skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We’ve conditioned ourselves into conformity because being opinionated is to be “an asshole”.

Asshole is just a shorthand for "inconsiderate of others". Not everyone who is opinionated is an asshole, but some are. And some of those assholes even have valuable opinions, which we do consider, but still recognize them as being assholes.
> There is nothing objectively beautiful about modern architecture.

I drive by multiple, lovely, modern houses every day. Some are incredibly well restored mid century pieces, others are tastefully done new buildings.

I'd argue that examples such as

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Einstein...

http://inspirationist.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/223.jpg

https://mediacloud.theweek.com/image/upload/f_auto,t_content...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stillman_Photo_2.jpeg

are great examples of modern exteriors.

It is also worth noting that modern buildings are largely about interior spaces. Tons of natural light all day long, and beautiful interiors that work as canvases to hang the art that one gathers throughout life.

You want to know what is ugly? Almost everything built in America in the 40s.

Cape cod houses.

Saltbox houses

Modern architecture encompasses a wide set of styles. Yes the crap "modern" houses being thrown up now days with bad vinyl siding are ugly. They also didn't have a single architect involved in their creation.

The good modern houses, the ones that play with textures and colors, that use natural materials mixes with the modern, those are far from ugly.
> accumulation of all those “not exonerating but friendly” pieces is what makes it a positive framing

This is not a friendly piece. There is nothing exonerating in it. And after some flattery it concedes her guilt.

The meta-story appears to be people trying to blame the media for another fraud in crypto.
>They seem to be abandoning China

Manufacturing, sure. Consumers? no.

Apple traded it's privacy priority for profits back in 2017 when it gave backdoor access to all the iCloud backups - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-ce...
> Children can be protected without companies combing through personal data

Darn right they can.
Don't they still offer local backup over Wi-Fi?
This seems quite silly. Adolescent nihilism and alienation, scatter-shot irrationality, and calculated transgressions for attention are ancient. As is cynical opportunism. They've been part of (mostly) youth movements for centuries.

The only thing changed by the Internet is accessibility. Previously people tended to know each other personally. Now they can mix it up online. This makes their presence a little more obvious and a little harder to ignore.

But there must be hundreds of these micro-scenes with their nano-gurus and micro-leaders, and most people will still never come across them.

They only become dangerous when they grow - or are grown - to the point where the groups stop being small and insignificant, and where the messaging is carefully and deliberately tailored to trigger irrationality and self-harm in mass audiences.

That's not a good thing. But it's no worse - and often less effective and less toxic - than some of the nonsense pumped out by supposedly respectable mainstream media.
A Mac can also backup your phone wirelessly. TM doesn’t make much sense without the Finder’s interface.
Do you ever like non-fiction books about a subject you have some expertise in?
I know Calculus so Strogatz's Infinite Powers created no interest in me. On the other hand What is Mathematics by Courant and Robbins was a delightful read.

Similarly I have only read a part of Road to Reality by Penrose and it was also fascinating.

Which popular non-fiction books in your subject domain did you like and dislike?
Raymond Williams has theorized the nature of subcultures (residual and emergent), which are almost always incorporated into the mainstream in one form or another. I'm afraid that because this culture is so incredibly toxic that the effects of this incorporation will be like a collective poisoning. This can already be seen in the resulting superstructure (art, politics, finance) and mainstream social relations, all of which are deteriorated and confused more than ever it seems.

In any case, I noticed the Thompson similarities as well. This kind of reportage flicks the light switch in a dark room, in which then the cockroaches run for the corners.
Move to Venice, Italy, like I did. You will change your mind.
Armed crackpots are still armed. And any group with means and a weakened or dissonant view of the “normal world” can and sometimes do present a problem.
I'm pretty handy with the API, but the C behind it all feels pretty byzantine. I'm newish to OOP and C/C++ so before I can worry about interacting with systems like the window manager, internal database, depsgraph, renderers, RNA/DNA, etc. I gotta understand the paradigms that underpin its organization. Documentation is pretty light (but devs are very helpful in chat!).

I guess Python has just spoiled me. I need a class and "everything is right there". In Blender's C/C++, functionality always seems spread across a variety of files and callbacks in a variety of folders. I tried to follow the main loop through an extremely simple action (select a cube onscreen) to see how the stuff I know happens, happens (draw orange outline, highlight in outliner, update undo history, etc.) I knew it would be a lot, but geez, even one of those things is like a week of reading through code.

I do remember how intimidating Blender was the first time I used it though, vs how easy and natural it is now. I'm looking forward to when it will 'click' enough that I can find my way around even though I don't know how everything works. A 'core workflow' to trace through how stuff happens, if you will.
Maybe this could be a good thing for business development?

Could we convert our "observers" into early customers?
It's more about forest management, which they largely stopped doing in past decades and were supposed to start back up. They are far, far behind. Until they catch up the wildfires will continue burning massive amounts of fuel unimpeded.
Those benchmarks are measuring the speed of the tool used to run the benchmark, not the http servers. Take them with a pack of salt.
Except... you know... the most important feature of Rust... the borrow checker.
Thank you for the link, I had not come across that news. It seems like Apple is still scanning photos when NSFW photos are sent to phones belonging to minors.

"When receiving this type of content, the photo will be blurred and the child will be warned, presented with helpful resources, and reassured it is okay if they do not want to view this photo. Similar protections are available if a child attempts to send photos that contain nudity. In both cases, children are given the option to message someone they trust for help if they choose.

Messages analyzes image attachments and determines if a photo contains nudity, while maintaining the end-to-end encryption of the messages. The feature is designed so that no indication of the detection of nudity ever leaves the device. Apple does not get access to the messages, and no notifications are sent to the parent or anyone else."

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/
It does, though, up to a significant point.

I, and people I knew used Z Lib for years, and never wrote peep about it in public or mentioned it to people I did not trust. A lot of people used it this way.

Finally dumbos of tiktok made it viral. And the rich publishing industry reached court, and also made some calls, I guess.

Publishers, big tech desktop software vendor know about piracy channels, and they tolerate it up to a point. But when that starts to get viral, they make calls, meet people, and go through proper channels.

Collective self-vigilance at scale do work, and maybe because of the companies don't care at a small scale.
Come on, you have to admit that competition is lacking in the CPU space, and Apple being closed about everything isn't helping. If you want to see open, have a look at Microsoft Research. Apple is nowhere near that. FOSS people have no reason to like Apple, let alone to support them.
Mixed, but sometimes there's trunking on walls yes. I have a little bit of that (for something disused actually, plan to remove, I've not long moved in) but it's mostly under floorboards. (There are also would-be exposed pipes in the kitchen, hidden behind counters, I believe - but they probably would have done that anywhere, that's a relatively modern extension.)

Insulation is a more complicated topic - if you're going to do it you need to do it differently, since modern new-builds and modern insulation is designed around making everything air & water tight, which will make an old house very damp and rotten (which will lead to woodworm/boring beetle) - the structure needs to 'breath'.
There are lots of non-fatal ways to handle an out of memory condition (including doing your own paging) depending on the use-case of the allocation. Programmers suffer from learned helplessness because they're writing for systems that lie to them about memory and languages that make handling errors a pain.
wut? what "proof" are you talking about, there's nothing to prove.

The connection is simple: If you don't like something, you're free to change it (in this case)

If you feel like your job is easy and you feel bored, then you're free to quit and apply to place which will challenge you.

If you expect that some magic will happen and one day you will come to your job and you'll be tasked with coding spaceship, then you're optimistic as hell.

So, the question stands - what did you do in order to improve your situation? if nothing, then do not expect magic to happen because that's unlikely.
Because of time dilation, light emitted (or reflected off of) objects very near the event horizon end up getting spaced out over (almost infinite) amounts of time.

For example, lets say you dropped a beacon that flashes every second into a black hole. As it approached the event horizon, you'd see the flashes only happen every 2 seconds, 4 seconds, minute, hour, decade, etc. Meanwhile, the length of those flashes are getting longer at the same rate, while producing the same number of photons, so the light gets dimmer and dimmer.
doesn't work with lots of sites.
> stands in sharp contrast to the rising fees, expanding student loan debt and poverty-level wages for adjunct faculty

There's no contrast here - these things are a result of universities charging more to students and paying less to faculty - you're comparing one exploitative industry to another and finding them similar, not different. Don't paint the universities as the "good guys", because they're not.

The article makes some solid points (e.g. that Elsevier adds somewhere between "zero" and "negative" value to the academic process) - there's no reason for this silly language in there.
My Fujitsu-Siemens laptop from 2005 was great in the sun.

The backlight obviously couldn't compete with sunlight, but the LCD behaved transflectively under enough light, so my Emacs session out in a meadow on a bright, sunny day was perfectly readable. That was unexpected. It wasn't an advertised feature. I don't even know if it was deliberate, but it worked great.
Safari has pretty good privacy protections, but you could also just... not use Google. I've never even had iOS reset my default search engine.
> When was that? For those over 40, when they grew up there was no "online".

There were BBSs. But I don't think anyone would appreciate trying to upload a photo through a 300 baud modem.
this sounds like a valid argument for deploying ipv6 wherever you can, tbqh

cgnat is only going to get MORE common, globally
Can they jump a metre high? If so, what about 2 metres? The bins can be as high as necessary.
I fail to see how the secular world has failed to present a reasonable alternative. For several reasons.

One, it isn't like Christianity is the dominant religious option on the planet. It has a particular dominance in much of "the west," but it is quite new on the planet and is not a clear example of just having a positive impact.

Specifically, as much as it can be seen as giving a positive aspect of successful communities, the tension between it and other religious offerings really throws that idea a huge curve ball. This is completely ignoring a lot of the "forced" re-educations and conversions that have happened to get where we are.

To directly state what the secular world has offered, separating government from religion is a big one. It is very sad to see the steps getting lost in that direction.
I don't know if others do. There seems to be a news article, an internal hint, and then with a letter or message from the CEO that accompanies the layoff.

The script that these companies all follow is pretty much the same. I wrote down some observations on what CEOs put out on the weekend, and it's been a good bingo sheet of what Plaid did as well.

[1]Satire: https://digitalmonologue.com/2022/12/04/How-to-write-a-layof...
I live near a National Forest in California. I wonder about this sometimes. I also drove on the East side this year. I have reached the opposite conclusion.

I think that narrative is appealing in a way that is harmful.
I've experienced US AQI levels of 200+. I didn't know how to set my car vents because with only inside air it would fog up and in outside mode the air had a disgusting aftertaste, despite filtering.

What baffled me the most was how locals reacted to it. They called it "fog" and didn't complain.

And that wasn't the only instance of such behaviour. Apparently there's some kind of taboo surrounding smog and places where it is a result of heating with questionable fuels.
But in some cases, that's the point. A well written press release will often gloss over potentially relevant/important details that a neutral source will not.
Perhaps I didn't phrase it properly. I meant, "the concept that we should be able to choose the amount of risk we want to expose ourselves in". Which is generally accepted as a personal right, based on the premise that we, and nobody else, owns our body. But every now and then we see some laws that seem to break that (such as in this case). If we didn't accept this principle, then would have to agree to also punish suicide attempts, or a number of other things that would sound absurd.
A more thorough (or less PR-ish) explanation of the Advanced Data Protection and how it works can be found here: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/security/sec973254c5f/...
My 5 year old surprised me when she pointed to the spikes on a dinosaur tail and said ‘that’s the thagomizer’. I knew about the cartoon and that it’d been adopted as the official term, but somehow wasn’t expecting it to be taught in primary schools as standard dino anatomy.
Now will they offer icloud tiers over 2tb next, like google does? Will icloud be actually usable for 3rd party apps outside of ios without constant reauth?
Well, I hope you're right. I'd hate to see Taiwan fall. It will be up to the Taiwanese on how hard they want to fight. Unfortunately, if they sense it's a losing proposition, many may end up throwing in the towel. That's what I fear.
This is a point that is often missed in the conversation about depression. In the middle of a major depression, literally nothing you can say to the person will cheer them up. The best you can do is be near them, express love, and try to help them maintain sleep/eating/exercise and therapy.
Like many mental illnesses, depression interferes with your perceptions. It's not that that love "wasn't enough", it's that a person deep in depression can't even accurately see or feel that love.
> A Mac can also backup your phone wirelessly.

Yes, to its local storage only, which makes it completely useless to me. (I have more data on my phone than on my computer, and I can't be the only one.)

> TM doesn’t make much sense without the Finder’s interface.

Why? I can even already connect to the same SMB mount that holds my Mac's backup via my iPhone's "Files" app. Just let me backup to that!
SQLite can be a nice serialization and data operation format in a number of cases.

RDF, of course, just turns in into a KV-store, flexible, but losing much of SQL's power. Other applications can use more relational schemas and reap performance benefits of a real database.
I enjoy how you jump to the defense of ravers and entrepreneurs and in the same sentence call a roadhouse located in Idaho "low class". There's something very poetic about this cognitive dissonance.
I think what many societies have discovered in the past few years is, if a proposed authoritarian policy only (or just disproportionately) hurts "the other side", then half the country will abandon any principles they used to have so they can claim that it's actually a good policy to implement.
This is Fleming writing not Le Carré.
I'll add an unsolicited neutral third party voice in here.

Bad settings make good people do bad things.

Crypto made her and sbf make many small dumb decisions which added up to a huge dumb decision.
That's a very optimistic point of view. On the other hand, I and others speculated that the reason Apple wants to introduce code on your device that scans local content on your device against a government mandated database of "wrong content" was to appease law enforcement's desire for more control.
> The probability, without any other information to the contrary, of us being 'first' is higher than the probability of us being 'second' or any other possible point on the list.

That doesn’t make sense to me. It seems like, assuming we’re not the only ones and we’re randomly likely to appear in the list, we’re far more likely to appear in any other position than the first.

There’s also a separate interesting thing where “first” is kind of non sensical when you’re talking about the universe. There’s no global ordering of events.
> Why? Because it's not quite as simple as making Apache respond over IPv6; any website of any size has various protections in place to prevent DDoS, spam, etc, and those tools are almost universally basic and at the root is the "ban by IPv4 address". Without that tooling supporting IPv6, it remains a side note not worth supporting.

The consensus I've seen is to treat IPv6 /56s or /48s (depending on preferred strictness) as an IPv4 address. From there, it's quite simple to port the security mechanisms.

Of course the chicken/egg problem comes back, because many of these "solutions" don't support IPv6 because nobody asked them to support IPv6 because they don't use IPv6 because their solutions don't support IPv6.

As for HN, good question. Adding a simple line to your DNS server or hosts file to make HN resolve on IPv6 is enough to get it to work.

Edit: emailed dang, it's on the roadmap!
Perhaps the don’t say they care about producing content but surely they care about accepting (voip) phone calls, being able to torrent twice as fast (because they would be able to connect to twice as much peers) and they’d also like all these services that just don’t exist anymore because too many people are behind NATs they can’t control.

The popularity of uPnP for automatic port forwarding should be a clue, anything that uses that is blocked by cgnat.
You don’t need to drink 8 cups of water a day
Teaching Algorithmic Reasoning via In-Context Learning
Wait, if they're paying the cash equivalent of six-months of healthcare (in the US), on average, how many months of healthcare does that translate to on the open market with the same deductibles/coverage/oop max?
https://archive.ph/rFYSF
I guess who cares? Apple does lots of things that helps them. It's a business.

That said, I think it helps both the buyer and seller to have good UX.
RouterOS v7 supports DHCPv6 prefix delegation. You can request a delegated /64 per downstream interface and announce itself as router using these prefixes. You can still use your MikroTik device as router, stateful firewall, proxy. You don't have to mess with smaller than /64 allocations on links unless your provider forces a broken CPE on you that doesn't support DHCPv6 prefix delegation.

Have you actually seen any large scale deployments of CPEs without an active IPv6 firewall blocking incoming connections by default?
He kinda arrived too late for that, but there's always next year.
Yes, but this would be apparent in the code, since the sender would have to encrypt against both public keys.
Airbnb is kind of sketch I’d encourage ppl to get a single room in a hostel rather than a hotel if cost is still an issue into your late 20s/early 30s in a new country if they’re at the age being surrounded by twenty Australian women is more a curse than a blessing ;-)

My first morning in Paris I was awoken to someone asking me to “hand them their thong” and finding out they meant a sandal not underwear when they got a bit peeved I replied “gonna have to at least take me to breakfast I don’t know where you’ve been.”

Once it became clear I wasn’t being stupid on purpose we had a laugh but dear lord… allegedly the same language but so much room for misinterpretation ;-)

Anyways TLDR: look into hostels or small hotels lest you lose your money and sleep outside lol
Don't drive. Fly if you want to get a sense of the problem.

We have somewhere in the range of 360 million acres of forest in the western United States, counting Alaska [0].

Wildfires in the US burn about 7 million acres a year [1].

> To date, 61,390 wildfires have burned 7,251,835 acres. This is the most wildfires reported to-date in the past 10 years. The number of acres burned this year is above the 10-year average of 6,859,200 acres.

That's about 2% of the "western forest land" burned every year, and do recall that it grows back. We are nowhere near being out of forest to burn.

[0]: https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Thr...

[1]: https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/nfn
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I think we're talking about two different things. I have no problem with tests in general. But I do have a big problem with text questions that are intended to be tricky.
What solutions are you referring to? I didn’t give any solutions, did I?
> Amazon currently has 2880 ipv4 allocations and 946 ipv6 allocations... not much gained I guess?

Whole IPv4 address space is 4294967296 addresses.

A single /48 is 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176.

And 2804:800::/32 is 79,228,162,514,264,337,593,543,950,336.
In addition to NextDNS I have been running a firewall app on my android phone (which also points to NextDNS) and shows all this. Good easy way to get started. ReThinkDNS is the app I am currently using because it integrates some block lists well but there is also a more serious Android firewall app I may switch to.
I don't have sources handy just at the moment, but I've seen it reported by (what appeared to be) some fairly reputable outlets. It's possible it's untrue, but it all seemed to check out.
Yes true. What’s your threat model though? If my government wants to own me they can do that without going to Apple.

For myself I’m quite happy with this as it is a huge improvement over what we had. My only irk is that they called themselves a champion of security and privacy before this..
Yeah and it is especially hard for high achievers to ask for help or even consider that they should ask for help. I think its completely foreign to them.
My US experience, which is probably pretty typical, is some choice of core courses, choice of major, with some required and some options within that major. Undergrad I'm pretty sure I could have made choices that would have made it pretty much impossible for me to graduate and I could have made choices which--while they certainly wouldn't have made my undergraduate education trivial--would have made things easier.
derp yes

https://whynoipv6.com/
Ask HN: Good Bioinformatics Books?
Hi all, was wondering if anyone had any entry level reading/book recommendations related to bioinformatics. Many thanks!