skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They are completely neutral in terms of investment quantities.

They are not completely neutral since 'they' own large blocks of major companies which gives them commensurate voting power and immense influence over every major company.

The simplest fix to this is deny funds any voting rights and to give the votes to the individuals who invest in these funds - index or mutual, closed or open ended. It's a logistic nightmare but either the individuals get the vote or nobody does.

> In fact the speaker seems to imply that they have very little, if any, influence on countries like Russia and China.

Why would they? They don't have a major presence in these countries. Though I'm sure both want access to china.

> Most, if not all, of the actual claims made in this video are not supported beyond being stated.

It isn't a secret that these two had undue influence in corporate america. Go to any major company and check their top institutional holders.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/META/holders?p=META

You'll almost always see blackrock and vanguard amongst the major shareholders. The problem is that they get to vote when the people who invest in these funds should be the ones given the vote. It's really an industry wide problem, not an individual fund company problem.
Thinking of a real estate transaction as an exchange of physical things is already a mistake. Most people expect to take possession of a structure in most deals, but it is sort of beside the point. What you're trading is a legal filing where you go to the county recorder (most states) and just claim to own something. What are you really buying? The promise from the other guy that they won't claim to own it in the future. But, under our deeply stupid title system, there really isn't a guarantee that the seller "owns" it in the first place. All kinds of people could have claims on it.

In a legal system this vague, smart contracts simply do not have a niche.
LLMs were/are massively overhyped though. Like it’s not even close to the sort of transformation they promised. Neat tech yes, world-changing solution to all of our problems? Very hardly, unless a very significant effort is spent (and yet undiscovered tech invented) to eliminate all of its significant practical problems.

Academics (and similarly venture startup founders) like to sort of jump to conclusions along the lines of “discovery was the hardest part - now this thing could enable ... in the next X years” at the end of a paper. And then people spend many decades to actually reduce this to practice. So 90% of work belongs to applications, not technology in on itself.
Right and if you actually listen to what he says, and understand history, we promised Russia we would never move an inch closer to them, and we have repeatedly sone so since making that promise in the early 90s.

We also place aegis missile systems near their border, which allows us to strike at the heart of Russia within 12 minutes.

This is nearly identical to what Russia pulled on us in the Cuban missile crisis, we would not of tolerated that, nor should we and that’s why we nearly invaded Cuba.

We did the same thing to them in the Ukraine, and if you don’t think that provoke them to react, then you simply don’t know history.
Eh, this guy doesn't speak for us.
I have seen aluminum bottles (for beer). Heavier than cans but lighter than glass.
You should learn about anthropogenic climate change.
Full hearing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL_HYG3uXQg

I watched it, pretty weird. Particularly interesting: 1:45:00 through 2:00:00
It doesn't sound silly at all to me. I was also raised atheistically, but in a fiercely Catholic family in Ireland. I never saw this at the time, but I knew it happened.

To my shame, I thought she was uncool for years after. I think I picked it up from others at the time (I was in a Catholic primary school).

Ironically, even though it was apparently common knowledge amongst my Catholic country- and family-members, it took years for for me to believe that that kind of systematic abuse could have happened.I have dedicated a part of my resources and efforts to eradicate the Catholic church and other radical religions from my country
> I honestly don't know how someone could do much of anything in a "single window" on a 27" iMac screen. (Anything beyond, say, watching a movie or the like.)

Well, IDE windows have sub-components while still techncially being "single window". CAD/graphics related ones like space. Most other apps don't need more than half of that screen.
I have quite a few which do.

Of course, they're currently being reused instead.
The guys at Falcon Space said they were working on trying to reproduce it today - they said they have everything they need.
This is their channel https://www.youtube.com/@FalconSpace where you can learn more about them
Mozilla posted its position on Google’s Web Environment Integrity API here:

Mozilla opposes this proposal because it contradicts our principles and vision for the Web. Any browser, server, or publisher that implements common standards is automatically part of the Web. ... Mechanisms that attempt to restrict these choices are harmful to the openness of the Web ecosystem and are not good for users.

The full response is here:

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/852#is...
> Instead of composing libraries into an executable you can use containers to compose services into an application

This is the most concise and exact definition I've heard lately.

My only problem with the consequences of this approach is that the amount of overhead for performing the same operations is astonishing.

Messages pass on a network instead of stsying in RAM, CPU context switches every other ms to handle IO for what could have been a simple function call, etc.

It's amazing when it's needed, but seeing this approach becoming the standard for a big part of the industry almost turns it into an environmental problem. How much energy is wasted juggling bits around?
They've declared war on adblockers, without any regard if that makes the experience miserable for all users. That is a move doomed to fail in the long run, and being the monopolist won't help them much as the day AI can be used to filter out junk from videos and reupload them on a decentralized platform using p2p is not that far from happening.
John Carmack Showing Racket's Live Coding Capability in Oculus [video] (2015)
Did you really read just the first sentence of my comment?
Wouldn't it be odd for an amalgam of lead and copper to be non-conductive?

I know they were formed from sulfur compounds, but the production process should have eliminated those compounds, and the final forming is done in a vacuum so there shouldn't be any oxide generation to form non-conductive barriers.

I don't know much about the process but shouldn't they be testing resistance in a superconductor?
> The most productive team I’ve been on did not have a manager.

Ive been in the weird scenario of not having a real manager a couple times. One time it was how you described. Another was pretty bad, we basically became the dumping ground for unwanted projects and tedious work because we didn't have authority to say no.
Residuals apply to works that already exist. Profit sharing is from future works. That's the difference.

Is that fair? It doesn't need to be. Studios don't try for fair - they get as much as possibly can. So should the actors and all of the other workers.
As long as you're not surprised by the dampening on your job prospects. I feel like there's a difference between not being a good fit, and not getting the opportunity to prove you're not a good fit. Some of your filter, as many are suggesting, is well before the interview process.

I'm mid-40s and have worked for myself since my late teens. I recently realised that I'm likely unemployable in a traditional office sense, and so will need to make everything work off my own back until retirement. Things are good now, but prospects and perceptions change quickly with age, depending on your field.
This is a big part of my quandary.

If resources, including livable land, become scarcer then it stands to reason having accumulated more wealth would be the only possible path to help ensure you survive. And even this isn't a guarantee, as the wealth might become worthless and or taken away from you.

On the other hand if you assume we're all fucked and proceed as if that's the case, if the shit hits the fan before you expire then you're even more likely to be on the outside looking in.
Both the package and the index is signed actually. That's why it still works when installing APK files directly
That's a good song, it has some interesting harmonic similarities to Howard Blakes walking in the air.
https://github.com/meeb/tubesync

It will automatically download new videos from any public channel or playlist.
Nonsense. There's nothing incomplete about our model for lift on airplanes.
REBCO tape is just starting to be available in volume, and I don’t think availability is raw materials is even close to being a limiting factor.
In my case the business is 3 years old and we're still just the founding team. However, revenue is on a level where we can finance our lives. It would really need to be a heavy hitter for our first employee to get more than 2% equity. I think that's not so unusual, it's just unusual in Silicon Valley.
They can totally set it on fire and poison you with toxic fumes though.
Who is still buying into this crap and why?
> I knew I would encounter ecological catastrophe. I expected the poisoning of rivers, the desecration of desert ecosystems and feedlots heaving with antibiotic-infused cattle.

I've traveled all over the USA and I don't think any of the above would match my expectations before setting out. It seems like she already had her mind set on looking for the negatives.
informed intentionally because someone picked him as the gullible fall guy to leak it, more likely… why would the military tell someone and also deny access
I'm not even anon on twitter, but bonkers to think that people would want to directly connect their finances to things they say in online in public in this day and age
Did they? I've seen a lot of e.g. newspaper sites removing comment sections, or switching them to not display comments until they've been moderated.
For the GNN mail system, that was built on a pair of DEC Alpha 2100s, that were both connected to a pair of drive arrays. We had inherited that from ANS, and they had inherited that from O'Reilly.

Global Network Navigator was the first nation-wide ISP in the US, and was a partnership between O'Reilly and AOL. But then it got too big for O'Reilly to run, and AOL wasn't ready to take it over, so we made ANS take it -- at the time, we had recently acquired ANS as our Tier-1 network provider, and they knew a lot more about DEC Alpha hardware than we did. But then it got too big for them to deal with, and AOL finally had to take it over. The mail system part was given to me and my co-worker. We learned a lot about DEC Alpha hardware from GNN, and we loved it.

That system worked great, up until the time that DEC sent out a Field Engineer to upgrade the firmware on the drive arrays. Then we got weird errors when we tried to come back up. So, we switched to the backup systems that were connected to the same drives. And it was also hosed. Fortunately, I had started taking user mailbox backups to our Auspex NFS file server that week, so we had backups. We soon realized that over 50% of the POP3/leave-on-server mailboxes will change radically over the span of an day. And some of our mailbox backups were over eighteen hours old. So, most of those backups were actually useless.

We did finally get back up and running by mounting the backup mailboxes via NFS, but we lost pretty much all user confidence in the system by that time.

The drive arrays had been set up to mirror at the lowest level, then stripe across the mirrors in hardware. We then striped again across those volumes in software, which was a high performance disk striping technique we called "plaiding". We ended up breaking each of the lowest level mirrors and sending the whole bunch to the guy who wrote the AdvFS filesystem for DEC, but he never got better than 80% recovery of the data, which meant that on average every fifth character was wrong. So, pretty much none of those recovered mailboxes were useful.

That was the death knell for GNN. If you can't trust the mail system, then what else can you trust?
>And with Apple’s shareholders not in agreement to actually put their money where their mouth is when it comes to human rights, it’s not likely Apple is going to go against China anytime soon.

Interesting link in that last paragraph: https://reclaimthenet.org/apple-rejects-freedom-of-expressio...
Can you give examples of things which are "simply are complex and to say otherwise is to over-simplify them" and that are not either blockchain or snake oil?

Note that internal operation does not really matter, only applications do; I might have no idea how CRISP/CAS works, but I can totally understand some of its applications and why people call it revolutionary.
I know of multiple apps that have that ability and I've personally shipped 10+ cross-platform apps built on Quasar+Vue+Capacitor and Ionic+Angular+Cordova/Capacitor and a few have had the ability to remotely update the code (just the JS/HTML/CSS) and they have all been approved. I am interested in the exact way the rejection was worded. IIRC their dev agreement had an exception, at one point, to the "no downloading executable code" rule, it said that using downloaded code in JavascriptCore was allowed. Apple doesn't seem to approve of remote updating but they seem to turn a blind eye to it, I would assume most big companies that use these cross-platform tools like this have a way to remotely update the code (JS/HTML/CSS).

I totally believe they rejected your app though, App Store review is pretty bad. I mean at least they are _way_ faster now but it's reviewer roulette for sure. I've been dinged for things that aren't even in the App Store dev agreement, they were in some other document. Even worse the reviewer told me I needed to change my wording when requesting a permission, the problem? She wanted me to change text I don't control in the permissions dialog. I explained that I only had control over the single string in quotes but she told me I was wrong (I got through on the next review). The inconsistency in the review process is maddening and so much of it is reading the tea leaves of what they actually want and what is allowed. I mean, we all know it's against the rules to send advertising/marketing push notifications right? Right? That _never_ happens in the App Store... Make whatever rules you want but dear god please enforce them consistently and change/remove a rule if you've decided to not enforce it.
I guess there are at least two competing narratives? What are they?

Somehow, it had to be selective breeding, since what other explanation is there? But WHY people did it, and what motivated them -- I don't know what evidence there could be.

ChatGPT tell us:

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The transformation of teosinte into maize (corn) is considered one of the most significant achievements in agricultural history. Mesoamericans, the indigenous peoples of present-day Mexico and Central America, were responsible for this domestication process, which occurred over thousands of years. This transformation involved careful selection and cultivation of teosinte plants with desirable traits, leading to the development of the maize we know today.

Here are the key steps involved in how Mesoamericans turned teosinte into maize:

Observation and Gathering: Mesoamerican communities initially observed wild teosinte plants growing in their natural habitats. Teosinte is a wild grass with small, tough kernels. Over time, they realized that some teosinte plants had slightly larger and more accessible kernels, which could potentially be useful for food.

Selective Harvesting: They started to selectively harvest teosinte plants with the most desirable traits, such as larger seeds or fewer hard outer coverings. By saving and replanting the seeds from these chosen plants, they promoted the propagation of desired characteristics in the next generation.

Controlled Planting: Mesoamericans began to cultivate teosinte near their settlements, providing a controlled environment for its growth. This controlled planting allowed them to have more influence over the breeding and development of teosinte plants with preferred traits.

Repeated Selection and Domestication: Over generations, Mesoamericans continued to save seeds from the teosinte plants that exhibited the most favorable traits. Gradually, the teosinte plants underwent a process of domestication, with their characteristics evolving to become more like those of modern maize.

Artificial Selection: The process of domestication also involved artificial selection, where humans intentionally chose plants with specific features and bred them together to enhance those traits in the next generation.

Increasing Yield: As the domestication process progressed, the size and yield of the maize cobs increased, and the seeds became more substantial and easier to process as a food source.

Cultural Significance: Maize became deeply ingrained in the culture and traditions of Mesoamerican societies. It played a crucial role in their diets and rituals and became a staple crop in their agricultural practices.

This process of gradual domestication led to the transformation of teosinte into maize, creating a crop that was much more productive and nutritious for Mesoamerican communities. It's essential to note that this domestication was a result of generations of careful observation, selection, and cultivation by the indigenous people of the region, showcasing their knowledge and understanding of plant genetics and agriculture.

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Honestly, I'd like to hear what's controversial about this.
It's a nice list of problems and tricks to help, and it is a fun take on issues.

For those focusing on the title, a nice way of seeing a difference is less "my container does X" and more "when I run the production container...". Sure your local build might do one thing but you can get what's built in production and try running it. Maybe you can quickly swap between multiple combinations of service versions to replicate a bug that happened during deployments.
Thanks for the insight, when I was with DTV our HP/Tandem rep always made a big deal about their footprint in AOL in what would have been the same time era you were there (mid 90s) and how they "created the internet you know today" but they always sounded more like sales guy tall tales than anything else. We kept their footprint constrained to database caches (effectively) because our Superdome couldn't handle the dual workload of Siebel and lots of read requests from APIs, which was a role they excelled at for us.
Beyond that, the issue is risk. To make a new, better company is a very risky endeavor. It takes sticking through hard times. Very few people and willing to do that without a chance of major remuneration.
Where "reality" is defined as "that part of reality which is deemed acceptable at this moment", otherwise known as the Overton window. Mention something which lies outside of it but still well within the domain of science - I'm not talking about creationism - and you'll soon find out "reality" deserves those scare quotes around it. Go have a look at the discussions around SARS2, around the efficacy or lack thereof of the experimental vaccines or whether masking really provides protection against these types of infections. There is legitimate science on both sides of the debate but only one side was welcome during the pandemic, those who cited the other side quickly got labelled and nullified. There are countless other areas where this phenomenon can be seen and where a label and nullification awaits those who dare to step over the line, I'm fairly sure everyone can think of a few of them.
Transitory was the term they initially used.
Thank you gor sharing this. I'm glad you found a way through. It must have been extremely difficult to confront and accept these realities. Seems pretty brave to me.
Feels like fighting with Microsoft Word sometimes doesn't it?
Depends on if you want them to be totally unprepared for society or
not.

Would you consider it reasonable to ban anyone under 18 from reading or visiting a library?
sqlite3 <dbfile> '.backup path/to/backup' && rsync ...
> As Marc Andreessen said at the time:

>> Netscape will soon reduce Windows to a poorly debugged set of device drivers.

It's funny how history proved him so wrong and so right at the same time.
Exway doesn't care about USB-C conformity
My mother - an Australian citizen - went to school in Texas in the 60s and caused a big stir because she wouldn't recite the Pledge of Allegiance (because why would she? She wasn't American).
Autizmophrenia: The Neurodivergence
This woman is doing a very "unique"/diy basement/tunnel project: https://www.tiktok.com/@engineer.everything
This looks great.

A few observations:

- As soon as I sent it the first prompt, it tried to connect to windows.net. Why is that? Is this call safe to block?

- When opening a new window, macOS asks me to give access to VS Code for a lot of folders: Desktop, Downloads, Documents... The only new thing is the Continue plugin. Why would it ask that?

- It looks like it needs to redownload "Python packages" every time I open a new window. I wonder if this could be optimised for a quicker startup.

- It tries to connect to meilisearch.com . What information is being sent over? What is this used for?
Especially for linux hosts this misses that containers will still run on the same kernel (version) as your host OS, inheriting a lot of settings and limitations from there as well (for example net.core.somaxconn). The most obvious ones are sysctl settings, many of which must be set system-wide. Common ones which can drastically change characteristics of database software are vm.nr_hugepages (postgres - why are we OOM or latency is spotty?) and vm.overcommit_memory (redis - why does background saving not work?).
Governance of next-generation automated economies and societies.

It's one thing to make a promise to someone. It's another to marry your business procedures directly to immutable code which guarantees to users, employees and partners that the business operates in the intended and described way.

Most of these benefits require your company to be digital in nature, but many asset-based economic systems can benefit from it.

For example, automatic, trustless guarantee of both quality of transport and payment for shipping goods. Sensors in a transport vehicle continually update a decentralized semi-private blockchain, proving that an item never left a refrigeration state, or was not tampered with.

Automatic payment could be achieved by placing the item inside a locked stationary container at point of delivery and validating through this blockchain that all requirements were met.

A system like this could go even further to make guarantees to the end customer, who could verify at point of sale that their food item remained fresh.
"Whistleblower tells Congress US is concealing 'multi-decade' UFO capture program"

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"Whistleblower is deluded"

There's no UFOs. Well let me clarify - there's no aliens. If there are UFOs then they are made right here on earth and just need close up, non fuzzy photos.
That's essentially what Python does
Not only less power consumption on Computers but a 100x improvement in clock speeds, a 500GHz CPU would be absolutely insane.

Whether or not we can manufacture/shrink the superconductor circuits enough to be competitive with semiconductors is another question, but my naive interpretation is that if you can make the superconductor circuits 100x larger than a silicon circuit, it is still going to have significant advantages.
This is not true. I just logged into Twitch on Linux, Firefox ESR and it works just fine.