skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate these awful GMO trees! Why can't we have certified USDA Organic trees anymore!
I mean I'm Ghanaian and DL156 is the only non-stop flight from the US to Ghana, and only one of two to the entire region afaik (the other being EWR to LOS)

Just going based on how long it's run, the prices myself and family have paid for tickets relative to destinations a similar distance away, observed usage of capacity on each flight, and the fact it has literally no competition, they wouldn't up and cancel it short of some sort of safety threat to their staff or business. Definitely not because a problem airliner gets noted.
Apple to start manufacturing iPhone 14 in India as it seeks alternative to China
That graph with the green 'blind spot' deserves some praise. A lot of people might have missed the (in hindsight) obvious censoring problem with the data and just ran with the conclusion that the duration is decreasing rapidly.
> So I approached the whole thing as a computer scientist

I expect you can't not approach everything this way because you were programmed.
Isn't the encryption password optional?
I waited four years for a reproduction (from https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/) plus another year to complete the keycaps. Worth the wait. Expensive and it has an oddball layout, but the typing feel is glorious.
Very sad indeed. A great loss. His great music will remain.
This should end well!
You heard IshKebab, the entire field of chip design is not very technically challenging, obviously they have the pedigree to back up such a bold statement and are too modest to tell us
This is very simple to understand: in the long run, price tends to marginal cost of production. Open source represents the logical endpoint: since marginal cost of software is ~0, the endpoint is something with price ~0. SaaS is a response, but open source is already chipping away at the low end.

As for the general thought about experts, consider web browsers. Advancing the state of the art is extremely expensive, yet the browser vendors are more or less forced to give it away for free. The browsers that either charged money or weren't open source ... for the most part died out.
Ask HN: Where is tech leading us if our humanity is sacrificed for profit?
complete anecdata but I have a 2015 a Macbook I still use everyday.

I have been through several Dell XPS's in that time.

The build quality on Mac is unparalleled.
There's legislation in many places to make this easier - it's typically called 'community solar'. You build a separately metered solar installation somewhere, and people nearby typically 'subscribe' to the power at some fixed rate, and it gets credited to the account associated with the meter at your house.
#whataboutism

"invading Afghanistan and killing two hundred thousand random people"

there's that word "random" again. You disqualify yourself from any serious discussions when you keep using that. You're throwing around crazy numbers like someone on The View.
There is opportunity to do a lot of things, but it'll never happen unless it gets tied into some broader agenda. "Enabling the common man to run their own power company" isn't something that gets people to the polls, so I seriously doubt it'll ever happen.

See also: those "crazy/wacky/funny laws in <city/state/country>" books and listicles that feature antiquated laws that are still on the books (some of which are most certainly unconstitutional) but nobody cares about enforcing them, so there exists no political will to repeal them.
You only have to build the alternative once. Yes, there have been some areas where proprietary software has held its ground, but has done just that- it has not replaced free software in the areas that it has control over.

The takeover of free software may be slow, but it is one-directional.
Language models show that language is predictive, not rule based.

Every bit of research in the last 30 years shows this.

If you want to ignore that and use rule based approaches, that’s fine, but you’re a) wrong and b) it doesn’t work.

/shrug

Of course people want rules, they think it’s a shortcut to learning.

…but there is no shortcut to learning. You have to do the hard work.
I always felt the high fat diet was more likely...
Try the reverse. Use Pomodoros only for the distractions but not the actual work.
FWIW, they look nice, but not $3000 nice: https://keycap-archivist.com/maker/kbk-kwk/mummy-ii. Feels like the equivalent of a "if you know, you know" luxury clothes brand.
Why don't you get one of the mechanical keyboards in an Apple layout?
Yeah I read that paragraph and don't get what they are talking about. I don't understand what problem they are solving. I build docker images for my .NET web app multiple times a day and it works fine. You do a publish and then in Dockerfile do:

COPY bin/Release/net5.0/publish .

It works fine. WTF are they talking about a mismatch between explicit definition and the .NET build process?
We (telepathy labs) have our entire platform built in .net core. Most engineers are using macbook pros with a mix of Rider / vs studio ma for ide). The only real issue has been nuget packages with amd64 only binaries bundled in (I’m looking at you librdkafka). You can usually work around theses sort of issues though. Overall its certainly a productive and stable environment, for us at least.
Assume this is a joke, right? Have to add the ;-) even for nominally bright people.
I'm not saying that's wrong, but I know that many or most patent infringement cases are tried in front of a jury. There are no criminal charges in those.

So in at least some civil cases, one side can request a jury trial. I'm not sure in which ones.
Vill. Of Woodmere vs. Workman
Victims of MKULTRA don't usually get high-level briefings about the program, but I was given glimpses of what those psychopaths were up to because, for one, my direct handler had a penchant for bragging. Also, although I was only a boy when they started on me, I had a central role in advancing the techniques used on me; my ability to resist their demands on my intellect was diminished by the controls they placed on me.

Some personal observations:

- Don't believe anything about which division of which agency is up to what. The intelligence community is a shell game, and everyone of consequence has a license to compartmentalize, which means they lie about what they are doing and for whom, even to their colleagues and official superiors.

- At some point in mid-1970s a large contingent of MKULTRA, perhaps the whole remnant, decamped from the Central Intelligence Agency. From what I can tell through my tiny peekhole, they lost none of their access to facilities and assets but lost all of their accountability.

- The article is spot-on about how underappreciated the role of hypnosis is. In MKULTRA, psychology is not the science of the mind but the art of human control. Hypnosis offers the preferred leash where individuals are compelled to specific acts. I was told that the intelligence community intended to misdirect the entire academic community of psychology, distorting their research to detract attention from the proprietary techniques used by intelligence operatives; I don't know if they did.

- I've been subjected to a range of what is called torture. No one will admit it, but torture is just a recreation for the psychopath within. At most, it's a crude adjunct to clever manipulation. That said, there is nothing comparable physical pain so severe and widespread that it overwhelms your ability to retain a central identity. The desperation turns you sideways to time.

- Hypnosis doesn't scale for control of populations, but many of the refinements of instructions for hypnotics improved the handbooks of propaganda.

This conclusion to the article rings true:
>"The essence of the matter is that America’s mind control saga is not confined to the annals of CIA history, or even CIA torture rooms. In psychiatry, in social science, in the entertainment business and in social media, MKULTRA is the fabric of our lives."

[edited for paragraphing]
Fair point, but I'm also not going to read a 392 page book just because a hacker news commenter recommended it. The title of "three felonies a day" certainly seems provocative and unexpected. It seems at least somewhat fair for someone making such an outrageous claim to be responsible for substantiating it. Why don't you furnish some sort of review/summary that lists what the three felonies are?
`extension()` gives you an `Option`, remember `Path` might not be a file or file could be without extension.

Why not `((path.extension() == Some("bundle"))`? I don't know, it didn't work, and I didn't want to spend too much time on it.

`read_dir` gives us an iterator over `Result<DirEntry>`, so `e` in that map is a `Result` and not a `DirEntry`. It's two different "map" functions - on Option<T> and Result<T,E> it maps "T", but on Iterator it maps "Item" from that iterator.

Here is an explanation why `read_dir` give you a Result - https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/fs/fn.read_dir.html#errors
Yes, exactly the same as spending cash vs. credit. Conscious money spending is even less important than conscious time spending.
And plasma!

Yeah, was about to say - grid level arc flashes don’t even require being particularly close to a conductor, let alone provide enough time for the miscreant to feel pain before becoming chunks or vapor.

It can leave cool scorch marks though!
That’s great! Would love to see ruby supported for my use case
It wasn't always like that. I think it changed 2 or 3 years ago.
Just some experience with publishing business as a writer several years ago, and knowing the people socially.

Maybe I'm missing who is challenging the established narratives and taking the risk as an iconoclast. Who is publishing right now whose ideas are challenging? Taibbi? He still compromises himself for access. Hirsi Ali? She still hedges, even though she's probably got more balls than anyone these days. Houellebecq is only tolerated because he's unthreatening to anyone. The Slate Star Codex guy writes like he still needs brunch invites. Substack is great, but it's not the discourse. The examples I'm thinking of stood on their own so well that they kept their subjects honest. Orwell, Mailer, HST, Mencken, Hitchens, Vidal, Hersh. Writers who traded on integrity to their craft so that their subjects were measured against it. Very best of luck to your writer, I hope you can serve his work honestly.
https://archive.ph/erN4B
> Many people have been successful because they aren't in the industry and "don't know anything

Do you have some examples?
I think those that were successful despite not knowing anything had other advantages, as the parent is saying (a lot of money, some friends, some expertise in some other field that was applicable to this problem...). So I think it's a fair question.
The thinnest slice of ... end to end...? Maintainable by one person?

Something like a microcontroller based remote weather sensing node, or a garden night-light, powered by a 1-watt PV panel. That has generation, transmission, conversion, storage and end use all in one package. End to end. Very thin. Maintainable by an individual.

A business? Hire a registered electrical engineer who specialized in Power Systems Engineering. Likely, you'll need several, because of the sub-specialties. Lawyers too. This is not 1887. We have a lot of laws about consumer and third-party safety now.

If you just want to learn about generation and distribution, get an EE degree specialising in Power Systems.
Thanks for the insight. Looks like the unified memory does provide a lot of complementing value to RAM in general then. However, I am wondering, what would be the value of adding more physical RAM compared to having it provisioned via swap?
Then you might be interested in

"Unix: A History and a Memoir"

also by Brian Kernighan
New Yorkers with pot convictions will now be the first to get to sell it
https://archive.ph/ZajlG
There are plenty of cool alternatives but one I’ve used and don’t see mentioned here is Dokku, which was trivial for me to set up on, in my case, a cheap droplet on DigitalOcean.

https://dokku.com/
A bit unrelated but I love the use of stable diffusion here, and thanks for providing the prompts as well for reference!
> Jai certainly isn't going to do anything about how buggy software is.

Nothing is going to do that, except the competence of the developer.
This content is nicely titled: 'Creation isn't what you think it is.'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o8mGHN9t10

It gives a nice quick and better overview of the point I was trying to bring out. The video here is produced by the Dominican House of Studies in Washington DC.

> I don't think the Pope believes what you are saying.

I can't speak for the Pope, but you can quite confident that the definition of creation expressed in the video is the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church and very likely identical or essentially identical to the teaching of the Eastern Orthodox church.

> I am only saying that I don't think it is a common understanding of Christianity

You're Right! And I stand by my statement. :^) Common Christians need to do more homework.
You would need to map the relevant loci and then use a speed congenic selection strategy. Done in mice easily. Mapping the loci modulating traits like disease resistance or taste is the hard part.
> It's simpler just to make the privately run prisons illegal so as to avoid any moral hazards.

What are the moral hazards here? The people running the prisons aren't the ones sentencing/convicting criminals.

>If the facility is under utilized less investment will be needed in the future and conditions can be improved for existing inmates.

What's the difference between wasting money because the state didn't meet the minimum inmate quota, and wasting money because the state invested in a 1000 inmate prison but there's only 600 prisoners?
I got an odroid go super for porting postmarketOS but got stuck at not finding an actual kernel for the thing to build.
Absolutely agree. Just watched the first five minutes of that clip you linked and I 100% agree.
Jonathan is an inspiring person that had a huge impact on my personal trajectory.

If you want to be a top notch programmer/artist/craftsman, you need to put in the hours.

I had to come to terms with this when I realized that I was not going to be a famous musician, because I didn’t put in the hours.

Now that I have kids, my priorities shifted and I want to put in the hours with my kids. Which means, I won’t put them into anything else. And I am mostly fine with that.

If someone else chooses differently, that’s their choice to make. With the accompanying consequences.

If you want to put in 60-80 hours a week into your work, that means that you won’t spend those 60-80 hours with your kids.

You might end up in history books, but that might mean you didn’t celebrate your kids scoring their first goal along the way.

Take your pick.
> Well an extension can also just send your session tokens home

Only if I give it access to the browsing origin in question, which Chrome has done a lot of work to limit and crack down on recently

> Mozilla requires a manual code review before allowing add-ons into the store because of this afaik.

This is unfortunately not actually true. They tried it for a while, but scrapped the idea after the review backlog got too unmanageable. Now all of the addons just say "This add-on is not actively monitored for security by Mozilla. Make sure you trust it before installing."

> In my example there was direct user interaction (clicking a context menu) but the service worker (background script) has no API to interact with the clipboard at all.

That makes sense—the limitation is just that nobody has built out the clipboard API in a way that it can register a context menu item as a transient activation and therefore allow access to the clipboard. This does sound like ultimately something that's possible to fix with the right plumbing, it just requires someone to take a look at it and hook up the right security plumbing.
I had never heard of a cord as being a unit of measure.
It’s 3.6 cubic metres in my units, which is easily a season for me (in a much more mild climate).

A cord is apparently the length of a piece of string.
That’s the second ridiculous unit of measure I’ve encountered today - shoe sizes are incremented by in barleycorns.
Our whole team does .NET development using VSCode on M1 MacBooks. Our primary API is C# / .NET Core & front end clients are all in React / React Native. We love it.

No friction points that I can think of off the top of my head. Biggest upside is that it just works seamlessly. When switching between code bases, pulling PR’s for review, etc. it’s quite nice not worry about things like whether you have access to the iOS emulator.
They probably have no firm idea about the key genes involved in resistance. There could be half a dozen.
How do you run Flink on it anyway?
There's also crowd-sourcing, which can be a viable option for a self-publisher. It seems like, if you have an interesting story to tell, people are willing to give you money to see it come to fruition.
Iridium and Globalstar show that it‘s possible.

Both support handheld, battery-powered client devices (some even smaller than smartphones), and the former has been using inter-satellite links since day one.
At least four, and the hard labour is usually in summer for me, when the heat is a negative.
Shoutout to Technology Connections on the topic: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv0jwu7G_DFVIot1ubOZdR-KC...

He apparently has 4 videos on it!
> Maybe I'm missing who is challenging the established narratives and taking the risk as an iconoclast.

I think you're possibly moving the goalposts from simply 'publish' to 'be internationally recognised and lauded for major critical thinking'.
These are not GMO plants—just selectively bred plants. This is similar to almost all domestic animals and most plants.
Apple is seen as premium brand by most of their customers who are willing to pay more just for that alone.
Overpriced image is certainly justified based on price they charge for upgrades (8gb to 16gb, 256gb to 512gb etc).
In my experience Apple hardware is on par with the rest of the major brands, some models might be better, some worse, as is the case with all manufactures but Apple users usually stick with Apple even after bad experience and are willing to pay extra for initial purchase, extra for upgrades, extra for insurance plans that are almost mandatory, and extra for peripherals.
People who shy away from Apple are usually less inclined to pay extra for things that they believe should be included or "premium" brand peripherals and upgrades, and are also willing, and able, to switch brands if they receive faulty hardware or poor service.
Coincidentally, I switched over to raivo just several weeks ago. There is a way to extract all of your 2fa keys using a deprecated chrome extension, which is what I did. It's quite easy, it spits out everything in a PDF web page with QR codes - I printed the whole page as a backup, then used my phone to add my 20+ accounts in about 5 minutes with the QR code. I have used authy for over 6 or 7 years, but for some reason I was getting uncomfortable with having it tied to my phone number.

There is an ipad app, which I installed on my M2 macbook air, so I can access it on my laptop as well. I also downloaded a version onto my old iphone 6 I keep in a drawer under my bed, just as a backup in case something gets stolen. And I have an ipad mini that I use on a daily nightly basis for reading and browsing. In addition to a ~5 year old windows desktop and a windows laptop form ~2015.

I've been resistant to using apps that only exist in the apple ecosystem, because I generally have only used windows laptops and android phones. But now I use an iphone, I have an m2 macbook air, and quite honestly the quality just blows everything on the windows / android side out of the water. I finally just admitted to myself that there is probably never going to be a scenario where if my phone breaks, I would go out and buy an android phone. It won't happen. The sheer connivence of just getting a new replacement phone, logging in, and having all your settings and files and (2FA codes! - encrypted in icloud!) automatically download is understated.

The price of an old iphone 6 or 6s is ~25-40 dollars on ebay. The price of a yubikey is 50 or 60 bucks.
The thinnest slice is remote power systems for off grid locations at the scale of a few solar panels, a small generator, a wind turbine, or hydroelectric…in order of increasing regulatory hurdles and real estate acquisition.

Under capitalization is most likely to bite you. That’s true of all business.

Good luck.
I have the hardcover version of the 1992 edition. AFAICS, the 2005 version that you can download from Prof Wirth's personal site is identical to the 1992 edition except that it has an additional appendix titled "Ten Years After: From Objects to Components"

https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/
Some quality discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32411493

Somebody also shared this guide on building a wireless ISP in that thread: https://startyourownisp.com/
> I wonder how much humans played a role in it achieving such a widespread distribution.

https://www.science.org/content/article/pacific-northwest-s-...

probably more than we know.
Iridium devices aren‘t bulky anymore. Look at a Garmin InReach: It‘s smaller than most smartphones.

If you think about it, these satellites are only 1-2 orders of magnitude farther away than a typical cell base station.

By scaling the data rate down by the same proportion, you can span that distance using roughly the same transmission power and antenna technology.
What a load of garbage. The fact is there are plenty of manmade light sources in the sky already. And as for the exhaust of putting up the Starlinks how about subtracting all the exhaust fumes from the cars from people who now work at home instead of driving into work each day?

And yes, if Starship works, expect telescopes to move into space big time. The big cost of a space telescope today is making sure it works for a long as possible since it costs so much to launch it. Make the launch cheap and they you do not have to spend the money needed to make a space telescope today.
cute

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens%27s_razor
Oh man I grew up in VW3. I knew no one else outside of my family and the facility at my dad’s university department that even heard of it.
I think we're limited by our genetics. There's a limit to our species intelligence.

To a monkey an iPhone is just a rock.

To humans the universe is equivalent to a piece of chorizo on a telescope.
Why?

Here's 3 reasons why it is bonkers to require this:
1. By requiring this, the government is foregoing its primary stake in preventetive justice, ie recidivism
2. This is double punishment
3. A government's role is to ensure its population thrives, not a balanced checkbook
Well on one hand OSS did make Blender which is moving towards a defacto standard in game making at least.

Otoh nothing prohibits another OSS software appearing and stealing an OSS incumbent's thunder. See Krita and Gimp.
I have yet to see open source alternative with UX that is better than original.
Exactly – in that scenario, who would you even message? If all infrastructure within hundreds of kilometers is down, you‘re unlikely to get help even if you can get a signal out.
People seem to be trying really hard to get porn in the browser. There's a battle going on...
We are thinking of the Zame one. I just couldnt recall the spelling...

Thank you for that - and gosh now I want one of those bags.
You've seen buildings and water before. Your dream was of a building and water.