skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the main issue is the concern over whether you can access other resources on the web. E.g., windows doesn't allow websites to refuse service to you based on, say, your physical address; but the web integrity (WEI) proposal might allow a website to refuse service to your new custom browser because it can't implement WEI.

Imagine instead that chrome refuses to start if WEI can't be guaranteed (but otherwise it doesn't do anything). Is it annoying and dumb? Sure, but it doesn't limit how you can connect to the internet.

I mentioned here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36886572) that I think a better aligned proposal might be to introduce some system for pluggable 3rd party attestations that could be used by websites to verify the that the user is in some sense real. I imagine a lot of people would still object to this, but to me it would remove a lot of the concerns about the open web, since anyone would be able to build a browser integrating with the attestation services (I imagine some sort of service like LetsEncrypt would exist for this, although it's not clear what websites would settle on as being trusted attesters, if it's only a small set of companies then there's still some issues I think).

This whole debate has been interesting to me, since in some sense even with WEI the web is still a thing, it's just that it would be sent back to the 90s. E.g., any website would still be able to allow you to visit without WEI, but large swaths of the internet as used today might be unavailable without it.
Can this way to view the formula be expressed without the terms

beta distribution
conjugate
prior
binomial distribution
bernoulli distribution
posterior

?

Because I could easily grasp that it is a "trust formula" in the way mg described it. But this way to "view" the formula is a mistery to me.
> We’ll keep prosumer entry points around mainly because I think Colin will go nuclear if I suggest otherwise

So that kind of thinking is why every second thing I’d like to hobby-use is priced as a free trial with one missing crucial feature, then $300/mo. It might be rational even, but I’d expect the actual utility does have a negative term for I’m going to hate your service with a fiery passion (and probably also you) if you do this. (Cf recent discussion on customer “support” chatbots.)

> let’s boil it down to a simple intuition: people getting more value out of Tarsnap should pay more for it

That’s basically the definition of a discriminating monopolist and what gets you airline-style inscrutable pricing and the SSO tax, isn’t it? Again, screw that noise. I can’t really motivate this well, but to a first approximation I (a) dislike seeing pricing disconnected from costs; (b) cannot resist the urge to minmax thus cannot help disliking people who make it more difficult than it absolutely needs to be. Note that this does not contradict TFA’s conclusions, unlike the previous point, and another argument in it is actually very close to (b); it’s this specific argument for the conclusion that I’m disagreeing with.

> You know how every ToS ever has the “You are not allowed to use $SERVICE for illegal purposes” despite there being no convenient way to enforce that in computer code?

Yes I do, and I feel basically the same way about that as I do about stupid laws everybody tacitly agrees not to enforce: it erodes the whole edifice of a law/bureaucracy-based Enlightenment society. If you’ve put it in writing and not planning to sue over violations, you’re lying to me.
You wouldn't need to slam on your brakes if you are not speeding in the first place, right? Privacy seems a valid argument to me though.
Tfp?
Any entry level Associate Product Manager straight out of college would have done better than Elon Musk trying to manage his whatever product X even is thingie.

Never in my 20yr Product career have I witnessed such ineptitude.
Tribu: Tool suite to plan your vacation or summer events with your close ones
Open Source, encrypted and following KISS principle tools to collaborate with your friends on event organization
That's really interesting and I hope the project gets continued support.
Orange juice has the exact same amount of sugar as coke, volume for volume.

Juice is not a healthy choice in anyway that really matters and you will get diabetes from it.
Peak Social Media
Having visions is easy. Having realistic visions pushing the boundaries and making those come alive is the hard part.

He seems to only have visions (Hyperloop, FSD, X, actually 'Colonizing' Mars, 'revolutionizing' the airline industry by blasting rockets into space to shorten travel time, magic revolutionary traffic-changing tunnels that ended up being nothing but tiny holes that Tesla cars with a DRIVER drive though...).
I didn't mean trust as in safety but as in reliability
Ironically by killing Google you highly likely will put Mozilla into a surviving. I doubt they will figure out how to deliver any new “big” features without being able paying their talented devs without a such funding.
Well, they definitely need to add rhubarb to Minecraft now.
"could put a dent in the global metabolic disease and obesity epidemic"

We've had artificial sweeteners for decades, a better one won't make the difference.

Fact that such a statement is still made in a publication in nature and goes unchallenged means that even the scientific community has a fundamentally wrong view on the obesity crisis.
A side effect of this summer's heat waves: faster-chirping crickets
I think you mean masochists not alcoholics. Coors lite is the most disgusting beer known to man!
tiny-snake.rs – A very tiny terminal snake game
I feel like the concept of Open Web runs hard against the institutions that fund the development and growth of the internet. I'm not saying I don't support the Open Web concept. I do but it seems more like a pipe dream than something that will just happen.

If a country sees the internet as a threat it will just create its own network and only allow its population to see what it deems alright. I would say most internet today is curated. The largest issue in addition to lack of openness networks is what the network contains, we have min maxed the internet for profitability and in the wake more tech debt which no one wants to own.

You are probably asking tech debt? Let me just say this tech debt comes in the shape of garbage data, false news articles and propaganda. Last one propaganda isn't necessarily something a government makes but business do it to for misdirection. This is usually done because there is no accountability for anyone utilizing the internet.

What I'm getting at is the fact there is a lack of accountability those who keep building up the internet keep piling garbage on garbage. One day the internet will cease because there will be so much unimportant information and misinformation on the internet that it will force governments to curate the internet. Which they sort of do already.

So before we can have truly an Open Web we need to help pick up the trash we've all created over the years. Set regulations that protect the internet from further garbage. If we don't hold someone accountable eventually we will be forced down the path of a Closed Web.

I strongly believe in Open Web from browsers to the freedom of starting your own webpage without restrictions. We just have to make progress.
If I write an application I use Java as I am most comfortable with it. But it is not always the best choice. If I needed to write an application for windows with a GUI I would be more successful with C# as it would look more native. If I am writing a command line tool it would be a faster and smaller application if I build it in Go, Dart or Crystal. But then I would need to be good in it as well.
I like seeing these kinds of posts. I often script in Groovy as I am fluent in Java. I like to experiment with other languages when I have time...
You do not prioritize through just "importance", but also with "urgency" and "cost".

You prioritize evaluating "urgency - how pressing", "importance - how impactful", and "size - how consuming".

Some things are to be dealt with earlier independently of the importance, and other things are dealt with speedily so it is worth to have them done earlier to alleviate the queue.

There is a scalar resulting from the three dimensions, and that ranks your priorities.
It's not about safeness, it's about taste, cheapness, metabolism and gut. A protein is by far better than a synthetic one on all accounts (apparently).
Google, in all its products, is adopting aggressive architectural decisions that break interoperability, sacrifice user freedom and strongly favor their proprietary business models. They are not interested in building an open Internet. They're building a business where users have no ownership of their data, everything runs on their servers and they are getting a commission on each step and layer of service/application creation, delivery and consumption.
I've been waiting for someone to put together a summary of the authorship issue, this is great. Thank you!
I'd get family to switch over to Linux, but it isn't ready.

As far as I know, there's no comprehensive substitute for Microsoft Office, or many other Windows-only apps.

In contrast, Firefox and Chrome are practically interchangeable for most people.
There is a fundamental weakness in the fascist-adjacent proscription of orthodoxy while forbidding anything that may challenge or question it. That is not liberalism, it is an echo chamber lacking contact and ability to deal with the whole world.

I also disapprove of the tendency to muzzle people with prior restraint because they raise controversial points because somehow "harmony" is more important than insightful and authentic discourse on topics of greater import because someone "might be offended" or "will encourage negative interactions". If only certain topics can be discussed while others cannot, that is a lack of freedom.
The idiotic strobing new X sign on former Twitter building
Like https://val.town but written in a wiki specific python or javascript? I wish there is an easy way to see the code for each function instead of the "low code" UI.

Ref: https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifunctions:How_to_crea...
The point GP was making is that you can also define the function sqrt(x) as a function from reals to pairs of reals, and say that the sqrt(4) is the pair (-2, 2). With a proper definition of squaring a pair of reals, you could even have this be the inverse of the square function (we could define square((x, y)) = x²-xy+y², so square((-2,2))=4-4+4=4).

Of course, these are still functions which take exactlt one element in their input set (the reals for sqrt, or pairs of reals for square) and return for each a single element in their output sets (the pairs of reals for sqrt, or the reals for square).
That's primary energy inputs.

Efficiency and electrification will also reduce it. As we try to get to net zero we're expected to double or triple the supply of electricity, while still reducing primary energy as we reduce the colossal amount of fossil fuels wasted as heat during burning them.
Maybe it would be time to have a global agreement that all satellites must implement the means of "disposal re-entry" so they can be taken out of the space scrapyard and safely (as much as possible anyway) crashed to earth.

The amount of debris in space is going to be a problem that's going to be both costly to solve and very detrimental to future space systems if we continue to not do enough about it.
Then don't talk to them on a public Mumble/Ventrilo/IRC server without adequate precautions.

Most MMOs & online games offer an in-game chat client that does appropriate cloaking & is also moderated (so an offender risks a ban if they engage in harassment). Nobody is forcing OP to invite these people onto his VoIP server.
Just about the time I left university, the supplement "cure" RU-21 was touted as eliminating the hangover. The gotcha was dosing prior to drinking and dosing with each drink.
Which societies are left that have as a Purpose the Progress of Civilization?
Your observation that they contribute more visibly is maybe the most important part.

If you include all the infrastructure and not just the cook then it becomes much more obvious that we are working much like an ant colony and we succeed and progress only as a unit and die as individuals. Humans are social animals. We need to ensure the success of every individual if we want to optimize the rate of progress of the entire group.
It's interesting to note that Colin - who apparently explicitly asked for this feedback from a close friend who happens to be an eminent domain expert - appears to have taken basically none of Patrick's advice in a decade.

I don't know the inside baseball, but if I was @patio11, I'd be more than annoyed by this. I might ratchet up to lightly insulted, given how master-of-the-obvious some of the advice is.
Fuzz Testing in Go
Most interesting functions use other functions. I did not find how they solve using existing functions, avoiding duplication of basic functionality, but also handling how things might break if an underlying function is independently updated. Does anyone know how they solve this, it is an interesting problem?
Off-by-one error given that 1900 was the last year of the century?
It needs a lot of sugar to become palatable.
Taking that argument to its logical extreme, why should any time spent on any of those (possibly unsolvable) problems be done in anything other than pure machine language, since that is also Turing complete?

In other words you’re severely underestimating just how much gains in easiness and reductions in suffering can contribute towards (eventually) solving the solvable subset of those problems… never mind just how significant some of those quality of life improvements can be between existing languages (and completely ignoring the potential scope of improvements not yet found in extant languages).

What if the solution to [insert sufficiently pernicious problem here] simply cannot be expressed in a human-useable fashion in a merely Turing-complete language? Having just the ability to compute a solution doesn’t mean you have the ability to understand (much less use or build atop) a solution.
Open Firmware can boot an ELF image obtained in a variety of ways, and supply the booted image with both arguments and a device tree, it doesn’t need to do more to boot an OS. It can also be extended straightforwardly to provide boot security/attestation.

As for “solving” the “blob “problem,”” it provides a reasonable architecture for implementing drivers that are both platform- and architecture-independent; an OS can even choose to just use the drivers supplied by the firmware, by providing an equivalent environment.

In other words, it essentially solves the “How should an arbitrary system boot and pass control to an operating system, including how to interact with arbitrary devices?” problem. What more does anyone need?
I may be missing something, but since it basically exploits AVX that is easy to disable in win10.

bcdedit /set xsavedisable 1

and then reboot.

At least it fails the zenbleed POC.
I've been using cuis smalltalk with proportional fonts, even a slightly cursive looking one.

And before you get your pitchforks out, that's from a longtime (since 1998) vim user, whose other current weapon of choice is a neovim setup which acts as as its own multiplexer, thereby replacing gnu-screen (tmux for the rest of you).

In cuis, the morphic graphics system has been rebuilt to be entirely vector-graphics based. Entirely. Everything. The text rendering is beautiful. Each window can be scaled up or down with just a right click to bring up the 'halo', and then just drag the icon. The fonts are redrawn with vector graphics. There is zero quality loss, up or down.

Scaling up or down to cater for different dpi screens is no longer an issue.

The beauty of it is actually a little inspirational, as silly as that sounds. You feel like you have an expensive Japanese-nibbed fountain pen, and high quality parchment, and it forces you to write something.

(yes, the rendering quality remains, even if you also rotate the window as well).
It‘s not “American cuisine”, it‘s overly processed foods. Which exist everywhere. In fact quite a large amount of countries in Western Europe fall squarely 2x over the WHO’s 2015 recommendations at over 100g per day.

I do agree that sugar is taking the blame for the companies selling us these sugary treats. I mean its literally JUST yummy carbs, it’s not like its a carcinogen. And the average person has been so completely numbed by a life of excess sugar that it makes the already predatory food companies push even more sugar in to compete.
Well, yes, all software RCEs can be avoided by turning off the software.

With this, people were able to send arbitrary code to a connected server. They could then make the server send arbitrary code down to every connected client. The infected clients could snoop for various data, and then do the same thing in reverse, returning the data to the devious user.
Systembolaget is a pretty good shop. They offer a wide range of products and in the case of wines they tell you what kind of food the product goes well with
waahh everything is pointless because if i do something positive someone else might do something negative. waaaaah

just go out and do something nice and refuse to be part of something shitty and maybe things will work out.
I spontaneously became allergic to rhubarb in my teens. Damn shame. It was my favorite pie!
Roll back maybe 10-12 years ago. I had a Tomtom in my car, maybe £200. An iPod. Probably the same again. A point and shoot camera. Same again. A 3G WiFi stick and contract for my laptopp. A personal laptop that saw a lot of use. A dedicated Sonos hardware controller. A GPS on my bike, and of course an actual phone (N95).

How many of those devices have been coalesced into one £1200 iPhone. I call that a result.
It’s just a calculation, surely TSMC knows about these rates ahead of time. In my opinion it’s just a way for TSMC to give themselves a big bonus if they manage to improve yields.
I don't agree with that, and I don't to have to agree 100% with the values of a product I use, especially when free.
Trusted is a warm and fuzzy sounding word. But always remember that in terms of security, trust is at best a necessary evil. Trust makes you vulnerable to abuse of that trust.

"Trusted" is not equal to "trustworthy".
Every saas does this, really. You want sso or an audit trail? 10x costs! Doesn't matter that they didn't need to add code and that it's even less for the vendor to manage, you have self selected as an Enterprise, pay Enterprise pricing.
Link to paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scisignal.ade5892
Current processors are no longer synchronous, each part now works asynchronously and there can be several instructions waiting to be completed at once, average Intructions Per Clock are already over 1, so there is no problem waiting a little more for signal to propagate.
> people primarily had children as a byproduct of wanting to have sex

Yes? Again, this is so obvious I'm surprised to write it out.

> Contraception shouldn’t change the number of people who intend to procreate.

And yet it clearly did, largely by giving people the option to not procreate without having to remain forever unmarried and a low-status part of their father's household.

It's also preconditioned on education for women, both in learning the mechanics and choices involved in procreation and giving them some economic options other than that.

None of this is new or surprising; it's been deliberate policy for years! Here's a discussion of the successful reduction in fertility in Bangladesh, for example https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17441730.2022.2...
The point is, why do we think going heavier on the sugar-free product strategy is going to provide any solutions when it's clearly not made a dent in the last 20 years since light products became prevalent?

Even WHO makes such claims: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/15/health/who-sweeteners-wei...
Sounds like you need a walking trolley for groceries

It's like a bag with wheels you can drag, that was my immediate thought anyway

There's tons of micro mobility that could have also helped
> If you have a gifted child PLEASE work with them on a breadth of things, don't just race them through multivariable calculus.

There will always be the nature vs nurture problem. And I agree with you: do not focus on one area without trying others first, since the very nature of a gifted child is, that there is positive manifold. Even excelling in one particular area does not mean you have a special interest there. Offer a lot of input and see what sticks.

Gifted children are a special topic. I highly advise to consult trained professionals (psychologists, usually necessary for IQ testing) as well as consulting with an organization like Mensa.

Potential problems from childhood do not magically disappear during adulthood. People usually do not react happily in competitive situations: "Wow, someone way more intelligent than I am! How cool!" There is a lot of envy and vice versa, there is also a so called "feeling alien" problem.

Many gifted people I know have different interests and also shunned Math later in life, because of missing learning strategies. Not everything comes easy. And then it is important to have the right support.
"As for the name: probably something descriptive like
"hash-bang" though this has a specifically British flavor, but
in any event I don't recall particularly using a pet name
for the construction."

‐ Dennis Ritchie

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_(Unix)
Not likely. The re entry tech is a critical component of ICBMs. Satellites are relatively easy in comparison, they are just a orbiting computer with a sophisticated radio/signaling processing stack. Most countries can build satellites, but the countries that can put them into orbit are all significant powers. I doubt major powers would be willing to transfer smaller players the technology for controlling re-entry.
It would be interesting to read more about this. You should start a blog :)
Sake 'god' Naohiko Noguchi, 90, is giving up on retirement
The (US) Army Publishing Directorat [1]. Example search "Leadership" [2]

[1] https://armypubs.army.mil/

[2] https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/ContentSearch....
From my experience it's very buggy, images don't show up, just black boxes, messages get stuck sending, mentions don't work in replies, and many other issues.
Anecdotally, I would say that flint stone walls are more common than wavy walls. I’ve see plenty of the former and none of the latter wham driving through the county.
As James Bond would say,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaken,_not_stirred
Asianometry is an amazing channel for topic like this. Also check the video on water for chip manufacturing. You’d never think there so many interesting challenges with something so mundane as water.

Modern chip manufacturing is basically black magic.
Private internet/VPNs with no government presence/censorship is the only way forward. Buy all your SDR transceivers while you can before they get outlawed lol
That makes me wonder (as someone who has merely heard of the two technologies and knows nothing much about either beyond the Wikipedia page) why it's not using a free electron laser?

Aren't those tuneable to any wavelength down to X-rays?
That's just inaccurate. Microsoft Office is one of the easiest things to replace; LibreOffice takes some getting used to, but it does what you need it to do.

What's going to be harder is Microsoft Exchange, but if people work in a company that uses Exchange, they need to push their Exchange admin to enable SMTP and IMAP.

You should not be using Exchange for calendar synchronization anyway, and I am sure there are better dedicated alternatives in the OSS world. Probably something like Nextcloud which comes with numerous useful apps.

For video editing I think Kdenlive does everything you need for basic editing.