skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the Egyptian pyramids would have gotten back their white finish and gold tip long ago.

GP isn't even advocating that. They're advocating redoing the finish with marble, or with frameless glass windows, because that would be the modern equivalent to what those buildings were to people in ancient Egypt.
Please read the links. I'm not some anti climate nut. This isn't some controversial take, if you're at all familiar with local politics/policies.
> Overall I would recommend scripting in whatever language you are most comfortable in that is at least reasonably comfortable for scripting. A quick script benefits from a low barrier between thought and execution. Use what makes sense for you. I find Elixir surprisingly good as a scripting language ever since the introduction of Mix.install.

Because the author likes Elixir and its trivial concurrency story. But they also wrote the above: Use what you want, for them it's Elixir. Why complain about other people's preferences when they aren't actually foisting it on you?
You didn't see any 'Wuhan flu' bioengineering conspiracy theories about how china made covid on purpose to attack America? If not, you're either intentionally not seeing it or I want to use your media filter because it was literally everywhere.
Climate change is a result of overpopulation and overconsumption, though. It's right there in the name. The climate is changing as a result of anthropogenic activity. I fail to see how eco-fascism affects the outcome here, if we do not cut our population and consumption the planet will do it for us.
> I'm choosing between a packet of splenda or two packets of sucrose.

The claim is that that's not what you're choosing between, because if that were the real choice, then the people who chose splenda would lose more weight than the people who chose sucrose, but that's apparently not the finding. So maybe the real choice is between two packets of sucrose, or splenda+two packets of sucrose, because the splenda causes you to eat more sucrose (or other trash) without your conscious realization.
would you buy it when it becomes available?
Second-Order Cybernetics
I personally find it quite unsurprising that researchers in virology might be researching future scenarios that seem like a future possibility.
Found the straight white libertarian code bro!
People often get confused because they expect `await` to sequence promise resolution too. For example

const example = async () => {
const ifError = Promise.reject("something went wrong")
const value = await someOtherPromise()
await (valueIsOk(value) ? runNextStep(value) : ifError)
}

will always throw.
The whole wage-price spiral theory is such bunk. The last time we in the U.S. saw significant inflation that could be directly tied to that was a time when union membership was at a much higher % of the workforce, and many unions had clauses in their CBAs that _automatically_ triggered wage increases in response to inflation.

The economy in the U.S. is in such a different place now, falling back to that explanation seems almost like intellectual malpractice.
What? Only "socially important jobs" could buy the cheaper apartments? What the hell
I can only read that title literally
I see the productivity use case more useful than the entertainment ones, and without the social stigma of hanging around on your sofa weirding out spouse/kids.

However most of the previews I read do point to some amount of weight/comfort ergonomics that I think play against the productivity use case.

Basically my work compute needs to be ergonomic enough to use for 8-12 hours/day.

I have a hard time believing we can live in this headset for anything north of 2-3 hours at best.
In praise of blowing up your life
"Microsoft can’t be trusted."

Never could be.
Perhaps your April 2020 number is correct but I think it's irrelevant because it is too time-boxed. I did an analysis (matching those by others) using the OECD excess deaths data and if you extend the time period through last fall, Sweden did either best (according to other's analysis) or second best (according to mine). Excess deaths actually continued after the pandemic has subsided in many countries (US and UK at least I recall) and I think it reasonable to assume the pandemic and pandemic policy had something to do with it. To judge overall success of policies you need to look at the whole time of the pandemic and its aftermath and the Swedes did better than almost everyone
I think this could be great for letting the players design custom weapons/Armor/spells very roughly and then using AI to convert it to something that looks good in the game
So Dang was re-posting the over-year-old same article as a way of contributing to this same parent article? And though the original article is technically old, and had just two comments, it is considered a related/of interest post. Have I understood?
Yeah, I've been trying to set something like this up with a combination of iGPU and dGPU, which theoretically should be possible, but I certainly haven't gotten it to work as yet, and the documentation(and maybe the tooling too) leaves a lot to be desired. It offers ways to do some things, but very little in terms of more general explanation of all the steps, and the steps don't always apply as given(in my case, since I have pretty new hardware, they rarely apply at all). So I just have to sort of laboriously figure everything out. And it's quite a bit of dicking around to set up custom PVHs and such, again with lacking documentation.

I like Qubes quite a lot. But there's still a lot of friction if you're doing anything not supported by default.
I must say, your sole sourcing via wikipedia is not confidence inspiring. At least link the sources directly from the footnotes.

We're not going to 100% nuclear energy, at least not in the foreseeable future so the concerns of Uranium supplies is not material. We haven't looked very hard for it because you don't need much. Plus there's literally an inexhaustible supply in the Ocean. Yes, it would be an order of magnitude more expensive than current in-situ mining. But that's still fine because fuel costs are a tiny portion of O&M costs of NPPs.

Your sources on the the "meager 15% increase" is a gross mischaracterization of the source which says: "The world's known uranium resources increased 15% in two years to 2007 due to increased mineral exploration." I doubt we looked very hard due to the other facts linked in your sources saying that most plants already had long terms contracts and therefore did not need to go looking for new fuel sources.

> AFAIK CANDU never industrially burnt thorium, please source (yes, it is in theory possible).

This is true, the fuel characterization is happening right now at Idaho National Labs. I'm waiting for updates on this front. https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Clean-Core-prepares-...

> CANDU is a dead-end, there is absolutely no project nor R&D towards it.

This is not true. India is building 3 or 4 as we speak. https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/CountryStatistics/CountryDetails....

Canada has refurb projects going right now and the associated supply chains that would make new orders for CANDU very logical. There is very recent talks of this right now thanks in part to C4NE's release of the "The Case for CANDU" report which has caused a stir.
That's theoretical only. Nobody has ever demonstrated that since the theory started and now hdd complexity and density has increased dramatically.
This will eventually happen, right now everything online has to be about growth above all else or it won't attract investment.

The internet is slowly becoming less wild west and more Ohio. I will be sad to see it go, but it has some perks too.
Then I don't think what you've said is a given. Maybe many people do it, but does that matter to Reddit? That's not certain, and it is even less clear that such a thing would be relevant to Non.io.

Besides, there are many routes to profitability here that have absolutely nothing to do with replicating all of Reddit's value for a user. Presuming this needs to be a 1:1 clone of Reddit seems needlessly reductive.
I don't think Switzerland is "problematic" because they prioritize laws and policies that benefit the Swiss for ex. Same for iran etc. I don't see what the skin color or cultural diversity of the country really has to do with anything.
> That's just factually incorrect

This kind of curve without at least an estimation of the variance does not mean anything.
The question makes no sense. What democrats? What scientists? About what?

Do you think that men aged between 30 and 35 ignored wives?

Can you answer such a vague and useless question?

'Democrats', 'scientists', and 'ignored (about subject)' and 'at which point in time' are not things that you can just assume and the fact that you think you can group all these things into one question is baffling.
And in reality, every process is a kafkean bureocratic nightmare were you end up having to say yes in order to advance and they milk your data anyway while also using privacy rethoric to prevent citizens from getting gov transparency.

The typical powerful west European countries are corrupt to the core and when people feel we are better off than in the US (self congratulatory posts are common) it's generally lack of political awareness and involvement more than anything.
I’m confused what you’re advocating. If your family isn’t checking the domain before downloading and executing files then the .zip tld doesn’t matter. They’re just as vulnerable to phishing without it.
I assume it’s also somewhat anonymized too? But easily de-anonymized?
The question is increased resilience not perfection.

At some point, a military device / weapons system recognises that it's not operating to spec and either disables itself or diverts and destroys itself in a non-target region.

Keep in mind that for most weapons, not activating when not specified is far more useful than failing to activate where and when specified. See the case of several "broken arrow" nuclear weapons incidents in which failsafes prevented unintended detonation. In once case with only a single fail-safe preventing that detonation which would have been in a civilian populated region of the United States.
Would you like a pony as well?

Not only you have conflicting requirements (something to be part of the internet infrastructure while controlled by a single org) your comment gives absolutely zero constructive criticism. What about the fediverse was so bad that warrants anything like "face-planted in it's (sic) time to shine?" How/who/what are you supporting that is trying to get to the goals you listed?
This is where the Web3 ecosystem is ahead right now. One address, log into a hundred different apps with the same wallet identity.
Have a single common bytecode language for all web dev, including scripting, content definition, and UI.

But not js.

Support programmatic control of content generation, styling, composition, animation, UI events, backend connections, and object-based component reuse with standard libraries that implement each feature across multiple platforms.

Basically the visual/UI part of iPhone/Android dev but in a browser, perhaps with some standard backend APIs.

The amount of duplication in modern CRUD development is just insane. Every project reinvents the same wheels. CSS is part of that because it's so disconnected from the content and the UI that it has to be customised for each project and can't be reused - except as a reset file, which shouldn't even be needed.
The concept of "greedy companies" is IMHO counterproductive. If a kid is being greedy, and that's the default state for a young child, you tell them to share and eventually they learn to do so (well, most of us, anyway) because it's in their best interest to do so.

But companies are explicitly designed from the ground up to maximize profits at the expense of everything else, to the point where they get sued if they don't maximize shareholder value. So of course they're going to be "greedy" and yank up prices as much as they can, and telling them to "share" is going to accomplish nothing: it's going to need much more fundamental reforms to actually change the way they're incentivized to operate.
I am used to old school forum where everyone is called by a username. This creates some personalities, yet also the freedom to disappear if you want.
Calif AB2188: Implications for Employer Marijuana Testing
One of my first online experiences (around 1996 or so) was the chat room that my local (dialup) ISP hosted. There might have been a couple dozen or a hundred people that hung out on that chat room back then, but it was fairly diverse in terms of age ranges and experience...at least as far as tech/net early adopters could have been back then. I think I only met one person IRL from that chat room, but it was, in comparison to today, surprisingly chill. Not only that, but people just as a matter of course used pseudonyms and were careful about privacy. Knowing someone's (temporary) IP address was already a lot.

But as the internet grew forums and news sites and blogs, I bounced around, and through, many. I lost interest in most of them before they got enshittified, but it does, in retrospect, seem that most suffered either of two fates: irrelevance, stagnation, and evaporation, or enshittification to one degree or another. I count among my past lives the past online communities that I participated in. I don't long for those pasts but I do feel a loss that not only are those specific ones gone, but the striking inevitability of them all dying. It seems like a law--a tragic one at that. Anyway, RIP <nostalgic online forum>.
TU Delft and RUG/UMCG develop child-friendly button cell battery
Patent application: https://pure.rug.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/243375525/WO202214...
I wish I could read more reporting like this. Incredibly relevant to the average American, devoid of any political nonsense, and pretty straight to the point. The loopholes being abused by surveillance branches is truly alarming.
My Most Beautiful Memory as a CEO in San Francisco
> The fact JS has very limited interaction between threads makes a JIT much easier to write.

And easier for developers to write and reason about. This is not small thing. Re-entrant code by default (and basically by mandate) eliminated deadlocks in even a beginner's code. Do you understand how amazing a language is than encourages concurrency and allows parallelism with any fear of deadlocks or explicit atomism?
A future where Microsoft is enforced is a worrying future, specially since emergent powers are becoming serious competition..
lose yer phone.

if your computing devices have cameras and microphones, disconnect them.

do not use credit cards or online payment systems. cash, grass, or ass.

... and they'll still know anything they care to about you; and failing that will make up anything they need, should anyone with access to the levers of power decide that you are a worthy target, for whatever reason.
Thank you, sir.

I did try to do this, intermittently. A couple people are now VP's or CTO's, and one founded an early (successful) Internet company; whether I had anything to do with it, who knows?
My point is that it's easier to have fewer cultural issues when your whole country looks the same.
Sure.

If you have the wherewithal to protect yourself from the unsavory underworld types who will inevitably come after you for revealing things they'd just as soon keep secret.

There's a reason you only see the government doing this kind of thing.
> [Between the publication of the hardcover and softcover editions, he changed his views on GMO foods, and updated the relevant chapter.]

In other words, the diff between editions may be even more interesting than the either edition by itself.
mov %rdx,%rcx

Wouldn't this mov instruction be handled by the register renamer (Allocate/Rename/MoveElimination/ZeroIdiom) at essentially 'zero' cost? Yet clearly they're measuring a difference. I'll be curious what Agner Fog and Peter Cordes think.

Answer: renaming can fail if the operands aren't ready and it isn't zero cost, just less.
The intents of those enforcing the law is more powerful predictive of what will happen in practice than any intent of the law itself...
If you want to build an insular community for your nerd friends, put up a MUD server. You can build silly text toys, write tiny pieces of code for stupid fun, and the best part is, normies can't even figure out your community exists or how to connect to it, because wtf is telnet? It's also effectively invisible to the three letter agencies and whomever else.
Preach. Using my iPhone, I clicked on an HN link to Tom’s Hardware earlier today. Readable text occupied less than 1/4 of the screen. Everything else was taken by various banners, modals, etc. I tried to scroll down a little. It jumped back to the top of the page every time I tried, then started reloading itself. So, in sum, I read one(ish?) paragraph of a post before giving up.
You know that tech is not discussed on /gif/, right?
I have no clue why GP's comment was flagged. Brigading going on?

Few years ago we acquired something in Montreal related to AI, and it's interesting because when we tried to get the team to relocate to California many weren't interested. A lot of the key personnel ended-up moving, but they still kept a significant presence in the city. Even today, when hiring they'll have engineers indicate early in the process they won't ever move (despite pretty much everyone considered for that office being eligible for an O-1 due to the nature of the work being done there).

What's interesting is we opened a satellite location in Toronto and it was a completely different experience. First thing people asked coming into interviews was about relocating to the US and if we could sponsor their visa. The demographics also skewed heavily toward recent immigrants to Canada.

The irony was, the Toronto location was opened specifically to house developers that simply couldn't pass the higher bar for US immigration.
I think it goes to why a person is starting a business to begin with. Lots of people do it as you say, as a kind of lottery ticket. Their goal is purely monetary, and maximizing the return is the only thing that is important.

Others start businesses because they believe in the product or service and the value it can bring to people. Making money is important because it allows that to happen, but isn't the primary goal.

Personally, I'm not going to say one sort is better than the other in some absolute sense, but my personality falls more into the latter camp. I have no interest in making money just to make money. I am interested in doing cool things, and need money to do them.
> any of the hardware comprising the system

You probably mean the other way around: the system comprising hardware.
Considering 1 patriot missile costs several millions, it would be pocket change.
Are USB external multiple disk cases reliable enough for RAID?

I think they are. I've had similar setups in the past though not ZFS. I've done this with LVM. In my experience it may be a good idea to not put any part of the OS on that raid, set the mount option "noauto" and have a background script that checks the raid/volume health first and then mounts it in the event that any USB connections are loose or disconnected or late to power up. That way you can always get into the OS without anything hanging.
That's missing the point. Your article says

> investigators obtained GPS and other cell phone records from Google via a search warrant

Search warrants are and remain the correct tool for the government to get this data. What this article is worrying about is the fact that sometimes the government simply purchases this data without any sign off from a judge. That's where constitutional protections are eroded.

Your outrage is misplaced until such time when the government can buy this data from Google without a search warrant.
For me the model "quirks", eg. all the mistakes they make, are a huge turnoff.
The problem of online communities is not solved. We have a lot of data points of failure but I am not sure we have a good overview of why everything failed.

There should be like a wikipedia table like this one [1] but where explanatory factors (funding model, corporate structure, moderation tools, algorithmic timelines, discovery modes, anonymity, upvoting/downvoting mechanisms etc etc) would be tabulated against failure modes (toxicity, inanity, obsolescence etc etc)

You then run an ML model and find the pattern. The problem is that our sample is totally imbalanced. We don't know what good looks like.

The solution might be to take life expectancy before enshitification into account.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_platforms_with_...
>To achieve high performance, APISIX stores the list of IP addresses in a hash table and uses it for matching (O(1)) than iterating through the list (O(N)).

For IP allow/deny lists, unless the list were very large, I imagine it would be faster on most hardware to use an array than a map due to LX caches. It would have been cool to see an adaptive approach based on the size (e.g. for values of N over X, we use a map, otherwise an array). Maybe these lists are much larger in production than my assumptions about their size.
What exactly are you advocating for here? People being less interested in things?
6 months severance is exceptional - 3 months is what you get if you’ve been there at least a few years and in good-standing.

And the twentysomething kids on $200k on the west coast won’t be saving that money (if the number of Teslas on the road in Redmond is anything to go by): they have no reason to believe they won’t make the same kind of TC at the next job they apply for.
Can't we let the free market solve the problems with patents?

Like, if the government (or anybody, really) wants an invention to be open, they can offer the inventor/company some sum of money, and if they accept then they will have to explain how it works. Otherwise, it will remain a trade secret until someone else figures it out.
I'm sure that's already happening. Nixon would have killed for the kind of data our government is collecting and when this data is turned against citizens the Neo-McCarthyist witch-hunts will be devastating.
Computer gamers are the only ones that still think that general use computers are also great gaming devices. I think it makes more sense to have dedicated gaming devices for those experiences.

Apple has done very well while ignoring the gamer (as opposed to people that play games) customer. I don’t anticipate Apple making big strides towards prioritizing the so called AAA gaming experience now.
Thoughts on Lemmy Reddit Alternative
Most Reddit subs are ruined by moderators who are very pushy for their own political ideals instead of being a place of healthy discussions.
This is just a massive strawman. The question your crafted makes a strong negative implication about the respondent.

Asking what's your name, your pronouns, etc have weak implications. Most people have names and prefer certain pronouns. That's the beginning and the end of the implication. Catholics do have pronouns, they just believe in the standard he/him, she/her and that those pronouns correlate with genital from birth.

Some people have gender neutral names and, like sarcasm, gender identity doesn't convey well in text based communications- in this suit, Slack.

Confirming up front rather than in request-response, error-correction type exchanges saves some time and some feelings. It doesn't infringe on religious freedom, as it's simply asking for clarification so others may respect your beliefs. At the same time, you can believe one thing, and respect the beliefs of others and use their name/pronouns when speaking to/of them.
Apologies, should have been clearer that it's the MastoAPI which has no concept of backdated posts - or even of creating dated posts at all. [1] has no `created_at` or any other (useful) timestamp. Hence having to local-patch my Akkoma to allow passing `created_at` for my backfill needs.

[1] https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/statuses/#create