skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good train of thought even though you quoted Scalia who was a strict constructionist.

Care to expand on it?
No, it doesn't. Lol.
Maybe Homo Floresiensis devolved from Homo Sapiens the same way the Sleestak devolved from the Altrusians.

https://landofthelost.fandom.com/wiki/Sleestak

>At one time, in the distant past, the Sleestak were known as Altrusians. They were a very peaceful and intelligent race and eventually grew into an advanced civilization, mastering many (if not all) of the secrets of the Land of the Lost, creating cities and temples among other landmarks. Unfortunately, the Altrusians lost control over their emotions and destroyed their civilization becoming known as the Sleestak.

>In their decline, the Sleestak became are a degenerate warring race that lost much of their knowledge and culture. Now based on a distrust of strangers and struggle for survival, they have come out of the Era of Intelligence and into the Era of Solitude. The Era of Intelligence was the period in time when the Sleestak first arrived at The Land of the Lost. They built several temples now called Pylons which serve to regulate the life conditions, seasons and meteorological traits of the area. There was a period when there was only darkness before the Sleestak built the Time Pylon, which controls the light and dark cycles of The Land of The Lost.

>As the Sleestak moved into The Lost City they entered a more barbarian state as they reverted back to their more primeval conditions. They eventually became ruled by a Sleestak called Sol, who reorganized the Sleestak and taught them how to hunt and kill.
Why do some supermassive black holes have a * in their name?
Why your old rechargeable batteries ballooned in size
I won’t lie. I saw a16z and somehow just translated that as “Amazon,” despite knowing exactly who they are (and having pitched to them–not personally–at a previous startup).
https://archive.ph/gtzFe
Here is a page of open firmware that is known about:

https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware/Open

As you can see, it is very minimal.
How much sleep are you getting?

I had a similar problem. Getting 8 hours of sleep every night, no exceptions, helped immensely.

It’s really hard. I even have a self-imposed rule that I always send my kids to sleep away camp in the summer. It’s necessary to escape the grind and take care of myself for a few weeks.

But if you look at medical research, it’s absolutely insane how sleep is related to everything.
How big is the ecosystem of packages available via nix on FreeBSD?
The one hard truth about data intensive systems:

There will be migrations and they will be bumpy.
"being a jerk online" is not a protected class.
Cost of borrowing is already back to 5%
The existing infrastructure of electricity, excluding building charging stations and the possibility of transmission upgrades, is why I believe in EVs instead of Hydrogen.

Wouldn't the cost of building a new Hydrogen setup equivalent to gasoline be insane? You can't retrofit gas stations that easily since the tanks weren't meant to hold a gas. I suppose they could add Hydrogen storage to existing gas stations but you still need central distributions and another set of trucks to bring it out.
I too hope I will be fired some day (upwards)
I think I would be a little bit relieved to discover that alien civilizations exist and they haven't destroyed us yet even though they probably could have. (Granted we haven't had radio very long, so it's possible they're just too far away to have detected us that way and they haven't explored the universe with whatever fine tooth comb is needed to have detected our pre-industrial civilization.)
I kind of like the theory that Neanderthals were basically orcs.

https://treeofwoe.substack.com/p/when-orcs-were-real?s=r

Europeans maintained stories of ogres 10s of thousands of years after the last Neanderthal walked the earth, it’s plausible that the Lio in the article maintained myths about small humanlike creatures that fuelled the imaginations of the people who claim to have seen them in the same way.
The player AI driving the game would score a permanent based on things like power, toughness, cmc with varying weights. And it would use that score to decide which permanent to play when it could cast more than one. A pretty simple model but probably an effective starting point.

Actually, it was a bit more abstract: it scored a game state where it considered this players permanents, the opponents permanents, this players life total, opponents life total(s).
I was eager to register, but reading the TOS - I'm not sure any more.

> You acknowledge and agree that any questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, feedback, or other information regarding the Site ("Submissions") provided by you to us are non-confidential and shall become our sole property.

Is this normal? To be honest: I haven't read the facebook TOS - but at the same time I don't post on facebook. If slowsocial owns all the stuff I'm sending out to my friends - I'd rather stay with my email newsletter.

What do you think about this?
>Our CEO managed to get sufficiently sunburnt on his first trip that his forehead blistered, which made it hard to maintain eye contact at times.

Now he knows how women feel: "Hey buddy, my eyes are down here!"
VESmail: Set-and-Forget Encrypted Email
The Pokemon Company International to Buy Millennium Print Group
Mobile MitM – Intercepting Your Android App (EFF)
S&M includes marketing expenses.
You still have that freedom you just have to wait a little longer. I do however see your point, it's probably the reason in my area pickup trucks are so popular though rarely used. People want the ability to haul drywall, just in case, it makes you feel like you are independent and can contribute even if it's rarely used.
This looks really nice, it saves making the Dockerfile yourself. And just sometimes you want an image but with a bit of extra in it for debugging. If normally you pull that image directly with this you don’t need to setup a build to build and push the custom image only to scuttle it again later.

What is interesting though is that nix is all about reproducible builds but I don’t see a way to specific packaged versions here.
There will always be calls to compromise on principles to maximize some metric or another. There are legions of business wannabes and people who think they know best, and they will sweetly offer up their opinions to tempt you towards what they think is best.

I hope Debian ignores them.
Should 16 year olds also be required to serve on juries?
That all sounds good on paper but are you going to pay the cost of all that maintenance or you will just use a air freshner which is cheap.
Basically, this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis#/media/File:...

"Survived until the late Pleistocene" and "Have been separated since the late Pleistocene" are very different things.
How good do low-level programmers need to be at mental arithmetic?
I've witnessed hardware engineers as well as low-level (assembler) programmers performing some really impressive feats of mental arithmetic; like moving across decimal to binary to hexa-decimal, as well as computing changes from bits to words to bytes and beyond.
Is that kind of mental arithmetic prowess really needed or was that all a means for them to show-off?
If that kind of mental arithmetic prowess is mandatory, how could a neophyte train themselves?
You could sell your house for twice as much but you will have to pay twice as much to buy a new one.
As a Windows/MacOS user who has moved full time to linux, I ended up on Debian Testing as my daily (going to try Fedora soon).

I still live back in the days when Fedora would give you a pop up to install non-free drivers ("additional software" or something like that).

I have been using Debian as my daily driver for almost 6 months now and Linux in general for years - I still have no idea how the video drivers work. I have no idea how to install them, which ones mean what, what's free, non-free, optimal, professional - I have no idea how any of it works and it's a source of frustration for me.

What is mesa? Why do people tell me not to install the video drivers from the Radeon website. When I download and install the drivers from the Radeon website there are lots of errors but it still seems to work - did I install them wrong? How to I update them?

When I install the `apt install firmware-amd-graphics` I get loads of warning, but it works so I ignore them.

What is going on and why isn't it as simple as Window's where I run an executable and a setup wizard does the rest?
No.

Before 12800 years ago, North America was home to both horses and camels, along with ~30 other now extinct genera including mammoths, mastodons, cheetahs, dire wolves, giant sloths, and a bear much larger than the grizzly. All of those were obliterated at that geological instant, along with the Clovis culture, apparently by a meteorite or comet strike. It also melted many cubic miles of glacial ice in an instant, scouring out the Scablands of eastern Washington state in a flood hundreds of feet deep, carving out the whole Columbia Gorge in only days. It ignited continent-spanning fires that destroyed everything anyone might have built.

Nothing would have prevented the people who lived before then from domesticating horses and using them to pull wagons. None has been found, but remarkable little remains of the people who were in North America for at least 10 millennia before then.
I too am old.
>It is why I think we need to explore new ways of democratic control and decision making! Through technology there could be different solutions to the problem of representation.

Example of the latest crypto scam that I read about yesterday:

"...a fairly simple [governance] attack:

1. Propose a piece of code to the protocol that says "send the entire treasury to my address A"
2. Buy a bunch of equity tokens and vote the change in
3. Send the entire treasury to your address A"

Step 2 is possible because of flash loans.

"Literally in a single transaction, the attacker buys a ton of governance tokens, injects malicious code into the protocol through governance voting, then uses the malicious code to steal a bunch of money. Web3 is insane"

https://twitter.com/AnthonyLeeZhang/status/15157022763961303...
> it’s 100% clear that it’s my responsibility to be able to take over at any time.

There's no way you can actually be ready to take over at any time though. That's just setting you up to take the blame when autopilot fails.

I mean, sure, sometimes you'll detect the error and avert it. But sometimes you won't.
Perhaps another way to say it-using an evil compiler could bootstrap any kind of malicious code in the compiled artifact whether it’s a compiler or not.
Masks now optional for employees, customers following White House announcement
> The language wars largely ended, with the more popular languages folding in a lot of the more (at the time) esoteric features.

And the popular languages still don't have sensible macros, with the exception of Rust...

Once upon a time they had very complicated macro facilities: not just Lisp, the assembly of the S390 had one, etc. etc. Then came C with its incomplete #define thing, and the whole concept came into disrepute...
It was a failure also because of Microsoft and their choice to enable do not track by default in internet explorer.

The legislation could be improved of course, but personally I think these consent forms are fine. And it tells me immediately which website “value my data“.
> I use Linux on the often so it was important for me to purchase a laptop that was compatible.

Instead of a laptop, have you considered purchasing a VR computer?[1]

[1] https://simulavr.com/blog/why-vrcs-are-better-than-pcs-and-l...
Which is still better in a restroom where the ventilation is poor.
> I tried HIIT for a period of a few weeks, but ended up stopping it as my motivation decreased

HIIT is really hard to maintain motivation for imo, I've found light jogs or walking up hills is much easier to be consistent about. Many people I know do group classes. It's tough though, I'll grant you, good luck :)

> Thank you very much for your perspective. You've given me several things to process. I definitely do get stuck in loops; they've almost become invasive thoughts. I don't care to think them, but they are there anyway, and they won't leave me alone.

Yeah there's definitely a practice you need to build here. Zen meditation was very good for me in this regard. You've worked at FAANG so maybe you're in the bay area? There are a few good temples in the area, SF in particular (this is not trying to rope you into a religion btw, it should mostly be about quieting your mind).

> I don't know how to feel fulfilled either, and I think happiness in some way stems from that as well.

There's definitely a personal journey here, and everyone's different. I've found great fulfillment in mastery (mostly of software engineering, but other stuff as well) and in helping others. I've meet people who found fulfillment in one or neither of those things. Honestly, trope-y stuff about "finding your passion" is somewhat useful here as a guide to things you may want to try out (e.g. give woodworking or pottery a shot).

There's a thought here that's vitally important but is very hard to communicate well (and in a way that doesn't sound melodramatic). As simply as I can put it, the most important thing is that you keep moving forward. Getting stuck on a thought, or worrying about the time you're "wasting" is poison. Remembering that is a very hard thing when life doesn't feel terribly worth living, but it's the most important thing.
Former IIHS-HLDI chief recounts how his car protected him in high-speed crash
And that's commendable. Also very rare among large companies.
Link to Paul Graham's article on default alive or default dead: http://www.paulgraham.com/aord.html
In many comments about the fediverse in general I read the disappointment that 'after many years fediverse still hasn't grown enough to blow Twitter and FB out of the water'. And if that's your objective I can understand the sentiment.

But to say "Very few people outside of open source tech and a couple fandoms" when refering to a group of between 3 to 5 million people makes me laugh a bit. If you want to find a good circle of followers and those following you to interact and have a good time with, then that is surely enough of a basis to choose from.

On your personal timeline you'd have at most a couple a hundred persons you follow, and with a couple hundred who followed you out of interest there'll be a good social vibe going on the topics of your interest. You will find that those people are more responsive than similar numbers on Twitter would be. For influencers however, who crave millions of followers, the fediverse is less interesting.
Yes, if all error types from various libraries are `Send` + `Sync` it's easy, if not, you are running into issues where you need to wrap them in reference counted containers because some of them aren't copyable either. Crates like failure, thiserror and anyhow didn't simplify this (although I really like their general approach to wrapping low level errors in high level errors with a breadcrumb trail to details).
Life forces home sales. Change of jobs, loss of job, retirement, marriage, divorce, and death are all common reasons people move. If you’re underwater in these situations it forces either a short sale or foreclosure and eventual bank sale. You are correct that people won’t want to sell, but circumstances will force enough hands that it happens. Then you might start getting in a situation where if it drops enough people will walk away instead of being so underwater causing more foreclosures.
Debian is one of the top Linux distributions, so there are empirically a large number of people not being deterred.

And many of the other top Linux distributions are Debian derivatives which both participate in the community and provide the alternate experience.

Upholding its principles is the way Debian distinguishes itself. If you don't like it, use Mint or something.
What's so unique about it?
It’s a little bit like saying “the photography industry still has no idea what customers want”. That’s the kind of thing open markets figure out. There are data providers of all kinds of data, and the data consumers need to find this data somehow.
100% this. A decade ago I needed to replace some internal Linux file servers. I was keen to try ZFS, and so I tried BSD. Naturally on new hardware. Turns out BSD didn't support the on-board ether net. Tried a bunch of network cards from the cupboard, no support their either. Opportunity lost.

Switched to Windows server (and was blown away by how polished that was, but that's another story.)

I get the advantages of free software, I really do, but this sort of neglect of usefulness in the name of ideological purity does not win converts.

On the other hand who cares? Free Software does not need to grow, it fulfils a purpose for those who want to be ideological pure, and I accept that is a valuable thing. Chasing converts at the cost of purity may just end up being no-man's-land.

Perhaps what the author is looking for I'd a debian derivitive, not debian itself?
You can't stop me from keeping the car I borrowed. Your bank can't physically force you to pay back a loan. I can probably outrun the staff at that restaurant. Does that mean the laws preventing such behaviour should be abolished, the (implicit) agreement to pay for the food I order should not be binding?

LinkedIn presumably tells its users how they are using the data, at least if they follow the law. Shouldn't people be allowed to consider those terms to be acceptable without it meaning they lose all protection?

"But it's impossible to protect your data against all re-use", you'll say, "someone may remember it". That is not just obviously true, it is the only reason one might want the protection of the law.

Things that can easily be prevented by technical means do not need to be prohibited. That's why the common argument that "it's your own fault when you are raped at night, in a park" or that someone stole your car when you accidentally didn't lock it is so absurd: laws aren't so much about preventing you from being raped. In the absense of the law, you'd just never leave your (fortified) appartment. Laws are about allowing you to go outside, to not spend your money on steel-reinforced doors, to leave your convertible parked with the top down.

"Might is right" just leads to a pointless arms race: social networks waste money on protecting against scrapers. They'll hide everything behind logins or paywalls. Scrapers will waste money on overcoming those protections.

If the scrapers win, some people will decide not to do something they would have otherwise done. In other words: they have become a bit less free. The social network becomes less useful and might shut down. The scrapers find themselves with nothing to scrape. Congratulations, everone lost.
All this talk about Lithium feels like it's describing a new destructive force in the environment but won't this replace/reduce oil extraction?

The Exxon Valdez, Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and I'm sure many other smaller disasters happened due to oil. I would even add in both gulf wars which costs massive amounts of money, resources, and lives wouldn't have happened if the US didn't have a vested interest in oil.

As long as Lithium doesn't cause the same issues isn't that an improvement?
Gilligan.
Let's see how things have changed since 2004 when this was published:

> The x86 has a small number (8) of general-purpose registers

x86-64 added more general-purpose registers.

> The x86 uses the stack to pass function parameters; the others use registers.

OS vendors switched to registers for x86-64.

> The x86 forgives access to unaligned data, silently fixing up the misalignment.

Now ubiquitous on application processors.

> The x86 has variable-sized instructions. The others use fixed-sized instructions.

ARM introduced Thumb-2, with a mix of 2-byte and 4-byte instructions, in 2003. PowerPC and RISC-V also added some form of variable-length instruction support. On the other hand, ARM turned around and dropped variable-length instructions with its 64-bit architecture released in 2011.

> The x86 has a strict memory model … The others have weak memory models

Still x86-only.

> The x86 supports atomic load-modify-store operations. None of the others do.

As opposed to load-linked/store-conditional, which is a different way to express the same basic idea? Or is he claiming that other processors didn't support any form of atomic instructions, which definitely isn't true?

At any rate, ARM previously had load-linked/store-conditional but recently added a native compare-and-swap instruction with ARMv8.1.

> The x86 passes function return addresses on the stack. The others use a link register.

Still x86-only.
I was around arguing with Amiga fanboys in this era. It was a very brief period of time - maybe less than a year after the PowerPCs were introduced when this was true. By the 1995, Apple released the second generation emulator, all of the apps any one cared about were native, and even none native apps were calling mostly native OS routines.
A challenge is that there is often an increasing use case to blend remote sensing data models with active telemetry data models, since they are complementary for many (most?) analytics of this type. The remote sensing platforms have no capacity to deal with telemetry data models, and the telemetry platforms have no capacity to deal with remote sensing.

The workloads and computer science are very different, but bringing them together would add a lot of value. At least with current platforms on the market, one is always to the exclusion of the other.
The variance argument may be solid in general but I will say that mana flood and mana screw can be greatly alleviated through deck building and use of mulligan.

You don't often see it happen during high level play.

I used to be rather careless in how I planned the mana of my decks and rarely took a mulligan. I faced mana issues all the time. After putting more planning into my mana base and deciding on a careful strategy for when to take a mulligan I now rarely experience those issues. When I do it is mainly because I break my own rules out of greed when refusing to admit a hand with great cards is too low on mana.
Just wait until you find out the UK had a Jewish prime minister.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Disraeli

The rabbit hole goes deeper, keep digging! They can't keep the truth hidden forever.
Moneyball: algorithm design and team management based on that algorithm.

Mr. Robot / Who Am I
I have had some doubts about Dell installs which had non-free blob dependencies which were "insert USB stick and hit enter" -when I am doing remote install via virtual media. Mainly this was for broadcom ethernets.

I found in the end, proceeding to install and then post-install patching was easier but tedious.

If you have access to USB slots, this is a non-problem. If it were possible to find and make and maintain "CD with a bit of the blobset glued in" I'd be happier frankly.
I didn't follow this story that closely but I don't remember the information being released at all. In fact Tucker Carlson claimed he had the data being mailed to him, it was lost in the mail, then they found it but he decided to not release it because he felt bad for Hunter Biden.