skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original scope that started this thread was "a quick edit". The claim is (or seems to be) that it is not too much friction to require a ticket for everything, which would necessarily include these small edits. That's stupid and will discourage small edits, which is bad, is what people are saying here.

> Do you want an engineer every standup saying 'im working on documentation' without any accountability?

Yes? It isn't any of my business, unless I'm that person's manager, in which case I'll certainly use my 1:1 with that engineer to understand what the documentation changes they're making are all about, and if it seems like a poor use of time then I'll give them a nudge. But if I'm anyone else in this situation, I'll certainly mind my own business.
The goal should be to know what you don’t know, because you can’t ask questions about the things you don’t know that you don’t know.

So forgetting is ok, as long as you remember that there was something extra the next time you meet the same problem.
In my experience, a lot of these people (mayor's, etc) are huge transit nerds. The problem is getting the citizens and budget behind it.
Hi all,

My name is Devine, and I'm to blame for the uxn disaster.. I'm getting this link thrown at me from all sides right now, so I figured I might as well chip in.

I'm a bit more on the design-y side of things, and all these fancy words to talk about computers and retro computing, are a bit beyond me, and reference an era of computing which I didn't really had a chance to experience first hand.

But let's talk about "the uxn machine has quite the opposite effect, due to inefficient implementations and a poorly designed virtual machine, which does not lend itself to writing an efficient implementation easily."

This is meaningful to me and I'd love to have your opinion on this. Before setting on the journey to build uxn, I looked around at the options that were out there, that would solve our specific problems, and I'd like to know what you would recommend.

Obviously, I take it that the author is not advocating that we simply return to Electron, and I take it they understand that re-compiling C applications after each change is not viable with our setup, that Rust is manyfolds too slow for us to make any use of it, and that they understand that our using Plan 9, C is not a good candidate for writing cross-compatible(libdraw) applications anyway.

So, what should we have done differently?

I'm genuinely looking for suggestions, even if one suggestion might not be compatible with our specific position, many folks come to us asking for existing solutions in that space, and I would like to furnish our answers with things I might have not tried.

Here are some directions we tried prior to Uxn:

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/devlog.html

Ah, one last thing, this is how you fib the first 65k shorts in uxntal:

https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/uxn/blob/main/projects/examples/e...
> The only downside of working with them is going home and looking in the mirror and wondering why you can't match their pace.

One could imagine a society expending not insignificant proportion of GDP on R&D towards human cognitive enhancement. Same society could allow anyone to volunteer for the corresponding enhancement programs.

If one starts to ponder why we don't live in such a society, one is led to reconsider major incentives governing our public sphere and key institutions.

I don't think in the end there is a rational excuse for obvious lack of government-led or private-funded research into nootropics, neurophysiology of exceptionally bright individuals, and non-therapeutic gene therapy. The amount of research done so far is laughable, compared to obvious transformative impact in case of a breakthrough. As a "tech worker" and as a taxpayer I have to admit that the current nexus of large-scale sociopolitical trends is aggressively coercing me to spend my individual and very limited peak of energy, competence, intelligence and willpower towards advancing mostly deadbeat goals of the attention economy.

The small (in absolute terms) fundamental physical difference between the best and merely good enough should not be an insurmountable abyss we take it for.

I don't want to be a 2x engineer for your corporate monstrosity or yet another fast-growing CRUD app. I want to be a 2x engineer putting in meaningful work towards implementing the timeline where anyone, myself included, could become a 10x or a 100x engineer by undergoing affordable and safe gene therapy.
A TV is just a monitor with a TV tuner. Right now, TV tuners and smart features are almost universally found together. But if you are using an external video source (especially if it's not OTA tv in the first place, so you don't need a tuner), you can just use a monitor (or “commercial display”), instead of a “TV”.
I thought that SQLlite databases are not suitable for large multi user websites. Something got to do with only being able to handles one transaction at a time. Isn’t that right?
The problem with this one is you need to be sure wherever you park, you aren't going to get towed. Once I learned my school wouldn't tow, I parked in the staff lots fairly frequently. The ticket * citation rate was low enough that it only cost a little more than student parking; but there was a lot more of it so it was always easy to park (and closer to my destination). (And, at the time, my school had over-sold student parking, was renovating a major student lot, and had rented out another major lot to nearby businesses.)
Corrected. thanks
In private conversation my PCP will express concerns about the vaccines that she steadfastly refuses to share with most patients for fear of professional repercussions. You are operating from an assumption ("the institutions of authority are healthy and aligned with the imperative of finding and disseminating the truth") which I don't share.
I'm really sickened after reading this thread that the basic answer here is, "no."
Macs have a hibernate option that completely powers the machine off after saving the contents of RAM to disk, but you need to set it via the terminal. Find the current hibernate mode via: pmset -g

The default is hibernatemode 3 (RAM stays powered on until battery drops below some threshold, so that wake from sleep is very fast).

The version of “hibernate” you want is mode 25: sudo pmset -a hibernate mode 25

If you routinely keep your computer 'hibernating' for days at a time without plugging it in, you’ll save some battery life this way at the expense of a slower wake-up time because RAM is not kept powered.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pmset for more details.

> Safari is optimized for power consumption relative to Chrome and Firefox

This is a very big difference. Chrome has zero respect for battery life.
Facts are majority of poor country own more to west cumulative and have greater strategic support. Including near unanimous ME who depends on US security architecture. It costs nothing to defect from PRC but they still CHOOSE to endorse antiterrorisn because that's the most relevant lens. CCP money is stupid cope argument to deny countries with their own agency, again reflected in global south not giving a fuck about RU. They see through about liberal order propaganda. Most countries are much more suborn to US/west pressure but still collectively endorse PRC position becauce the leadership wants what PRC is selling, a securitization system that eliminates radicalism.

>more humane than indiscriminate bombin

Of course. In 50 years Iraq will likely still be a secretarian shithole that haven't fully recovered from US destruction. Meanwhile in the the past 7 years of XJ securitization alone, XJ infra has improved dramatically, and within a generation the kids will be properly sinicized to particpate in broader PRC society/economy. Of course there's still going to be Uyghurs in PRC in 50 years, for the sinmple reason that reducing recognized ethnics groups from 56 to 55 to look bad. They'll certainly have a relatively better existence than indigenous peoples in North America post cultural genocide.

>rich Hanzu in Shanghai

Meanwhile majority of PRC not hard locked down thinks it's was overdue for shanghai to get a taste of the XJ medicine for trying to deviate from zero covid in the first place. Did we forget Wuhan bitterness subsided in relatively short time when they realized how fucked the rest of world handled covid. Right now that's seeing the shitshow of living with covid on TW with their "fancy" mRNA vax.
As a counterpoint I got omicron in Jan and it was extremely mild. One day of fever and fatigue and I was back to normal. No lingering effects at all. I honestly think the hysteria over long covid is rather harmful in of itself, because now you have a lot of people with a sort of placebo effect. For instance, feeling tired and ascribing that to a permanent affliction of long covid rather than the 3 hours of sleep you got last night.
Because they are beautiful and just work.
Apple is really big into custom proprietary WiFi protocols (see also: AirDrop). So while AirPlay was originally limited to the local network, it now also apparently works over WiFi direct - and presumably that requires some sort of WiFi scan, in turn requiring the radio to switch channels which causes latency to tank.
I get some regrets but realize its a choice and each path has benefits and drawbacks. I've missed loads of family, the big holiday house, my father is getting old, my childhood friends. I miss the lifestyle and culture. I dont feel American, my kids do though. I thought I'd move back after a few decades but now see that the children never will, which makes it another tough choice. My career here has been great, if it wasn't in a highly paid area I'd never stay.
Nicer formatting and styling: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...
I support ad blocking on Wikipedia. ;)

Don't give them a dime.

They're worse than Encyclopedia Britannica door-to-door salespeople.
Same here. I still play a lot of old games.
Or maybe she can get a new number just for registering on whatsapp and keep the sim around if she needs to re-register. I don't belive I have ever had to re-register unless I changed devices. Although, I think that might be circumventing the ban and should be pretty trivial to detect and might get banned again.
I'd put it differently. We know that the vaccine absolutely saved millions of lives. Covid directly killed millions of people plus the millions more who have life-long complications from it.

The vaccine is like any substance that goes into our bodies, it might have complex interactions with the functioning of the body, just as is true for the foods we eat, the things we encounter in our environment, even aspirin was recently reconsidered as a general thing to take daily. The vaccine has been extensively tested and now we have real world testing with billions of doses given that it is extremely safe.

It's hard for people to talk about any potential concerns because of the huge number of people fixated on the fact that it could have other effects (like every single medicine in the world) who constantly make bad faith arguments (you have some sickness and got the vaccine and thus they claim the "obvious" connection). People had difficult to diagnose things like chronic fatigue syndrome before there was ever a covid vaccine and we don't understand those either.
Why Most LED Headlight Upgrades Don't Work: An Expert Explains (2020)
If you live in the UK a Freeview USB stick might do what you want, e.g. https://www.amazon.co.uk/August-Freeview-Tuner-Stick-DVB-T20...
Why does the size of the company matter?
I think this is kind of their point. If you're starting out, you may not need to meet the same considerations as a "large multi user website". So you don't get stuck trying to do that - you start with what you need (appropriately) and adjust down the line.

It is hard to do right.
You find it surprising that an American author and book editor don't read or speak German?

I'm guessing the author remembered the word incorrectly and wrote it down that way. It's not hard to transpose two letters when you don't know the language.
Who's to say they don't already have multiple accounts? Surely being able to see at least a portion of their activity on a known account is better than all activity of their activity being anonymous.
Uh oh, I think I've used this data in exams before. At first glance, I don't buy this study.

So the deal is, there is a long-running german omnibus survey which is (was?) administered face to face. It includes interviewer assessed and self-reported beauty. Those two correlate, though not perfectly.

Now what the paper does (at least the preprint that is publicly accessible on ssrn) is to systematically test beauty against a bunch of dependent variables. Turns out, there is a somewhat stable but weak correlation with the belief that success is earned (vs. luck), and a weak correlation with voting for the german liberals.

However, the entire paper smells of a fishing expedition. There's a ton of linear regressions with many variables, not all of which are very straight-forward predictors. The theoretical link is also somewhat contrived.

So I would be very careful in interpreting this kind of result until someone does a pre-registered replication.

Corrections and comments to this view are highly welcome.
Yeah, I agree, best is to vote with my wallet.

Second best, though, is getting out the soldering iron.
UX isn't an exact science. Google and Microsoft also do studies, with testing and what not. Would you say their UX is perfect?
What I actually suspect is that the move toward drugs legalization in places like Canada and experiments with decriminalization of cocaine and heroin are a way to normalize using electronic payments (e.g. interac) for those black market goods, which brings them into the fold of centralized economic control and removes a key use case for cash. However the liberalization is a trap intended to set the stage for CBDCs, as once cash is fully marginalized, what will you pay in when the people in the govt change their mind about legalization?

Forget drugs for a moment, what about meat, gas, ammunition, and other normal things that are being reclassified as decadent luxuries you apparently don't "need," or "deserve," according to whoever "they" are. It's not enough for them to live virtuously according to their values, they need to police you first, and fly around in private jets while they do it. Seeing the institutions behind identity, government, and payments from the inside has persuaded me that the conspiracy theorists are just people in denial of what they have discovered, because they can't face the consequences of how serious it really all is. The architects of this don't care what anyone believes, they just need for members of any potential resistance to keep doing nothing to stop it. For good men to do nothing, as they say.

Cryptocurrencies were and remain necessary beacuse they represent a limit on state power in an era of previously unimaginable total surveillance tech, and this limit makes leviathanists and technocrats apopleptic. That's also why the arguments against crypto always seem to have a shrill whinge of cant about them - as they're based on accusations of blasphemy against the pillars of offical technocratic narrative, and the arguments themselves aren't powerful or persuasive.

Not only do we need cryptocurrencies, we need to establish boundaries on the dominion of people in governments, as without those boundaries, we're in for a totalitarian hell not even fiction could prepare us for, imo.
The AppleTV he recommended to use in its place has ads too I believe, through sponsored app placements.
Really? Wow. That's a lawsuit waiting to happen.

No way would I sign, and they'd fix it, or see me in court.

And not rich guy wins US court, but Canadian court. And yeah, it's different.
I was just like you, and still am haha.

I loved PowerPC, and was very hopeful for PA Semi. They took it in a different, but still interesting direction.
Sources for claims would be appreciated.
Why is it ironic that the Author of the book would like to profit from his labors?
Yet the autopilot system chose to only warn the drivers 1 second before impact, which is basically no time at all to react to anything.

So if those 8 seconds of "autopilot ain't too sure" actually exist, then the car needs to signal that to the driver so the driver can be ready to take over.

The fact it still doesn't do that, speaks volumes about the kind of "progress" Tesla seems to be making, none of it good.
>they can go back to China

Why? PRC nationalist paid ~50K for the right to play campus idpol. US free to reduce enrollment of PRC students or academic exchanges. They're already shutting down Confucius Institutes. But if US wants to braindrain PRC talent, they're going to have to deal with the diasphora drama (like they do every other beefing groups), because they lost the soft power to convince PRC students CCP bad.

>something less wrong

Well within CCP framework, Sinicizing XJ is not so much less wrong as more right. It's not contextualized in western "human rights" preoccupation with negative rights, but ensuring positive rights by integrating restive minority into broader economic development so they wouldn't have to cling to destructive religious impulses. Enter reducation, poverty alleviation. Plus entire stopping terrorism thing. That's not even about morality, a government with state capacity to stop such things, will. Political suicide / lose legitimacy otherwise.

>respect

Some ideological chasms are so broad there's really no compromise or respect. You can't "respect" someone alleging your country is committing genocide when you firmly believe it's not. Nor will PRC students get the forum to host "genocide denial" debates on campus. In lieu of that, the response is to react to people whose position abursdly antithetically to theirs with incivility. Groups on campus and in broader society go full stupid over divisive idpol issues all the time, this is simply one that seperates PRC nationalists students with almost everyone else. Like how are they suppose to react when they paid 50k to goto a school that entertains, in their perspective, yellow peril. US/PRC drama means this issue gets much much traction vs other diasphora campus politics, even in places like HN. Chinese students have right to gelopolitical idpol over dumb shit.
That depends on what the cost is to operate legally. In the case of parking, you might find that eating the fines is less expensive than paying for parking; or that they are roughly equal, but the fines are more convenient or have other positive externalities that benefit you.
The fact that we don't have reliable, fully automated parking yet is bizarre. I'd love a solution that automatically parallel parks for me, and a computer with sensors around the vehicle should be able to do a better job. Plus, the problem is of limited scope, and low speed, so you don't have to deal with most of the potential issues and dangers with full self driving on a road.
LIDAR isn’t simpler.
Or maybe use radar or real sensors, again.
The [flagged] [dead] epidemic on HN seems to be going crazy. The number of well formed opinions I’ve seen recently flagged just because they’re out of the HN ideal is crazy
I don't understand why you would hurt your relationship with your current and future employers over such small sums of money.
> During the last decade, several types of software and malware used the DNS protocol for data exchange.

https://resources.infosecinstitute.com/topic/bypassing-secur...
“I flipped a coin and got heads, so the people who say they got tails must be confused”
Sorry :( most of the alternative milk products don't have much fat either. Non-dairy creamer is pretty meh. I think you've got a good thing with embracing your local culture and making angry tradition noises at people that do it wrong, though.
> No, that’s typical software development.

Software that controls multi-thousand pound machines at 70+mph isn't typical, and typical practices don't necessarily apply.
Sorry, typical software development is for a national regulator to find some illegal feature in your website, and then you disable the feature for specific IP ranges or geofenced areas where the regulator's office is? No, I don't think it is.
The lost elegance of computation with Conal Elliott [audio]
The point of the hook statement "You are not a visual learner" in the Veritasium video is not to "disprove the myth that you're a visual learner."

The point is that there's little evidence behind different people having different learning styles, and that in general everyone is every "style".

This implies that vision, in addition to many other sensory modalities, is useful. As you point out, the utility of of 3b1b is in line with this point.
Speaking specifically about Webamp, it is a manual reimplementation in JavaScript. But we did use Wasm as a tool for the music visualizer: https://jordaneldredge.com/blog/speeding-up-winamps-music-vi...
You know why it happened? Because the truth was too scary, too dark to believe. We (Europeans) really believed we did everything not to make WWII break out again. There were many bumps on the way, but we really believed we are evolving, and a war in Europe is unthinkable. So when 2014 came, we preferred to close our eyes. We preferred to believe this is just a minor conflict, and that Ukraine must be partly responsible. And that Putin is a sensible player who will not risk breaking so many connections with the West. We hoped that mutual trade is a kind of guarantee he won't start a war. We were wrong. Everybody was wrong. People who saw it coming were, as you say, realists. But it would be difficult to find such a politician in Europe at that time. Even before 24 February most people were sure it's just a bluff to push for opening Nord Stream 2 faster.
What's with politicians doing the same? Perhaps doctors and pharmacists know better than politicians what medicines should be prescribed to patients.
FYI: that “highway” is a photoshop fake.

Note the pattern of dark heavily driven lanes - that is the most used slow lane copied again and again. See other comment pointing to reddit discussion.
I've tried greenfielding this innovative technique here on HN, it turns out people will defend the world's largest company for a "magic mouse" that needs to be charged upside-down.
The problem is that they aren't afraid enough - otherwise they'd be pushing to bring this pandemic under control.
With movies - especially remakes and adaptations there is additional motivation to see another take on familiar material (I suppose it also works with music and covers).
I personally love to watch adaptations of Count of Monte Cristo - despite same overall story the differences are staggering ( which remainds me and makes me a bit sad that there was no new movie adaptation since Cavieziel one some 20 years ago)
Commercial "social" media and chat apps are allowed to do whatever they want without any reason or process. If people had any sense, they would use subscriber-funded, employee co-op, nonprofit services. "Free" commercial apps aren't free or dependable.
Resources available (fiat and people) for meeting regulatory requirements and the relative burden imposed by regulation. There are regulatory risk and compliance teams (finance specially, but also in other spaces) larger than most startups, with mid to high 8 figure budgets.

Meta can afford meeting regulatory requirements imposed by nation states.
Just be honest when talking about these things. No one knows everything, so people will appreciate the humility as well as the eagerness to adopt new tech.

Keep refreshing HN to keep up to date, but realize any engineer worth his salt can figure out new tech in a week or two. No need to be an expert.

Sometimes, the fate and knowledge of an engineer can be decided by PM ticket assignment. Side projects are good to keep you sharp, but don’t stress. Once you move to management or team lead, you’ll realize that a competent engineer will always deliver results.
This is what happens when basic forms of communication are products instead of utilities.