skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"non-Safari browsers"
I thought all iOS browsers are technically Safari based?
what's the tldr on a proposed world where the unix mistake didn't happen? how could have computing played out and iterated better?
What is outrageous about investigating a person's motivations/psychology, and why does it become more outrageous if that person is deceased at the time of the investigation? You may disagree with the conclusion for some reason, but it seems like standard practice.
Please be aware, the entirety of the linked article and my statements below are both true.

There was a radar scan that revealed regular human-shaped anomalies in the soil.

Follow up investigations have reaffirmed that these anomalies were not equipment dysfunction.

In all of the digging that has taken place at this site no bodies have been uncovered.

No digging has taken place at this site.

To the best of my knowledge, no living person has ever seen a body located in one of these graves.

To the best of my knowledge, no one who would have been on hand to bury one of these bodies is still alive (or at least - none have come forward).

It is simultaneously true that no bodies were unearthed (specifically - removed from the earth) and that what is *strongly* believe to be a grave site was unearthed (specifically - discovered).

There appears to be a concerted campaign to spread "correct" information that strongly implies a state of the world that does not match the actual state of the world.
I'm glad Apple is opening up features for other browsers to use on iOS, but I don't understand how this nudges users? As soon as it is permitted, Firefox, Chrome, etc will switch from their WebKit based implementations to using their own engines.
The digital identity infrastructure space is already crowded, with players like Apple, Google and Microsoft working with governments and institutions, because they own the devices we use, and the entire point is that people will be able to use their phones to identify themselves everywhere. Apple ID is already like 90% there, despite having to trust Apple with your personal data, which nobody has a problem with. The Web3 approach of having to trust nobody is not really practical to begin with. Blockchains are slow and expensive. Worst yet it's still up to you to verify the client and whether it's connected to the authoritative version of the blockchain, since blockchains can be replaced by a fork. At that point you might as well trust Apple.
A 10MW+ solar installation costs > $100,000/acre. You can find land within 200 miles of the major cities of Texas for far less than that (and probably much closer than 200 miles). Or you can go far to the west to get land at maybe $1000/acre, but then transmission cost goes up.

If land cost ever were a serious constraint on solar, solar would have become so cheap that it would already have destroyed all the competition.
Ask HN: Are Open Source projects a good way to build a profitable sideproject?
I've tried a few side projects and being a developer, I mostly enjoy the coding aspect the most. A lot of my domain also tends to be in Software. Marketing which I've realized is as important as tech isn't my forte. Does it make sense to then do open source projects and find a nice? There seems to be a template that a lot of dev tools and cloud offerings of open source and providing managed offerings of said product. I'm wondering if this is overkill if all I want is a revenue generating side project.
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Moving to another generation can be done completely asyncronously on another thread that likely doesn't do any useful work on a modern, highly parallel hardware. `free` doesn't do much, but `malloc` does -- with the method I am talking about (TLAB in the JVM), you get as fast allocations as it gets, it's nothing more than a NON-ATOMIC pointer bump. Meanwhile malloc has to find an empty space that can fit the object at hand.

> > Also, just try writing rust/c++ code that relies entirely on RC vs Java in an object heavy workload - I really don’t think it is an open question in any shape or form.
> Yes, of course garbage collectors are easier to use than reference counting. Nobody has ever disputed this. That is the whole raison d'etre of garbage collectors. This is not what the discussion is about, it's about performance.

I am talking about performance exactly. Java's GC will smoke the hell out of C++'s shared pointers and Rust's (A)RC. Noone said anything about productivity/ease of usage.

And as mentioned by another commenter - your benchmark didn't take into account anything related to parallel execution, which would be the point.
I don't really see a reason to believe this list is comprehensive, especially looking at the sources.
A worthy entry in the eternal Annals of Human Perversity.

Windows 1.0 "driver" code ow ow gak
I wonder how many people are still using CF in a way that would make this tool useful.
I agree, Zillow has lackluster filtering. I’ve been working on something similar for people looking for remote work and aren’t particular about where they live. How did the project end up? What were the good parts and the bad parts?
Brave and Edge can compile the Chromium code base with any changes they want, including adding or removing features. On iOS that is not something alternative browsers are able to do.
I love compose, such a breeze to work with compared to XML
The nastiest feud in science (2018)
No licence file found.

> At this moment, it's being developed as a personal project

Maybe that's OK for now. Though guessing to be commercial they'd have to pin to the old wire protocol before MongoDB changed or cut a deal.
So you have $125M in your bank account, you're fcf+ and don't need capital but decided to give up your equity for another $45M. so now you have $170M in your bank account yielding 0%, for which you paid the cost of your equity, which I can assure you is in the triple digits... because you wanted a techcrunch article for prospective customers and employees, which you could have spent <$10m of the cash that you didn't need for? And 1.4% might seem like little dilution, but might be worth doing the math of the cost on a $$ basis? If y’all do well, which I’m sure you will, the cost will not be trivial.

A suggestion: if you want to really show progress and get a lot of press, do a buyback from employees/early investors instead. Signals to the world the level of confidence you have in your own stock.
In theory I agree, but in practice...

The exploit given here works on any device with the given driver, regardless of OS. Android is just the primary example since it is the 800lb gorilla.

And as the article mentions, just 2 hardware stacks make up nearly the whole ecosystem.
If only one drive fails why would you lose all your data?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/01/is-selling-sha...
I'm not an epidemiologist, so file this under "baseless speculation by an armchair non-expert", but influenza is an Old World disease - is it possible that First Nations people are more vulnerable to it? Ten seconds of Googling provided this link https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22032099/
US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor design
My realtor says that split level design is known locally as the "BC Box"
On Amtrak? Based on my last attempt - that would be zero meters.
There aren't many good reasons to make good web content like that today. Money? It's way oversaturated with people who can live off $400/y. Recognition? Your content will be stolen by the previous group a thousand times over. To make a difference? There are more rewarding ways to do that if you've got the deep industry knowledge.
In Putin's Russia, chess bot beats you!
Various aspects of this post struck me as automatically generated. E.g.:

> Cheap price. The appearance is exquisite.

Maybe I’m too cynical but I imagine this is a mechanical rehash of some actual human’s actual hard work.
So they have total respect for the person, but at the same time think they're "delusional or even stupid"?

OK, then.
People have always judged based on appearance. This is apparent when reading classic literature. Long-winded descriptions of individuals and various assumptions one could draw from these observations are very common.
That’s definitely valid for cloud on the public internet, but how fast can you pull local data on LAN?
Why should Canada exist, it should all be the US.
Which firms?
let's just get some perspective here

HE'S 84 YEARS OLD AND STILL DEFINING COMPUTER SCIENCE
Everything is going as planned.

One store credit to rule them all and in the darkness bind them.
Toilet paper (a.k.a.) Toilet tissue or Bathroom tissue
it doesn't matter what it's called, the underlying engine of any "browser" app available on iOS is apple-webkit. Because you aren't allowed browser engines on iOS, Apple rules, it's all a bunch of skins. Apple are so good at selling the lie of diversity that hardly anyone seems to notice this seemingly obvious truth... you aren't allowed to chose a browser on iOS.
That's HN. 8 years ago it would have been how Ethereum will make this all redundant
Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things.

Source: "Knuth versus Email" https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html
> Lastly, other things than button presses are encoded in IR, for example target temperatures in air conditioning remote controls,

The full state of some AC is stored on the remote itself, for example
http://diglo.altervista.org/blog/?p=1033

A stateless AC makes some special usecases possible: I'm trying to control a similar AC by infrared pulses sent by a very simple shell script (or python, or C code...) using as a thermostat not just the AC local reading but distant readings from a few Xiaomi Mijia thermometers https://esphome.io/components/sensor/xiaomi_ble.html#lywsd03...

The response curve could be tweaked to ensure all remote thermometer report being within a certain range.

Doing the whole thing in BPF (infrared + bluetooth) could be very fun!
Designers optimize for the common customer, which does _not_ want keyboard shortcuts or embedded CLI's etc.
Side effects of these vaccines is a big one. Their necessity is the other one.
> good ideas that don't make market sense

I think this is incorrect framing. You have to shape the market, not the idea.

Capitalism’s fault is not accounting for externalized costs, like climate change.

The market allocates resources very effectively, but the costs the market uses to allocate resources are lies. They omit costs that producers can ignore or otherwise avoid paying for.

If these externalities were captured and embedded into the price of the good/service, the market could actually account these issues.
Reference counting is garbage collection, just a different strategy - and all these strategies tend to blur to the same methods eventually, eventually offering a latency-optimized GC or a throughput-optimized GC.

Swift is inferior here because it uses reference counting GC without much work towards mitigating its drawbacks like cycles (judging by some recent posts, some of its fans apparently aren't even aware RC has drawbacks), while more established GC languages had much more time to mitigate their GC drawbacks - e.g. Java's ZGC mitigates latency by being concurrent.
> But you cannot do both. That’s why Intel is taking another stab at TPM/ME.

I trust Intel and their closed blob firmware much less that I trust Red Hat.

> While Intel is reworking (...)

> Of course, in these days and age (...) and for ME to be totally disabled (and if Intel ME cannot be disabled, then to never, ever use the management Ethernet port that ME is tied to).

I agree that the current Intel ME isn't trustworthy. It is "trusted computing"/"treacherous computing" after all. But I am also very skeptical about a "new Intel ME" being trustworthy as well.

> then to never, ever use the management Ethernet port that ME is tied to

This doesn't help a lot when the ME has powers over protection ring -1, and can arbitrarily mess up with your main system.
GP should be grateful we didn't get stuck with Multics, ITS, or TOPS20 instead.
Uhm,

The infra looks super depressing...

https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Kitsault,+BC+V0J+3T0,+Canad...
When a problem like this has equally bad solutions between Windows or Linux (or macos) it means the problem really isn't solved yet. This is kind of exciting, actually. It is one of those spaces where the XKCD "standards" joke plays out, but there really is an opportunity for someone to come along and solve it.
It was their streaming tech though that wasn't as good, rather than their rending of graphics as it was just a blurry mess and laggy.

Will give it another try.
And some standards (like Common Criteria) actually require you to bring your own FIPS-validated CSPRNG, which effectively makes a userspace CSPRNG unavoidable.

I wasn't aware that FIPS required your _entropy source_ to be validated in order for your library to be validated, though. BoringSSL, for example, just reads from RDRAND, getrandom(2), or /dev/urandom. Maybe the OS/CPUs it's certified for all have FIPS-validated entropy sources?
Can you link to an original source? I couldn't find one following that spammy blog.

From what I could find sarcopenia's exact causes aren't fully understood yet.

Regardless of the correct quantities protein does not need to come from animal sources. And if we want to live with less suffering and environmental destruction we'll need to reduce reliance on animal protein.
Argh, thanks for flagging. Looks like I can't edit :(
The science is correct. I'm not aware of much application of it commercially as of yet, up until relatively recently the higher efficiency of the silicon PN junction process has made better use of the surface area.

However, a major area of advancement on the horizon is multi-junction panels. These stack different semiconductors which each harness different wavelengths of light to harness more of the sun's relatively wide band of light.

I'm not sure exactly what junction chemistries we'll see in these going forward, but I'm sure the industry will be trying out just about every configuration we can manufacture.
With modern hardware it is very easy to serve millions of daily users from a single machine with simple software.

No one bothers because everyone loves their fast-as-a-snail framework in their favorite slow scripting language and they need massive infrastructure to scale it to serve less than 1k concurrent users.

Programmers have no one to blame but themselves.
>First off, this is not why Python has a GIL, but lets leave that aside.
Atomic writes are more expensive than non-atomic ones, but they are not slow operations in the grand scheme of things. If you properly implement acquire-release semantics, they are not even that slow under high contention. Compare this to a GC which literally STOPS ALL THREADS, it's nothing.

This is actually part of why Python still has the GIL. A GILECTOMY was attempted and multithreaded atomic refcounting made things a lot slower (going up with the number of threads) and even other methods were not sufficient for performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLqv11ScGsQ
> It's much more complex and expensive to do this for tracing live data

But this is what happens in a modern state-of-the-art tracing GC implementation, isn't it?
Is selling shares in yourself the way of the future
I'd stopped checking for updates a few years back and just assumed that TAOCP was done because he'd run out of steam... boy was I wrong
> GPT-3 wrote text from prompts based on the 36 original headlines

So, the lazy version. Plug in an already existing prompt and press a button. The interesting version is the one where they compare the headlines to the actual July 29, 2001. Or try their hand at writing a version for 2051.

Compared to reality it seems to be more misses than hits ... thankfully for the grizzly bears. But they did need to find particularly attention grabbing headlines for the scene. The painful miss is the guess that twenty years ago we would have a colony on the moon with a commercial spaceport and would be exploring the solar system in person.

The text of the Kubrick Times misses the online revolution, except a reference to communication satellites. But it is displayed on an electronic device that is prescient, right out of an Apple design studio. The headlines show a remarkably upbeat mood in the late sixties, despite predicting mass extinctions. A version written in the current zietgeist would tend more toward a dystopian hellscape in thirty years.
Why do nations exist, they should pay fealty to the WEF.
I wonder if Uber is feasible with wifi and cell tower location routing alone and if not how close you could actually get.
Finances for recent CS PhDs headed to academia
Definitely possible that Apple will win the identity wars. That said, I don't agree with the characterization of web3/web5 as "having to trust nobody". If anything, all the efforts around identity are meant to allow for bringing IRL notions of trust onto the internet. In other words, the whole pseudonymity thing is not a result of using blockchain, but just the fact that nobody's bothered to add identity verification to a lot of stuff happening in web3. That's changing though.
Yes, but the topic was about QVO drives still being too expensive in terms of $/TB. The Intel drives don’t really help in that respect.
Every newspaper that’s been around for over 150 years will have a history of fabrication and bias. That, on its own, means pretty much nothing.

Quillette and the New York Times are very different. Most of the New York Times’ energy is spent on regular gumshoe reporting. Very little energy is given over to opinion (including media criticism).

You’re obviously going to get a different reaction from reading a straight-up news article vs reading an opinion piece about media coverage.

I disagree with your contention that the Quillette reader comes away better-informed. I found the thing confusing. He seems to suggest that maybe the graves aren’t actually graves, but also says that thousands of children were known to have died there.

Surely the deaths of children is the real story, not the terminology used by some newspapers.
it marks the sunset... except they already rolled it back. The sun rises another day.
At the very least, it's SEO drivel written up by somebody who does nothing else than that regardless of topic, and is paid by output (or ad conversions, ideally).

I've come across this type of text whenever I was diving into a well-researched practical tech topic that I had previously no clue of: 3d printers, HVAC plumbing, car repair. It seems that the topic must be basic enough to attract lots of people, but still valuable enough to be worth the hustle.

Frankly I like that this is what search engine spam is becoming: almost usable, almost informative, at the very least good enough to teach you the words to define your next search ...
In this case I'd strongly suggest following up with an actual epidemiologist (which I also am not) but my assumption (also pretty baseless) is that when doing comparative population studies they do try and account for that affect.
I am still holding my breath for a Node framework that does everything Django does for me.

Honestly, we are most of the way there but for three holdouts; 0 config auth, easily extensible admin, and migrations.

User stuff isn't so bad with bcrypt but I'd really like to be able to type `framework create superuser` and `framework create user` instead of fiddling with user access and re-imaging user groups and permissions for the hundredth time.

Admin stuff always seems to be something relegated to a separate tool. No, please, please, please include it in the framework.

Most frameworks have you choose your own ORM (which is fine if they consistently use the same one in documentation), but for some reason Node ORMS always treat migrations as an afterthought or second class citizen (if they even consider it). Changing table structures in development to add a new column? Half of them just say, sorry, we're going to have to blow that away. The rest have either manual migrations or partially automated migrations written in the SQL dialect you happen to be using during development. My favorite of the lot I've seen so far is Prisma and even they have recently indicated they don't want to support transactions in migrations because they don't want to give you a "false sense of security" (well yeah, how about a real sense of security?). To be fair, even in python land Django is really the only one to have ever gotten migrations 100% right.
Such an interesting topic but the typography of the article makes my eyes hurt...
>'Eliminate...all facts'

Ah, I see that you wish to create a propaganda sphere so that no one questions your authority.

The fun thing about facts is that it's really easy to report on something factually while omitting the truth. For example, 'Man is shot while resisting arrest' is a factually true headline that appears all the time, even though the form of 'resisting arrest' is 'complying with all officer demands'.
If you use CF at all (even behind serverless transform, CDK, or some other translation layer), this would be useful, since it's a chart of what actually gets executed.
We have a video from three days ago of Ukraine taking out a number of plain clothes FSB officers in Russia using a switchblade.

https://twitter.com/uaweapons/status/1552012564485267456
Why does nobody seem to know what imperative and declarative mean?
I guess you could also have “Tragedy of the commons” good idea. Those could be adapted to capitalism with subsidies or other government funding, or VC funding

Not much of an expert in any of this, just openly postulating to invite conversation
The myth of the good savage that lives in harmony with the nature

... after, ahum, erasing a third of the megafauna of North America with their ecological and wise techniques 13000 years ago

Same as natives did in South America 11000 years ago.

And same as Australians did 30000 years ago in the rainforested Australia

And same as Africans did in the green land of thousand lakes, Sahara

And the same thing as Europeans did in Europe

Lets face it, we all are complete morons in that sense. Every culture by equal.

Hey a winter without gas could be coming!, lets set fire to the forests in half Europe this summer so we don't have neither gas nor wood in winter!.
This sounds like a lottery ticket if you're not willing to market it aggressively.
Yeah read the blog post, that's by design--the town was abandoned in the 80s and has been maintained by a private owner. I think it would be kind of cool to live there as an escape from the hustle and bustle of cities. Like living in a shack in the woods, except the shack has most of the amenities of modern life (circa 1980).
This is a modern GC:

https://kstefanj.github.io/2021/11/24/gc-progress-8-17.html

Way better than RC.
I think https://www.dreamsongs.com/WIB.html "2.1 The Rise of Worse is Better" is as good a comparison as one can get.

(I'm neutral but I like the historic context)
This. The more we like to think about things and be creative, the more our minds go to any number of imaginary situations, many of which can be negative. It's kinda the opposite of the age when we were all hunters and gatherers and our very source of anxiety was legit survival. So our minds were trained to NEED anxiety. But now it's so hard to turn that off..
Galileo:P
https://www.npmjs.com/package/color
Does Android have a malware problem with sideloading? The majority of users don't know how to sideload and don't do it. Technical users hopefully know what they're doing. In any event, if you google "android malware" most of the results are apps that slipped into the app store:

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/malware-hits-10-million-andro...