skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hard to know what to think about this when we know that the estimate is too high, but we have no idea _how much_ too high. From the jet fuel mentioned in the article that has the "1 in 4" cancer risk, the EPA had this to say about it's risk model:

The agency assumed, for instance, that every plane at an airport would be idling on a runway burning an entire tank of fuel, that the cancer-causing components would be present in the exhaust and that residents nearby would breathe that exhaust every day over their lifetime.

This seems to support their assertion that the modeled risk is unreasonable. But that unfortunately doesn't tell us what it actually is. Also, I'd love to know: was it EPA scientists making these assumptions in their models? If so, then why? The cynical part of me wants to say that it's to create exactly this scenario: They can dismiss the results as unreasonable, and since that's the only version they ran, they don't have reasonable numbers to give us.
off by one em
Quantum computer is under the category of computers.

Quantum computation relied on Quantum mechanics.

Quantum mechanics are not deterministic.

So, Quantum computers are not deterministic.

Therefore, unless P=NP, not all computations are deterministic.
Part of the power of social media, is that powerful people acting badly in public finally might face some public backlash or justice.

Banning this, will certainly protect the powerful, and will likely continue to be unenforced for the average person.
There have been studies showing that higher coffee consumption correlates to slower cognitive decline. This study only looks at the effects of coffee in vitro.
I just use a mokapot :)
With archive.today, sometimes IP addresses may stop working. The following ones appear to be still working.

x=23.137.248.133 # NL
x=41.77.143.21 # GB
x=51.38.69.52 # GB
x=51.79.250.183 # SG
x=79.133.51.130 # DE
x=89.253.237.217 # RU
x=90.156.209.190 # RU
x=90.156.209.190 # RU
x=91.193.43.144 # NL
x=94.140.114.194 # LV
x=130.0.232.208 # UA
x=139.99.171.251 # AU
x=139.99.89.157 # SG
x=178.17.174.208 # MD
x=178.250.243.66 # RU
x=185.101.35.175 # NO
x=185.125.168.154 # NO
x=188.143.233.210 # RU
x=192.124.216.250 # RU
x=192.210.214.166 # US
x=193.148.248.205 # NL
x=193.233.203.196 # MD
x=217.197.116.88 # RU

To test, something like

printf 'GET /timemap/example.com HTTP/1.0\r\nhost: archive.is\r\nconnection: close\r\n\r\n'|openssl s_client -connect $x:443 -ign_eof

echo $x archive.is >> /etc/hosts
curl -0A "" https://archive.is/timemap/example.com
This is great to hear. Thanks.
I assume there are multiple people willing and able to continue vim development and I think it might be important for that to happen. I just thought it was relevant in the context of that comment to mention the other project.
I’ve been using Warp [warp.dev] lately and it’s been pretty refreshing so far.
Let's not trash TortoiseGit. Sven has put so much work and polish into it. Ugly? Maybe you just hate Win32 UIs? That's ok.

TortoiseGit has many great features, including ways to compare anything you can think of.
Not crypto. At least not specifically. I'd be happy with a whole lot of regional banks that aren't going to just get acquired in a year. Consolidation isn't a friend.
Nobody disputes, that if they ship you off to 'Nam, and your body gears up into crazy levels of fight-or-flight, then when you get back you might just have a severe reaction whenever the fireworks go off on the Fourth of July.

Nobody disputes, that if you give birth to a child -- your child -- then you will be overcome with love, with emotion, with levels of oxytocin you have never experienced before in your life. Nobody disputes either that this is real, or that negative hangover effects like postpartum depression are also possible and serious.

I'm not saying this to be a prude. In fact, I think there's something bizarrely sterile and sexless about many things in our society.

But still, I think it is a mistake to trivialize things that are not trivial.
I think it’s easy to change a few duplicated instances. It just depends on how often they change. Once a year? Easy. Once a week? Not fun.
I read that if all of Antarctica melted it would raise 65m or so? And it seems unlikely Antartica would melt in a few hundred years?

Do you have a reference for 100m?
There is some meta-level irony in that this sort of classification is scifi in itself; in reality 90% of stuff labeled as hard scifi is more like soft scifi, and the distinction between soft scifi and sci fantasy is somewhere between subjective, arbitrary, and contextual.
I was that way until I took up the "Mission Earth" series by L Ron Hubbard. I did make it through a few books before it just got too terrible and I was like, "why am I doing this to myself?". And I say that as someone who rather liked "Battlefield Earth".
Not really sure what your point is. You're invoking undefined behavior here. What is WASI supposed to do differently?
> Nevertheless we can’t really say there is a difference in kind anymore and maybe never really was.

There is a basic difference between Star Trek and Star Wars; but you're right, the level of technobabble deployed before using FTL is not it.

The difference is that whereas Star Wars is basically about a "hero's journey" - a young hero rises from obscurity, travels, learns, trains up and defeats the bad through their courage and skill, and lone derring-do (and inborn hero-quality).

Star Trek is basically about a Team. They might have a strong leader, but (almost always, leaving Michael Burnham plots aside) the victory is not achieved until they pull together as a crew, relying on each other, combining their talents and respecting each other's skills.

Star Wars has a single "evil empire" as the easy-to-spot antagonist.

Star Trek has many political factions, each with their own outlook and self-interests.

The second is IMHO a little more "grown up" than the first.
We'll have computronium soon if we carry on like this!
How is that a security issue? When compiled to wasm does that code escape the wasm vm?
For me personally, "The Andromeda Strain" (1971) feels like science fiction that is true to the term itself, especially in its adherence to scientific principles.
These tools blabbering about “tax the rich” don’t have real jobs, assets, or a brain. The only thing the political class will be OK with doing is raising taxes on the middle - and that’s it. People who call for higher taxes with our two party system are my enemy. They can eff off.

And raising capital gains taxes? What so they can screw over the middle again when they retire and have to intermittently sell off? It’s absurd.
The online shaming culture at tumblr, twitter and reddit was what convinced me that you need to stay pseudonymous on the internet at all cost.

There are so many people that participate in this and haven't realized yet that they are being an asshole to random strangers.
RIP, a great guy, a public benefactor and a great coder.

I think the black stripe should be on HN today; it's quite justified.
What books are your favourite military scifi?
That's exactly the problem. There is not another risk assessment.
> The Apple II took advantage of the speed difference between CPU and DRAM and designed the video hardware to read from memory every other memory cycle, interleaved with CPU memory access.

Same for the C64. Sometimes it was necessary to read slightly more than that for video display though, so the VIC (video chip) had to pause the CPU for a bit sometimes, resulting in so called "badlines".
Point is they rarely care about which platform has better UX, similarly to how they don't care about how much RAM the competitor has or the CPU. Only few people stop to compare, even less make time to argue about it.

Of course normal users care about UX, even if they don't know what the acronym means.
A vote.
This is a well written post. I describes me perfectly and my knowledge of HTML/CSS/JS. I usually start with w3schools, then if I need deeper info, I repeat the search with "mdn". That does the trick!
It has done precisely that. You can now have near unlimited exclusive control over money that can be beamed to anyone on the internet cheaply in a very short period of time. Practically speaking, with some basic precautions, it is totally uncensorable and nobody can stop you.

That was not possible before.

Those are facts, regardless of anyone's personal emotions about whether or not cryptocurrencies are good or bad.

It has so much crime associated with it specifically because it is functional and decentralized. You can't receive ransomware payments at a retail bank.
Every person can mean considering each individually. The bigger problem is screening every person for a cancer their doctor should expect.
Prospective owners which use Linux should know, that they will have to decide which driver to run: i915 with hardware-acceleration support (more generally, HuC), or Xe with VM_BIND support (highly relevant for gaming):

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/xe/kernel/-/issues/234
Pretty good reason to switch phone manufacturers.
Ok, so I'm watching myself watching myself leave. And so what? My "past selves" are just reflections of myself, I am not there anymore, it's just light that looks like me. The light is not going to change anything about the past, it's going to follow me to my next location until I stop and let it catch up.

Maybe I'm completely misunderstanding you or the problem - feel free to correct me, please. I'd really like to understand how causality is broken by FTL but could never grok it.
IBM and NASA teamed up to build the GPT of Earth sciences
I was looking for a post like this because I couldn’t agree more. While I didn’t get a tattoo like you , I can’t imagine living without a tool that is one of the most important to my livelihood.
> https://danluu.com/keyboard-latency/

This might be a bit off topic, but it was surprising to see a Logitech K120 have the same latency as a Unicomp Model M or other keyboards that are 5-10x more expensive than it.

No wonder I liked using it for work years ago: as far as membrane keyboards go, it's pretty dependable and decently nice to use, definitely so for it's price.
Sometimes when the boss is away the team works better. At least, that is the case with my team. I don't really know why. Because I really think I am not a bad boss. But apparently either I am or they just don't need one and I am in the end a distraction.
I'm confused about the use case for this tool if it's neither meant to be a reference manager (which it must not be given how little information is stored in the yaml) and it's also not meant to integrate with existing reference managers. So it seems that really using it means I'd be managing a database of papers in two places.

Also if you're already using a flat file as a database, why not just use bibtex? That format is commonly provided by publishers already, and has a much higher chance of being compatible with existing reference managers. E.g., it's the native format of JabRef and helm-bibtex, though I'm not sure about zotero. Either way, bibtex is usually going to be needed if you want to cite one of these papers.
Yeah this is referred to in the LK99 paper.
At night, subliminal messages piped in.
It seems like a majority of the issues I keep hearing about are Cruise AVs.

Maybe it’s time to revoke their operating permits and stop treating them with kid gloves because it’s GM? It feels like they were able to slam through all of the approvals and permits just because “they were GM” even though none of their shit was proven to work compared to Waymo’s efforts.

And now that Cruise wants to try to push cars out into the wild with no controls in them they might be able to get away with it when Waymo was basically forced to scrap the Firefly program because of no controls.
I had no idea Haynes was doing this. Hysterical and wonderful. Thank you!
A Shrinking Footprint in Africa for France, the Former Colonizer That Stayed
RIP, Bram. Thank you, from a 22-year Vim user.
I thought for a second going into this that it might be an interview from at least 6 months ago. But no, it's from yesterday.

As much as I prefer not to criticize the individual, Mr. Lakhani here is clearly not the most insightful person to be speaking about this. The advice he dishes out is objectively no better than the advice I heard a friend's grandfather give a month ago (for context, he is 78 and was a mechanic his entire life & only started using a smartphone 3 years ago).

Going into this I also expected the title itself to be an ironic nod -- but no, seems like they meant this 100% literally. We're only a few days away from having this sentence printed on coffee mugs -- and not because of HBR.

Shame on HBR. Every dog has its day -- and decline.
I love how “science fantasy” has shifted to the point where it is anything that includes FTL. Really shows what happens when we give nerds the internet.
World's First Tooth Regrowth Medicine Enters Clinical Trials
Yes, Khronos, Intel and AMD managed to make a mess out of OpenCL.

Which is one of the reasons why Apple stop caring about OpenCL, apparently they have repented giving it Khronos, and how it was managed afterwards.
Freshly roasted beans are more important for flavor than the preparation method.
Except making n-dimensional indexes both fast and scalable is hard. Often its safest to build your way up, one index at a time, until you fully understand the workload requirements.
> Do a plumber, a baker, a policeman need a computer to do their job?

Yes, mostly. Very much so the police officer, which is why they generally have, for decades, had a computer terminal built into their patrol vehicles.

But, yes, modern workers (and esoecially business owners) in each of the other fields often use computers, even if not for what you might consider the core defining part of their job, for parts that are practically important to doing it in the modern environment, even if its just the computers almost everyone carries in their pocket.
> You're now betting against the teenage sex drive of the whole planet

Teenagers want porn. The “infringing sites” discussed in the linked article isn’t about porn. No one thinks that the French government is going to require that browsers block Pornhub, Reddit’s gone-wild subs, or Xvideos.

Your view of hordes of kids keen on pirating is rather dated. Sure, some people still pirate. But due to the rise in streaming and media-as-a-commodity, piracy is no longer even the same marginal cultural force that it was a decade ago.
DS9's first episode has a space alien organism living inside a permanent wormhole and it speaks to you through mind visions, exists at all points in time and can read your mind, put you in your own memories, etc. That happens in the first episode, the whole Star Trek universe is full of absolute fantasy.

Q, anyone?
I had an opportunity to talk to the Bram Moolenaar when VimConf 2018 was held in Japan. First and only time Bram visited Japan.

I was there as a volunteer staff, sitting at a reception desk. Although vim is the text editor I use everyday, I'm not that enthusiastic to participate the vim conference. I'm not a vim developer. I don't use some of the advanced vim features. I don't ask much for a text editor. I use vim simply because it's available in all environments I could possibly use. I was a volunteer staff because I was asked by one of my colleague at that time who was a serious vim user and organized the VimConf.

So I didn't have a plan to talk to Bram at all. There were so many Japanese vim developers and serious vim users there who want to talk to Bram. This may be the first and last chance to talk to Bram in person for them. I don't want to waste the precious time for them.

Then, I learned at the conference that recent vim release includes termdebug plugin which allows vim to behave as a gdb frontend. Since I am a C++ programmer, I started playing with it. Then, I quickly found a bug. termdebug assume there's only one function for a name and couldn't handle C++ function overloading.

I discussed this issue with Bram Moolenaar in a spare time.

There aren't many other things I can tell about Bram.

At the after party of VimConf 2018, Bram absolutely refused to use a cup and drink beer directly from a beer bottle. It wasn't a small 333 ml beer bottle. It was a big 633 ml beer bottle.

Before the VimConf 2018, Bram went to climb Mt. Fuji during his stay in Japan.
Years before ChatGPT I made the joke that AI would want to take over the world like a computer virus, but it’s written in Python, so it can’t figure out how to install itself on other computers.

I think the joke was on Twitter, RIP.
> I made the mistake of showing an Applehead how I could use a Windows PC to archive photos from an iPhone to a memory card and free up space. This unleased a stream of requests from others to do the same.

> This should be just as easy to do in the Appleverse garden but apparently it's not --- because Apple prefers you buy a new iPhone or pay for on-line storage instead.

I backup my iCloud photos automatically to a free Dropbox account. My Windows PC then routinely moves the contents of the Dropbox backup folder onto my NAS.
SHOW TABLES is not a command in any of the database I work with. I would have to check the documentation if I was using MySQL.
> But assuming normal elections, would you vote?

Maybe. I have a pretty dim view of democracy as a form of government, so probably not.

> This impacted friends and family and created a cascading effect. It also impacted other people as she's relatively well known in our community and quite a few people changed their eating habits as a result.

In my experience, it's a fad. Plenty of people experiment but don't end up staying vegan.

> Maybe it's from where I stand, but I see a lot more vegan eateries around these parts (not an American) and a lot more enthusiasm about it. I think this will cross a chasm at some point and even a little bit helps in that regard.

I think there will be a continued interest in plant based foods and cooking, but I don't think that's the same as going vegan. Kind of like many people might try a beyond burger at Burger King while also ordering some actual chicken nuggets on the side.
Sounds like this would spawn an entire second internet.
Yes, and there will be a substantial (but as yet unrevealed) monthly subscription fee for this "service" after 2 years.
This is nothing like "coffee precents/cures Alzheimers." This is in vitro cells, it's not clear these compounds cross the BBB, and billions of people drink lots of cofffee and tauopathies are on the rise. Tauopathies are diseases of opulence and on ccontrast to what this paper says, there are effective neutrical treatments (Bredeson protocol)
So sad, I had the honor to meet Bram at a FOSS talk with RMS which he organized in Amsterdam RAI. I'll never forget that day. I've been using VIM for a many decades and I'm sure to keep using it for a long time. Many thanks for all the work and condolences for his family.
When running the same code on linux or anything else you segfault. It is a huge security issue and totally not the only one.
Meh I've never liked this argument. It becomes a question of who is "blessed" and "unblessed" enough for you, subjectively.
An expansive Standard Library has a cost, which will be paid by your users (programmers, maybe their end users) in several ways. I see a Package Repository as almost always strictly better than such a Standard Library.

1. Unlike a Package Repository, there is only one Standard Library. Got a Goose in your stdlib? That's the Goose. Even when this Goose is completely wrong for the application, you will need to work very hard to get people to use their GoodGoose instead because Goose came with the standard library. It's not stupid, it's advanced. See C++ std::unordered_map and std::list which are - respectively - the unordered map or list you probably should not be using, but hey, they're in the standard library.

2. Unlike a Package Repository the Standard Library must chase HEAD. New shiny feature in your language is awesome for almost everybody but it makes the Goose tricky so that's going to take a bunch of work? Sorry you must fix the Goose before you can ship the shiny feature, because it's in the Standard Library. This is maybe OK if many people need a Goose, you had to fix it anyway, but in our expansive library maybe most people only need Bird, or at most Duck, and use of Goose is actually uncommon. Too bad, Goose blocks the whole feature.

3. Compatibility. Of course the other option is to remove Goose from your standard library. Merely marking it "deprecated" is different. That's maybe useful for teaching but most of the considerations still apply even though you now don't recommend using it - but in Python and I believe even in Java, gradually, they remove things from the standard library (Python calls these "Dead batteries" in reference to the "Batteries included" policy). Code which worked five, ten, fifteen years ago won't work with the latest stdlib. If you decide to pay this price it's paid by your whole language. If some third party package didn't support the new language version, it's on the community to decide whether to write a compatibility package or if that's too hard/ not worth it. But for the stdlib you own the problem.
I might also argue that sometimes writing the same dumb basic declarative code 20 different times is still faster and easier to read, debug, and maintain than trying to write one master class to handle every possible edge case.

IMO it's one thing if you're writing an engine or library where you have to ensure extremely high quality and good coverage. Or maybe you just work for an incredibly well run outfit where newcomers are deeply trained in the ins and outs of your codebase and style. But no place I've personally worked with has been like that.

If you're just building a bog standard business app for a small or medium business, I don't think purity of code is typically the primary bottleneck. Likely turnover and poor documentation and lack of on-boarding and sudden frequent pivots will be bigger deals, all of which are significantly complicated by over-abstracted code that can't be modularly changed by a single developer.

People worked with vanilla HTML and JS for decades, maybe using server side includes for some basic DRY. It wasn't pretty, it was hecka tedious, but it also wasn't Inception-level nightmarish like some modern abstractions are. There's an ideal level of abstraction for a given team and codebase, IMO, and it's not always "more abstraction is better" (not that you were arguing that). It's just a process of discovery and design by fire that gets you there, not usually a lone genius that produces a masterpiece in any one particular style.
Seconded.

The first time I watched it I was away from work, sick, by myself in a dark room with no other distractions. Watching it like that left an indelible mark on me too. I lived it.
Isn’t the idea that with this cement mixture your house’s foundation acts as energy storage “for free”?

I think the application is for cases where you’re already using cement as a building material, so you might as well mix in some carbon and also get energy storage out of it.
Worse, only does C++, while CUDA is polyglot, and tooling isn't at the level as something like NInsights.
>TikTok'er uploads a video lying about you

This is quite rare and any lawsuit is hard and likely not worth it.

>And gaslighting children or abusing the elderly is already illegal, right?

Depends. And then again, what are you going to do about it?
Every Phone Should Be Able to Run Personal Website
Could it be that the conferences take place at a time of year where mortality due to cardiac events is higher, e.g. in summer? Maybe I missed it, but I don't think they controlled for time of year.