concentration as high as possible. This is justified by the fact that the storage site is a special location with unique geographical features.

I agree though that people aren't accounting for the full cost. Japan ran a nuclear reactor that was older than the one in Chernobyl. Now their clean up costs exceed the costs of shutting all nuclear power plants down and replacing them with new designs assuming each reactor will cost $30 billion and there are no learning effects that reduce the cost of additional units.

If you were generous with the learning rate, Japan could have donated a dozen nuclear power plants to other countries on top of rebuilding its entire nuclear power plant fleet.
They will regret building coal plants as the cost of renewables plummets past coal. Then, they will need to convert their coal plants to burn hydrogen or ammonia, or retire them in favor of better methods, after this expensive detour. But the builders of coal plants will have done fine.

"Waste" is a curious concept applied to something with zero marginal cost. If not used to synthesize fuel, the insolation would have been wasted. Instead, it synthesizes useful fuel, that also fuels the ship taking it where it is needed.

Indonesia will be able to build their own solar farms and synthesizers, and end up exporting their excess in the temperate countries' winter, provided they can escape the grip of the oligarchists.
>Out of sight out of mind applies universally (sometimes good, sometimes bad) - I have the most success when I engineer my environments to put the things I need to focus on in front of me.

100% this aye. I had my bookshelf in my bedroom and I found sometimes I'd be late for work or to pick up the shopping etc as when I would sit down on the end of my bed to get changed I would pull a book off the bookshelf and start reading something that would help me answer a question that was on my mind. I took it and moved it down to the basement to sort that problem out. I've since moved a small selection of things I'm not hyperfocused on right now and hence can't really read, but know I should make my way through them and I keep the one that I'm trying to get through now on the bedside table. I've been making my way through it on and off, and it's going slowly but surely!
I like how the Manchu word for horse kind of looks like a horse.
It makes a lot of sense to use AGPL around anything network-related: very often client code is used in servers and viceversa. Especially libraries.

Additionally, having the same license in the whole server/client ecosystem makes things simpler.
After some digging ("x-face image usenet" on DDG yielded a link to a page on curlie.org), I found this collection: https://ace.home.xs4all.nl/X-Faces/
Please prove you are human. Not what we really want from the internet, but thanks to these companies it's what we have to endure. As a consequence nothing is automation friendly, stupid netblocks are in place on many sites and an array of VPNs are an almost a requirement now just to obtain information.
Towards the very end, the soldier is demonstrating the fuel tank of the drone which appears to consist of a plastic bottle with a plastic cap. He wraps up the video by saying Russia would not be Russia without a bottle.
Implying a bottle of vodka.
Dennis Ritchie, in his paper about the history of C, explains that they became aware of these ambiguities only after the first C implementation, but they considered that it was a too big mistake, so they reversed the order in the next C version.
I don't think anyone in China is not on WeChat. Life seems to be pretty impossible without it even without covid. Unlike the name implies it's not just a chat app. It's an everything app. A bit like Google's level of ubuquity but even more. Payments, ridesharing, shopping.. I heard you can even do your government business on it.

Anyway this is just what I've read of course. Never visited China and I'm never going to.
I still use Swype as well. I'd installed it from the Play store prior to it being discontinued.

It still works fine, but hasn't had any updates in 2 years. I've also noticed that if I open the Play store link (below) in incognito mode, it says "not found", but if I'm logged into my Google account, it brings up the app's info.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nuance.swy...

I've tried switching to Gboard a number of times, but its swipe typing is way less accurate. Swype also has a bunch of gestures that are very convenient, like one to toggle the current word between UPPER, lower, and Title case, if you swipe from apostrophe to s, it'll insert "'s", and it's trivially easy to add new words to its dictionary. Overall, I'm not looking forward to when I eventually have to give up using Swype.
You can bisect it 10 times.
There is or was shortage of Video Cards to the point that getting a video card at MSRP was impossible due to people just selling them on eBay. As more and more players such as Moore and Intel release cards it will help in the availability of video cards .
I find this scary:

$ export LC_ALL=C
$ $tm xargs -0P1 grep $lb t < ../f |sort |md5sum
7.05user 9.88system 0:24.53elapsed 69%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 2344maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+4960minor)pagefaults 0swaps
8ef2c658a70bb38438e59421231246b9 -
$ $tm xargs -0P16 grep $lb t < ../f |sort |md5sum
10.16user 36.62system 0:18.30elapsed 255%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 2332maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+4980minor)pagefaults 0swaps
c8ebf840e54ec8b5a49e159eda09e63f -
$ $tm parallel -X0P16 grep $lb t < ../f |sort |md5sum
16.97user 33.94system 0:16.36elapsed 311%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 51624maxresident)k
0inputs+2069296outputs (0major+169409minor)pagefaults 0swaps
8ef2c658a70bb38438e59421231246b9 -

It greps for lines containing t, sorts the lines and computes a hash.

Note how "xargs -P16 grep" gives the wrong answer. The output from parallel matches exactly the lines from "xargs -P1". With "-k" the lines are even in the same order (sorting removed):

$ $tm xargs -0P1 grep $lb t < ../f |md5sum
7.03user 9.30system 0:16.32elapsed 100%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 2332maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+5023minor)pagefaults 0swaps
d89b45188602c9bb08026dc2892cfa75 -
$ $tm parallel -kX0P16 grep $lb t < ../f |md5sum
18.21user 36.03system 0:10.26elapsed 528%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 65396maxresident)k
0inputs+2069344outputs (0major+154929minor)pagefaults 0swaps
d89b45188602c9bb08026dc2892cfa75 -

I have not analyzed the output but I think the error is caused by the issue described here: https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls#Non-atomic_writes_w...

How anyone would ever use "xargs -P16 grep" is beyond me. I honestly do not care how fast I can get an answer, if I cannot trust the answer is correct.

I can see someone claimed they could build a safe parallel grep, but seemed not to do so: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30890780#30913304 It would have been interesting to see.
For those of us who don't follow closely, whats the ranking for deployment of these kinds of cards? I assume it is like this:

1) bitcoin class Proof-of-Work time and power wasting in giant DC racks
2) TPU class ML in giant DC racks
3) gaming
4) @home ML and bitcoin

If the supply chain dynamics for gamers puts them as low as I think they're fighting with @home bitcoin rig owners, when the real enemy is the number #1 slot.
Sounds a lot like how a certain other large country handles security on their inter city trains.
>follow the dopamine

:)
That’s your read, not mine. I was simply responding to the question.
"Hiring practices which can effectively lower the bar for “diversity” candidates by decreasing the false negative rate"

"I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men
and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership."

And throughout the memo he keeps parroting this ridiculous line that women are more "neurotic" than men.

Sorry, but I'm incapable of reading something this insipid with a charitable eye
I agree with what you say. Also:

This law is intended to provide a small number of parents with an implicit veto over what is taught within their local school districts. It does so by placing the judgement over whether a conflict is "resolved" with the parents, and then empowering those parents to initiate a legal procedure that must be paid for by the school district (in the case of a special magistrate) or specifically contemplates "damages", attorney's fees, etc, being awarded to the parent who complains.

As there are no particular limits declared in the law, no school board can withstand a large enough number of attacks being conducted "in parallel", each of which must be paid for by the board.

What I find at least a little interesting is that there doesn't appear to be any contemplation of what happens when a parent sues in the opposite direction -- specifically saying that X and Y are age- and developmentally-appropriate topics for classroom instruction, and to avoid teaching them is inappropriate.

Maybe that's a stretch. But it doesn't really matter, because it's up to the parent to decide if their issue has been "resolved"...and the parent can just go straight to court if they don't like the answer.
Transphobia, much like homophobia, refers to an ideology, not an actual fear. Nice try getting on your prescriptivist high horse, though.
It might be our greatest problem, but it's not a technical problem.
Prosecuting low level drug offenses is usually an alternative to going after violent crimes which can be dangerous.
> If someone reports about the most improbable thing in the universe happening, then you ought to check on sources.

Except that part was clearly an exaggeration and it's very easy for a few bytes to overlap, or for many many byte sequences to cause a reboot.

Even if the post wasn't meant to be plausible, it is a plausible off-the-cuff explanation, and I wish the author would realize that before making criticisms like this.
> No one throws away a resume in a public meeting declaring she’s too old, queer, brown, and Muslim

They wouldn't throw it away publicly in a meeting since it's illegal, but when a recruiter is browsing LinkedIn profiles trying to find potential candidates to interview, I'm pretty sure they dismiss older candidates as they don't perform as well in the coding interviews.

That being said, I know FAANG make a big deal of trying to interview as many minority candidates as possible and incentives recruiters to do so but AFAIU older candidates don't fall in the "minority" category.
I think what he's trying to say is that China wants to have GPU production ready before it happens, so that they are not left without technology once the sanctions kick in
Here is a new example. I was thinking about strategy as a pro golfer playing in a 72-hole tournament. Generally, you want to minimize expected value, get the lowest average score on each hole. It is obvious that near the end of the tournament, if you're behind, you want to play riskier golf, and if you're in the lead, you want to play less risky golf. That maximizes your chance of winning. This means instead of optimizing for expected value, you sacrifice expected value in exchange for higher or lower variance, respectively.

What I realized a couple of days ago is that even earlier in the tournament, you don't want to optimize expected value -- you always want to give some of that for higher variance. Why? Because in the variance/EV trade-off curve, the slope of the curve is zero at the maximum value, which means to add h units of variance, you give up o(h), realistically, O(h^2), expected value. So there is some value of h where the trade-off is worth it.

(Concrete example: Golf tournaments could be modeled as a coin-flipping contest, where you get +1 point for flipping heads, -1 point for flipping tails, with 72 coin tosses. Suppose you could pay a 0.01 point cost to double the point value, i.e. you get +1.99 or -2.01 as a result of the coin toss. Then you should, because doing so on the first coin tosses will increase your chance of winning.)
I just want to point out this line:

>or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards

This could easily, under the US legislative framework, be interpreted as extending beyond the 3rd grade. The law does not, actually, strictly, limit this to 3rd grade or lower. This line, as I understand it, makes it so the law can be applied to other grade levels as well, because they can simply say its not "age appropriate" or "developmentally appropriate" at any level.

I don't think its an accident this line is worded in a way that would allow this.
I can't think of any way to punish terrorists worse than making them ride Amtrak.
This was an interesting proposal at the time, but the problems it's trying to solve (storage, bounces) are very different from the problems we ended up having (spam, spam, spam).
Email marketing ruined communication for everyone.

I once ran my own email server for several years off a domain from no-ip.org running from a local server in my home. Most places accepted email from it just fine, occasionally though some places had their mail server reject my IP because it was in a DNS black hole.

Then you had the spoofers pretend to be att.com/verizon.com so they had to implement SPF and DKIM.

Then you had to uphold your reputation and the security of your servers otherwise your address would get put on one of the DNS black hole blocks.

Worse was if your IP address was already used to send spam -- you somehow had to get the black hole lists to remove your IP.

At some point about 15 years ago, I gave up and moved to gmail, and I never really looked back on it again.
> OneNote is nice except it lacks offline support.

Huh? If you mean purely local, yeah, that's impossible outside the Office app on Windows. But apart from that, OneNote can't even operate without downloading a full local copy of a notebook you open. Any changes you do get applied to the local copy first and then synced to the master copy on OneDrive separately.
If they start doing security lines for passengers they'll destroy about the only nice thing Amtrak had going for it: being a basic travel option that doesn't involve too much trouble. It's already expensive, slow, and has limited scheduling. The only upshot is that you can walk up 5 minutes before a train pulls in, buy a ticket and hop on without having to take your clothes off and disembowel your luggage.
A few hundred thousand paying customers?
I would guess the ability to peg things to powers of 2 with enough granularity that a series of bit shifts was more efficient than the alternatives for the application. Speculating, but it reminded me of a similar tactic I saw in demoscene code.
> I can’t just drop it in an existing website.

I mean.. should you though?
What is the problem they are a part of, and what makes them part of that problem? They don't seem problematic to me.
the 3 letter agencies need more power. too much freedom
> people in hushed tones would talk about coworkers

If they were still co workers, it wasn't treated as a fireable offence like the modern heresies
Isn't it the case that you can use Eeros in bridge mode? Like, you could still use OPNsense and Eeros together, if you wanted.

https://support.eero.com/hc/en-us/articles/207621056-How-do-...
It's not illegal. It's in the German constitution. Land is seized all the time, too. E. g. when the autobahn or mining operations are expanded. Nobody bats an eye there. It's only when corporations shift from being beneficiaries of disappropriation to being the target of such laws that the whole world all of a sudden is outraged.
oh! Must've been tired haha :) .. sometimes you just don't know with this dude!!
Another problem:

n =* p;

Is p a pointer or an integer? Maybe you want to do pointer math, it's a very C thing to do.
A side point: Moore Threads is an awesome name for a company like this.
Code Rewrites and Joint Cognitive Systems
Fair enough. The report by the independent team makes compelling sense on why Russia fucked up and I am convinced that it is indeed Russia that miscalculated and blew up a civilian railway station.