skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is much easier to calculate eclipses using a lunar calendar. All lunar eclipses happen during a full moon and all solar eclipses during a new moon.
In my experience, no not at all, as it causes my phone to drain its battery exceptionally fast while it thrashes the modem in a frantic search for signal.
That metric is very misleading.

That is the number of Google accounts that didn’t go through the effort of disconnecting from / opting out of Google+. For a few years, all new accounts were automatically enrolled in Google+. It’s likely an extremely inflated number compared to the number of users that engaged with Google+ social features.

Citation: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/01/google-doubles-plus-...
As is, application process to me is broken.

For example, prior to hitting submit, there’s no indication of how you’re being scored or what your score is. Sure, some might try to game the system, but ultimately it’s very hard to fake true progress and YC knows this based on experience.

In my experience, huge percentage of founders applying likely do not even understand what YC wants - and how founders without money can show they fit YC’s needs.
Yet, by the very nature of its freedom, if people are unhappy with the direction GNU Emacs goes, they can take it another way.

Hence XEmacs. And hence why I run the Mituharu-branch [1] Emacs rather than upstream on Mac.

[1] https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac/src/master/ aka emacs-mac-app in MacPorts or railwaycat/emacsmacport in Homebrew
Nothing a good old barcode on the wrist can't fix.
Having bad teachers (or dealing with bad/pointless systems generally) can also be instructive. Esp. prior to high school, if I had any control, I'm not sure I'd choose for my kids to not have any bad teachers.
Yes. The costing models that are used (and often required by granting agencies) make apples to apples cost comparisons almost impossible, and impose undoubted and significant false costs on research budgets. No question this is true.
Loved my Mac Plus back in the 80's. (Still have it - recapped it and got it up and running recently — floppy is no go — had to boot with some kind of modern flash board.)

No internet, no passwords. When you Shut Down the Mac — click — it shut down.

Eventually, I owned a procession of more modern Macs — eventually the first install of Mac OS X. Shutting down the computer now took, curiously, a minute or so. I remember my coworker showing my wife Mac OS X and she even commented, "I don't like how long it takes to shut down." He replied, "Yeah, you'll have to find something else to like about it."
PostgreSQL and Redis are a constellation of half-dozen databases?
My iPad is forever in airplane mode. That way I can turn wifi off without iOS automatically turning it back on 24 hours later.
It seems logical that if Zen 4 is immune to Spectre, the mitigations are a waste and therefore slow the CPU.
They won't compensate you unless the luggage hasn't been delivered within three weeks. Even then they'll put up a battle and make you go through a bunch of forms and hotlines, request receipts that you might not have anymore etc.

For a baby car seat, probably not worth it. For other things it might be but the receipt is missing etc.

At the end it's a damage you have to face for them not doing their job right.
They can't scale [1] to handle 7000 startups. Their model is not so fire and forget, but to babysit^H provide office hours to the founders and they to give advice. There was a recent article with one of the former presidents of YC and he said that the year ¿2012? was a problem because they had more than ¿100? startups and it was impossible for the advisors to remember all of them and give good advice on the spot. IIRC they later shardered the advisors and startups an lived happy ever after, or something like that. My guess is that the current structure can handle a few hundred startups, but not a few thousands.

Also, there is a problem with brand dilution. The #5000 startup in whatever order they are using is probably much worse than the #50, and they want to be known for having only startups that don't suck.

[1] Ar least for now.
3.8mB is an auto-update framework – https://sparkle-project.org

3.5mB is for a Quicklook plugin, so that Torrent files can be previewed in the Finder.

4.5mB is UI 'stuff'. The Cocoa 'nibs' that define the application UI tend to be bigger than comparable GTK XML files.
It is also the least well supported of any speed (10gbps being the most well supported)
I regret regretting!
Here are some examples of what people are trying. It's very early and will only get (much) better from here.

Nvidia RTX Remix: https://youtu.be/Vg52-HZhrFc

Stable Diffusion remaking low res sprites:

https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/xmp9x3/as_...

https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/x5qrje/usi...

https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/x9t1dx/img...
Airplane wings and tails bear about as much resemblance to bird wings and tails as neural networks do to neurons.

The way airplanes fly doesn't even vaguely resemble how birds fly. Same with neural networks and brains.
Mastodon does not pull content from Twitter.
A new mission to see Titanic
Only because they haven't learned it. If you gave Braille to a blind person who has never experienced it before, they would also find it to an incomprehensible bunch of bumps failing in the accessibility mission.

At least with Fakoo, someone who used to be able to see letters before going blind, could probably figure out Fakoo without instruction.
If you have a backup email on your account, that's sufficient (assuming you can get into the backup email), at least in my experience.
Forward Untrust Certificate has been a feature since day one, the earliest document mentioning Forward Untrust I was able to find online is for PANOS 6.0 which is like 8 years ago?

in company of thousands users nobody has the energy to spy on employees - it is simply not worth the effort. Why would company spy on own employees, it is not something that brings profit for the company.

The only purpose of SSL decryption is to decrypt traffic and enforce policies: prevent users from going to shady websites, downloading malware, clicking on phishing links, stop viruses, trojans and hackers' command&control comms. It is because majority of http traffic is TLS encrypted, that security vendors no other choice other than decrypt and inspect.

Nobody is looking over zillions of logs, looking at what pages a random employee is browsing in a given day - aint nobody got time, energy, nor infrastructure to do that.

User identity (also device identity, and app identity) is used as to classify traffic and it is then up to company admins to create policy for enforcement.

Whatever the policy is - it will be enforced, and it is the same policy&terms you agree to by signing employment contract.

Which says something like - your work laptop and corporate Internet connection can only be used for work related stuff and not personal stuff, etc, etc.
On the toolbar their is a button to change the viewport size to 3 options small mobile, large mobile or tablet
That was a well explained video. Thanks for the share.
Ever since 10MbE, it's been the norm for every new generation to go 10x. 100MbE ("Fast Ethernet") was released in 1995. Gigabit was standardized only 3 years later. Gigabit really started to come to consumer tech in the 2000s. You still find 100MbE on cheaper hardware.

But here we are in 2022 and 10GbE is nowhere near standard and may well never be. It makes me think 10x'ing here was a mistake. We have 2.5GbE and 5GbE standards now but we should've probably had those earlier.

Copper over 10GbE in particular runs really hot. Often adapters will just be massive heatsinks and/or fans.

It's interesting reading here that a lot of 25GbE connectors (50-60% was one figure quoted) failed to negotiate 10GbE. I can't say I expected that. That seems like a problem.

It's kind of wild you can get a 10GbE switch for under $200 as you'll often see 10GbE gear run at $100-200+/port.
>the license explicitly allows you to fork Emacs

There already is a fork of Emacs for MacOS, which I and others on this site have been using for many years (me since 2010) because this isn't the first time the Emacs project has neglected or outright sabotaged Emacs on MacOS:

https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport

One time (roughly 2012) FSF Emacs was in such a bad state that you couldn't interact with it at all: it would display as small, un-resizable window, but nothing I did would cause anything sensible to appear inside the window.
Compare with the 3x3 Fakoo alphabet [1] discussed here earlier [2].

[1] https://omniglot.com/conscripts/fakoo.htm

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33092239
Interesting. I wonder if there's any research as to viability of this plant in terraforming/eco-forming on other planets.

I mean, I don't believe in actually doing this to other planets at all, but the experiment of trying to get something to grow, to bootstrap an ecosystem on a fundamentally barren world, that's at least interesting.
I know some companies forbid the installation of AGPL software entirely.
I never saw an actual fire, but I we did see smoke, in a closet, on a floor that was 90% patient care, but happened to have a research area as well because the research needed access to expensive radiography equipment. The close was literally stuffed with what amounted to gaming machines, purchased with grant money through an importer, directly from China. The guy who set them up was smart enough to put them all behind a little firewall, so the enterprise network couldn't see them. It was a (literally) hot mess, both infrastructure and security-wise.
I have no idea what part of Google's fingerprinting panopticon decided it was okay to let you in from a clean profile, but I can promise you that in the past, I have been locked out. Yes, 2FA was turned off. And there are lots of other reports of this happening around the web, and even here on HN, so I'm not unique.
I owned a 100 year old house and that wasn't my experience.
They should be fired, denied pensions, barred for life from voting, serving public office and owning or using firearms, and then individually charged with every murder which occurred that day. But I guess this is something.
Is there any reason `ns-do-applescript` couldn't be made as an Emacs package? That way it'd be trivial to remove it from Emacs proper and Mac users could still extend the editor as needed.
You want to make sure offender doesn't cause any more suffering of others and you want to help him become somebody better. I know US prison system exists, but we officially dropped torture as a punishment some time ago.
Obvious bullshit.

Elon Musk have been minimizing covid risks since the beginning of the pandemic, especially when it affects his companies. He has been infected twice with what he says are very mild symptoms.

But now that there is a meeting he wants to avoid, covid risks somehow became much more serious.
We are talking about creating an new account, not about signing in.
Wordpress have same problem of being slow POS that in addition needs to be constantly updated for security issues.

Hell, we even got one of our clients (we just provided hosting for some of their stuff) getting half-hacked while setting it up (they were not exactly the developer type). Half-hacked because we required app-to-internet traffic to be ran by proxy so the final payload didn't get downloaded on the server, hilariously enough.
Apparently there is great concern about nation-state-level attacks against the unhoused.
25 years in the work force, 30 years in retirement? What kind of social service system would be able to support that?
I'm not sure what airlines you're flying with, but I've never gotten any notifications like this - in the US or Europe.
Yet another CJS/ESM transition fiasco

I wish some future version of node just drop CJS entirely so this "default" BS can finally die
my experience has been that you now need to be really well networked with YC partners or are already generating 1MM+ in revenue to have a chance at being accepted, which really should not be how YC should work.
Inferring and perturbing cell fate regulomes in human brain organoids
Believing that people will stop using macOs just because Emacs stops working nicely is probably the most ridiculous thing I have read this week. It shows a complete non-understanding about how most users, including developers, use software. If I would guess it has two possible (and possible overlapping) outcomes:

- a mac fork which will maintain this functionality, and probably adds other mac specific functionality over time, basically making the situation worse

- the user will decide it's time to move away from Emacs. Hypothetical quote: "I mean <modern GUI editor> doesn't look that bad and it's 2022 the area of stateless cloud has replaced dedicated servers, so why care for TUI interfaces anymore." So also a loss of free software.

Which is what is at the core of the recent complains about the FSF I think. It looks like they don't fight a ware for a better future anymore but a war for fanatically enforcing ideology even if it hurts their original goals in the bigger picture.
Biden cuts off China's Yangtze, 30 others from US chipmaking gear
now also on the front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33127419
Personally I prefer Fibre channel‘s 1,2,4,8,16… speeds progression.
Except they forgot to think about mobile usability. On Android it just doesn't work like it should.
Except - as pointed out near the start of the interview - Bob knows that Biden is the current president. GPT-3 not only doesn't know, it doesn't know that it doesn't know. Despite having been trained on the entire internet, which talks quite a bit about who was president when.

Intelligence has been concisely defined as "the ability to profit from one's experiences." GPT-3 seems unable to profit from its ample experience being told who the president is.

People get so incredibly gullible when an exciting fantasy like sentient AI is in front of them. ELIZA was a laughably simple program and still fooled people.
Previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25244872
Then fork it and run it in the way you see fit.
> use the app for a day and never return

Indicates your marketing is offering them value that doesn't actualize. Have you sent a couple of outreach attempts to find out why they signed up?

> Some of the app's best features get minimal usage

Indicates you don't see the value the same way as your users. Talk to your users.
Combination of Rapamycin and Acarbose significantly Extends Lifespan
Good on the person for trying, but ya those stairs are a death trap. What’s worse is the replies that have no idea how bad those stairs are. One injury and you have a $100k lawsuit to settle on top of $65k for the new stairs.
Apologies -- tetrazine reacts principally with trans-cyclooctenes. So azide/DBCO would be the orthogonal group. To the best of my knowledge, those two pairs do not cross-react.
80% of startups need the same advice, it can be scaled.

Also, one of YC’s competitors is doing just fine scaling and literally charges founders to join a cohort.
> This is my concern about the current tensions around Ukraine - we really have no idea what's going on in Putin's head or his inner circle. They could be calmly bluffing, or suicidal, or scared we are about to preemptively assassinate them.

I have many concerns about the current situation. For example Zelensky's frequent requests for things that would definitively mean WW3 if he actually got them, and the popular misconception that one must be ready to wage all-out total war to defend Ukraine or else you're on Putin's side. But all of our problems are amplified by the American penchant for cluelessness about what our adversaries are really thinking.
> what was being proposed is that it be removed simply because it interacts with a feature which is unique to a non-free operating system.

Right. Why should the GNU maintainers be responsible for maintaining code that only executes in a proprietary runtime? If you want these features, you should petition your Emacs distributor to package it. Otherwise, this is a silly fight over who's responsible for what. GNU developers are no more responsible for ensuring MacOS compatibility than Apple is responsible for ensuring GNU compliance.

> You seem to be working towards the conclusion that Free Software should only be usable within a fully Free environment

No, but all Free Software should work as-expected in a Free environment. Mac users should be well-familiar with the advantages of writing tight-knit native software.
What I'm getting from that is that you want some func that takes in a []T where the T is constrained to some set of types, and you want to call the func without having to specify the type that you're passing in using square brackets every time.

If that's correct, then is this what you need? https://go.dev/play/p/_e-Uipgo5OQ It seems quite straightforward so I think I'm missing some context, but this can be a start.
What Is the Price of Defeat?
This still isn’t totally a tech fix, you still need government buy in to build the infrastructure and make it usable.
Most recent batch notes conflict with your experience:

- 71% of the batch had zero revenue before YC

- 7% had more than $50k of monthly revenue when accepted

I do agree referrals always make a difference and they should disclose those numbers.

_____________

Related batch notes:

https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/meet-the-yc-summer-2022-bat...
The first part of the title is actually “How recursion got into programming”; losing the “How” renders the title incomprehensible.

If you’re worried the original title is too clickbaity then drop the part after the colon. But not “how.” The mere fact that recursion got into programming is obvious. The whole point of this article is to explain how.
After Mortal Kombat X I thought Mortal Kombat+ would be stuffed full of ads, microtransactions, and playable characters paywalled off behind DLC. Doesn't seem like it so far, but it's still in beta so time will tell.
> For one thing it hasn't failed, the free software movement has been an amazing success.

It has failed.

Open software hasn't failed. But thats not the same as free software. Sure there is a lot of open and free software but there is soo much more open software which is not good for the free software movement. Weather that is because of it being open but not free or weather it's open and free but tightly controlled in ways which hurt the free software movement in the bigger picture.
Given that every body is capable of creating two working retina, why would you think it can’t re-create at least one working retina?

It clearly doesn’t know that the need exists. We have to find the right set of commands and hack the body to re-create one. But the procedure exists even if it involves retina removal and 5+ years of new retina growth (from infant to child).
At our Mac user group meetings, it was routine for most folks to bring their machines. We all had these similar Mac tote bags.

It was an interesting ambassadorial event when we’d invade a pizza parlor with a dozen Mac, especially after Phone Net showed up and we started wiring them up with technological equivalent of cans and string.

I was practically a poster child zipping around with my Mac bungeed to the back of my scooter.
Yes, and I'm explaining why that's harder than it looks; for instance, see where Matrix ended up with homeservers.
End user CPU time hasn't been a bottleneck in over a decade. There is fairly little difference in processing power requirements for home users now from roughly when Core2Quad CPUs were out. I was still running one of those as a development workstation until about 5 years ago.

CPU cycles are absurdly cheap. CPU speeds have been stagnant for 15 years. Average consumer applications still aren't taking great advantage of threading and with the recent CPU architecture attacks we're better off without Hyperthreading anyway.

The absurd popularity of Electron apps like Slack, Discord, VSCode, Figma, Signal and WhatsApp with consumers says clearly that nobody minds all that much.
Did you try running it with GNU programs instead of the hodge-podge of default MacOS coreutils?
Privilege?

Really?

Or did you just toss that in for the free upvotes?
It was, but is it now? I don't think that we should restrict ourselves to what we could do 200y ago.

Specially when you could easily build a system already using the readers' knowledge of current Braille, something like this: https://i.imgur.com/faOWkxb.png

They're visually more distinctive, but more importantly: I think that they'd be easier to tell apart by touch.
I think this is true for operations where inference time is not very critical. Think content generation.

For example, my work in grad school is deploying AI-based control on drones such that they are fault-tolerant. We can have a stronger model at the ground station communicating with the vehicle, which introduces lag. Or the ground station model is more supervisory, and bare metal control is deferred to your classical algorithms. Or we run a smaller, faster network(s) on board which can act and learn fast.

The other thing is model interpretability. For some of my work with drones or smart buildings, the stakeholders wouldn't let a neural network run on a real vehicle or building until it was thoroughly certified through whatever criteria they had. Easier with a smaller network.
Illuminating Hyperbolic Geometry (2015) [video]
My mother was a geologist, so I grew up, around "shortwave" UV lamps.

These trigger much brighter fluorescence in rocks and minerals (and blacklight posters) than your average blacklight bulb, but they can give you a nasty sunburn, and damage your eyes (we had to wear special goggles, when we used these lamps). I never heard about "altering DNA," but maybe that's where the sunburn comes from.

It's pretty easy to get "standard" blacklight LEDs (about 400nm), but less easy to get "shortwave" blacklights (250nm). The 250-300nm lamps are the "sterilizing" lamps.

Maybe there's some band in there that is "safe." I dunno. I notice that wavelengths are not mentioned in the story.
HN's software automatically edits titles for brevity, which is likely what happened here.
What Elon Musk will likely do with Twitter if he buys it
Well, you can probably easily see how this:

https://blog.alexgleason.me/trans/

would trigger some people
I think it is a bit naive to think that exploiting a smart contract is perfectly legal
That would be a laughable lazy decision if it is so in 2022 not to care for mobile usability.

They have AppCode and Android Studio targeting mobile as well.
If you turn off wifi from settings instead of the control center (top right corner pull), it will stay turned off. If you turn it off from the control center, it will indeed say "Turning off WiFi until tomorrow".
By advertising outdated or hard-to-use systems, the FSF advertises itself as irrelevant. It's a PR failure.

To continue with the metaphor: if the lighthouse appears unreachable, or advertising something people don't want, it will be ignored.

Perhaps they can improve said "advertising" by grading HW and distros instead, and indicating for each system how the grade could be improved.
FYI, this video is from June. Patrick teases it in this video, but he recommends another 2.5Gbe switch in a later video[0].

0: https://www.servethehome.com/the-ultimate-cheap-2-5gbe-poe-u...
It only turns back on 24 hours later if you turn it off from Control Center. If you go to Settings > Wi-Fi, it will turn off permanently.
I really hate when a dev makes excuse blaming an external library for lack of integration. It is them that chose whatever the library and didn't care to fix.
I think I remember seeing 4x6 (3x5) on the C64, possibly in an environment like GEOS. That’s about the limit of what is usable, pixelation-wise.

Edit: The smaller GEOS UI font indeed had a cap height of 5 pixels, but it was variable-width: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e2/GeOS_Commodor... (the font of the icon labels)