skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A computer used for a single task is a bit like a 4WD truck that only stays inside the city limits. It could do those things, sure, but it never does, so it hasn't really proven anything.

Not really. That's very different from a very application specific hardware+software being used for the exact purpose vs a very general purpose hardware+software being used for all sorts of things.

It's more like using a F1 car to race vs taking your average sporty car to a race track.

Sure that F1 car will race better, but at the end of the day you can't drive home in it or move kids/groceries around in it.
I send you a file over HTTP and then I send you an SMS with the sha256 hash that you can verify

Even if SMS are "easy" to intercept, even if I send you an email with the SHA256, using a side channel greatly improve security, unless you're being targeted on multiple channels, which is quite uncommon.

For the same reason, even an MD5 hash is good enough most of the times. Even if it's been proven not secure years ago, it's secure enough to trust that in the general case the odds of generating the same hash while also creating something that is not simply broken, but it's malicious, are very, very low and require effort.

the point is: HTTPS still relies on trusting things we can't control and we will probably never control.

We are forced to trust HTTPS because there is nothing more we can do.

> But I'd rather not make that even harder by allowing basically anyone to intercept and modify the code that uMatrix is sending at any time.

But the reality is that it is hardly "everyone"

a MITM must be, by definition, in the middle.

Debian survived for decades delivering their packages over HTTP
Just like DRM, TC and many more, it's about keeping vendors in power.

The ones being sandboxed is the user.
Raising could be challenging now due to current circumstances. Hiring I’ve never found that hard, and you can hire people for sales (and learn the basics yourself).
In come the downvotes because facebook = bad meme
> "Most banks lose money on servicing a standard checking account with debit card for people with no cash flow issues."

that's simply not true. the marginal cost of a checking account is on the order of a dollar. the breakeven on that is on the order of holding (and otherwise using) a deposit of a $100 for a month or two. banks are not losing money on the balance of their checking deposits in any conceivable way.

that's a just-so story told and retold uncritically to convince the gullible that fees are "necessary". they're not. they're pure profit, and borne of pure greed. no bank requires fees to function profitably.
Red Dead Redemption 2 is perfect for this
Turn it up and down when you come and go? In my opinion all those features are a catastrophe in that your body will end up being in your house at the wrong time or your clothing will be warmer or hotter than typical or your spouse will, and you will want to play with the temp anyways and end up fiddling with things to get it right. The learning thermostats try to solve this, but it’s at great cost and complexity and experiences vary and habits change.
Yeah, I imagine a challenge would be making a second really fun game in a different genre from the first. The different 'games' would probably have to be relatively lightweight and lean into the fact that it's the interaction that is the fun part. Having a space MMO developer somehow land a super popular AAA FPS would be near impossible. I like how the battlefield games let you fly airplanes, but then it's not really a full blow flight simulator.
You have to chuck it in the bin and buy a new one, obviously. That's the state of the startphone world today, if you want to keep up on security updates
I think Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg is probably the better book, especially for the Hacker News crowd. There's an extraordinary precision and simplicity to Fogg's book, not only in the writing and presentation of the material, but also in his underlying model of human behavior. Also, there are some really helpful techniques in Tiny Habits that are missing from Atomic Habits.
Postal banking would be a good solution. It would allow the post office to offer basic banking services for folks like this that can't access it at commercial institutions.
>If the project is ultimately approved, the tunnel could be built in a matter of months, according to the company.

Any reason they can't add a hyper slow , like 8 mile an hour tram.

Micro public transit like this could revolutionize cities
Ah memories
Making macOS Behave Itself
Imba 2 does have some level of support for SSR/hydration, but I haven't used those features myself.
ObXKCD - https://xkcd.com/632/#chatbot
Braid [0] might (or might not) cover both itches. It's a 2D puzzle-platformer with time rewinding as its core puzzling mechanic.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/26800/Braid/
What more would you expect of a browser plugin?
Elusive People. Supposed to be released next year by Chibig.
Thanks for the insight. Quite a few things in here I need to read up on.

My naïve thought is some "common high level language" would talk down to the Verilog/VHDL or whatever the FPGA language is and hopefully that is dynamic/modifiable on runtime but doesn't seem to be so.
It's a good point, a 2nd hand market assumes the availability of a cost effective battery replacement or serious maintenance scheme... it's not exactly on the same scale as a cam belt change which is the common todo upon acquiring a 2nd hand petrol car.

Also worth acknowledging that the battery makes up a huge chunk of the car both physically and in terms of cost, and yet is a consumable, so I guess this lowers the resale value of EVs significantly? I wonder if it's even worth any of the remaining savings on the rest of the car after fitting a new battery. Maybe the next stage is scaling up lithium-ion recycling to drive down battery replacement and general battery cost to a point that "everyone else" can join in the EV game.

It would be a big step backwards for society if a new wealth gap is created when oil becomes too expensive to continue running cheap ICE cars and only moderately wealthy people can afford cars priced exclusively at "new" values without a 2nd hand market.
An evolution simulator that can simulate a 3+ layer food chain, both animals and plants. With enough degrees of evolutionary freedom for evolved organisms to surprise and delight.

I took a crack at it about a decade ago. It's hard. Was able to get 2 stable layers for hours (maybe a "season" in game time), but over a long enough period the population always became fairly homogenous.
> I would not be happy if I suddenly had to by several of these tokens, carry them around, and potentially manually swap them out, since many current ones only hold 25 keys or so.

This is not how FIDO2 works. It uses the same key but it generates a different derivative for every site. There is no limit on how many sites you can use it on. And the derivative is different for each site, so you can't hijack an authentication session and use it for another site. It's pretty well designed.

> I wonder if something simpler wouldn't be possible, that didn't involve storing keys on-chip, or storing them in encrypted form on the host.

It is possible, but this is a weakness because you have the key in more than one place. Having it only inside the token is what makes the token unique. But Apple and Google are working on something like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31272867

But personally I prefer the physical keys. And no it doesn't require browser storage.
I hope they do that with non-cloud voice recognition

My family tried an Echo Auto for voice control in one of our cars last year, but we ended up disconnecting it.

We drive through hills and mountains often, and it was common for voice commands to be ignored or to have seconds in latency because of spotty mobile network.

It worked OK in cities, as long as you were not on an underground parking lot, which was a common occurrence.
FWIW: I think most members of the LDS church have a good sense of humor for things like this done in good taste, even if they're not 100% representative of their beliefs.

source: am one myself. This is true for the other members around me as well (friends, family, etc)
“solutionism”

"Touch Screens in Cars Solve a Problem We Didn't Have" Jay Caspian Kang, NYT May 23 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/23/opinion/touch-screens-car...
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Sure, but the argument was that there is a demand from the general public/customers, and that's clearly not the case.
I still wish smartphones had physical PgUp/PgDn buttons. Much easier on the thumbs when you do a lot of scrolling.
I feel like having the fine china in your house is a flex, like you're saying "my home is so big I have space to fill it with a bunch of dishware I never use." From my vantage point today it seems as if status symbols were a much bigger deal back then. I considered getting rock countertops for my kitchen at one point, but I realized that a) I don't actually care if my countertops are plastic and b) none of my friends care either. Same with fine china- it wouldn't actually impress anyone very much. The biggest flex you could make in the present day would be to tell your friends that your college debts were paid off.
The game you're looking for is final fantasy 14. The first like 100-200 hours of content is free as well so go take a look.
You are not wrong. Bill Gates is the hero of his own story, but the villain in millions of others. I mean this as a joke (or do I?) but the service Larry Ellison provides by the barrel and Steve Balmer provides by the glass is keeping Bill Gates from being the biggest bastard currently living (I gather that the Carnegies or Rockefellars were not great people half the time either). As a certain defrocked comedian used to say, they're old and they're trying to buy their way into heaven.
Diablo 3. Not the abomination that exists today, but one made by the actual creators of the first 2 games; one that actually matches the look and feel of the franchise.
Age of Empires but in the browser.

No install. Only web technology.
Easy multi-player
Possibility to do Massive Multiplayer (100s) or just 2 or 3
Either blitz game (couple of hours max) or persistent
There are two separate questions under consideration here.

One is the capabilities of commercial general aviation air travel in terms of total elapsed travel time.

The second is the general commercial utilisation of air travel.

In the case of the first, advances in aircraft speed have been all but entirely offset by increased frictions in other parts of the air transport system. 2014 travel between NYC and Chicago is only barely faster than it was over 80 years ago. Moreover, aircraft speed is flat or declining since the late 1950s and the introduction of jet-powered aircraft.

The cost side is based on economics and other factors. In part, it is a question of both supply and demand. Costs have fallen through technological efficiencies; jet engines of today are roughly as efficient as propellor engines of the 1950s, not merely faster as was initially the case. They've also fallen through nonaeronotical advances: more efficient booking, higher seating utilisation, tighter seating spacing, and the like.

Statista's data extend only to 2007. Gordon gives data to the 1940s.

Among the big surprises to me a few years back was that peak avaiation fuel (at least through the mid-2010s) had occurred by 2000. Total passenger miles increased, but only through much higher load factors.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1wo2hl/boeings... (Search for "aviation fuel usage data".)

http://www.faa.gov/data_research/aviation/aerospace_forecast...

Gordon's data show inflation-adjusted passenger price per mile as essentially flat since 1990. Given miles travelled is a function of price per mile ... a similar relationship holds. Rise and Fall, p. 401.
Apparently Bruno has been talking about two orders of magnitude improvement to Centaur V's duration. Seems far fetched to me, but I think months of duration would be necessary to make this engine worthwhile (the PDF is talking about the value of this engine for getting astronauts home from Mars quickly in emergencies; that would only be possible with months of duration at least I think.)

DARPA says they're expecting designs using liquid hydrogen, and as far as I understand liquid hydrogen would be the most efficient propellant for an NTR. What might the best storable alternative be?
> I don't think that there has ever been a better multiplayer FPS.

100%

Tribes 2 should have been "THE" early 00's FPS to play. Instead, it was Halo, a game that I insist did not introduce ANYTHING new to the FPS genre, yet people went crazy for.
I'm crashing at my parents atm (including my family).

Counted 10 chairs in one room - they are couple of 70 year olds that never have guests.

7 mops in bathroom. About 20 huge bowls in one of kitchen drawers.

I'm just trying to offload the excess to some storage to make their (and mine) lives easier, but oh boy.
And agree to accept the nag screen before the car will start.

Soon:

“You need to return the call from your mom before the car will start for home.” Etc.
I'm planning on making the game I wish existed! Basically it would be an RPG with characters in every town that had their own AI -- every time you played a new game, the characters would start a different life. They could fall in love with different characters, live, die, have children, give you quests... but different every time. As you interact with them you would change their destinies, of course. Or even your non-action would do so.
The key is to have your characters work while you work. Kind of like EVE Online.

In an MMO that behaves like a true virtual world, characters shouldn’t just disappear just because you log off. They should carry on in virtual lives making progress for you so you can log in during the interesting bits of their lives and do fun stuff.
Maybe you'd be surprised then. There are many consumer credit operations in the EU, operating under GDPR.
the EQS is like 2000lbs more than a Model 3 - you should compare its efficiency to a similarly sized Model S.

Comparing the mileage of cars that are sized wildly different is kind've pointless.
I used to enjoy adventure games of the 90s. For some reason companies aren’t making these anymore. I’d like a new Monkey Island release.
I have found a game that seems close to release:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1523650/Stargate_Timekeep...
Tilling is a commercial ag practice obviously but is generally damaging to soil. Familiarize yourself with the whys behind "no till farming."
Thief, but updated with 2022 technology, but also actually good unlike the recent Thief remake that people hated.
Maybe the volume button could be used for this
Yeah I've never used Combine and I've written a decent amount of SwiftUI. My impression is that Swift Concurrency is the future and will slowly get more and more adoption in the APIs.
I think you have confused a feature for a bug.

Correct in that the Electoral College is not a full Republic, that is no the intent, nor is it desired.

There should always be a mix of power, power for the people, and power for the States. the Electoral College attempts to balance that by granting 2 Votes for every state no matter the population, then granting another amount of votes based on population. The 2 votes representing the state (i.e the Senate which was originally the states Representatives in Congress), and Equal number of votes to representatives in Congress, (i.e the People)

In this way both "stakeholders" the States and the People are represented in the federal government
I don't find that to be a rude question at all.

I love being a polyglot dev and I love learning and using different programming languages, frameworks, and app platforms. The issue I have is with learning redundant frameworks that don't actually give me more power.

To continue berating ORMs, I am in charge of several different projects at work that communicate with SQL databases. The set of programming languages that span these projects is: Kotlin, PHP, Rust, and JavaScript (being phased out). I love getting to switch between these languages (just not too frequently, lest the context switching kills my brain), and I feel like it helps me to see the strengths and flaws in each, and it's just really fun to find effective patterns in each.

Whether I use an ORM in all or none of those projects, I'm going to have to be competent with SQL. But if I decided to use an ORM for all four, I'd have to learn five different ways to get data in and out of our databases. Rather than learning four redundant, incomplete, data retrieval "languages" that sit on top of SQL, I rather learn... almost anything else.

I have used lots of ORMs: The Symfony one for PHP whose name I can't recall, Magento's weird one for PHP, Hibernate (Java), Sequelize (JavaScript), and a few others in other languages. They all have subtle issues. And they are "issues" and not just different design choices- I'll never ever accept that Hibernate/JPA/JDBC returning a `(int) 0` when it encounters a null result from a nullable integer SQL value is anything short of lunacy when Java has a native null value. And they all have stupid things like that. Learning those gotchas, bugs, abstraction leaks, performance problems, etc, is not the fun kind of learning for me- it's just tedious and frustrating.

So, to bring it back to SwiftUI, I love that I manage an iOS app. I like learning about how iOS works, and I like working with Swift. It's still required that we know how to use UIKit APIs for non-trivial stuff, so why would I learn SwiftUI (and its problems and gotchas) so that I can do 75% of my work with SwiftUI and 25% with UIKit APIs? It's possible that it would make me an even better iOS dev, but I doubt it (at this point). I think my time is better spent learning something that will allow me to accomplish tasks with computers that I don't already know how to do.
You might find Morrowind kind of interesting, especially if you install some of the extensive graphics mods (such as the crazy shader ones to make it look a lot better) since it's fairly old at this point. As an older Elder Scrolls game, you get a lot of the world stuff, but this was before them switched to a more FPS type interface, so swinging a blade doesn't guarantee a hit.

Using the OpemMW engine, I guess they have multiplayer and VR support now. No idea how well it will work out, but it might be fun to try.
Apple VP discourages retail workers from joining a union in leaked video
Be gentle with me: wasn't there a link between 2 banks (?) in maybe the Netherlands based on quantum cryptography decades ago? Perhaps my addled brain misremembers
It is working on Safari 14 on iPad.

Not trying to contradict TheRealNGenius, just hoping to put some bounds on what works and what doesn’t. Perhaps there was a fix in Safari 14 that allows this but was broken in 13. I don’t have access to an older Safari to test against.
Studio Ghibli's 'Kiki's Delivery Service' as an open-world game whereupon you actually hop on your broomstick and have to deliver parcels to individuals across the village where she lives.

Think a 'crazy taxi' RPG where you fly to deliver parcels instead of passengers.

You would have to deal with issues like weather conditions, weight vs. travel time; and occasionally race against competing witches.

It's honestly a 'take my money' situation - I've considered doing it as a fan game, but I would need a small team, and of course we wouldn't be able to profit from it. I'd ultimately love to see it adopted into even a mobile game.
Zettelkasten, linking your thinking, and Nick Milo's search for ground
This is very important.

Having cleared out 3 parents and a grandparents house, it gives a very stark vision of the destiny of my "stuff". Simply, the bulk of it is going into a landfill.

I have no children, I don't think anyone is really going to be interested much in the pictures of my cats. Or my family. Or my parents. Or any of it.

So, long term, it's all for naught. No museum for us, no trust to maintain an estate for strangers to pay tickets and walk through to take photos for their homes.

But that doesn't mean tossing it away now. Or ever. I'd like to hope I pass surrounded by my home and memories, rather than a sterile empty box already conveniently cleaned out for whoever becomes my estate administrator (whether it's a friend, or some complete stranger).

That said, if you have a collection of anything you deem of value, and you care that it does not end up in a landfill, you'd be wise to distribute it yourself while you can. Otherwise those years of Slurpee cups, Pez dispensers, collectible cereal boxes, etc. will not be cared for properly.

I see this all the time on vintage computer forums. Someone with an estate of stuff they "think" is "worth something" and want to dispose of. Meanwhile, there's always some young Indy posting "that belongs in a museum!" and "don't sell it to those vultures on eBay, they'll just part it out!".

"Well, perhaps, but if it's not out of the house by Friday, it's going to a landfill."

When clearing out an estate house, most people don't have a lot of time to do it, much less deal with it properly. It's one thing if your loved one is nearby, but quite different if you live far away. I had to clear out my fathers house. I live on the West Coast, he lived on the East Coast. There were a lot of mementos in there, things that have been part of my entire life. I even found the TRS-80 that I cut my teeth on in high school, but boxing it up, shipping it home, just wasn't practical.

I had a service come in, we cleared it out, I took the important papers and a few nicknacks. The rest they hauled off to auction, and that was that. I was done in 2 days and on a plane home. Just a stark reality.

So, anyway, keep your stuff. Enjoy it. Get more stuff if that suits you. Clutter is its own thing, and thats different. Just know that at some point, someone is going to come along and most of those things will be meaningless to them, and they'll treat it that way.

Another example. There is a house in Pasadena, the Gamble House. Craftsman home to nth degree, very well preserved. Visitors look upon it in wonder today (I certainly did). The key point is that it's not like this was the only house done like this. Several houses were done, by "important figures" in the field: architects, artisans, etc.

But, in the end, those houses were sold to...people who wanted a house. A roof, kitchen, bed and bathrooms. They weren't looking for a museum, or an art piece. Many of those houses were torn down, remodeled, etc. "OH NO!" some may exclaim, but, that's just the truth of it. Like movie makers crashing classic cars, people view things differently.

It's just a house, they're just cars.
Swift is very strict. Objective-C lets you get away with more. E.g. optionals in Swift are kind of annoying. if let, guard let, blah blah blah. I like Swift more than Obj-C, but Obj-C is a fine language in its own right. Definitely easier to write once you get a hang of the notation. Swift may have a more familiar syntax, but it forces you to think about more things when writing code.
If I understand the charts correctly, they are excess deaths per 100k people.

It would be also be interesting to see excess mortality as a percent of baseline mortality. This would go a long way to address demographic differences between countries.

Looking at Sweden alone, it appears that the baseline mortality rate is 901/100k. Based on this, 50 excess deaths would be about a 5.5% spike.
Every other company on the planet seems to go with the 'screw the current loyal users, let's offer great deals for new customers only' model. One company finally does it the other way and you complain. This is the way every company should operate.
Would this enable calligraphy style gradation of color within a stroke? Would love to see a font that has very subtle black level shifts.
anyone remember the web version at good ol' flamingtext.com/tools/figlet? rip