skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is corrupt all the way down.

Consumers cannot determine if they have "forever chemicals" in their products and vote with their wallet.

I've tried for ages to find cookware that is healthy, and time and time again the cookware I've bought has these chemicals hidden behind corporate lies.

Even consumer's reports has finally realized:

Because CR’s tests and research show that even products made without PFOA may contain the compound because of how they’re manufactured, we have decided to no longer display "PFOA-free" in our ratings of nonstick cookware. Such claims may not be reliable for PTFE-coated products.

happily there is hope:

A California law that will go into effect in 2023 will ban companies from claiming in online sale listings that a cookware product is free of any one PFAS—like PFOA—if it contains any other PFAS, like PTFE. Those claims will have to be removed from packaging by 2024, when a similar law will go into effect in Colorado.

I wonder if "online sale listings" will just use geoip and ignore the rest of the country.
I could see it making sense in a 'van life' context to use a smaller local battery rather than plug everything in to your main leisure battery. Use the latter to charge Makita packs say and then run most other stuff off those (there's a decent amount of open 3D printable adapters for them, as well as third-party/AliExpress stuff).
That does not disprove my statement. As I noted in my more in-depth breakdown, compare 1:55 vs. 3:03 - you will see the same corner being lifted despite opposite sides of the magnet being used to lift it.
> This is a perfect illustration of why the original sentence can be read as referring to JFK, since in speech it is common to have ill-defined references that are later clarified, and there's no formal rule that enforces that all terms must be defined before use.

References that are later clarified is exactly how we arrive at "the president when JFK was born" as defining Woodrow Wilson as the object of the sentence (and it makes much more sense to ask about how tall President Wilson was in the context of 1917 than to wonder how "tall" baby "president" JFK was in 1917).

Whereas "when the president was a high school freshman" can't be used to identify anybody else [unless there is a time period in which a high school freshman was the president!], even if the sentence hadn't already made it clear that JFK was the object of the sentence. But it's still an example of bad writing.

Even when there's no ambiguity, we don't do sentences like "The SpaceX founder was about 18 inches tall when Elon Musk was born" which is basically how you're implying the president question - which has a much more reasonable alternative interpretation - could be answered...

It is possible to write a truly ambiguous sentence in English; nobody is arguing otherwise. But whilst the original sentence might make you think a bit, it's not naturally interpreted as being equally/more likely to be a question about the not-tall not-president in the context of the time period instead of the person with height and presidency in the context of the time period, unless you're being obtuse or lack fluency in the language.
With a brief look at the example, it looks like they represent form with formulas instead of meshes, enabling fabrication from the form, for example. This is one of the reasons BIM software like Revit is so unhelpful for fabrication as they don't use formulas to represent the form so you can't get high enough accuracy.
I thinking to stop drinking, but I still sway
don't add the code.
It's hard to not let cynicism like this get to me especially when the argument makes so little sense. This doesn't sell? Isn't sensationalist enough? A possible end result of this is magic flying space trains. This isn't exactly some boring in the weeds things. This is extremely easy to hype if you just want to draw eye balls. But sure, yeah, MSM corporate plutocracy or whatever.
You kinda did by talking about marijuana exclusively while I was talking about hard drugs.
Especially since almost all conversions can be done in the browser with JavaScript libraries now.
Thank you for contributing to our community with your pretty slick editor. We love seeing all these different UIs out in the wild. It's the goal with our headless approach to be as flexible as needed. I like your AI integration. This is all just the beginning of AI-based content editing.
we already know how to stop climate change: actually stop burning shit and deploy existing technologies quickly. the problem is lack of will, not lack of technology.

corollary: anyone trying to say we need fancy new technologies like fusion/superconductores/supercapacitors isn't actually very interested in stopping climate change.
well, drug use is on the rise in many places with prohibition. so maybe that general statement needs some serious qualifiers, no?

prohibition as a concept works, and prohibition when implemented has an effect, but that effect might be small compared to society's overall demand changes.

yes, of course, draconian measures have significant effects, usually the side-effects are bigger though
Filament v3 has been released
Well, imagine a model of the apparent motion of the planets where each planet moved on a perfectly circular orbit with any number of smaller circles on top of it, with the main circle of the orbit centered on a point between the Earth, or even the Sun, and another point a bit further from it. So, you know, an epicyclical model of the motion of the planets [1].

"In terms of the impact such a thing would have on the world", as you put it, would it matter if that model was completely wrong, despite its great predictive power?

Did we gain something when we figured out how the planets really move?

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferent_and_epicycle
>All the tech is already out there and we can push back on specific uses;

Yes, we can. And this proposal has privacy implications big enough to drive a column of tanks through.

I have no issue with folks confirming the validity of software installed on devices they own, or of businesses vetting specific configurations for their employees/contractors/partners/cloud instances/device and even customers to access their networked environments, where's that's appropriate.

In fact, that's been pretty much de rigeuer in corporate environments for decades, and I've helped implement such systems more than once.

The issue I have with this proposal is that given the current surveillance capitalism[0] environment, it's likely that a variety of greedy scum will use the tools provided to deprecate privacy on a broad scale.

As I said, securing networked environments is critical in many contexts, and we've been doing so for a long time. But building remote attestation (especially when it's not clear who, exactly, might do such attestation and what properties would make a device "untrustworthy") without clear boundaries in the current environment is a privacy disaster waiting to happen, IMHO.

>On the other hand, the RATS architecture doc has several reference use cases which are useful and limited: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9334.html#name-reference-u.... I think these are worth pursuing.

It's not the architecture per se I object to, rather it's the almost certain abuse (in the absence of any regulation or limitations) of such an architecture that's the problem as I see it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism

Edit: Added the missing link.
Although the concepts in his books are original and interesting, I think the writing is overly-descriptive and pretty dry.

I think both books would have been far better as novellas, and not dragged out into 800 pages, with a lot of frankly pointless meandering storylines.

But I suppose for modern sci-fi it's better than nothing.
Hmm from your description, you sound very close to the author of that article. What makes you think they are extreme and you are not? Genuinely interested.
smspool, smspva, etc.
not free but not expensive.
Sneaked? How's it different from the other examples?
Only some of them.
So you want more homelessness then? Got it.
What's the temperature that accelerates the melting of ice caps to within a few decades, resulting in ocean current collapse and an ice age? People should be very fucking worried.
What I'm about to say is probably debatable but I think those things are, if not entirely equivalent, at least two sides of the same coin.
What is your spiciest take on monorepos
I open sourced my failed side project
Well, another side project down the drain. Such is life. TLDR: spent a few months building this on the side (probably 3-4 hours each night), launched to crickets and got 1 sale at $39.

My mistake this time was not doing a vibe check on the market - seems like this isn't something many people need other than myself.

Still if only a few developers that find it useful, it will not have been built entirely in vain.
MS was exactly right. The browser has commoditized the OS to a very large degree.
A cease and desist from whom? I tried to search Nerfstudio on https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=searchss&state=481... and nothing shows up there.
good thing their life expectancy will soon be below 65, no?
In Finland in the 1970s, there was a trend away from traditional gable roof to modern flat ones: so much cleaner, more elegant, and easy to build!

Then they realized that it snows a lot in Finland, and having big flat spaces where snow can accumulate is not a great idea.
Get Lagrange in PC/Android, head to gemini://gemi.dev, go to The News Waffle and paste the whole URL (whole, as with https://www...) there in the URL input form.

It works for sites and for news home pages. It detects RSS feeds, too, putting that option in the first place when you get the rendered page.
It can cut down most pages down to 5% and less.
Way to make a fella feel old.

Before Threads or Tiktok, before ChatGPT, before Stack Overflow, before Google, before the Internet, before USB flash drives, before CD-roms, we had floppy disks to store and move data around on. They came in 8-inch, 5¼-inch, and 3½-inch floppy sizes, and held 2 MegaBytes, tops*. They were loud and slow, and prone to corruption, but that's what we had, back in the day.

https://obsoletemedia.org/data/floppy-museum/

* 2 MiB raw, 1.44 MiB formatted, the way I recall, for the 3½ ones. There were later formats but they never quite caught on.
As Raymond Chen would say, this API was designed with "kernel-colored glasses".

The StartTrace() is designed to notify the kernel that it should hook different locations to begin recording events. Since all kernel objects have to be installed in the namespace (just like creating a file in Linux for your terminal or in plan9 for network sockets) you must specify a name; tracing cannot be anonymous.

As with processes having the CreateProcess() and OpenProcessHandle() function pair, there is -- consistently -- a StartTrace() and OpenTrace() function pair. The OpenTrace() takes a name so it can look up the trace in the namespace.

StartTrace() could -- and should have the ability to -- fail. Kernel tracing is a privileged function, which is why it requires Admin privileges to start. By having OpenTrace() separate from StartTrace() you can have the StartTrace() function called from a Windows Service running with elevated privileges on behalf of a user-mode process, and then the user-mode process can call OpenTrace() and still be able to read the events. In fact, if the user-mode process knows that a trace is already running it doesn't even need to call StartTrace(). This applies to non-kernel traces as well as kernel traces (remember -- the name of the trace can be looked up in the namespace).

Requiring a callback -- from a kernel perspective -- also makes sense. Imagine what would happen if the user-mode process was responsible for reading events. The kernel is busy pumping events out into the buffer and, just then, the user-mode program gets hung waiting for network I/O. What happens? If the buffer never drains, maybe the kernel gets hung waiting for space (system deadlock). Or maybe the processes "misses" events, and the developer thinks the API is broken. Or better yet, what happens when multiple processes A and B are reading from the buffer and one of them (process A) pauses for a GC? Does this mean that process B gets blocked waiting for A to read events? Or does the process B "lose" events because A doesn't consume them?

The intent for having a callback on a dedicated read-thread is supposed to be like the OS handling a processor interrupt: do the minimum amount of work to record the interrupt details and then return to the kernel. In this case, the callback should copy the data into a process-specific buffer and notify a different thread that data is reading (classic producer-consumer / publish-subscribe behavior). Anything more than that and you threaten the stability of the system.

The overall architecture is both a workable design and consistent with all other Windows APIs. The problem is that the API is not user-friendly (the packed structure is required so that all required data can be passed to the kernel, and the kernel does not need to reference user-mode memory -- but still, packed structures are no fun!) and there are too many fields in the ETW structures such that users will be easily confused. Fortunately, however, most of the fields are zero.
In the late 1990's I worked at a large bank's Online Retail Banking website running Netscape's iPlanet webserver on Unix (AIX). Being ~25 years ago, I'm a little foggy on the technical details but at a high level we started getting complaints from customers running IE having trouble connecting to our website. The reps from Microsoft blamed iPlanet, said it worked fine with Microsoft's IIS webservers, and had almost convinced the bank's senior management to simply replace iPlanet with IIS as it would be the trouble-free webserver for use with the most popular browser, IE.

Nobody on the tech team wanted that so we launched into a major tracing & debugging effort and eventually found that a change in IE caused it to start doing the SSL handshake slightly different if it thought it was connecting to a non-IIS webserver. Netscape provided a patch and we were able to keep iPlanet on our beefy Unix servers instead of migrating to a farm of IIS servers on tiny Windows servers (they weren't all that powerful in the 90'). This was about the time that the DoJ was going after Microsoft for non-competitive practices. I recall that someone on our team sent an email to DoJ telling them of our experience, but I don't think they ever got a reply.
The Venn diagram overlap between REST and GraphQL is pretty small.
As a hacker, I'm interested in this because it's historically unprecedented and OP has linked to a primary source document rather than some shallow summary of it rushed out by a journalist. It'd be nice if people could abstain from flagging it and discuss the substantive/legal questions raised in the document. If you don't like politics, you don't need to participate.
Samsung, Huawei, LG (well, they exited the phone biz) and Motorola all have a desktop mode on many of their Android devices. You plug in a USB-HDMI adapter (I've plugged in a ton of USBC docks to my phone and they just work most of the time), a keyboard and mouse and you have an Android desktop. It's not terrible, and I've used it in a pinch when I don't have my laptop and have work to do.

There's also a way to turn on the desktop mode in developer settings, but I've never tried it in anger.
Sure. I wouldn’t be against a ban on alcohol also, with the same prohibitions.
> The mind blowing part of all of this is the fact that they were able to close timing at 771MHz

It's true but I mean this is Intel in-house research right? If they can't get absolute peak fmax on their own parts that would be a really bad look right? Plus these stratix parts have hard FP blocks (not just DSPs) so they're basically mostly scheduling stuff rather building the whole datapath. But admittedly I haven't read the paper...

>Full Disclosure, I work for an FPGA company

I currently do too (as an intern, maybe even the same one as you) and I haven't looked very hard but I'm sure we have similar fmax achieving projects (maybe even GPUs since we're fighting hard to compete with Nvidia...).
The base assumption, though, is that we're talking about 柔術 (with a long u), not 呪術 (without a long u). Without a clarification from the author, it's hard to tell which one it's supposed to be.
This is opposite to how LLMs select word choices.
> Microsoft was worried that the browser would become the operating system and negate the important of the Windows API.

For context, Netscape themselves also claimed this would happen. Marc Andreesen famously said Netscape would “reduce Windows to a set of poorly debugged device drivers”.
What's "Google's content" in this context?
There is no such thing as a true monorepo company.
I interpreted it as:

We shouldn’t treat the addictions all that differently.
Unconfirmed video showing potential LK-99 sample exhibiting the Meissner effect
None of that is metadata. It is just the data.
Hah, yes they are all 'up to' on the device side. A switch port or injector is not compliant with a particular standard if it does not provide for the type-specific load, however.
Sounds like nonsense. You can't do atomic-level engineering with bacteria, they are 9 orders of magnitude too big. We're talking about being able to place copper atoms at specific points on a crystal structure, while avoiding placing them at points they'd rather be at. Bacteria? Give me a break.
This immediately made me think of 'double checked locking', which was badly broken in early Java and then fixed later. Reading the wikipedia again after many years, it mentions a lot of the same things in this article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-checked_locking
UX of Gemini bad? I've seen browsers with far more complex settings in average.
Would be good to see the open source code for sure. LLMs really struggle with Plan and Execute agents still and hopping off from tool to tool is a drag. This kind of architecture is less magical but more reliable
>A Fire is more mystical and fantasy

Refer to Clarke's third law.
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Not all surprising that X3D uses xml and of course OpenUSD uses some form of python/json thing
Agreed - the rate at which we're consuming info as humans (FAST) is just harmful. Feels like it's deteriorating our bodies
His video topics are interesting, but I can't shake the feeling that I'm just watching what amounts to an ai-level summary of a slew of wikipedia articles with some added images and captions to keep viewers somewhat engaged.
What art can't you say that about?
Not to worry. I will not comment anymore. Please delete my account.
Great. Let’s ban alcohol and sugar too. I am totally fine with taking the idea of something being harmful to society and it being banned. Though for sugar, I haven’t personally seen people pawn off their childrens possession or rob people to get a fix, so it might not be as bad as drugs. But it’s subsidization should stop.
i think the credential provider and LSA interfaces of windows internals (3+ string types why not) are a lot more gnarly than etw because of several opaque datatypes and generic handlers etc
Using NoScript has been pretty eye-opening. I've come to learn that most of the time I'm happy unblock the primary domain. If the site doesn't work I'll look for a clearly-named CDN. If I can't identify one or, worse-yet, there is some kind of cdn.some-domain.com and unblocking that still doesn't make the site work, then I'm out.
If he manages to get out. Gets addicted to meth, can’t work, needs more meth, what does he do?
With a more controlled supply, softer drug options, and social supports, it’s not a stretch to say there’s are important options being neglected.

Lots of people get pushed into harder options, when it becomes a race to the bottom. Meth and hard opioids are massive problems in the US.

AFAIK most similar counties have lower usage of meth, and fent, though I’m sure opioids are in the picture. Don’t underestimate how many of these cases are deaths of despair, due to our cultural issues, not just poverty. I suspect we’re seeing the costs of our toxic culture, income inequality, and lack of safety nets.

Oregon IMO was set up for failure. Decrime is overrated. In some ways it may be the worst of both worlds. Even moreso when you do it during a drug poisoning pandemic… that’s a really good time to start distributing verified product.
There is:

https://brutaldon.org
Summary: Backend web/distributed systems engineer with nearly 10 YoE. Most recently, I was a senior staff engineer at Neuroflow, an East Coast Series C mental health startup.

Location: USA, West Coast, SF Bay Area

Remote: Very interested in full remote, but will consider a hybrid situation.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-x-miller/

I'll be happy to send you a nice, printable (or, executable -- your choice) résumé, if you email me.

Email: pwmiller74@gmail.com

Willing to relocate: Offer me a big stack of cash, or some other really compelling reason, and anything's possible. :-)

Technologies: Linux, OSX, Python, Django, Flask, Pyramid, various AWS backend services, git, Github, Gitlab, Postgres, MySQL, Cassandra, Redis, Memcache, Kafka, multiple LISP dialects. I also know enough C and C++ to be dangerous.

I would love to work in some variety of Lisp. I use Emacs, so I work with Lisp on a daily basis already.

About me:

* If you need someone who can quickly get up to speed with your backend systems, I'm your guy.

* If you need someone to be the voice of experience and help build, shape, and mentor your team, I'm your guy.

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* If you want someone who's gotten himself into, and out of, basically every weird state a git repo can be in, I'm your guy.

* If you want someone to fix your printer... well, I can be that guy, kind of, but you're really better off hiring someone who's better at it. ;)
What's the experience of writing web backend with Nim ? Did you use existing libraries / framework ? How good is the concurrency compared to something like Go ?
I've been curious about this myself, it really seems like he left all the major plot points open!
You might want to check the age of our respective accounts.
Archive.today didn't work this time, the article only has a single sentence.
Always thought Microsoft's Continuum would have been the wave of the future at some point had windows phones survived. Just uses your Windows phone as your Windows desktop.
What!? That’s absurd. Have you considered the practical implications of that for even a moment? Who takes that job?
Microsoft as well with the Duo series. I use it on my Duo 1 regularly
Let's take fentanyl for example. It kills so many people that there isn't any good reason for it to be a legal drug off prescription.

The difference between fentanyl and other drugs is a matter of degree.
There are a variety of ways to distinguish oneself, and not all of them are qualifying.
This won't work with obfuscated JS.
Exactly… modern phones are crazy powerful and would work as desktops for 99% of users if they weren’t locked down in software. I have an older $100 iPhone SE2 and it has more cpu power than many new $1k laptops.
A browser + JavaScript seems like a pretty heavy lift to do something as trivial as converting an image from one format to another. ImageMagick is simple, fast, and available for just about every system imaginable.
"It gathers as much information as it could about us and spams every second of our life with ads, beep, notifications, vibrations, blinking LEDs, background music and fluorescent titles."

Plaintext SNI or TLS other than v1.3 is one way of gathering information, namely, a list of every domain the computer accesses.

TLS1.3 without SNI: https://web.archive.org/web/20230801115645if_/https://ploum....