skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "I don't see why this is wrong, and I'm frustrated that nobody will debate me about this issue from where I stand, so I'll get angrier and angrier until I get someone's attention."

This is a very succinct and insightful way of putting it. It's fine to refuse to engage with people who are refusing to engage with you in good faith (i.e. they won't respond to the arguments you're making with anything but a repetition of their own arguments.) However, assuming bad faith of everyone who has a different opinion than you, even an obviously bad opinion, just hardens their belief in that opinion. It also makes you the one who is refusing to engage (in good faith or bad.)

People know from their daily lives that when people refuse to engage, it's either because they're afraid their answer will anger you, or because they're afraid that they won't be able to defend it. When you refuse to engage with a bleach-drinker, and you're clearly not worried about angering them, they reasonably assume that you can't confidently tell them why they shouldn't drink bleach.
Yes I think it should be seen that way

1. Governments spending tax dollars should make efforts to keep the multiplier in their economy. For something like a hi-tech helicopter there will be a supply chain hundreds of firms long, many small and looking to grow and provide jobs.

2. India has an advantage (certainly compared to US purchases, maybe less to Soviet via China) in labour costs - building a helicopter to the "same" spec in India just costs less than in Ohio, and that means more copter for your rupee

3. Pretty much every government in wartime finds out its supply chains are borked - there is always a shell crisis. It's one reason the US armed forces are so effective - they have been in live wars for thirty years. No chance for a torpedo to be developed that simply does not explode.
That's one of the most effective analogies I have ever heard. Will be reusing, thanks.
An important question to ask yourself before you launch a product: when you look at the final result, do you personally think that it delivers on your value prop? If you don't think so, then users, who are often more critical, definitely won't either.

"you don't have to be a fashion designer or graphic artist to create amazing clothes that express your personality. Whether you want to print a simple design or something more complex, 1SEWN makes it easy and affordable to get the perfect item, every time"

Do you think a generic white T-shirt with a small print of a low artistic quality is really expressing anyone's personality? Or that it looks like a "perfect item"?
Adding to this: https://i.redd.it/yv12zm4ik3y91.jpg

Sums it up in the best possible way.
Should Mastodon fans just be phrasing this kind of choice as if it were email?

"You can have an email account on any number of servers, and you can send email anywhere, no matter where your account is."

"You can have a Mastodon account on whichever server you like, and you can follow people anywhere, no matter where your account is."

It just seems like a paradigm people already understand that might be more welcoming.
Yeah, sorry about the attack.
Never mind the fact that 17 billion is on par with the annual R&D spend at one Pharma company.

I think a more interesting comparison would be all national funding for drug R&D versus all corporate R&D funding. This could be done on an annual basis or historic.

NIH budget was 43 billion in 2021 for all healthcare sectors

Top 10 US Drug company[1] R&D budgets [2] were:

1: Johnson & Johnson $15 Billion

2: Pfizer $14 Billion

3: Merck $13 Billion

4: AbbVie $7 Billion

5: Bristol $11 Billion

6: Abbott $3 Billion

7: Amgen $5 Billion

8: Gilead $5 Billion

9: Eli Lilly $7 Billion

10: Biogen 2.5 Billion

Total 91+ Billion

Keep in mind that those are only US headquartered drug companies, and some of the biggest players like Roche and Novartis are in Europe[3]

https://www.pharmapproach.com/top-10-pharmaceutical-companie...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/JNJ/johnson-johnso...

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/special-reports/top-10-pharma-...
You won't be wrong about that, but I like to think of PortMaster as more of an open-source Glasswire replacement that can also run on Linux. It is an impressive piece of software nevertheless.
Thanks for the comments. The last 2 statement "you can't go back to entry level" and "biggest hedge against this is make sure always have a foot in some other tech" seems to be a bit contradictory.
Pardon me if I have not understood it clearly.
But if someone is not able to go back to entry level then how can they have foot in other tech?
I still run my own email server. However, I use the ISP's server for sending messages (which is not one of the top ten listed in that article), and my own server for receiving. (Exim can be configured to do this, if the "smart host" mode is selected.)

I also do not claim to accept messages and then immediately discard them; I think that is not helpful (since you will be mistaken if a message is actually sent). Instead, messages are rejected (and reported as rejected) as soon as possible (usually when the RCPT command is received, sometimes even earlier (e.g. due to protocol missynchronization)).
Simula looks like it’s pre-order only, do you know if they have actually shipped units? I couldn’t tel if the preorder is for their first device or an iteration, it looked like their first serious foray.
That does look attractive, but getting some sticker shock at $225 initial + monthly installments. I could just as easily buy and kill several $5-$10 plants from Home Depot on a monthly basis. At least then I would get some variety.
It's truly great. Trackers are a totally different way of making music.
Fire that person and their manager for not doing anything about it. Either way its still a terrible metric. I wrote shit loads of code and was still beat out by the worst member of our team because they were given oddball tasks like copy all of this code into a new area, or even worse when they accidentally force merged a different repo into another, good grief.
Where did you move to if I may ask?
> A minority in a prejudiced society is always fucked, but especially fucked in a democracy.

The history of genocides and ethnic cleansing, plenty of which happened historically and recently outside democracies, disagrees.
I wonder if anyone remembers an old experiment they did with houseplants and removing VOCs. They did the experiment right and had one plant have all leaves removed and it removed as much or more as the plant. The source of VOC removal? The potting soil and the life within. That's my memory of it.
> 1980s machines don't have the memory access performance you see today

They had similar problems. CPU with tiny caches <-> caches <-> expensive RAM in the range from 500kbytes to a few MB <-> virtual memory paging to slow disks.

For example a typical Lisp Machine might have had 20 MB RAM. But the Lisp image it ran was probably already much larger. Thus paging spaces upwards from 60 megabytes were not uncommon. I had a Lisp Machine with 40 MB RAM and have used > 200 MB paging space. Disks were very slow. Were are talking about ESDI (2.5 Mbyte/sec or less) interfaces or later 5-10 Mbyte/sec SCSI 1 and 2.

I had a 600MB ESDI disk inside a 1 MIPS Lisp Machine with 8 Megawords RAM of 36bit memory + 8 bit ECC.

Thus locality plaid an extremely large role for usable performance. In the early days machines had to be rebooted when they ran out of memory, since a garbage collection could take a long time. Rebooting a machine was just a few minutes. Doing a full GC over 200 MB virtual memory could take half an hour.

When I was making a new Lisp image (called a world), the size was upwards 50MB. 100 MB was common. A special command ran for roughly 30 minutes and reordered the objects in main memory to improve locality. The another command saved the image - which took also tens of minutes.

A big breakthrough in usability came with the introduction of the Ephemeral Garbage Collector, which only touched RAM and took care of the short lived objects, with some hardware support to identify and track RAM pages with changed content.

Features back then were:

* cdr coded lists which were allocated like vectors

* lots of other data structures like vectors, n-dimensional arrays, hashtables, records, objects, ...

* an ephemeral garbage collector with hardware support tracking changes in RAM pages

* incremental garbage collection

* a copying/compacting generational garbage collector with type sorted memory regions

* cooperation between the garbage collector and the virtual memory pager

* various manual or semi-manual memory management facilities

* incremental memory image saves

The main reason to develop Lisp Machines in the end 70s was to get Lisp development off of time-shared computers (with limited shared RAM and virtual memory) onto single user workstations, where RAM and virtual memory is not shared between different users.

The same problem appeared then on UNIX machines, where Lisp systems often were among the most memory hungry programs -> thus they needed lots of RAM, which was expensive. Thus a lot of virtual memory was used. But access to Lisp objects in virtual memory was much slower than Lisp objects in RAM. It took many years to have competitive GCs on those machines.

When RAM got more affordable and larger, things improved.
This is not at all obvious, but it's fairly easy to move your Mastodon account and leave a forwarding notice behind: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/
When I was a kid learning to code, programming books recommended stridently against even using syntax highlighting. It's funny how helpful things get rejected by people who "did it the hard way."
Actual cellophane is made from cellulose (hence the name) and is both plant based and biodegradable.

The 'plastic wrap' you buy now, however, is likely made from PET.
If that’s what you find “most amusing”, then of course you’ll like a site like that; it’s mostly neofascist regurgitations served on a plate they call satire.

Edit - allow me to substantiate: a quick visit to their site has everything from anti-worker sentiment, anti-LGBT+, election conspiracies, COVID denialism, and an obvious support of right-wing talking points. Did they used to be more even keel? Sure, but they’ve changed their tone for the worse in the last few years.
Lessons from the invention of the thermometer
In fact, most of markdown is compatible with asciidoc. The markdown syntax for headings, monospace, quotes, lists, code blocks, and section breaks all work.
I believe that she was using the term "linear" in the computational/signal processing sense, not that of computing.

In electronics, in a linear system, you can decompose a complex waveform and analyze its response to each frequency discretely, and when you recompose them, you get a correct answer.

In a non-linear system, such as a mixer, no such analysis is possible, you have to consider all of the frequencies, and their levels at the same time.

Also consider that most algorithms are founded on a deterministic computational method.
I don’t know how similar they are to the old version you like so much, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Math_Solver says it’s a mobile app now, and that there’s a web version at https://math.microsoft.com
The US has been developing drone swarms since the 2010s at least, I assume other first-class militaries are roughly at the same capability or perhaps better.

So, it has existed for awhile but I don't think the swarms have been employed.
Holy shit! That is interesting. So then would one still be bombarded with all the info that they don't want to see from those that they haven't been able to block yet but are topic-similar to those blocked, or can you more or less effectively make your own "silo". If the second point is true, what are people upset about if they can easily "chain block" entire sub-graphs of people that they don't want to hear from? That people other than them might be exposed to it?
The mental image of Elon Musk firing 100% of Twitter employees is quite funny.

Well, if you ignore the fact that 7000+ people would suffer.
Typically, someone who wrote no code in 6 months was doing different position for those 6 months. Analysis, infrastructure or whatever, usually without formally changing position. That is significantly more common then imaginary coder who produces no code.
Are plastic bottles a problem? Most of the issues for marine life seem to be shapes things get caught in or eat. I'm not sure if bottles fit that.
Show HN: Kuiq – Ship an API in 10 SEC
I posted this on the YouTube comments as well. I’m pretty sure there is minor bug in how he uses 7 cpu cycles to try to read from the middle of each pulse. It should be about 50. He divided the 13 cycle wait in half but the reason he used 13 cycles originally is because the read logic was already using many cycles.
In practice this doesn’t matter because the state transitions are stable enough with his particular device.
He is the CEO of Tesla. He can make the employees do whatever he wants.
Exactly. But if I assert N properties of an object is that then one assert logically for any N? At what point does it stop?

Applying any rule dogmatically is often bad, and this is no exception. The is that we don’t like lacking rules. Especially it goes to hell when people start adding code analysis to enforce it, and then developers start writing poor code that passes the analysis.

One assert imo isn’t even a good starting point that might need occasional exceptions.
Just burn it like Sweden does.
This is a myth. Porn was available on Beta and far more non-porn VHS tapes were being sold than porn. Porn only made up a small fraction of VHS sales. Even the idea that Beta was strictly better than VHS is mostly modern myth.
Where precisely would you hold a demonstration to protest the widely distributed Bentleys of Calabasas?

Jets tend to congregate conveniently at a small number of public locations. Their per capita emissions are egregious; their missions are frivolous. Perfect target.
Hey! As a 5-year Blender user I'm pretty hyped to give this a try and see how it competes. You talk a big game, and I'd love to test your mettle!

As-is, I can't appraise Womp3D as a Blender alternative since it requires me to create a user account. If you ever drop this requirement (or let people self-host the app) let me know and I'd be happy to compare the two and potentially even recommend it as a Blender alternative.
Now, if they combined the two... had this thing chasing itty-bitty cars around a closed track, eating whatever it catches... THAT, I'd pay money to watch.
I remember it wasn't that bad before - not into kernel things anymore but I guess posting a slightly flashy bug report on the main LKML (linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org) should get some attention.
DC needs a substantially higher voltage to kill you than AC. You can hold 100VDC wires in your fingers and be fine, though if you try this, I strongly recommend doing it with the other hand in your pocket and no path to ground, in case your hand is sweatier than average.

The lower danger of transmission lines is less important once you're committed to stepping voltages up and down, because HVDC transmission lines can still kill you, and there's no real reason we couldn't be using 48VAC inside our houses instead of 120VAC or 240VAC, which would be a lot safer. Historically, though, AC came as a package with transformers and higher-voltage transmission/distribution to substations, and without such super low voltages in houses.

You're exaggerating the technical advantage of AC by a couple of orders of magnitude; you can reasonably transmit 100VDC power about a kilometer, and Edison did, so it's a generator on every 314 city blocks or so.
This isn't reddit #2. The original inhabitants that built HN are not kids. Most people here that won't bombard you with AMD fandom are generally appreciative of Intel's superior financial results and quality assurance.

If you want to talk performance, here's gaming performance of Ryzen 7000 vs Intel 13th gen.[0] Needless to say, I don't see where AMD crushes Intel.

And then there's the financials.

FY21 AMD revenue 16.4 billion dollars

FY21 Intel profit 43.815 billion dollars

[0]https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2022-intel-core-i9-...
Q: What's the performance impact on this, especially on windows?

Basically negligible. Secure DNS might be a bit slower and you might feel some impact on low end devices.

Q: Also what would happen if I installed a Windows gateway, using routing and remote access services, and then installed portmaster on that?

You'd probably be cut off as incoming connections are blocked by default. Please place a config with exceptions before install or have (virtual) physical access when installing.

Q: Oh and can I use this in conjunction with wire guard? How does it play with other vpns.

We have a whole page on that in the docs: https://docs.safing.io/portmaster/install/status/vpn-compati...
Tl;Dr: it's tricky. and because it's not that simple.

I don't know your background and maybe you're from a first nation or tribe, but there isn't a common agreement between the populations of existing tribes and nations on what is offensive or incorrect. This isn't to say that any term is acceptable, but Indians, however incorrectly labeled by a colonizing group a few hundred years ago, is literally how some choose to identify themselves here in North America.

I say this as someone from India and event there, there isn't a common agreement or knowledge to arrive at an "inoffensive" term for folks who live here. Most just use the descriptor left by the British and say "Red Indians" with no malice implied.

this was interesting to watch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh88fVP2FWQ
Yes, I have found in previous discussions about Internet moderation that while many people talk about not wanting to see certain content themselves, the actual thing they want is to control what everyone else sees.
Omg thats thread is scary if true. Although car software is crap throughout the industry.
Gave myself an RSI writing -500 LOC in vi. Only discovered the block indent instruction partway through.

It was copypasta of a bad n² idiom for collision detection between two search criteria. So first I had to replace it all with a function, then change the function. Made the app actually usable though.
Four years seems extremely fast for that. Every iteration you have to grow enough plant mass to test it. That must take weeks or months, even with the most optimal growing conditions.

As for proprietary variants, some Pothos already come with tags saying that propagation is forbidden (which, to me, at least, means I will propagate the hell out of it even if I didn't really want to).
Generally, to "do what you love" successfully for money, you need people, management, planning, self-development and marketing skills. And you generally need to be quite exceptional in at least one of these areas.

Most of us can make smarter decisions, get more sleep, be more efficient doing both what we don't want to do and do want to do. This is self-development. Without it, your productivity will be too low to make much money. Many of the best opportunities to be self-directed (which is a lot of what people "love") are in small business, where marketing dominates.
I mean of course those tik toks will show them drinking wine and attending yoga because showing actual work would violate their employment rules?

There's a lot of bad takes floating around, but "Twitter employees deserve it" is really unfair.
Sorry about that. It's "Safing Privacy Network".
I've thought about this before. WiFi endpoints emit EM radiation, the same as visible light, just in a spectrum that is invisible to our eyes. So they're basically invisible lightbulbs that shine in a way that transmits information. Theoretically if you had the right type of optical sensor, one similar to a standard camera's sensor but tuned to a different EM frequency, you should be able to build a "WiFi camera" right?
Partnership looks at embedding quantum computing in classical
This is an absolutely fantastic engineering feat and design choice, allowing for it to be used without the external lens with regular built-in lenses and exposing the image sensor directly to the external lens.
I'm not sure exactly what you're asking about, but if it's our use of `var` in code examples, we had a big project this summer to eradicate `var` in favour of `const` and `let`.

This started out as a project for the Writing Day at the Write the Docs Portland conference (https://openwebdocs.org/content/posts/writing-day-wtd-portla...). It then continued as a much bigger thing: https://openwebdocs.org/content/posts/2022-q3-report/#modern.... Much of the work was done by volunteers, and it's a great example of the kind of project that I don't think would have been possible back when MDN content was in a Wiki.

If you're asking about whether we should un-recommend `var` more strongly: looking at the page for `var` (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...) - well, maybe you are right...
Additionally, it would be great if one could try the software with already owned VR headsets, without having to buy their hardware before.
Disagreeing with other answers here, but usually they will, and not because the authors tried to make it happen. It's just sort of the default behavior.

A copying collector has to trace through the whole graph to find everything reachable. The tracing order is usually going to be depth first. (It's the easiest to code if you're using recursion and therefore maintaining state with the runtime's stack, but even with an explicit stack you'll want to push and pop the end for locality.) Which means that objects arranged into a linked list will be visited in list order, and you generally copy as you visit an object for the first time. So... reordering live objects relative to each other "just happens". Even if it's a doubly-linked list, since the back pointers have already been visited and so don't matter.

This is less true if your objects have a lot of other pointers in them. But that's just saying that if your object graph isn't a list, then it won't end up laid out in list order. It'll still end up in DFS order according to the true graph.
The Lasso Read-It-Later Service for Gemini Sites
Hopefully they don't keep spending 4 million on a single toilet everytime
> I would dispute "minimal amount of harm", part of the our training involved what to do if the magnet quenches, I recall "run for the exit before you suffocate" was basically the SOP...

Yes, at current scale it would be very hazardous, but at miniature scale a gram of liquid helium could do how much damage considering it would have to make its way through the internals of a machine to contact skin?
In the long term anything is possible but I think given their billion dollar per annum interest payments, they’re thinking short term, and I don’t know why this new service would do significantly better than Twitter blue until they can deliver some features.
Might as well link Deflemask if we're sharing trackers we like.

https://deflemask.net/