skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lead author of the paper, Sven Dorkenwald, shared more resources on Twitter. Here are excerpts:

"""

We are releasing a whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly, including ~130k annotated neurons and tens of millions of typed synapses!

Explore the connectome: https://codex.flywire.ai

Reconstruction paper: https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.27.546656v1

Annotation paper: https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.27.546055v1

There are multiple ways to access the data and the number of tools is growing! https://flywire.ai/apps

Codex: https://codex.flywire.ai

CATMAID spaces: https://fafb-flywire.catmaid.org
http://Braincircuits.io: https://braincircuits.io/app?p=fruitfly_fafb_flywire_public

"""

- Original Tweet Thread: https://twitter.com/sdorkenw/status/1674859033076072448
Memory-Mapped Files = access violations when a disk read fails. If you're not prepared to handle those, don't use memory-mapped files. (Access violation exceptions are the same thing that happens when you attempt to read a null pointer)

Then there's the part with writes being delayed. Be prepared to deal with blocks not necessarily updating to disk in the order they were written to, and 10 seconds after the fact. This can make power failures cause inconsistencies.
The TLDR is that MMAP sorta does what you want, but DBMSes need more control over how/when data is paged in/out of memory. Without this extra control, there can be issues with transactional safety, and performance.
Yep, Bluesky has that. You can even make your own!
Truly digital? I don’t know what that means

Typewriter? What do you mean by that?

Proprietary syntax highlighting? Why would I want that?

Integrates with… file types?

Why the cartoon people?
As a society, you have to make a decision between perfect freedom and perfect tyranny. Its never a clear cut choice and the reality is always somewhere in between.

But surely I can’t be the only one concerned about companies that already own my digital lives now also encroaching upon my physical life?
True, but most exit nodes are IPv4-only, so in practice it works.
Agreed (assuming we’re talking about the US here). I’m not a rockstar dev but I have a lot of years of solid experience. I applied to 60+ programming jobs over the last four months without getting even a single technical interview. Every previous job search I’ve done over the last 20 years went much better so I don’t think it’s (mostly) me.
Carborated mineral water isn't flavorless and way better than sugary drinks.
Right? I was reading the article and did a double take when he described the choices being either aspartame, or sugar.

I think it's an American thing though. When I've been over there, everything was so sickeningly sweet.
I can't speak to German ISPs or anyone outside of these USA. But I believe that ISPs are absolutely the weakest link when it comes to malicious botnets and other types of widespread network-based compromises.

ISPs certainly have the tooling and the positioning to be able to detect C&C channels, outgoing DDOS attacks, and compromised customer premises equipment. But do they? And if they do detect any of it, do they take action? When is the last time you heard about an ISP disconnecting a paying customer because of the customer's compromised device(s)? When is the last time you even heard of an ISP notifying a customer about such a thing?

Two months ago, my router was compromised and joined to some sort of botnet in the capacity of a DNS resolver. I would never have been able to detect such WAN-side traffic if I hadn't had a special setup on my part. My ISP was the first to hear when I'd detected it, and I sincerely doubt that they receive many such reports, especially with logs as evidence.

Can you imagine receiving a phone call, "Hello, this is your ISP! You're pwned! Please follow through these remediation steps as I prompt you: ..." You'd undoubtedly think it was a phishing scam. Because ISPs just don't seem to care about abuse.

They will send you copyright strikes and prosecute you for BitTorrent, but it does't seem like they'd lift a finger to prevent the next big DDOS or spam factory originating from their own customers.
Thanks for the tip! Also, saw that the article also mentions this book in its first paragraph, so sounds worth a read.
In general the idea of "just use filters" fails. Number one, messages cost money for someone somewhere. Allowing everything and just filtering out bullshit leads to untold amounts of bullshit you have to filter. Hence the point of moderators in the first place...

This feeds into point two. Most people don't want to play moderator and create huge lists of filters in order to not deal with shit. They will gladly farm that off to someone else even if there are considerable potential negative side effects, and if it gets too bad they will pack up and move to a new community with less negative effects.
Windows 9x is based on DOS. The last release of that lineage was Windows ME. The only thing modern NT-based Windows has in common with it is many application-level APIs. Everything else is different. There may be some common code, but if that's so important to keep private, fine, strip it. Heck, release just the kernel of 9x, that definitely can't possibly share anything with any commercially-relevant products.

> source access would create serious security issues due to how MS handles legacy components, right?

Security through obscurity is not real security. It's just delaying the inevitable.
I see your points about the wide variety of Lisp languages and their ongoing development (SBCL, Clojure, Racket, Emacs Lisp, for instance). My intention was not to oversimplify Lisp or its significance, but rather to highlight some challenges that may hinder its widespread adoption. I agree that Lisp continues to evolve and that many modern programmers use contemporary versions of the language for real work.

However, despite the ongoing development and evolution of Lisp, it seems that its adoption in commercial settings may still be limited due to factors such as maintainability, developer availability, and the robustness of language ecosystems. I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on how these factors might be addressed to increase Lisp’s adoption in these environments.

I also agree that those who are knowledgeable in both Lisp and other programming languages likely make better-informed decisions regarding language choice. In your experience, how do these programmers navigate the choice between Lisp and more mainstream languages in different scenarios? I look forward to your insights.
It's not a conspiracy, it's a well-documented effort by the US and other powerful nations to extort every corner of the planet to adopting harsh, unscientific, liberty-obliterating laws against drugs (except the state-sanctioned ones of course!) that has been going on for about a 100 years. Cracks are beginning to show (see Portugal, Uruguay and others), but that is still the global system we live under thanks to various UN conventions pushed by the US and the national-level laws that adhere to those conventions.
Thats interesting, but I don't think the social dynamics of such a game would work. The situation is unstable, where either the builders can't keep up and quickly lose their factory (and probably quit) or the PvPers get surpressed and/or just ignore the factory.

This is kinda what happened in modded PvP Minecraft servers.

But there are already some team based "production line PvP" games like Mindustry and Foxhole.
The problem is that proving something safe is extremely difficult. Negative effects can take decades to show up. You can use models, and epidemiology, but true gold standard randomized controlled trials in humans are rarely possible.

Instead we have to take out best guess.
Exactly. Brand new Intel N100 (Four 12th gen efficiency cores) desktops are selling for ~$120.

Intel 6th gen desktops can be purchased for the ~$30 he spent on the phone and don't require the many hours he spent trying to boot an OS on it.

64-bit Core 2 Duo machines are still perfectly usable and people will pay you to take them.
I suspect the raw output of an LLM will not be considered copyrightable but the composition of those raw outputs into a coherent work is likely protected.
Interestingly enough it’s the same conclusion that this guy came to (1). He also reads and summarizes a lot of papers.

Bottom line of the article above and (1): aspartame is not a health concern you should have.

(1) https://physiqonomics.com/aspartame/
It’s… beautiful.
As someone who had a low opinion of George W. Bush when he was president I found this article interesting:

https://www.keithhennessey.com/2013/04/24/smarter/
dissenter is made by a far-right social media platform (gab).
I don't see any moralizing in what you're replying to. I see them challenging an assumption that is an extremely common one in American culture.
Multiplication via Parabola
I will say, it's essential for gum that doesn't rot your teeth, but other than that I never want it in my mouth for all of the reasons you describe.
Tarsnap outage 2023-07-02
Subject: Tarsnap outage 2023-07-02
From: Colin Percival
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2023 10:13:26 -0700

The important information first: All data stored on Tarsnap is safe, but you
can't access it right now. I'm working to bring it back online.

The detailed story:

At approximately 2023-07-02 13:07 UTC the main Tarsnap server suffered a
"failed system status check" in Amazon Web Services vernacular. In plain
language, something broke -- either the server hardware, the power, or its
connection to the rest of the EC2 network (including network-attached disks).

At approximately 2023-07-02 13:52 UTC the server rebooted (probably running
on new hardware, considering that it's a virtual machine), but had filesystem
corruption affecting cached metadata. This cached metadata essentially tells
the Tarsnap server where to find user data in Amazon S3; without it, the
Tarsnap server cannot service requests. I *think* that the metadata present
is accurate as far as it goes, but it definitely lacks information about
archives stored in the last few seconds before the outage started.

While I could probably "replay" the most recently stored data from the backing
store in S3, the nature of filesystem corruption means that I can't guarantee
that this would work; since Tarsnap is a backup service I have to prioritize
safety, and so I've started the process of reconstructing the Tarsnap server
state from the "known good" data stored in Amazon S3.

If anyone needs data urgently, I can bring the Tarsnap server up in read-only
mode, subject to the caveat that the most recently stored data may not be
available. Please contact me if this would be useful to you.

It's too early in the state reconstruction process to provide an accurate ETA;
my best guess is somewhere between 12 and 24 hours.

As always, feel free to email me if you have any questions.

Sorry about the headaches,
If you spend some time to lower your sugar intake, heavy sugar items will taste too sweet. The problem is all American foods contain sugar, so you have to actively seek out products without it.

Yes this has all been said many times.
> are the primary trading partner

But there is no coercion here, they are the largest trading partner because they make a lot of great stuff. "Empire" comes with implied negative connotations, but it's a win-win for everyone within this particular "empire".
Is your point that you think redditors are more upset with the mods than spez?
The Aliens Have Landed, and We Created Them – Cassandras: [AI as] End of Mankind
Like many of the other commenters, I am compelled to let you know that your preference is immoral because it doesn't align with my views. You should stop doing a harmless thing that suits your taste.
A typical response to this is "I need 20M to make those samples. Gimme."
And a response to that is often "Hmm, there's 95% chance this guy is full of shit, but also a 5% chance it's gonna be big." To investors, it's all about estimating whether the ratio is 95:5 (good enough), or worse.
It's an acquired taste, I think. Grew up with it because of a diabetic relative, and now I prefer it to real sugar...
That logic doesn't work; foods that we've consumed for millions of years also cause cancer.
You can get used to anything if you taste it often enough.
> since Factorio (AFAIK) runs as a client + server

It does not. Factorio runs as a single process encompassing both simulation and rendering; the "headless server" just omits the rendering bits.
Could have gotten proper glass dispersion effects, that now got dropped, if he had used luxcore instead of cycles. But that might be considered cheating :)
SF despite being dense and having high transit ridership for a US city is still fairly car oriented. If the endpoints of your trip are not near Muni/BART station it's going to take twice as long on transit. And the hills can make the walking part difficult for people who are elderly, disabled, or need to transport items.
how are measuring this “harder to think” feeling to avoid confirmation bias?
I'd say that the people counting leap seconds are the ones "doing something".

At the point they needed to be inserted, Unix systems carry on counting seconds as units of time as they pass, "ignoring" the need to add 1 for the purposes of accounting.
No. A force is the correct characterization. Entropy is indeed a force with a singular direction.

Can you explain why does entropy perpetually increase?

Additionally explain what happens if we reverse time, does your intuition of entropy still make sense? Likely no, because there is a vector directionality to entropy which makes it comparable to a "force".
Nintendo Switch: The hybrid darling of gaming
This is true for eg. a browser, alarm app and an irc client.

If you want banking apps to work, you're fucked. Even getting some of the mainstream social network and chat apps to work without google play services is a pain.
Tell that to drinkers of wine, beer, juice, and tea.
Yea that’s why I hesitated to add them
Sudden 2 mill extra isn’t organic Chan users
There are a few chapters of an unpublished book on thermodynamics here: https://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/thermo.html

This article is also interesting: "THE EVOLUTION OF CARNOT'S PRINCIPLE" https://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/articles/ccarnot.pdf

Building on these ideas, the first five chapters of this (draft of a) book from Ariel Caticha are quite readable:
https://www.arielcaticha.com/my-book-entropic-physics
Yes and we can all sit and eat flavourless rice cakes too! No one ever needs to eat anything apart from totally bland and flavourless substances! /s

People eat for pleasure, and people drink for pleasure too. People like things to taste nice sometimes, get off their case.
Indeed! It was a while ago but Im quite proud of the fast timestamp functions I made for Java after the standard library timestamp performance turned out to be critical to some data pipelines I was working on.

The early versions of the code did cache the last parsed date etc but as the parser got quicker this became diminishing returns.

The fastest way I found for the calendar month numbers etc was to use a precomputed table etc.

https://github.com/williame/TimeMillis
> I'm pretty sure it's made by a company that would likely go under if it chose not to advertise.

Isn't this the survivorship bias? If aggressively advertising companies outcompete companies not advertising or advertising less - then if advertising wasn't an option, or if the society was more negative towards ads - then perhaps the latter category of companies would be more thrive.
So the law of increasing entropy is not a fundamental law of the reality because it can be derived from other fundamental equations.

Suppose I show you a snapshot of a random universe, would you be able to tell if the entropy of the universe is going to increase or decrease as the time progresses?

Let's assume that universe's entropy would increase. Consider another universe exactly the same as current universe, but all the particles' velocities reversed. Then this universe's entropy would decrease.

So you are equally like to select both the universe and hence the original assumption of increasing entropy is wrong.

Discarding quantum properties of the particles, is it then fair to say that time's direction is unrelated to whether entropy increases or decreases?
> The mantra to elaborate is "Up or Out" because at that salary level you have more options available to you as well. You actually know that you can, at any time, quit your job and find another one at a marginally lower or usually the same salary as you're currently making.

Personally, I don't think this is true as companies or people think it is.
“Position in band” is often a factor in performance reviews. Consider a common process - say you’re “senior level” and in your review you’ll be rated on six categories, then given a raise based on where you are overall relative to “meets expectations.”

If you’re senior but at the bottom of the senior band, and you’re mostly “at expectations” for your level but maybe “slightly below” in 1-2 categories, you’ll probably still net out at “meets” with a normal raise. If you’re senior but the highest paid senior - that’s probably going to net out at “below” overall, or zero-to-small raise.
We did a taste comparison of a few different brands of yogurt the other day. I could tell a difference between the brand with just sugar and the one with sugar and stevia, and the stevia was off putting. My wife couldn't tell a difference. Ultimately I liked the one that was sugar and maple syrup most, but it was a different type of yogurt entirely(cream top vs skyr).
I get the impression that some people think there is a silver bullet that we are not using because the big bad corporations are keeping us down. But...there's isn't one, and there are no free lunches, you always have to break the egg to make the the omelette.
Is MSG shown to be bad? Drink nothing but water, breath nothing but air, and don't eat any food with an ingredient list unless you assembled it yourself.
I wouldn’t say this to an Italian within fighting distance, heh…
But then you have to contend with this: https://github.com/bogdanfinn/tls-client... Just used this to bypass a Cloudflare check! I've never scraped Twitter but Elon said there was a large scraping operation from Oracle IPs. He could substantially raise the cost of scraping by just banning datacenter IPs. Something like p0f would probably help too. I pay for static residential proxies (basically servers running squid that somehow have IPs belonging to consumer ISPs) and with TCP fingerprinting these would be detected as Linux and expose my Windows or iPhone user-agents as inconsistent but I've never encountered a site that checks this. Although maybe sites are doing so silently but I don't notice because I don't otherwise meet the bot threshold.
> The alternative is real human drivers who make all kinds of mistakes every day.

From a European perspective I would say that in a city the real alternative is a functioning public transport system. Trams, light rail etc are infinitely safer and far cheaper than any form of car based system.
To me, the best part is that most of it is just an emergent property of raytracing. Once you implement the core physics needed for any raytracer, things like lenses and aperture blades just work.

I can't want for full-scene realtime raytracing to hit the consumer market.
> couldn't much care less about the supposed effects of one synthetic sweetener over another

From the article:

> (Incidentally, this same logic does not apply to other artificial sweeteners which mostly aren’t broken down at all.)

I would rather have something break down into fairly benign chemicals than have to deal with chemicals that don't break down and are not compatible with my body and are a borderline poison.
Tarsnap outage 2023-07-02
When dieting, my family and I are restricting all kinds of stuff we eat, and drinking pretty much only water. On a diet we get really bored, and things like Diet Coke are extremely tempting. Not only does the bottle say it’s zero calories, but it also has caffeine and tastes so much more interesting than normal low-cal diet food or water. This is the appeal for us, we’re always trying to consume fewer calories and are looking for a way to have something that tastes less boring.
> The biggest competitor to Windows 10 was not Linux or Mac, it was Windows 7.

I have to wonder how relevant Microsoft will remain in the long run. There are several projects maturing that allow people to run Windows apps — the one reason people use Windows in the first place — without any Microsoft involvement whatsoever. The fact that Win32 API has barely changed over the last 15 years also helps.

Wine compatibility is getting ever better. ReactOS is aiming to reach beta quality "soon".
Librem 5 USA is in stock, and original Librem 5 already has lead time of 6 weeks.
> I could construct a "bench level test" that MIGHT be able to detect the computation

No need. The author of the original paper already did that for you.
https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/923

"We demonstrate the application of video-based cryptanalysis by performing two
side-channel cryptanalytic timing attacks and recover: (1) a 256-
bit ECDSA key from a smart card by analyzing video footage of
the power LED of a smart card reader via a hijacked Internet-connected security camera located 16 meters away from the smart
card reader, and (2) a 378-bit SIKE key from a Samsung Galaxy
S8 by analyzing video footage of the power LED of Logitech Z120
USB speakers that were connected to the same USB hub (that
was used to charge the Galaxy S8) via an iPhone 13 Pro Max."

To all the EEs out there. PSRR and power supply cross talk is a thing...
Done! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76600043/how-can-i-use-t...
Some moderators have public personas which are valuable to a community, have built up trust, have specific hard to find skills, contribute valuable content, etc. If a moderator (or set of moderators) are able and willing to move a community, the market price of their work is the greater of what Reddit is willing to pay them and how much revenue they can receive from moving their community and capitalizing on it themselves.
Why are using drugs and alcohol automatically destructive behaviours? I imagine you know and work with many people who use drugs and/or alcohol and also have families, friends, hobbies, career trajectories and are overall reasonably happy, well-adjusted people. I mean, that describes virtually everyone I know! The problem cases certainly exist, but within my personal world, those people are the exceptions.
Avoiding the mentality isn't the same as referring to the past. With most people, It's perfectly fine to bring up the past in a matter of fact and dispassionate way, so long as it's constructive and not meant to shove "see I was right" in their faces.
But fruit juice has loads of sugar.
Plausible options seem to be malware, another attempt to crack tor by enforcement or some sort of app that added tor browsing
> They may have absorbed tech

At Snap's scale, I doubt there's tech they're interested in.
In a first, a person’s immune system fought HIV – and won (2020)
It amplified mine and made me start imagining a world where cinematic CGI production integrates a process like this.
In Rust, the idiomatic solutions for data-passing would be a fifo channel (either std::sync::mpsc from the standard library or one of the popular libraries (crossbeam or flume)), and the solution for synchronization would be one-shot channels or zero-capacity channels.

Or you can just manually join the threads you started
Another film simulation project, filmbox, got discussed few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34713202
I'd take is even further:

"PEPSI - When they don't have Coke."