skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sums up the problem quite nicely.

IMO, what needs to happen is for people to see the 1 in 1000 as a problem with Gmail et al. rather than a problem with someone hosting their own STMP server.

Generally speaking, people I know who self-host their email do not have problems. However, inevitably there is the 1 in 1000. IMO, unreached recipients using Gmail et al. are likely to see the problem as with the self-hosted sender, not their own third party email provider.

One idea is to have a backup for emergencies. That is, a Gmail user could have an alternative, self-hosted means of receiving email on port 587 or 2525. By default, this mail drop accepts mail from no one. When there's a 1 in 1000 problem, the recipient could add the sender to a list of acceptable senders, either temporaily or permanently. The sender can then use the alternative instead of Gmail.
Consumption does not scale like that. If I consume 30% of my salary under the median income, there’s no way wealthy people making say, $10 million a year are spending 30% of that on consumption. Sure, some might, but many recent 1st generation wealthy are savers and would tend to invest income, not consume it.

VAT is regressive without some kind of subsidy or UBI.
Themes and colors, we can do. I've seen people drawing some spectacular diagrams with Mermaid.

But we cannot easily add layout logic without sacrificing the simplicity of the syntax.
If you use Waze for navigation, it already does play ads when you are at a stop.
> Some supercomputers use partially shared memory, but I'm not familiar with that space.

Some supercomputers do have some shared memory architecture, but a whole lot more use Message Passing Interface (MPI) for distributed memory architecture. Shared memory starts to make less sense when your data can be terabytes or larger in size. It is a lot more scalable to just avoid a shared memory architecture and assume a distributed memory one. It becomes easier to program assuming that each thread just does not have access to the entire data set and has to send data back and forth between threads (pass messages).
We can disagree on the user experience-based motivation. Given the lack of any kind of public data on how those decisions are made, I can't blame you for thinking that way.

I do agree that developer experience is important, and that Apple should take developer experience more seriously than it does, and that applies across every org in the company. Case in point: the infuriatingly-opaque and mercurial nature of the App Store review process.

The problem is that, percentage-wise, developers are a minuscule portion of Apple's overall userbase. That makes the justification for fixing concerns that are (perceived as) unique to developers difficult when the culture has traditionally leaned toward prioritizing issues with a more obvious impact on the majority of users. I'm not saying this is correct or desirable, just the way things have worked historically.

Given all of that, I think “a browser full of bugs” is relative. I witnessed many instances of bugs being experienced by large numbers of users being fixed extremely quickly. It's always been a function of (obvious, measurable) impact. If a significant percentage of web apps were crashing 60 times a day, those bugs would have been fixed extraordinarily quickly.
iphones are all OLED now, so there is no distinction.

On an old LCD display there are some filters that do a linear/nonlinear mapping from 0->255 brightness to 0->64 for example, leaving the actual backlight at the same brightness. The downside is that colour banding and quantization start to get really bad - and 'black' starts to look very non-black.
I'd be pretty sure that any company can pay money to Qt Company and have them come and integrate Qt into any kind of weirdo OS whatsover.
The morale effect is temporary, the ripple effects of it, in my experience, linger for a very long time. That was my point, those are harder to visualise, quantify, but if you live the day-to-day in R&D/operations you see how people react to it over time.

The analogy used in some layoffs discussions of cutting off a limb is fitting here too, your body can still perform some functions but some skills are harder to perform, some movements aren't possible or are very impaired, etc. You are still alive but you aren't the same anymore, for a company it can create really weird side-effects like some examples I brought up on the previous comment.
this isn't a materials science article, as it turns out.

if you've already read your three free articles, https://archive.is/VcIcJ

thought it was an interesting perspective, though it's a bit naive or maybe idealistic and it glosses over a lot of the negative harms of some technologies (and factors, economic and otherwise, that motivate these kinds of technologies).
I agree that dismissing evidence that was gathered illegally is reasonable, but I don’t think it’s sufficient. Even if illegally gathered evidence could be identified and excluded from use in trial, it does nothing to redress the wrong that was committed in gathering that evidence in the first place.

Namely, loss of privacy is a harm in itself, not merely something that may lead to further harm. The exclusionary rule can prevent further harm, but cannot restore the peace of mind and security that was lost.
Can GPT-3 explain my past and predict my future?
Common Lisp Implementations in 2023
I always thought that "dark" in "dark ages" refers to the lack of written evidence, i.e., more "dark" as in the lights have gone out and you can't see what's happening than "dark" as in grim.
The rule is: "Template engine websites, tools, and sites that generate HTML from text, markdown, or script files ..."

Followed by an inexhaustive list of examples: "such as Webs, Wix, Weebly, GitHub, Jekyll, and Replit ... "

Finally closing off with a strongly emphasized: " ... are NOT permitted."

No matter the interpretation, you're not supposed to use something that can automagically generate HTML, which Github absolutely is one such example. Whether you "only" use Github as a file repository is irrelevant, you are not allowed to use Github, nor all the others, nor examples not named.

For what it's worth, I will point out that Rule G (permits use of "state-of-the-art web-based applications") and Rule H (permits selective use of Wordpress, Joomla, et al.) are in conflict with Rule I (this rule) because such tools and underlying tools like PHP and JavaScript are "tools that generate HTML from text, markdown, or script files". If rules should be reconsidered, they are Rules G and H.
Two problems:

(1) in different models even of the same exact type and training approach, neuron number k will typically have completely different roles between the models. This is because the neural net is built from layers of neurons where permuting the order of neurons in a layer gives an exactly equivalent network. Because of randomization in initialization and training, any permutation for the resulting weights is equally likely to be produced. So at the least you'd have to look for corresponding neurons k1 in net 1 vs k2 in net 2.

(2) most properties you might try to look for will be not correspond to a single neuron but rather as a relationship between many different neurons. And since neural nets are so flexible there are many ways to encode approximately the same function, there is no reason to expect for your chosen "general knowledge" item net 1 and net 2 will use the same number of neurons or even same general approach to encode that.
Matrix chat is … interesting. Though beware, the crazy is infectious.
You're thinking of single address space OSes.

I do not believe such OSes can ever be secure given how often vulnerabilities are found in web browsers's JS engines alone. Besides, AFAIK the only effective mitigation against all Spectre variants is using separate address spaces.
Watch here for a video of how the butterfly keyboard opens: https://youtu.be/nRVJCtREW38?t=567
A Legitimately Interesting Technical Blog Post
3 points by happy4crazy 5 hours ago | flag | discuss

The most underrated post. But I don't even bother opening these, so this is not even anecdotal. :)
Well what can I say. Really frigging cool. That's all I have.
I reject that USA has been a totalitarian cause it has had slaves or women has not always been allowed to vote.

I think you must look at the way the rest of the world was during the same time to get a honest picture of the "totalitarian state" of USA.

Hand pick some historic situation and then comparing versus a "Perfect World" (and since USA was not as good as this Perfect world.. then it must totalitarian/evil/..)
This is not an honest way to frame the argument
> What I don't like seeing is a new generation thinking DVCS implies Microsoft GitHub

It does. GitHub won. Git and GitHub are synonymous now.
A good idea, put a fuse + switch there, and add it to the dash. 1/2 an hour of work.

Better yet, do so, then demand part costs + time + debug + this is the only way to fix it. A $1000 seems abiut right. Having the dealer fail to fix it (all those reflashes) helps, for the small claims court case, as surely they will refuse to pay.

Then post the court case win online.

This seems to be the only way to get big anything to do right by the consumer, these days.
We should all be taxed like corporations - netting up income and expenses etc.
Because the foundations of Enlightenment society are relatively stupid. The only way to maintain them in the face of their own contradictions is arbitrary threat of violence.
As a Kiwi moved the the UK, I &%$ hate the roads here.

They're fun to drive on still, but there's an over-reliance on painted road markings, which are often not repainted, if they're even visible they disappear when it's raining, or just you know, when there's traffic and the car in front of me is covering it.

It's the absolute fucking worst on gyratorys and other complex roundabouts where I have no idea which fucking lane to be in because I can't see the road marking, covered by cars, positioned right at the entrance to the roundabout rather than before.

Would be completely solved by ensuring roundabout signs were so far in front of the roundabout depending on road speed, then on the roundabout sign indicating at each exit the # of which lanes you can take to get there, ie mark exits going around with 1 2,3 3,4 5. Then I know immediately that the left most lane is dedicated to the first exit, to take the 3rd exit I can be in the 3rd or 4th most lane. And "going around" has a dedicated lane, the 5th from the left.

So sick of being forced out the wrong exit because I've picked the wrong lane and there's too much traffic. So sick of locals in areas complaining on forums about the "idiot drivers" not magically knowing the road layout beforehand. So sick of having to change lanes and feeling like the asshole in the equation because I know it looks like I've done it to queue jump; I'm not trying to skip ahead, I just have no idea where the fuck I'm going.

Gyratory lane markings are shit, too. Proper lanes and then with each segment no marking at all before the lanes start again, it can often be difficult to tell which lane you need to funnel yourself into after the break because the road numbers on the lanes up ahead just aren't visible until you're right on top of them.

Then the driving test here. Oh, the driving test. The first time I tried it I failed for failing to indicate correctly at a mini roundabout. Okay, fine, fair dues. Pass second time. Been driving a while now & maybe like 30% of people actually indicate on a roundabout. Let alone all the other antics people pull while driving here; pass the strict test & then throw it all out the window.
You can also use GitHub copilot outside of a GitHub repository, and there would be no way to verify that
Well, go play Super Mario Bros 3 on the NES, or for a much better example for the Game Boy Color:
Metal Gear Solid, or Cannon Fodder. Games with no hardware accelerators on the Game Pak.
That's the peak on the 8 bit architecture on graphics, or pretty close.

Then, try running Terranigma on the SNES, or Garou on the Neo Geo. That's a huge leap from the 8 to 16 bits architecture change on graphics. Gameplay wise, I'd put The Firemen, Chrono Trigger, Ultima VII in PC... the peak for them. The graphical step to the 32 bits architecture peak it's astounding: Crysis, Half life 2. And, in terms of gameplay, with just the PSX you could play games simulating an entire town with an schedule in order to solve a mistery. In 3D. Mizzurna falls.

For a 64 bits architecture I'd expect a whole town being simulated in the way of Deadly Premonition or the previously mentioned Mizzurna Falls, (bear in mind that every NPC has a daily schedule over a week) and ofc with raytraced graphics and complex interactions between NPC's.

You can have that easily on text mode since the 16 bits PC's/Amiga's/Atari with Make It Good and a Z-Machine interpreter (Make It Good, a crime solving game), so with a 2^64 arch we should expect far more.
> Why go at all?

"
The next regular step was Harvard College. He was more than glad to go. For generation after generation, Adamses and Brookses and Boylstons and Gorhams had gone to Harvard College, and although none of them, as far as known, had ever done any good there, or thought himself the better for it, custom, social ties, convenience, and, above all, economy, kept each generation in the track. Any other education would have required a serious effort,
but no one took Harvard College seriously. All went there because their friends went there, and the College was their ideal of social self-respect.

Harvard College, as far as it educated at all, was a mild and liberal school, which sent young men into the world with all they needed to make respectable citizens, and something of what they wanted to make useful ones. Leaders of men it never tried to make. Its ideals were altogether different. The Unitarian clergy had given to the College a character of moderation, balance, judgment, restraint, what the French called mesure; excellent traits, which the College attained with singular success, so that its graduates could commonly be recognized by the stamp, but such a type of character rarely lent itself to autobiography. In effect, the school created a type but not a will. Four years of Harvard College, if successful, resulted in an autobiographical blank, a mind on which only a water-mark had been stamped."

The Education of Henry Adams*, Chapter IV, "Harvard College". (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2044/pg2044.txt
Ooh, Nvidia Drive platform.
Have a big stack of cash and contact the founders to pitch being an investor.
Disclaimer: I work in social media, and am convinced it has negative effects on mental health, which is why I limit usage.

This review is a lot less than a smoking gun though. The author goes into large detail on the quantification of associations and correlations in the first section (association review) - and limits towards communicating only qualitatively that there was an effect when getting into the longitudinal and experimental reviews (the causation-proving ones).

Reading through the actual google review doc, this is present in the review as well. Very little quantification, and when quantification is given it's the wrong type of quantification. Even in an experimental study, showing mean comparisons rather than distribution comparisons is misleading, even when statistically significant.

This is a bit of a problem, as it doesn't go into the effect size of the causation. The author is quite cleary rooting for causation to be there. This is not uncommon in science (a strong conviction into an unproven hypothesis) - but when this happens, we have to be extra vigilant in looking at the results.

EDIT: Also, for sth to be a major cause we would need to demonstrate that the effect of social media is in the top quantiles of all known effects. The most we can get out of this review (and I'd even challenge that) is that there is enough proof that social media is a causally proven contributor to mental health deterioration. Nothing presented indicates anything to say that it's a large contributor or that it's a major contributor, it just isn't discussed at all.
Why are you putting the onus on someone else to provide clues that you understand?

You still don't escape the requirement to understand the problem before fixing the problem. Even if the explanation for the current solution is lacking, you still need to understand enough to articulate why it's lacking.
But what about a curvy 2-lane road with oncoming traffic on the other side? How do you ensure you not hit kerb the car if you can't see the kerb due to snow?
I'm wondering, if pop/IMAP auth is so costly, why POP3/IMAP community not allow user to get session token and auth with it? Like JWT or anything with similar security properties.
Both protocols are easily extensible...
I'm glad to see the day has come where I see an advert for a "full-stack" hardware engineer.

I don't know anything about wages in SF but the requirements are niche to say the least, and all wrapped in "2+ years of industry experience". Good luck to them.
China tops nuclear fusion patent ranking, beating U.S.
This is why I’m really insistent on pushing back on “kids these days…” complaints. Every single generation has had grumpy people who whine about how the young’uns are unruly, lazy, have it easy, etc. I’m starting to people in my age group (mid 30s) saying it, which is a little bit sad since it was not long ago that we were on the receiving end of a lot of “psssh, typical millennials…” nonsense :-/
Even in this description you use the words "you realize" and "become wiser" and then describe it as "a waste". It's not a waste, it's just the cost of education.

As the saying goes: "good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions". It would be great if we could all come out of the womb with enough education and experience to function as responsible adults in modern society, but we don't. Society (rightfully) allows people some leeway in doing dumb shit so that they can learn firsthand why it's dumb.
> The good thing about being a Russian is that you can only blame yourself for this fate.

???
Well, I just mean you probably shouldn't try to put people in that role permanently. It's fine when it's for a limited time.
There's a lot of the middle ground between "median income" and "$10 million per year". There are stories in the web about people who struggle to make ends meet on $400-500k income, because of "lifestyle inflation": big house, expensive clothes, eating out in fancy restaurants, exotic vacations - those people would pay tons of VAT tax :)

For people who actually make $10 million per year, and do not pay much in VAT, there are still better ways to tax them than the income tax (which they can avoid with some tax optimization scheme), like property taxes, or capital gain tax.
To behold, use or perceive any extension of ourselves in technological form is necessary to embrace it. To listen to the radio or to read the printed page is to accept these extensions of ourselves into our personal system and to undergo the “closure” or displacement of perception that follows automatically. It is this continuous embrace of our own technology in daily use that puts us in the Narcissus role of subliminal awareness and numbness in relation to these images of ourselves. By continuously embracing technologies, we related ourselves to them as servomechanisms. That is why we must, to use them at all, serve these objects, these extensions of ourselves, as gods or minor religions. An Indian is the servomechanism of his canoe, as the cowboy of his horse or the executive of his clock. (p. 46)

Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media (1964)
Danish former minister charged with revealing state secrets
>These young people learned a very important lesson: Rules are rules are rules, and they must be followed, even if they don't make any sense.

no, this is tyrannical. "rules" are just words that somebody wrote down. that somebody can be wrong.

like in this case, it said "templating engine websites such as github" -- that's wrong, because github is not a templating engine website.
You didn't respond to the substance of my comment, and your links solve none of my problems.

Where are my PS2-era shape keys? Bones aren't going to cut it.
I was looking into mermaid when I needed to write some Gantz chart, but instead of inserting in a web page, I wanted to insert in a Word document.

I could not figure out a way of resizing it in a way it fits well to the page. The documentation on how to create it was very good, but I couldn't find documentation on how to place it how I wanted, things like configuring its output size.
Funny thing is you can make spectrum shifts with electricity. But since the current cosmological model doesn't allow for much electricity in space (and we should ask why) they can not explain it any other way than it being a Doppler shift.
Some users have embedded images disabled in email client by default.
Looks really nice! Even though I'm a SMTP/IMAP admin since ages I feel the need for easy-to-use mail solutions.
> You really can't get anymore explicit than "sites that generate HTML from text ... such as ... GitHub ... are NOT permitted."

> Is excluding Github okay? If you ask me, that question is irrelevant. The contest is about making a website by hand, nothing more and nothing less. This is an artificial environment and situation, and you either accept the rules and play by them or don't accept them and go elsewhere.

It's not irrelevant: it's the crux of the issue. The rule was clearly written by someone that lacks in-depth technical skills and is nonsensical. Ask yourself: would they have been disqualified if they used GitLab?

Saying "oh well that's the rules" is an awful attitude and does not prepare people for the "real world". The real world is full of people who have absolutely no idea what they're doing and like to swing around their authority. If you aren't able or willing to correct demands from people who are blatantly incompetent in a low stakes high-school competition, you're not going to have a valuable or fulfilling career.
This is all fun and games until it's hooked up to real world APIs or machines...
This article is behind the paywall. What is the point of posting it on HN?
We are certainly coming within conceivable range of a world automatically controlled to the point where we could say, “Six hours less radio in Indonesia next week or there will be a great falling off in literary attention.” Or, “We can program twenty more hours of TV in South Africa next week to cool down the tribal temperature raised by radio last week.” Whole cultures could now be programmed to keep their emotional climate stable in the same way that we have begun to know something about maintaining equilibrium in the commercial economies of the world. (p. 28)

Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media (1964)
Something like this, I hope it is open sourced or at least not patented
Just to be clear, as far as I am aware, QI is about civil liability, ie compensation, not criminal liability.

I don't even understand the point of shifting the civil liability from the police dept to a low wage employee who will not be able to afford the compensation.
It was awesome! I think it misses just two things: "Coder's Generalizations on Software Architecture/Careers in Tech", or "Venture Investor's Generalizations on Society".

Oh, forgot: "Another Very Long New Yorker Article Philosophizing on Their Local Stuff"
Mercedes is high status. McDonalds is low status. To be able to see the Mercedes Star is a privilege.
Surely if you don't understand why it's stupid, you need to go away and think about why it's stupid, once you do see why it's stupid, I may allow you to challenge people calling it stupid.
You slow down enough that you can confidently maneuver by the curb and the other vehicle.
Long Beach Unified School District Data Breach Allegedly Impacts Over 130,000 Users
Gluon, a high-performance IMAP library