skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder whether it would be possible to use isotopic ratios of gases in negative pressure containers or something like that to ensure that any puncture will disrupt the mixture before it can be measured. Hardly foolproof, but anything that an adversary can measure you have to assume that they can reproduce unless you have some way to prove that the process required to reproduce that physical state _must_ take longer than the transit duration.

The other thing that comes to mind would be quantum systems that can only be measured once. Unfortunately I think that practically you would need a system that is "only twice" so that it can be compared, but I have this sense that anything that can be measured twice can be measured 3 times.

Lots of great links here to people working on practical solutions, but in the limit I wonder whether for many of the "black box in enemy territory" models you just have to go with self destruction as the only safe solution because anything less than a fully trusted human being is at risk for being tampered and pwnd (and even then you might still worry).
Actually, we know for at least one industrial revolution in sumerian times a.k.a the beginning of the iron age. And we have a way to find for civilizations with larger impact by checking the isotopes locked in ice. This is the method for dating volcano eruptions and for tracking the produce of lead in antiquity.
Which is exactly why they spend money on PR to increase those profits.
Thanks for the link, that was a nice writeup indeed!

It's a different technique though, using a dither pattern gives a very different look from error diffusion (which IMO looks more natural). But in the example you posted, the pattern is a nice stylistic effect.

I might actually have to try and code up what I outlined above to see if it works.
Personally, I just remember getting bored talking with AWS and Google reps, then just sort of wandered back to focus on something more interesting. Understanding corporate cultures is similar to ecology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_exclusion_principl...

There should come a point in your career when you realize “Process” people have a different set of priorities, and being secure enough to not make decisions in simulated peril is wise. ;-)
The constant back and forth of classic favourites like Friends, The Office, and all the various Star Treks, being listed and delisted certainly makes me wonder if I should just subscribe for a month, watch what I want, then cancel for a few months.
That's quite the false equivalence. A big part of the issue is quantity. You cherry-picked one example for the NYT, but for Fox News you could find examples on a daily if not hourly basis.
As someone without any diagnostic training, I would also think that someone that is in a depression (A) could write a blogpost like that (B). That is, I can imagine that A ==> B is true. However, even if that were actually so in the real world, that does not mean its converse (B ==> A) is true as well.

So even in the optimistic case where, lack of diagnostic training notwithstanding, A ==> B, even then observing B does not necessarily imply A.

Which probably is part of the reason you shouldn't diagnose people over the Internet based on their posts, but via a diagnostic process actively involving them.
The most common forms of magic in LotR is probably superior Elven knowledge of Arda. Their lifespan means that they can explore many topics to a far greater depth than a human could ever hope. Topics where it can take decades to comprehend the state of the art, and where humans have no choice but to specialize and fragment the subject into sub-disciplines.

"True magic" seems to stem from intimate knowledge of the more arcane and foundational aspects of Arda. The Ainur wield it instinctively, and only the most ancient Elves seem to be able to learn it. But also they struggle to use it on scale, which was one of the reasons the Rings of Power were forged. In the Third Age, advanced magic seems to only be used via the Rings of Power, and dissipates for good after the destruction of the One Ring.
On macOS it asks you to set up once during the first startup, and then doesn’t nag you all the time if you don’t want to.

I set up Macs for people without an iCloud and it was not an issue - they didn’t miss it, aside from notes not syncing between devices and other features that need iCloud.

On Windows it will keep trying you to sign up all the time. I have just one machine with Windows, I don’t need an MS account, I don’t need their cloud features nor their store, and Windows keeps pushing me to set up one.
Saas dashboard for monitoring/mertics
PostmarketOS: A real Linux distribution for phones and other mobile devices
It's the same with the, even older, CD audio format. Sure, it's lossless and uncompressed but stereo 16-bit 44.1 kHz was a stroke of genius. In 1980.

Some may argue about lossy audio format (as it the nineties called and wanted their 20 GB HDD back) while others may argue about SACD, 24 bit 96 kHz and whatnots but the fact stays: there are engineers out there who came up with the CD audio format in 1980, which is still in use to this day.

I legally and bit-perfectly rip my CDs to FLAC files and it still boggles my mind that it's basically the format from 1980 (FLAC files are lossless and you can re-burn the exact same identical CD, which you can then, if you fancy so, re-rip to the exact same, bit perfect, WAV or FLAC files, rinse & repeat as many times as you want).

Speakers definitely got better. DACs are ubiquitous now. Amps probably got better too. But 16-bit 44.1 kHz stereo lives on since 42 years (40 years commercially). Soon half a century.

"It's like alien technology from the future" indeed.
Not sure if this is better, but SQL is HORRIBLE... we probably put up with it bc it's based on sane math & theory, and we almost never write it by hand.

There's zero thought to any kind of ergonomics, there's no way to say "join table Y but prefix all its columns with employee_", it's expressed backwards ffs (instead of starting with FROM), results of queries with joins are forced to be flat tables and there's no way to get trees as you need 99% in app code - all the repetitve app code to "nest" entities in results that also needs to make brittles assumptions about ordering and uniqueness because people couldn't standardize on a "RESULT AS TREE [NESTING <Y> INTO <X>]" clause or smth. equivalent etc. etc.

PRQL though seems to also lack all the essetial features you would expect around joins.

Suff like Arrango DB's AQL seems to be a nice example of adding the missing feature to SQL, probably more of the need to accomodate graph data too, but it actually solves SQLs problems even in relational contexts - see https://www.arangodb.com/docs/stable/aql/tutorial-join.html#... .
The issue is you are focusing on the specific APIs as a strawman argument which would require us to argue each and every API on its individual merits something neither of us has time for.

Instead let’s focus on the core issues:
1. Severe underfunding of Safari
2. Bugs
3. Install Prompts/Banners
4. Push API

1. Apple has no incentive to fund their browser while they are not at any risk of losing market share to the competition on their primary OS.

2. Because of the underfunding and the fact users/developers can’t shift to other browsers, bugs that are either impossible to work around (or require a very high level of skills) have not been fixed. Some which were reported 7 years ago.

3. Users do not know web apps exist. They have no way to install them.

4. Notifications arrived for native apps in 2009, in 2022 they still are not available for web apps even though they are essential for many different types of apps. Apple has promised them in 2023 likely as a result of our advocacy work.

Without a viable web ecosystem on iOS mobile web apps are dead and the entire ecosystem gets shifted to native apps and webkit applies no competitive pressure on chrome/edge or Firefox. The status quo is the worse case scenario.

The fix for this scenario is competition. With a 60% market share on MacOS (the on my comparable market where Safari is the default), as long as apple meets developer needs then I can’t see them losing a majority market share on iOS.

A highly funded Webkit be able to contribute to the web ecosystem instead of holding it back.
So I watched John Wick yesterday evening, and unfortunately I didn't like it.

I didn't feel invested in the main character at all, let alone any of the other characters. Was it the camera work, or the editing, or the acting, or the way the story was told? I don't know. In any case as a result I found the whole movie extremely boring.

Someone here mentioned Kill Bill which in a way has a similar story and over-the-top fighting scenes. But I do love Kill Bill (even though I think the fight with the Crazy 88 would have been better if it were not as long). I also found movies like The Transporter or Taken entertaining (which I think are more or less in the same genre as John Wick).

Then what exactly is it that makes me like some of these movies but not John Wick? I'm afraid I don't have the answer to that.
This sort of stuff is where Iterate Loops are good:

https://github.com/google/wuffs/blob/main/doc/note/iterate-l...

WUFFS wants this because it demands all the checking at compile time (WUFFS code with a potential buffer overflow just won't compile), so if you need bounds checks you'll be writing them out by hand and the iterate loop often allows you to express a correct solution with no actual checks.
Those are immortal too. But I wouldn't go for a walk in that in summer. My feet would surely melt.
Over-simplifying things, the more prosperous a society is, the less children are born. Doesn't seem to be too far left field to assume more young people are living with their parents in less-prosperous societies.
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When Is Government Official’s Blocking Commenter “State Action”?
Brutalism‽ Won't somebody think of the children‽
Hetzner Cloud offers IPv6-only or no public IP at all
The shire hasn't seen any raids for generations and the only thing that protects them are a few hundred irregulars under the command of Aragorn. Another example for unexplainably depopulated region is the area between the shire and the sea. Far from the mountains, those lands are not known to have large settlements.
Why do you think the government is more efficient at building housing than private companies?

Every city I've seen try this ran into substantial cost over runs and ended up with 12 1 br condos to rent to poor people at the cost of 6 million dollars.

Why shouldn't it be about profit, we use a profit motive for the manufacturing of everything else in our economy, why is housing the exception?
Never forget: content is king.
As people become more educated, the minimum standard and availability of utilities also becomes a factor, like access to the internet. Building anywhere in unlimited numbers wont work if there is no net access. Since the 90's when looking at property, internet access has been a factor in the decision making process, especially so with Covid and the work from home routine.

Now a days, its having a property which exceeds todays low quality building standards, isnt n housing estate slave box on some brown field site that will keep health professionals busy the longer someone lives on the site in a country where the politicians are too stupid to hide their criminal association, which pretty much rules out everywhere except Antartica!
> Sometimes in 2017, while blotus, bui and I were brainstorming what mitigations we wanted in Snuffleupagus, we really wanted to kill SQL Injections, but it's a hard problem.

Killing SQL injection is not a hard problem. Parsing this statement, however, is.
I need an app that lets you organize lots of disparate people into a meeting.

Something like doodle, but it also has a chat box.

It also has to have a competent web interface that I can share a link with anyone, and they don’t need to create an account for some functionality.
Yea these people literally sign up for the job. If they don't want to do the job maybe they should be somewhere else doing a different job

But the reality is that a lot of cops just want to exercise power over those weaker than themselves
Never had cable but I still figure MSNBC is part of this long-abandoned system and wonder why it's still on the air, some kind of zombie?
> Starting today, interested customers can put down a fully-refundable $250 deposit for a Caddie or Retriever unit.

Prices for the machines will be $1500 upfront with 36-month payment plants.

That’s $99 a month for Caddie and $149 a month for Retriever, giving total costs of $5,000 and $6,800 for the two machines.
PlexAmp, but the infrastructure required for it is beneficial only if you have a massive media collection. You need PlexPass, which varies in price, otherwise the app is free. It requires your to move your media into an Artist/Album structure, and happily ignores mistagged MP3s and supports all the major audio formats.

Spotify used to allow you to import your music via iTunes file sharing, not sure if that's possible these days.

iTunes ("Music") might also allow you to import your own music into the default media player. But that's a complete disaster now that it doesn't support daap any more.
The Mordor expansion should've started one-two generations ago. No mentions of recent ruins and the more likely reaction of the population on the best communication pathway in the local part of the continent should've been building walls and armies, no fast desertion of their homes.
Presumably with the right __inline stuff it could be vectorized by a compiler, since tolower is normally called from a loop?

Although I guess since it's often a dynamically linked library, said optimizations would have to happen at load time, and the dynamic loader doesn't do such things... :-(
3ac probably made 3 bad trades:

- long ust/luna

- long gbtc, short btc

- long steth, short eth

will focus on last two trades in this comment.

gbtc is like a bond that eventually pays out as btc when regulatory approval comes.

steth is like a bond that eventually pays out as eth a few months post-merge.

but in the aftermath of the luna/ust crisis and general crypto bear, there was a flight to safety (gbtc is less liquid than btc, steth is less liquid than eth), causing the gbtc/btc and steth/eth spreads to widen instead of narrow, and 3ac was caught out of position.

tldr: they probably profited some from short btc but lost more on long gbtc.
Many mechanical keyboards are loud for a quiet office but would be hardly noticable in a louder place like a bar or even cafe.
Compare Berlin to Munich. That salaries in Berlin, and Munich for that matter, didn't increase at the same rate as rents is a more serious problem. That and that historically a lot of people in Munich lived in rented apartments. And those long-term residents, especially older people, are now priced out.
> No, I don’t know a good solution.

I know one: Anti-trust enforcement.
This kind of fan was F1 technology back in 1978.

Check out the Brabham car that won on its debut at the Swedish Grand Prix.
See https://www.supersmartlist.com/why-did-mysupermarket-fail/ for some analysis (although it doesn't mention a buyout).
Technical analysis from a former F1 engineer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyDORcYkX7g
Lack of government is not the issue being raised. Bad government is.

I take it by your attempt to pigeonhole me that you're some variety of libertarian. In that case, your hostility is misplaced. What you're actually angry at is the fact that the world is not compatible with your political fantasy.
Cucked by capitalism
Why This Accidental Battery Breakthrough Matters
FXT: A Library of Algorithms and a Book
> mandated banking apps

> I don't think I'll ever get that in a not Android, not iOS phone.

Of course not, those apps nowadays do on-device checks in the TrustZone environment to verify with Google’s servers that you’re actually running a phone that’s approved by Google with a supported OS version in a supported configuration. Customization? Competition? Who cares!

> Street View

Considering just how much Google has tried to hurt Windows Phone by not supporting it with their own apps and services and even preventing others from making Windows Phone apps for their services, you’ll definitely never see Street View support on a non-Google non-Apple phone.

Your issue isn’t one that can be solved by open source volunteers. Your issue is one of monopolies and control.
I want this, with cameras in the cars and simracing rigs.
> The issue is you are focusing on the specific APIs as a strawman argument

I focused on some APIs I know about. There's nothing strawman about facts that you misrepresented in your diatribe. How can I be sure that you represented everything else correctly?

Oh. I can't. Because I also saw your section on "Edge differentiation".

Should I go through everyting else and discover same misrepresentation and falseness? I think I won't, these two are quite enough, thank you.

> Instead let’s focus on the core issues

You keep skipping from goal post to goal post, and each next argument you make isn't made in good faith.

> 1. 2.

I'm not even going to dignify this speculation with an answer

> 3. 4.

And again and again all comes down to literally one or two standards. That's it. That's all you really have.

Well, sometimes you have more, but then it's just a random dump of random standards that you are absolutely sure are actual standards (and not "Draft comunity reports" by Google) and that everyone must implement them now.

> Without a viable web ecosystem on iOS mobile

Please define a "viable web ecosystem". So far it looks like to you "a viable ecosystem" is "anything that Google implements, others be damned".

> web apps are dead

Yes, they are dead. For many reasons that have nothing to do with notifications.

> The fix for this scenario is competition. With a 60% market share on MacOS

Yes. Let's talk about competition. There is none, it's fully dominated by Google: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31905404

Oh wait. You don't really care about that.

> A highly funded Webkit be able to contribute to the web ecosystem instead of holding it back.

Webkit is contributing to the web ecosystem, and isn't holding it back. For the obvious reason that your definition of a viable web is taken straight out of Google propaganda, and has nothing to do with making the web viable.
Examples please where property was split because of that. Child support obviously takes real estate property into account, but the actual ownership? Not sure where this happens, but than I'm no family law expert and there are so many different countries that it actually just might happen.
I was reading about Oz magazine recently and wondering about the
different ways that "authorities" deal with underground publications.

Original hacker zines, Phrack, 2600 and the like were born within
a very liberal and wild internet.

We've lost something today with web, because locality and DNS makes
for fragility and easy censorship.
defi/spot is in a much healthier place than cefi.

when you're hodling, there's nothing that can liquidate you.

when you're using a defi protocol, you capture all the upside for the risk you're taking.

when you're using a cefi "bank", the bank keeps some of the spread when they're up, and goes insolvent when they're down. heads they win tails you lose.
Atari Turns 50: A Look Back on the Original Name in Video Games – PCMag
I just landed in Zurich and forgot that it is not part of the EU with respect to roaming charges. Just opening twitter and answering a whatsapp shot through my automatic roaming charge cutoff limit of 60€ (1MB is roughly $16 here).

So that page would have cost me roughly $2k to load if there were no automatic limit :)
Whether Leetcode is necessary can be discussed but this person doesn't add anything to the discussion. Almost disconnected 7 paragraphs of text and the conclusion is FAANG and S & P 500 needs to find a way to assess without Leetcode.

It clearly works for them so they continue doing it and able to grow their eng organisations to thousands of engineers. Any other solution to this problem wouldn't be without its trade offs. If he really wants to contribute to tech industry he is more than welcome to found his own company and hire the way he wants, instead of saying "I don't like this FAANG find a new way!".
This is a very naive and unconstructive point of view.

Interviewers have an interest to screen for the best quality with the least effort. If they can reduce false negatives, they could fill positions more quickly. If there's a concensus a particular method is always better than asking for leetcode hards in 30 minutes, companies are likely to adopt it. Companies that adopt better practices perform better, and hopefully there's less time spent by people on practising leetcoding and more time spent on more productive activities.

Nothing would be done if these conversations are not had. Many fail to make a difference, but sometimes something good comes out of it. You should learn to have some humility that many privileges that you currently enjoy are won by people who care and try and you should not shut them down.

And as a practical matter, industry insiders do read these complaints.
Sure, it's hard to make big companies change what they do. But companies do adapt. Many small companies adopted alternative practices that are less heavy on leetcode and hire well. With some time and effort, maybe big companies would change too, and we could all be better off.
Their point is that just because someone can do leetcode does not mean they can program well, and they may too just be faking it to get a job they aren't qualified for.
A rant against dbt ref
Maybe 100 years ago it was as benign as you suggest, but it's since been hijacked by other interests, including a eugenicist and a leader who was kicked out of Greenpeace for being too radical.
I really miss my old LG feature phone from 2009 that had a slide out keyboard. The tactile feedback of a cheap keyboard helped me type so much faster and accurately than any onscreen keyboard ever let me.
That's certainly not the case in UK for example.
Eh, in that case you're still sending all requests to one Node server. I think it'd still be preferable to have a CDN so that it can be served from the edge.

Also, you can achieve this behaviour on CDNs from a full SSR response with just using stale-while-revalidate in the Cache-Control header.
Telford Makerspace needs your help with our crowdfunder please
In the UK, at least, local councils are continuously trying to shoe-horn high density housing into unsuitable rural areas, ignoring urban brown field sites.
Still an unsettled question, but for now: U.S. Copyright Office Rules A.I. Art Can’t Be Copyrighted

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/us-copyright-offic...
Killing bug classes like SQL injections is for situations where you can't always do the right thing, like using proper parameterised queries. Maybe you have an old codebase you haven't or won't finish rewriting. Maybe you can't afford people who don't write SQL injection bugs. Maybe you can but they still eventually accidentally add such bugs and you want to be sure.
"Open Link With" is indeed great for routing between different apps, but the problem remains that within Firefox you currently no longer have any choice of what to do with the link – it'll always open the full browser and open a new tab first.

Previously,

1. you had the choice of activating the "tab queue" system for links opened with Firefox, i.e. the URLs would then only be saved in a list in the background instead of launching the full browser.

2. when sharing an URL with Firefox, you had the aforementioned choice of "actually open the link", "bookmark it", or "use Firefox Sync to send the URL to some other Firefox instance in your Sync account". The latter two choices happened in the background, so you didn't have to wait for the full browser UI+engine to start first, the page to load, etc. etc.
Too expensive. The Chinese should create a clone for $100/100 EUR.