skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is related because your 401k is for buying labor, and if the price of labor goes up due to shifts in supply and demand, then your 401k is not going to get you as far as you thought.
This is interesting. I hope it grows in scope cuz AT&T needs to go die already.

I dont know how big Telcos havent been gobbled up by larger groups yet. They are such a slow moving gigantic revenue generating juicy targets. Big tech (advertising/media/cloud) is not big enough to do the gobbling. But big retail Walmart/Amazon are most def large enough to take out AT&T. And hope they do so cause I prefer dealing with them than the telcos.
You cannot turn this buffer off, probably because writing the stream of bytes into the eInk screen directly is a very nich use case.

Is it? IMHO that's one of the biggest advantages of EPDs like eInk --- you don't need a framebuffer, since the display itself is a "write-only memory" and only needs lines shifted into it.

On the other hand, I suspect EPD companies try to keep the low-level details (like driving waveforms) secret because that's a large part of their IP. They want to be able to sell controllers for them too.

The most unfortunate part is that line-based JPEG decoding and even downscaling is a solved problem, but the bloat of today's software and comparatively limitless computing resources seems to have lead us to forget how to write software efficiently.
Do you have that set as private?
Even logged in, I get:

Page Not Found

Make sure the address is correct and the page hasn't moved.

Please contact your GitLab administrator if you think this is a mistake.
It's been my view that everything that one chooses to write is generally chosen from the space of all other possible things that could be said. Particularly, I think making the first exposure to your article a clickbait headline says some important things about the contents of the article and the approach of the author. Those are important signals that help those with a keen eye to weed out low signal-to-noise ratio articles.

On the flip side, there seems to be a lot of noise lately and it would be nice to have a break from it, so I'd almost want to be spared from being served these articles entirely. But then that's taking editorial powers to another level.
It's definitely English (modulo several centuries of spelling and words that have fallen away). Many words are recognizable but I can't read a whole sentence either - except maybe "But myself tho me to blame". Lots of conventions have changed: you really would need to study and practice to be able to make it through this, but not to the extent of learning a whole other language from scratch.
Has NATO crossed any Russian border?

Now nearing borders appears motivated more by Russia's bullying of its neighbors than any desire within NATO to expand.

Maybe you're forgetting the protection treaty Russia signed to respect Ukraine's borders in exchange for USSR nukes.
You're not that guy is a master of the genre. I feel the same way about Cal Newport too.

You keep wanting there to be something there, but there's nothing there.
That's not true, for me at least. I use mobile browser reddit and can see comment threads just fine.
Probably NetBSD is unbreakable for them.
In exchange for...
I read that book as well when I was 20, and while it was helpful I was also surprised watching a YouTube talk by her many years later, and not finding her particularly charismatic!
People are paying 5x that much for Spotify, and they have never made a cent of profit.

If companies can be profitable with just subscriptions, they wouldn't need to sell ads. And yet the NYT, FT and WSJ blanket their subscribers with just as many ads as they do for non-subs.
Amazon's appeal is that any one of its services would be a decent price for what you get for the whole bundle. I pay $10 for my Prime membership when to get the same 4k video streaming on Netflix it is $20. With that $10 I also get free shipping and all these other features that I don't care if I use or not because just the video and shipping is a deal. If the prime price was $30 it'd be totally different math, but it's not, it's a deal any way I cut it.
So I've recently gotten super interested in the idea of building a webapp that can seamlessly interact with social network/link aggregator protocols through bridging, and I'm working one that does that with a focus more on following topics vs following people.

It's technically a nostr client, but it allows you to search for and follow posts about topics from Twitter (through Nitter RSS feeds), Mastodon (through the native Mastodon RSS feeds), Reddit (through subreddit RSS feeds), and Bluesky (through a bridged RSS feed).

This way, you can focus on following the topics you're interested in, and not have to think about what platform/protocol holds those posts.

https://agorasocial.app
> It is wrong that "{emoji}".length == 7

I get what you're intending, but it's kinda funny because that string actually is 7
What should they be using instead?
This would almost surely cannibalize big parts of existing business for whatever carrier signs on and just transfer the margins to Amazon. I'm pretty curious if Amazon really has the leverage to make that happen.
In many cases it's not very useful, but there are clearly cases where it is, e.g. if you want to normalize text, compose/change emojis, stuff like that.

A codepoint is the "smallest useful addressable unit" when dealing with Unicode text, so it makes sense that's the default.

It's also comparatively expensive to address grapheme clusters.
Base on my experience (product leadership role) when talking to customers it's most important to focus on their problems and challenges. They will obviously suggest solutions but you will want to be super careful with following these - think your Salesforce+ or the famous "faster horse".
Is there a track record for this specific organization? Or there are a lot of publicly known tech companies that have missed the big picture?
It's really up to the front office as to who gets rings and who doesn't. Not to mention, there are usually a couple of tiers of rings.

Naturally, all of the players and coaches get rings. But after that, there are various executives, owners, player personnel, etc. The "team" is more than the people on the field.
It would absolutely be worse, I can't believe I'm reading a take like this. Automating the creation of humanity could very easily be one of the biggest steps towards creating a slave class born explicitly to fulfill labor demands. Yeah, societal pressure from various angles may nudge people in that direction today, but building technology to serve this purpose explicitly is absolutely worse.
Firefox > Menu > Desktop Site
Making a Solar-Powered Billion-Year Lego Clock
ITYM Damp squib.

All squids are already damp.
Fair, if you are just pushing that we need to keep looking at the numbers and to be aware of some ways it can go bad, fine. I took the topic here to be that these studies were bad. In a known and showable way.
That other MSM is not mentioned is just showing US influence again. FWIW the EU should have banned non-personal scope MSM the moment it was introduced. Would have certainly helped against Reichsbürger and similar crackpot movements or other psychosocial oddities.
For your statement to make sense, Russia's borders would have to start at Ukraine's borders, which they do not.
I don't believe the average sacks per game has changed much. Haven't crunched all the numbers but this has sacks back to the 2003 season [0]. I generally agree though, the NFL wants a consistent and exciting product; for a while now that seems to mean high scoring, offensive games.

https://www.teamrankings.com/nfl/stat/sacks-per-game?date=20...
Theres a c compiler?? Can you share a link?
yeah I'm trying to follow the 3-2-1 idea, I have (1) a copy on the internal HD of a mac studio ultra, (2) a copy on a synology NAS ... both (1) and (2) live in the same server room. I'd like an offsite 3rd copy as well.

I had been using Arq with their paid cloud storage option, but the backup has stopped working and after 2 days of polite back and forth with their support they are now ghosting me (!) which is not a _great_ characteristic for someone selling archival cloud backup solutions.

I could of course have the Synology NAS backup/archive to one of several cloud services (AWS, Backblaze, Google, Wasabi, ...) but I would love a physical option.

For size I am dealing with something on the order of 1.5 TB currently, perhaps growing to 3-5 TB over the coming years. So perhaps too large for CDs.
Grappling with the realities of artificial intelligence in modern warfare
> While monitoring the network traffic of our own corporate Wi-Fi network using the Kaspersky Unified Monitoring and Analysis Platform (KUMA), we discovered a previously unknown mobile APT campaign targeting iOS devices.

What is APT in this context?
Maybe you missed the Ig?
It's a satirical response to a well-known prior paper critiquing Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) that essentially said "we have no evidence to support the use of parachutes, so we should re-evaluate our use of parachutes", and concluded with a suggestion that people demanding evidence for simple things should themselves participate in a randomized controlled trial of the parachute.
The parent comment says "compiler tool chain", and i understand "tooling" here as meaning that. So, compiler, linker, assembler, etc.

All the major C compilers are also C++ compilers, and none are (yet) Rust compilers, so out of the gate, C++ has similar availability to C.
I think attributing AMD's current success to any one person is an insult to all the other employees of the company.
Plotto – A new method of plot suggestion for writers of creative fiction (1928)
This labels all imperfection in reasoning "prejudice".

Seems like a biased premise.
I'm a big fan of old school forums as well, and still regularly find useful information there. I think the reason for their decline is that the single point of entry on these social sites is just too convenient to pass up. The phone gets unlocked, and one tap on the home screen pulls up all the aggregated content. Forums are separate and isolated from one another. The need to specifically navigate to one site for permaculture, and another for beer brewing is a blocker. I may not even think to do so. Open up a Reddit or Facebook app, and all the things I'm subscribed to just magically show up.

This other side of the coin to this benefit is the centralized control that we're lamenting. I'd also add that there is a real parallel to be drawn here with regard to government. Centralizing functions at the Federal level has it's benefits, but also drawbacks, in much the same way.

Maybe a partial solution in the former case could be an app or service that aggregates web based forum content?
A Housing Abundance Movement Can Help Save America's Wild Spaces
Or maybe the monitoring solution noticed the LACK of update checks from iOS devices.
Buried in the article:

> [Jensen] Huang, who is a distant relative of [Lisa] Su’s [...]

This is an excellent, Dickensian level of coincidence. And they both come on stage in leather motorcycle jackets.

May this rivalry of -- what, cousins nth removed? -- bring us great new chips.

For AMD though, the software side is going to be important. OpenCL was a total bust, Cuda is king. They need to do something about that.
The BMJ "Christmas Issue" often posts satire
Just tried a gemini from them this month, and the software support is awful. Highly recommend against
DEF CON CTF Participant received a mystery letter [thread]
Then why are they mods? They literally volunteered to do that exact thing.
Important change for the .ga TLD 6th June 2023
I suspect the real issue is people using phones while driving, I know of at least one person who is dead from this. I rear ended a car when I was in my early 20s while on the phone, I se people driving trucks in narrow streets while on the phone in my area.

I don't like enforcing things like this as a band aid, it's fine to try improve a situation, but let's be honest, many people who are involved in these accidents are doing something with their phone.
Maybe you could have bit-flip resistant assembly? I hardly know assembly so I don't know if there are opcodes 1-bit apart that could work together.
> What she's paying for is not having a baby, but reducing child and mother mortality.

True. But in fact, most of us will pay a lot for those things.
Advanced persistent threat.
I just wanted to check whether or not a beaten to death cliche was true or not.
From the comments section on Securelist page on Operation Triangulation
https://securelist.com/operation-triangulation/109842/

<extract>

> SECURELIST

> Posted on June 2, 2023. 11:10 am

> Hi Bil!

> We identified that the latest version of iOS that was targeted by Triangulation is 15.7. However, given the sophistication of the cyberespionage campaign and the complexity of analysis of iOS platform, we can’t guarantee that other versions of iOS are not affected.

</extract>
Of course they won't. For things like decision making it will eventually come for them.
We are biased , as HN users, to prefer text-based, minimal, UIs that lead to (mostly) insightful conversations. Reddit on the other hand caters to a hivemind type mentality that loves things like emojis, karma, dramatic posts, etc. The current UI definitely favours that, and I think generally teens/young adults prefer that as well
“Understood the meaning of life” != solved everyone’s problems

Did you actually feel that you had solved all major conflicts, or are you 1) parodying your own ambition of insight or 2) making the separate claim that “if the primary agents in the conflict could have the experience that I’m having, they maybe would not be so conflicted?”

(2) for example is a much, much more believable claim than “I solved all the problems” despite their superficial similarity.
At the risk that this entire paper is pseudo-profound bullshit that is duping me, it strikes me that what they found is accurate.

> Those more receptive to bullshit are less reflective, lower in cognitive ability (i.e., verbal and fluid intelligence, numeracy), are more prone to ontological confusions and conspiratorial ideation, are more likely to hold religious and paranormal beliefs, and are more likely to endorse complementary and alternative medicine.
Advanced Persistent Threat. Usually very talented and patient hackers, usually state level, so government agents are commonly called APTs..
DNA includes instructions for how to build all the machinery needed to make a copy of itself, including the surrounding cell, and RNA, and proteins, and the organism that is capable of gathering food/fuel to obtain the all the raw materials to build everything.
You'd be right. The Open Source Definition is actually a copy of the DFSG, and the DFSG was written with free software in mind.

I actually prefer the Free Software Definition though, which I find easier to digest.
Ask HN: With Reddit 3rd party apps in jeopardy, is there a feature review?
I've been hearing a lot recently about how reddit's UI is bad and the 3rd party apps are better.

I'm not disagreeing with that.

However, a lot of these comments are made as supporting points in threads focused on adjacent topics, and thus they often lack specificity.

I feel like before the 3rd party apps go away, we have an opportunity to learn some things about UX.

- What, specifically, is bad about reddit's offerings?

- What design choices are common among 3rd party apps but which differ from reddit's?

- What innovations have 3rd party apps made that were picked up by other 3rd party apps and/or reddit?

- What design considerations are under-appreciated?

Those sorts of questions.
Bringing nuance is fine, but it is also an easy stalling tactic in progress. Clear improvements in safety are shown in the studies linked here. From an organization that has shown remarkable progress in safety over the years. And has been beset with such "nuance" since the beginning.

Literally the same arguments were and are made against seat belts. Often. And is why I am not too willing to give way here.

Now, if you are just saying, "I hope they keep their eyes on the data and are willing to keep improving," great. I agree. If you are trying to angle it that this is not a safety improvement, I will loudly disagree.
This project has always fascinated me, so I tried making a tiny uroboros quine with Python -> Javascript -> Python -> etc. I started with a quine for each language, and tried inserting them into each other, but the output always grew exponentially.

py_quine_template = "s = {}; print(s.format(repr(s)))"
py_quine = py_quine_template.format(repr(py_quine_template))

js_quine_template = "s = {}; console.log(s.replace('{}', JSON.stringify(s)))"
js_quine = js_quine_template.format(repr(js_quine_template))

py_js_quine = py_quine_template.format(repr(js_quine_template))
???

So I checked how it's done in the Github repo[1], but the language snippets only seemed to be quoting and printing without any self-references like you'd expect in a quine...

Then it hit me. You only need the quine machinery in one language. If I can make a Python script that has a string with its own source code, then the Javascript code will simply be `console.log(py_source)`, no manipulation necessary.

So here's my Python/Javascript uroboros quine:

s = "s = {}\npy_source = s.format(repr(s))\nprint('console.log('+repr(py_source)+')')"
py_source = s.format(repr(s))
print('console.log('+repr(py_source)+')')

If there were more languages, then it'd be `console.log("System.out.println({python_source})")`, etc. The problem then becomes escaping inner quotes, and escaping the escape characters themselves. I managed to sidestep the issue by using two types of quotes, and relying on Python's `repr` also giving valid JS strings, but if I had to add just one more language I'd need a lot more scaffolding.

I still think the Quine Relay is a tour de force, but now for different reasons. It's not 128 quines in different languages, but an incredibly robust system for escaping strings in 128 wildly different languages.

[1] https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/blob/master/src/code-gen...
Something is off:

- unlimited service

- for free, maybe $10/month

- vague "increase loyalty/stickiness" claims

- Amazon fired 30K people in last 6 months due to "economic conditions"

Is it 2008 or 2018?

Alternatively, when are we unionizing?
"Advanced Persistent Threat"
Can machines ever be conscious?
We will probably never know as we do not know what consciousness is.
It can not be defined scientifically. How will we possibly answer any question involving that?
Intelligent calculations based on what some humans instructed and stored in a machine mimicking living beings are not any more conscious than its predecessors of course. Functionally the same thing. if it is conscious, it was conscious and if it is not, it was not.
> Paying back big loans when they come due is always painful but calling them parasitic would be incorrect.

Investments are not loans. Loans entail finite returns from finite input. Investments entail infinite returns from finite input. Its that infinity that makes investor-ownership parasitic in a way that loans ain't.
Wood has a deeper history than people realize.

The USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine, had its aft main shaft strut bearings made of wood. Wood has been used as propellor shaft bearings in conventional ships, and hydroelectric plants dating back to the 1920s have used it in the bearings for their turbines.

https://www.core77.com/posts/25224/lignum-vitae-wood-so-bad-...
Plotto is super neat. I recently wrote a tool that uses Plotto and GPT-3.5 to generate novels: https://xeiaso.net/blog/automuse. If you want to read the first novel Network Stranded, you can click here: https://xena.greedo.xeserv.us/books/network-stranded.html
McLuhan said television was a “cool medium” in that it calmed people’s passions. (Think of how a broadcast can be viewed by 10 million people and there is no 1-in-a-million lunatic who tries to firebomb the TV station)

He thought that this was because of its low fidelity and might have thought HDTV with surround sound would be different. Baudrillard saw “high definition” as something that would intensify the simulation/seduction aspect and part of a “cooling” strategy in society that neutralizes dissent.

I would tend to dismiss “alternative lifestyles”, “protest movements” and such insofar as these are an extension of individualism which is the dominant ideology of the U.S. (Lasch said that his “Culture of Narcissism” wasn’t really about the 1970s but rather the period 1870- in the US and is widely thought in Japan to describe the Tokugawa period)
Yeah, but some of the innovations being made at OpenAI will be replicated by the open source community, and Meta can use those for free.

They aren't looking to create a technological edge themselves, they want to remove the edge that OpenAI has so that they can win using their user count/brand recognition/etc.
It is literally the definition of FUD here, though. These aren't things that have happened. And the data is ridiculously clear on progress. To paint these doubts is pretty much only to spread fear and uncertainty.
It's pretty funny that Lisa Su is related to Jensen Huang. Like McDonalds and Burger King being owned by different brothers.
For things like this a userscript is better solution than a full-on extension. It is definitely worth it though, especially for mobile.
Space Solar Power Demonstrator Wirelessly Transmits Power in Space
Obligatory: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minim...
Nah, it has a lot to do with AI.

Give it another 12 months when the rest of the web has been gunked up with AI written crap and reddit will be one of the few reliable sources of useful opinion out there.

Hell, it is right now given how frequently I and others append "reddit" to our google queries.
If it was a failure would you feel comfortable saying the buck stops with Lisa?

The CEO has more power and responsibility. They receive blame for company wide problems and conversely deserve credit for company with success.
Even without array bounds checking, a bit of discipline and smart conventions will go a long way of reducing errors:

1. Define a macro function for retrieving the length of an array:

#define LEN(arr) (sizeof (arr) / sizeof (arr)[0])

2. Don't introduce macro constants for array lengths; hard code the length in the declaration and use LEN to retrieve it. Example:

int a[100];
...
for (i = 0; i < LEN(a); i++) {
...
}

3. Define a macro function for dynamic array allocation:

#define NEW_ARRAY(ptr, n) \
(ptr) = malloc((n) * sizeof (ptr)[0]); \
if ((ptr) == NULL) { \
fprintf(stderr, "Memory allocation failed: %s\n", strerror(errno)); \
exit(EXIT_FAILURE); \
}

4. When you create a function with an array argument, also add an argument for the array length.

5. Use a convention for naming the length of array pointer targets, for instance by adding the suffix `Len'. Example:

int *b, bLen = 100;
...
NEW_ARRAY(b, bLen); /* nice to know that b and bLen belong together */
...
SomeFunction(b, bLen, ...);
...
for (i = 0; i < bLen; i++) {
...
}

6. Define your own safe wrappers around unsafe standard library functions or use someone else's code that does that.
> BTW, I was a TST user for many years, and recently switched to Sidebery, which seems to do the same and more, but is a bit more polished.

Doesn't really match my experience. In which ways is it more polished?
So many misses in this paper — mistaking adjacencies for similarities, not defining culturally-referenced terms adequately.

It is a perfect paper for accidentally exposing their own implicit biases and ontologies.