skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People can believe both that the physical differences between sexes imply some social/psychological/cognitive differences, and that society has unfairly categorized people according to their sex.

One can be anti-sexist and believe in sex differences writ large at the same time.

One example of such differences: https://www.science.org/content/article/pregnancy-resculpts-...

It seems more sexist to assume that differences mean one sex is better or worse. Let's let the whole richness of reality come forward, and embrace it for what it is.
Idk about the future of animation. It would require look-alike actors. Wouldn't it be easier to use already available tech to transfer gestures and facial expressions to cartoon models?
In the best of one, more casual mode, yes.
The war exposed the failure but it was there all along. And I'll go a step further, being a bit more familiar with EU politics: this wasn't "failure" as in "random occurrence", it was set up to fail because of explicit financial interests at the top and misguided ideology for the rest. We knew the risks 30 years ago and yet German leaders in particular doubled down on reducing resiliency and increasing dependence on a high-risk partner in exchange for money and "feel good" lies to tell themselves and everyone else. EU has ran out of capable and reasonably honest leaders, now we have people with more strings attached than a piano. I say this as someone who's literally rubbed elbows with some of these people for years.

Let me frame it in the IT landscape. If your storage kicks the bucket but you had no real backup, no procedures to bring back anything, and no spares you couldn't blame it on a random act outside of your control. If it turned out you had repeated warnings but instead chose to phase out backups and to replace the enterprise storage with SD cards from a shady manufacturer then you really wouldn't be able to claim "random act of God". And if when all is said and done you end up on the board of the shady SD manufacturer that kind of seals the deal on whether you are to blame or not.
> I don't think I agree that relationships are shallow.

I agree. The older I get, the more important they become. And I say this as a person who is generally comfortable alone.

Of course not every connection is deep, but that doesn't make them any less meaningful.

You're spot on about teaching/influencing others, and you don't have to be an actual teacher. Just giving advice and/or helping others when asked (and sometimes when not) is a bigger deal than I think many realize.
Bird flu outbreaks fuelling chance of human spillover
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats

"The Men Who Stare at Goats (2004) is a non-fiction work by Jon Ronson concerning the U.S. Army's exploration of New Age concepts and the potential military applications of the paranormal. The title refers to attempts to kill goats by staring at them and stopping their hearts"

Or to answer your sarcastic question with a horrifying answer: yes, essentially.
GPUs are much more complex than CPUs (at least in terms of their interface; obviously a Xeon is not simple). Plus they haven't been around as long so their entire architecture is not as stable (e.g. consider the switch away from fixed function).
SSH doesn’t rely on PKI. Using SSH certificates is a password replacement for accessing remote services. While it is a kind of identity verification, its purpose is not the same an application signing.

Self signing is open to too much abuse. The whole point of signing is that the provenance can be verified (yes, checksums are a thing) and that the signing can be revoked should something bad happen. Notarising code is the process of a third party verifying your identity. So rather than saying, “hey, you can trust me”, you are asking a third party to vet and prove that you are trustworthy. If you can’t see the value in that for all parties - including the most important party, your customers - then that’s up to you. No sane SOC will allow unsigned or self-signed binaries. Consumers with the slightest bit of savvy will not run unsigned or self-signed binaries, and OS vendors need to take care of the rest. Thinking of the Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability triad, your solution is unworkable.
> Even if news photographers and editors resist the temptations of electronic manipulation, as they are likely to do..

Sure thing.
https://googlethatforyou.com?q=bank%20of%20englang%20balance...
Maybe I’m naive here, but whenever I hear about a new AI fake detector, I think about how I would use it in some kind of generative adversarial network or reinforcement learning setup whereby a neural network improves at generating non-AI-sounding material based on feedback from these detectors. It just feels like an arms race, and the existence of these fake detectors will simply help generative AI improve faster. No?
The theory I’ve always heard about why the shuffler might be biased is that they’re trying to reduce land flood/screw. Drawing too few or too many lands is a commonly cited cause of frustration with players and if you’re reasonably assuming Arena wants to do all the usual monetised-game things of increasing playtime and MAU whatnot, this conclusion seems one of the first people come to.
> ...the product of a democracy hypocritically preaching social equality and practicing a carelessly brutal snobbery.

Some things change slowly.

[Note on HN relevance: America got von Neumann and Gödel and Einstein and so many others (tbf also, a bit later, von Braun and co.!) because of what were, at that time, Continental politics]

[Edit: I had originally said "glacially" instead of "slowly", but remembered that 1941 was before both the desegregation of the armed forces and, later, of the Civil Rights Movement]
Working on that project for so many years gave me alot of respect for game developers in general. Also makes me sad to see all the projects never gaining any visibility on Steam. Imagine putting all those hours into something, generally after work, and then it just fades away on day one? Gives me shivers.
As a big openbsd aficionado I always wish I could just run bog standard openbsd on my bmc's. ipmi does not do much for me so I would be fine if it were missing a good opensource ipmi stack. Most people would just want to run linux, but the point is, the bmc is just a small computer in charge of monitoring your big computer, however the bmc usually is unable to run an off the shelf operating system, so it is running an old proprietary version of linux with proprietary software. this situation sucks.

An idea I have floating around in the back of my head is to just use a raspberry pi as a bmc on consumer grade hardware, I am sure it would turn out more complicated than this, but basically just hook the power button, i2c, and other headers to the pi's gpio. now you have a bmc that runs an off the shelf os.
This is just a proof of concept. A first attempt. Assume increased yields over time through engineering improvements, maybe some genetic engineering, etc. You end up with a more favorable situation.

Also with vertical farming, you have to think in terms of vertical and time dimensions. You have no more seasons and you get to harvest throughout the year. And you can stack vertically. So, it can be pretty efficient in terms of land usage depending on how high you stack.

As for energy and light needs. Yes, it would need lots of energy but nowhere near what you think. Your back of the envelope math is talking about acres which isn't that useful of a metric for your energy needs. This is the fallacy in your argument. It's not about the light emitted but about the light delivered to the plant. Which depends mainly on the distance to the plant of the light source.

You can actually grow herbs with a kitchen light LED. I've done so. They sure aren't anywhere near as bright as the sun or particularly efficient. But it works. You just have to put them pretty close to the plant to minimize the light losses. That's the whole point of a vertical farm: minimize the losses by maximizing the light usage. Lots of low energy LEDs centimeters away from the plant are much more efficient than big light sources a meter or so away. And what happens to the light that "misses" the plant? Very simple it either gets absorbed by something and turned into heat or reflected by something back to the plant. And of course you'll find lots of reflective surfaces in vertical farms for that reason. Ultimately a lot of it gets transformed into heat. Some of that is useful. Plants grow faster at higher temperatures. And some of that is a cooling problem. Which takes more energy.

Vertical farming feasibility is mainly going to be a function of price and availability of energy. And as energy is the most costly component, yields measured in tonnes per mwh are a more sensible way to think about the feasibility than tonnes per acre. Acres are not that useful as a metric for measuring energy usage. They are useful for traditional farms mainly because land is expensive and you can't stack your crops on it. But it's a useless notion for measuring vertical farm production. How do you even measure acres in a 3 dimensional environment?

So the real feasibility just depends on cost per mwh. As that comes down, a lot of things become feasible. Including vertical farming all sorts of things. It's a cost curve. Right now energy is to costly and yields are to low. There's a point where those curves cross and things become feasible.
Netflix chose FreeBSD to run their CDN, perhaps partially due to kernel licensing, but that's obviously a space where performance and stability matters.
No idea. I can't even say if it's the lack of high-quality contributions and meta-moderation, or an over-abundance of low-quality contributions.

The patterns I noticed mainly revolve around certain topics.
It is complex topic. I'm using FreeBSD at server environment (you are right that Wifi and GPU support of FreeBSD is lagging, so I'm not using it on desktops/laptops).

As server, FreeBSD needs increasing all socket buffers via sysctls, tuning NIC IRQ moderation (depends on NIC, but we are not discussing Realtek ones here, am I right?), and, in the past, VFS caching and read-ahead was very conservative by default, but now ZFS is the same as on Linux (unfortunately, as some non-tunable Linux-induced optimizations slightly hurt performance on BSD, best ZFS performance were before switch to OpenZFS).

For example, "stock" FreeBSD 13 on my hand-built NAS (5x8Tb zraid, system on SSD, E3-1220v3, 32GB RAM, Intel 10G NIC) only can serve ~250MB/s over SMB (with same Samba as Linux uses, of course), and after tuning (socket buffers, NIC IRQ coalescing, etc) it serves 750-800MB/s from cache and 500MB/s from spinning rust (which is obvious limitation of HDDs, not OS).

Unfortunately, I don't know one coherent and modern FreeBSD performance tuning guides, but this guide [1] is mostly actual still, for network part.

[1] - https://calomel.org/freebsd_network_tuning.html
They make money by selling the cards right? I would think that might change their incentives somewhat. I don’t really know the game.
The NetBSD rumpkernel allows for running individual drivers in userspace, while UML and vkernel are both geared towards running full kernels. UML and vkernel both look pretty similar to me though.
The Greatest Scammer in the History of Football
>”Don’t fucking simp for Amazon. People do things different ways (hell, Amazon themselves barely have a phone number), and absent some indication of fraud their behavior is unreasonable.”

Easy solution for you. dont like their policies? dont do business with them.

if people create idle accounts on my own service id delete too. good news is you dont have to use it. :)
True shuffling is pretty easy to achieve, most programming language already have array.shuffle() methods.
Anyone using Business Model Canvas to generate business ideas?
Lots of accusations with no proof... Why make such a long winded post empty of proof!
And optimizations for database (MySQL, PostgreSQL) tests are other can of worms, which includes tuning of recordsize of ZFS, ZFS ARC/ARC2L tuning, etc., I'm not qualified to advice here, as I'm using FreeBSD on network devices (gateways, firewalls, VPN endpoints) and storage boxes mostly.
Women represent at most 2% of the victim of every war that we have data on. Trying to reframe the suffering of men, and only men, as a women problem is one the most vile things done by the modern zeitgeist. Shame on everyone who doesn't remember who really fights in war, and that is not women.
Flags being flown at half-staff is a pretty normal event, not a rare honor. The ceremony was held on February 2nd. The picture chosen for the Wiki article entry is from that ceremony.
> The only solution is for the regulator, in this case the central banks, to issue guidance for the banks to create credit for only new productive investments, whether that be new housing, factories, machinery, or firms, because those are not inflationary and increase the size of the GDP pie.

I struggle to see exactly what you are advocating for. If a family wants to buy a house, they will generally have to take out a loan to cover the upfront cost and pay off the loan over a long period of time. However, the loan is not a "productive investment" (no new assets are being created, only traded) and as such the central bank should regulate normal banks to not be allowed to issue loans for existing houses.

Without the ability to take out a loan for a house, I think we can all see how no normal family without 20-40 years of combined salary payments would be able to afford a house. Is this in line with what you are suggesting, or is it something else?

I'm not trying to be asinine, this is just my interpretation of your suggestion and I am trying to understand what you are suggesting.
Gitlab is fantastic.

It was easy to take an existing open source terraform module [0], modify it a little for our purposes, and deploy runners that provision job executors in our tightly controlled VPC. It is very simple and everything is open source so you can really understand what it is doing. In our setup, all secrets are issued from our private vault instances. Most of them are short lived or one time use when possible. We are looking at moving our stuff to EKS now as well.

Overall, it was pretty easy to get going but we have the resources to do this. I could see why a small startup would outsource this to someone like Circle CI.

[0] https://registry.terraform.io/modules/npalm/gitlab-runner/aw...
> Once understood, it is self-evident that banks are wholly responsible for asset bubbles. Banks, especially large banks, create loans mostly for existing asset purchases, and not for new productive investment. Of course, they do this in part because those assets work as collateral.

This is probably the best part of what you wrote. Loans are typically given to help purchase a finite resource, helping increase demand for limited supply, having the overall effect of inflation.

The person who gets screwed is the person who saved their money. Now, when they withdraw it to buy an asset, it costs more, because the bank allowed somebody else to buy it.

An IRL example I see is tonnes of young people driving around in brand new cars on finance. Not a single one of them can afford the car they apparently own. Now I, as somebody who saved to buy their car, will need to pay more because the bank increased the demand for these cars so much.

The problem really occurs when high numbers of people start defaulting on these loans, and the things they purchased were highly inflated at the time of purchase. Even if the bank goes to collect the asset, they will find it's not worth what was originally paid, but they are still missing a large amount of money not originally factored into their risk.

Needless to say, 2023/2024 is about to get really bad.
That tinfoil hat looks good on you!

What the hell does this have to do with user experience?

Dev experience? Compared to what exactly? You have 10 hello world windows floating around or what are you talking about?

X11 and the whole desktop linux world is a huge vulnerability, not letting a random install script/dev tool become trivially a keylogger is not security theater. vsync is not mandatory, you know that right? It can be controlled by an app, e.g. games can control it themselves. Outside of that, why would you want tearing?!

Worse performance? Is that why embedded systems actually prefer wayland solutions over literally embedding a huge monolith? It has as many functionality as you implement..

I’m fairly sure that a bug in xserver will bring down the whole system. There is nothing inherent in wayland demanding a monolithic approach, you can have a server maintaining connections to clients and a plugin that handles the window management part that can be restarted.

You managed to not have a single valid point, congrats!
Thank you sooo much for your reply! Actually I'm thinking of starting an AI Business Model Canvas generation tool, and I would love to see if there is any need for that in the market
> Nobody opens an issue or a pull request when they’re satisfied with your work.

That seems overly negative.

I open pull requests when a project almost does what I need but not quite. Or when I track down a bug and propose a fix, at the very least a way to reproduce the issue if I can’t figure out why.

Maybe it’s a kinder, gentler world in C/C++ and python land?
This is willfully ignorant. Yes it has been used, but that was not its design function. I'm not justifying its use, but it's unfair to qualify it as de jure baseload when in reality it may be temporarily de facto base load.
Paywalled, sadly.
We don't have a positive view of the discovery and civilization of the New World?
As I implied, we're normally interested in FMA for speed, not numerical properties. I don't know in what circumstances GCC wouldn't use it when vectorizing, but I haven't seen them.
Depends who you're talking about. Those of us who've literally skipped work to play video games definitely find it easier to watch others play rather than dip our toes in ourselves.
Reading the source. It feels like it’s written for a specific audience, perhaps people who have taken a year of economics or more. So it’s difficult for an engineer to parse. One example is this paragraph:

> when households choose to save more money in bank accounts, those deposits come simply at the expense of deposits that would have otherwise gone to companies in payment for goods and services. Saving does not by itself increase the deposits or ‘funds available’ for banks to lend. Indeed, viewing banks simply as intermediaries ignores the fact that, in reality in the modern economy, commercial banks are the creators of deposit money.

That could be taken to mean that savings accounts have only a second order contribution on the amount of money banks loan out, it could also mean that savings accounts reduce the amount of money banks can loan out.

I believe that passage is looking at banking from a systems level, and that savings may not directly impact loans a bank makes, but at a systemic level has an end result of reducing loans. It’s not clear at what level they’re taking about here.

A few days ago there was a post on here about how technical documentation only makes sense if you already have a working mental model of the system you’re working with. I feel like this may be an example of this.
I don't use Obsidian so can't really test the indexing feature I'm afraid.
> Money creation by fractional reserve banking has been Econ 101 for longer than anyone currently alive.

And it should have been removed decades ago. Tobin called it "the Old View" in 1963:

* https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...

See also "Teaching the Linkage Between Banks and the Fed: R.I.P. Money Multiplier":

* https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/page1-econ/2021...
How do you test a shuffle procedure?
Does there exist a logic gate diagram of the 8086, or similar cpu's (e.g. 6502)? I mean a way to see the discrete digital logic, as opposed to transistors, of the ALU and also any other random logic and control.
Looks great, I wonder if it's powerful enough to build a UI toolkit
Interesting!

> In short, there is plenty of reason to suspect it is possible to make more energy efficient flying machines than what we have currently.

I have no doubt about that. Although I wonder what birds would look like if evolution had figured out ball bearings and rotational motors.
I'm shadow banned by DuckDuckGo and Bing
DF has a summary https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/01/14/information-twi...
Well, when Ubuntu was first released 18 years ago, it was the first big distribution without any open ports in the default installation and no root password. Of course there were hardening guides for Debian, which you could use to shut down the fingerd daemon and the ftp server and get rid of the global administrator account. Linux distributions had so many remotely exploitable bugs, that whole books were written about them. (Windows was still worse)

Other distros slowly started to adapt the "secure by default" policy and came up with different approaches.
OpenSUSE for example still uses the root password for sudo. The patch to /etc/sudoers is massive.

I wouldn't expect sudo to behave the same across distros, there is a lot of history to it.
This feels like it should work from a clear induction argument.

Base case: n=1. Obvious.

Inductive step: n>1. The nth element swaps to itself w/ prob 1/n, and to any other element w/ prob 1/n. By induction the other elements have been uniformly shuffled. Any of those elements is swapped to the nth place w/ prob 1/n.
You should assume all devices are compromised
Isn't that identical to 'sudo -i'?
You really can't, anymore. You can watch traffic and hope that anything nasty isn't communicating with the outside world, but then there's all sorts of side channels that you may not know to watch.

At some point you just have to admit there's limits to privacy and work with them. You paper journal could be stolen and read / rewritten too, yaknow? It's not a new problem, its just in a new context.
Ask HN: What do you dislike the most about Heroku?
«on-disc filesystem is still slower than access to an in-memory stored structured data collection»
Absolutely. Also, no need to fix machine id across the entire cluster.
I don't know if you currently do BJJ or are only thinking about it, but I started when I was older, and may never get a black belt. But, I have moved up over the years and know that my belt color changing or getting a stripe on an existing belt doesn't suddenly make me a different person. After chasing goals for so long, BJJ is an amazing reminder that it really is the journey that matters. It's shaped me to be a better person regardless of an arbitrary belt color.
> For exercising my right to not do something while recognizing the right of others to do it? Oh, the irony.

"not for the type of people I want to be friends with."

That's the judgemental piece right there, just so you know for the future. Not that you don't want to do something, that you're writing swathes of people off entirely based on your own misconceptions about what they do want to do.

> Exactly, you feel understood without being understood.

And this is where you're making incorrect assumptions based on your own biases.

I highly recommend you don't touch anything more mind altering than a cup of tea, given your phobia of altered states.
I'd like to see a different abstraction and UX for "files", something that feels like a database but with looser usage patterns from a user's perspective, more intuitive to use and reason about.

I don't want to remember paths and folders and all that crap. I don't want to depend on my discipline to organize and I'm willing to trade some flexibility in return.

There's some alternatives like tags, but none of them feel natural and require setup. I feel services like dropbox had a real chance to try something, but the best they came up with was showing me "recent documents" for a homepage, wasted opportunity if you ask me.