skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the overlap between 'people in civilizational collapse zones without reliable internet access' and 'people with Forth and general computing skills sufficient to expertly operate random hardware' is very narrow indeed. It's a cool project, but the complexity of most hardware is such that solo reverse engineering it for practical purposes is likely a fictional scenario. The chances of an engineering community that can be productive under civilization-ending pressures also seems pretty unlikely.

If you have technology skills and reasonably expect to experience some sort of apocalyptic scenario, ISTM you'd be better off with a solar charger, a few rugged smartphones, and several SD cards containing backups of Wikipedia and as much reference material as you can collect. Getting to a better location (either by traveling or improving a deficient one) is likely to take up most of your mental and physical energy, and electronics are in the 'nice to have' part of your inventory, below weapons, tools, and basic survival supplies.

If you want to go really cheap and low power, consider stocking up on ESP32 devices, which are super-capable and can be had for only a few $ each.
>It's going to always tend to quick-turn around, low-effort sensationalism because that's the most profitable configuration.

Exactly so. Just thinking about to the last time I consciously perceived my media offerings were being tailored based on my previous behavior, I found the choices abysmal. The algorithm is all; but the algorithm sucks. That makes it wholly unsuitable for digestion as news.
Yeah. I can usually tell within the first couple of words if the article is worth reading or not. Anything that seems to start with a complete non-sequitur or some variant of “once upon a time” is an immediate back-button bounce for me!
I did that this weekend. New connector cost me ~ $15 AUD off an ebay store.

Took me a bit longer than you but I was being super cautious having never opened a console before.

Highly recommend for anyone else with a broken NES lying around. Good chance the 72pin connector is at fault.
https://git.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos/tree/master/item/README.md

The thought of a solitary hacker somehow saving our electronic heritage with nothing but a Sega Master System brings a grin to my face.
It probably varies quite a bit by which part of the PNW we're talking about. They're exceedingly rare in Oregon (and I'd bet they're visitors from Washington or BC), I haven't seen one in many years.
Except for the fact that french nuclear power is highly subsidized (partly by military budgets, partly other subsidies, partly by grossly underfunding for storage and decommissioning costs, which they are required to put funds aside for), is breaking at the seams last year for some time >80% of the power generation was down in France due to maintenance (picked up by "intermittent solar and wind").
It's much, much, much simpler and more compact.

The core system is about 8000 lines of code. The C compiler is 1400. Its memory footprint is extremely small (1MB to have a C compiler running on bare metal in the PC architecture). From here, you have a system capable of building C programs as well as bootstrapping itself.

This is level of simplicity is staggering and empowering -- it is completely reasonable to read and understand every single line of code in Dusk OS. This would be incomprehensible in something like Debian.
maybe not of your interest, but if one is more from a ML background, there's this nice book/overview by Maria Schuld and Francesco Petruccione, called Machine Learning with Quantum Computers, which is mostly regarding variational algorithm and quantum kernel machine. However, the best intro material is the one by Nielsen and Chuang.

Moreover, if you feel more comfortable by running examples there are qiskit, pennylane and other libraries which shares a lot of tutorials and notebook (and some can be run on a true quantum computer if you have the money or the time to wait in queue!)
Then they get you on the flip side when somebody does something way out there that's almost unbelievable. It took a couple of decades for Epstein to be shut down, after catching him once and him getting away with a slap on the wrist.
Oh, it's PHP - neat. Personally I think Statamic is the entry to beat for flat-file CMSes in the PHP space. This project is the Symfony flavor I suppose (vs Statamic being based on Laravel).
oh its 100% predictable alright, predictable to be garbage : the default example chooses height as the wrong "number" whatever that might assume to be, then if you try to change it to define height as perhaps "height in total inches" it still gets it wrong
Yeah, in this world, I'd imagine we'd lose electricity before we lose access to computers.
I don’t get why they do this. You are allowed to release an alpha or beta build and call it so. One of the best selling games of all time is Minecraft and it worked just like this, dripping out features over a decade now from what started as such a basic game from where it ended up.
My girlfriend found it suspicious that the guy's necklace is not visible in the mirror.
Biggest UK Government Project Failures
Having just read about how the UK's Emergency Services Network upgrade is eight years delayed and £6 billion over budget and climbing, I'm struggling to think of any successful IT project done by a UK Government.The exception might be many of various gov.uk websites which genuinely do seem to be clean, accessible, and well-managed.
Does this mean that the Perf/Watt of the M2 Max 12 Core is almost half that of the Ryzen 9 7945HX?

I think it's impressive to not only double the performance, and still keep roughly the same power rating.
I would imagine that the efficiency of a human peddling depends on the speed. So maybe it's more efficient if the motor does most of the work to get you up to speed?
> opening a new vet practice is not some totally new thing no one has ever done before.

No one claimed no one had ever opened a vet practice. What they are claiming is that it is expensive. Nobody is accusing you of saying that someone can open a vet practice for free. What they are claiming is that it is expensive.

> People have done it and people will continue to do it.

Everyone knows this that independent vet practices have been opened in the past, and that some are likely to be opened in the future.
It doesn't have a GUI so it doesn't 'look' like anything other than a way to define new FORTH words and some basic low level drivers.
Just use UBlock Origin.
Oh man the struggle in the real. I quit zoom at exactly 5pm and run downstairs and out the door for daycare. I’m at daycare around 5:20 and to pick up the little one to come home, cook, eat, bath and bed time.

The lack of time to decompress after the day (like commutes used to help with before I went fully remote) can be gruelling at times
That's because official translations follow the rule of “Readers in English should be able to enjoy the story without thinking about it being a translation,” - an impossible standard.

Think about what it requires - to cut out or replace any signs of the culture it came from, that would cause any friction with the target culture. To trick the reader into thinking the world is one big homogeneous mush, where works coming from the other side of the globe don't contain anything that would so much as confuse them. Nothing that would require a translator's note or explanation.

It's not translation, it's butchery. It's making a sausage come out on one end, no matter what parts come in at the other.
Yeah, that comment fascinated me too. I can only say that the character of British scarecrows is… very different from those in the US, although I can’t articulate one reason exactly why: https://www.google.com/search?&q=british+scarecrow&
>I'm not sure why secrecy automatically means "conspiracy theory".

It doesn't automatically, but literally everyone claiming the Navy was "hiding something" was going down the conspiracy theory route. I'm not talking about generalities, I'm talking about the specific situation in question which is the Titan sub.

>the information is OK to release publicly from a security standpoint.

What information are you referring to? It's already public that the navy has the system in question. It's already public that it is analyzing data realtime. Nothing about the system would have been compromised by publicly announcing they had detected an anomaly the day of the event vs 4 days later. The logical conclusion is that all of the aforementioned reasons are why they waited 4 days. You don't need clearance to get to the conclusion.
Refreshing to see a post that specifically calls out the fact that it may not be the right tool for every job and other people may not find it to be as helpful as the author did.
I am always amazed how many tech orientated people don't use any kind of ad blocking
ABUS with the plus core are pretty good according to the lock picking lawyer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm8p4CmeOfk
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/epstein-knew-dirty-secret... – 2019

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/04/google-co-founder-larry-page... – May 2023

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Page

> On December 3, 2019, Larry Page announced that he would step down from the position of Alphabet CEO and be replaced by Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
It seems to me that you are grasping at straws in order to paint a picture of oppression that doesn't match reality. I do believe that your convictions are good, but I don't think this helps them.
Ask HN: Interesting/geeky home decor projects?
I hesitate to ask because I worry something like this will attract marketers, but are there any interesting home decor projects you've seen?

I saw a fake nixie clock^1 on hackaday that used OLED modules to pretent to be nixie tubes. I've seen some incredibly expensive newspaper e-ink displays^2

Any interesting home decor projects you're aware of?

1: https://hackaday.com/2023/07/15/these-fake-nixie-tubes-have-a-bootup-screen/#more-604081

2: https://projecteink.com/pages/about
Looks like there’s a parallel site for Linear B: https://linearb.xyz/
They’re Severely Mentally Ill. Is It Ethical to Help Them Die?
C++: Deferred_ptr, Deferred_heap, Deferred_allocator
Very true. I realize infra teams have their own priorities but all too often I meet infra folks that would rather tell me my requirements are wrong than work with me towards a solution. If you're not getting better customization from the inhouse team then it's not hard to see a big paas is probably a better offering than what the infra team deems necessary.
Yes and No. I am not publishing a scientific paper here. It's called a 'comment' for a reason.

I can give advice, but then it's people's responsibility to do their own due diligence.

Also I am passing on knowledge that all people should know anyway. It's not up to me to convince people of the fors and againsts of any position.
Twitter loses nearly half advertising revenue since Elon Musk takeover
though such operations must continue to comply with the regulations applicable to all aircraft operating in the NAS
> Who is creating the choices if not the people who are offering the jobs?

Is that a real question? The universe create the choices. This person offered a job - they are not God, they do not have control over the person. They simply offered a job. I guess you would rather they didn't offer the job?

> My question is, from your perspective unless someone is physically restrained then anything they do is purely voluntary?

Obviously. Although there are other kinds of restraints, threats for example.

I mean, any other definition leads to contradictions and ridiculous situations where employers are blamed for offering jobs to low value occupations.

I can't find it right now, but someone wrote an essay that basically boiled down to how when people help others, instead of getting credit for what they did do, they get blamed for what they could have done.

That's what you are trying to do. In such a world no one is willing to help anyone.

Don't do that, it leads to a horrible world.
I guess, still, the image needs to be built somewhere, my bet is that you will do this on the server itself, its unnecessary complexity.
The parent didn't say "without reasonable safety measures". See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-risk_bias

and

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36751041
Maybe some users of Discord want the satisfaction of answering a question raised by another community member, but don't want the answer to be publicly indexable and searchable forever? In this case, Discord is working perfectly.
The original intent was meant tongue in cheek about the discoverability via googs. Admittedly, it seems like it was a bit too buried. I abhor googs retuning video links to something much more better suited as text. The fact people are getting better results because they took an SO answer and turned into a video of just the text with no other reinforced benefit from being a video is maddening
Every time the fact nuclear power is subsidized is being brought up, I can't help but think of how much energy, in general, is highly subsidized, like other fossils and renewables. What makes it special in the case of nuclear?
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If that's the case then there are no losers left holding a loss, what seems to be the problem?

That's just a group of people buying a company and selling it off the assets for a profit.
But how would you e.g. explain the monad laws from this intuition? Promises in JavaScript are not monads and does not obey the monad laws.
article looks like it was generated by AI.
Don't forget the small penis accusation.

I have an F250, which I drive about 2000 miles a year, almost 100% of the time it has a >30ft trailer behind it. But that one time that the stars align and I need it for a grocery trip, a bunch of people are thinking "see, that guy doesn't need a truck" and it reinforces whatever internal monologue they have going.

Meanwhile, approximately everyone here routinely drives alone in a vehicle capable of carrying 5-7 people. (and right about now, someone is about to reply with 'ride a bike, cars suck!')
No, I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying the resources invested in helping people will be dwarfed by those invested in crap designed to exploit them economically or criminally.
To what extent does 78 degree homes impact climate change? The answer is very little if we had leadership that pushed zero carbon energy production (nuclear, wind, solar) instead of being bought and paid for by fossil fuel industries
I propose to solve the waste problem in the most constructive way I am aware of.
If I found a middle eastern lamp and rubbed it and out popped a genie granting me three wishes, my first would be for there to be a modern electric Kei truck broadly available in North America.

I am only slightly exaggerating.
Problem is you can't sort in that order.
Data point: I browsed without an adblocker on phone in Chrome and didn't see any ads.
This is why some political ideologies advocate that reform will never happen without revolution
'There has never been a realistic plan' for UK's £11B Emergency Services Network
The ESN is set to replace Airwave, the mobile comms systems used by the fire, police and ambulance services in the UK. Although reliable, Airwave is old and lacks data bandwidth. The Home Office started the program to deliver ESN in 2015, and hoped to begin using it in 2017, allowing Airwave to be replaced in December 2019. Under current plans, the ESN will not go live until 2026, and it may be as late as 2029.

According to a new PAC report, the Home Office still does not know when ESN will be ready and has little to show the taxpayer for its efforts despite having spent some £2 billion.

This is why we can't have nice things.
Climate change being a fact or not doesn’t really mean that we are in a crisis or catastrophe or whatever other type of adjective climate doomers like. Al Gores 2006 movie has mainly played out wrong as most models do. And for things that could happen we aren’t really sure if they’d be bad necessarily. And if bad what is the timeline and how else can we manage?

The doomers saying we need to act now or else sound like bad used car salesmen.

My point is it’s good to be skeptical of the models that spell doom. They likely have political motivations and are unlikely.
Light at night to work was a major achievement for humanity and there are still many lacking it reliably today. It would continue to be useful post collapse. Portable solar panels + lithium battery banks would be quite useful indeed.
When people wax eloquent about how the artisans will just find something new to do for work, what they fail to mention is that the new work is often a menial and lower-paid job. When Amazon puts mom and pop shops out of business, they don’t go start new businesses, they go get jobs at Wal-Mart.
Somewhat tangentially, I've been wondering why the Soviets weren't able to locate K-129. From what I've read, they searched in a location hundreds of miles away from where SOSUS detected an implosion - why didn't the Soviets pick it up? Surely they had a hydrophone array?
By this project? No one, probably. By this "society is doomed, the world is gonna collapse" type of thought? Many people. Loads of people for a myriad of reasons get conned into this dillusion and either (a) stripped out of their hard earned cash or (b) spiral further and further into a dillisuonal state where they either hurt themselves or people around them.

Also it's effin goofy. Nerd CEOs building their underground fantasy post apocalypse shelter, thinking that not only that the society will collapse I their life time into a Fallout-ish World, but that their shelter is going to be of big help. But the goofyness is just that, it's the promotion and prophecies that are harmful.
> Truck People bad!!

One thing that I try to remind people of is that pickup trucks are the best selling vehicles in the US because the approximate definition of 'Truck People' is everyone.
Article is wrong about energy. Gonna keep getting cheaper. For instance, that's the long term trend:

https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/electricity-...

Reliability is a little less of a given, but it's not unreasonable to expect grid operators to seek to continue making profits.
Ha ha this is me. I tried to hide my face on the call before but then I’m nervous that I might have sauce on my beard or something
> Why is it that people like Adriene can make this work, and get young people to pay this much money when traditional publishers struggle to get people to pay anything at all?

Because "Adriene" sells yoga classes, not news. I do agree that a lot of the publishers mentioned are screwed because they are no longer needed. A yoga magazine needs to figure out what it can sell, but if anything it cannot compete in yoga classes, those are available in simply a better form online. But this is not news.

News is a newsroom reporting on things of interest. This is difficult because there are many things to cover and good people covering it are expensive. So would Spotify for news work? I worked for a relatively large newspaper and tried pitching this idea years ago. By pitching I mean I chatted about this with people at parties, but whatever. Anyway, the feedback I got was that these ideas floated around years ago, bit didn't stick. My feeling is that most newspapers are trying to find subscribers who will trust the newspaper with their life and use it exclusively to get news. There is logic in this, e.g. it's better to have 100k subscribers that will be your core audience than to have potentially millions of users but you have to fight for them and their clicks every day. Long term however I don't think it will work. This idea is becoming too foreign for people, especially young people.

I did not actually call this Spotify for news, instead I called it cable for news. After all mostly you do not pay for every single program you get on cable, it's bundled and everyone gets a piece. I think this will end up happening one way or the other because newspapers are increasingly concentrating and it's only a matter of time before someone offers a subscription for all the products in their portfolio, if they're not doing it already. To this I also feel there is a big technical obstacle in that because all of these products run often on different technical stacks and integrations that make it often too painful to implement.
I'm just using it for sports news, and it's been great for that (i.e. "wojbombs" for breaking NBA trade news). It's also a great place to get fanarts (anime, gacha games, etc). I don't engage though, only passively use it.
This is only true if you assume AI isn't going to keep improving. It gets significantly better on a quarterly basis, far faster than the time it takes for an actor to develop their craft and career. The output quality of todays' cutting edge models would have been science fiction only 2-3 years ago.
Maybe worth to add that syntax highlighting was not a thing back then.
> No one is talking about redundancy though. I love setups like this but prod environments need robust forms of redundancy

Not really, there are many kinds of apps that don't need such redundancy.

> Also, none of the solutions discussed here gracefully handle new connections on the new service while waiting for all connections to terminate before shutting down the old service. Maybe some of the more esoteric Ansible do idk.

I have dealt with this in the code with shutdown hooks on the server, waiting for existing requests to finish its processing and reject new requests, clients will just end up retrying, not all apps can accept this but many can.
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The author conflates individual YouTube channels with "publishers" which is nonsense. The publisher is YouTube. You don't read 10 different "publishers" when you read stories in a newspaper by 10 different journalists. Are we also going to say that watching, say, 20 TikToks from different creators is consuming content from 20 publishers? I sure don't think so. The whole idea of the article seems like nonsense to me. "Spotify for news" is your web browser or the home screen on your phone that has five different news/social media apps. We don't need another layer in between.
Is Google down again? Bummer.

FORTH is still used to bring up new silicon because of its tiny core, you only need a couple of working assembly instructions to bootstrap yourself into a working system, you could do this entirely in cache or a small static RAM if you don't have a working memory controller yet.

It is also used all over the place in embedded controllers, https://arduino-forth.com/ , http://www.piclist.com/techref/microchip/language/forths.htm , https://github.com/nimblemachines/muforth , from PICs to ARMs and everything in between.

You won't see a lot of hype around it and repos tend to be old because they 'just work', typically a user of such a system would download it and customize it to the point that sharing it would be pointless, the whole idea is to extend the language to become the application.