skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> font hinting is Turing complete

TIL. But, from the Wikipedia article:

>> Although incapable of receiving input and producing output as normally understood in programming

Great. So this is why this hasn't been the subject of 0-day hacks since like 1988.

Also, about that Orson Wells thing (from the linked paper):

>>In 1938, Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre on the Air performed an infamous broadcast of War of the Worlds [12]. The broadcast begins with a brief theatri- cal introduction, followed by simulated news broadcasts describing an alien invasion of New Jersey that run for thirty-eight minutes before the first and only intermis- sion, after which the story shifts to the past tense and a fictional tone. Prior to the intermission, there is not one commercial, not one word out of character, and not one scene in the past tense to clue the listener in on the fictional nature of the broadcast.
While Welles surely was not concerned with attacking digital radios in 1938, his broadcast does follow the gen- eral pattern of the attacks in this paper. His PIP in this case is the thirty-eight minute panicked broadcast, while the introduction could be considered an outer header. Listeners who miss the introduction might believe the first act to be factual, just as a digital radio which misses a preamble might interpret the PIP to be a legitimate and full packet.

So basically, because every packet protocol has headers and headers can be spoofed, and War of the Worlds was essentially a header spoof, let's call this the Orson Wells attack?

Maybe instead of the Big Scary Iceberg website, we can call it the Leonardo DiCaprio list of bad shit that could happen to you a boat?
This video from VICE about a kitchen in NYC that has 15 restaurants under it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru2irhp3yPo
If anyone is curious why particle は is read as wa instead of ha I recommend reading this:
https://briefjapanese.fun/history-of-%e3%81%af/
Live by the hustle, die by the hustle
I noticed this with a local restaurant, but didn't actually mind.

The main restaurant was a pizza/pasta/burger restaurant.

They also had a sub-brand named "burger xyz" or something similar, and only sold burgers. Same phone number.

I compared prices and the burgers were all named the same, but more expensive in their standalone brand.

I guess it was targeting people ordering a specific type of food.
we all know the answer
Why AMP is bad for your site and for the Web
Discord's UI is seemly optimized for dopamine release, just like a game.

Some people like this kind of constant distraction, though.
I clicked that one too, and I'm pretty glad it never loaded for me.
You suggested it's the "mother of all conflicts of interest". It's clearly not.
Did anyone read the story and compare it to Zuck narrative as they oppose one another.
> scary to think that just 2 to 3 corporations have the power to construct a false reality around us

whats truly scary is not just the limited number but the fact that these corps are always aligned in the same political direction.
TinyTapeout: Get your design on an actual ASIC
UK energy bills are soaring to record highs
For anyone who wants to dip their toe in integrated circuits (ASIC), this project provides a way to get a tiny (~200 gate) project onto a physical chip. You can do the whole thing in the browser. Deadline for submission is September 1st.
two implementation hints:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawing_Hands#/media/File:Draw...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgIDStgaybc&t=74s
This is really not true of many ESL speakers whose first language does not have articles.
Small items that could make your life a tiny bit better
see section 230 of a very specific US law-act as that law provided some outs for internet firms as far as being legally not declared a publisher if they volunteered to do specific things.
I admit that I didn't manage to read after my mentioned paragraph
Traveling South India there are precisely three types of Indian food: veg, non-veg, and "Chinese".
Can Russia protect the Donbas from being shelled if they don't invade further?
> onerous regulations

More like common sense. I'd really wish any place that prepares my food from scratch would obey at least the ones you listed and more even if it's just a grill.
> Absolute parasites.

Might I disagree.

They are vandals.

A parasite is an organism that survives by extracting from others.
These are bots or bots designed by mindless individuals and set loose
to do harm. They deserve even less respect than computer viruses that
at least mimic proto-lifeforms. There is no "it" to have a survival
agenda here.

Having done with "Harms", as I research the "Motives" chapter of
Ethics for Hackers I've taken an unexpected dive into criminology and
now see a blind-spot in the entrepreneurial, late-capitalist mind-set of
the "Silicon Valley" hacker space. There's a tendency to see
everything through a rather narrow lens of financial motives. Not
everything is about making a buck (although much is - at the end of
the day).

So for example, some motives out there are purely destructive. Or at
least they are so lowbrow and random in their consideration as to be
indistinguishable from entirely senseless acts.

We look at them and say "What's the business angle here?". Sometimes
there really isn't one. And it's not ideological either, like
championing free-speech, democracy, communism or whatever. Nor
discordian, nihilistic and chaotic.

Boredom, resentment, disrespct, low cost and consequences and "just
because you can" are on the up because of "AI" and automation. I think
we presume certain motives declined after the early years of
trophy-hacking and ego hacks gave way to structured cybercrime in the
90s. But machine learning and "at scale" thinking is unleashing a
different breed of senselessness. Poisoning of public data spaces by
ostensible "advertising", whether as email spam, highly adaptive
link-farms, GPT generated bait-copy and whatnot is a new quality of
threat. Search engines don't seem able to manage it, so the "internet"
(what is left of the Web) is starting to resemble a derelict
neighbourhood with smashed windows, upturned trash cans and graffiti
everywhere as bored and desperate gangs roam.
You are mistaken or on the wrong comment chain.
This article argues that car design was better before computers, and speculates that the digital engineering tools we have been using have resulted in derivative, lazy car designs.

The article highlights Solvespace, CAD Sketcher, and Blender as emerging alternatives for radical designers.

The overall message is, however: Use computers less. But, if you must use them, opensource tools are the only real way forwards.
It's good to hear that they allow the team to have their own personal views publicly expressed without impacting their work.

I did, however, notice that you said that you were an equal opportunity partisan politics attack dog and maybe it cancelled out. I guess I could just reframe my question to you and ask whether you ever saw someone who was equally vocal but partisan on the red team. If you saw only vocal people from the blue team, I'd call that a bit telling.

If you saw partisan folks from the red team who were similarly vocal then that fully answers my question.
Personally, I tend to forget that I'm in a root shell. Also, I don't want to _be_ in a root shell for more than one command unless absolutely necessary. Also also, prefixing commands with `sudo` that need `sudo` shows the potential dangers such command comes with.
>McDonald's and other franchisers ... you wouldn't be able to prepare at home in that quality.

What do you mean - McDonalds is piss poor quality fast food. It's ok at best but nowhere near close home cooked meal. Even 20min cooking w/o a microwave oven should produce decent results.
> CO2 is an indicator of the metal enrichment (i.e., elements heavier than helium, also called "metallicity")

I'm confused; aren't literally all but one of the elements heavier than helium?
Imagine explaining to someone ca. 2000 that the replacement for a magnetic fridge notepad should cost $140/yr.
We had already proved with Trump's kids that, no actually, we don't give a shit as a society about leaders having close family members (even when they're actively working in the Whitehouse) involved in shady deals.
Also Paint3D which no one used ever?

They just completely stopped caring and anyone who has an idea for a quick buck or markering stunt seems to be allowed to put their shit into Windows or slap the Microsoft logo on it.
I'm sure this is harmless. It's not like anyone just copies code from webpages and just pastes it into their code editor or shell, right?
Weird. For me, it has been working flawslessly since I got my iPhone 6s, and now two macbook pros down the line, I've had it fail maybe 5 times in total?
I find that examples and technical explanations complement each other. Examples are important, but the grammar explanations help give an idea of what to focus on in the examples.

In fact I see it as a gradient. Vocabulary that stands on its own (like "apple") is best learned through examples. Stuff that is extremely structural (like how verbs conjugate in Japanese) is much easier to learn through explanations, instead of going through examples trying to find the pattern yourself. And there is of course middle ground, like grammar particles, which are vocabulary that also obey lots of rules.
What about the state-actors and other malicious entities that can drive large parts of the population to believe fake narratives, trough fabricating stories and taking advantage of the algorithms & platforms of the said 2-3 corporations? Could they have the power to construct a false reality?
If you want to use this function read the brief man page that covers all these points in very little text. Skip the article!

https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy...
They may not immediately recognize it, but they are “cashing out the social capital”
Their algorithms don't just target specific topics, they target specific individuals too. Certain individuals have their social media content promoted while others have their social media content suppressed.

I suspect that people are promoted or suppressed based on their stance towards the current power structure. If you say positive things about people in power and corporate entities, your content will reach more people.
> less unity

Angrier and angrier narcissist dictators with nukes? -- less unity yes. Does it increase safety?

Yes beautiful text
Ok, so there is a related vector here, but it requires the site your are on to be compromised.

I would argue the actual vector is in the terminal, it should really validate the clipboard content.
They tend to have 4 walls and a roof and facilities to wash your hands: Water tanks exist - I mean, folks use toilets in an RV without them being currently hooked up to sewage, so I don't see how this is an issue. We have the tech. Hand sanitizer is likely available as well. Additionally, in many places, they have to be within a certain distance from toilets.
I'd like to think there are a wider group of options than a binary choice between "American Late-Stage Capitalism" and "Venezuela"
#define STRING(stringlit) ((MyString) {("" stringlit), sizeof (stringlit) - 1 })

At least for string literals, no real effort required :)
That's all nice and well, and I'd go one step further: instead of door delivery, have the vehicle put down anchor (or some temporary vending-machine like container) at some pick-up spot in walkable distance. Great opportunity for WFH isolatees to connect.

But that's all not an excuse to hide behind a fleet of faux-boutique identities. When you do that it's borderline scam. Or not borderline at all, once you accept that most of the money we spend on getting food cooked for is not about the calories and not even about the taste.
Interesting that I haven't seen any discussion of the housing monopolies that were castigated in that study, given how vigorous discussion was on that topic when that study was posted here.

The study largely blames HUD and builders unions for squeezing manufactured home builders out of the market with zoning laws, government programs which favored stick-built housing, and further regulations which make buying and owning a manufactured home undesirable. This discussion of course only applies to the US.
I've been teaching the vs. a vs. no particle at all (e.g. 'I go to church') and it's a lot more complicated than you think. There are many edge cases. Native speakers know exactly which one is correct, but cannot always explain why.
not at all...

It is illegal for businesses to act together in ways that can limit competition, lead to higher prices, or hinder other businesses from entering the market.

That's from the FTC.
That approach only works if the string isn't being mutated in a way which could change its size, though. Otherwise you need to make sure it has a lexical lifetime (and be very careful with it), or if that's not possible pay the double alloc cost.

I would be also worried about any difficulties separating the length and data causes for prefetching/cache lines though.

The second form is also more amenable to SSO; I'm not sure how often that would come up in the kernel but it's saved me a decent chunk of memory in at least one past project. (Still today I'm sometimes frustated by Go `string` porting from Java `String`, like great now I don't have to pay a boxing overhead but if it's often absent/empty my base size is now 2x what it would otherwise be...)
Read and listen to a lot of native language. You will absorb the patterns and eventually produce them automatically. Much much easier than memorising lots of grammar.
Inferring rules from shed loads of examples instead of coding them explicitly is only superior for big language models because machines are faster at processing examples than humans are at implementing a comprehensive set of rules for the machines to follow. So it's a trade-off between slow and expensive human labor vs. fast and comparatively cheap machine labor.

When it's a human learning a language, that speed difference doesn't apply. When the choice is between a slow human processing a lot of examples vs. a slow human processing a small number of examples plus a description of the rule governing them, it's no longer so obvious that the first approach is better.
In most of Spain they sound exactly the same. I have met a total of one single person who pronounced them differently. Maybe it depends on the region.

I'm from Málaga, by the way.
>I love Rust, but it's "righteous" nature

Finally. Someone gets it. It has nothing to do with the language itself. But the culture and philosophy of the tools / language / framework or library.
What’s a “fair price”?
Duolingo is bad. You should have a mix of resources that fit you best: Wanikani (absolutely essential), Bunpo, LingoDeer, Bunpro, and audio drills lessons, like Pimsleur.

Add a occasional speaking lesson with a teacher on iTalki.
Ding ding ding… we have a winner. Scrolled all the way down waiting for someone else to mention the hard truth that they have even less money for educational software that they have for teacher’s supplies, which is so bad you’ll find teachers having to pay for supplies for their class. It’s nice to suggest the idea, but it’s not currently a sustainable business for deeper educational material due to support costs and the low ability of the customer to pay in the first place.
I fundamentally disagree with the premise that all art is social

Kurt Vonnegut expressed this better than I ever could in a letter to schoolkids, in it he persuaded them to write a poem then tear it into pieces without showing anyone.. "you'll find that you've already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming"

Full letter here: https://highexistence.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/1053653...

Further evidence is the 'outsider artists' who never show their art to anyone and are only discovered on their death
Maintaining code written as far back as 2006, especially in PHP, I went from a phase where I thought users who complained about things like this had to be batshit crazy/stupid to where I started putting the really ludicrous user issues like this one at the top of my list. Users suck at giving repeatable steps to reproduce bugs. To my shame it probably took me about 10 years before I was able to detect the subtle differences between their universally illiterate emails that would indicate whether they'd actually tested something or not; they aren't great at explaining how or when they tested it if they even did. But I've learned the hard way that when they reference something as specific as "Tuesday", it's probably an actual error.
Except for the fact that some experiments are taking decades themselves or are one part of a long progression of related experiments. So continuity of software and data through generations of students, postdocs and even professor types is needed.

Even for short-lived experiments reproducibility is important. So much of today's experiments ultimately rely on complex stacks of software to get their results and on data which humans can afford to acquire only once. Preserving both is necessary for future re-validation or reuse.

This problem should not be excused.
> Wikipedia has a lot of propaganda

Any particular examples?
Because of pjmlp's hint I just looked into the repositories https://github.com/btreut/a2 and https://github.com/metacore/A2OS, but didn't find a coroutines module. I'm aware that Active Oberon (Patrik Reali, 2004) includes concurrency, but this is a different language than the one used for System 3.
There is an entire book (in Japanese) about は vs. が. I have read it. It breaks down hundreds of use cases and provides a generic guide to which one is correct. But it as nowhere near as helpful as just reading and listening to a ton of Japanese until I had a sense for which one was correct automatically.
I'm curious - does that also apply to Donald Trump who himself had dealings with those countries as well as several of his children, and removed classified documents to his own house where foreign agents were known to frequent?
Slack has the absolute worst implementation of threads that I've ever seen. There is one item that only tells you that some of the treads you're in have new messages.

The whole point of having multiple channels is so you can see at a glance which has unreads and check them if interested, isn't it? What use are threads if they're all hidden?
You’re right. It seem the fees are still around 1% at least for smaller businesses in my country.
Because some people think that Russia is solely a liberal boogie man. Oh the irony.
What does this even mean, doubt about what? It's completely out of context. And to add a bit to my initial comment, judging something as moral or immoral, as just or unjust, as lawful or unlawful, as justified or unjustified are all different things as are understanding why someone did something, judging that decisions as good or bad, and supporting them. And do not forget that we have the benefit of hindsight when we are discussing past decisions and statements.
Physics for Doofuses: Understanding Electricity (2007)
The Existential Loneliness of the Chicken
Russia is literally capitalist though????
It is not length of experience that counts, but skill. Some people with 100ms experience have just done the same millisecond over and over.
https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/12/tacotron-2-generating-huma...

For a good one here is Obama reading the Trump Inaugural Address
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChzEdz7aVVs
Eulerpool: Fair Value Und Kennzahlen
I think I could be considered as a high openness, hacker-ish type keen to try new things, and my avoidance of discord isn’t that it’s complicated (hard to use), it’s that it’s complicated (unnecessary busy). From the notifications being a lot of noise by default to threads being so much work to catch up on after the fact, it’s just heavy and dense and complicated.

Caveat: It seems much more geared towards users who commit significant brain-space to the subjects they join (for example: catching up on threads is easier if you’re paying attention to realtime notifications), whereas I have a lot of interests and really just want the gems whenever I “sit down” to work with a particular interest.
> But running software that fit in kilobytes of RAM was never the goal of software engineering. The goal was providing value to your users.

By this definition of the goal you are indeed obviously right. So it's pretty clear that Blow and others don't agree with this goal. I'll try to map out two different povs on the goal of engineering: imho the goal you are describing, talking about "value" etc is associated with a world-view based of economic exchanges, on the idea of markets. In this world-view, engineering will have as goal to sell something to a third-party and be profitable to you, thus you will minimize your costs and do the minimum you can get away with. This is the pov of current hegemonic the economic sphere.

What Blow defends, ie an engineering goal of using minimal resources for a given concrete objective, is much more in line with a world-view based on commons, on basic infrastructure for common needs. In this world, the most natural setting for doing the engineering work is not one of economic exchange, but one of cooperative, where the people that need the thing get organized somehow to get the thing done. In this setting, it is clear that the goal is not to do the minimal thing they will be ok with, the goal is to create a durable tool that will be practical to use and use minimal resources. In particular the investment (in human planning) can be very high, it doesn't really matter. This world is also close to the concepts of lowtech (basically favoring simplicity and robustness).

> Yes, some users do care, and I think that a disproportionate majority of them hang out on Hacker News. :P

A disproportionate majority of what? This is a classical hn fallacy: yes apparently hn likes to defend things being done "nicely" (at a good technical/resource tradeoff point) and not just "well enough" (at a short term profitable tradeoff point). But the silent majority that doesn't care you are talking about is very much restricted to the people that can afford paying for ever changing computing devices. Old people (cannot change fast), young people (get old family devices), people in less geopolitically gifted areas (less globalized purchase power), .. they all have almost obsolete technologies because they are constrained in several ways. You are talking about the majority of people that are visible to your economic world, but a lot of people are not inside of it, or on its outskirts (and if you say "but the economic sphere must be more inclusive and expand" then you are again pushing a particular view, which is not the only one and is debatable).

One can also make the case that with the current state of affairs regarding fossil energy and limits to growth, going further more and more people are going to have these big constraints. This second view is very popular with people thinking seriously about ecology and crisis.
So basically "don't shit where you cook for customers".

A land of the free would truly have to be a home of the brave.
Yes, everything heavier than hydrogen and helium is called metals by astronomers. It's a misleading term for the public, but very widely employed.

(I'm an astronomer)
The Magic Keyboard for Apple Silicon macs has a Touch ID button. Works great.
I'm using Slack for productive purposes and still won't pay 12/month/user for it. We're an outlier org that has a lot of mostly inactive users that get active when something's going on. We don't want to pay 12/month just because one of them said happy birthday in the general channel. And no, the guest user feature won't do.

They should switch to fixed pricing for small teams. Something that ends up at far less than 12/user.
Warning: if the review does not include the author’s own pictures and just regurgitates marketing-speak, the reviewer likely never even used the product.

Do not trust these lists and reviews.