skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The OS behind Nothing Phone?
>They burned the entirety of the country to the ground.

Categorically false. There were huge swaths of Vietnam that were off limits to bombing.

>Laos is the most bombed country in world history due to the US trying to stop Vietnam.

Yes, with a fraction of the warplanes, airmen, etc. due to advances in technology like strategic bombers and cluster weapons. The overall air efforts are incomparable to what transpired in WWII.

>What would be considered "all out" if not dropping the most bombs in human history, and double the amount of WW2?

If only there was a term to encapsulate such a concept...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_war

>There is no higher level.

There absolutely is a higher level. Google what happened to Hiroshima and Nagasaki near the end of WWII.
"988" is a perfectly valid 7 digit prefix. Turns out they're dealing with that fact by making 10 digit dialing mandatory in area codes that have it.
I'm not sure why it waited until the end to mention slave labor, and even then only mentioning it to discredit without evidence the prevailing belief that many of the slaves were Jews.
Three years ago I built a house to sell (I was general contractor) on a city lot my family owned. Before a single shovel of dirt was turned over, we had to pay around seventy thousand dollars for plan review, power connection, water, sewer and gas.

This really opened my eyes as to how much mitigation costs have risen over the years. I had built a house in the same area in 1989 and the initial costs were one tenth of that.
The term "white trash" denotes a socioeconomic class with distinctive cultural affectations stemming from having grown up in a very poor rural environment. The term is also regularly used as an insult against people not of that class, because it is viewed as such a low status thing to be. You can be educated and well-behaved and still unambiguously be white trash, and commonly referred to as such by other people both descriptively and pejoratively. It isn't a choice per se.

People who leave that environment are often very conscious that they are discriminated against for having the affectations of that class and try to erase them. Many people who grew up as white trash will self-identify as such in certain contexts, even if they no longer are, because it accurately conveys the socioeconomic class they came from and are not ashamed of it per se though people may treat them poorly for it.

I grew up as the platonic ideal of white trash. No one can tell today and people are surprised if they find out. When I travel into that environment I can still code switch.
Area codes that were not already using ten digit dialing and where the central office code 988 was already in use (i.e. there exist phone numbers in the area code of the form 988-NNNN) were required to switch to ten digit dialing for this (or renumber the 988-NNNN numbers, which is what area code 701 in North Dakota did).
Not the case for me at least. In Belgium we can still find horsemeat, I think, though it's hard.

In fact, one of our national draft breeds, the "Ardennais", has been saved because we were eating them after WWII.

No, it's really me absolutely unable to eat friends.
The annual variation shown in the graph immediately says tells me that a large portion of use is driven by academic forces. That can be a problem, but can also be an opportunity.

If the institutions driving Scratch adoption decide to switch away from Scratch, the community will be on much more unstable foundations. The opportunity here is finding non-education modes of engagement. Social engagements, viral engagements, or non-academic partnerships are all ways Scratch could strengthen its community.

Wishing them luck - it looks like this brings joy to a lot of kids.
It's also worth mentioning that Comcast is one of the largest "traditional" media corporations on Earth, and is therefore heavily motivated to act against media sharing (piracy).

Everything about their business outside internet service is built to be a vertical integration, so it's only natural to use their ISP business arm to support that.
Yes we are, Web technologies belong in the browser.

I wasn't impressed with MSHTML when it came up as Active Desktop, nor I am impressed with anything that followed suit.
This such a neat idea to do with kids. Thanks!
An ambulance to come get me after I slipped on the ice and broke my leg took me about 3/4 of a mile to the hospital, providing no additional care en route, cost $975 about a decade ago here in NYC.
This, to me, is another tragedy of the overly long copyright term. The author even somewhat acknowledges this ("I’ve even advocated for ... copyright terms to ... 75 years in order to limit that control").

I do respect Watterson for his stance but at the same time, I look at the effect of his stance and it's made Calvin and Hobbes inaccessible to a new generation so much so that I would guess that anyone under 30 thinks that Calvin and Hobbes has something to do with redneck culture or "southern pride" because of all the bootleg "Calvin pissing" stickers.

Ironically, Watterson even acknowledges this ("long after the strip is forgotten, those decals are my ticket to immortality.") but still won't even consider letting up control.

The author talks about Sherlock Holmes without acknowledging that one of the big successes of Sherlock Holmes is almost surely that it's in the public domain, which allows endless reboots from the same source material. We see Austen's work re-invigorated because it's in the public domain and I imagine we'll soon see more Howard and Lovecraft's work re-imagined because of it. There is a sprawling culture of re-interpretations from the Potterverse, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, etc., we just call them "fan-fic" without any real legal way for all those artists to keep producing content under that umbrella.

I would like to see an article that frames this stance not as some show of integrity but touches on the the deeper discussion of the social contract an artist has with the society they live in. The government puts the weight behind the artist to allow them to have a monopoly for a period of time with the understanding that, eventually, the artist has a duty to put their work in the public domain for everyone to use. By creating that term to be more than a century, this creates a void for media that that's older than 20 years but still not in the public domain, as it's not relevant enough to keep producing but not free enough for other people to experiment with and re-invigorate.
And for a better effect they could use paint that can cool below the ambient temperature by radiating infrared to space (if they aren't already using that, but it's probably more expensive):

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03911-8

Here is a YouTuber trying to making such paint:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3bJnKmeNJY

Another article:

https://greekreporter.com/2022/05/08/revolutionary-white-pai...
That's bad, but having three milennia artifacts everywhere you dig is somehow worse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A1diz
Lots of traditionally manufactured homes have the same issues you mentioned, it’s just people cutting corners for cost.
I worked for a well known charity as a project manager and we would routinely log into the prod server and copy over some other persons code on to it. Then just force a reboot of the sql server. That was bananas. I personally couldn’t write a single line of code
This seems more like a dystopian technology demo than a useful advancement in airport signage.
Don't be so sure about that:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2022/02/24/suic...

You can't anonymize your phone number which is all a data broker needs to connect to your identity.
Exactly. South Vietnam was in many ways like Afghanistan under US rule.
A lot of suicide attempts describe wanting to be talked out of their attempt. They want someone to help stop them. I've been on the receiving end of a call from someone who wanted to be talked down.

I think having a universal number to call if you don't have anyone else is valuable. Will it stop all suicides? No. Will it help reduce suicides in people who are considering but not yet decided? Yes.
I played with this a few days ago and it is still early days with rough edges but at the same time encouraging. I used the latest beta which supports Linux (the banner on the main site still says just Mac and Windows but the blog announces Linux support). The default app built after I increased the max file watcher system parameter and the dev mode reloaded quickly on changes after that. There was a flash of white as the app view loaded but I remember early Electron apps doing the same. Kudos to the devs for working on this - I’m hoping it brings some competition for Electron as it matures.
What would be more useful for people to do?

I've noticed this about society too. We often employ the "easiest" solution to some major problem. Look at homelessness, theft, drugs, mass murders. None of the solutions work. (All of the problems are seemingly ALWAYS on the rise - not fall)

I've been wonder if the actual root of the problem is everyone becoming an island. Communal interaction has been replaced with online interaction (social media).
Pretty obvious competitive pressure channeled upon middle class by the upper class in the US:

https://www.axios.com/2019/12/29/trump-att-outsourcing-h1b-v...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offshoring#United_States

This could be summed up in a certain passe word, and this word is "globalism". There was a moment when the usual suspects were scared: occupy wall street, and colossal media and political resources were spent since then to pacify the mob, redirecting the narrative towards bottomless fractal of idpol.

I guess there is little left to do for (lower-) middle class Americans, except moving to the EU and living the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Fire_(novel) dream.
We definitely moved on faster than that back in the 80's. We started with LOGO (which some people know as Turtle Graphics) and BASIC, but pretty much immediately went into other historical languages (prolog, pascal, cobol) and then to C, within a single semester. And through all that, we were always presented with the binary code (in Hex) so we were fully aware of how registers and boolean math worked.
What have I said that's incorrect, or where have I mischaracterized your statements? You wrote: The only way to break that equation is to squander your cut on overaggressive expansion. If "overaggressive expansion" is preventing profitability, why aren't any of the delivery companies reversing course and doing what you suggest?
What are you taking about?
Syllis Ramosa
Is it better to receive the suggestion to call the help line phone number than no reply at all?
you could argue that that's because we have such mild weather. in other countries typical changes in the weather are a bigger deal, so it's less appropriate for small talk. this would go some way to explaining why trains stop running when it's very rainy/hot/cold/leafy/snowy. we don't expect the weather to be drastic, and it rarely is, so we're not prepared for it when it happens.

I have no idea whether any of that is true (I doubt it), but it was interesting to write out.
We ended up redesigning the app to be better for "say" and "prompts", but our original design just had a couple of big number displays on the screen and a button - something he literally drew out first on paper. We had to basically fail at that before making it more text based.
I made a fairly complex app using tokio and async. I did not know how async worked in rust at the time. I didn't even know entirely why I needed tokio.
Having already known how to code, I gave Scratch a shot after hearing about it. I know I'm not the target audience, but despite "looking" friendly I found it very complex and not very intuitive at all. If the goal is to ultimately learn programming with industry standard tools, I think the time would be better spent learning those tools and fundamentals rather than becoming comfortable with Scratch and trying to transition to them.
The same mixed media programming existing in the Lego Mindstorms platform when I was a kid.

A bunch of my peers where using the visual editor, but I took the plunge and learned NQC to do my programming. Having multiple paths available to users helped the platform and broadened its accessibility.

I'll never forget the instructor teaching me to always make sure my curly-braces matched up. :)
How does this compare against existing open source authentication providers like Authelia and Authentik?
I've been trying out Authentik and have been pretty impressed with it.
Multiple anuses!

> It was the first branching polychaete worm to be discovered, with each worm having a single head and multiple anuses.

Another branching work was discovered very recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramisyllis_multicaudata
I never find the time to dive into it, but for years I carry the thought that somewhere in the general direction of “take the visual programming module of Scratch and make it talk to a cleanly designed high-level API of our business application” lies the key for tremendous feature development productivity, at least for some kinds of features — where from then on, our Product Managers simply go like “oh I know, let’s just put this block into that IF block and thus add another step to the user registration”, without the need to use precious dev resources.
QBASIC was also my intro to programming.

I think in a way it’s a shame that kids now first see visuals rather than code.

There’s something much more thrilling about seeing a bunch of written instructions become a game, than some sprites that already look a lot like the game start moving about.

Another awesome QBASIC feature - the help section taught you everything you ever needed to know to learn every feature.
What you've just described is ... an executor runtime. Even if you boil it down to doing "only" that, you still can only have one of that per thread, and there isn't just one way to implement that.
Cool tech, I have to say.

But... Clearly it opens up a big can of privacy worms. I suppose at an airport this will work because nobody really has any expectation of privacy there anymore.

The question is more about what's next. I'm walking through the local high street and the signs try to point me to the local Ecco shop because I bought my shoes more than a year ago?
Not familiar with installation as I don’t own a home, but do most roofs have the load capacity to handle all the solar panels?

One of the deadliest building disasters happened because of not respecting weight limits of the roof. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampoong_Department_Store_co...
I believe that Knuth knew very well the true meanings of "concrete" and "discrete" and he has just made a word play exploiting the fact that the "-crete" suffixes in the 2 words are homonyms.

However, not all his readers have understood the pun.
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
We have an Apple TV 4K and I tried that, but it introduces a small audio lag that totally wrecks Zooms echo removal since the USB mic doesn't have that lag. I probably could run an audio cable over there and use a separate speaker, but audio over HDMI works great. Both devices are on gbit ethernet, so it's not a wifi issue.

Sadly the Apple TV can't do any video conferencing at all, it's way powerful enough (judging by the games it can run) but the software can't do it.
> Web technologies belong in the browser

That ship has sailed a long time ago. These days sometimes whole operating systems are based on HTML based interfaces (LGs TV OS would be one example).
I would guess it is not only possible, but one of the intentions behind it. A percent breakdown of calls to involuntary commitments would be useful. I found something about a Florida Department of Family & Children suicide line having a 19% rate of involuntary commitment after a follow-up. (https://www.miamiherald.com/news/health-care/article26351131...)

It is scary to think about, but I think both swatting and this would be solved by authorities looking at the scene without blindly taking irreversible action. (In Florida, once the Baker Act involuntary commitment begins, it is required to continue for a couple days. Police examine the suspect before formally doing it, because it is a pretty big deal.)

That is not to say I agree (or disagree) with these calls being used for involuntary commitment, I just think the swatting problem is the symptom of an unrelated issue.
That's what I did also. I made explosions in Gorillas as I wanted them . I didn't know coding or language but somehow figured out if I change values here and there the explosion would be bigger.

Soon after that wrote program for deleting other programs. actually useful because we didn't know yet how to delete from DOS.

we were kids left with PC with no instructions at all. Parents were busy.

Now in hindsight I see my first steps were somewhat destructive.
This way you know exactly which browser people are using and you don't have to deal with idiosyncrasies.
Russia can't just sell the gas to somewhere else. The logistics issues prevent any wide scale utilization to the same level of a massive undersea pipeline.
There is no official store, and the official project does not reference any third-party vendors.

You do have options:

1. Do you want to buy a third-party device like a NitroPhone? If you can afford to purchase a phone in the first place, then purchase a used phone to try flashing GrapehenOS. You can buy multiple used devices for the cost of such a device, and then you can familiarize yourself with the flashing procedure.

2. Have a friend help you. There are probably events in your town that you could find on Facebook, Reddit, or Meetup (e.g., OS install parties are a thing).

3. Wait for the official project to begin selling their hardware:
https://twitter.com/grapheneos/status/1490518600339308544
Managing complexity and paying attention to details.
> that you're supposed to memorize

If the situation you are in means that you don’t have time, ability, means, or mental capacity to Google for the right number then the right number to use is 999.

It’s a self-solving problem.
Thanks, that’s interesting. Al is a pretty good IR reflector, and I believe most common mirrors these days use it as the reflective coating. Is the glass the problem?
Your view of 911 is incorrect. You should attend a safety briefing from your responders (or if in a smaller region, call their office number). To loosely rephrase:

"911 is if you need assistance now. Non-emergency is for the paperwork the next day."
What Is the Difference Between Proxy vs. Reverse Proxy
Ordinary people buy houses for far more than $300,000.
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32051914
Oh many people have tried adding namespaces to json. It's just that these people and their solutions are consistently ignored by most developers. If you consider that Json came out of the javascript world where people tend to prefer to not specify a lot of types, it's perfectly obvious that they would probably not want or need any namespaces. Never was a thing in Json. And good on Douglas for keeping Json simple. The comment thing is annoying indeed. Using a good parser, you can usually configure it to not freak out over stuff like that. But sadly that is not very common.

Elasticsearch is a positive exception. It will happily accept comments.
Fine-grained logic in async JavaScript can be a very special kind of pain. It's a rather specialized event loop, but the vast majority of articles treat it like "oh it's just a normal in-order event loop like every other".

It ain't. Unless your logic has no order requirements between async components, or explicitly accounts for things like "microtasks", there's a chance it's wrong... and it depends on your runtime: https://bytefish.medium.com/the-execution-order-of-asynchron...

(it's generally better to not depend on execution order in async systems anyway, but it's rather easy for it to sneak in sometimes. if it does, it may work on your machine but not on mine, or it might change based on what kinds of tasks other code spawns, if you press a button at a critical moment, etc)
All doomed. Google and Amazon, for example, will rewrite their many millions of lines of Java and C++ in Haskell by 2026.
I thought this was what MuleSoft was designed to be, though I haven't kept track of what it looks like now
I see people recommend Trans Lifeline all the time. Are you able to offer specifics on this?
What you had for dinner probably falls under the “meaningless information.”

The study seems to call out ability to accurately recite one’s life story, vividly recalling subsets of childhood experiences in details, not knowing they had mac n cheez last Tuesday.

I grew up rural and was way less distracted by trendy and/or random people all around energy. I can clearly recite events and back it up with pictures my camera obsessed father took through the 80-90s. My autobiographical awareness seems intact.

Mainstream life then and now comes along with pressure to defer expressing ourselves and serve “higher purpose.” It’s not so shocking people do so and then remember nothing; there’s probably not that much to recall if one’s path was constrained to “set aside personal exploration to serve by getting busy work job, do job all week, sit on couch parasocially recharging through others emotional performances on TV.”

That’s a pretty fractal cognitive existence. That’s why I am not a fan of lifelong “career” culture. Adam Smith wrote years ago extreme division of labor would make humans incurious and stupider than animals; current political trends seem to back up the idea as everyone clings to keeping their tribal bubble intact rather than explore new models.

Don’t smash my cognitive fractal, bro!
There is an integrated Minecraft 'Scratch' code editor now (https://minecraft.makecode.com/#editor) although that is probably targeting middle-schoolers. In my experience most teenagers coding for MC (not driven by academic forces) are just using Java directly.
Tor Browser's Connection Assist makes censorship circumvention easier
The 2+ million calls per year to the US suicide prevention hotline would disagree with you.
Something like this - https://github.com/nucleic/enaml#dock-item-alerts - this is a Python UI that has the capability (extended through Qt)
There are definitely structures in the US that were built prior to 1000AD. For example the first 4 stories of Pueblo Bonito were built around 850.

Some of the pueblos that were built around 1000 years ago are still used (e.g. Taos Pueblo, although most of the buildings have been retrofitted with modern conveniences like doors)
> if you're not going to hurt yourself, what do you want me to do?"

My brother is going through some stuff and got this exact response in the UK.

If you aren’t immediately about to harm yourself there’s basically no state provided resources.
Solar shingles are a relatively new consumer option I’ve seen deployed very effectively. Looks slick if done right and helps reduce/solve the problem you’re mentioning.
For the editing and duplicating stuff, keep in mind you can drag blocks into other sprites.
cough Peter Thiel cough

The fact that there is a whole cottage industry around his thinking makes me laugh.
DCF Reverse String task is my personal favorite, when evaluating sequnece-processing neural nets. So simple, yet puzzles systems with billions of parameters.

Love the conclusion too:

> In particular, we showed that state-of-the-art architectures, such as LSTMs and Transformers, cannot solve seemingly simple tasks, such as duplicating a string, when evaluated on sequences that are significantly longer than those seen during training. Moreover, we showed that models interacting with an external memory structure, such as a stack or a finite tape, can climb the Chomsky hierarchy, indicating a promising direction for improvements in architecture design.

Which other labs work in this direction?