skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Is this even enforceable?

Not really, people have been talking in code for millennia. I wouldnt be surprised if a car company like Mercedes or Volkswagen could use their vehicles like swarm drones, relaying information between them when passing on the road, which could get data out of the UK using the cross channel ferries and eurotunnel.

There's way too much movement of people and stuff inorder to secure anything really. Even the new Apple headset can read the iris of the eye to get subconscious data out of the user when exposed to AV data, and the users wont even know they are giving out this data. Privacy? We dont have any!

Clandestine communications in cyber-denied environments
Numbers stations and radio in the 21st century https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/18335330.2023.2...

Number Stations https://www.youtube.com/@RingwayManchester
the courts in the uk are in the business of interpreting the laws that parliament creates. as these laws are mostly very badly drafted, there is a lot of wiggle-room.
I think Australia is used as a canary for laws that other 5-eyes countries want to implement.

Australians are pretty darn compliant to bad government because their lives are really quite comfortable either way.
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

(They can just be awfully hard to count, no matter who counts.)
Ah I missed that - thanks. Normally I'd swap the URLs but since there's a different essay by that author on the front page right now, I think we'll leave this thread alone; it just set off the flamewar detector anyhow.

The other thread:

How to Roman Republic 101 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36903149 - July 2023 (30 comments)
Which internal APIs does it have access to?
That's an interesting observation, but I don't think it's because of the instant-outage-notification thing.

It might be worthwhile to look at how peoples' expectations of service availability have changed in the last fifty years as compared to peoples' perceived importance of non-essential services.
can i emp his car to cause inconvenience?
This reads to me like, "$2.4 trillion dollar software company throws a public tantrum because they didn't order the parts they needed in time"
why bother. Feed the Ponzi by importing millions from the third world.

how could this go wrong?
Thanks! Very interesting. I suspect this has something to do with the network arrangements of simcard-korea. That’s not standard for iphones with ‘normal’ in-country sims. I change my sim every few months and it ‘just works’ without any extra steps.
While the article raises some interesting issues, giving some interesting terminology to test, they are hidden in a wall of regurgitated textual background that ironically would fit what I would expect from an AI generated text. Is this a piece sponsored by Getty? It reads like it.
$5 a visit, when they are making $0.33 and hour...more than two days labor to pay it all for a doctor visit. "One of the biggest differences between the incarceration systems of Norway and the USA is that Norway does not have large, centralized jails. Instead, Norway utilizes a system of small, community-based correctional facilities that focus on rehabilitation and reintegration into society." "Norway's prison system houses approximately three thousand offenders. Norway's prison system is renowned as one of the most effective and humane in the world. Norway does not instate capital punishment or life imprisonment." Seems U.S.A. has cruel and unusual punishment for prison health.
Love that it repeats questions I got wrong on randomly until I get it right.
Except that all distinct orbits at the same altitude eventually collide.
Right, but presumably the effects are greater for the people in California?
You can pin your JVM process to a single core and will effectively get Python multithreading model.
Consider owning an ETL system where users can create periodic jobs, like calculating a "daily active user" rollup table from a bunch of event source tables. Now consider being asked to switch the query execution engine from A to B, perhaps because engine B is much more cost-effective for your system's query patterns. Ex: You are tasked with switching from MapReduce to Tez, from Presto to Spark, etc. Before full migration, you can reduce risk by double-writing jobs, with engine A writing to the standard output location, and engine B writing to some other migration location. This should lead to two identical SQL tables, which you should then verify, because sometimes these execution engines have bugs hiding in the corners :)
we would be doing that if technology was perfected
Awful parents breed awful kids.
That seems like ground based interference. Today a lot of stuff, including components of the drone itself, can be unintentional L-band radiators.

Getting what is probably the cheapest tier of spectrum analyzer and investigating that behavior seems somewhat prudent.
> Any number of people would prefer blue check

... where "any" is the number of people who paid for a blue check.
Oh I read that entirely wrong when I woke up this morning.

Young-Wan Kwon is one of the [many] LK-99 coauthors. He gave a very unconvincing presentation at MML 2023 which did not show any evidence of the Meissner effect.
> It's a deadly arms race to get as big as you can

Every time I hear someone say they like their SUV or mondo pickup truck because it feels safer, I usually reply, "I know what you mean. That is why I stand up when watching movies in the theater -- the view is so much better."
I don't see slavery as a necessary development towards industrialization. It is more of a consequence of an the absence of a moral philosophy that valued individual rights. It just so happened that moral philosophy (the Enlightenment) and industrialization developed concomitantly in the West.
We have hundreds of tests for our client side projects (web app, mobile app), and they definitely do more than what you describe.

Some are simple (although very few are as simple as your example) and some are complex, depending on the portion of the app being tested. Some are basically integration tests for components/widgets, where it runs it in isolation to test the inputs and outputs. Others are more like traditional unit tests where it's purely testing business logic, API and model interactions (mocked), form validation logic, etc.

Unless you're talking about very simple client apps, there's always stuff that can be tested that will provide significant business value by preventing bugs and broken code from getting to end users
The key is topological sorting of a dependency graph. This can be done implicitly by storing a reactive variable node’s depth once it is created, and just making sure that updates are enqueued in separate queues per depth.

I have a somewhat small implementation that transparently batches updates with queueMicrotask in this library (bruh): https://github.com/Technical-Source/bruh/blob/a829af9df9405b...
Why exactly are you trying to compare mustard gas to Tor? I'm kind of lost here.

But anyway, to answer your question: mustard gas is not one thing, it's a class of chemicals. But one of them became the first ever chemotherapy drugs, Mustine:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlormethine
You laugh, but my wife would totally implement this.
O1 is overrated and not that useful. It still needs to be sponsored by an employer, and the employer will make the determination if they want to sponsor an O1 for you. It's mainly useful if you can't make it through the H1B lottery. The criteria are subjective, but it's a lower bar than EB1A. Look at AAO decisions to get a sense of what gets rejected. The general framework for how USCIS looks at these is based on case law from Kazarian, which states that you need to satisfy the numerical criteria as a 1st step, and there is a final merits determination as a 2nd step. This was for EB1A, but USCIS also uses the same framework for O1s (although there is some litigation going on on whether Kazarian should apply to O1).
We don’t use Tremor for our product dashboard, but do use it for some starter templates we create to build on.
I don’t think this is a thing you can pattern-match for. Too much of happiness, success, etc is luck. Often, I look back and realize a period was a happy time, but I don’t remember feeling particularly happy while it was happening.

Keep working on the projects you want to pursue and learning new things. Try to practice gratitude and be generous when you’re able. The tide and economy do their thing and we all try to do ours.
Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei (English Translation)
just because I appreciate it when people do it for me

waste -> vast

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vast
ignore the emp thing, im going to do that command line thing and upload it on utube and when he gets back from work
Newcomen solved a real problem and created a virtuous loop: it helped pump water from coal mines, which made coal cheaper to extract, which helped keep the (quite inefficient) machine running long enough that it could be refined to the point that it could be used elsewhere.
Ask HN: Any open source alternative to Slack?
Slack is getting expensive, any good scalable alternative to Slack?
I absolutely loved my Mazda R100 rotary (had it for 5 years, 1970-1975).

Especially the snarl at 4000 rpm when the second pair of carburettor throats cut in.

I gave up on drag-racing other cars. It just won every time. Except for that time we played cat-and-mouse with a Porsche over about ten miles - the Porsche was the cat.

Excellent specimen, same color and all: https://musclecarwarehouse.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/07...
It may not seem like a big issue but it speaks to the attitude of billionaires. I am no longer free to vent personal amounts of coolant from a refrigerator but Elon Musk can punch all of the holes he wants with his expensive rockets.
It worked for a few days and then stopped loading replies. Maybe it's because I'm in the EU?
That, mon ami, gets a doubleplusgood[0] rating all day long.

It's got understated irony that somehow tends to sarcasm at the same time. It's very hard to unpack yet delicious.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak
> I know there's an almost fetishistic worship of punishment in the US

Another side of the US, the idea that everything has to be a business, in that case, charging prisoners to make phone calls.
No-GIL means better performance at the cost of being less beginner-friendly, right?
"$5.5 billion dollar company asks random people to handle what remains of its legs after repeatedly shooting itself in the foot despite tens of thousands of people begging for it to stop pulling the trigger"

"I can't believe they had the wherewithal to reload so many times." said one shell shocked bypasser. "I kept thinking, "Thank God it's finally over" and next thing you know Reddit was pulling another box of shells literally out of its own anus to fire again."
Coming from LatAm as well, and wanting dangerous criminals punished as much as the next populist politician promises to do, so that we get closer to a less lenient and excessively-tolerant system, I can see where you are coming from and I agree that their set of problems are different than ours.

Especially here in Chile where recent mass immigration waves have pretty much spiked violent crimes in ways that were only common in central america, so it absolutely caught the country unprepared, where petty theft is pretty much given a slap on the wrist so as to avoid prison, even with multiple reincidences.

Even then, this would be a positive development, as calls could be completely monitored from landlines I guess, rather than the smuggled phones that make it to prison through public defenders and drops all the time, so it could actually be better as a way to prompt more frequent inspection and at least here, allowing prisons to jam mobile signal, which is something that's been proposed for years but even guards have protested against, as they rely on radio for internal comms (I'm not sure about the specifics)
For context this is a cross party designed in committee policy.

Yes, both parties are that bad.

The dumbest thing about this is you create a single attack vector for nation state enemies who we know now all have the facilites to exploit this.

You might as well just turn the lights off and hand Russia, China, Iran, N. Korea the keys.
I’ve seen this comparison to async/await a few times and I’m not sure how accurate it actually is. It’s true that async functions can be polyfilled via generators, but from what I understand that’s more of a conceptual transpilation by tools like Babel, rather than a runtime implementation.

IMO the `await` keyword is clever abstraction that can make asynchronous code easier to understand in a synchronous way. And unlike the collection-oriented ceremony of generators, calling await on an expression doesn’t imply anything more than the presence of a `then` method on an object.

Anything with a `then` method can be awaited, and so native Promises aren’t actually all the special or sacred. Invoking await on an expression involves no extra machinery, only that a Promise-like object is returned.

And the `async` keyword is even better. It’s completely optional! This keyword only has two effects: allowing the `await` keyword in a function scope, and implicitly returning a promise.

There’s a secret pleasure in all this too. A series of awaited Promises can be wrapped into a single async function. And there’s no need for multiple error checking steps either. All async functions return a promise, so we can wrap the function single try/catch block, or even daisy-chain another promise on the `catch` method. All the pieces fit into each other, and most of them are optional.

Meanwhile in generator land, we’ve got cognitive overload in spades. Yield can only be called from inside a generator, yes that little asterisk next to the function name you might at first glance mistake for an errant multiplication symbol. Sorry, there’s these things called Symbols too. Any object can be made yieldable…or was it iterable…by placing the special symbol on an object class as an interpolated method which returns an iterable. I’m not making this up.

Imagine teaching this to a junior developer who’s spent over a year programming asynchronous code and never once needing a generator. The tide-level for problems solved with generators is always waist-deep, always introduced as a secondary step to achieving another goal.

Generators are almost always hints of a design-flaw introduced much earlier in development, usually by an engineer with enough experience to write code, but not nearly enough to understand how it works.
they are pens that are dipped in an ink-well. there is a very small ink capture volume in the nib.

i used them in my first year in secondary school in the uk, in about 1962? we had an "ink monitor" who was a boy who went round re-filling the ink-wells, which were built into our desks. it was a horrible experience. a bit later we all got fountain pens, and much later even the most reactionary of teachers caved in and let us use biros.
The Dutch were advanced in lots of ways, but they weren't very industrialised. Flanders would have been more likely. But they weren't in a great position at the time, controlled first by Spain, then Austria, then France; their trade blocked by the Dutch.

Netherland was in fact rather late with the industrial revolution, especially the introduction of trains, because there wasn't a real need for them. Netherland already had an extensive transportation network with its rivers and canals, with towed barges transporting goods at reliable speeds.
Most analog TVs I've used had a fine tuning dial surrounding the channel knob and sometimes you had to use that.
https://archive.li/93tCF
I was installing the Discord desktop app on an old MacBook earlier today and I got a prompt along the lines of "Discord would like to monitor every keystroke you enter in every application on this computer -- hit OK to continue." I very carefully selected "Hell no" and I honestly felt offended even to have been asked that question. It would be like some random person on the subway just asking if they could have all the money in my wallet. I felt like I was being pranked. If you're going to be that audacious, at least give me the respect of explaining why. Just asking me that with "ok" or "no" as my only options to proceed is ridiculous.
> Personally I can see no good will come from bringing free threading to the masses

I’ve often thought that proper threading should be learned by the masses, not to be scared of it. This sort of statement does nothing but spread FUD.
I also disagree with Devereaux's view that the industrial revolution would very likely only been possible in the specific English circumstances.

In a specific sense, market pressures, high demand and the depletion of readily available resources have led to continuous pressure for energy- and labour-saving innovations in mining in general since at least the 1500s. The copper mines of Falun and Røros in Scandinavia (where large mining operations started in the mid 1600s) present examples of that trend.

In a more general sense, one can observe a continuous improvement of mechanisation and material in production during the Middle Ages with an increase of innovations and technical understanding in the 1600s. This was a general trend that, even if it were following a different trajectory, would have meant an every increasing accumulation of technological knowledge. Perhaps the electric motor would have been invented before the steam engine or oil had been exploited before coal -- and everything would have taken a little longer. But with technical knowledge expanding further and faster, it would only have been a matter of time before economically viable applications for primitive heat engines emerged.
> For example, today wifi routers “just work” right out of the box. In the early 2000s it would have taken a network engineer with knowledge of DNS, IP, Ethernet, RFC1918, actual routing protocols and whole bunch of other stuff to set something like that up and they’d have well known how it worked and why it was configured the way it was.

I think you are stretching how bad wifi was in early 2000s - sure its easier today, but in the actual year 2000 you could walk into a store and take home an Apple branded wifi base station (original AirPort unit) - 802.11b stuff of the era was largely as easy to connect new stuff to as today, generally with a passkey. It all largely worked with DHCP out of the box just like most routers today too, if anything the experience is much the same minus the faster speeds, slightly better range and encryption today. Oh and probably some kind of ipv6 support...

You certainly did not need network engineer level knowledge - lots of smart professional folks installed wifi in the 2000s, and solutions like the AirPort base station and many others were about as "turnkey" as they came.
I'm going to assume this is the case:

"I'll sometimes use sarcasm as a tool to make you think harder about an opinion expressed."
Top o' the line in utility sports. Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts-- Canyonerooooo!
I think the app is just for you to check your data usage. Things will work without it. Just insert the SIM card and reboot.
Seeds May Use Tiny “Brains” to Decide When to Germinate
Some of you have great recommendations! Unfortunately mine are pretty boring - usually either Music Made for Airports or some Lofi.
I've done vipassana retreats where they play audio files from Goenka's instructions. You can do the same with a phone.

I've used analogue timers to determine when to get up from my session. Please explain the difference between an analogue timer and a digital one, for this purpose.
And a world where all people innately have the ability to regenerate organs and limbs isn't the world you want to see?
>He already has?

What’s the point of the question mark there? Are you not sure of your statement?
How different do you think the article might have read had it been written two years later than it was?
I seem to think you're interpreting that in a way that is not consistent with our current understanding of limb regrowth.

This is the paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abj2164 and it clearly states they treated a frog (xenopus, a common model organism), which does not normally regenerate when it's an adult. The paper clearly states that they treated with a set of factors that they believe induced a developmental plan- implemented by the transcription of DNA, translation of RNA, and expression of proteins. The initial treatment was removed, and the effect continued.

Also there's nothing about ion channels in this- the factors they used must have been actively transported- they bind to protein receptors.
I’m glad they’re very conscious about how easily this could turn into a Python 4 debacle.

They’ll have to be intensely careful not to accidentally affect yes-GIL behaviour. All kinds of weird cases are possible if any sort of emulated GIL isn’t exactly like with a GIL.
Because the hole was similar sized to their state?

I guess so, they will have to deal with increased fame and awareness of the size of their state.

People in Oregon on the other hand will continue to be snubbed.
>"GMail can only be accessed by a browser running Chrome," and they lock-in their market dominance not on quality of the application but on network-effect necessity of installing it to access your data.

Google can do that right now. They don't need attestation to do so. They can take gmail off the web and build it into Chrome itself.
I don't know, I just have this idea that we aren't actually on the top of the food chain so to speak. Maybe it's farming for genetic diversity. Or maybe you start civilizations to get them to birth bespoke AI personalities, or some other wacky idea.
Reading between the lines, I suspect OP just wants to get a feel for 'the turtles' that are all the way down... :-)

If so, I second Gibbon1's:

> just do a few embedded projects.

Easiest entry: download a simulator for microcontroller (family) you have in mind. One that lets you single-step through assembler instructions, see effect on registers, CPU flags, memory contents, I/O pin state, etc.

Get 'close to the metal': eg. grab an Arduino + USB <-> JTAG (and/or serial) thingie, download IDE, work through "blinkie LED" example project.

From there, explore some of the integrated peripherals & what you can do with those:

Pulse Width Modulation (both in hardware, or software) as a kind of poor man's analog output.

Hook up character LCD display. Or graphic one, and code some mini games a la "snake", tetris or the like. A few I/O pins, buttons, couple of lines assembly code & presto! You've built a joystick from scratch.

Hook up sensors, relais, or some sensor network LAN stuff, etc etc.

WHATEVER seems interesting. Once you've done a number of such projects (and written a decent amount of assembly code), write some small C programs for the microcontroller, and see what assembly code it's translated into. Or write a small Forth system. See how such things change your perspective from programmer -> low level hardware.

From there on up, it's just layers upon layers of (mostly arbitrary) abstraction. Some 'invisible', some with a huuuge performance cost.

Quad core x86-64 is just a really fast 8051 with more & wider registers + bigger instruction set + huge amount of RAM. ;-)
Contrarian fits the bill
They stole the commons from us and hold it ransom.
We'll start seeing placards attached that says it's known to cause
I think I'd normally say something like that. ;-)
They do now that (pretending to) being offended offers a form of social currency. Had René Descartes been alive today he could have used Offendi, ergo sum as his first principle and not been far off the mark.