skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Furthermore, why use 1500 SAT score? Because it gives the distribution you like? Harvard's cutoffs are 1100 for Blacks, Native Americans and Hispanics, 1350 for Asian women and 1380 for Asian men, and 1310 for "white wannabe students in states that don’t see a lot of Harvard attendees":

https://nypost.com/2018/10/17/harvards-gatekeeper-reveals-sa...
News and discussion from two days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36976331
That "just" seems to mean "you'll need to take 10x the time to write the equivalent Rust/C++ program". What a language makes easy to accompish matters.
This is not just telling someone there's a winning move. It's telling them that X is a winning move and they just have to verify that X is indeed one. Many, many problems are such that it's difficult to find a solution but easy to verify one.
AFAIK OverDrive has quite a bit of vertical integration - they provide the app for end-users, the hosting for books and audiobooks, and a marketplace platform for libraries to purchase publishers' offerings (which probably involved many contracts with publishers). By having all of this and being one the first on the niche market, competing with them would be difficult.
People are just having fun entertaining the very real possible and "believing". What's wrong with that? It is more interesting to just go ahead and say that they are 100% sure LK-99 is real whent here are no stakes. Having differentiated and uncertain opinions all the time gets boring.
It seems odd to say the Nazis lost a technology war when the Allies worked very hard on recruiting Nazi scientists as soon as the war ended to harness their expertise in fields like rocketry. They had their strengths and weaknesses.
A key sentence:

“I hope that human cancers will prove vulnerable to this new mode of attack in the clinic, and that they are not able to mutate around it with new forms of caPCNA too quickly, either.”

Even if this does prove effective in humans, eventually cancer cell defenses will evolve to get around it.
The simplest example to understand Server Actions in Next.js
I try to structure my code so that it can be easily tested and it is modular enough so that you can swap implementations with fair ease.

This means I can iterate much quicker - I can have code that works and is good enough for now and I can later on improve it and also I can suitable test coverage that can confirm the new improved implementation works as expected.

Code that is organised this way is also rather easy to understand and test perform a function of documentation - which means someone else can get familiar with it and work in a short period of time.
Clickbait? Maybe. But fraudulent? Hyperbole much?
That's missing some of the bigger picture. One of the reasons streaming 4k content is at a lower bitrate is because it has to deal with network hiccups and fit inside the buffer of most playback devices. A computer or phone has plenty of room, but streaming 4K content to a TV or chromecast/roku/firestick/etc. does not. Faster bandwidth means keeping the bucket full more reliably.
Yes "ingress" too (quotes bc in this case it needs to be initiated from the vpc)
For reference, my actual name and original languages cannot be spelled without some Unicode. And I am still the OP that said I'd prefer to turn Unicode off, or at very least have very tight leash on what it is allowed to do

The reasoning is that my primary computer use is in a single language. I very very rarely need to have my computer understand and present to me multiple different languages, and never languages that follow different rules. Anytime such a thing occurs:

a) it is not a language I understand, so not rendering it is fine & safe

b) someone is playing games with Unicode to try to trick me. Definitely not rendering is fine and rendering is actually dangerous

c) the most rare case: the other language is relevant. The only times this has happened (talking to my family and whatnot), it is local to a specific app and I only want that app to deal with the other languages.

The problem is that in the interest of satisfying every language group, my computers assume I care about all languages. I don't, I only speak/read 4 languages and everything else is no use being presented to me. If I'm an outlier, I'm an outlier for being fluent in more than a single language.

For most all users, having the system limited to presenting a single language would significantly reduce the attack surface.
> I can't imagine this holding up in court.

My imagination has no difficulty with that at all. US courts have a great deal of respect for legal contracts. Unless you can identify a conflict between subscription terms and GPL terms the former probably will survive a court challenge.
You really think this twitter rando is the first source on this topic?

Bunch more discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36982813

One of a number of posts over last few days
https://archive.ph/2023.08.03-124319/https://www.wired.com/s...
High latency is not the same thing as low throughput.

It is wild how many people do not understand this.

Latency can inform throughput if your windows do not scale. But the whole reason we have window scaling schemes is to optimize throughput in the face of latency.

With regards to remote server performance - yeah - CDN's exist for this reason. I may not saturate my gigabit connection while downloading game patches, but I get close enough. I have also had the experience on a different ISP of having spent more time downloading and installing updates than I ever did playing my PlayStation.
Currently I'm writing mostly C and C++ and I find it very useful to write prototypes, either in the target language or in Python, to experiment with ways to modularize the code and how the modules will communicate.

I only disagree with throwing the code away. On the contrary, sometimes I even use the last prototype as a sort of "executable documentation".

That strategy indeed saves me a bunch of time. However, at least in my experience, I didn't have success applying that to modern front-end dev: the complexity is frequently so high and the dead-ends are so numerous that I prefer to buckle-in for the rough ride and proceed to the code right away.
Many years later Sony wanted to add a second Cell CPU to their PlayStation 3 to be used as a GPU, but ended up abandoning that idea and using Nvidia's actual GPU instead.
Show HN: Common Lisp tutorials with OpenGL graphics
I'm expecting China to pull a rabbit out of the hat on AI & chips.

i.e. despite being behind and sanctioned they'll find a way to rapidly catch up and surpass the west
I am very bullish on LK99, but it is of course with the caveat that it needs replication. I am not seeing anyone not saying that. One of the big exciting things about it has been that there HAS been some replication, between simulations and science. This article is too incredulous and does get a bit of “science police” feel.

In the 1800s people were often inventing and researching in their garage labs, we need more amateur science not less.
The multiple levels of governments and associated regulations is very much preventing it from happening. If any one of them in any of the jurisdictions the train might travel says no (or drags their feet) it doesn't happen.
The war was fought the way it was with the goal of preserving American lives compared to Russian ones. If the Allies wanted to preserve Russian lives, the best way of doing so would have been to do the Normandy landings years earlier, instead of dragging their feet in Italy and the North African front. The primary motivator for them eventually invading France was to preserve France and a fraction of Germany from being under Soviet control.
We're not talking about the systems you build on top of here. We're talking about the code. You write yourself. The fact that rocks is written in c is irrelevant to the fact that in order to use the ecosystem I'm describing you need to be on the JVM or your experience will be at best subpar.
How were you taking it? My psychiatrist recommended that I take it 12 hours before I want to wake up and really only recommends 1 mg or so.
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Disclaimer: may require the inhalation of YAML.
I'm setting up the project on DigitalOcean right now!
Industrial, chemical, and information.
Ah yes, climate deniers just haven't been talked to right!

Rather then them choosing to consume a media diet 100% filled with "liberal hoaxes THEY don't want YOU to know about!!!!!"
My hand movement is minimal with Tsangan/HHKB layout and as such, I haven't had much issue with fatigue or pain even after long stretches of typing. I find that actually, keycap profile and switch weight are bigger factors.

I do have an ai03 Meridian, which is a Alice-style board (which while not ergo is more in that direction), in the closet that I need to build though but have been putting it off because it requires soldering (hotswap has spoiled me).
A utility token is a decentralized token you pay to a provider in order to do a service for you. Maybe it's hosting. Maybe it's manual work. Maybe it's AI credits. Maybe -- like in the case of RHEL - it's licensing fees. Think about it like the API credits and quotas that you are given by an API provider, except more decentralized.

You can use trustlines to make it a lot more scalable, meaning the provider only closes out the trustline and posts it to the blockchain to collect the tokens, once in a while, not on every micropayment.

Here is an example: https://qbix.com/ecosystem
Just taking melatonin vs not taking it isn't the only decision space. There's a lot that goes into taking it to make it work. I've never done so but I understand this to be the case from reading this [0].

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-th...
I don't have access, what's the gist? Heat emission then timing combined with thermal imaging? AFAIK, most *AR methods are active and rely on timing, but the abstract mentions passive detection.
Asahi Linux’s new “flagship” distro for M-series Macs is a Fedora Remix
>is the Bahncard 100 popular?

I went to uni in Cologne and a lot of banker types who would daily commute from Cologne to Frankfurt always had one. Very popular with business people doing these mid-range round trips. For regular travelers too expensive though.
You are probably correct, I honestly do not know. What I meant is that there is an association between melatonin and sleep and there is _some_ research on it as an effective medicine but the quantity of it (to my untrained eye) is limited. So when people take it they generally take it as an over-the-counter supplement with some hope for uncertain effects because "it's the thing in the body that regulates sleep". Thus the quotes around "drug".
I can't tell what they are doing. It seems like it's merging visible and thermal imaging to improve segmentation and identification, then looking up the identified objects for ranging. No?

The thermal images in their examples seem to be intentionally using a wide temperature gamut to reduce the contrast in the image (and make it look bad). Most thermal imaging solutions will automatically adjust and give you a much better result.

Regardless I can see lots of benefits of integrating the two as basically another color channel. There's a lot of information available.
Are these ISPs using our money to lobby against their customers?

It just now occurred to me broadband advocates might be able to copy the renewable energy advocates. Like passing laws to prevent energy companies from lobbying against their own rate payers.

Cable companies are regulated too, right?
With a 6-to-4 gateway then yeah. But at that point you're using v4.
I've always done it like this as well. Initially I did it for the most obvious reason: it gave me the working software that I needed the fastest. Then later on, I always found it to be the best way to find natural abstractions as you go.
Also, if you’re at the command-tab picker, the up arrow key will switch to windows of the currently selected app (and left/right arrows will change the currently selected app). The macOS command-tab switcher has a bunch of functionality built in.
Expertise aside I would argue that an undergraduate degree from a prestigious institution that pivoted to journalism is worse in this era. They have been tokenized and given lots of unearned reputation from their credentials, which biases them to provide the rosiest narrative (which is what the science industrial complex wants), without the years of grinding work or cynicism from management of rocky rapids of fraud and overrepresenting work that at least a grad student had to deal with.

That said, I actually believe lk-99 (let's be clear this is a belief, if strongly held) based on my personal experiences with scientific shenanigans.
> "...and we turned out never to use features X and Y."

THIS. Often, the best way to start the rewrite is to go straight to the database, and start asking "what allowed values for all these fields have never actually been used?".

EDIT: Whether it's rewriting, or refactoring, or adding some "if( Deprecated_Feature_Allow !== true ) ... ErrorDie( Feature_Deprecated )" logic here and there, or updating training material, or whatever - knowing that Software_Feature got ~zero real-world use is d*mned useful.
I started having problems with my hands, and switched to a split keyboard. I used them for years, but kept having problems. Now I'm back to a rectangle, with my wrists at an angle to the keyboard, and I don't have problems. I don't think it's the keyboard shape that's the problem, but just how some people align their hands with it. I do credit the years of split keyboards with teaching me proper wrist alignment though. And after getting my fingers used to it, I'm much faster and more accurate on the rectangle. Not to mention I have a real choice when purchasing keyboards again.
The rectangle layout is only bad if you are a home-row typist.

The problem with home-row typing is that your wrists are bent.

It's possible to learn to type without bending your wrists. I am self-taught and have typed this way for three decades with no wrist issues due to keyboard use. My fingers rest naturally on "QWERF" and "JIOP". I actually cannot type on "ergo" keyboards due to the angles being wrong, and not being able to reach certain keys with both hands.

(I did once have wrist issues due to mouse use, about 15 years ago. This disappeared when switching to a trackball.)

Anyone who prefers "Control" next to "A" (myself included) is likely old enough to have learned to type before computer typing lessons were common, so maybe the author also is not a home-row typist.
Kubernetes is just fine. Don't use it for your personal projects, or for stuff that can easily be managed with systemd services. For those, it's probably overkill. But k8s is not some horrible, soul damaging software either. It's actually amazing at what it does.
> from the folks who invented almost every major security mitigation in modern computers

I wouldn't praise them that much. Linus himself called the code quality "questionable" at best and for people who care so much about "improving the security landscape" by walling off the very contributions that can help keep others safe online.... I don't really care what they put on their CV I wouldn't want them on my security team.

If true security is something you can only achieve by having "hidden" patches, I don't buy your snakeoil and will gladly take security advice with the people who actually share that information rather than lock it behind a paywall.

Edit: This is not to say if your contributing a lot of time and effort into securing the Linux kernel that you shouldn't get paid, you should. I just think you need to be realistic. If the patches work, cool. Now work on making it capable to be merged into the mainline tree. If your not actively contributing to the product as a whole then the only thing your doing is building a business solely to keep those patches working. That does not inspire confidence with me. God forbid the company go under and all that work never makes it into the main tree. Now you've wasted yours and everyone else's time. You have furthered Cyber Security by exactly 0 points. Good job.
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I can't imagine how that could have gone differently. If Hurd was completed in the 90s, would anyone use a kernel that was slower than linux because it doesn't share data structures between parts of the kernel?

Even today people disable isolation to improve performance even though our desktops are faster than old supercomputers: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/learning-center/opti...

"Windows 11 security measures include Memory Integrity and Virtual Machine Platform (VMP) to protect against malware, which are features that can also disrupt gaming performance. If you choose to turn these features off before gaming, it can improve your performance and help you focus on the games at hand. Afterwards, it’s important to turn them on again since you are opening your PC up to risks while it’s less protected. For short periods, you might try turning off your Memory Integrity and VMP to see if you notice a difference."
The dosage of melatonin you can buy over-the-counter in the US always surprises me. In the UK I believe it’s only 2mg with a prescription, but I was seeing 5mg+ just in a grocery store.
You can't imagine this could ever be profitable though?
The EPA just sets a test methodology. Though they can do confirmation testing.
Goal is to die for some other reason before cancer evades this
The Incompetent Leader (IL) Playbook
AI/ML Best Practices During a Gold Rush
An interesting contrarian take on the recent hype around the promise of AI.
Yeah, that makes sense too.

I think it just boils down to "keep writing systems and you'll get better at it." But there's no bait on that kind of link.
>Even if this does prove effective in humans, eventually cancer cell defenses will evolve to get around it.

Cancer becomes tolerant to drugs separately for each patient. I.e. initially it isn't resistant, but the drug used on a patient puts evolutionary pressure on the cancer to work around the drug. What this means is that people have more months or years to live, which is great. (I am not a doctor).
You're missing the point completely. The "better world" was referring to things like washing machines, hair dryers and bras. It was also supposed to be ironic and you were supposed to continue reading.
Yes.

Also, any change to the protocol was going to be a massive shift regarding network hardware. It wasn't ever possible to slap a few more bytes onto the address.

If you're going to make a monumentap shift, why not do it right?
I’ve read arguments that the real mystery of WW2 is why it took the allies so long to win. If you count The Empire in Britain’s total, economic output for Britain was considerably larger than that of Germany. Adding in Russia and the US dwarfs the axis powers.

Looking through stats in the below link, the relentless increase in industrial output of the US is incredible.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_production_during_W...
Most IR cameras work with IR as heat emission. They are useful in the dark, without revealing the camera.

Most optical cameras work with reflected light, not direct emission. The source of light is usually away and at an angle; this allows for shadows, textures, etc.

I don't see why an IR camera can't work the same way as an optical camera, if reflected IR is used; IR photos under e.g. sunlight look fine enough.

Radars or lidars work with their own scanning sources of illumination: microwave, IR, or optical. I wonder if the HADAR uses its own source of IR; if it does, how different it from a LIDAR?

(All these mysteries can be solved for $29, but I'm not yet curious enough.)
Internet connectivity is surprisingly poor on German trains. In 1st class, between Basel and Hanover, most of the time my phone (with Swisscom SIM) got better connectivity than the onboard wifi. Considering that this route connects Zurich and Frankfurt, you'd think there would be a smidgen more investment in bandwidth.
"People forcing themselves to excessively partake in an activity in order to impress strangers find they're having a miserable time". A very shocking discovery

Meanwhile those of us doing things because we enjoy them haven't even heard of these "influencers" or their games. "We" is a lot smaller than those in a bubble think

Though perhaps I'm being a bit disingenuous, since people who are more interested in being visibly "A Book Person" than actually reading have been a phenomenon since way before the internet, and is obviously part of a much broader category of posturing that's presumably existed as long as language has. As with most things, the internet has just amplified basic human flaws in a feedback loop
Melatonin in the US is frequently found in 5 or 10 mg doses, which is a huge amount and can cause adverse reactions in people. A better dose is 0.3mg (300 mcg) or 0.5mg (500 mcg).
My F-key usage is extremely low, and so layering them is no big deal. On average I think I might use layered F-keys a single-digit number of times per year. This probably has to do with the platform of choice (macOS, which favors mnemonic shortcuts over F-keys) as well as the software one uses on a day-to-day basis.
> I saw caps lock was changed to ctrl. Which is what I do on all my computers

But then how do you yell at people on the internet?!?!
> Linus himself called the code quality "questionable" at best

Linus hates them. There's a very long history there.

> for people who care so much about "improving the security landscape" by walling off the very contributions that can help keep others safe online.... I don't really care what they put on their CV I wouldn't want them on my security team.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

edit:

> You have furthered Cyber Security by exactly 0 points.

Notably, despite never upstreaming their work, they are still responsible for inventing the most important mitigations in your computer, including your hardware (ASLR, SMAP, SMEP, to name a few). So no matter what they have absolutely furthered security by much more than 0.
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China is no 1990s Japan – but it could have been
You can remap the key combination "jk" to ESC in order to switch effortlessly from editing mode to normal mode.

inoremap jk <esc>

("jk" doesn't normally appear in English and is easy to type)
> I wish there was a keyboard club or something that let you try these out for a week or so.

There's a useful tool for comparing ergo layouts and printing out 1:1 scale templates to get an idea of how they would fit your hand size:

https://compare.splitkb.com

It's not quite a substitute for actually using a real keyboard, but it can help to narrow down what you might want to try.
My biggest question is how they are going to police this. Will each download contain hidden flags to mark it as your account? How will they be able to discern what account it came from? Sounds like a nightmare to control and may end up costing them more in the long run.
> I wouldn't be surprised if we soon see desperate, sick, rich people try this out on themselves, skipping FDA approval

I know nothing about the FDA but for things like terminal cancer treatment, shouldn't there be a blanket exemption for "if the patient so wish, they can take whatever drugs they want even if unapproved"? When facing certain death, what's the worst that can happen? You die a bit sooner?
> People don't want every local network device to have a public IP

I absolutely don't want this. But as I understand it, I can avoid this by assigning my machines the IPv6 nonroutable addresses fe80::/64. They're the equivalent of 192.168.* and 10.*
Like the hive mind is trying to make logging in ultracomplicated for security reasons, why not dissalow confusing characters in file names for security reasons?

Oh but it would make file names less complex. We can't have that.

Edit: btw, how many ways can you express an "ă" in Unicode? How many different file names that look the same visually can you end up with?