skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This is just a hack in the respective executable file format headers (a genius hack nonetheless from Justine)

Its a lot more then that. Look at the code. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan
You compile an executable with flags --nostdlib and --nostdinc because it includes cross platform standard libraries mapped to the OS specific magic numbers for system calls.

Think about a desktop computer with a graphics card. You can install either windows or linux on it. In both cases stuff gets rendered to the screen using the graphics cards. That is done through the driver, which maps higher level commands in libraries to instructions that graphics cards understands. While library format, is OS specific, the driver is essentially doing either ioctls or memory mapped io, both of which are the same x64 instructions.

So compiling everything with APE, means that library entry points are platform agnostic, and everything up the chain all the way to the game engine.

And, yes cosmopolitan only works on very basic things, as would be expected by the small number of people developing it, thats why I said IF it was adopted widely and developed further it would be possible.
How good is the recognition? One of the reasons I went with nest rather than ring was because the ML on the latter just wasn’t very good.
I find just using something (logseq for me) and turning it into a habit is so much more effective than worrying it's not quite right and trying to optimize by finding the perfect note taking app. Can it handle markdown? Can I search? Can I sync across devices and store it encrypted at rest? Good enough.

It's very similar to the people who constantly fiddle with dotfiles but never starting / finishing a project. There's this anxiety in doing that we cope with by doing adjacent things and fooling ourselves into believing we'll eventually do the actual thing.
Plenty of animals have been found to positive for Covid - and the animal cages in the market had numerous environmental positive samples. I think you mean that no source animals have been found -- but if the timeline in this paper is right, the zoonotic jump happened in late November and they didn't shut down the market and start testing until almost a month later -- so a strong case of "absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence"
Magic Lantern is an awesome example of the value which can be created by collaborative open source, despite the hardware manufacturer doing nothing to document or help. It's great because it's also very low risk for the user since the firmware mods are loaded on every boot, the camera is never perma-modified reducing the chances of bricking the device.

I wish one of the major mirrorless camera manufacturers would decide to openly endorse an open source model as an optional alternative to their own factory firmware.
Dupe from a day ago “Repurposing a dead spider to build an actuator (wiley.com)”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32234499
I think they are doing OK.

Delivering even 30-100Mbps to half a million customers all over the world is no mean feat. Complaining that your speeds dip below 100Mbps on a unmetred low latancy satellite connection is just pathological. Most of the world do not have access to this speed on fixed line networks. You can't get these speeds with even VDSL.. Fttp and cable are the only fixed technologies beating a satellite. Have a think about that.

That works out at several terabits of traffic at peak times. I think they should be able to make good improvements with more ground stations and inter satalite links even if they never launch another satellite.
> Zig is arguably in a different category and appears targeted to a more limited or lower space, in terms of general programming, which brings it more in the orbit of Rust. It's made clear that Zig's features and size will be purposely kept to the minimum, though its syntax is significantly complex. Which may hamper it, as it appears such complexity does to Rust, in terms of being picked up for general usage.

I don't understand the basis on which you're saying this. From where I'm standing only odin looks simpler, the other two just make different tradeoffs -- namely trading reduced metaprogramming facilities (and the danger of complexity that entails on user code) for more language features.

> It's hard to say how attempting to be a "better Rust" or attempts at taking on C, will work out. But, it does seem clear it's not going for more general and wide usage that languages such as Object Pascal, D, or Go cover.

D and Go are closer to rust than zig is, and object pascal is also just another OO language. Of those, only Go is even attempting to be a better C, but requiring a runtime prevents it from being a true competitor.
Not Google, but up there. And I don't like my IDE indexing for 2 minutes every time I pull and recompile.
Not sure why you're being downvoted for your opinion. I think it's quite clear all we have are theories at this point and if anyone knows, it would be the Chinese government.
Yeah, it's interesting to think about. I've often wondered what would happen if a structurally identical configuration of matter and energy representing "me" manifested somewhere.

Taking it further, is the atomic world the only medium where this "me" could be represented? What if there were a perfect digital model of "me"? Would that be conscious?

What other mediums might be able to support something similar to our notion of consciousness?
People have some guns in rural places worldwide but you almost never encounter them. Gun ownership rates drop off fast after the US (I think the 10th highest country is 1/4 of the US rate) and the rates keep dropping from there. Also while rural farmers may own a shotgun or a rifle they mostly leave that locked up at home, the chances of you meeting someone with a gun is pretty tiny. Only exceptions I can think of are perhaps some Central American countries.
I’ve gone through most of the notable note taking apps. About a decade ago, I tried to use Tinderbox[0] but it didn’t stick. I attribute that mostly to assuming it would provide some structure.

Recently, after giving up on Obsidian, I went back to Tinderbox. This time I read the creator’s book (The Tinderbox Way) and it clicked. The programmability with agents, note prototypes, and so on really works well with what I’m doing. Linking is simple, much like roam or Obsidian.

It’s pricy and it has a bit of a steep learning curve but if you push through, it’s really powerful.

[0]: http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/
Just so we're clear: if you have an outage, then I have an outage?
Well, no matter how rational you are, it is still your conscious self that is perceiving the physical world and is just trying to makes sense of it. What happens to "you" after the death is really not related to understanding physical world, or at least not strictly dependant on the physical world. Which, at least for me, it means anything is more possible than just oblivion.

The not-knowing factor (of what happens in your life) is what drives most people to live, so why wouldn't give one a positive drive to actually live life and find out the same thing about death. You just don't skip high school to find out things what life in 40s will be like. :)

Edit: I hope I did't invoke illusion of being religious in any way. It's a purely philosophical way of questioning something you cannot possibly know.

Edit2: Also, other repliers (that obviously read more books than me) explain some really great theories
Robot dog equipped with submachine gun is ‘dystopian’ nightmare fodder
These sorts of challenges work great for engineering problems where a little bit of money and a lot of sweat is all that is required to figure something out.

Fusion research is not that- it needs very large equipment investments for decades for even the most trivial experiments.

If we had tried to get to the moon with the same model we'd still be waiting!
What was the thing that was trying to kill you?
I would consider that a lab leak and to focus on the epicenter without looking at the obvious leak from the lab next door is just propaganda to make people not look to close. Because anyone that says "covid-19 originated from the wetmarket in wuhan" implies that it was not a lab leak.
I think Larry Brin's "The Transparent Society" is the best read on the topic. Not predictive of all outcomes, but many aspects of modern surveillance he did see coming.
Is the only way we will accept something like autopilot is if it has a perfect driving record? Is it not enough to be better than humans on average? Thousands of people die in automotive accidents, but we don't think twice when a human is behind the wheel.
State of PostgreSQL 2022 – 13 Tools That Aren't psql
> how did the virus get to the live market?

My guess is that someone was selling animals from the lab that were supposed to be destroyed.
But is there "Gemini over HTTP"? You can serve text/gemini files also HTTP(S), and also local files too. (On my computer I have it set up that it is capable of loading files of this format (locally and remotely), although most other programs are not capable of understanding this format)
Didn't tumblr's porn censor censor their own post announcing it? Or am I misremembering.
Stuff like this is sorely needed. Glad to see people jumping on the problem. It would be nice if you also included all the UI components for managing all these permissions and users. E.g. you cover the model and all the UI upkeep and I just bolt it on to my app. The amount of man hours we have all spent reinventing the wheel on this area is mind blowing.

To echo the other commenter, I would strongly suggest offering a self hosted option. E.g. same IAC and your cloud but I can host a copy on my cloud.
> For example, if there really is a “soul” that is able to influence (and be influenced by) my brain, then what is the physical mechanism for that interaction?

Apparently, something to do with brain microtubules & quantum vibrations.

https://youtu.be/xGbgDf4HCHU
I also use vim. I prefer to keep wrapping off and line length go to 80 or so chars.

I find it easier to read this way rather than have wrapping turned on. Wrapping isn't nearly as good for my comprehension as a line break after 80 chars.

Different people have different preferences
Most of the real world "microservices" usage outside of FAANG has been to legitimize polyglot development (a net negative for most organizations) and the to create heretofore unseen levels of Conway's law. A microservice per person? Sure, why not?

It's madness. The solution is to avoid the polyglot issue by fiat and to ensure that there is some actual planning and rationale around when it makes sense to add a service. Most groups I've talked to don't even have a good answer to "why is this in a separate service from that?" when asked, and I've talked to a lot of them.
Very much so. All across the board.

Notably in particular to me, there's a wide & growing set of distributed computing tools & libraries, DSoftBus[1] & others, for cross-device systems.

Im a huge lover of Cast & OpenScreenProtocol, but these work bevause they are kinda lo-fi, simple, & I have awe respect & reverence for the attempts being made here. Good luck! Diving into really hard problem spaces, & giving potential app & devices makers a lot of rope.

[1] https://developer.harmonyos.com/en/docs/documentation/doc-gu...
AFAIK only (some) CD-Rs had a gold reflective layer, factory-pressed CDs use aluminum - so no gold, no silver. It's a bit strange that they started the whole project apparently without having a clue whether it would have actual practical value ("We used gold CDs, and we want to explore silver-based CDs, which I believe are more common.").
Writing a Custom Ansible Module (2020)
In five years (or maybe 20) you will regret not being with people. You won't so much regret the things you didn't get done; you'll regret the time you didn't spend just playing with them, listening to them.

But that's more for a year from now. Now you're just trying to survive. Sleepless nights are hard.

One thing you should consider: If you can afford it, hire someone to do your housecleaning. You've got bigger things to do with your time.

> They're a joy I didn't know I could have and fill a hole in me that I didn't know was there.

> I'm so confused right now.

People grieve differently. There's no particular way that you're supposed to feel.

My father died recently. I'm his executor. I think I'm doing OK, but I have been so busy with his affairs that I haven't really had time to feel. That may show up later, and I may be surprised at what I feel then.

Maybe, with the birth, you haven't had time to feel either - or at least, haven't had time to sort out your feelings. That's OK. It will come. Until then, there's nothing wrong with having these mixed feelings.
> If you’ve ever awoken from general anesthesia, you know what death will be like

How? Death is obviously very different from your body being alive an unconscious. You are just assuming they must be the same thing. Why make that assumption? The only reason I can think of is that the feeling of “time just skipped” conforms to your pre existing presumption that death will also be like that, but I don’t have that presumption. You would need to argue that death is like losing consciousness, but you haven’t tried to do so, and it’s not obvious at all to me that it is true
> The flexible circuits then would be removed and stuck onto a person. With the help of a smartphone app, medical professionals or patients could get readings and track progress over time.

1) Draw a circle

2) Draw the rest of the owl

/s
This is not limited to Alexa or seemingly unnecessary tech gadgets.

This includes ALL your data. Gmail, Google, Android.

So unless you're opting for iOs (provided they're not doing the same as Google here) and not using Gmail or Google you're still falling under "Surveilled by the gov via tech company who serves their interests and not yours, even if you pay money for their services".
> The lab leak is more plausible

> you cannot claim one is more probable

Am I missing something here?
Youtube has discovered a new revenues source, what you sleep-watched. They can shovel whatever they like - whatever is the best $$ spinner. It might be worthwhile to have rooms full of raspberry Pi's 'watching' and clicking.
I see the exhaustion of an advertising platform as there is push back as invoiced clicks fail to meet projected revenue flows and are culled.
That's just a copy of you though. It's not you. If I offered to teleport you to work every morning, super convenient and free, but the teleporter destroys your body and creates a new identical copy at the other end every time, would you use it?

There's an SF story where someone invents a teleporter, and it becomes very popular, but then one of them goes wrong and doesn't destroy the original body.
So they are using u32 for their mtime, which is better than i32 because of the y2038 problem...

However that just means they have just another odd 70 years left after 2038, right?
The same advantages can be achieved by separating things into libraries or discrete packages.

Microservices just takes that and spreads it around a K8S cluster using gRPC or RESTful JSON or some other RPC bus for all the various modules to talk to each other, consuming far more compute resources and helping increase atmospheric CO2 and make cloud vendors rich. Why is calling a library running in a separate task (possibly on a separate CPU) via gRPC a better approach to code modularity?

The only time this makes sense is when you are (1) totally huge and (2) have specific hot regions of your service that you want to autoscale relative to the rest of the service.

Incremental upgrades can be achieved by just incrementally cycling your service, no microservices needed. Doing so when only some modules change can be achieved with CI without the crazy runtime overhead.
The former meaning is still prevalent and rising in use. Enough so that the story was confusing until I figured out which "hacking" they meant.
> a service around every single table in a database with an absolutely ridiculous spaghetti of inter-process communication to tie it all together

For what it's worth, I suddenly feel a lot better about my employer's architecture. :-) But we still call them microservices because language.
They could have done that by making more streamlined XMPP clients or improving release engineering for servers, or creating new logos to rally around, or solving the spam problem or pushing the idea of “Jabber home servers”, or provide services to aggregate RSS, or even making a completey open-source and open standard “skin” for a Slack experience, or protoyping a Websocket replacement for BOSH, or write Javascript XMPP libraries that let devs hack on the front end. But they did not do any of that.

It’s as if the people involved with Matrix don’t really know what is available for XMPP, or have studied its history to see what is in store for their own efforts.

I have a friend that was seriously trying to create a service backed by Matrix. He saw it as a way to bring e2ee to more people. Yet recently, when I revisited XMPP and discussed it with him, the more I dig into XMPP, the more I’m scratching my head — why didn’t we just start with XMPP?
The funny thing is I'm of the opposite mind.

"Convenience and if I go missing mysteriously Google will hand info over to the people trying to find me? Win-win."
Same. I keep hearing that people have had bad experiences with microservices, but I'm not sure what those bad experiences are. I certainly don't relate to them. We had a monolith, and it devolved into a mess--managers would insist on people taking dependencies on stuff they didn't own in the name of expedience ("yeah, we'll totally circle back and do it the right way lol"). Microservices kept things neat by making dumb things hard. We were also able to deploy individual services much more frequently without needing to coordinate with a bunch of other teams, and builds, tests, etc were much faster helping shorten our iteration loops.

Local development environments were a bit more tedious in certain cases, but that was the only issue I recall.
The entire premise of the argument is flawed anyway. There are many factors for cases and hospitalizations / deaths. You can't cherry pick one comparison, at one point of time, and determine the attribution of one specific policy out of all the noise.

However, the only gold standard study done on cloth masks to my knowledge found no statistically significant benefit. If we are talking about cloth masks, I think we would have to accept that any benefit from them is very minimal at best.

Other types of masks like surgical or of course n95 do prove beneficial.
> It’s also the same as what it was like before you were born.

1. How do you know this? It doesn’t seem obvious that it would be the same before being born as after death

2. How do you know you just don’t remember what happened then?
This isn't being applied by the FCC, its being implemented in a response to public and political feedback, presumably on the basis that Disney allows advertising on most of their other ad-supported platforms which have more conservative audiences.

Axios didn't do a particularly good job of clarifying the relevance of information about broadcasters in their piece.
Are there any FOSS alternatives to this?
Adrian Courrèges’ blog (http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/) has a lot of posts about how various games perform their rendering.

e.g. How MGSV renders a frame: http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2017/12/15/mgs-v-graphic...
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Don't worry adolph we still need to pretend that this is the leading cause of death in the world and that economic recession will not responsible for 10-100x this based on historical evidence.

Frankly turning this on it's head, Russia should be applauded for pushing so many people toward green, renewable and truely economically viable energy sources, I nominate putin for the nobel peace prize based on his efforts here.
Not for me, but I (almost always) very intentionally start a 10 hour long track of something like "rain and thunderstorm noises" or "raging snowstorm and crackling fire noises" right before going to bed.
> And nobody is actually offering a plan to manage the pain applied to the working class

Increasing taxes on higher income/wealthy and redistributing the cash to the poor. It is always the plan when a solution to a different problem is regressive.
You are not giving up privacy to a prosperous society, you are just giving up privacy.

I couldn't find evidence that mass surveillance is good a society.
Why do people still put a camera in their homes connected to the internet?

That itself is the most bizarre behaviour.
Don't get a fake dog for home security.

Get a real gun. Then go to a tactical trainer who has served in the military ideally in a small arms instructor capacity - they're all over the nation - and inquire about home defense courses.

And don't get a "handgun", get an AR-15 "pistol". That is, an AR-15 platform, a stabilizing brace, and a shortened barrel. If you're unsure what all this means, don't worry, your local firearms dealer will almost certainly know and understand if you come in and ask for those things. If a break-in occurs, you'll be too nervous and too frightened to aim well with your standard 9mm handgun. An AR-15 with a stabilizing brace and a shortened barrel with a vertical forward grip is sturdy, you can brace it against your shoulder (obviously), and it has sufficient power to stop an intruder.

At the end of the day, you and only you are responsible for your own safety. Even if you live in a gated community, you cannot count on your local security or law enforcement to arrive quickly enough to save you. Remember the old adage. "When seconds count, the police are only minutes away."
Don't live so close to your neighbors? Easier said than done, but on the long scale...
One could argue the exact opposite: the fact that you wake from anesthesia (and sleep) with your identity intact indicates that it still exists even during these periods of unawareness. So if your identity can be restored after sleep and anesthesia, why not after death as well?

(For the record: I'm totally with you that there is no life after death. All I'm saying is it's not a slam-dunk, and it is particularly not a slam-dunk on the phenomenology. You need to know a lot about how the brain works in order to conclude that there is no afterlife.)
While we're on the topic of finding stuff in Emacs, check out the `consult-ripgrep` [1] command from the Consult package by Daniel Mendler. Consult coupled with Orderless [2] package is a super power. You can even export the results (using Embark [3]) into a wgrep buffer, make edits on just the search results, and have them applied across the code base!

[1]: https://github.com/minad/consult#grep-and-find

[2]: https://github.com/oantolin/orderless

[3]: https://github.com/oantolin/embark
Amazing how much better VSCode Remote is than JB Gateway so far. Constant crashes in Gateway, and manages to get really tripped up trying to work with a corporate firewall that VSCode handles easily. Hoping Gateway gets there in the next few versions.
DALL-E 2 used to create first ever AI generated magazine cover for Cosmopolitan
> https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/blob/master/src/btreeInt.h

Woah, Ben! I'm so glad the above link was shared above; thanks to the poster as well. There's a very good amount of in-depth knowledge shared via comments and a reference to Donald knuth's book
On the device itself, perhaps. Video data stored encrypted, metadata not.
the inference being here that companies paying fines at this level are completely above board and trustworthy?
Iam not sure. That means that it has to log every triggered sensor.

I only have nest protect (stove heating) with occupancy sensor/pathlight and I really dont think it will record motion events nor submit them later (while connected). Could be wrong.