skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thinking out loud here...is it possible to use the same patterns for good?

Like, infinite scroll, bite-sized chunk UI, etc. that trick our minds into reading a full book?
> Moreover, we shouldn't assume that Zig pointers are the only feature that breaks spatial memory safety. It was simply the first one I found after like 2 minutes of looking through the docs. After like 5 more minutes I found another: extern unions. Just now I found another: sentinel-terminated pointers, since you could delete the sentinel.

You're right on each of those points. But (AFAIK) all those types are explicitly there for C interop. When interfacing with C, yes, Zig will inherit much of C's unsafety. But the big picture is that

1. Idiomatic Zig should not use those things, and

2. Those things are (IIUC) mechanically-identifiable at the type level. A compiler flag could warn about them. You can check if a codebase uses them, and find out exactly where. No such thing is possible for C.

Maybe you'd prefer that an unsafe block be required to be placed around each of them, but in the end that's a matter of notation. In theory, Zig could decide to mandate such explicit unsafe blocks, but C couldn't - there isn't a useful safe subset to delineated.

I could be wrong, however. Possibly the Zig community will decide that say sentinel-terminated pointers are good to use in general (and not just for C interop). And maybe I've missed something and those types cannot be discovered mechanically for auditing purposes. If either of those is the case then I'd agree Zig lacks spatial memory safety.

(Btw, you seem downvoted atm. Not me, of course - there's probably no one else I respect more on the topic of memory safety than you! - and it's disappointing that people downvote comments just because they disagree.)
Pretty incredible fore site even as a child. What would you say contributed to this thought?
The challenge here is that these satellite networks get a significant amount of their operating revenue from charging for emergency-only communication. Unlike 911, the satellite company itself is also responsible for hiring the dispatchers on the other end. It's not clear how the satellite networks could give it away for free under the current business model.

(Assuming free meaning "any device can connect, regardless of subscription status". In this case, Apple is essentially subsidizing the service costs for their users, and only for a limited time - there is still a paid subscription on the backend.)

It's worth noting that the government already offers free distress alerting via the COSPAS-SARSAT satellite system - though it's one-way communication only. It would be interesting if a future iteration of the system allowed for smaller antennas and two-way communication with the rescue coordination center dispatchers.
I use them everyday while working, for multiple hours per day and can expense them. They work better than other bluetooth headsets I've tried, and the noise cancelling is excellent in loud environments.

I'm willing to pay a premium for the convenience and seamless pairing to other Apple products I already have (Apple TV, macbook, iphone).
That depends. For example I was trained and tested to meet with a person and determine not only their MBTI type, but also their preferred cognitive processes, without ever talking about personality type with them. The testing was extremely difficult. But the skill is extremely valuable in knowing which questions to ask people as they try to navigate career and life change.

You might be surprised to find how easy it is to make a very good guess, after all there are 16 types and this usually narrows down to 3-4 common applicant types given the job and field. If you know how to differentiate between those types, or have friends who are of those types, it's going to be hard not to make a close guess.

If you want to take on the global MBTI cabal it's important to learn the game IMO. The obvious weaknesses will become your friend rather than a point of defense to get intense about. Less MBTI-sucks and more MBTI-meh.

It's also available in other disciplines, e.g. I once took a course on how to determine personality characteristics from texts and emails. Some obvious stuff, but also some really fascinating ideas in there.
Interesting! I wonder why they didn't include x86_64. Doesn't seem likely to be problematic since it supports PPC64 and ARM64.

Edit: answered my own question by reading the actual page — "Unlike done in previous project, netop Tiger SDKs (used to build several intermediate binaries) don’t contain 64-bit AppKit versions, and thus ppc64 and x86_64 binaries are excluded from the binary release."
I couldn't make it through the article because it seemed to be suffering from the same symptoms (so many 1 sentence paragraphs!)

was that the point, and I cut out too early?
There is also an argument that free rescues lead to reckless behavior and worse outcomes, because if the worst happens you can always get a chopper to pick you up….
> it will push folks to Firefox. It won't.

100%. Firefox murdered XUL extensions, a then-thriving ecosystem, and the mobile version's addon support is still very lacking, years later. If the moaning from this haven't stopped them, uBO's lack of mv3 version certainly won't.
Do we actually have any evidence that “when in the year you were born in” has worse statistical relevance than the admittedly weak relevance of personality tests?

If not (and I’ve not seen it) then the candidate is just stating a preference for not working with companies that are lazy intellectually. That’s not naive that’s sensible.
ahahaha. I think it was a case of reverse psychology and a pinch of culty mind control (you have a problem-- we have solution).
In 2020 (coincidentally right at the start of the pandemic) we moved into a house with an in-law apartment for my parents. We have three kids under 10, and my parents are in their early 60’s and in good health (mom has been a homemaker her whole life and dad is about a year out from retirement), so we’re likely still a couple decades of this arrangement.

It was an intentional decision (based on a couple years of conversations) to enable my kids and my parents to spend a lot of time together, and to make it “easy” for us to care for my parents at the end of their lives.

I’m well aware that there will be a lot of tough moments. I’ve got a background as a paramedic, and have spent more time in nursing homes than pretty much anyone who isn’t a resident of staff at a facility.

I think the most important step we’ve taken so far is to have a lot of open and honest conversations about how we want things to go.
Book of Wonders
The Beats Flex uses the Apple W1 chip, just like the Beats X that came before them. They connect/pair to all of my iCloud enabled devices and switch easily between them as well.

I have mine mostly switching between my Apple Watch and my iPhone, but occasionally my MacBook Pro as well.
As the fossil fuel industry becomes obsolete, it would be wise to rebrand themselves into carbon removal and lobby for high payouts of carbon credits.

https://www.economist.com/the-world-if/2020/07/04/what-if-ca... (not sure how to overcome the paywall)
> I decided to lead by example and delete all socials, even reddit or linkedin

Or instead just put the phones on the other side of room when watching a movie...
Not just the satellites, but they also said that, due to the slow speeds involved in the satellites, Apple will employ people who will be able to step in the middle of you and EMS, to help get information to them faster and answer relevant questions, without having to rely on you receiving/answering them using your device. The cost of this team alone will be huge.
Err, a directory with all possible six character prefixes, differentiated at the seventh character, is representable without LFN but not with it. Wikipedia actually has links/info on it if you want more.
I love the single comment on the article :) pure comedy.
iOS user here.

I forgo the on-device ad-blocking and use DNS blocking. It's a decent catch-all for most things I'm worried about.

NextDNS is one of the better hosted DNS blocklists, IMO
The difference between B5 and SG is universe. B5 had a great universe but most people would probably be ok with rebooting it. It was a single unified story that was completed to excellence. Sure you could also jump around elsewhere in the time, but not sticking too close to the original canon probably would be fine.

Stargate has 19 seasons and 2 movies, spread across SG1, Atlantis, Universe, Origins & Infinity. Rebooting that would be... dropping a tactical nuke on the franchise. Plus they've always left that universe "open" (look at Unending, the ending of SG1, they step back into the gate like its just another day), feels like there is so much more to explore.
This was posted at least five times, without much action, until the full title was used. It turns out that the Quanta editor was good at picking titles.
> It seems extremely unlikely that someone would always have a tendency in every axis all the time

It's a preference. You're making it out to be more than it is. It doesn't preclude that someone can have little preference for one tendency over another. Most times test results give you percentages.

> Telling people that they're mostly average, even if for a lot of people it's the truth, doesn't convince them they're getting their money's worth.

What money? Who pays for this shit? There's like a million free MBTI tests online.
If they can pull this for 30 seconds in 2022, they can do 30 minutes by 2025, 30 hours in by 2027 and then 30 weeks by 2030 being very optimistic here.

Right now things are bad in this world and will get worse but the future is filled with abundance and new levels of comforts not seen in human history.
The freediving UX on the Garmin Descent Mk2 series seems fine to me. Have you tried it? The battery is rechargable and lasts a long time so there's no need to replace it.
What if a friend/relative/acquaintance wants to contact you for an emergency?
LineageOS was good back when it first formed from CyanogenMod but then had a patch of issues with call quality and reliability which forced me off it. Hopefully that’s all long resolved, I would otherwise switch back but I reply to much on my phone for work.
Oh wow, this is really helpful. I did a quick test and this seems to make a big difference!

For anyone reading: if you're on a call, pull down on control center and there's a Mic Mode setting that appears that you can change to "Voice Isolation". This setting won't be there if you're not in a call.

Here's an article that explains it: https://www.lifewire.com/use-voice-isolation-on-ios-15-52064...
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Got here just in time to muse about when we'll see Skyrim on an Apple Watch.

I was an Apple customer just like you. Then I took an arrow to the knee.
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There are lots of warnings before you get audited. You usually get several letters and then are told "preserve your documents, we may be coming." Then they send you an email or give you a phone call. Then, if you don't respond, they show up irate at your door.
In my case, we had a grandparent living with us for more than ten years when growing up. Living in a multigenerational household, and having friends and family who did the same, gave me the certainty that that's what I wanted for my family as well. It's not without its challenges, but it's unthinkable for me, my wife, or any of our extended family to put our parents in a nursing home. I have one cousin whose parents live about five houses up the road from his family -- that's an ideal situation AFAIC.
But deplatforming works in general. You will never stop the most determined crazies but there is a huge amount of mentally disturbed people who are potentially violent but won’t be arsed to find a site through TOR.
Interesting conclusion... or lack thereof?
> It’s the complete opposite of what people feared when we first launched EVs—that the batteries would only last a short time,” he reflected.

> It’s clear that most EV batteries will outlast the vehicles they were installed in, and even then, they have a worthwhile second life before they need to be stripped down for recycling.

> “At the end of the vehicle’s life—15 or 20 years down the road—you take the battery out of the car, and it’s still healthy, with perhaps 60 or 70% of usable charge,” said Thomas.

> “Taking the battery out [of an electric car] and putting a new battery in is not a viable proposition. It’s more sustainable to take the battery pack out of the car after 20 years, recycle the car, and reuse the battery.”
My view is that nobody wants to prosecute someone for helping their terminally ill, seriously suffering parent/child/sister for ending their life.
Start salting your hat buddy.

Musk publicly called space based solar the stupidest thing in the world. His argument being you’re lifting solar panels into space to catch photons, where you convert them to electricity,
—you then convert them BACK to photons and send them to the ground
—where you convert them BACK to electricity.

It doesn’t matter if he’s right, if he thinks he’s right he’s not doing it.
Rough. Make sure you file with Netlify, hopefully they see our reports and address. Seems removing CF cache is the universal solution for now.
I’ve got the extremely well regarded Sony WH-1000XM4s. Getting them to switch between devices is an absolute pain in the ass compared to Apple’s fairly seamless handoff.

The custom Bluetooth processor seems to be letting Apple solve a lot of pain points that every other Bluetooth headphone just makes you live with.
As a person who lived through Gamergate, my base assumption here is that the attacks Kiwifarms are alleged to have made are entirely fictional. This is something that I (and you) could possibly check if there was some kind of Archive of the Internet, but apparently that evidence was just destroyed for reasons which are not suspicious at all.
If paying your energy bill or losing your job is going to be an issue you don’t want to put a huge sum of cash into an illiquid asset like a house. You want that cash to remain available.
Somewhere in the middle he mentions feeling like having ADHD and I'm like "yeah, getting that vibe too"
In Between
Anecdotes are not data. I'm sure I can find some people who'd say something like "I just wanted to die, but then miraculously things got better."

When the police are trying to determine if a spouse was actually being beaten by the other, they get them alone. That's not perfect, but at least it's better than just saying "Are you OK? Good then, carry on."

Until you give all the "voluntary" people:

1. the chance to say, without coercion, that that's what they want, with the aid of a counselor who acts as their advocate (since many of them are not articulate enough to speak for themselves).

2. an actual alternative that isn't artificially made to seem as horrible as possible.

you have not established that it's "voluntary."

In your case, Doreen, it sounds like you would pass #1, and #2 might be "a lot of drugs" with no other alternatives, so that does sound like it's really "voluntary."
In the trading industry, DE Shaw and Five Rings are the two places that care about school prestige well into someone's career. All other firms don't give a crap about it once someone has some experience.

I went to a crap school in India and a mediocre US school for my grad work, still got interviews at trading firms as a new grad and an industry hire. Currently working at one right now, so I can say that I have seen it first-hand.
I loved Babylon 5 but I do hope they change a few things around. JMS' writing leaned so heavily on broad-brush themes and cliches that I don't know if it would work today, or just come off as corny.

Also I'd like to see something new in one of my beloved sci-fi franchises for once, instead of all of them just trying to feed me member-berries.
Okay, so Play Framework has this grant now in place. But everything else? Each and every maintainer is required to request such grant, and Lightbend needs to agree. Friction, a lot of friction.

The problem with what’s happening is that for software in Scala, as soon as I see Akka anywhere in my dependencies, I have to assume license violation. Of course, I can check if that particular dependency has a grant. But will there be a formal method to validate this? Will automated license scanners be able to infer this?

Another point… what does the grant actually imply. Is there some sort of way a product with Akka-dependent dependency supposed to be used? Will people be able to work around BSL by pulling in a dependency that brings Akka in just as a mechanism to sneak Akka itself in? That would be a silly oversight by Lightbend[1]

[1] the faq answers this: “ I am using Play and parts of Akka that are included with Play? If you are using Play and are directly using Akka components as part of your implementation you will be required to have a license for production use.”

As someone who came to Scala from Erlang and adopted Scala because of Akka, … it’s disappointing. Fortunately alternatives exist and hopefully someone will adapt them for Scala. Here’s one: http://docs.paralleluniverse.co/quasar/. This is used by Clojure’s Pulsar Erlang-influenced actors. For me, this is the end of the road for Akka in any future Scala code. It’s a shame because the technology is great. However, maintenance is going to become a hassle.

From an observer’s perspective: Typesafe, later Lightbend, never managed to find a great fit for themselves. They always kept developing Akka and promote Akka-based systems like all the alpakka stuff, http, streams. People used it because it was Apache 2.0. Now, everyone who uses Akka, and wants to continue using it, has a liability on their hands. What about all contributions submitted under the old license? The FAQ doesn’t specify if existing code will be BSL and convert to Apache 2.0 in 3 years (or maybe more, faq says each version may have its own convert date…), or only new code will be BSL. Depending on the answer, some contributors may feel a bit let down: https://github.com/akka/alpakka/graphs/contributors?from=201.... They all contributed under Apache 2.0.

So many questions, it’s a minefield. In my head, this is a minefield worse that AGPL. Their faq says a company with a revenue below USD25m/annum receives a free license. What if said company sells to a USD100m business and is using Akka indirectly? Forget about direct, explicit use. What if a product uses stuff indirectly?
So how does rescue work-- I assume you do have to pay the people who rescue you
MBTI is the rough equivalent of taking a Big 5 test, but then instead of presenting the scores, it arbitrarily classifies you as Yes/No for each trait based on whether you're above or below average. Even if the scores themselves would be informative, you're still getting basically randomly sorted on noise for the traits where you're just about average.
Not every criticism is wrong, and that particular review would probably have been right if it was anyone but Apple behind the launch.
Nuclear has a 15-20 year delay from political decision to generating power. Color me surprised if there's still an ongoing energy crisis in Europe by 2037-42.
> Do you mean True Colors?

No.[1]

> My impression from some brief training was that it's based on temperament theory and not a knock off of MBTI.

From your link:

> According to this personality temperament theory, which is a refined version of the popular Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) [...]

To-may-to, to-mah-to.

[1]: https://realcolors.org/
You can do it with Apple Configurator, and there's a command line tool to apply a JSON layout.
>> Better yet, you should scan the shape of each candidate’s skull

Ima guess you score low on openness. And probably T as opposed to F on MBTI.
> they weren't sure they'd get a Season 5

If you read the JMS script books, it wasn't that they weren't sure if they would get an S5, it was that they were 100% sure they would NOT get an S5 and he was forced to wrap everything up in S4 or it would be gone forever.

S4/S5 would have been much better had the original plan stuck, but, that wasn't even the primary reason S5 had major issues. JMS was staying in a hotel at some con and a maid helpfully cleaned up his room including trashing 100s of post-it notes containing his outlines for S5. This was the same conference where Claudia Christian blew him off and lost the last opportunity to be on the show -- not entirely her fault as she did not got bad advice -- she talks about this in her book but she thought it was a negotiating ploy and she (and her agent) wanted to raise her quote for the final season especially since it was well known it was the final season and she would immediately be job hunting after S5 and it unfortunately ended up with her off the show.

It didn't help that they had killed off XXXXX (can I spoil a 20-year-old show? not going to find out...) and saved her character.

Keep in mind JMS had been show runner for 4 years at that point and had written most of S1, almost all of S2 and all of S3/S4, something unheard of at the time and even crazier considering that they are 20+ episode seasons each, then he lost two starring actors (in variously shitty ways), lost all his notes, I'm amazed we got an S5 at all and a lesser person would have just given up.

Ultimately the final season was just shot through with challenges, despite it all, I enjoy it. The telepath situation and the conclusion of that was a great arc.
> Maybe something that I’ve learned in therapy COULD be entertained as a possibility. It’s a technique that I don’t even know HOW it’s called but it boils down to dedicating 45mins to grievance. As in – you dedicate 45mins per day when you can focus on grieving (e.g. over a failed relationship) and at any other time of the day you have to delay doing it until your 45-mins-of-grief time comes.

45min-1hr of mindfulness training would be more effective, I would think
Assuming we can run an actual fusion reactor consistently, how is the power taken out? I've seen lots of comments about water/steam, but we're talking 100M°C degrees here, that's insane! Do we bury this thing in the ocean?

I'm being silly, but I'm genuinely curious if there are any plans, even speculative ones, on how to do this.
The previous administration completely neutered its world class nuclear industry and built Chinese solar panels all over the mountain side causing landslides and environmental issues.

These are just some of the wonderful things the President Moon has accomplished.
The three-episode mini-arc of "Messages from Earth", "Point of No Return" and "Severed Dreams" (IIRC) is still incredibly intense.

Probably my favorite moment of 90s TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv3t86imsDI. RIP Mira Furlan.
Why hope? If a market majority product does something, so does the rest of the market. Especially now that Firefox has like 3% market share.

Fresh info regarding mv3 & FF:

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/05/18/manifest-v3-in-fi...
Technical debt isn't technically debt
The term "technical debt" has entered the standard lexicon of programming and software project development and has often been called out for being an incorrect metaphor. Yet it persists as a way to talk about the decisions made during software engineering. I believe it is over-used and often makes technical conversations more confusing.
Yeah I had a similar issue and the process was super painless. It didn't require going into a store.

They shipped you a box with a prepaid label where you put in your problematic AirPods.

Then they shipped you a new pair for free. Turnaround time was fast.
Hey mate, I've been going through a bout of depression recently, and I wanted to thank you for your comments on HN, this one and many of your other posts have made me laugh so much and have put a proper smile on my face, I'm sitting at my desk in such a good mood. I enjoy your form of comedy.

Thank you.