skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Common Sweetener Linked with Anxiety in Startling New Research
Start a blog. Write about all your knowledge. Forget the elevator pitch. You can have a business card with your blog on it. If anyone asks what you do, say software engineer. If they want to know more, tell them you have a blog, give them your card.
Zenum: A better enum for simplicity and typesafety
I don’t see the contradiction?

“Value/productivity bigot” = what they think

“Leeches” = what they are
I don't know that I'd call it a cult of personality, but I know some really devoted fans of Spider-Man.
Gravity, dark energy, dark matter or the arrow of time in no way conflict with QM.

There isn't yet any successful quantum theory of gravity, but it's universally believed in the physics community that there will eventually be a quantum description of gravity. Dark energy and dark matter are merely components of the universe whose precise character is not yet known, but again, everyone believes that whatever they are, they will be described quantum mechanically. The arrow of time is merely a consequence of entropy being low in the early Universe.

The reason why physicists universally believe that the Universe is quantum mechanical is that it's impossible for QM to describe only a part of physics. If one aspect of physics is quantum mechanical, it "infects" every other aspect of physics and forces it to be quantum mechanical. You can't have elections obey quantum mechanical laws, but the gravity they produce be classical. It's really all or nothing.
Buenaventura
That’s old sigint tech at this point.
I've run into the reverse misconception, people think they need cell service for GPS to work.
Multiple already exist. DiffusionBee is, in my opinion, the best right now.
Cyber Security – Ethical Hacking | Insecure Lab
I heard this somewhere: artists come to places where rents are low and make it look nice. Then high society starts buying the nice places, then the artists move away, crime comes in, rich ppl leave and so on... in 100 years the artists can come back
Yeah. If it's too long, better to take out the "emergency dispatch centers."

"Colorado town fielding dozens of automated 911 calls from skier iPhones"
Which may be the answer.
I came here to ask the same. DiffusionBee works, gets good updates, and has options line in-painting, and out-painting.
This should be banned.

@dang I highly suspect this is a compromised account. Only comment it’s ever made despite 2020 join date
Time travel in a database: a Cozo story
> But they are very good at sucking you back in.

I call it 'needy technology'. It needs your attention all the time or it will start to harass you until you give in.
I was a big fan of Antergos before Endeavour began, and am curious how that has developed since. I didn't know that the pine64 ecosystem was so tilted, and frankly, so dumbly self-interested. I'm guessing they've seen the criticism; we'll have to see how well the manjaro team gets along.

The "set it and forget it", "everything should be available in a GUI", distro is needed imo. Sad elementary had such a mess, organizational... problems abound.

Thanks for the mint clarification, I wasn't sure what delineated that os outside of the aesthetic.

I am most comfortable with Debian myself, but getting new audio software to work sometimes just brings the whole house of cards down- at least more easily than arch. Pipewire has been a breeze on arch by comparison, but I've only played with manjaro lately. I'll give the real thing a try on my raspberry pi with xfce, and try garuda too on something.

Thanks again for the 2¢
Given the comments here about activity, I should note that I _do_ have further work on user-space virtual terminals in the nosh package in the pipeline. I just have not been able to access the machine that the repository holding them is on for over a year.

* http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/nosh/guide/user-virtual-terminals...
It's a bad argument... The limited, expanding footprint is allowing them to get high reliability, exactly what you're saying you want from the systems, and which Tesla is failing to provide. Their systems are still adapting to stochastic road conditions and events, even if they aren't requiring the systems to handle them everywhere all at once. Success /anywhere/ goes a long way towards proving that the fundamental task of driving in the real world is machine learnable.

There's a more interesting conversation to be had here than the one you're offering, in any case. And you haven't addressed the total failure of the Marcus crew to actually produce working solutions...
Is there something similar to this or Diffusionbee on windows?
Is this right:

1. SBF created FTX

2. FTX created FTT

3. FTX lent FTT to Alameda.

4. Alameda pumped FTT and used it to borrow USD.

5. SBF spent USD.
Fun fact: this already exists.they sell energy drink cans that give you 1 month of xbox game pass
The problem is the nationalistic putdown, i.e. saying that a country isn't part of the "developed world".

If you had simply spoken of emphasis on passenger rail travel your comment would have been fine.
Expected to see some sort of botnet scam; surprised instead by an actually pretty cool feature TM from Apple.
Absolutely; though a slightly more cynical take is "company that currently gatekeeps payments wants to 'help' system developed to escape their influence".
Tamilian here. There was a crow that would come and insist upon getting Biscuits only from my mother, pre covid. It would sit on the balcony handrail and caw until she goes to the fridge, then quietly wait for the biscuit, take it from her hand and leave. If she's out of Biscuits and gives it something else it would become quite offended, refuse the food and sit there cawing pitieously. I learned that Biscuits are bad for them and told her. She tried to change to curd rice - it started to accept that if it was hot and fresh.

Of course like you said, we caw for them and give them food during festivals and anniversaries of deaths of ancestors.
Vandalising prehistoric rock art seems not so uncommon. I remember that I have seen a photo of GIs posing in front of rock art they vandalized during WW2 in northern Africa, but could not find the Web-site again. (Did someone else come across it and can provide a link?) While searching for it, I encountered photos showing vandalized rock art from Lybia: https://www.temehu.com/vandalised-rockart.htm
It may have meant the absolute, because the term was likely invented by a marketer, but in reality "stainless" steel has never been rustproof. It really depends on the alloy, plus the manufacturing quality. Lower grades with less chromium rust pretty easily, just not nearly as much as regular carbon steel.

Another fun fact about "stainless steel": it's usually said to be non-magnetic: you can't stick a magnet to it. But again this isn't completely true: the lower grades are indeed magnetic, but the higher chromium-content ones are not.

Why bother with a low-chromium-content SS? Probably either cost, or performance reasons. The high-chromium alloys are more brittle.
> X turns up at the border, why wouldn't the USA (or any country really) would want to know if they are all okay as far as their own country is concerned?

Everyone wants to know as much as they can, that's not a reason to tell them. As far as I'm concerned all my country should be telling the US is whether I hold a valid passport or not. If they want to see other data from my country's database, at a minimum they should need my authorization for that. They may insist I authorize that as a condition of entry to the US (or subject me to extra checks if I refuse), but they certainly don't need to be able to query my information whenever they like.
After my last change things got even worse. Well... except $$$. But it was promising in the beginning.
Don’t forget about all the user funds they lent out.
You can buy IEE 488 to USB adapters. The device appears as a serial device on your /dev, like a TTY.

I was very glad to discover that the Raspbery Pi Pico had an actually good GPIO capable of interfacing with basically anything. But on your case, the standard is so old that any computer can deal with, using a software defined bus over a common serial line.

VMs can map a serial device into a COM port, so I believe it's transparent for Windows.
So what kind of acid do xenomorphs use as blood, which can quickly eat through multiple levels of deck plating in the Nostromo?
Interesting ideas for how to write the cards. But the dependency part seems to be limited to letting you pick questions from a subtree. SuperMemo has something similar, which is the closest I was able to find in existing solutions.

The problem is that this basically means dependencies can only form a tree, with one topic depending on only in at most one other topic. What I wanted was something that let me express the relationships as a directed acyclic graph. Something like learning a big chunk of a music piece is dependent on the questions for learning individual smaller passages. Something as basic as that cannot really be expressed with a tree but is trivial with a DAG.
If this story is accurate, the integration with the iPhone's existing crash detection has already been used in a rescue:

https://9to5mac.com/2022/12/14/iphone-14-satellite-crash-det...

Which is a pretty neat capability all things considered.
I've not secretly added Lisp code to the actual product, but I regularly do supporting work in Lisp: everything from personal tooling that doesn't affect everyone else to research items: prototyping, data analysis and whatnot. Mostly, I use TXR Lisp; a Lisp dialect I made myself that's good for this sort of use.
True enough. We have a cabin in the middle of nowhere in Washington, and there’s just enough signal to call or text for help but not enough for anyone to browse Instagram or check email. Something magical happens when we invite people out there. For the first hour or two, you notice folks sneaking off and holding their phones high. After a while, everyone gives up and the rest of the weekend we’re all present where we are. I’ll be pretty sad the day that stops happening, obvious benefits aside.
For context, I am long time Kopia user.

Looks like compression only added in the latest release of restic.

No mounts on windows.

No GUI?

Lack of compression was likely the reason I went with Kopia.
Growing up my great grandmother kept about 3 dozen hummingbird feeders near her back porch at her farm so she could watch the hummingbirds as they fed. She easily went through 4 gallons of sugar water per day. I was told as a kid that she had been documented as having altered the migration paths of several flocks of hummingbirds because she had been maintaining her feeders for over 30 years at the time of her death and they would remember where her farm was.

They would flit past your head when you went out to refill them, but they seldom went more than a few feet away. You could stand under under the feeders and after a few minutes, if you were calm enough, they would start be willing to land on you and rest, or lick off any syrup you had gotten on your hands.
Thanks for the response.

"Too many times I've seen what is definitely trash content - memes, dancing videos, AI-narrated "did you know" videos, etc... very low effort and low quality"

I have had the exact opinion of those videos.
Snap AR: out of the Instagram post
You're conflating LSP and VSCode. LSP is a completely open spec for things like autocomplete, syntax highlighting, symbol searching and so on. Any editor can use any LSP server and jetbrains is using it for new languages in their editors and fleet

VSCode is also completely open source. The only thing not "open" about it is the keys they use to make the final distributable. Even the VSCodium docs say as much. They literally just build the final distribution but with slightly different keys to point to their open source extension distribution website instead of the Microsoft one
There are a lot of people recycling this particular idea and typically they will end up sticking a Raspberry Pi (assuming they can get it) into an enclosure that serves the intended purpose. You can then use the base OS to hack around on it until it looks and feels like the device you would like to have. Some of these are very impressive.

One example: (there are 100's)

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/scripto-distraction-free-wr...
Americans Have Found Their Happy Place
To me, that reads as a crappy distinction intended to inspire some pity for Southwest.

The effect is the same either way. Someone paid for a ticket and they don't get to board the plane.
28 years (+28) is better than now, but to my original point, in this era, hasn't Kim Stanley Robinson had enough time to monetize "Green Mars" (1994 Hugo award winner) by now -- at least enough to incentivize writing it in the first place?
I think lots of us were able to assume that context from the title
iCub knows where you look: Exploiting social cues for object detection learning
Letting go of a high paying job can be really hard. Those golden handcuffs really work. I know a few Googlers that would love to 'break free' but their life style won't let them.
Dang, stop shadow banning!
Guessing this is a joke as the article is about animal scent
It used to be that we bought books, and they accumulated (and we sometimes even used them again) until your heirs had to get rid of them. Now we read things online, and the disks are wiped when our heirs get rid of them. We've always been consuming more than we're producing.

What would be nice is to be able to ingest content as before, but have it all stored automatically, then made searchable. I'm told that this is available[1] for a Mac based machine. I'd like it more generally available.

The point of having books, or notes, is to be able to retrieve information with context. We now have tools that can summarize and categorize things automatically. If we, as a hive mind, can add just a little bit of multidimensional voting/tagging to the things we see, along with their cryptographic checksum and consent mechanisms, we could collectively organize everything we see with almost zero individual effort.

Vannevar Bush's vision for the Memex runs afoul of copyright laws, this might be a way to route around them a bit.

[1] https://www.rewind.ai/
The difference between pre mapped and random environment disappears once you map all roads in a finite roadway network.

Once you map all the roads and account for very imaginable situation and scenario --- the unexpected and unanticipated will still occur.
Ah, clever, targeting the JVM they never knew what they had on board. Code review failure though :)
But only for "good" reasons
The X replacement is Wayland. Weyland is the company in Alien. Although it looks like Weyland in the Aliens franchise isn’t founded until 2012 so I guess there isn’t any crossover potential there. It is probably just an in-joke.
FWIW, I would work in tech even if I won a huge lottery so it isn't none just not most. I did work physically demanding and outdoory jobs, not for me. I need constant cerebral engagement with little human drama.

I spent many evenings and weekends doing techy stuff to be where i am. I spent and am spending all of my holiday season offtime learning/studying.
Supernormal stimuli: How the internet, junk food, and porn hijacked our brains
There is no reason at this point to believe there is (or ever was) a plan
> surprised instead by an actually pretty cool feature TM from Apple.

In what world is generating false positives spamming 911 and potentially displacing actual emergencies a "pretty cool feature"??? This "feature" is doing more harm than good in Summit County, it's trash:

“We are not in the practice of disregarding calls,” said Trina Dummer, the interim director of the Summit County 911 Center. “These calls involve a tremendous amount of resources, from dispatchers to deputies to ski patrollers. And I don’t think we’ve ever had an actual emergency event.”
I've been curious to learn theories where only a subset of scenarios beget alternative world, and many of these ultimately merge into more probable branches of reality. Keeping the total number of worlds growing at less than O(n*2) with respect to time.
meh. I don't think it proves much. What would be so hard about taking a survey of people who drink a lot of diet drinks about their anxiety levels? That would be more effective I think.
I Am Here Because of Blind Dumb Luck
Scientists develop blood test for Alzheimer’s disease
Globalstar's network is LEO, but it's sparser (a couple dozen satellites) and about three times further away from earth.
Tracked_ptr – when shared_ptr is not enough
Herb Sutter pointed out the need to add a tracked pointer to C++. He proposed the concept of deferred_ptr a few years ago. I implemented the tracked_ptr concept with one tracked heap. Advantages:
- Thread safe
- Does not use reference counters
- Easy to use like shared_ptr
- Less memory overhead than shared_ptr
- Faster than shared_ptr in many scenarios
- Automatic roots registration
- Never stop the world
- Cyclic data structures friendly
- CoW friendly
- Executing destructors in a separate thread
- Atomic pointers always lock-free
- Only one header file
Not everything. Many traditional preservation methods with salt, lime etc seem to be fine. I’d love to get rid of sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate, sulfur dioxide, BHT, TBHQ, etc though
Sometimes I wonder how much of the drive to preserve old architecture is just the hoarder mentality applied to literal buildings.

Not every piece of a particular architectural-style is a masterpiece worthy of preservation.
Would not be surprised if there was an automated bot on HN and reddit et al that looked for comments like mine with reviews and did exactly that. Damn. Good point.
What is the current state of community support for SGI stuff and availability of hardware? I stopped following around the time of the demise of Nekochan.
The one thing I miss in Brave is some kind of Vim mode.
Even to this day (50 years after the minimalist school you mention) there are still NO archeological findings from famous biblical kings such as David and Solomon (let's not even considering the rest of the story before them). No exodus, no judges. From the point of view of archeology, Israel was never a unified territory and became what we know after the Babylonian captivity period.
United is absolute worst. Many of my colleagues are frequent flyers on United. I just do not trust United. They lost it completely when they caused that unnecessary incident where they forcibly removed that doctor from a plane. And then there is United Breaks Guitar, the viral book about their "legendary" customer service. I will never fly that airline.
The catch-22 of democracy
God I love HN :)
Black swans everywhere.
Westworld: Season 4 Review
Where this easy arch install at?
They must not be aware that this was a common thing before GoDaddy joined. It happens to most domains that get traffic? These domain buyers all suck.
Thanks for mentioning DiffusionBee. These posts are helpful even if it's just to find an alternative.
This is lovely, my friend. My own experience with shaders was in building a custom spectrum analyzer and I found it so very enriching and different from what I usually program (ML and Data pipelines).

Really really nice work!
Moises.ai is pretty cool.
Solving some company's CAPTCHA Sudokus and getting no compensation for your time and their training model is not freedom. I get this BS all the time because my IP isn't located in the West.
I read [1] that Restic, in contrast to Borg, supports deduplication between snapshots of different machines - attractive for me, in case I have copies of large files on several machines.

Is that also true for Kopia?

1 - https://stickleback.dk/borg-or-restic/
Accountability is not magic. There are lots of problems out there with no great solutions or no solutions. People who say increase accountability, and things will work better are usually people who haven't had to deal with such problems. This is where Values have their biggest impact on Outcomes. There are lots of corporate robots who appear to be just mindlessly optimizing for ladder climbing, wealth, power etc but often times their Values are the only thing preventing them from turning into Putin, Epstein etc.
The aim of my reply was not to question the historicality of Tacitus' account. I thought my last remark would make that clear. What I criticised was the Parent's remark that "Tacitus was certainly not a Christian source": Tacitus' own source might have very likely been Christian.
Just plug it in. If you can't judge the the speed by "feel", then run measure how long it takes to charge / transfer a file.
This reasoning is fallacious. Assuming the theory, the number of worlds in which humanity doesn't exist or already died off also increases exponentially, as does the number of worlds where you are not the last human. These exponential terms balance out to the result that many worlds cannot affect the probability of conditional events at all, once you take account for the anthropic bias.
There's also a centralization issue too. Remember when Cloudflare went down a few months ago and like 30% of the internet went dark? Letting one company control this much of the internet is bad.
Pandemic Learning Loss Could Cost Students $70k in Lifetime Earnings
Ask HN: I’m Lost. Help?
Hi HN, long time reader and commenter, using a throwaway for fairly obvious reasons.

Context: Grew up (very) poor, but in a loving family. I’ve been a programmer since I was a kid, went to a top3 CS school, worked at banks, large tech companies, and in the intelligence community for a few years. I founded a company, raised, ran it for about a decade, and sold it just before the pandemic (good timing).

The acquirer was a shitshow, and the two years I was there was a massive mess, especially during the pandemic. The transition from in-office work to remote work was also hard, as I’m definitely an extrovert and missed… people. Granted, remote isn’t the same as “forced to stay home and everything is closed due to the pandemic” but still.

So now it’s been a year since I left the acquirer, and I feel … lost. I was definitely burnt out both by the startup (cofounder issues) and by the acquirer (see earlier description of it being a poorly run shitshow), but I find myself passionless and sad.

I have an incredible wife, great home, etc., and generally am happy with life most of the time, but I’m having really bad trouble figuring out what I want to do, even though seemingly every option is available - starting something, finding a job, etc. I’ve spent this year getting married and then traveling, which was fantastic, and I definitely feel less burnt out - but how do you get to the point where you find a passion again?

Is this something anyone else has faced? It feels hard to talk about with friends because it can come off as bragging; financially, I’m well set, and I love my family / relationship and my friends, so it almost feels unfair for me to be passionless and lacking the desire to do… anything.

How do I get back to who I was, in terms of feeling driven to solve problems and make impact? I feel like I’ve lost who I once was and don’t know how to get it back.

Open to any and all advice, and happy holidays. Thanks for reading my missive. <3
The IRS did audits based on political affiliations under Obama. I'm aware of some of these groups, and they were lucky to have really good accountants that kept great records and donated their time to handle the paperwork.

The news captured many examples of these selective audits that were based primarily on political whims. I'm still waiting to see the audit hammer to be thrown at Black Lives Matters on their money laundering tactics and commmingling of funds.
David Cronenberg on “Crimes of the Future”