skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's speculative, whether an alien species, with a perceptual and cognitive system evolved entirely elsewhere under other pressures, would have an understanding that intersects with our subset of reality. I personally think it's unlikely. What that would mean is that we wouldn't be able to communicate, never mind trade technology and mathematical ideas.

I mean, maybe, but this is conveniently unprovable, much like the flying spaghetti monster, since you are saying we could not communicate because our slices of reality don't intersect. I disagree and think that most likely we would live in a reality that was largely the same, but I guess we'll never know!
What do you mean with "filesystem" specifically, that isn't available on iPads?

There's the Files app.
Can anyone with the latest version post some screenshots of their desktop, or point to some links?
The current Alexa experience is like guessing the syntax in the early 90s adventure games. It's horrible :-)
We have over 3000 employees with Apple equipment as their primary device, and probably 200 of them are iPad Pro only.

They do serve different niches than laptops, but with a keyboard case in an Office 365 environment, they can be full office/productivity replacements for anyone who prioritizes light travel over running local software.
I really love LaunchDarkly as a company. The feature set is solid and has served us really well, and from the outside, the culture seems fantastic. Their sales and partner success teams were much more responsive than competitors. We're very happy with them, and I continue to root for them as much as I can.
Interesting. I was just shooting from the hip, but it looks like you’re right. (And still right even if we look at the abortion rate or abortion ratio, instead of just the absolute number.)
USB-C to Apple Pencil Adapter
You can nationalize an entire sector and have the various companies (units?) compete with each other....still. Lack of imagination kills innovation.
Not 100% confident in this. In a classroom you all face the same challenges (this bad teacher, the test being hard etc.) so it develops comradery, each other helps.
Yeah, there is also bad stuff, but it's an experience that I don't know if sports alone can deliver (the amount of time you spend together in school is way higher).
But that is at least 3 companies I dont trust _at all_
But why at our expense, both financially and mentally? The desire to work onsite, if you think about it, demands that others are in the office with you - since what you need is other people to make it enjoyable for you.

As i said, i dint mind people wanting or working on site. But that demand seems to either directly or indirectly mandate that others work onsite as well.

So why should earn less and live in worse conditions just so that you can chat with me in an office?
Android tablets are universally terrible. A poor product isn't worth half the price – better to avoid it altogether.
Consider an alien which subsists on photons, which is a form of life that exists today. We know from heseinberg that the sensing of this food "here" or "there" is nonphysical. Presumably our creature's civilization would require no heisenberg to discover what anyone can see from their own photosensor.

Rather it is the concept of objects remaining in a single place that would require some real mathematical innovation to a creature with no experience of such an idea. And so this distinction of entirely separate logical states, far from being basic or inescapable, is our very human invention. It is useful for creatures like us, who perceive things in one place when they are not really so, who do their computing with sand in a region where it's bountiful, and who encode abstractions as software because doing so in dedicated hardware is more costly.

While it is certainly possible that all intelligent life would have these constraints, there is no particular reason to expect it. What we can expect is that humans will expect others to be too much like ourselves; it's a well-known cognitive defect in our species.
Good to know, thank you, worth exploring!
I mean if you own a house without a HOA you pay that insurance instead…
> What's explicitly illegal about this?

The fact that the work is copyrighted, rights withheld in the absence of a license and limited with one. Also, you should know that willful infringement can carry 5x the statutory damages compared to accidental, and spurious claims of fair use would be distinctly unhelpful to your case. Just by posting that comment, you have probably compromised your position in any future copyright case you might be involved in, or you might even have invited one. I really recommend being more careful when anything legal is involved.
When I read this in the what's new page:

> Also, private windows have been redesigned to increase the feeling of privacy.

What does it mean? It doesn't make me feel very confident that Mozilla know what are they doing any more.
Just so you know, LibreELEC might be able to fulfill this need better. It's a JEOS style appliance with just enough Linux to bootstrap Kodi and that includes a file manager and you can use Samba to move files around over the network. Since Kodi (formerly known as XBMC) is a ten-foot interface, it was made for watching videos on your TV. There are also all sorts of skins to make it easy to use and nice to look at, including some you'd be convinced you were using your very own personal Netflix library, curated by you alone.
Oh yeah I think it’s a basic human need, but not one I need to get at work. The workplace is a monetized environment. I provide a service and I get paid for it. If I’m not getting paid I’m not going to be there and will put my energy to much more meaningful endeavors. The emotional labor of providing camaraderie and mentorship in an on-site location is an add-on service from me for an extra fee.

People who want to be in an office should have it available or work for companies that can provide it. People like me can avoid it or only do it when the paycheck is right.

My family is my family, my friends are my friends and my coworkers are my coworkers.
International law is not a good example here because actually if you look at international law then Taiwan is part of China and formally it's considered as part of China by US, EU etc. Taiwan is not a state from perspective of international law so from this perspective it doesn't have sovereign airspace.
For video chat, you don't need the latest. After the camera on my MacBook stopped working, I started using a 5th gen iPad mini. I use it with a stand on the kitchen table, in landscape mode, and it's fine.

Bigger isn't necessarily better. My wife has a full-size iPad and I find it awkwardly big for most purposes.

But for ease of use for the technically challenged, I think something like a Nest Hub Max might be better, since it will automatically point the camera. Caveats: it's not easy to set up for someone without a cell phone (it's technically unsupported), but once you do it for them, it's easy to make a call. Also, weirdly, the video only works when they call me; if I call them it's audio only. (I ask them to call me back.)
True, I had forgotten that. But I assume we can fix that over this kind of timescale.
Can you give some examples of inputs where === doesn't do the right thing?
No, I mean more that pretty much any economic decision or behavior that benefits one group over another can be framed as stealing.
I'd expect aliens to have discovered their equivalent of the Church-Turing thesis, Tarski's externality of truth, Godel's incompleteness theorems, etc. That would give them a strong ability to model our mathematics within their own and see its computational structure and begin finding correspondences to theirs. Similarly, we could begin modeling their conception of mathematics in a similar way and as soon as we both have arrived at a morphism between our representation and theirs of some particular theorem we could grow our knowledge and understanding of the other.

The key is that mathematics flows from logic and logic flows from computation and computation is universal.
What is the exact reason for such a big backlog ?

My theory is that the backlog is mostly a double edged sword. If the backlog turned to zero today, the Universities would flood with applications from around the world and the number of I140s would increase exponentially in the next 10 years.

The backlog hence keeps expectations in check. I know plenty of friends on I140s who may not get a green card for the next decade. And yet they still plan on buying a home and starting a family in the Bay Area because now they are a prisoner of the lifestyle. Back in India they could live in the top 1% with the money they saved so far but they don’t want to go back ever.

Thus the US is basically keeping its universities funded by enough international students and as long as there are open opportunities in STEM they keep issuing H1Bs and I140s.

The question is whether the government cares at all to deal with backlogs or if they like the current situation. My guess would be the latter.
> hook into the underlying kernel events like kqueue...

I'm really surprised that this sort of functionality isn't built into OS's/filesystems. I recently had to do this for HDFS, and I finally "gave up" and polled the file system like you suggest as your first option. Event notification seems like something that ought to be a fundamental feature and is best owned by the file system itself.
The touch ID power button seems interesting: has that been in other iOS devices or is that new?
I'm sure they exist, but what is around the grocery store that there's no houses within 2 miles?

Often the "new developments" near these towns are out of town a bit, but even two miles isn't an insane walk.

I'll grant that many of them don't have much in the way of sidewalks, but you can often find them.
I'm sympathetic to your point of view, but I disagree.

Telemetry is a bit like DRM. Firefox strenuously avoided DRM for a long time, losing a lot of market share in the process, until it became clear that it could not stay relevant without being able to display DRM video. The pragmatic decision was either to (1) stay pure, forbid DRM, and disappear; or (2) give in and support DRM, accept that the battle was lost, and continue to survive in order to influence the battles that had not yet been lost.

The same could be said for telemetry, though it has less impact in either direction (it causes less harm, and not having it is less of an existential threat). And we (I work for Mozilla) did resist it for a long time, longer than was probably healthy for the market share, and eventually gave in. At least with telemetry it could be a somewhat principled capitulation—we are much more careful about avoiding tying together different measures that could be correlated to identify users, and we have a strict approval process when adding new telemetry (I've gone through it several times).

Telemetry is sadly necessary to stay competitive in today's landscape. For example, speed is the #1 reason that people report for switching browsers. Relying on either benchmarks or user reports for performance tuning simply isn't good enough. The signal is slow and massively lossy. We need to know what our actual users are experiencing, and whether a change had a positive impact on real-world usage or not. It's easy to come up with a change that improves benchmarks, at least a little. It's much harder to move the needle on what our users are experiencing. Without telemetry, we would make lots of changes that would overfit for benchmark behavior, adding complexity and producing very little benefit.

The other important piece: opt-in telemetry isn't telemetry. The sampling bias results in massive distortion. Being able to say "this change improves performance *for users who have opted in to telemetry*" is mostly useless. Users who opt in are going to have wildly different hardware, on average.

Opt out is much less problematic, even though it also introduces sampling bias, because in practice not that many people bother to opt out. It's definitely reasonable to argue that the opt out mechanisms should be simpler and more clear.

Though at the end of the day, it's much more important that we collect telemetry in a way that does not compromise the privacy of people who don't opt out, and (imho) we're doing pretty well there. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/ gives a decent high-level overview. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Data_Collection gives more of the nitty gritty detail than you'd probably want.
One option is to work on open source projects.

There are many novel projects that work with novel code, (such as UI / features on top of stable diffusion).

And you can drill into the novel code dependencies (such as SD in above example) if you want to write novel code.

Working with teams shipping novel code publicly is probably the fastest way to find work that pays you to do similar.
Japan’s oldest toilet damaged as driver backed up
I just picked one of the drugs I take.

Finasteride 5mg 30 count at safeway pharmacy: $57

Finasteride 5mg 30 count at safeway pharmacy with GoodRx: $7.32

Finasteride 5mg 30 count at mark cuban's thing: $4.50

When all the other middlemen are basically an overpriced cartel, a new middleman can be very groundbreaking.
What are the three laptop models
There is absolutely no financial advantage to having an installed charger versus an outlet. There are other advantages. It might fit your hand better during the 2 seconds it takes to plug in. It might be better in the rain if your outlet is exposed to driving rain in wind. It might look more impressive to the neighbors. It looks more impressive to the landlord or wife or anyone who might be approving a budget for upgrading wires inside a wall or upgrading a panel. It does not save any money.

If you are thinking of charge scheduling, the car does that. Or should… if you buy an EV from a good EV company, not an old crusty legacy automaker.
Yes, but you conflated the two to make your argument. Saying "peak tech is over" to mean "the VC-driven startup grider is out of gas" is fine! Saying that it's over because technology isn't making people's lives better is wrong, because that's what "technology" does, and it doesn't appear to be slowing down to me.
Is this just using inotify on Linux?

If so, there are equivalent options, including systemd path units, incron, and the inotifywait utility, in addition to the C API.

The "man systemd.path" page does list explicit limitations of this kernel system call:

"Internally, path units use the inotify(7) API to monitor file systems. Due to that, it suffers by the same limitations as inotify, and for example cannot be used to monitor files or directories changed by other machines on remote NFS file systems." (Files modified by mmap() also don't trigger events.)

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-filesystem-events...

Windows busybox also has an inotifyd, which appears to do something similar.
So will uBlock Origin be "crippled" in this browser, like in Chrome/Chromium and Safari?
I was interested in that too. I stopped when as soon as I realized that any good search in tagging system would be just a full text search. E-commerce catalogs have detailed filters but I think people use maximum 2 properties in addition to simple name input search
There are no certificate issues in my Chrome. Are you sure your not on some MITMing VPN?
News outlet The Wire is investigating its own reporting amid dispute with Meta
When life gives you lemons, write better error messages
> Does anybody know a way to detect the DuckDuckGo browser?

Only in the DDG iOS app the useragent adds a DuckDuckGo string appended to a generic Safari string. You can test here:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=what+is+my+useragent&ia=answer
Does anyone remembers when Firefox was called Phoenix and it was born as the lightweight alternative to Mozilla and it was already highly configurable theme wise on basically calculators for today's standards?

https://blog.mozilla.org/community/files/2013/05/2002_phoeni...
I was absolutely confused regarding what kind of “tubes” this guy talks about. But when I saw 6N1P and recognized it immediately. Not the exact name, but the numbering scheme - each owner of a Russian TV would learn a numbering scheme for “tubes” sooner or later.

It’s interesting that Russia became (or remained as) an almost single supplier of this “outdated” technology.

But still, these “tubes” are rather a niche product in the audio equipment market, no? We probably can’t get a good enough insight looking just at them.
The Gen 1 pencil has a tiny battery and is a chore to charge. Mine is usually dead and I just write on paper. Not being able to charge it wirelessly from the iPad was a huge UX mistake that they quickly fixed with Gen 2. Can't believe they are still holding on to Gen 1.
"Much nicer" is a bit of a stretch (I use a touchscreen laptop with my DAW). The difference between clicking-and-dragging a knob is not that different from tapping-and-dragging one. Same goes for performance; the iPad is not velocity sensitive, and it does not have aftertouch. At that point, you're probably adding in a MIDI keyboard or other hardware, at which point you may as well just perform with a real DAW and leave the iPad at home.
Not sure where you are. But I just compared Crucial DDR5 32GB DDR5-4800 (PC5-38400) and the non-ECC (on CDW.com) is $186.99 for part (CT32G48C40U5) and $229.99 for part (MTC20C2085S1EC48BA1R) a 22% premium.

All Alder Lake chips (the ones shipping in volume today) support ECC, check ark.intel.com to be sure. For example the popular i7 model (https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/134591/...) As do all Ryzen desktop chips (5000 and 7000) do as well.

Granted popular consumer products don't have ECC, but it's pretty straight forward to built it yourself. Just make sure the motherboard you buy (Intel or AMD) supports ECC.
Lots of people only look at data. A crippled mobile version that permit read access is good for an awful lot of people.

Let's look at pharma. They have a ton of sales reps and relatively few people in tech roles supporting them. Similarly, they have folks in scientific roles that push all software to the limits with a few people supporting them. The use cases of the sales reps are very well catered for on iPad and reps make up a lot of the user population. They present products to customers (eDetailing), have some basic data entry (CRM), might browse a range of reporting, and do some email. Email is critical, but as a sales director, that's not where you want your reps spending time. A limited experience somewhat helps just reply or move on.

I make no claims that this is sufficient for sales directors or scientific staff. It is however very well suited to some of these roles. It's also very reliable, cost effective, and easy to provision. It's unfortunate that laptops end up being so complicated in comparison for this audience.
To be completely honest, I would wager it was more a matter of ego than anything rational. C++ kept improving over time and he knew that, but rather than revise his position and admit to an error, he stubbornly persisted until Rust came along, and that gave him an out. "Well, C++ is too shitty; but Rust, a language that has not been around for even a decade, that's was I want to add support for in the kernel". Rust has pretty much all the failings he accused C++ of having, it just has memory safety as an additional benefit.
Seems like a dumb article - their whole argument is that we should NOT be building fabs in the US because demand has recently fallen and we MIGHT end up with too much supply?

Seems like a good thing to be honest. More supply means cheaper prices and even if demand is a bit lower there is no way it is going to keep going down. We have CPU's in damn near everything these days. The drop is probably mainly because of crypto mining falling of a cliff.
I would not count of SA being an ally for ever. I find this highly inappropriate especially for someone with sich high rank. Very very dangerous territory that could end up with a treason charge.
I'm really curious to know how he selects the topic of each article; the archive has quite a range!

This is the type of blog I aspire to make, one day
The short, unpopular, possibly illegal answer:

Get fucking married (to a US permanent resident or citizen)!

This is more common than you think. It was more common than I thought! USCIS is dumpster fire purgatory and any competent, results driven lawyer will tell you so.
I think you're missing the point that, in AO3 specifically, tags are not solely metadata. Tags are also artistic expression in the context of AO3. That's the thing. AO3 doesn't function like the Library of Congress, and there are no librarians that are independently assigning categories to fanfic. An author can choose to opt out of tags entirely, and people cannot put tags on other people's fanfic even if it's relevant and would benefit that work's findability. The simple mechanism of the author having sole control of what tags they want to apply to the work causes the act of tagging to also serve the purpose of artistic expression-- this results in spontaneous tags going from single-use to culturally known, such as "no beta we die like men", and therefore I think arguably useful but only in the context of AO3.
I was trying to produce good example on differences in reading "stable system" on FreeBSD vs Linux worlds, when definition on what is "system" differs.

No anything specific I have to put against Firefox or any other application here.
You are confusing copyright with trademark. Or, provide a link showing the images case was decided on copyright issues, and I’ll reconsider my position.
Google sending porn searches to 'Go the Fuck to Sleep' publisher
I think I responded to this concern in my previous comment.

Basically you are conflating free software as written and released by a developer with a completely separate service (eg Github) that is used to distribute this free software. Both the software and GitHub are free to the end user, but GitHub is likely harvesting user data for monetization.

As I said before, this does not make the original software not free. In this specific case distribution/download is not free. That has nothing to do with whether the user is the product or the code is the product for the developer.
I’m dealing with this right now and it feels like we’re at constant war instead of collaborating.
Urban areas are not hot either. Roads are pretty consistently underfunded in most of them, and are in disrepair due to heavy usage, frost issues, etc. none of which is very kept up with due to the sheer size of urban road networks.
Apparently ASML's internal processes are a mess, with everything consistently blocked by technical debt. I suspect this is the biggest blocker to their ability to scale their production faster.
Varies by board, ASRock (at least some boards) supports it, documents it, it's in the BIOS.

It's not unofficial, AMD lists it in their specifications.
> I don't know why anyone at BU would risk modifying Covid without the utmost precautions

My wife was a laboratory inspector for a while. She'd come home with the craziest stories about how such-and-such lab tried to get away with this or that. I'd have the same question every time. "Why?!" Protocols only work if they're followed. We have such a long history of disasters, major or minor, because of negligence[0]. Cutting corners, operating outside the envelope, etc.

She'd always just shrug and say, "familiarity breeds contempt".[1]

[0] My favorite is Chernobyl.

[1] Also, a lot of scientists have this, "I know what I'm doing" attitude and see safety precautions as holding them back. It doesn't help that most of them see grad students as expendable.
If it is possible, nobody knows how to do it.
That only uses one band at a time, with separate IPs and MAC addresses for each.
Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Albany