skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh absolutely, you could never actually use BB(n) even with an oracle on hand. I simplify to cheating on math mostly because it's sort of crazy to think about coming at a problem from that angle (if the Goldbach conjecture is false there's obviously some N where it stops holding, but it's bizarre that you can formulate an N which is independent of the question), but really BB is hard because it's such a slight relaxation of the halting problem. It is a little more interesting (to me at least) than SAT because you expect SAT to be as hard as math. I mean, it's basically just a proof done the long hard way. But even though BB(n) doesn't provide an especially useful upper bound, it does let you expand the halting problem out large enough to use as a bludgeon, since even having information about BB(n) would still let you cheat. It's fun that way!
And this already exists in parts of the world the US doesn't bother with and shippers avoid them.
> The third is that I’ve come to recognize that the average quality of answers on SO is quite poor — while they technically serve as solutions to posted problems, they often come with big caveats… use of private/deprecated APIs, hackiness, and feature misuse abound.

The real clean answer is usually a mildly upvoted comment that scolds the answerer for violating a standard or using a bad practice. SO is still useful when that happens.
This combined with Corel Draw, PageMaker (for Windows 3.0) and WordPerfect 5 (for DOS) ruthlessly ruled my world in '90.
My team never chose it, but it’s becoming harder to avoid for some use cases in my org due to other teams’ omissions.
It took us about an hour.
How many of his predictions have failed? How many are timebound and falsifiable?

I am not specifically familiar with Zehain, but I am very well acquainted with figures who generate many predictions, have a small number become true, and then get treated as oracles for years before the truth is exposed: predicting the future in massive, chaotic systems is nearly impossible.
Session recording's actually already in the network engine for SSH, we just haven't plumbed the whole "push recordings somewhere and surface them" yet. Soon :)
I could literally smell the nostaliga on this. Whatever solvent HP put in their DeskWriter 310 all of thirty years ago just jumped back into my memory.

http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=311

Of course it wasn't a LaserJet. But it's pretty incredible what they could make printers do 3 decades ago.
If any machine learning algorithm could write a convincing R.L. Stine book I think I'd call it pretty close to a general intelligence!
Yeah he also predicted China and Germany were going to collapse a decade ago. He makes a lot of strong claims but does not show his work. So he's about as accurate as astrology, when he's right he's not necessarily right because of any great internal understanding.
I find that in recent years my best resources are official docs because that's where I find the "obvious" answers to the issue I'm having by not having previously read the docs. I also find lots of answers in gh issues (often unresolved) where I gain insight into what might be happening so I can come up with a solution. SO answers that I find useful are usually ones which link to related docs.
1,000 miles from the nearest naval base.

The Chinese base in Djibouti for example, is larger than the US base there.

What the US misses is that China doesn't necessarily want a fleet of expensive (and very vulnerable) carriers floating around. It would much rather have islands and coastal bases around important choke points. Sure, the price you pay is force projection, but the benefit is that it's a much more sustainable military.
>"Computers measure storage in base 2"

What do you mean? 'Computers' don't measure storage, they execute programs. Humans (often programmers) are the ones who want to know about storage.
Except when it comes to paying for it. Developer tooling is still a dead end business model if you are not subsidized by a bigger company.
Read up clean room design and on the IBM bios lawsuits from the 80's and 90's just seeing proprietary code can be a violation

Why is it different if we slap a "ml" lable on it
Looks like a fun article but it bothers me that that the lead-in example is wrong- overlooking 7 year old research that was pretty broadly disseminated:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1500795
It is not the royal jelly that produces the queen, but the absence of "beebread" that is fed to the worker bees.
Hey, Brave engineer here,

In this case it is needed because there is a generic '$discard' rule in the Goggle (which means: discard any result that does not match any other instruction from the Goggle; you can see this as a 'default action' applied to results if they are not caught by any other instruction).

Using a 'boost=1' allows you to keep some sites, that you don't necessarily want to boost more than their "natural ranking".

We have a bit more info about that in the "Getting Started" guide here: https://github.com/brave/goggles-quickstart/blob/main/gettin...

I hope that helps!
> Of the reliable sources of energy, nuclear is safest and the least subsidized.

How do you evaluate this? Do you have a summary of estimated subsidies per MWh for different generators?

My understanding is the same as the comment you are responding to, that nuclear subsidies are significant, ~6-10USD/MWh on insurance alone. I would be happy to be wrong on this. On a good day we pay ~EUR25/MWh for nuke electricity in EU day-ahead markets, as a scale point; 8EUR/MWh is a significant subsidy.
I’m sorry I’ve apparently misunderstood your point. I guess I’ve never seen too brass imparting more than a big picture “we’re writing tests now”.
Alexa will soon be able to read stories as your dead grandma
So much margin on either side of the mobile layout. I can read like 3 words on a line. Why do we need so much white space!?
Technically, Cocaine is better than heroin. Cocaine is Schedule 2, and still used for surgeries within the USA. Heroin is Schedule 1 and is not.

I understand your example, and I'm not or ever a drug user - but the opening premise is a false dichotomy.

https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-06/Cocaine-2020...

"hat is its legal status in the United States?
Cocaine is a Schedule II drug under the
Controlled Substances Act, meaning it has a high
potential for abuse and has an accepted medical
use for treatment in the United States. Cocaine
hydrochloride solution (4 percent and 10 percent)
is used primarily as a topical local anesthetic
for the upper respiratory tract. It also is used to
reduce bleeding of the mucous membranes in
the mouth, throat, and nasal cavities."

Vs Heroin

https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-06/Heroin-2020....

Heroin is a Schedule I substance under the
Controlled Substances Act meaning that it has a
high potential for abuse, no currently accepted
medical use in treatment in the United States, and
a lack of accepted safety for use under medical
supervision.

"Its like saying cocaine is better than heroin..."

Well, it is. Legally.
I never want to breathe in cigarette smoke on the sidewalk because of the damage to my health. Why does the individual freedom to do whatever you want overrule my individual freedom not to be affected by the externalities of your choices? The fundamental flaw in your argument is that you focus almost exclusively on individual right to the detriment of public good.
This is assuming that emigration of a poor uneducated population will not result in a prospering economy.

At the very least, this hypothesis cannot be confirmed by the history of the United States, and, as a matter of fact by the prison islanders of Australia.

German population was considered to be shrinking for a long time, but in fact it keeps growing due to immigration.

Is it easy to integrate people? No. Will Europe collapse? No. Will it change? Yes. Will it continue to thrive? Most probably.
USA are pretty good at using private firms for the contract work outside of their borders.
there is a great potential.
> if you make every right decision you will succeed over the long term

You don't always get to make the right decisions for long enough to get to the long term though.

The point of teaching the lessom that doing everything right does not guarantee success is to help people move on from failure. You don't need to dwell on what you did wrong forever if you know that doing everything right isn't sufficient for success. That doesn't mean you shouldn't look back and examine if there was more you could have done, but it's ok to say I there was nothing more I could have (or should have) done, so whatevs, I'm moving on.
If you want to try out old versions of PostScript, MAME supports emulating the original LaserWriter and the LaserWriter IINT: https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/mame/drivers...
But why compare a cancer patient to a heart attack patient? What about smokers that die of heart disease, which they are more likely to get? What about non-smokers that die of cancer at 80 after a decade of chemo? Or the elderly that die at 95 after a 20 year battle with dementia?
I assume... That the plan is to make cigarettes less addictive over time by reducing the nicotine level. Then people who start smoking will be less addicted and have less reason to continue. Also it would encourage people to vape more. On the other hand it would also mean people who insist on smoking smoke more to get the same nicotine...
We operate in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay!

Gracias!
Depending on the country, you can be made responsible for radio interference.
Though I suppose it is possible for a universe that has existed forever to have yielded a God that has also existed forever! Strange things are possible when we allow for infinite timelines!

That's why it makes more sense that the universe had a definite beginning and asking about time before that beginning is undefined - time simply doesn't exist before the beginning. Roger Penrose has some interesting ideas on what happened before the Big Bang (the universe "forgets" how to "tell" time and so time doesn't exist between different "epochs" of the universe):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o0gAglNdZw
Ask HN: draw.io, excalidraw, lucidchart – which one, and why?
Been using draw.io/app.diagrams.net for a long time, with fairly decent results, but I am running now into a client pushing very strong in having all his stuff built into excalidraw, and only as a backup (with proper justification) lucidchart. As I am totally unaware of excalidraw capabilities, it's fairly tough to push back, especially as it looks like Confluence integrates fairly well with either of these last two alternatives, but I am very concerned about a long learning curve, before delivering the actual results, with the ease I could now produce in draw.io.

So the Qs: has anyone had any experience with any type of transition between the three (maybe even in the other direction than what I am presented with), to know if there are some integration / translation from one to another / tips on how to handle all these tools, in migration of material, or an argument so obvious in favor of one, that might be worth investing the time to learn it (if draw.io is not the one, in my case, but the Q is more generic)
Show HN: I built a really good Ctrl+F replacement
Hi HN,

Scout Search is a Find-in-Page replacement that uses semantic search (rather than character matching) to help you find what you're looking for on websites.

Try it out and let me know what you think.
Thank you, this wasn’t clicking for me until I read this. Of course there are countless places with a dead phone line hanging between them.
Polytheism and monotheism are completely incompatible. However, syncretic religions of incompatible elements actually exist. Thus, the assumption that they can't, is wrong.
I have a "storage" network that uses a separate VLAN.
If you don't have a VLAN capable switch you could just get a second switch and dedicate it to that purpose, then add a second NIC to your system.
I love machine learning, data, and even targeted ads. But no marketing algorithm should have access to mic and camera data, period.
Would you believe that the US policy of continually expanding NATO, combined with a military coup of the democratically elected Ukrainian government in 2014 are more to blame for Putin attacking Ukraine? I wouldn't blame Biden. I'd blame Clinton, Bush, and Obama. But hey, you weren't actually asking to be informed about anything that wasn't CIA approved corporate news talking points. You just wanted a pithy straw man joke. (Side Note - Burning karma to put some truth where people might see it is the only good use for the stuff.)
>Giving was 0.7% below the inflation-adjusted all-time high of $488 billion in 2020

So the record giving was because of, not despite inflation...
Can you elaborate? Are there specific things they have done to “turn their back on privacy when Microsoft asks”?
It's helpful for people to know, from context later in the thread, that one of the core concerns behind this comment is the idea of using SSO at all, and thus giving "the keys to the kingdom" to Google.

Of course, it's also worth knowing that SSO is basically a universal best-practice for security teams, and while it's not de jure required by SOC2, it's almost de facto required. For once, I think the best-practices and compliance people have this one right: you are extraordinarily unlikely to get burnt for trusting Google in this instance, and the security track record of ad-hoc authentication is worse than abysmal (ad-hoc authentication is probably implicated in a plurality of all major incidents).
Is everyone just making lateral moves? New job should mean new money, that's the only reason to move jobs, unless you really want to build your resume in an area in order to... make more money in the long run.
Technically it’s gibibyte(s).
CODE: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software - Charles Petzold

The Elements of Computing Systems - Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken

Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces - Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau
On the contrary, the phone company (to which the actual quote refers to) was a government-instituted monopoly and far from an unregulated industry.
You are ignoring that people move. If there is a money gradient, people will follow it.

The big challenge is to integrate these people such that major economies stay stable.

It’s difficult yet manageable.
I get why they have been working on this (ppl's thread posting out of control) but making longform posts content live on / inside the platform reaks of Facebook walled garden, or Medium etc. Should be encouraging ppl to have blogs or post on urls and just link to them. I dunno, it's annoying direction.
Block ads and display opt-in ads as notifications. It's not a substitution or replacement.
TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1, Richard Stevens.
Everything else uses the system timezone database wrapping whatever api the os provides.
> Without a second browser engine to test pages in, it's really hard to know what is a bug and what is intentional. Devs don't know all the specs by heart. They write whatever happens to work for them, but sometimes they accidentally depend on obscure edge cases in the implementation that were never meant to exist.

I know this isn’t everyone’s experience, but I believe adding IE11 support to my personal website improved the quality of my code.

There were a lot of things I hadn’t specified explicitly, and for whatever reason Chrome/Webkit and Firefox just happened to make the right guesses. IE11 did not, so I had to go back and be clear about exactly what I actually wanted.
I quickly found a few credible sources stating that that was sufficient protein for most people -

https://www.health.harvard.edu/nutrition/when-it-comes-to-pr...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26630101/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_Daily_Intake#Dietary...
It's an extremely valuable feature, in that it can knock out a bunch of different SOC2 DRL line items with a single screenshot.
I guess I should have just said wider, not necessarily full width. The current experience is incredibly narrow and bad on desktop.
Aside, why is this shared in a very very long weird GIF and not a video. (can't pause/seek)
I approved some of my code for being reused under the terms of the AGPL. Co-pilot is very welcome to scan it and generate derivative AGPL code.

If I write AGPL code, and co-pilot scans it and makes a very similar program to it for a FAANG, who then proceeds to compete with my open-source tool by using the creative ideas generated there-in, but with a proprietary tool, that's not very fair. That's why I chose the license I did.

FAANG is more than welcome (indeed, encouraged) to use my code for any purpose permitted under the license. That includes everything except making it proprietary.

I've tried running copilot with the starting lines of my code. It generated code with identical creative ideas. It was the equivalent of taking Star Trek, and generating a new movie with the same plot line, but with names changed. That's not legal.

My code was specific enough that this wasn't just chance or other similar code. I work in a pretty narrow domain.

I did use copilot for coding myself, and a lot of what it generated was unique. But it is also a good paraphrasing tool. Running a movie script backwards and forwards through Google Translate to get different phrasing, and then swapping out new names, does not a new movie make. Ditto here.
Yes, just as there's clearly a difference between smoking and vaping. In a sane regulatory world as soon as e-cigarettes became widely available we would have banned legacy cigarettes. Instead we're doing the opposite on the basis of logic-free moralizing.
FYI !bangs work in Brave Search: https://search.brave.com/bangs
I recently switched to Neeva from DDG. DDG's results were, ummm, not great.

Has anyone compared Neeva to Brave? Better/worse?
Yeah I was surprised the author did all the setup necessary to get their wifi card working and then resorted to manually launching dhclient and wpa_supplicant. All the author needed to add to their /etc/rc.conf (or /etc/rc.conf.d/network) is something along the lines of:

ifconfig_wlan0="up WPA DHCP"

and then optionally add IPv6 (though the posted article seems to be preferring IPv4):

ifconfig_wlan0_ipv6="inet6 accept_rtadv"
I would need a very strong reason to believe an internal team could build a more reliable and secure library than Log4J, and commit to support and maintain it for as long as we need it, before I would think writing an internal log library was a good idea.

Outside of very large software companies, developers add business value by writing things that don't already exist. Spending time rewriting third-party libraries has dubious business value.
It's absurd to claim they're doing this for any other reason beyond deceptive marketing. It's like an advertising version of a dark pattern: a decision which has a sheen of reasonableness, but is clearly designed to deceive and exploit your customers.

Nowhere else in the computer is the base-10 version standard, and it shouldn't be. The sentence "a 32-bit CPU register can address up to 4 gigabyte of memory" is clearly reasonable, the sentence "a 32-bit CPU register can address up to 4.29497... gigabytes of memory" is not. It's not just ram though: all basic data types (bytes, ints, floats, pointers, SIMD registers, whatever) are sized to powers of 2, having a storage unit that is not is insanity. Or, to bring it back to hard drives: what's the max file size of a file stored on a FAT32 filesystem again?

It's just bad and deceptive, and hard drive manufactures should not be allowed to play these kinds of games. You should stop carrying the water for their shitty practices.
> I bet Sanderson has written way more published words than Stine did at this point given that the Stine books are all relatively short.

If you consider the notion that brevity is one of the more difficult parts of writing (and look at Sanderson's output), it's entirely possible that Sanderson's "more words" isn't evidence of "more work". Accounting for quality, it could be counter-evidence.
Apparently the Twitter app (android) doesn't support them. Nice.
Looking forward to not seeing gutters full of those usb-stick-looking cartridges.
"bob" UNIX account is not a person either.

If you ssh in, no matter to what account, your key ID is logged and that's what matters.

Anything can happen afterwards, unless you have a really tight grip on your system, since local privilege escallations are not that hard or uncommon.
Twitter should be encouraging my grandma to leave twitter and go to random websites to view long tweets?
I feel similarly. Globalization can and probably should boil down to rare materials and high-profit items, not bulk food, disposable consumables etc. I see that as a healthy reduction in globalization while still providing sufficient international trade to maintain relations. Note that I haven't read any of his work.
there's no reason that things need to unfold such that a nuclear armed state exists one day and then doesn't the next.

It could easily evolve from regulatory capture, increased influence of large corporations in governance, capture of public discourse by corporate sponsored narratives, and eventual de-facto private control of government. You'd end up with a nation with a nuclear force exists on paper but in fact the corporate interests were in control of that entity.

In fact, of the preceding 5 conditions I would say 4 are already either done or in progress.
> HDD’s have never used base 2 addressing.

The two most common sector sizes on HDDs are 512 bytes (a byte being 8 bits) and 4096 bytes. Base 2 units make a lot more sense with these power-of-two sector sizes than base 10 units.
Re: "Juul never wanted to sell to youths."

In April 2017, a Juul representative visited the Dwight School in New York City to meet with students — with no teachers present — and told them the company’s e-cigarettes were “totally safe.”

Other schools across the country were offered $10,000 from the e-cigarette company for the right to talk to students in classrooms or after school.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/health/juul-teens-vaping....
> Worth noting that Altria used be known as Philip Morris

It's quite confusing, as there is also another S&P500 component called Philip Morris International. I believe they export Marlboro branded cigarettes to all countries outside the US.
Russia also said, many times, "we will not invade Ukraine".

They are barbarians, rapists, murderers, and liars.
That's because market cap is one of the few numbers that can be computed from the outside. If they issued audited financial statements quarterly, we'd know more.
Yes, there is their rather vague backing report.[1]

[1] https://assets.ctfassets.net/vyse88cgwfbl/1np5dpcwuHrWJ4AgUg...
Hormesis is definitely "a thing". Getting hit by a truck may injure you to the point of being permanently weakened, but a series of lesser traumas will generally improve your bone and connective tissue strength.

The phrase is technically incorrect, but the spirit of it absolutely is.
"So, how do you go about establishing trust with strangers in order to share sensitive information or transfer money?"

You don't. You make it so they are no longer strangers by identifying them. Buying a house? Get an agent, broker, and/or company that is licensed. Finance through your credit union. Etc. Nobody is participating in high-risk transactions as a professional without a company/license. Most jurisdictions simply don't allow it.
The more proximate you are to rich white cis male, the easier it will (generally) be to conform to the standard. If you're a rich black cis male, you'll probably have a much easier time than a poor white trans woman, for example.
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