skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fascinating stuff. I had no idea people were reading (or producing) “literary RPG”. It’s like peeking into an alternative world:

> I… finally did it! And I also leveled as a [Demon Larva] thanks to the experience gained from leveling [Identification]! It was a total success!

> I could distribute my Stat Points and Skill Point later. For now, I focused on what was important. I glanced at the pebble closest to me and activated my [Identification]—
Twitter, Inc. vs. Elon R. Musk [pdf]
Kittens and Jesus: What would remain in a newsless Facebook?
Your browser will run WebAssembly about as happily as it will run JavaScript. What's the distinction here?
Until the OS vendors wake up and start addressing the elephant in the room - that our operating systems are no longer servicing our needs as users, but serving up our data as consumers - there is no point in any of this political theater.

It is because OS vendors decided to use their technology to gain access to our eyeballs that we are in this mess.

OS vendors deciding not to make encryption a first-tier service provided to their end users, with a user interface abstraction that enlightens and educates instead of obfuscates and minimizes. OS vendors deciding to hide filesystems and shared data from us, because making a UI that makes them usable is hard, and prefer instead to replace it with broken cloud services.

It is because OS vendors are selling ads and eyeballs, not operating systems - which are secondary to the purpose of creating a consumer database.
It is absolutely staggering what a titanic job Elon has done of obliterating his reputation.

I really wish he could just come out and say "sorry guys, I haven't slept in 6 years", coma the fuck out and come back as a sanish man.
Celsius: how one of crypto’s biggest lenders ground to a halt
Anglicised spelling are probably often due to a change from a local alphabet to the one I'm using now.
>the cost of serving the sheer number of people Google serves

That cost is mostly imaginary. First, it’s already tiny - computers are cheap - and second, 90% of that cost is for stuff that only matters to Google; you could make that part disappear without hurting user experience.
Ars Technica has a summary of the lawsuit: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/07/twitter-sues-elo...
I came here looking to see this comment, but I think honestly TikTok is really damaging for people wrt mental conditions and understanding them.

There is a TON of mis-information and "I have condition x and behavior Y" correlation/causation BS on TikTok. There's articles of people developing "tik tok tourettes syndrome" from watching videos of other with Tourettes. There's a growing literature of the affects of follow-along mental health conditions coming from watching other people on media with certain issues. I've seen a ton of TikTok ADHD claims that are BS or are "normal" but people shared as ADHD symptoms. I don't know how, but I suspect this sort of mis-information is bad for society.

That said, I'm not a doctor/psych but I think its true that this is also an ADHD behavior. The article talks about how the author will listen to certain songs forever, but I think the ADHD behavior is a binge-and-forget type behavior, which seems different, and more related to the hyper-focus aspect of ADHD.

Source: I have adhd, do this with music, and recreationally learn about ADHD for fun.
> Rellic [1] implements an algorithm that generates goto-free control flows

Doesn't WebAssembly implement that already, via Relooper?
React functional components have nothing to do with functional programming. Hooks are stored in global variables.
Don't let completely untrusted users on your systems. There are enough privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux that that was already true.

It's still fine for semi-trusted users, e.g. company employees.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yunnan#Etymology

This suggests that the reason for the name isn't really known, but no one thinks it might refer to the Greeks.
An example of a tail-call that can easily be compiled to a loop is:

let sum list =
let rec loop a = function
| [] -> a
| x::xs -> loop (a+x) xs
in
loop 0 list

An example of a more tricky case which may be compiled to a loop is the following mutual recursion:

let rec even_then b n =
if n = 0 then b else odd_then (not b) (n - 1)
and odd_then b n =
if n = 1 then b else even_then (not b) (n - 1)

And this may be compiled either to a loop which uses a trampoline (or switch on the next function to run, which is a bit like a static trampoline) or to two separate functions that duplicate some code and are implemented as loops. A simple way this might get compiled is:

fn even_then_or_odd_then(which_function, b1, n1, b2, n2) {
loop {
match(which_function) {
Even => {
if n1 = 0 { return b1 }
else {
b2 = not(b1);
n2 = n1 - 1;
which_function = Odd;
}
},
Odd => { similar }
}
}
}

fn even_then(b,n) {
even_then_or_odd_then(Even, b, n, null, null)
}

...

An example of a tail-call that is hard to compile would be in a parser combinator library for example:

let parse_both p1 p2 =
fun buf pos success ->
p1 buf pos (fun pos r ->
p2 buf pos (fun pos r2 ->
success pos (r, r2)))
;;

(As I’ve written it this design has some issues but they aren’t so relevant). Here it is important to be able to tail-call a function that you take as an argument (e.g. you want the parser p2 to tail call the success callback you give it, and if you parse and arbitrary-length list you want to do it tail-recursively). Speaking more generally, general tail-calls are like a safe long-distance goto. Wasm doesn’t have goto and so a whole-program transformation (or a trampoline[1] which may have performance issues) is required to support tail-calls.

[1] A trampoline means that functions effectively return continuations except typically they call their continuations (up to some max number of times) and only occasionally return them to the trampoline (which pops everything off the stack) which immediately calls the continuation again. But implementing continuation passing style this way is pretty slow.
This is a California state law.
I wish that we could apply credit where it's due to the rest of the SpaceX team by name for some of their amazing technical achievements (100+ landings and re use of a falcon 9 first stage) for instance, and let them bask in the glory, rather than musk as a figurehead.

On the other hand if musk keeps doing loony shit like this we now have Howard Hughes v2.0.
> One man's junk information is another man's treasure.

Just because someone wants to know the color of my underwear (even if they regard that knowledge as a treasure), there is no valid public interest in that. Preemptively and forcibly opening up all personal information is a very dystopian thought.
Wouldn't it be much more productive to do a campaign to get `.stack` out of WASM?
I think there's a big misunderstanding as to what exactly gLinux _IS_.

Nearly every large company I've worked at worked hard to standardize the dev environment. Ensuring the right set of dev tools (and more) is available on every machine. It's not as simple as 'apt-get install build-essential' and you're done. For example many large companies use perforce, which also has a licensing requirement. Google in particular has a large set of custom binaries, remote file systems, unified login (think krb but maybe not exactly that), unified management, etc, etc.

That is what gLinux is. This isn't something you're going to want or need. In fact it doesn't even run outside of the Google hard wired VLANs really (for setup).

There are a LOT of net benefits for much of google to being on gLinux. It means, for example, that nearly every product works on Linux - google docs, spreadsheet, meet, etc. That's a huge win. Not only that, they are on par with Windows or Mac support (thanks browser as a platform).
Prox c. has a screamin' hot proper motion, as you'd expect from it's proximity, so it's moving across the celestial sphere at a pretty good clip.

The real problem is that Prox c. b is only 0.04 AU out from its host star. So the absorption spectra for a star lined up with the planet is going to be pretty well contaminated with light from Prox c. You could imagine various schemes for moving around the observer for the best angle or big occultation disks, but at a certain point it's going to be easier to just fly a probe over and sample the atmosphere directly.
Dystopian doorbells: how the_ door buzzer turned into mass surveillance network
Two aspects

1) People don't like them when they total throughput turns out to be less than before, which tends to be the case - especially when people notice them. This is quite common as they often replace 1 passport officer with 1 e-passport machine.

2) As a user they are more difficult to use, and no faster. For me, manual passport control into my home country involves dropping my passport on the desk with one hand, standing for 20 seconds, then leaving. For e-gates it means opening it up (usually a two handed process), sliding into a reader, making sure the crinkly passport bit doesn't scrunch up, wait, wait, wait, half the time get told to reinsert, wait again, look at a camera, wait, wait, then about 1 in 4 times get rejected and have to do the manual process

3) For the minority of people who had iris, they replaced a system which was better for the user in all ways

Iris itself was of course a security issue - it was no longer something you have + something you are, it was just something you are, which was the beauty. Have too many people on the system and you get false positives and end up with a tremendous mess

Of course the best innovation in passport control in the UK would be to join Schengen, so we don't need passport control for the majority of arrivals into the UK. Would save a fortune and make everyones lives easier.
"In the War on Terror, the US used the songs "The Real Slim Shady" by Eminem, the Meow Mix theme song, and "Fuck Your God" by Deicide to torture.[6]"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbyZDq76T74

Now we got an extended club version MeowMixTape, on Youtube, for kids!
That's a golf clap worthy pun.
Here in the UK figures were announced today that show the economy bounced back to marginal GDP growth in May.
Its nice, but the ifs are a bit useless. I would use switch-case for this
I don't know what role Musk actually played in design (beyond "it needs to be pointy"), but he absolutely bet the farm on SpaceX.

One more rocket-boom and SpaceX and Elon's pocketbook were done for.
I think apache httpd works like this, and there the 2 subjects are mixed. They have a per-request arena. As it gets destroyed at the end of the request, you can just use a bump allocater which is one of the fastest ways to alloc memory.
GreenpeaceEast Asia’s 2022 climate ranking of China’s cloud providers [pdf]
Yes, but not because of money, because the value of them has gone down to me. I don't get as much use out of any one of them anymore as the landscape has fragmented around video streaming. In addition, we have BBC iPlayer in the UK which is free (so long as you have a TV License, which I already have), and All4 which is advertising supported. They have large amounts of back catalog, films, tv series, etc. and I find I use these more than the paid services now.
But Brits can't pronounce their own words properly half the time, in English! Ask a Brit to pronounce "drawing" - you'll get "drawring" back.

Source: expat living in Britain
Layer 2 network integrates with blockchains to provide great network interoperability. Our Blockchain development services with layer 2 solutions are highly suited to meet the growing needs of the market.
I think parent comment was implying the alternative is NoScript
> Not all Bluetooth, it seems there are pervasive stacks that have problems because everything made by Plantronics I have ever used reconnects instantly and has no problems.

PC disconnected. After 3 seconds: PC connected. Rinse and repeat at random times during a meeting. I would never buy such a piece of .... (work headphones).
> There are plenty of news stories involving people who aren't public individuals.

Typically because there is a public interest in the story and/or because that individual did consent. It is not common to publish investigations of common people's bedrooms without their consent.
"On the opposite end of the spectrum is Elliott Carter. He intentionally tried to avoid repetition in his works."

Yes, exactly ! That is why Elliott`s work sound like instruments talking to one another, like 4 instruments talking to each other with emotions & expressions each instrument having a specific character.

On the other hand generally we perceive some degree to repeatability as music.
Ask HN: What's exciting in networking?
I've been doing a lot of listening lately about the state of IP networking and where things are headed. John Day on Programming Throwdown has been provocative, and Geoff Huston on the IPv6 Buzz Podcast also. Though progress is definitely being made, it's clear that IPv6 is the Python 3 of internetworking protocols: the switchover is taking DECADES. Some of the above blame this on IPv6's not providing much of use beyond a larger address space, an issue already mitigated using NAT.

It feels like things have been more-or-less the same since the original internet protocol came together in 1975. But when I learn about overlay networks such as TOR, IPFS, or Bitcoin's Lightning Network, I'm impressed by the innovation there. So what are the prospects for development of our global networking protocols?

I recently learned about a protocol called ILNP which splits the IP address into Identifier and Locator portions (IIUC). This way e.g. your phone could have the same Identifier no matter which location it occupies on the network topology, and somehow (I'm not clear on this) the mapping from Identifier to Locator is performed so packets can be routed. But development of that protocol, as well as its competitor LISP, seems to have stalled.

I guess I feel a bit disappointed and am looking for someone doing something exciting and radical in the networking world, not just on the overlay. It still seems to me like it will be an essential part of humanity's future, not just technically, but in terms of social structures, governments, etc. And yet things feel so stagnant.

What has you excited these days?

https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2022/06/137-origins-of-internet-with-john-day.html
https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2022/07/138-fixing-internet-with-john-day.html
https://packetpushers.net/podcast/ipv6-buzz-055-the-good-bad-and-ugly-of-ipv6-with-geoff-huston/
The whole idea of EULA needs to be scrapped. As currently configured they will never be fair to consumers. They institutionalize unethical, bad faith agreements.
Can't you mock the network layer? That should do the trick.

What's front-end library you are using to query graphql
That article was a ride!

Shipping onions to be reconditioned, like an old alternator.

Onions were a condiment not a food staple?!
It’s both, but the contribution from distance will be much greater than from the relative speed for an old, distant galaxy.
As I understand it redshifting is due to the doppler effect, whose formula only depends on the relative speed between the observer and the sender.

However, it also seems like due to galaxies further away having a larger expansion speed, typically they are more redshifted.
I'm using Debian testing for years with unattended-upgrades upgrading everything 4 times daily (once for each Debian repository update). Not at Google.

AMA!
It's a joke whether you found it funny or not. Using scare quotes like that doesn't mean anything.
Not just sharing work, but sharing stories as well. I recently did a 3-peaks challenge for charity and tweeted about my accomplishments which has led to my next line of work.

I also shared about buying my first house which led to 2 news articles and 1 podcast 30 second audio clip that have all paid money, and given me more exposure. It's been great!
I am familiar with the history that SpaceX almost failed when the falcon 1 failed to work, but I can't say I have a huge amount of sympathy for musk taking an immense risk.

I'm sure he had enough money set aside even then from PayPal/x.com that even if SpaceX had gone belly up he could have bought a very nice house somewhere and lived in a very comfortable lifestyle for the rest of a human lifespan just living off the interest from $15-20 million.
The relationship between diet, microbiome, and health is fascinating.

Another metabolite of L. reuteri is ergothioneine, which is hypothesized to be a "longevity vitamin"[1] by biologist Bruce Ames[2]. Plants and animals cannot synthesize it, only fungi and bacteria, but it is found in every cell in our body including in high concentrations in mitochondria. It appears to be important enough that mammals have evolved a specialized transporter for uptake of this compound (SLC22A4), and mutations in this gene are associated with Crohn's disease.

Low levels of it have been linked to cognitive impairment, CVD, even depression and sleep disorders[3].

Macros aren't everything when it comes to diet, there's a whole universe of micronutrient interactions ongoing in our cells every day. Since we are in a position of relatively near total ignorance, I agree that we should pursue food diversity by default.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1809045115
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Ames#Notable_awards
[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-020-0855-1
I migrated my ethereum PoS validation nodes from multi-tenanted cloud to a dedicated server for that reason.
Interesting - dynamic providers and configurations are exactly what we're doing with Terramate also. Seems like we're having a very similar approach while using different tooling. Thanks for sharing the insights with me!
Original title: 'Dystopian doorbells: how the humble door buzzer turned into mass surveillance network'

> doorbell cameras are sophisticated security systems, with high-definition night-vision cameras and microphones that can pick up audio from up to 25 feet away

> the five leading brands ... clock[ed] up 3.5 million sales globally in 2021 [Submitter's note: calibrating the number as a rate for a durable item and considering that one of those may serve many people could lead to a an extensive coverage]

> Even George Orwell’s former home in west London boasts a Ring doorbell, an irony...

It seems reports of access from staff of the producers and vendors (Amzn) to the data exist, and claims about measures to counter the abuse have subsequently been issued. Of course, also the risk of system intrusion exists.

The article offers a rich number of informational points (including legal), but little about the raised questions of systematic mass surveillance (as opposed to clusterized data collectors - which place somewhere video of the passer by and sound recording in a 15 meters wide bubble).
Not to mention many of those things don't work outside the rarified environment that is a fully managed VLAN.

Regarding "security", remember plenty of security is things like auditing, remote logs, ability of remote admins to control machines, etc, etc. It's ultimately all boring, but essential, large fleet management stuff.
What about music without singing? Does it happen listening to that as well?
Aside from the reliability.. For me the step was too fast too quickly. I skipped one generation of laptops, so for me it felt really weird. I think that right now I'd like it. But if they'd re-introduce it, I'd simply refuse to buy for a few years because of the issues.
Certainly that's one approach, but perhaps there's a middle ground, where we can have trusted sources of JS.

Perhaps not, but I do stand by my initial comment, it's crazy we just download and execute stuff from wherever and somehow have expectations of security!
> West has....abandoned it as a policy.

Has it though? They don't do it overtly but through IMF. When a debt ridden country approaches IMF for help that help comes with heavy strings attached such as cutting down social spending, and privatisation. And IMF is controlled by ex-colonial nations. Even a developed nation like Greece got a taste of it. The funny thing is through a debt ridden country IMF is in fact helping debtors who are mostly western entities.

There are quite a few layers here to peel but safe to say west hasn't abandoned their policy just that they outsourced it to IMF.
I mean, not exactly, but perhaps a restricted selection of reviewed code could be available from a trusted service rather than just "grab anything from wherever and run it".

Sure, that doesn't cover code in the actual page you download, but perhaps it would be a move in the right direction. And yes, maybe it would make things move more slowly, but honestly maybe that's just something we should take as the price of being more secure.
I have a somewhat inside scoop from working with various early Keyhole employees, and my impression is that they were generally happy with the acquisition. At the very least, quite a few of them stuck around long past the golden handcuffs stage.
A phrase to remember: "Exports are made out of imports". Almost every export industry depends on an import in its production chain somewhere, which is why trade wars and sanctions are so destructive. Import-substitution planned economies have to be very clever about how they approach this to get it to work.
Understanding what that equation means in practice is the difference between having a degree and a six month bootcamp as X Developer.
> (e.g. Congolese and Japanese both seem cromulent and not intrinsically African or Asian)

I have faced questions from Chinese people about why only Asians receive an -ese suffix in English.
If it's the one billion, paying that is probably a great deal less painful than what is now the amount of money that would be lost selling much lower value Tesla stock, and buying Twitter at 54.20 compared to what Twitter is now trading at.
Dennis Meadows on 50th anniversary of the publication of The Limits to Growth
The data is really mixed, it depends what numbers you are looking at. By some measures, wage growth is slowing and employment has stalled: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/12/opinion/employment-wages-...

(I know people don’t like Krugman, but this piece is nuanced and apolitical)
If I may get political here (nothing personal / no direct reply to the parent comment):

> stunning images was enough to get the public to support a $10B project.

I don't believe public support is relevant; is there public support for the >$700B a year spent on the military?
I think the default for a lot of distros is crypt() with id 6, which is SHA-512. The default number of rounds is often 5000. I just checked one of my debian machines, and it appears Debian 11 has switched to something called yescrypt.
This is something i see a lot in conspiratorial thinking, you can't believe a government would be so incompetent, so somebody MUST be behind it and have caused this maliciously. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
So, what are women waiting for to offer new things and innovations over the internet ? If it's run by men that's because they create business based on a need that's all. I think the question in the title is as stupid as "What if the electricity was invented by women ?" or "What if cars were invented by women?"
About #2, maybe this is something that is different in Schiphol compared to Heathrow. None of the things you mention here are a problem to me. I always get a picture in one go, my pasport fits easily (even with a cover), it doesn't scrumble because it is glass and it slides in automatically, both gates open automatically. Along with that I think there are 8 gates which are being checked by 2 or 3 people, but I might be mistaken of that.