skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [...] about how horribly evil the designers are that agree with stuff like "make the skip button not look like a button so no one knows to click it as it is really really important that we get them to invite their friends [...]

Exactly this is the point I got hung up, too.

What I'd like to add, though: There are event wo layers of "evil" here:

- The idea that there's a "right" (default) button in a perfectly file selection of two options

- The fact that the example doesn't even style the alternative as a button opts to pretty much hide it instead
Hmm... it's 2. It seems that the bitwise operators do indeed convert numbers into 32 bit integers (truncating any decimal parts) before applying their operation.
CVE-2022-41924 - RCE in Tailscale, DNS Rebinding, and You
I agree. And it's far faster to measure something by scooping it via measure spoons than to try and match a desired weight on a scale.
This would be easy to cryptographically certify, this is not a problem.
The notion of smart contracts might have a perfect use-case when it comes to setting up and maintaining infrastructure on AWS. E.g. something like "I want an Amazon RDS PostgreSQL instance with such and such specs. full daily backups and 99.999% uptime and I'm will to pay $xxxx for it". From there solution providers "bid" on the contract and are paid automatically on the basis of meeting the requirements of the contract, the determination of whether requirements were met also being automated.

The idea is something that grew out of blockchain platforms - Decentralized autonomous organizations - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_autonomous_organ... - this doesn't actually require a crypto currency backing it but some kind of smart contract would be required.
If you think what the US did in the middle east was bad, you ABSOLUTELY should stop helping america profit. Just because nobody has the balls to actually punish america for the horseshit we have pulled, doesn't mean it's not the correct thing to do.
Microtransactions, subscriptions for damn near everything, in-app purchasing for every little addon, *aaS...

I hate the modern tech world in a lot of ways. It is ridiculous.

OEMs: "oooh.. EVs are just computers with Wheels. I bet we can do the same thing everyone else is doing!"

I really, really hope there is so much backlash that they drop it. It should be illegal to purposefully gimp something like a car just to milk more money out of it.

I can understand something that has to be maintained like sat radio or OnStar etc. Those are actually "value-adding services". But freaking performance? It's like the bullshit with Tesla and restricting battery capacity.

What next? your cellphone wont charge past 50% without a subscription? Your car's headlights will only operate at 60% brightness without a fee? Your fridge's ice-maker will make ice slower without a "premium" addon?

You can't use certain colors without paying a fee... oh wait.

/smh
Because there isn't a good way of distributing pre-compiled cross-platform C libraries. So if you want to use a parsing library written in Rust, for example, you'd need to add Rust to your toolchain, which is a pain.

One solution to this problem would be to write an LLVM backend that outputs C. Maybe such a thing already exists.
SUMO (Simulation of Urban MObility) https://www.eclipse.org/sumo/
The gut-brain axis (GBA) consists of bidirectional communication between the central and the enteric nervous system, linking emotional and cognitive centers of the brain with peripheral intestinal functions. Recent advances in research have described the importance of gut microbiota in influencing these interactions. This interaction between microbiota and GBA appears to be bidirectional, namely through signaling from gut-microbiota to brain and from brain to gut-microbiota by means of neural, endocrine, immune, and humoral links. In this review we summarize the available evidence supporting the existence of these interactions, as well as the possible pathophysiological mechanisms involved.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4367209/
Cool concept!

I bet there's a way to reassemble the entire book from it, though. For example "Show me the first paragraph of chapter 4." returns—what seems to be—the actual requested value.
> that's the explicit assumption for that thread.

and i'm fine with that. i don't believe it exists, especially for a business/fund like his, where even making that claim is its own sort of hilarity, but i'm fine with that for the purposes of the thread and this response:

> Kelly betting applies to repeated bets. ... In that situation, EV really does scale linearly with bet size, so if you have any edge you should just go big.

in which case you don't spend any time talking about how you're going to bet "X times kelly". you don't deny that kelly applies, and then compute some >1 multiple of kelly and defend that number by saying kelly doesn't apply. there's no fixed multiple of what you get out of the gambler's formulation that makes any kind of sense if you've abandoned the initial premise.

i suspect the only good, coherent defense of what he was saying on twitter is something like "he had articulate arguments but didn't present them because of twitter limitations"
Tox has several desktop clients available, even including a CLI one.

https://tox.chat

https://github.com/Jfreegman/toxic
I think discussions about remote work and commuting bring out people with unusually bad commutes. And probably people with unusually bad commutes are in social bubbles where they think it’s normal, otherwise they wouldn’t sign up for it. But statistically, they are unusual!
Ask HN: As a junior front end developer what should I focus on?
I'm currently a frontend web developer with 1 year and 4 months of experience. I see two roads in front of me.

a) Improve my web development knowledge by learning the topics from these sites(both frontend[0] and backend[1])

b) Work on personal projects which I'm interested in, but none of them are web dev related

My mind tells me that the first option would be the right choice for my career, but I just can't bring myself to learn things for the sake of learning. I see all those topics but I can't come up with any projects I want to create, so it appears that all that learning will be ineffective because I won't put it to use.

My heart wants to go with the second option because I feel like that's more fun. I get to make things I love, and if possible I could make some money too. And since it will be a change of pace, I think I would enjoy it more.

I initially thought that I should just do both, but that didn't work for me because I ended up wasting time in deciding. After reading this article[2] I understood that I should focus on only one thing at a time, at least it would get me started.

[0]https://roadmap.sh/frontend

[1]https://roadmap.sh/backend

[2]https://sive.rs/donkey
FHD Blu-rays rips really easily and the media are far more durable/reliable. About 5% of my DVD collection fails to rip in the simple manner, 1% doesn't rip at all[1], 100% of my Blu-ray collection rips cleanly on the first try with makemkv.

1: ddrescue on two different DVD drives can rip most DVDs (make sure you authorized the drive first by opening it with a player first), but I have 2 (out of nearly 200) that do not.
Oh, sorry, SUMO is a traffic simulation for research purposes.
Rudy Rucker recently released Mirrorshades for free on his website: https://www.rudyrucker.com/mirrorshades/

I have a work-in-progress PDF edition of it on GitHub here: https://github.com/jdonland/mirrorshades
Wayland Protocols 1.30 Introduces New Protocol to Allow Screen Tearing
DVDs are great entire because I rip them immediately to get rid of the menu and governmental mandatory ads. The DVD box gets stored in a bin.
> The US is officially, metric; ansi converts back for the uneducated.

This is the type of flamebait we don't need.
More Than 50% of Bitcoin Addresses Are Now in Loss
Action required: Upgrade Windows clients to v1.32.3
Your first link is just arguing why we need a single root. The second one notes handover of control from US to ICANN (which you are correct, they should note it) but their text above notes general issues regardless of who is the 'steward'.
The commentary tracks on DVDs could be quite good at best--even if they were also hit or miss. Unfortunately they seem to have pretty much vanished. I assume that the volume of DVDs these days doesn't justify the cost/effort of recording these any longer.
MacOS is a delivery channel for iCloud services.
Proof that a bad thing is obviously happening is different from a strong (justifiable) suspicion that a bad thing is happening.

And it doesn't matter anyway. That meat plants might be gross doesn't mean Beyond Meat should be allowed to be. Everyone should be producing food in a clean environment.
The Google Maps smudging point is an interesting one and definitely worth considering, but the incentives at play are very different. While I'm sure they want to be seen as making an effort, Google isn't rewarded in any way for achieving high accuracy in their smudging. It just has to be "good enough" to the point that they aren't getting in trouble for deliberately neglecting it. For this reason, I'd imagine the resources they devote to it are quite limited. It's not having billions poured into it like self-driving AI is--while I have no inside knowledge, I'd guess the budget is orders of magnitude less.
If you don't get it right, you'll get a paleVioletRed-slip.
I used to follow the conventional wisdom (there won’t be wide base adoption of cryptocurrencies, but blockchain tech will be useful in a variety of other technologies). I never really looked to hard into blockchain or the work being done in the industry. But based on the various crypto firms collapsing and the fact that there is no place that is making any meaningful progress with blockchain at this point, I’m at the point where I’ll dismiss any crypto / blockchain project reflexively. Seems like it’s been a great way to get funding for those clued in and taking advantage of the hype.
Queue the next Elizabeth Holmes to get into this in a revolutionary world beating way.
Legacy? The Hip New Kid on the block, "Tesla", started this bullshit.
I've had this problem on so many mice over the years, going back to the Amiga days. Often it can be fixed by opening the mouse and gluing a tiny bit of thin card to the nub which presses on the microswitch. (Usually the problem is just that the plastic has worn down over the years and no longer pushes the button quite far enough to make a clean contact.)
A "Financial Services Company" that can afford to spend a million bucks a month on Twitter ads is probably not selling anything I'd like to be buying. As a user, I'm not exactly clear about why I should feel outraged. I say, please, more of this.

Addendum: HN downvotes are the sweetest tears because you can tell who is crying.
We just ran a giant 2 year WFH experiment. It didn't hurt productivity.
In 2014, however, an unexpected event cast the color list in a more favorable light: a new shade. “Rebecca purple,” was introduced to honor the life of Rebecca Meyer, the daughter of Eric Meyer, a respected programmer and CSS writer. Rebecca died of brain cancer at the age of six; the hue (#663399) was chosen to reflect her favorite color. (A few developers opposed the addition, maintaining that a set of standards was no place for an emotional tribute. They were dismissed as curmudgeons.)
Just a meta note, what I'm saying is that you need to work on your communication. This reply is logically disjoint and succumbs to the problem that I was mentioning - the use of imprecise and confusing language or jargon. If you combine that with jumps to conclusions and pretend certain things are self-evident, it sounds like bullshit. It's how hucksters talk.

I didn't say that what you were talking about was bullshit. I said the language you used made it sound like it.
Top 10 Practical Effects of All Time [video]
And why one should be different than the other ?
It's 2 different choices.
Making them different risks preferring one to the other.
The current private holders knew what they were getting into though, at least as far as past financial results.

Granted, they may not have known that Musk was going to unleash this much chaos so quickly on the company.
For my money, 720p is more than enough for any movie except visually compelling movies. For things like LOTR, Star Wars, and some of the super-hero series I really appreciate that 1080p. My eyesight isn't good enough to discern 4k.
Refried beans are pretty great. Would take them over barbacoa most days of the week
CVE-2022-41924 – tailscaled can be used to remotely execute code on Windows
fwiw, i got diagnosed earlier this year and have a background of high blood pressure. the doc prescribed me clonidine alongside my stimulant which has kept my blood pressure around normal levels.
Thank you for naming things that previously didn't have names for me. Hormesis (resistance built up to stressors) is an amazing concept.
Considering only about 12-13% of ETH is currently staked, what I mean is, it’s still not the majority of the ecosystem.

So there are still a lot of unknown unknowns, including ‘what will the ecosystem look like when it is the majority’.

It might be lower on fraud. Or higher. Or economic to just stake. Or not.

We don’t know yet.
It's a profit center.
I think we saw a little of this with The Mandalorian. In the episodes where we first meet Cara Dune, and she talks about being a "dropper" shock troop. It definitely gives you a much grittier, Machiavellian view of the rebellion, and it seems like the Imperials view droppers as savages whose conduct is beyond the pale.

Also, in the episode where she and Mando are (kidnapped/stowaway whatever, can't quite remember) on the Imperial shuttle. The Imperial pilot makes it clear that his hatred of the rebellion is deep, personal, and 'moral'. "Do you have any idea how many millions of people were on that battle station?" Not that he has exactly seized the moral high ground, working for the Empire, but I definitely saw that as a "rebellion ~ al Qaeda" moment.
The Coding Train. Daniel is amazing and has a Bob Ross-esque vibe to him.
The concept of propagation depends on the concept of duration. The point is to demonstrate an entity that is constituted by duration. The relation to consciousness is that some take it to be also inherently constituted by duration. In other words, consciousness is inherently a process/dynamic. E.g. if you suspend the movement of molecules in a brain such that it contains no dynamics, is the brain undergoing any conscious experience during this period of suspended animation? Some think the answer is no.
‘Biological alchemy’ is such a dumb name. Leprosy appears to be capable of rendering some infected cells into stem cells. That is a fascinating and potentially ground breaking capability for developing therapies… but calling this regenerative property ‘alchemy’ is just plain silly: it is imprecise and conflates science with little understood pseudo magic.
Fast and provably correct are more or less solved problems (at least for a large class of languages).

The main drawback is that it is difficult to get good error messages when a parse fails.
Its no longer new, thus no longer cool.
I feel like "Kingdom of England" would be off the table - you probably wouldn't want to antagonise the Welsh immediately after they just watched NI and Scotland split off :)
Ignorance is a choice, when it requires action (or intentional inaction) to maintain it. I’m not sure why you seem to think it isn’t.

In the cocaine example, If I stay away from reading about recreational drugs, and don’t put anything that I don’t know what’s in it in my body, why should I ever have to know or care about cocaine at all? Is that not a choice with the same effect, but also without all the work and risk involved in doing all that research and potentially trying something that is more dangerous to me than would be obvious?

Forcing someone to know something is removing their ability to make those choices.

Having Agency/Self Determination means being able to make that choice, even when others don’t agree with it, or it causes potential problems for someone. That is the cost (and privilege) of ownership.

In a society, we infringe that for members of our society when the society overall thinks it justifies the costs. Vaccinations for kids before they go to school, to stop large scale outbreaks and death for instance. Or mandatory public education.

But that is for folks raised in and part of the overall fabric already, and impossibly intertwined with it.

Doing that for someone outside of it makes no sense.

For one (less extreme) example, The Amish (if they’re devout) aren’t being deprived because they aren’t being forced to learn how to program in C or whatever. They’re making choices to intentionally not go there, for their own reasons. They are free to change that if they want.

If you want to argue that their kids or whatever don’t get to choose, that’s all kids everywhere.

Unless they are offending us in some serious way that we can’t stand by and ignore, we’ve generally all agreed to let everyone live and let live, since otherwise it produces worse abuse and deprives them of their right to live the way they want.

But if you want to say that it’s societies obligation to ‘fix that’, you’re treading a very dark and dangerous path.

The same path that resulted in the ‘aboriginal schools’ in Australia, Canada, etc. and the reservations, missions, forced conversions etc. in the US and their massive and terrible abuses.
Good mostly as you define it yourself.
That’s why they say don’t judge others, that people will be judge by "God"
There is also norms anchored in long tradition, like the commandments.

But yes, there is also a tendency to try to explain everything and reject what doesn’t fit in the explanation ex: homosexuality.
<stdatomic.h> is provided by GCC (not the libc), so I expect it to be available everywhere the atomic builtins are supported.

I prefer the builtins. With _Atomic you can easily get seq-cst behavior by mistake, and the <stdatomic.h> interfaces are strictly speaking only valid for _Atomic types.
But Termux can't access sd card. Only the phone built-in storage.

That limits what I can backup.
> This is why I don't use services such as Spotify. This is also why I still buy DVD's and Blu-Ray.

Heh...I'm very much the opposite.

I don't want DVDs and Blu-Rays taking up space, especially since I rarely watch a movie more than once or twice. I'd much rather pay for Netflix.

When it comes to music, while I have a few favorite bands, I also like the discovery that something like Spotify has, where I can just tell it to play a bunch of music from a specific genre and not have to purchase individual songs/albums and create playlists and folder structures to organize it all.

Music streaming is here to stay. If Spotify dies, it'll be because it's getting replaced by something else, and then I'll just switch to them.

> Bottom line, I'm not against paying for things so long as I own them. I'm against subscribing to durable goods.

Agreed. I think the difference is that I'm not really interested in buying music, and instead, I'm perfectly happy renting access to a massive music library.

> At the rate this nonsense is going Ryobi is going to start demanding a subscription for me to continue using my mitre saw. Nonsense!

100%

If something costs $0 for the company to maintain, then there's no valid reason to charge a subscription beyond increasing profits.
It is the definition of virtue signaling.
It is happening, my parents are proof. They have more DVDs than the local library
> But I have to admit that regardless the hype around it I don't think that it's particularly interesting. I see it as just yet another Unix clone; with exactly zero innovation behind it.

I personally think the syscall structure is quite interesting, especially the pledge & unveil taken from BSD. But that is indeed not innovative, it is just taking some really nice ideas from prior art.
Design i think ;)
The interesting point a nearby comment made was it corrupts those around you. That gets lost in that aphorism.
They're at it again, sadly: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/10/ubuntu-pro-terminal-ad
The only downside to all of this remoteness is the non-programmer workforce going remote. I do think people that pick up the phone pre-pandemic should be picking up the phone post-pandemic. Whether that's from their home or not, I don't care.

What we get instead though, is ringing, ringing ringing. Can't get my power ordered. I can't get roofing ordered. Can't get call backs.

Things were more expedient pre-pandemic. I often do wonder too, is part of the reason company X is OUT of something isn't because the ship is late - or is it because the ordering person no longer sits in front of a giant pile of insulation and goes - oh crap, that is getting really low. I should order more. (And guess what happens if he calls to order more - ringing ringing ringing)
Thank you! But why does it change the timestamp?
Why would you ever open the AppStore? It's a wasteland.
I honestly don't give a fig about Elon or twitter. I was simply noting my opinion that having ideological ghettos ("siloed echo chambers") may not be such a bad thing, all things considered, since there is little pretense of actual dialogue to inform and/or reach consensus on these flat social spaces.
For me this is a good example of the old adage that you should not confuse vision with strategy.

The vision is you realize the universal truth (in Amazon’s case people want things cheap and fast).

The strategy is how you deliver on making that visions reality. This is what you call (rightly so) your core business model.

Only experience people tend to get all caught up in the big ideas of the vision (especially middle managers) but spend far to little time on making the hard choices that come with deciding in strategy: it’s as much, if not more, about deciding what not to do as it is commitment to what you will do to realize your vision.
Not on my computers.
It is peer-to-peer. If someone keeps spamming you from the same IP address, then you can block that address. If you're getting spammed from multiple IP addresses, then you're essentially getting DDOS'd and there's nothing you can do aside from blocking unknown senders.
Speaking up?

https://mobile.twitter.com/timbray/status/963115533825527808

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2021/06/26/Shorting-...
I take that to mean they're not discouraged. After all, the <marquee> element still appears to work in 2022. I imagine if named colors are ever removed as a feature from browsers, it won't be until a year like 2057.

We should instead encourage named colors AND recognize `chucknorris` as an actual HTML color value.
I wish dvds used the same scratch resistant coatings bluray does. DVDs are insanely fragile.
Peasants and Kings
This is a neat little thing you've made here. I feel more relaxed just watching it.
Wideboard: Display millions of lines of text at 60 FPS using WebGL (2013)
Devbox 0.1.1: Run scripts in devbox shell, pin Nixpkgs SHA
Hi, this is an old proof-of-concept project of mine that I've been meaning to post for ages. I haven't touched the repo in years, but it contains shaders and Javascript support code that allow for Google Maps-style browsing of enormous volumes of text (on the scale of an entire Linux kernel codebase) even on relatively low-end machines - Chromebooks with integrated GPUs should work just fine.

If you're interested in GPU-accelerated text rendering for web-based IDEs, this codebase might contain some interesting ideas. Feel free to swipe whatever code you like and build something interesting with it.

-Austin
Nothing a basic BD-ROM and a AnyDVD HD license (and a PC I guess) can't fix