skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somebody drew that patent diagram, and nobody stopped them and said "come on isn't there a more attractive way we can portray this?"

Currently, there exists a cohort of professionals who genuinely sit up in a raised box for most of their shift and control a large machine underneath them to be productive. They are crane operators, they are genuinely well regarded, talented people and well paid for their efforts and experience and knowledge.

Maybe you can patent an existing concept with added cruelty as the point nowadays.
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Refers to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_dial
Are you responding to something completely different? I was remarking on the "The standards docs don't give you the reasoning behind decisions" claim, which is almost always true, but in this case seems incorrect, given that there is a standards whose sole purpose is to give the reasoning behind the decisions.
Do all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting by a simple majority?
> 2008-04-18 - Application filed by Apple Inc

And here I was, giving people the benefit of the doubt...
i use asana and its been great for solo and collaborative task management. the ui is nice and its got more advanced features if your team gets bigger
+1

My number one recommendation for people who want to get into programming. Daniel is wonderfully quirky, enthusiastic and warm.
Why would modern ones not be reliable? They’re fantastic! Having said that, for your old vinyl collection, you will find the quality of the player mostly irrelevant. The age of those vinyls will make them sound like a 32kbits/s mp3 file!

Have fun and good luck!
To be fair, nobody has a better venomous sole impression than the mimic octopus.
Though if we all did everything like the Dutch, we would need many more Earths.
OTOH if there turns out to be some other way of making money on nanosecond timekeeping, then keeping it secret will help them get into that market before competitors can.
I think "Corporate Memphis" is just illustration or graphics that can be used in any UI design (which can include neobrutalism).
Disappointed you didn't link this youtube vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAHzP4umE4M
Why has no human stepped foot on the moon for 50+ years? This never made sense to me.
> Apart from the fact that they have no incentive to

They have huge incentives. Apple is positioning themselves as the privacy king. Meta has suffered huge losses because of their privacy abuses. Neither of these suggest no incentives. I'd argue that they suggest large incentives.

The technical downsides are a fair critique though. But this also is where competition excels. Our machines are getting faster. Other algorithms have also gotten extremely faster and it would be naive to assume that homormorphic algorithms similarly don't. This is why I say an arms race.
“Bad” is subjective. Counter to your expectations, sure, but “bad” seems a bit of a simplistic take.
>To my own surprise the japanese are sitting facing the flusher/wall, not facing the door.

Yeah no, that is not a "Japanese" thing. I have no idea what show you were watching but it was probably just a gag, or a way to avoid having to show his genitals, or something that one person did for whatever reason.

There are some people who sit that way. For example, British comedian Bob Mortimer said on an episode of Taskmaster that he does it because his anus is unusually high.
To the surprise of absolutely nobody.

Webkit implementing web standards: https://media.tenor.com/images/7d9d11dacf3d5c4043c1da7cf5f11...
Cool! It's kind of a glorified wind chime.
At the risk of sounding like a complete snob, it annoys me that DVDs are still sold. Blu Ray has been on the market 6 years longer than DVD had when Blu Ray players were first released.

I appreciate that many don’t care about visual quality, but the baseline of TVs continues to improve with time, and DVD supports literally nothing rolled out in the last 15 years.

At 720x480 resolution (rectangular pixels!), they’re guaranteed to look like crap on any TV produced this decade. I can only imagine it’s a case of “people keep buying ‘em so we keep selling ‘em”, which is doubly annoying because it allows the price of BD players and discs to be kept artificially high as an “enthusiast” option. A standard player on Amazon today is only about half the price of what I paid for a nice Sony player in 2012. And that’s adjusted for inflation.
The windows implementation lacks facilities like SCM_RIGHTS though to ask the kernel who's on the other side.
I think Bezos also mentioned that he started with books because no single physical shop could have all the books, but Amazon could. It is a product with so many variations that Amazon had a clear competitive advantage.
Take a look at pre-1970 issues of Datamation.
For me it is project-dependent configuration. I can setup hotkeys (i.e. F5 for debugging, F7 for compilation) and it will get written into JSON file which is then part of the project (workspace).

So when I have other PC and download project via Git, all hotkeys are working as previously without setting the Visual Studio Code itself.
> I've written C code that's currently running on hardware orbiting the earth.

I guess in such a situation I would not not trust any compiler (for any programming language), no matter how 'safe' it claims to be, but instead carefully audit and test every single assembly instruction in the compiler output ;)
Tesla reportedly places order of next-gen self-driving chips with TSMC
Spotify will even remove your songs from you when the musicians change their minds about it.

It's pretty annoying, but most people don't care enough about their music libaries to need to own a real copy. The convenience is real and for things like music the benefits outweigh the costs.
It might be influenced by the buzz from Russian propaganda - they tend to report 146% support based or "research" conducted by VCIOM. Sure, expect representative numbers from state-run company (all others are extinct) in a country where you can get imprisoned (and tortured) for saying "war" out loud. If you call someone a dog for a month one day they might start barking. Western (and Ukrainian) media share that shit stating "80% russians support putin bla-bla-bla"
I suppose we're just ignoring the true leaders, the shepherds and sheepdogs.

Sheep don't exist as a species in the wild, at least not for very long, so it seems silly to speak about how they behave and "govern" themselves, because they have almost no control of their long term behavior.

Seems like the "leader" elected from their collective is just a facade of self determination.
> While economically that makes sense, that is a money/efficiency issue not an ethical one. So I agree fiscally but say that has no ethical bearing.

All else equal, extracting the maximum food products from an animal should reduce the number we have to slaughter. It would be absurd, but if we only processed half the animal, we would need to slaughter twice as many to provide the same amount of meat.

In reality, I think it's not that simple because more efficient processes lower the cost of meat which increases demand.
You'll have to click through a few sluggish pages to get to the details, but this is great!

https://www.jetro.go.jp/en/eccj/ind_tourism/ohashi_ryoki.htm...

makes 80% of the masu (little wooden box from which you might drink sake). The tour is free, forty minutes long, and the dress code is 'Business attire'
It's even worse, as it's not only presidents/leaders that can trigger a war.

If you look at the close calls Wikipedia page linked upthread, one of the worst was a Soviet sub that lost radio contact during the Cuban Missile Crisis. 2 out of 3 (!) of the officers on the sub approved a nuclear strike on the US fleet. The fate of human civilization relied on the choice of a single mid-level naval officer.

Considering the other two officers approved the strike, the final officer being the kind of person who would also approve the strike was probably in the 50/50 realm at best. So basically we won a coinflip on that day for the fate of humanity, and that's far from the only close call we've had.
Why did they cut you off?
This looks really cool and something I would use, but I'd need to see more on data retention and security. Just by nature of the product it requires sharing a lot of potentially very sensitive information.
I love the PDP-8, to the extent that, 50 years since my last contact with it, I still remember that HALT was octal 7402. But the blinkenlights in the movies came from mainframes, with row after row of flashing lights.

There's a story about the IBM System/360 Model 75. The engineers who designed the Model 65 put the registers on roller blinds, so that one row of flashing lights could display one of several different registers. The plan was to do the same for the much-faster Model 75. Senior management is said to have nixed that: if the machine costs 3 times as much as the 65, it must have 3 times as many lights. So the 75 lost its roller blinds.
I'm in the deep learning music scene, which is due for its stable diffusion moment in the next year or two. The (primarily) timbre transfer system called RAVE is where I'm starting, and my contribution is to optimize the system to improve training time.

[] https://github.com/acids-ircam/RAVE/tree/master/rave
And "tsetse" has been used in English for nearly 100 years longer than pizza - the latter only really introduced because of Allied soldiers sent to in Italy.

Google Ngram says it wasn't until the 1970s when "pizza" was more commonly used than "tsetse." https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=tsetse%2Cpizza... . Or from BoingBoing today, "North Americans feared and misunderstood pizza in the 1950s" - https://boingboing.net/2022/11/21/north-americans-feared-and... .
Twitter will never financially recover from this.
“UNIX: A History and a Memoir” by Kernighan is a really fun read. Just publushed a few years ago as well.

https://www.amazon.com/UNIX-History-Memoir-Brian-Kernighan/d...
Not to mention being able to keep processing data, while your competition gets squeezed by tightening regulations around the world.
It's unclear when homomorphic encryption will be ready for prime time, especially at big tech scale. It's easier to give up the data under assurances of how exactly that data will be used. Secure enclaves (e.g. AWS nitro enclaves) can be used to offer cryptographic attestations as to what the code is doing with the user data. Practically speaking, an average user won't inspect the code, of course. But it does allow for other companies to audit and vouch for the usage.
I just use a SATA Blu-ray Drive in my desktop. Works great.
I remember Google doing this many years ago, does anyone recall the papers that describes distributed storage systems that benefit from highly accurate clocks? Was it spanner or the next generation version of it? I can't remember. I recall finding it fascinating but out or reach since I think they were putting hardware based atomic clocks on their systems, sounded super proprietary.
Author here. A few points make buzz a “scripting language” in my view:
- runs in a VM
- garbage collected
- high level
- “simple” meaning there’s only a handful of concepts to understand to use it

It’s true that we’re not used to scripting languages having a type system. But its a trend that is catching on: python has types, php too and typescript is at its peak in popularity to name a few.
I find it fascinating that a nerd wouldn't open with a description of their methods, which is what nerd readers want to know right up front. It's buried on the last page.
Especially when the hoaxer is adding those circular references themselves on purpose.

> "These [claims] would get picked up in different types of media, I would cite them, and they would become fact," Alex says.
I don’t want to be that person but technically python is a strongly typed scripting language as it has no type coercion but instead uses structural typing.
> For context, I’m a software engineer working in FAANG as a backend developer in distributed systems and Linux kernel for many years

From this I am assuming you will be comfortable with C++.

> I just really dislike dealing with anything frontend-related and I’m utterly incompetent in it

May I then suggest Wt[0] to you?

[0] https://www.webtoolkit.eu/widgets
Waymo’s new robotaxi is an all-electric people mover with no steering wheel
Apple is fundamentally transforming into an advertising company. The difference between them and ad companies such as Google is that, with Apple, advertising is baked into almost every single product.

Every time you open the App store, you're opening a giant garden of advertisements. These ads are extremely lucrative to Apple. Every time you update the OS, it prompts you with ads to sign up with more services. Every time you open Apple News, the same thing happens: you're bombarded with ads to sign up for a premium subscription. When I still had an Apple laptop, it would constantly give me a popup asking me to signup for iCloud, even though I hadn't consciously ever used it.

At nearly every turn, engaging with Apple software leads to profitable ads for Apple. (Usually in the form of direct subscriptions, or commission based advertising.)

What do ad companies love? User data! This is as true for Apple as it is for Google. The difference: Apple has an iron grip on their advertisements like no other company in the world. This gives them the tools that let them pretend they're not an ad company. They are.
Because currency isn't trying to fill out the spectrum. We want to have as few different values as possible, focused on a certain range. And really big bills are rare.

So looking at 1-100, 20 vs. 25 doesn't really matter, people won't bother to carry 50s, and people won't bother to carry 2s. 3s wouldn't help at all.

We barely even need the 10 either. 1,5,20/25,100 works fine.

And above 100 you can use powers of 10 and nobody will really care.
We don't even know how pin down a precise set of rules to always make people feel that justice was served in English. This is why we pay humans who, as a full time job, work out what people mean to do and whether what actually happened was what was intended; and who can negotiate and arbitrate between aggrieved parties. How do you expect us to encode in mathematics "common sense" we do not actually understand well enough to describe in plain English? Come back when we've solved AI alignment; I have no doubt we eventually will, but that day is not today, and tomorrow isn't looking good either.

...but crypto is not even attempting to solve that problem. Not even vaguely. The rules in this space are "finders keepers, no takesie backsies", and the participants like it this way (until someone does something that makes them feel aggrieved and suddenly they don't and there is no recourse, by design). No negotiation, no arbitration, no common sense, no human element at all: "you snooze, you lose", and this is the entire selling point.
iNet Wireless Daemon (Iwd)
> It might be an attempt to mimic Tik-Tok's success by switching Twitter over to essentially an entertainment channel?

Twitter has always been and continues to be an entertainment channel by an overwhelming margin. It's the digital equivalent of the magazine rack in the supermarket checkout aisle.
Dodger blue has always bugged me... since the turn of the century. The css color it is not even particularly close. Too bright and unsaturated:

team color: #005A9C
css name "dodgerblue": #1E90FF

https://teamcolorcodes.com/los-angeles-dodgers-color-codes/
Thank you! That makes sense. What do you think would make you feel better about our data retention and security? Would something like SOC-2 compliance be helpful?
10x Tumblr growth and revenue, not Automattic’s
> I have nothing against the values Web3 claims to stand for. That said, Web3 is not going great.

regarding "web3 is not going great", which links to a web site showing exploits and problems in poorly run organizations, maybe someone should just put up a parallel site that shows the ever expanding group of projects and communities that have existed without incident?

like construction sites that showcase "X days without incident", maybe that industry started putting those signs up in the past because people only saw negative headlines and conflated construction with the entire concept of having office space, like people do with crypto

if there are, for example, 5,000 projects at time of writing, and 300 of them get funds stolen or exploited in some way, thats still a headline of an exploit every single business day of the year and none for the other 4,700 projects. that's pretty much the state of crypto discord today, and its been that way for the past 10 years.
- Programming Language dev: I think compilers and VM runtimes are neat, and like talking to people in the space on twitter or reading new papers that come out about it. The /r/ProgrammingLanguage discord server is a great place to hang out, with lots of interesting and competent people working on sideprojects simply because they like the topic.

- Urbit: I got into Urbit years ago, and still think it's really interesting as a Lisp-machine-alt-timeline-esque project. The goal is basically trying to think how the world would look if your entire OS was built on a runtime that uses cons cells and bignums everywhere for values, with a single transparently persistent state a la KeyKOS, and everything has typed RPC and P2P apps were the default.
It started with Ubuntu and Amazon iirc.
> Sheep don't exist as a species as independent wild animals

Neither do we...
So … circumventing sanctions?
Ingenious! Can I record in the app?

How are the tones generated?
as the a fan of homomorphic encryption I very much hear what you are saying (two examples I thought up https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32993163). But at the end of the day, there's no way to prove that Bob's Homomorphic Encryption SaaS company isn't "backing up" all your data into a regular database as well. And that's assuming Bob never gets hacked, too.

At the end of the day, even with HE, we have to trust Bob to be trustworthy, and to have designed and implemented it totally correctly (or else data will leak in the clear).

If it was Bob's small company then having a 3rd-party external auditor review the system would go a long way to gaining the public's trust, but unfortunately Meta has no such luxury. They could say they can't see your data until they were blue in the face, and they could even be telling the trust, but people don't currently believe they haven't sold your data (or the specific nuance there), so I'm not surprised they haven't made a large investment in HE. HE is also not quite there yet. It's ridiculously slow for anything but the most simple operations and Meta's data needs are far from simple.
This is why I've begun prioritizing returns and exchanges and good customer service. Even with a high-quality product it's possible to get a lemon. Doesn't matter if I can just return or exchange within a reasonable time-frame.
Dunno if I agree that libraries need reflection. Some do, but primarily in the dependency injection and testing space.

That's not really where you'd expect RCE-problems.
Amazon is mostly driven by AWS which is a very new paradigm for building business services. Insurance has been revolutionized by new methods for collecting and analyzing data in order to estimate risk. Monsanto's latest growth play is farmland and crop insurance. The examples used in this piece appear to demonstrate the opposite of what was intended.
Meta uses some variations on Hybrid Logical Clocks, which are very similar to TrueTime, so yes this does apply. Besides performance they very much want to avoid consistency issues that could result in a security breach, eg, if I block Alan and then post "Alan is a dookie head" you don't want some node seeing the second event first. Well really the bigger concern is someone spots this as a potential vulnerability point and scripts something.
Looks good! Once another sign up becomes available I’ll give it a look
Tell HN: Hacker News has a search bar for algolia at the bottom of the page
Everyone always mentions hn.algolia.com search which I sometimes use. Today I learned that if you scroll all the way to the bottom of the page on hacker news, there's a search bar which you can type into, and it will directly route your search to algolia!
About NetSurf
> Now, on my fully paid-for iPhone 13, I got an urgent notification from the Apple Store today. It made my phone buzz and my screen light up, while I was otherwise productively engaged. Apparently, there is a sale on. Apparently, I can't turn these notifications off.

An app with the word "store" in its name giving you a notification for a sale is hardly the same as ads embedded in your Start menu or lock screen.
As ray tracing becomes more common, I think we’ll see a big return of various BSP trees in games. BSP is still the crucial element in offline rendering.
Can these be reported somewhere?
Wasn't Unix developed on PDP-7 and PDP-11?
A house used for what? Standing around?
Yes, but their existing TCP implementation wouldn't have been doing any auth either. So presumably they don't need it.

(I don't know anything about Tailscale so I'm just going on first principles.)
I'm quite surprised by the [benchmarks versus Automerge JS & Rust](https://github.com/jackyzha0/bft-json-crdt#benchmarks) when it comes to memory:

> Ours (Basic) 27.6MB

> Ours (BFT) 59.5MB

> Automerge (Rust) 232.5MB

I would expect adding the public key tracking to use more memory; I wonder how Automerge is spending so much more memory. Possibly on a bunch of internal caches or memoization that give the order-of-magnitude improvement in speed?

> Ops: 100k

> Ours (Basic) 9.321s

> Ours (BFT) 38.842s

> Automerge (Rust) 0.597s
Laser galvo's. Fast flicking mirrors drawing patterns on the walls and ceiling. Use a UV laser and draw crazy glowing shapes on luminous paint (ever shone a UV laser at something luminous?)
Thanks! We'll have to add that soon!
Note that [3] https://holovolo.tv does not generate a mesh, but pipes the generated image trough a depth map estimator to create a parallax effect.
Safety pin? No its an astronaut and some stars.
> Finally, just to screw with other developers, I generated a giant file of random data to fill up the Crash 1 CD and labeled it "bsptree.dat". I feel a bit guilty about that given that everyone has to download it when installing the game from the internet, even though it is completely useless to the game.

Wonderful! THIS is the kind of silly nitty gritty detail I want to hear more about - particularly the whys and wherefores of the decision, largely-unconsidered as it may well have been. Puts me in mind of the semi-affectionate rivalry between different demo/crack houses in the eighties and nineties, engaging in largely unseen conflict, all submarine-like :) And, if you're reading this - know that this thoroughly un-tech nerd has read all of your Crash Bandicoot breakdowns, no matter how arcane they might seem to me :)
> "the stack is all you can use" (which is what I understand to be remaining when you remove those "bells'n'whistles")

Not what I meant, heap allocations are allowed (although the stack should be preferred if possible), but ideally only with long lifetimes and stable locations (e.g. pre-allocated at program startup, and alive until the program shuts down), and you need a robust solution for spatial and temporal memory safety, like generation-counted index handles: https://floooh.github.io/2018/06/17/handles-vs-pointers.html).
The irony being that at the end of the day, they're still under the control of their shepherds and sheepdogs.
Meta Winding Down Portal
https://www.demoscene.info/

(used to be active there, in the demoscene)
Look at you reading between the lines...
All the history of the css colors, and lots of humor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmStJQzclHc
I’m skeptical that the reduction in transportation outweighs the lost efficiency in having large amounts of people concentrated in single buildings.
Identity Theft Protection Is Mostly Worthless