skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [...] since IVF clinics produce a big surplus of inseminated eggs. Every couple might kill multiple "babies" instead of just one.

True, but at least they do so unintentionally and in the pursuit of creating life. It's still kinda bad, especially if the woman needs IVF because she put off her motherly duties for so long she can't concieve naturally.

A woman getting an abortion is doing so intentionally and in the pursuit of her own convenience. In my opinion that should be criminal negligence, so I call it murder. That's not a misrepresentation of my position, that's what I actually believe. I know current laws disagree. That doesn't affect my position. Laws have been so very very wrong before, too.

So we agree that things that aren't persons can be vulnerable, but we disagree on the degree of vulnerability. Is my understanding correct that in your opinion a human being with a functioning brain is by definition more vulnerable than any other kind of life? So you equate vulnerability with degree of consciousness, presumably due to its ability to comprehend pain and injustice?
Recently like in the past 30 years or so? It has certainly been common practice for at least that long.

I have vague recollections of our farm still pulling whites in the early-to-mid 80s, so perhaps not that far back. But that may have simply been a product of our farm being hesitant to try new things, which wouldn't be out of the ordinary. Unfortunately, I was a bit too young at that time to understand the motivation.
Hunting Russian Intelligence “Snake” Malware [pdf]
Have you read the details of the judgment? Most of the dark patterns Epic used aren't possible on iOS. In fact, the reason they hate Apple's walled garden so much is because they add too much friction to the dark patterns they want to use, notably authentication for subsequent in-app purchases, so I don't know what exploitation profiting you're referring to. Apple protects consumers from shitty companies like Epic abusing consumers (in this case, children) and for that I thank them.
Maybe its just not worth it. Lots of people enjoy it, good for them. It doesn't mean everyone will enjoy it or benefit from it. Some people like skinny dipping in the middle of Winter - I dont do that either.
If your only metric is "worth in the world" then you are already playing a losing game my dear.
Facebook flew me over from Australia to interview a decade or so ago, back when they seemed untouchable as a product. I told one of my housemates that I was interviewing with them and she fired up, angrily telling me that I needed to go over there and tell them to stop changing things. Her experience of using Facebook was basically that she’d just figure out where the button for something was, and then they would redesign it for seemingly no reason and she couldn’t find anything again. I asked her a bunch of questions (since this is great stuff to talk about in interviews). I hadn’t appreciated how upsetting redesigns are to people who just want to use the software.

But you also need to make your software good for you as a programmer too. As programmers we’re like builders. What we build today becomes our workspace tomorrow. Leaving a codebase neat and tidy makes it easier to spot bugs and make changes down the road. You can overdo it, but spending 20 minutes adding unit tests today could save you a week of debugging 6 months down the line.
If all you get from the cop is a summons, it's not a crime but more akin to a civil infraction.
Nah I am just a tiny bit irritated that I need to change my email provider. Google is useless anyways for everything else.
Example 1000 of his disingenuous, bad faith behavior
Well, no. I was a NetBSD user until 2001, when I switched to Linux. I've never used Windows except when required by my employers. I was curious if Microsoft would let you pay to avoid ads.
Yikes. That's way beyond the pale and not at all ok to post here, so please don't.

More generally, can you please not post flamebait to HN? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Yeah absolutely. Perhaps you could suggest it, they seem to be responsive on the whole!
The dollar is also backed by everyone already having infrastructure set up to accept USD, and both the people to buy from, and the people to sell to already having USD, or wanting to get USD.
I would add what it is very rare to have 100MiB+ writes to a log file and anything less would be concurrent with the other operations, which would make 'sequential' here a moot point.

> At base, most logfile output is a read-modify-write

It's worse, actually, as you never can tell if this would be RMW to the same block or to the other free block. In the former you waste the writes for the whole blocks. In the latter you can hit a write amplification despite never have been writing any meaningful amount of data.
I've recently pivoted from blogging (which I did on and off since 2006) to digital gardening. The latter is more focused on a network/graph of interconnected nodes with backlinks. The idea is that you don't have to write one big reverse chronological list of "finished posts", but rather can have a sprawling network of ideas that loosely relate.

I started it last November and haven't kept up with it as much as I thought I would, sadly. This page outlines some of the sources I read to inspire the creation of it and some of the principles I'm trying to follow: https://garden.travisbriggs.com/garden/digital-gardening-pri...
The future of tech is invisible
The technology of the future cannot be a barrier between the user and the experience.
> with its local oscillator emissions to be down to an arbitrarily low emission standard. (But who actually does that?)

Better testing to compliance standards has pushed LOs down way lower than they were in the 40s-60s. We have relatively cheap high quality spectrum analyzers and big integrated measurements. So-- kinda everyone pushes things down pretty low now.

> My point was merely that with an average radio, which was designed to just not be harmfully interfering, such as typical satellite TV receiver?

Yah-- this LNB looks just like a satellite TV receiver, with the exact same LO frequency. So your rogue downlink looks exactly like something that there's hundreds of innocent versions around.

Then a SDR inside your house chooses a different signal from the transponder and gets the data.
You're proposing that statistics is intelligent?
Down the grapevine (this is the internet so take with a massive grain of salt - I trust my source but you shouldn't trust me or any other anonymous commentator) I heard from Hill adjacent friends that there was some tussle between the upper level Army generals and upper level PTI members surrounding normalizing relations with India following the 2018-19 crisis. Higher ups in the Army wanted to normalize relations as a legacy making project, but certain political actors felt it would be electoral suicide for them if that happened.
I'm actually okay with parents letting kids communicate with strangers in games so long as it isn't unsupervised. I've known parents who'd play with their kids in MMORPGs without much issue. They might get exposed to some 'adult content', but as long as a responsible adult is around to contextualize provide guidance and stop things before they progress into something harmful it can be good.

I agree, canned responses are ideal if the play has to be unsupervised. Friend codes were frustrating though and a ton of people just posted them online where strangers could see them anyway.
> In poor conditions, most any car driver would logically think the rider is travelling away from them.

I usually can't ride backward fast enough for that to happen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift
IIRC, Excel implemented the 1-2-3 keyboard menu for a time. The Windows port of 1-2-3 certainly did.
Davinci Resolve just treats photos as another source media. When added to a timeline, the photo got repeated as a still image throughout the timeline. You can apply color and filter transformation to the timeline as usual. Export a frame from the timeline as image at the end for output.

See this for working on photos, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHhklKCBC0s
Because it's prone to easily being made fun of by people such as yourself who, rather than make a good faith effort to understand what the other party was trying to communicate, choose to intentionally take a ridiculous interpretation because it allows them to lampoon what was written.

I was not trying to say chatgpt is actually like a rock. But you knew that already - you just chose to ignore it in order to get the epic dunk.
Ask SBF this: what happens if the prosecution is the same and they get a conviction. Now what?
Maybe Venezuela could be cut some slack, but those other 4 are definitely not poster childs of human rights or liberal societies that we should support.
It was actually on-topic. I guess not many people got the joke, or maybe some found it offensive (was it?) but it was actually relevant to the topic, if only a bit tangentially.
I had to condole a friend’s widow in San Francisco and I did not have time to make it to that neighborhood but next time.
I’m not going to convince anyone by pulling a couple references from PubMed. I only suggest you do your own research on extreme sports - and yes, ruining 26 miles nonstop counts as extreme - and come to your own conclusions. If you’re marathoner, I also invite you to investigate the importance of muscle mass in overall health, particularly as one ages. Muscle has a host oh health benefits, even though an extra 20 lbs of upper body muscle mass will kill your long distance running times.
I don't understand the use of "ruined" in the NYT headline. I guess they don't understand that this is a very young star, and it's likely that our own sun had similar rings before they coalesced into planets.
In theory sure, but practically, it won’t. Even in the US, only 15% of households have any backup at all [1]. That number it drops even more in the rest of the world. And to add to it, just having a backup isn’t enough if the outage is sustained for a longer period of time.

For the rest of the world, especially countries like Pakistan, solar power or a battery backup is out of reach for the majority of the population, so they won’t work.

[1] https://electrek.co/2022/09/29/american-power-outages/
> I suppose the heterodyne frequently (the 465 kHz of AM, for instance) can be effectively hidden. Put your whole receiver into a metal enclosure, have a high-pass filter before the antenna connector, and a low-pass filter before the outputs and power connectors.

Yes-- and every piece you mention is "quality radio design 101".

> Such a device would likely look peculiar enough to be easily recognizable

I'm not sure about that.

The biggest most suspicious thing is, if they're resourced to investigate everyone with a piece of coax going outside-- where does yours plug into?

Of course, if you're really dedicated-- get a satellite TV receiver, empty out the nice metal box, put the receiver inside ;).
Are the abortion protestors blocking access to the clinic? That's not the sentiment I got. They don't interfere with anyone's right to abortion, they are expressing their dissent about it (presumably on grounds of a child's right to be born).
Experiences Won't Make You Happier Than Possessions
Faster, yes. But not all of the things modern software does is pointless overhead. For anything networked, modern crypto is a must have if you’re going to interoperate with other devices. And I wouldn’t trust a windows 95 virtual machine connected directly to my corporate network.
This has to be reckoned with. Downvotes expose some kind of twisted biased I’d be curious to learn more about.
You missed implied '/s'.
> Has the line between mention and promotion been tested?

Wikipedia lists some specific cases with regard to symbols where it has, but more generally its pretty clear that Germany has not made any effort to prohibit mention of Nazis [0], even while they prohibit Nazi (and other “unconstitutional and terrorist group”) propaganda.

[0] e.g., https://bergen-belsen.stiftung-ng.de/en/history/
Probably a reference to angry conspiracy theorists on social media who lack genuine curiosity and instead jump to conclusions and go on the attack.
I'm worried I'll have to :/
Many bigots have jobs and produce economic value. Each bigot has a mother who loves them. Many bigots have children they sacrifice for and protect.

But most importantly, bigots can be redeemed. If you violently remove someone, they lose the potential for redemption.

That’s my general response to “what value do bigots have.”

But what about bigots who brought about exceptional change in the world. If they had been removed, violently, the world would be worse off. Karl Marx was a bigot, anti-Semite and Mark Twain too. Malcolm X was a bigot and furthered civil rights. LBJ was a bigot who passed the civil rights act. Lincoln was a bigot that ended slavery.

Bigotry is bad, but it’s not someone’s defining characteristic. We want to end bigotry and help people commit less bigotry.
Oh don't be too hard on yourself for polluting rankings, search engines are supposed to be good enough to not recommend someone's personal blog if it's irrelevant to their search. Assuming this is the catalyst for trying to avoid search.

I empathize with feeling as if your content is useless to others, but you really can't know what people are going to internalize from your writing. A post about someone you met could feel too mundane for you, but to someone else could be the very reason they make an important decision in life. You really can't ever know what someone else internalizes about it (unless they tell you about it!) so don't let that reason stop you or make you feel like you're polluting anything, you're doing the opposite of polluting rankings!
Bite Size Linux
No, they're not, and I just showed you why. Epic is a scummy company that employs dark patterns to extract as much money as possible from easily manipulated consumers and Apple kneecaps those strategies on iOS by having control. If Epic got their way, this is what you would have to deal with on iOS too.
> So the army is having to resort to increasingly contrived methods to keep Imran under control.

They tried to assassinate him and got very close to it.
There is no unstoppable tech, it's usually 100x cheaper to destroy than to build (a defining trait of our ever changing universe).

That said, I find FreakWAN [1] (from the creator of Redis) a very interesting low-cost, low-powered communication protocol that can go VERY far[2]

[1] https://github.com/antirez/freakwan

[2] https://twitter.com/antirez/status/1632664864538738688
Xerox Ventura Publisher was popular before the 90's and ran on the GEM graphical desktop from Digital Research (the CP/M people). It was introduced in 1986.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corel_Ventura

Aldus PageMaker also had a very early Windows Port (1987).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_PageMaker

One easy way to transfer files between early Macs & PCs was a null modem cable and terminal software that implemented Xmodem. Very long ago, I once pulled a DBase2 database off a CP/M system with 8" diskettes over a null modem cable by printing it to the serial port, and then I captured the output on a PC with Procomm.

There was a later "Laplink" program with a cable for parallel printer ports that ran faster than the 115kb max of the serial port.
Enterprise features. Want to grant edit access to an online document for specific authenticated viewers using a particular matrix of browser and OS? Click share, edit permissions, send. Want to see if someone is on vacation? Put their name into the "To:" list, it'll show you their current OOO message so you can skip composing the mail. Want to grant read-only access to a particular group of users from a particular part of an AD forest to a specific shared mailbox? Couple clicks and you're done. OIDC auth with MFA so users can use a 3rd party service to index and access mail and files? Click, click, click.
I learned a great deal from Eli’s blog over the years — one of the most consistent and high quality technical blogs out there!
Can't reply to the child comment, but...

I only found one article about this from back in 2008. It was definitely a thing back then, I just can't find it....
But indeed likely second fiddle to the gpu issues around the same time, I totally forgot about that.
> 0 and -0 being distinct values is honestly just an accident of convenience with how floats are stored

That's not at all true. The inclusion of negative zero in ieee 754 was a deliberate design choice, and if it were considered desirable that zero should be unsigned, then the bit pattern assigned to -0 would not have been so assigned. See 'much ado about nothing's sign bit'[0], by one of the principal authors of ieee 754.

Whereas -0 and +0 are not operationally equivalent, operational equivalence is an important and useful relation; see the very pattern matching example linked from the OP[1].

0. https://people.freebsd.org/~das/kahan86branch.pdf

1. https://erlangforums.com/t/total-term-order/2477/41
Sorta unrelated but I wanted to join in on everyone reflecting on their athletic careers:

I worked at a mid-tier consulting firm as my first job and had an incredible work-life balance. I ran 3-4 times a week and cycled twice a week. I got into triathlons and even completed a 24hr obstacle race challenge where you had to complete a 11km course with ~40 obstacles as many times as possible in 24 hours. I completed it 8 times. I was fit.

A few years later I moved into a top-tier consulting firm and my work-life balance evaporated. (I also picked up a girlfriend along the way.) I'm lucky to get one gym session and one run in a week. I participate in probably only 1 or 2 races a year (instead of the usual 5-7 before I joined). I'm miserable. I only realised in the last few months how important training and being fit is to my identity and that even being successful in a "prestigious" consulting firm is an insufficient salve for the wound. Especially since my "peak" probably lies somewhere in my mid-30s, which are only a few years away for me, I really want to pick up where I left off. I can't wait to find another job now and find that part of myself again.
So, in Erlang it will be the case that:

+0.0 == -0.0 is true, I guess because they are very close

+0.0 =:= -0.0 is false, I guess because they have different bits

A =:= B for two different numbers of course, because they have different bits

How does == work for other very close floating point values in Erlang? Is there some inconsistency here?
The ongoing defence of front end as a full-time job
What does Crystal's IO stream support provide that Ruby's does not? Both expose very similar IO stream interfaces from my experience.
I don't know if it's necessarily the activity as much as the adherence to the same route that feels sad. At the same time, it's not that I feel sad for the guy, but I think it would drive me nuts if I did that. Reading about Emmanuel Kant's daily walking routine makes me feel a little bit of despair in my soul, even though I understand he probably had a much deeper internal experience going on than I can relate to.
All the articles seem paywalled or stubs pointing to articles on other sources. Do you have any readable examples?
I know you joke but the email client I use on my phone announced just such a feature a little while ago:

https://bluemail.me/features-functions/generative-email/
Does anyone have experience with Syncthing in high-latency connection scenarios, for example across continents? I need to bring and keep up to date tens of TBs between a couple of servers very far apart (~200ms ping). Almost everything I've tried transfers at a fraction of the speeds possible. The exception is Rclone where I'm able to properly saturate the connection.
> The problem is when we start creating stories that place groups of people as perpetual victims, or they play that role themselves.

Recognize imperial powers’ blame for the adverse results of imperialism doesn’t do that, because blame is not exclusive.
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I expect to drop dead same as the last 5 generations of males in my family did, due to a heart attack at age 75 (Unless something else gets to me first), today we live longer, but they were far more resilient and more active
You're proposing that evolution is statistics?
Exactly this, I literally was just trying to implement a simple Elixir server that would scale pretty well. The problem is the protocol is incorrectly spec-ed, is not thought through very well, is incredibly complex and hard to explain, and reinvents the wheel in just about every way it can. This means that in languages like Elixir, which has stuff like an ActivityPub implementation, OpenAPI libraries, and JSON Schema support, you have to write everything from scratch because the user base is smaller than TypeScript / whatever they're writing their implementation in. The protocols they're layering on don't have proper implementations in Elixir, because they're hard to implement right and are annoying to deal with.
A JWT with a sid claim that RPs use to check session validity is 100% still a JWT with bearer authz claims.
You aren't. The entirety of English Wikipedia (sans history) compressed with zstd is currently ~93 Gb from https://www.kiwix.org/. If you exclude the images, it's ~13 Gb. It's a much better bang for the buck than any LLM storage-wise, and that's before we even consider the hardware requirements to actually run an LLM vs an offline wiki reader.
Source? Sounds interesting.
They were. Microsoft Outlook Web Access was exactly that, it's why Microsoft invented XHR. Google Maps later got a lot of credit for kicking off "Ajax", but OWA laid the groundwork.
> Bigotry turns into a feedback loop that finishes in violence often encoded in political systems and then you get violence + state.

I don’t think this is a causal relationship. Just think about the trillions of acts of bigotry that take place each year and how few of them result in genocide. Bigotry is bad, genocide is super duper bad. But saying one leads to the other needs to be qualified that it’s like a one in a billion chance. Equating bigotry with genocide debases the severity of genocide and is like saying unkindness leads to genocide. Or that not saying “bless you” leads to a feedback loop that ends in murder.
Musk says Twitter to soon allow calls, encrypted messaging
Not OP, but the act of writing not only solidifies knowledge, but creates it

PG has been beating that drum for a few decades, and I’ve experienced it too

And knowledge compounds — knowing stuff makes you learn faster, which can lead to new jobs, friends, projects, etc

I’ve also found it gratifying when undergrads are reading and referencing posts I wrote when they were 13 years old

There’s something very nice and human about that

Likewise I learned a ton from Joel Spolsky’s blog when I was 22
I only read a summary, but that is not how I interpreted the use of the worms. My understanding was that they were using the worms as a sort of biological measuring device to compare levels of that particular chemical. Is that not the case?
I got a discount on my telephone bill after an epic 9-hr conversation w/ their chatbot.