skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US was an apartheid ethnostate so it's probably not that surprising that it sided with French colonists to restore their property rights as a matter of principle rather than pragmatic, geo-strategic consideration.

Also, if you consider the Chinese response to these wars where the US was restoring the colonial system in a recently liberated Asia after the fall of Japan, it had desirable outcomes. China stifled it's economic growth by moving it's economic/industrial base deep into it's interior[0], since it felt that the cities on the coast were vulnerable to naval attacks, and areas near the borders of korea and vietnam would be vulnerable to US ground attack. This probably set back the Chinese economy severely, for decades.

Edit: And, of course, you could argue that "kill them all" would be a successful dissuasion to prevent other states from declaring independence. eg. Indonesia and Philipines. Though I guess the effect on them was probably mixed(?) You have to consider that Korea is still partitioned, and South Korea is still a vassal state and military outpost of the US. Although the US was unable to achieve that outcome in Vietnam, it was not an unreasonable goal at the outset.

[0]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Front_(China)
There’s much to dive into here — ty — from Steve’s “Systems … where it is all about interfaces and trade-offs” to points you make throughout supporting his conclusion

> we define a stable interface
> reproduce behaviour reliably
> Predictability is great

Within being believed and valued for protecting engineers and organizations, so much progress applying these principles relies on individuals’ and teams’ readiness to adopt and advocate for them. Hope to see your experience with that in part II.
Or you could use this page, which has 10 lines of code and uses the built-in API in your existing browser: https://www.locserendipity.com/TTS.html
Visited Hanoi with our (just) adult kids a few years ago, we chose to mostly avoid American War (that's what they call it) era stuff - but one day we split up and went to an excellent art museum, the kids ended up at a museum to the evils of the French administration where people had been tortured and executed .... turned out it was what my generation knew as the "Hanoi Hilton" (we had been deliberately avoiding it), apparently it had little if any mention of the US prisoners there (the kids didn't notice anything) you sort of can't decry that place without also remembering that its previous incarnation was what Ho Chi Min was fighting against (and he was very much a freedom fighter before he became a communist)
Akregator (a KDE application)
The whole thing is quite a bit easier in a small country like NL though.
there are endless stories of ancient civilizations and palaeolithic humans dying young from dental abscess, 10 seconds on google defeats this weird spin
I hope the staff at OpenAI are checking their server logs carefully
I'm sad you've entirely misunderstood my point. I thought it was obvious.

The point is, no matter how sure you are that you're right, you might still be wrong. If you suppress opposing viewpoints, you're also suppressing any evidence that you might be wrong.

There are also people who know they're wrong - they suppress dissent because the truth will remove the power they enjoy.

Nobody likes being wrong. It's soooo much easier to just suppress any hint of being wrong.

The only way we'll know the truth is to allow dissent. Suppression of dissent is what tyrants do.
It also says they required customers using insurance to meet with their doctor before the COVID test. Then they billed insurance for the doctor visit. The doctor shared the revenue with the testing site.

How is this not criminal insurance fraud?
Braess Paradox is one of the nicest results in network science and traffic engineering. It's possible to find examples of its application in any situation that can be modelled as a network, from graph neural network architecture (removing connections and inducing sparsity can lead to better generalisation and efficiency under conditions); economics (introducing new trade connections can reduce wellbeing and efficiency under conditions); organisational theory (introducing firewalls between teams can reduce the prevalence of groupthink); and many more.
Magnum: Lightweight, modular C++11 graphics middleware for games/visualization
>>> Economics is a fiction

Yet we allow economics PhDs in central banks to set the price of our money.
Probably from the sense of sharing of location/identifying information/etc that Apple makes much easier to set and less likely to be circumvented by apps. Apple also does not sell your information, buying habits, etc to 3rd parties like google does. Apple makes money on the hardware and software they sell you. Google makes money on ads and selling your information to 3rd parties.
The only downside is that you're dealing with ammonia...

I'm dubious simply because ammonia is so nasty to human life. Spills are far worse than diesel or even gasoline spills.
Evidence against it is not needed. It needs evidence for it.
Fascinating. I’ll be honest, I’m moderately skeptical! Various flavors of GC has caused me great pain and suffering. The promise has long been “GC, but less bad” and so far that has not come to fruition.

However, I’m ecstatic at how many languages are trying new and interesting things. The ecosystem of novel languages feel more rich and vibrant now than at any other point in recent memory. Probably due to LLVM I think?

You should give a talk at Handmade Seattle in the fall! Would be a great audience for it I think.
How to know if your iPhone is using WPA3 or WPA2 for WiFi security? (2021)
I’m not sure. The ISPs are charging $150+ for 10G plus you pay Utopia network $30/mo for the fiber line. So $180/mo total for the cheapest ISP.
Yes, all correct. But if you offer a CEO the option of a defense that is just as effective, but also steals part of the bait money back? If the potential long-term cost is only hurting the corporation's reputation with a shadowy hacking group, and reducing the effectiveness of the defensive technique for everyone?

Bottom line: I think we can guess which option a CEO would usually choose

Remember that this method works best when it's not obvious that it is a tripwire, and may be best of all when it acts as a bribe to a greedy individual within a group of hackers.
While it's true, on the other hand, third parties can't confiscate crypto without interacting with you.

But crypto should become smarter for real world use case than just following "logically right" rules like some rescue protocol that without a receipt signal, it gets rolled back.
The done vs destroyed dichotomy is a cross-cutting concern for programs that need explicit control over resource lifetimes.

RAII is actually an antipattern in Python if you actually care about resources being released.
Do you think they should be suppressed?
This isn’t formal science. We are practitioners and so definitions have to be practical. If Boehm GCs really leak as much as you claim then nobody would use them.

The issue with cycles is that it can easily lead to significant memory leaks if a large subgraph gets caught in a cycle. A definition of GC that excludes this capability does not have the contract of “You only have to worry about reachability from roots”.
The studies I have seen say the exact opposite. Non-verbal cues make up most of the info flow: https://online.utpb.edu/about-us/articles/communication/how-...

If you feel your meetings don’t benefit from non-verbal cues, consider if you really need these meetings? Maybe it’s just a status call that could have also been solved via an online status tracker?
That's a 3.6% interest rate with your money locked up for 20 years. Personally, I'd rather risk that in index funds - your money would be much more accessible, the expected return would be greater, and the risk of the investment dive-bombing on a 20 year timeline is rather low.

I guess cool that it's guaranteed, though, and might make sense as part of a diversified retirement account.
You're right that many clay tablets were lost, so if we rely on an even more fragile medium than clay tablets even more will be lost – possibly even all of it.

Long-term digital storage is a somewhat tricky problem since all of our storage media lose their information over time if left lying about (usually on the order of decades) and require quite careful conditions for preservation. This is true in some sense for a lot of historical artefacts ranging from clay tablets to dinosaur bones to vellum, but getting useful information from half a clay tablet is still quite easy, whereas getting useful information from a broken digital media is a very hard – or even impossible – problem even today. In several thousand years your digital medium will need to be in a very good condition or its useless.
I suspect it's inertia, and it's gradually disappearing.

Where I live proposals for projects like these are becoming almost common now:

https://infrastructurepipeline.org/project/central-queenslan...

https://www.industry.gov.au/data-and-publications/exporting-...

But go back 5 years or even 2 years, and the only exported energy projects bring proposed were gas fracking and coal mines. My, how times have changed.
The top priority is building enough renewables that storage begins to make sense. We're pretty far away from the point where it's cheaper to store energy as hydrogen than, for example, to make the demand side more responsive to changing supply. Until you literally don't know what to do with the oversupply you sometimes get from wind and solar, it makes little sense to throw a large part of it away to produce hydrogen.
> That's were a good education comes in. A good education gives one an inquiring mind

Education isn't magic, and can't instill an inquiring mind reliably.

I went to a (at the time) $35k/yr private school that I consider to provide a fairly fantastic education. I remember being shocked when I discovered that my college roommate (a friend from the same high school) didn't know that you could delete installer files after installing software, taking up several GB of data back in the day when disk space was dear.

I had of course wondered the same thing at some pt in my life, and figured it years earlier by running a two-minute experiment in which I risked breaking the install of a game I didn't care that much about.

The difference between him and me certainly wasn't our education.
Exposure to 835MHz RF-EMF induces hyperactivity and demyelination in mice (2017)
The biggest no-code app I see in companies is Excel. It doesn't matter what you feel about it. If the data can fit an xlsx, it will be an excel sheet with macro.
Ooooh… Koka is a really neat language. I first encountered it in a seminar when we talked about algebraic effect handlers. Koka has these row types which effectively allow you to statically ensure that all your effects get handled at some point, modulo certain ordering constraints on when those effects get handled.

Essentially, you get nice purity around effects but they're way easier to compose (and imo grok) than monads.

If anyone is interested in learning more, definitely take a look at this [1] paper by the aforementioned Leijen. (OP, very cool that you get to work with this guy.) One of the best-written papers I've seen.

[1]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/algebra...
> 90% of human communication is non-verbal,

If true you should be able to communicate effectively without audio. Clearly this is not the case.
Families with two teenagers could easily hit 3x 4K Netflix/YouTube streams, 2x gamers and 1 backup sync at the same time.

But even such high peaks should be covered by “only” 1G.
I use yt-dlp, save as mp4, and sometimes I just want a smaller video, so -f 'bv*[height<=640]+ba/b[height<=640] option works for me.

yt-dlp --verbose -S res,ext:mp4:m4a --merge-output-format mp4 --no-mtime -o name_of_file.mp4 https://twitter.com/url/xxxx

Also for a web click

https://www.savetweetvid.com/
Isn’t the natural occurring fluoride Calcium fluoride while what we put in tooth paste (and add to water) is sodium fluoride which in addition to helping with our teeth is technically poisonous in large doses which is why we spit out tooth paste and don’t give children fluoride tooth paste until they learn to spit?
They should probably go to jail assuming the "system" is unbiased.
My gut feeling is to agree with you.

The more reasoned part of me says that you're totally wrong and you can boot up Windows and run software from two decades ago and the only real issue will be high dpi support which can be worked around.

There's nothing actually necessary about what Apple is doing in the least. They could even take a soft approach and simply slap a "vintage" tag on old unpatched software and call it a day. There is something profoundly stupid about automatically banning any software more than 2 years old from all Apple devices without even giving users the choice to use that old software. I'm not even saying it's morally wrong, or it's bad for consumers, I'm saying it an incredibly dumb decision.
There is SO MUCH niche software out there designed for a tiny audience which nobody will ever be able to afford regularly updating so long as it's still basically working. Trying to maintain this ideal where only well patched up to date software appears on the app store is just dumb.
I'd like to see how a web app of similar complexity would run on the same hardware. For all that people remember Flash being slow, remember the era of hardware it was running on.
> That sounds exactly like how search works today.

Problem is that today what is indexed is under the sole discretion of the one entity generating the index, and the state of the index at any given time has no way for anyone to tell if it was modified outside the boundaries of the code that generated it from the previous timestemp (or if the code itself was changed between time intervals for index generation). The public has no access to these things because they are controlled by individual companies now.

For it to become decentralized, the code used to generate the indecies needs to be public, the state of the indecies at any given time needs to become public and verified by some cryptographic hash, and the software that serves results based on such incecises need to have a way of agreeing on incidies at any given time such that if an index someone searches against is modified, anyone would be able to tell that the server that served the result is byzantine from the network.

I can imagine, as an naive example, compressed tf-idf matricies that correspond to a given hash for search indecies and search interactions (what data the software tracks when someone does a look up against it or wants to increment a weight of anything in the indecies) and gossiped to other connected servers over some time interval, which can verify that at x time, the index was y and the weights matrix was z.

> The ability to anonymize up and down weights probably will make spammy results worse.

Not if the cost in doing so gets more expensive over time for any given result.

> Anyone can make a payment to promote their site for a topic which is equivalent to demoting someone else's.

This process isn't formalized across search indecies, each company that makes one has their own rules, and what the exact rules are at each time delta is not clear to users of search engines. And all rely upon easily censorable financial systems.

> what would be the motivation to help maintain indices that help some one else's web search business?

People or companies running the software could collect fees to maintain the distributed search engine. If they modify the code to the degree it operates outside of the how consensus is defined in the code others are running, other nodes could block that node and their fees could be blocked as defined in their code.
I was this way. Then I realized it’s a work culture thing. Is the team culture accepting of each other the way they look and the surroundings they are in? I’ve been part of 2 teams since the start of the pandemic and I’ve experienced both sides.

1- where my manager would visibly get annoyed at the slightest auditory or visual disturbance. He wouldn’t say anything but it was clear he was displeased to see kids in the background.

2- we all accepted each other (except this one person who didn’t understand that people with kids have different issues to deal with). My kids would barge in through the door and my team mates would wave to them, smile and continue our conversation. We’d all joke about how our shower times are all messed up so we don’t look “presentable” and yet we’d turn on our cameras because we liked seeing each other.

My current perspective is that the team culture has a big bearing of comfort level on videos.
Only if Edge took Gecko instead of Blink...

Apple isn't Google's friend and Mozilla depends on Google, so didn't look like split browser engine camp.
I don't think tobacco companies knew 100 years ago. The data didn't really become conclusive until something like the 50s. There absolutely was a consensus in the 20s and 30s that cigarettes were not harmful.
raises eyebrows
Well yeah, that's how politics works. When you are elected, you are a power broker.

Most single-issue parties fail precisely because they don't want to broker power, they just want to get the one thing they're angry about out of the way. Most people are expecting the party they vote for to have an answer on every issue imaginable, and merely shrugging your shoulders and saying "I was elected to legalize copyright infringement, not to decide what our external immigration policy should be" is not an option. If you don't play power broker, you do not get your agenda done.
I am not 100% sure about the law in CA, but here in NM all the meters could do is check that you do not exceed the water rights associated with the property. Every piece of land has some amount of water rights (possibly zero), and you cannot be prevented from obtaining that much water from the land via wells. In most of the US west, the water you pull from groundwater reserves very much is yours as long as you do not exceed your alloted water rights.

None of which helps with establishing the actual cost of the water.

Granted, the situation with the CA and AZ irrigation projects is somewhat different, since the water arrives on your land thanks to a massive federal government project. In this case, while it might not be accurate, determining and defining some sort of price is feasible.
The specs of the two switches could be the Mikrotik CRS305 and the CSS610.

Probably less than 20W under load (assuming DAC or SFP+ SR Multimode). My setup has a CRS309 (8 SFP+) and CSS610, and it's 12W with almost all ports active (though not much load).
https://www.duckware.com/tech/wifi-in-the-us.html
By this metric, X-rays move faster than light.
> That’s the plan, yes.

Just to clarify, the plan is to stop developing?

> Japan, Singapore, and Korea can get richer than France or Spain, but they still get lumped in with the other non-white people in “the global south.”

Global south/north divide lumps SK, SG and JP into the north. I have a bigger problem with it putting Russia there, but not e.g. Argentina.

Besides, note how the term "developed" sounds like it has an objective, final and fixed definition, but always invites moving goalposts. Now you use some financial metric. Tomorrow someone uses education levels or democracy.

**

The truth is that everybody should keep developing, and development can entail different things to different people. If you say "I'm developed, and that other person is developing", "we are good, but they are not good yet", all you get is resentment when in fact you want global cooperation.

"Developedness" is a vague, subjective measure that indicates duck all except hubris on the part of whoever coined the term (not coincidentally, that was developed countries).

A vague measure warrants a vague term. "Global South" is far from perfect, but it is less bad. It is obviously geographically inaccurate, which on a meta level is quite fitting.

I don't think I could ever use either term without air quotes, but at least with global south they are more or less implied.
CUDA.jl apparently uses Julia‘s GC to free up GPU resources, see https://cuda.juliagpu.org/stable/usage/memory/
“C57BL/6 mice were exposed to 835 MHz RF-EMF at a specific absorption rate (SAR) of 4.0 W/kg for 5 hours/day during 12 weeks.”

That’s a pretty high exposure?
Ask HN: R/C Car Batteries
Have remote-controlled-car's batteries gotten better, more durable, during the last couple of decades?

I mean the toy kind.
Does google have enthusiasm for anything anymore other than ads and search? Maybe cloud services? I would be afraid to use anything but open source tools on their cloud service given the kill rate they have for products...
Here's the thing though—if I want one of those books that the library removed from their collection, I can do some research and track down a copy from another source.

On iOS, there is no other source. Once Apple removes an app from their store, that's it—unless you bought it already, it's gone forever, no recourse.
What size production run is that? $18k is a lot for a hobby project but sure seems cheap to have your own custom ICs fabricated. It's definitely well within the realms of things you could crowdsource with a few moderately well off individuals.
The fruits we eat today are also highly selectively-bred to be very large and sweet. Take a look at a modern banana compared to a wild-type banana [1]. Same goes for watermelon [2].

[1] https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5e20f576d0e9d12be5abc763/5e3...

[2] https://i.insider.com/56ce1de88a45651707ff60c9?width=1190
A Wireless Intrusion Detection System for 802.11 WPA3 Networks (2021)
I used to see the SAR in phone specs, but not anymore. I guess our phone is less stuck to our head since the smartphones?
Still the state of the art, bypassing folly and the swisstables on parallel benchmarks.

And even on single threaded workloads it's about 10x faster than std::unordered_map. My smhasher has benchmark tables.
Lost all of my WhatsApp messages when moving from android to iPhone. This would have been nice if I still ajay that android phone.
Why would you use PPP in this case? PPP makes sense only for individuals spending their money.
I used to write a lot of performance-optimized server code in Java. Even with heroic effort, it is difficult to make the JVM perform even half as fast as not-that-optimized C or C++ -- other languages I wrote the same kinds of code in. And highly optimized C++ is many times higher throughput than the JVM equivalent on the same hardware, pretty much always. The reasons why are well-understood technically.

This cannot be blamed entirely on the GC. The JVM makes many other choices which make optimization difficult, and its original theories about what is important for optimization haven't stood up over time. It was not designed to be performant, just good enough for most applications that are not that performance sensitive. Programming languages often have many objectives and priorities aside performance. I use Python quite a lot and it is usually much slower than the JVM.
> bottom-up neuroscience approaches are starting to reach the levels useful to psychological conditions

Interesting, do you know of anywhere I can go to read more about this?
I am not disagreeing with your points. I was just trying to point out the consensus can be wrong and the consensus can change.

The problem I have with this is they will almost certainly allow things that contradict the consensus. Let's say the consensus is like 2C increase in 50 years. If somebody says it will actually be 3C they would be contradicting the consensus but probably would be allowed the ad. If somebody says it will only increase 1C they would probably not be able to sell an ad.
Wi-Fi de-authentication attacks and prevention using 802.11w or WPA3 (2020)
How Nix and NixOS get so close to perfect