skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, if you block cookies, you’re using a browser extension, and that extension blocks whatever you tell it to; it’s not affected by First Party Sets.

Google’s changes only affect people who use vanilla Chrome. And the people who use vanilla Chrome without any privacy extensions don’t have much privacy to begin with, so First Party Sets does not make things much worse than they already are.
So instead everyone who has to solve a problem has to be an expert on that problem, rather than just an informed consumer.
Would be great to see Wezterm, it's always felt snappy, and Wez is a damn smart cookie.
Sometimes what seems natural is because the water was poisoned for so long. Yes, it is natural to have sexual desire, but is unfettered spread of porn with a few taps easily accessible at any age really something we should accept? And young men need a lot of support, in my anecdotal experience it is too easy for so many to fall down negative paths with little support network to prevent it.

Now with AI it is even more dangerous, we have deepfakes (see recent Canada news on deepfakes of children), and the spread of more isolation and addiction with the internet “drugs” compared to genuine in person interactions with friends and family.

Technology like smartphones helped us in many ways but also they became a new way to suffer and amplified some existing problems. Shouldn’t we regulate the worst of it?

I found more dangerous than porn is the ability to communicate with random adults online as a child, with often sexual endings. I remember growing up as a teen, there were sites like Omegle and then chat apps like kik and Snapchat and then Reddit, all these places had avenues for teens and children to communicate and swap pictures with adults, etc. with little to no regulation or consequences for these companies.
Soaking
I suggest the human-mammal mind readily adapts to new sense modes. Driving a car or riding a bicycle feels like an extension of the body after you mastered it. A grid of bump actuators agains the skin or tongue is perceived as an image after one uses it for a while. So I reject the idea that bat consciousness is special. We'd perceive sound images had we had high frequency ears and emitters.
Philosophy depends as much on life experience as it does on native ability hence the benefit of advanced age.Chess,Music and Math depend more on native ability than on life experience.
I recall Mozilla tried something similar around a decade ago, which was a good solution but didn't get any adoption. There's also been approaches like OpenID which were once popular, where you can have a single login, but they have the problem of third-parties aggregating the sites you visit. Who uses OpenID today? It's all been replaced by facebook or google login.

Part of the difficulty of using secure credentials is sharing them between devices. It's easier to involve a third-party like Google who can do this for you. The big-tech doesn't actually want to solve the problem entirely because they want some form of control: Either locking you into their service, or aggregating the sites you log into, or both.

They also want your biometrics, and keep pushing the narrative that biometrics are for authentication, but biometrics should only represent identity, not authority.
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The least like us, the less likely, obviously. Animals with very similar neurology almost certainly experience something very similar to ours.

How similar? Good question. Assume nothing and truth will out.
Haven't tried that one, but after going through a few this one is far and away the best I've had: https://www.mattressfirm.com/sleep-mask/5637147694.p
Python devs always told me npm was better than pip
wow. so simple but fun!
The benefit of FPGAs is you can get nearly gate perfect emulation of an old games system. We've had emulators for years that get most things right but some games and minor things in old games require specific software patches to ensure the odd why they used the chips available produces the same output. There's a great old article from 2011 about the power required at the time to get a nearly perfect emulation of a NES. [0] The goal with the Pocket and all of Analogue's consoles isn't to be just another emulation machine but to run as close as possible to the original at a hardware level. That's their whole niche, hardware level 'emulation' of old consoles.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-...
Also, there is absolutely nothing “flat” about Salt Lake City.
Writing your own monad transformers is more complicated than understanding bind. Using standard ones isn't: swap out `State s a` for `MonadState s m => m a` (or whatever the relevant effects are) and put `lift` where the compiler tells you to, and you're 90% of the way there.

The other 10% is stacking the appropriate sequence of `FooBarT (BarBazT ... )` at the entry point to your program, which is admittedly pretty tedious.
This two-post thread is a microcosm of American politics on all issues.
I think that we'll reach "good enough" - and that the commercial offerings won't have much tangible benefit for at least simply being "fancy autocomplete".

Currently you don't really use LLMs for designing the structure, just completing the implementation, and I think that will be very doable locally.
>"we can get results similar to OpenAI's API with our model that you can run on a Commodore 64!"

I have felt similar frustrations with statements that feel disingenuous too. Thanks for articulating this with such a beautifully hilarious metaphor.
22 hours 14 minutes 15.38 seconds
1334 minutes
22.24 hours
0.9266 days

approaching 1337 light-minutes :D
Try using a black fleece neckwarmer as an eye mask.
Absolutely agree. If I recall, there used to be an actual standard regarding this, but it was (is?) widely ignored and never enforced. I remember the time before blue LEDs with quite some fondness.
If someone calls themself as libertarian and also supports UBI I feel like I don't understand what libertarian means.
here we go again...

just more reason to never catch a falling knife (unless it's Meta, that worked out well). I remember on WSB a few week ago people were talking about the 'great bargains' for battered banking stocks. No thanks.
Ubuntu and I never managed to establish a working relationship. I don't know why but I just don't like it. I use Linux Mint and i am rather happy with it - it just works (steam gaming, browsing, netflix, ides, ai tooling and so on). I install it, install my favorite packages, git backup my configs and that's it. The hardware is quite powerful and up to date and haven't had issues with drivers - except with obscure amazon dongles but those are a waste of money anyway.

I have the same expectation as you that a desktop OS should just work, particularly for basic tasks. I don't have time to hack around. I mean I used to be a mac os user - i didn't even have to install the os or chose the hardware it ran on.

But linux gives you options and alternatives to almost everything and _that_ can be overwhelming. Heck linux is not even an os, it's a kernel, and ubuntu is just _one_ of the many OS' built upon it. That wide range of choice is probably what you experienced with the usb stick (ie are you sure you chose a file system compatible with windows?). Once you get comfortable with this freedom you start liking it.

It's not like back in the day when you had to compile things or hack thousands of config files to make things work. Last time i used KDE was many moons ago when i had the time to compile it on freebsd just for giggles, today i just apt get install it and change my wallpaper. It just works. If a distro doesn't behave to your liking on a live usb stick you can ditch it and try another. I don't want to convince you to switch to linux, I am neither religious about it nor do i think it's the right os for everything under the sun. I'd probably need to know more about your workflow but i suspect everything you do on the WSL console can be significantly sped up and beautified with the right setup in linux. Would likely take a few commands to do so.

> a browser as an interface to the web is a Windows task for me.

Boy would i install openbox and firefox defaulting to full screen upon login for that use case :-)
I don't think that is true.

Last I checked apple M1 max chips have up to 800GB/s throughput, whilst AMDs high end chips taper out at around ~250GB/s or so, closer to what a standard M2 chip does (not max, or pro version). at the top end they've got at least 2x the memory bandwidth than other CPU vendors, and that's likely the case further down too.
Finally, the day when we can get dogshit blockbuster movies for 1/10th the cost has arrived!
I see what you just did there. Well played.
You are saying they are 3E:ing their own product? It sounds like what you are describing is a lot closer to open-core.
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No paywall: https://archive.is/C6FPb
The Vulkan situation on Apple is incredibly funny, especially once you look at the landscape of gaming. There's games out there (I believe Final Fantasy XIV is like this) where the official Mac client runs in wine, using a DirectX -> Vulkan translation layer, on top of a Vulkan -> Metal translation layer.
I'm a big big fan of the lunya eye mask: https://lunya.co/products/womens-washable-silk-sleep-mask-me...

I used a little bit of sewing to tighten up the fit exactly to my head and it never falls off and is incredibly comfortable.

No sound though.
Pretty sure that particular UX element is no longer useful.
No, the reason they're around is because probably 95% of businesses in the US rely on their software in one form or another.
Google says 22.2 light hours, so yes, just short of a light day
The problem is remarketing used to work great without sharing email addresses with ad platforms.

Now without cookies, you typically want to share email, phone, zip code, etc in order to do remarketing without 3rd party cookies.

No ephemeral 3rd party cookies = ad platforms rely on user data that never changes (email addresses, phone numbers, etc)
Yep. My kids got that a bit over a decade ago.
We need more cannon fodder for chinese anti-ship missile boats!
I mostly agree with this review.

I absolutely loved "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running," which is basically a memoir as well.

But this book wasn't nearly as engaging.

If you're more interested in a memoir than the craft of writing, skip this one and read Running.

I found King's book on writing more useful too.
he is queuing because the robots are using all the water
Given that VPN services typically require a credit card, and credit cards are unlikely to be available to most minors -- or at least provide plausible deniability to the providers -- this is probably 100% okay with the porn-banning Utahns.
Computed properties, Stand alone components, “signals” already exist in Ember in some form to prevent constant recomputing of getters, route data being available in components directly
I have this and can say it's roughly 50% efficient. Message me if you want to learn more.
People are stressing me out. Specifically other people.
There is some bias but that's expected from a highly partisan media outlet like the The Verge (part of the extreme left-leaning Vox media). That said, I think the article is still a good read and mostly factual.

Elon Musk has proved to be an unreliable source time and time again. See his claim about Twitter lying about bots for instance, when he tried to squirm his way out of buying Twitter. Also note how he has not said much about bots since the deal closed.

Twitter has drawn the ire of regular users, blue checkmark celebrities like Lebron James and Stephen King, and government-funded and/or state-affiliated news outlets like the CBC, BBC, and NPR. Bluesky is being touted as a faithful and superior version of Twitter, following some of the unpopular changes Musk has made like floating all the replies of Twitter Blue subscribers to the top of a post's replies.
First line of the abstract: Ambient light can influence sleep structure and timing.

So of course the eye mask isn't necessary at all, reducing the ambient light is the key. Mask is one option, but black out curtains (in most areas) and eliminated or shielding any light emitting devices in the room is key.
Agile soccer skills for a bipedal robot with deep reinforcement learning
I thought terminal.app has very short latency, looking back at the benchmarks written about here https://danluu.com/term-latency/. Terminal.app’s latency measures around 5ms beating most other terminals. (It’s a shame it still doesn’t support true color.)
Massive shortage of software where?

(excluding AI, which has no problem getting funding)
I think this is slightly wrong in the other direction. How does people doing things "for the love of the craft" inherently lead to better quality "stuff"? There are plenty of examples of people doing things already "for the love of the craft" either because they're wealthy, or at least doing well enough for it to be a serious hobby. But that doesn't mean they beat our professionals every time.

Hollywood movies seem to be to be one of the least able kind of task to be done "for the love of the craft" across all thousands of people involved in a blockbuster. How does that coordination work out across everyone who's interested "in the craft"? Ever see fan productions? It can be done, but they're also often driven by people actually doing tasks for cash that was gathered via donations.

I also might point to the people who are so well liked and famous that they basically can "write their own ticket" - George RR Martin is an example. His first few books were considered amazing, but it's also considered that given no real impetus anymore - he's unlikely to finish the saga ever. As a whole then, is an unfinished saga really "higher quality" than one finished to make a buck? The answer IMHO isn't obvious.
Surely that's how it's implemented? I want nothing to do with websites fuzzing that mountain of (driver) code that sits behind shaders & co.
I used to use VPNs. What a waste of money. Nothing but captchas, broken functionality, slowness, etc. It's obvious that at least some VPNs use low trust IPs and are blocked and filtered. You are better off just getting an E2 instance
I appear not to have made my sarcasm obvious enough. :P I was amused by the thought of CIA agents being told that they need a VPN installed and so downloading the first result on Google.
A wrapper bundle is what I prefer right now, here is a wrapper bundle I made for CodeMirror 6. It just provides the needed exports from the library. It can also be verified on the client side with UNPKG or jsDelivr. My client side build prints out the integrity attribute. I still need to write the npm bundling code so at the moment I am relying on UNPKG.

https://codeberg.org/macchiato/editor-lib-codemirror/src/bra...

The rollup output is nice. I don't have terser, though I may add it later. When I added a couple exports the diff was just the change in my code.

The library using it can include the integrity attribute and a can go here and run the build after checking the html and JavaScript file and check the output (codeberg.page is like GitHub pages in that it the repo contents controls what it serves): https://macchiato.codeberg.page/editor-lib-codemirror/
Banks are in the business of maturity transformation, they have to borrow short to lend long. Silicon Valley, Signature and First Republic all blew up because depositors withdrew their deposits.

You can "fix" this with withdrawl limits, (In which case connected insiders can get their money out early and regular guys get screwed) full FDIC insurance, ("Unlimited bailouts for banks", moral hazard) or just end fractional-reserve banking entirely. (Say goodbye to 30 year mortgages, or any mortgages at all.)

Ending bank crises essentially requires ending the "business cycle" of credit expansion and credit contraction, which would take deleting quite a lot of the economy and turning everything into state owned enterprises.
Most RSV infections last a week or two. 10-12 days is right where it goes away on its own.

Time is more likely your “effective treatment” in this case.
I wonder if application frameworks like Flutter will move to WebGPU? I imagine it shouldn't be that hard to get Skia running on a wgpu backend. The current web target generates a lot of markup that isn't really semantic or representative of a web app's structure with lots of canvases anyway, so I imagine moving to a uniform render target will make things smoother. They're already experimenting with Dart in WASM instead of transpiling to JS as well.
Of all the commonly used languages, C++ is the most complex, baroque, and filled with subtle and not-so-subtle footguns. Of course with all that downside comes the upside that C and C++ are the lingua franca for low level programming where performance matters, not only HPC (yes, I hope Rust will be there one day, but I digress..). Fortran is pretty much limited to numerical computing, you're not going to find much Fortran libraries outside that domain.

So if you envision doing programming like that outside HPC after your PhD, C++ might be worth the investment.

But of course a lot comes down to what language other people in your group and your particular subfield, and what your supervisors are using. Doing a PhD is hard enough without being the odd guy out who's using a language nobody else in your community is using.
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your comment made me double-check if this changed: the thread is still be there with showdead off, just its (flagged) top comment is replaced with the [flagged] placeholder.
Emulating “accurately” is so difficult that not even Nintendo’s Game Boy emulator on the Switch does it properly. I’ve been replaying old games and comparing some questionable moments with my original Game Boy, and the timings are not quite right in some cases.

For example in Link’s Awakening, there’s a wiggle screen effect done by writing to OAM during HBlank. On the Switch it lags very differently than my GB (try it by getting into the bed where you find the ocarina). Or with Metroid 2, the sound when you kill an Omega Metroid is different too. It pitch shifts along with the “win” jingle.

These have almost zero impact on playability. But for purists and emudevs it’s a popular pursuit.
Would you take a "day job" to be ontologically real? It is a way in which the aggregate of particles that make up your body regularly behave on a semi periodic schedule. That would seem to fit your definition of "encompassing every way in which things are or can be".

If it is real, isn't there still a need to distinguish ontological primitives from aggregate properties like the above? Why shouldn't this be what we mean by "real"?
Yeah I'm speaking for myself, and I'm very healthy and fit. If I were not, I'd probably be on other prescription drugs, so what's one more thing? I don't think I've taken an OTC or prescription drug in 10-15 years. My medicine cabinet is empty. I've smoked some weed though. Agreed on the personal responsibility piece.

The long-term side effects piece is still undecided and that's undebatable, simply because not enough time has gone by. Maybe I'll be open to changing my mind in 5-10 years. Even then, I'd win, no?
I've lost a lot of confidence in Apple's keychain. I had been using iCloud Keychain and backing up username and password into BitWarden.

I say "had been" because 189 lines of garbage entries are in iCloud Keychain and I can't get them out. They look like this:

Title,URL,Username,Password,Notes,OTPAuth
www.amazon.com (MEoEEPgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEwFAYIKoZIhvcNAwcECJeL6XzO81KJBCA02+DHVDASQ5Y3hOVrhGjCxV9Mv9qSEOc7uod7iKS3Rw==),https://www.amazon.com/,MEoEEPgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEwFAYIKoZI...,,
(repeat for various sites 188 times)

I've tried deleting them multiple times but they always come back. I've filed Feedback with Apple but no acknowledgement of the problem. There's no hint as to whether the problem is with one of my devices or with iCloud.

I've switched over to BitWarden entirely. At some point, I guess I try deleting the keychain and starting over but I really am concerned about using something that allows an error like this.
> Don't think people use it willingly these days

I do. There isn't a viable competitor to productivity tools like Office 365 (and no, LibreOffice and Thunderbird, while decent, do not cut it), ease of gaming (I'd rather play games natively, than fiddle with Wine), HiDPI support, PowerShell, Visual Studio (sue me: it's better than gcc + painful array of binutils + perf), etc.

Maybe it's Stockholm syndrome, but I have Arch installed too (on its own dedicated drive to boot), and I use it a lot less than I do Platform™.
Depends on the definition. In my mind, a system that can write code, poetry, and suggest a recipe based on a list of ingredients has a form of “general” intelligence. So by that measure we are there.

If we’re talking about something like agency or free will, that’s trickier.

The problem in this space is people use terms that nobody agrees on.
Only if it can choose arbitrary particles to let through a gate or reject.

Pulsing is just standing still, but with a bit extra flair.
Migrated from Auth0 to Firebase because it was 2 orders of magnitude cheaper.

After explaining that we didn't need any fancy features, just OIDC+SAML sign-in they proposed a number that was a little over $1/user/month ($30,000 a year for 2500 seats). This was after multiple rounds of back-and-forth, sitting through custom decks and sales pitches around "you aren't paying for SSO, you are paying for an increase in conversion and revenue".

Firebase is self serve for ... $0.015/user/month (or $450/year for the same 2500 seats)

https://cloud.google.com/identity-platform/pricing

https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth
Hmmm it's just a Python/selenium bot... I think selenium runs on a given local-loopback:port, but I don't think it uses apache though?
The 5g modem itself is expensive due to (I assume) licensing. Just look at the difference between a 5g iPad or not: $200 and the watch which is $100.

It's not just the part itself but its context. You are asking for engineering to spend time figuring out how to integrate that into a current (potentially hyper-optimized) design, supply chain management, lawers, etc.

Additionally, in terms of alternatives, phones almost universally tether, you can buy specific 5g devices that you can fit in your palm.

You can buy a phone battery for $30 and run your phone all day no matter how hot you are running your phone.

It's expensive and complex to implement and there are plenty of good enough easily attainable alternatives, I'm not sure why a company would implement a niche product like that.
> I'm just so surprised by how bad politics has become in the USA. It's like they want to have charia law... or Christian law as it were.

The USA are diverse and laws greatly vary from state to state. Talking about "US politics" when a single state does something is absurd.

Furthermore, many European countries like France are about do the same thing with online porn, no later than this year, are you also going to accuse France of wanting to have "charia law"? That's preposterous. France couldn't be further from a very religious country.

I'm not saying these kind of laws are efficient at stopping minors from watching online porn, I'm just saying that your characterization of USA as a country is wrong.
There’s an iPhone app called Is It Snappy that records in slow motion and makes it pretty easy. I think the camera maxes out at 240 fps so it’s not perfect but it lets you measure true end-to-end latency.
Thank you for the correction then. Ah yes the soldered LPDDR4 dies allow higher bandwiths since more pins allow parallel access.
I'm generally pro-migration but in Murdoch's case I don't think it worked out well for his new neighbors.
Wow. Read a book, yo.