skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many of the web APIs in Bun are generated code from WebKit/Safari, which uses C++. We copy them into Bun, comment out the web browser parts, and ship them in the runtime. This is great for web compatibility because it’s literally from a web browser
> Simplify your transition to Waterfall, Agile, and other workflows to keep up team's momentum with Cycles and Modules.

LOL, at least they are honest about companies doing waterfall style planning being their target audience.
> With a lot of systems, the business system design is complex enough in the first place that if you add a distributed system design to it as well you just end up with a colossal mess.

The goals of system design are a) a system actually works, b) the system is not a colossal mess.

In a similar manner, the challenge of any engineering field is to not allow things to become overly complex.

> A normal system design, derisively called a monolith by some, is much clearer and explicit. It's less code. It's more reliable, less brittle. It comes with less footguns.

You're presuming that your average monolith is the result of a refined design. It is not. The main gripe that the luddite-like movement directs at systems design in general is basically the reality that software projects actually need planning and a working software architecture, where in monoliths they can just pile stuff in there without thought or criteria.
Usually not much more than the basic features are needed. The rest is mostly management feel good goodies.
Don't you have to share more details about the exploit then? That seems to be the thing they're trying to avoid for now.
Of course, but if Google did that it would allow Firefox to complain about Google's abuse of monopoly power. I'm not sure that is a path they'd risk going through.
The H1s are so badly worded. They all feel like they are missing a word.
Main discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36815744
I am not saying this to complain. I have no regrets or complaints. I am free from suffering as a result of going through this experience.

I live at the monastery full time now.
Not if he's dead. Some of the stuff is old enough that it's a reasonable question.
I met an Amazon delivery driver yesterday and got to talk with him for a minute. Very nice guy, clearly working very hard at his job, but I couldn't help thinking "why is he working for Amazon?!" Given all that we know, given the conditions in the warehouse, etc. WHY are people still working for Amazon?

I understand in small towns the fulfillment center may be the only job available, but that can't also be true for larger metropolitan areas. At what point will people simply say enough is enough and stop working for Amazon? Never?
I agree with most points in this article but there is clearly some FUD being passed off as fact as well. Specifically that Red hats EULA around free use of GPL code is valid. The author's previous post that indicated far less certainty around that is actually the more correct position.

Simply because some company can write a Eula does not mean that those terms are always enforceable. Simply because companies can choose to terminate a business relationship does not always mean that it's legal to do so. This is really a question that the courts would have to decide if the threat of termination of a business relationship constitutes an additional restriction. Looking at similar things what the courts could decide is really a toss-up and no one knows because if you can show that the exercise of Rights granted to you under the GPL were the reason for the termination of the business agreement for a company that is utilizing GPL code you have a strong argument that they have now placed additional restrictions by their business practices. There are arguments to be made the other way as well. Despite what corporate lawyers would tell you this is not clear-cut at all.

The thing is the GPL is largely a "gentleman's agreement" as there is no large single entity with the deep pockets willing to dump money into enforcing it at every possible point. The move by IBM and red hat is a violation of this gentleman's agreement in principle and their position is if people don't like it "fight me". With their restrictive EULA they are essentially calling the bluff that the GPL puts out there because they know there is not going to be anyone who fights them on this. So their legal position maybe a 50/50 shot in the courts but it goes up to a 90/10 win for them simply because GPL enforcement is so problematic.
Did it ever turn out to contain nicotine?
Somehow related, I've been using pywebview for some internal tools: https://github.com/r0x0r/pywebview

Probably not as full-featured as Electronjs, but since we have a bunch of python scripts to convert to desktop apps, it's very useful.
But they address this in the spec (kinda), suggesting that whitelisting attesters should not be possible.

Presumably this is because if it was, it would open Google to abuse of dominant position claims.
And I don't think that Scott Aaronson's comment makes philosophical sense - Why do we need to extend our senses to know the truths beyond our world? An ant doesn't care to know whether there is a coast line or mountain ahead at 100km distance. It has no business with those distances. There is nothing wrong in imagining Jupiter as a humanified god and its moon as his wife. This is basically tying back things which are outside of human reach to things that make sense in our world. That's how it should be, instead of saying that Jupiter is a big ball of gas or rock. That doesn't matter to our life and evolution on Earth. Speed of light doesn't matter too. 99.99% of the Science and progress we made is unnecessary and childish work done by people who have luxury of not needing to bother about their food and family. And the catastrophic results of such childish "inventions" by these rich kids (scientists) was imposed on global populations. These so called inventions are Oil, Plastics, industrialization, racial mix and related conflicts, urbanization, weaponry, weird social trends, climate changes, general degradation of human biological abilities, natural quality of food, biological diversity and so on. And what did Science achieve? We proudly announce that we busted the dangerous myths enjoyed by our ancestors!!

Oh, You discovered that Earth is not the center of the universe and Sun doesn't go around Earth? Please go a step further to realize that there is no absolute frame of reference that shows what goes around what. Earth going around the Sun is just as equally true as Sun going around Earth. And yes, there is nothing wrong in saying Earth is the center of universe as you can claim any place in the universe as "the center". And you spent countless amount human energy and money to establish the half-truths like this, and call it Science and progress?
> Animal ag. is the leading culprit of the mess we're in

Citations needed. I think cars/trucks are much bigger polluters than cows. Not to mention the ubiquitous industries of plastic, steel and cement.

https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector

Points that Agriculture is 18.6% of total CO2 emissions. Out of which plants related emissions make like 4%. Granted, part of that is animal feed, but you'll have to replace meat calories with something else.
I was curious about what happened since the write-up ends abruptly before revealing the testing results.

Wikisimpsons has a bit more info sourced from DVD commentary revealing that the tomacco had no nicotine in it: https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Tomacco#Behind_the_Laughter

Wikidoc has even more detail but no sources: https://wikidoc.org/index.php/Tomacco
“Mathematics is limited by the physics because physics constrains our brains” only works if you hold the philosophical view of physicalism. People who hold that view believe that the current physical model of reality is all there is and the utmost absolute truth.

Materialistic monism is a popular but not particularly robust view in my opinion, because those models can never be complete and always evolve in directions guided by the applications and predictions our minds seek. (Other views are available.)

I would encourage more people to apply the same principle at the higher level, changing “our brains are limited by physics, hence our mathematics is limited by physics” to “our model of reality, including physics, is limited due to our minds operating within that reality”. In other words, the model that makes you think your consciousness comes from neurones and is thus limited by physics is itself a product of your consciousness, and conclusions you make based on that model (such as “mathematics is limited by physics”) should be taken with a grain of salt (not just as possibly wrong but, worse, not-even-wrong) because you can’t construct a complete model of a system from within said system.

But the kicker is that this logic itself is rooted in mathematical reasoning (see Gödel’s incompleteness theorem), so take it for what you will.
The Final Hop Weekly Cybersecurity Roundup: Week 29, 2023
Hang out a plastic transparant bag in the sun with 75% water filled in it.

Flys seem to get dizzy flying to it and turn around ( that's an explanation I came up with why it works, don't know if it's the explanation)

If it's a outdoor tent, that means 4 hanging bags.
Incredibly bad take if you don't know this person's life and experience
As for market positioning, we ideally want to partner with businesses that operate in a B2B model.

That's not the vibe I got — and, even if so, why would they want to use this?

Also, the name of the service sounds like something cryptobros or gamers would use; it does not sound professional whatsoever.
AI and future of warfare: Implications for international security
Worth a read if you can access the article
Just been in a holiday cottage out on the exposed dales in the English peaks. And by about day four we had fruit flies. Sometimes I think they emerge from the bananas.
Usually. Pypy is a counterexample, with a JIT compiler written in Python: https://www.pypy.org/
Building for Failure
a mirror without archive.org: http://biostatisticien.eu/www.searchlores.org/indexo.htm

Thanks very much for this; I'm very much interested in searching techniques, but wasn't aware of this site.
yeah, marketing is all about using the simplest language to communicate truth relevant to the group you want to reach, not about communicating absolute truth to all comers.
Hello! I am Sampson, from Brave.

Brave is an advertising company, but we’re quite different from Google and others in this space. Brave's ad notifications are opt-in and engineered in such a way to protect and preserve user privacy. I'm not sure where you saw Brave engineers talking about ways to prevent users from blocking our ads—we don’t try to prevent users from blocking Brave Ads.

If you wish not to see Brave’s ad notifications, you can easily avoid them (by not opting-in in the first place, or by throttling/disabling-entirely). There are no special hoops to hop through, or technical incantations to utter. We believe digital advertising is better when it is built on user-first principles and consent.

If a user opts-in to Brave’s ad notifications, their device proceeds to routinely download-and-maintain a regional catalog of available inventory. The user's device then evaluates the catalog entries for relevance. User data is NOT sent off-device in Brave’s model. If a relevant ad entry is found, it is then displayed to the user in such a time and manner for minimal distraction. When an ad notification is shown, the user receives 70% of the associated ad revenue for their attention (no clicks required).

Again, if the user wishes to not see ad notifications, they can simply choose not to opt-in to viewing them. If the user wishes to not see the occasional sponsored image on the New Tab Page, they can turn those off from the New Tab Page itself with 2 clicks ( Customize › Show Sponsored Images). Importantly, the user is always in control. They decide whether ads will be displayed, and to what degree (e.g., the user can set a limit on ad notifications per hour).

Brave isn't interested in coercing users to view advertisements.
Thanks. Reported here: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/3745

Update: the bug is likely due to Code Interpreter using a 4.4 kernel, which is 7 years old!
And Nandgame https://nandgame.com if you prefer to learn by building.
Until a year ago using DuckDuckGo instead of google felt like only an equal or inferior option. But at some recent point I have found that DDG has slightly improved and Google has gotten much, much worse. With DDG and Bing Chat, google's future is looking very Internet Explorer 6.
Mafia I - awesome story, unforgettable characters, unique atmosphere, great music. Also L.A. Noire for the same reasons. Operation Flashpoint - it presented exceptional innovation in its time... And Golden Axe :D
That was a really long response, but I think you missed this:

> and the body was only “designed” to tolerate a narrow band of substances that are encountered in the natural world.
Your reply is dismissive of the OPs grievances they shared with us all.

Suffering, and life, is a relative experience.
From what is written in the document linked by you, those "pyrolysis oils" are obtained by heating wood in an oven, where the wood presumably consists of cheap byproducts of wood processing.

The "lignitic fraction" refers there to products of thermal decomposition of the lignin, which is a major constituent of wood.

So this "biotumen" is just some kind of tar a.k.a. pitch. Various kinds of tar or pitch have been produced by heating wood for thousands of years and used for water-proofing boats or vessels for long-term food storage, or for other similar uses.

Recent research has shown that the Neanderthals knew how to make tar from wood at least two hundred thousand years ago and they used it to glue stone blades on wooden handles:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-08106-7

The Neanderthals' slightly earlier technology might invalidate some of the patent claims of this company, which is why they disclose few details about their product.
Nice post and an out of the ordinary profile you have.
Neurotechnology: Current Developments and Ethical Issues
I was researching AI-enhanced BCI's a while ago, and this was an article I stumbled upon.
Mostly people don't think it's possible to scam your way into a job with that title.

But that is a great reposte for "prompt engineer"; my coworker and I joke about being prompt engineers, but really we are technical people putting new tools to use.
I am a bit surprised by the critical tone in the comments here. Phpdesktop [1] is, for example, a very nice application, and the ability of php to just make some simple scripts on the go and have something that works, is wonderful (compared to js where you often have to build etc, the threshold of getting started on a new computer is high). I have several times needed to make simple applications with a database, and php is perfect for that usecase. Making it simpler to share these applications to non-technical users for offline use is nice

[1] https://github.com/cztomczak/phpdesktop
> I've never even understood the obsession with minimizing base image size, because it's not like it gets loaded into memory, and the fact that it's a base image means you share it with multiple images anyway, so you rarely even need to download or upload the layer over the network.

Isn’t it also the case that less “bloat” can mean less code that potentially leads to fewer bugs? Reducing bloat can have other benefits sometimes.
Row over British Journal of Psychiatry abortion paper saw panel quit
>Due to budget constraints (thanks, ad-block users...) that's all that is available for this comparison.

Greatest respect to Phoronix, but today's ads are privacy-intrusive and sometimes literally malware. Have they considered self-hosting high-quality curated ads themselves?
This reminds me of an American tool company called Chapman Manufacturing. They have been manufacturing driver bits for a really long time, and hold government contracts to keep producing more because the military really liked the product.

My impression was of a company that had invested in doing one thing really well, for a long time, and focused on continuing to deliver a quality product in lieu of expansion, and chasing profits.

This reads to me like Craftsman, in constantly chasing the dime, spread its quality competency far too thin allowing cracks to form in how the business was run. It makes sense, automation should have been a game changer for them, but became a boondoggle.
And that’s part of the problem IME from the customer side. Many of the largest pockets come from those with the worst technical debt and cultural issues of past mistakes and trends all done precisely while trying to avoid said mistakes. While part of the point of many different vendors is for resiliency as an enterprise much of the complexity is frankly various forms of proprietary vendor lock-in tactics trying to entrench themselves in some way to these high value, low churn accounts which starts to become more of a politicking or spear phishing exercise to the C-suite than anything about the solution itself. Essentially, every other bad technology decision in hindsight comes from many of the underlying problems that cause people to develop rather poorly thought out, shallow opinions unrelated to technology - confirmation bias.

As such, sales to me is one of the ultimately lucrative forms of social engineering attacks that oftentimes leaves the victim feeling like they got something when they really are just paying to feel like someone’s solving something for them.
Interesting aspect is that suspicion that the threat of a potential lawsuit means the journal would not withdraw the paper.

The original article is available here[0].

[0] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-...
For me probably filters that are actually useful e.g. Top free apps with no ads

Whats annoying is that Google play has all the data to let you do this but they don't let you filter by if it contains ads or not.
Tomato plants already contain nicotine, though in small amounts. Both belong to the nightshade family, and I believe all nightshades produce nicotine.
I'm using Lively Wallpaper[0] to show an audio visualizer (trough CefSharp). The CPU load as shown in Task Manager is around 1.5-2% on my Ryzen 5800X. Therefore I tend to activate it only when I actually play some music and have it show.

[0] https://github.com/rocksdanister/lively
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Archive: https://archive.is/KFtmB
Knowledge in the grey zone: AI and cybersecurity
Where does your idea that “the middle class pays pretty much all the taxes in the US” come from?

As far as I can tell, the top 1% of earners pay 42.3% of income taxes and earn 22.2% of income. The average 1%-er makes 1.76 million dollars a year. They pay as a group approximately 722 billion dollars annually in income taxes [1]. Then factor in estate taxes and corporate taxes which are disproportionately ultimately borne by the very rich. Then factor in payroll taxes, which are 50% paid by companies. The top 1% bears an incredibly large portion of the national tax burden, as I see it. One could argue it should be more, but I don’t see the argument that the middle class pays “pretty much all the taxes”.

As for a wealth tax, a lot of wealth isn’t in a liquid form. Would you see it forcibly liquidated or would you like the government to have substantial holdings in US companies?

Personally I think there are much more fruitful ways to go about addressing inequality than the progressive “eat the rich” agenda.

[1]: https://taxfoundation.org/publications/latest-federal-income...
That's exactly what it says:

This entire salvage operation is expected to cost about $US150 million.

The UN has been fundraising for several years to fund the exercise and proceeds from the sale of the oil will not be used to cover the cost of the operation.
I wrote some notes about this of what I want in my "life engine":

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas#5-life-engine

I never got into the quantified self but I did want a portal (such as similar to the Yahoo! and Excite.com days) in the early 2000s. of personal facts that I can take actions on.

Then a few years later I wrote about "life situational awareness apps"

I want my phone and desktop computer system tray to have widgets for "accommodation", "travel", "food". I didn't want to have to open a website or app to order food, stay in a hotel or travel, just select what I'm eating/sleeping/travelling from a slideout menu and all the details are worked out by the computer.

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas3#59-life-indicators---sit...

(It was related to my lifestyle subscriptions idea that you can pay for a week or month of travel, acommodation or food) and you receive it seamlessly
https://lifestyle-subscriptions.com

I did write a question generator feed dashboard written in Electron that let you snap in data collectors that would let you save records of stock purchases and facts about yourself such as your salary. The idea is that you could get advice based on what you answer.

https://github.com/samsquire/living-documents

https://github.com/samsquire/living-documents-library (the app repository)

Unfortunately it's probably not buildable and I forgot to take screenshots or videos.

here's me provisoning questions in the database:

https://github.com/samsquire/living-documents/blob/master/pr...
The article links to these internal minutes and memos that seal the case:

(1) Minutes from a 2003 meeting where “ The recommendation of the Review Committee was to stop development due to the likelihood that GS- 7340 would ultimately cannibalize Viread regardless of its efficacy and safety profile.”

https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/gilead-apr-2003/bb3fa...

2) A memo laying out that “Development of GS7340 is timed such that it is launched in 2015 with a six-year path to commercial launch.”

https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/gilead-sept-2003/1561...
The searching of data doesn't need to be controlled by insanely powerful insanely rich entities. Ex: Wikipedia, Craigslist, polio vaccine. If this LLM arms race leads to an organic solution that anyone can grow their own, it might not have as many "This 1 Trick Your Grocer Doesn't Want You To Know" ads in it.

And for superintelligence, let's clarify that this "Artificial Intelligence" moniker has almost nothing to do with actual intelligence, so we're probably a few years off from that.
Aside from being open-source, what’s the main differences from https://linear.app/ ?
This bothers me on almost all project management software.

What I'd love to see, is to be able to assign one person as the one "responsible" and then assign others ad-hoc when/if they work on-, review-, discuss, or co-author it.

Some software allows multiple assignees, but as the ancient management-saying goes: if everyone is responsible, no-one is. So i'd still love to have one person assigned with a special role or label.
Sounds like you are saying that after a liberalization in attitudes toward modern farming, most Indian farmers wouldn't have to choose John Deere, only the Indian mega farms that would under cut them on price per calorie would have to?
Human habits, preferences, and desires rarely submit to pure logic. Humans are more emotional than rational.
All alpine users should already know this

https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Running_glibc_programs
This weekend I'm going to make it easier to run customized instances. I wasn't expecting a good reception from folks lol
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