skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some have superior privacy, others have worse.

Everything worth speaking of has better performance, better Android app et al.

Mozilla are a shadow of their former selves, as is Firefox. The browser wars are over, they aren't a sexy thing, most people prefer apps for their centralized services instead. There's not much money to be made in being a second-rate browser whose users choose it because "it's better than using Google because it isn't Google derp", meanwhile Google are responsible for the majority of its revenue with the search partnership. It's lip service. Google pays them money so they appear to have less of a monopoly on browsers, Mozilla takes the cash, telling the public they deeply care about making a good browser and care about privacy and related digital issues like intellectual property—whilst delivering jackshit of actual meaningful substance.

AI is the next war. Is Google even prepared for the impact it'll have on search and their advertising model? Will AI make browsers and traditional search irrelevant for most consumers? Apps and centralization already put a pretty big dent in it.
A high PPI is great for text work, 220 is close to print quality, if it weren’t for the backlight it would look like paper.

One reason I WFH is that it’s the only way I can use a decent monitor at work (outside of the laptop one).
If you like Tigran, it might be worth checking out Hiromi. She's a jazz pianist with a similar kind-of chaotic energy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr98Qt99mN0
Finding a hash pre-image is kind of an artificial problem, because hash algorithms are specificly chosen to make that hard.

I would assume those things are not np-complete and just np.
Can always play craftsman or artist to make something custom
Typescript's type system is vastly different from Javas, and if you're using it that way you're missing most of the good parts.

The great thing is it's powerful enough that you don't lose JS's dynamic features, but your code becomes much more self documenting and clearer, and your IDE has a much better idea how to support you. I would never go back to vanilla JS, typescript saves me way too much time and from too many headaches.
I asked for it backwards too, at level 3. It gave me the wrong answer twice, but the second one looked enough like an backwards English word that I was able to deduce the password correctly from it.
Not a fan, for one reason in particular: they allow URL imports[0]. It's a massive uptime and security flaw in my opinion that was added because someone asked for it. It's been asked for on the Node repository as well where it's received mixed feedback (namely, negative feedback from several core contributors) due to it being, well... a dumb idea.

I've never seen the need for Deno. Every library I've written that has more than a few hundred users has inevitably been spammed about "Deno support when?" which also turned me off from it.

[0] https://deno.com/manual@v1.0.0/linking_to_external_code
She's NBCU's advertising bigwig, which is separate from the editorial department.
I recall Google briefly supporting using ChromeOS as a Chromecast "target" but only for specially blessed "education" Chromebooks.

Chromecast seems pretty locked down but it would be really freaking cool to retrofit old devices (or something like a raspi) into a Chromecast simply by installing an app.
That would be a trivia to have to know, otherwise it just looks like a mess of arbitrarily chosen letters. The binary patterns shown on the chosen letters do not match the actual binary patterns those letters represent. And then you don't try to do the same with 0 to 9 which makes the whole effort half-baked.
Hah don’t most people get the hint from their body by their 30s anyway? I don’t know anyone who still drinks heavily and I knew some very heavy drinkers in their 20s
I derive these comments from the introduction by Stefan Collini (a lit professor) in the Cambridge UP edition of "The Two Cultures". (https://www.amazon.com/Two-Cultures-Canto-Classics/dp/110760...)

Snow had a PhD in chemistry, but dropped out of science early on to write popular novels and to become a very successful bureaucrat. He had originally intended to call this lecture "The Rich and the Poor", because he was arguing about who was best qualified to govern society and solve the problems of the Third World.

The gist of the speech is that the traditional elites of society are not competent to govern because all they know about is the classics. He thinks only a scientific background can create a wise leader. If only a large enough percentage of the population would get a technical education, then society would become rational.

His position was extremely naive and never seriously accepted as he put it. The subsequent use of the term "two cultures" to mean a disjunction of the humanistic and scientific approaches to knowledge is not quite what he meant. He was railing against traditionalism and venting a deep animosity toward England's literary society.

A quote from William James:

Of all the insufficient authorities as to the total nature of reality, give me the "scientists" . . . Their interests are most incomplete and their professional conceit and bigotry immense. I know of no narrower sect or club, in spite of their excellent authority in the line of fact they have explored, and their splendid achievements there.
Those algorithms tend to be "people who liked X also liked Y", which is very prone to false positives for people who don't fit conventional stereotypes.

For example, someone who watches the Forgotten Weapons channel on Youtube might get recommended far-right conspiracy videos, because people who like guns often like far-right politics. They might also get recommended Scott Manley and Greg's Airplanes and Automobiles because all three have deep dives into interesting historical technology.

Ideally, there would be more manual knobs for communicating one's preferences about such things to recommendation algorithms.
We can’t do this without also fixing the filibuster. As it stands, almost nothing can be passed with legislation, even if you have a significant majority.
Super glad to see this!

Given how simple, trustable, and verifiable it is for the browser to simply enforce the user's 'privacy' preferences by means of dropping unwanted cookies on the ground as soon as the user leaves the site, I am irritated that this wasn't the solution arrived upon many years ago instead of the asinine "This site uses cookies, allow?" warnings that GDPR and CCPA brought upon us. Those, by contrast, are (allegedly) trying to solve a problem inside the website context itself, despite the fact that the APIs they need to use for actually managing cookies are archaic and limited, and also despite the fact that they actually have to remember you to remember your so-called "cookie preferences."

A cookie shouldn't be mentally-modeled like a tattoo, it should be modeled like a leaflet you're handed on the street. You can ignore it, or you can pretend to take it and dispose of it immediately or as soon as you leave. This is the way it should be.
AI Artists don’t want to ape existing art, want to create something new
Appreciate the thoughtfulness. I believe the branching factor of even wide keyed tables don’t add significant cost to point lookups. At most one or two extra disk pages needing to be read.

Example: 80 bytes keys gives you branching factor of roughly 100. 10M rows and you can pack say 20 rows per page. That’s a 4GB table, give or take. That btree still only has 3 intermediate layers and primary data on a 4th layer. (Calculation is log(10M/20/0.75)/log(100)+1.) The first two layers take up less than a megabyte of ram and are therefore easily cached. So you wind up only needing 2 disk reads for the final two layers. Unless Postgres is caching the entire index for point lookups, it should come out about even.

Can’t find any resource saying that btree height exceeds 5, so I’m thinking it’s at worst 2x the (very small) disk read cost vs Postgres.
There are lots of free circuit simulators right now that you can use on PC or mobile devices as native app or in the web browser. Some even have animations of voltage and current movement.
> ...the last damn thing I want to think about while I'm flying is flirting with the dude crammed in the seat next to me...

...which is your prerogative and another data point to go with the data point in the original article. As a single guy I've personally been lucky enough to be on the receiving end of an in-flight flirtation; not everyone hates flying.

I wasn't wearing a blazer though.
It honestly looks like "we just keep asking for more for less and people keep paying that"
> You may recall that constructing an intersection automaton involves a cross product of NFAs

I'm not sure what you mean by "cross product" here, but there's nothing multiplicative involved. You just run both NFAs simultaneously. This gives you a number of states to track equal to the sum, not the product, of the two NFAs being intersected.
Are you implying that Anne Other = Ann Shulgin?
Haha, I came to the same conclusion. Let's be buds.
That's pretty brilliant. The imgur links were very important to understanding, so thanks for including them!
Information about Rational System's 286 extender seems to be limited.

What I found: Rational System were later renamed to Tenberry and their DOS/4G and DOS/4GW extenders were very popular (due to the latter being bundled with Waycom C). But they were for the 386.

The version that worked on the 286 was called DOS/16M, because it supported 16MB of address space. Someone summarises the API here [1]. I was kind of hoping someone might have uploaded the manual to archive.org, but no luck.

[1] https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.ibm.pc/c/zkgdj84bRkE/m/...

Apparently it was called DOS/16M and the company was later renamed to
I hadn't heard for this but this sounds very similar to the definition of polynomial hierarchy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomial_hierarchy

What has fascinated me (if I'm not mistaken) when I was learning about computational complexity was that P=NP implies that the polynomial hierarchy (so this infinite classes of problem) collapses to P, so all problems in the polynomial hierarchy are solvable in polynomial time.
A weirder possible instance here of... What's the word for it even? There's 195 nations and one nation making a random law of decision can prod everyone.

It's both unrelated but adjacent that The Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace kind of highlights the insubstantiality of this paradigm of respecting all regimes. It's just not always going to work. I wasnt existing this twist on MS/Activision, that we might just ignore a sovereign power, and I'm not sure I disagree with the power on this one, but I think these tensions of trying to let all the laws happen is a shit show, is broken, is trash, and this is a potential low-key but interesting early-indicator.
I have been plagued by issue after issue with getting my prescription filled correctly (dosage, timing, and shortages). I would prefer to come off of it completely, but my doctor has even managed to make that difficult.

Any tips for just going cold turkey? I can't wait any longer for my psychiatrist to prescribe an alternative.
No, I can't name a single Android tablet worth buying. It makes no sense to buy one over an iPad, even if you have no other Apple products.
My Interview on the Joe RoganOID Experiments
gorsuch is complaining that if california restricts its in-state sales based on xyz, then firms everywhere will optimize in ways influenced by requirements xyz. with california being quite a lucrative market, its requirements will thus have influence over producers everywhere if they intend to sell to california. presumably if it were a more inconsequential state setting some requirements, then gorsuch wouldn't have so much of a problem and might go along. roberts points out that this is against the spirit of states having equal sovereignty. in other words, you can't let wyoming set requirements abc because who cares about that market, and then turn around and tell california "you're too big to set requirements xyz" and have that seen as fair.
I feel like knowing the rough plot of hamlet is about equivalent of knowing roughly what the idea of newton's law of gravity is.
If it's as accurate as it is for coding good luck with mustard gasing yourself.
Don't forget National Wilderness, which is run by all of them, BLM and US Fish & Wildlife, included.
Sorry to hear about that - do you have someone you can talk to?
I just take it in to the store, go get something to eat, then pick it up again.
Does anyone have recommendations for a cheap rack mount setup of power supplies, testing equipment etc?

We have a 1/3 height wheely rack in the office that can be wheeled over to someone’s workspace, and it would be more convenient than setting up a dedicated station.
unfortunately, this just happens. I trust let baby watch YouTube from the fist of their is not a good idea, too. but we are here.
I was stuck on level 4 for a while; even when I thought I was sidestepping its restrictions, it seemed to understand what I was asking for and blocked it. The trick I used to pass level 4 managed, I think, to bypass its direct instructions, but at level 5 the bot's "GPT friend" seems to translate what I'm asking for into something truly semantic, and block it, so now I'm a lot more stumped. I'll have to percolate on this for a bit. :)
If there's enough fine print to require 3+ hours of reading for someone with high-schools level comprehension... then it can easily hide exploitive terms.

For seniors with dwindling mental capacity the situation is even more dire.
Do you care to share what those details are, or shall we all just read the 38 page PDF?
Drug manufacturing is a solved problem. There are no drug shortages, only pharma FUD.
Graphics effects.
Locally hosted instances that don't report on prompts is important for personal privacy.
Building a workshop in an SF rental studio, http://dammitcoetzee.com/2019/01/a-workshop-in-an-sf-studio/

“I should just build a floor on my floor!” I joked to my friend. “Yea, I could just put some plywood on top of the carpet. Then it would be safe from metal shavings and other workshop mess.”

We laughed at the ridiculous idea.

However, my subconscious wasn’t laughing. “build a floor on my floor…. build a floor on my floor” it echoed in the depths. It waited.
This sounds awesome!

> it did come with a pay cut

> a quarter of the responsibilities […] and I write my own schedule […] it shortened my commute

You should factor that into the pay calculation. It’s possible you didn’t get paid less per time-effort.
>or “white trash” which could both be a slur and the title of an edgy Vice documentary

It's only not considered a slur in the second case because Vice has money, you and your friends and powerful people like Vice, and the "white trash" don't reflexively assault you like beasts when they hear the words uttered. The meaning is understood and remembered regardless.
Not cold turkey, but if you can, taper off it. Then just be prepared to deal with groggy, slow, angry mood for three weeks.
If you haven't understood (or even read) what they are telling you to sign you shouldn't sign. What you can't do is sign and then complain about what you signed. That's ridiculous, and the courts agree.
Am I missing something here? Postgres does allow you to choose character collation when creating a database, as well as when creating new columns.
Both are equally patronizing to me
Dude what? You personally have effectively zero control of pricing other than deciding what to buy from a small group of planners

Those planners are called “buyers” and they choose the products that live on the shelves and in online shops.

They don’t put anything for sale on your behalf, everything everywhere all the time is meant to push you into making a purchasing decision that is marginally related to your personal best interest.

Nobody asked for a Dorito taco yet these companies successfully have slowly propagandized millions of people into thinking that this collection of sugar fat and starch at massive scale is a good decision for society and we just sit back and pretend like people are evaluating these products equivalently with their best substitute.
> "Propublica reveals homeowners with advanced dementia who signed their shaky signatures to transfer their homes for a fraction of their market value. They show how Homevestor targets neighborhoods struck by hurricanes, or whose owners are recently divorced, or sick. One whistleblower tells of how the company uses the surveillance advertising industry to locate elderly people who've broken a hip: "a 60-day countdown to death — and, possibly, a deal.""

Indeed, they entered into the contract of their own volition.
It's not really a tight coupling at all in VSCode's case. Open your folder, let it generate a small launch.json in a hidden dot directory, and that's basically all there is to it. It's not like some heavy Java/C++ kind of thing where you need some massively complicated build system and project file.
You'd get my vote.
https://www.nps.gov/blri/planyourvisit/np-versus-nf.htm#:~:t....

"National parks focus on protecting natural and historic resources "unimpaired for future generations." Park rangers work for the National Park Service (NPS) under the Department of Interior.

National forests, on the other hand, emphasize not only resource preservation, but other kinds of use as well."
There are other ways of using the model other than iterative forward inference (completions). You could run the model over your novel (perhaps including a preface) and look at the posterior distribution as it scans. This may not be so meaningful at the level of the token distribution, but there may be interesting ways of “spell checking” at a semantic level level. Think a thesaurus but operating at the level of whole paragraphs.
You're only talking about DNS. I'm talking about the layer above that, at the domain name registry, which is the authoritative source that feeds into DNS. The domain registry is typically implemented as a separate database distinct from DNS. The nameservers at the registry level are updated by registrars through a protocol called EPP (see RFCs 5730-5734). This is what then feeds into DNS. When you're debugging registry-level issues, e.g. maybe the registry isn't syncing to its DNS system correctly, you need to figure out what the registry thinks the name servers for a domain should be, and you do that through WHOIS (or soon, RDAP). Unlike DNS, these systems talk directly to the registry and let you know what the registry's view of the world is.

A domain that doesn't have any name servers configured on it cannot serve any content, and you can spin your wheels for a very long time if you're only playing around in DNS land. You'll see that there are no DNS entries being served up for the domain name at all but you won't know why, or how to actually fix it. You need to query the registry to find the root of the problem and realize that you need to set the name servers at the registry level (which as an end user you would have to do through your registrar, but which I as a registry operator can bypass).

Also, and I can't speak for other registry operators, but when you query us directly, you get a live view of the data, that is almost always real-time, but in the event of high load for WHOIS queries on that specific domain, might be served out of cache that persists for up to one minute. Point is it's more likely to be accurate at the present time than anything in DNS, which has more caching layers that last longer.
GitHub, Microsoft, OpenAI fail to wriggle out of Copilot copyright lawsuit
I held on for a long time, and still have a lot of lock-in to unwind. Switching costs are pretty high, even for individuals.

I won't be putting all my chips on Apple either. I have a mix of file storage options, password managers, Linux laptops, 'hub' devices, and so on.
What about non-stimulant drugs? Are they as difficult to get? I'm bipolar, so stimulant drugs are not a great idea for me, but I'd still like to get some help. My experience has shown it's not something I can meditate/diet/exercise my way out of.
Many of these people have dementia. It's not a fair negotiation.
Oh yes that looks very unfriendly for lefties
> It is easier, less stressful and arguably more dignified buy illegal drugs on the black market.

LOL I can only dream of ordering my meds to my door from a site that looks like Amazon.
I have an Intel MacBook. It does pale in comparison to the M-series.
I bought it from eBay as “used, like new” and bought the memory and nvme myself for the best deals I could find (they’re cheap these days)
Contracts signed by mentally incompetent people are generally invalid. So this article isn't about that. Therefore, when the article says the courts accept the contracts as valid they can't be talking about the contracts signed by the infirm, but the article conflates both things maliciously.
MySQL is certainly faster for writes.

https://www.uber.com/blog/postgres-to-mysql-migration/
Does anyone else think it's a weird decision to force people to sign in to their google accounts before viewing the google store?
Considering "Considered Harmful" Essays Harmful Considered Harmful.

I actually think I could write a LISP out of this.
Can the iPad do background sync of third-party file storage services like Nextcloud without having the app open in the first place yet?

iOS only just got push notifications for PWAs too.

Can't yet sideload on an iPad and are at the mercy of the App Store and the devs keeping up their subscription to keep niche apps up.
Good quality, 30" wide wire shelving on wheels can support the weight of a small (e.g. 12U) rack loaded with equipment. For cost savings, you can use an open rackmount frame instead of an enclosed rack. Additional wire shelves can be used as needed for containers.

Example baker's rack, https://www.amazon.com/Whitmor-Supreme-Kitchen-Microwave-Chr...
Which competitors are worthy of our time, in your view?
[it's Ruby Tui, the New Zealand Rugby Union player, grid of photos heading]
As much as I hate to say it -- I really think there is no room for the white house to negotiate on this. The reality is, appeasing the terroristic political element here only perpetuates a deeply corrupted "budgeting" process -- one that is entirely political and not remotely related to any form of rational governance. The long term effects of continuing to gift the terrorists in this way (like those that manifested under Obama as decades long sequestration) are ultimately worse than the incredibly dumb and incredibly avoidable consequences that will come from a default.

After the negative consequences of default manifest -- the one thing we can know with certainty is that there will be a powerful consensus around not allowing this effect to manifest again. The damage of the idiocy will ultimately be worth it to avoid continuing this tragic hostage taking drama forever...

The move here is to steal yourself that you _will_ allow default and say "the united states does not negotiate with terrorists" -- and admit absolutely no discussions about anything other than resolving the debt limit without any strings attached.
Absolutely Posgtres!!! Yesterday I had to migrate from postgres to mysql and I found some disadvantage things about mysql in my use case

There is no returning for insert/update/delete what forces me do a second query to get new data. Why dont just return what I have updated? Because it is some thing like: UPDATE wallets SET balance = balance + 1

I have to give up json function because its hard to work with it on mysql. Have to do the aggregation in my code instead

No uuid v4 support by default
Also the Nothing Ear (1). I don’t know if they’ve designed their phone too, but it at least follows their design language.
I’ve never seen rack mount kits for that equipment. Best bet would be to buy some rack shelves and affix standard equipment to it. Get a little horizontal PDU or 2 for the back side and you’re made.