skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's nothing conspiracy about it. The power of heavy industry is self-evident. Take, for example, fishing. Was it individual choice that gave rise to today's fishing industry? Fishing has long been a rather individual and solo project, where people can subsist on food they catch for themselves. Then people banded together to operate fishing boats and maintain nets and collectively feed themselves. Then they could feed others. Then it grew and grew. Did the industry grow by "convincing individuals to choose fish"? Or did the ease of fishing and the low barrier of entry give rise to ever larger operations? Mechanization and industrialization ultimately begat a fishing industry that overfishes, kills the oceans, destroys ecosystems, and is ruining the planet. What individual choice can reverse this sort of thing? What shadowy conspiracy cabal has dared to ruin it for us? It's simply the almighty buck and human nature. There is nothing mysterious or lunatic about it.
Honestly this is more the difference between putting your personality to your art vs just your art - I also post my paintings online but I hardly get the views of people making shorts with their face and revealing the artwork, usually no matter how mediocre it will have a lot of followers.
Actual article here: https://www.embopress.org/doi/abs/10.15252/embj.2022111133

Edit: My best read of the article is as follow, please correct me if I am wrong. RB is retinoblastoma gene which is a well known tumor suppressor gene who's loss of function contributes to oncogenesis. It's main role is to keep a hold of a transcription factor called E2F from trying to go forward and initiating mitosis. INK4a AKA p16 is a CDK inhibitor. It basically puts the breaks on cyclin dependent kinases which help move the cell cycle forward. It is also a tumor suppressor gene. Note that CDKs which (but not p16) are targeted by drugs such as ribociclib. Both of these genes are part of the apoptosis (planned cell death: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Signal_t...). The theory is that this pathway is way more active in naked mole rats. Where it gets interesting is that up regulation of p16 in particular leads to more activity in the monoamine oxidase pathway that turns serotonin into 5'-HIAA (fun fact, this is monitored for carcinoid syndrome in neuroendocrine tumors). Anyways the breakdown of serotonin leads to a byproduct of H2O2. Hydrogen peroxide leads to general oxidative stress (read DNA damage) and that is a signal for the cell to undergo apoptosis. Thus cell that are senescent and normally don't undergo apoptosis get culled more often. Thus these cells don't get to hang around for a long enough time to undergo aging and oncogensis. Somatic stem cells will fill in the gap. Thus to live longer you gotta kill yourself a little more on the inside.

Edit 2: Oh an one more thing, this is kind of weird but p16 tends to be upregulated by HPV (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3394161/). HeLa cells are in part immortalized by HPV
Sorry, a DICE-enhanced TPM would be just as evil as a regular TPM I'm afraid. You can think of DICE as giving you a gazillion TPMs for the price of one actual TPM, one per program you care to load. What would happen is, your bootloader would just inject the standard Treacherous Computing™ firmware into the TPM, and since its keys is tied to it being what it is, in the end you end up with a regular Treacherous Platform Module, same as today.

I would _love_ to stop programs from using my TPM against me, but I'm afraid DICE isn't it.
It’s funny, I’ve always known my neighbors and talk to everyone on the block, but then I realized that most of them don’t talk to each other. Strange way to live because we are increasingly living in a world where you’re going to need help sooner or later and who else can you seek help from in emergencies other than your neighbors?

We had a mom who had recently moved in, screaming in hysterics on the block one day because she thought her toddler ran away when she stepped out for a moment to throw out trash. My neighbor (who also talks to everyone) and I came out, and along with the mailman and a couple of construction guys around the corner, immediately did a search on the neighborhood blocks. She eventually found him hiding in the house, and was relieved, but then just walked away without so much as a thank you to anyone. Such a strange way to live.
The Jester of Tonga
There was an article about this recently: https://www.seriouseats.com/simpler-entertaining-friday-nigh...
Metalness is a gradient

It would be better to say that "Metalness" is a sort of "Feature Set". IMO, most programmers would tend to agree that C++ is far closer to Java than C is, yet C++ is every bit as low level as C is. Indeed, even a managed language like C# supports raw pointers and even inline assembly if one is willing to get their hands dirty.
> You might want to allow graphical editor to open any graphical file, regardless of location.

More likely, you want to temporarily give them permission to specific files you indicate. A graphical editor doesn’t have reason to read any file that the user didn’t explicitly picked for editing/viewing.

That’s how Mac OS works nowadays (possibly except for the ‘temporarily’; I don’t know the details): applications can only open files that the user selected in the system file open dialog. That runs in a separate process and opens up an app’s sandbox to allow access to the file the user selected.
The Cost of Good Movies
Yes, I meant the 5th is only to avoid testimony incriminating himself, which he couldn't do.
This is only if your phone has Sony Felica hardware and a license to use it. New iPhones do worldwide but android devices, including Pixels IIRC generally only have this available phones sold in Japan.

Also, there are just in the last year or two increasing restrictions on using foreign cards for charging transit cards in Japan, presumably to prevent churning.
Your proposed norm is ripe for abuse by brilliant jerks. Just keep producing meritorious work and all incidents of you abusing people in your personal life will be excused.

(Your proposed norm is how things used to be, and still are to a large extent. This is bad and a failure of society, not a success.)
Xbox’s new “8 strikes” mod rollout judges hate speech 3x worse than cheating
For decades, computers in movies, despite writing text to the screen, would make a sound like an ASR-33 electro-mechanical tty ka-chunking out each character.
> "I'm afraid to inform you that you have built a message bus with RPC features.

No of course, not, I would use a shared object file to do it for me. I.e. all functionality inside a library instead of a centralized process that can crash or hang.
There's an absurd number of components to the Windows Kernel, so here's a kind of disjointed list of various things, from different time frames.

Windows Research Kernel - https://github.com/HighSchoolSoftwareClub/Windows-Research-K... - More or less Windows XP

I/O Completion ports - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/i-o-c... - io_uring, but mostly better, since NT 3.5

General architecture info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Windows_NT

A bunch of things you'll find in Windows Internals, which is pretty much the bible for Windows (https://empyreal96.github.io/nt-info-depot/Windows-Internals..., or buy it online. Mark Russinovich is a treasure trove of Windows knowledge)

The various Windows subsystems - Windows is built from the start to be able to impersonate other OSes. While the most obvious one is WSL (despite WSL2 being just a VM), there's an OS/2 Subsystem, a POSIX Subsystem, a Win32 subsystem...

Very few things actually run in kernel mode. There exists a almost-kernel-but-not-quite mode called executive mode, which is a much better option than Linux's all or nothing user-or-kernel (and, as far as I know, Mach has the same problem)

NT is a hybrid kernel: not quite monolithic, not quite micro. This allows Windows to do things like swapping your video drivers live as it's running, unlike Linux and Mach which would miserably crash. Hell, it can even recover from a video driver crash and restart it safely, and all you'll see is a few seconds of black screen.

The breadth of devices it supports is absolutely breathtaking. (well, in part because they very much have a hand in forcing manufacturers to respect the standards that they write)

All of Sysinternals (Mark Russinovich's work, again) is also an amazing resource: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/

Now, mind you, this is purely about technical merits: the NT Kernel is a miracle of technology. The APIs it exposes, and that most Microsoft products expose are downright batshit insane sometimes. But that's also what happens when you support 35 years of software. Also, the HANDLE pattern that most Win32 API uses is the superior alternative to dumb pointers (https://floooh.github.io/2018/06/17/handles-vs-pointers.html)

Oh and a bunch of The Old New Things articles, but I can't be arsed to look them up right now, sorry.
It's 4 kids, plus the Wife, but that's why we have a minivan.
> can't immediately return from the lambda caller without throwing

You want to immediately return in the middle of something that was supposed to simulate just evaluating an expression?

You can't immediately return in the middle of 2+2 as well because return is a statement and can't be a part of expression.
The reason for this is that content creation is no longer about the content per se, and I say this as a content creator myself. Content created today serves two functions beyond actually producing something that another person will appreciate for its artistic beauty:

(1) It serves as a place where other people gather to interact. People gather in such ways now more than ever because of the loneliness created by advanced technology. Therefore, being trendy is more important than being artistic. That's why total garbage like the Avengers movies is so successful: it's because it panders to the lowest common denominator and therefore is an ideal gathering place for the lost souls stranded by technology.

(2) If content is not a place for people to gather, then it is simply content that teaches other people to produce more content. In fact, some of the most successful content on YouTube is simply content designed to help people produce other content that no one will watch most of the time.

While both these functions were active to some extent in humanity's past, it is only now that they function to their full extent. They are magnified by modern technology and other reasons for art are being minimized.
To some extent, this just sounds like willfully digging your own grave and then complaining that you're being buried. Sure, a shitty person can still do good research. But people are people, not computers. If you want to sacrifice your own social status by collaborating with a persona non grata then that's your choice, just don't be surprised when you lose friends and professional opportunities because of it.

For a rather long take from someone within the astronomy research community, I can recommend Dr. Angela Collier's video on the topic of sexual harassment and assault in Astronomy and Physics [1].

"Here's 26 people who decided it was fine to author a paper with this serial sexual harasser ... How can I see a future in a field where people are just fine working with sexual harassers. They don't care about the women, the victims, they just care about how this person can help their career."

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DNRBa39Iig She discusses Geoff Marcy at ~35:30 btw.

"How can you write a mentoring statement when 66% of your students have left Astronomy directly because of you?"

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For a much more extreme historical example, see the tragic life of Nobel laureate Fritz Haber. A man who arguably saved billions of lives with the invention of the Haber process, but who was ostracized by many fellow scientists for his work on chemical weapons during WWI.
There is sooooo much more contemporary art then that one guy who stapled a banana to a wall. If that is all your exposure to contemporary art then you aren't trying very hard.
Nobody has the right to just drive into other cars.

Still, society has largely agreed that there are exceptions.

For example, if you suddenly swerve in front of a another car and do a "brake check" and successfully cause the car behind you to drive into yours, that is considered a crime in most parts of the world. I don't know how accident liability disputes work in other countries, but in the USA at least, the liability might actually be yours, partially or even fully, despite that the rear driver in a collision is normally considered liable by default. It doesn't mean they had the right to drive into you. It's kind of like their lack of such a right is waived because you prevented them from not exercising it.

Similarly, if you ignore an emergency vehicle's ample warning that it's approaching, and you choose to suddenly drive into its path, its driver doesn't have the right to drive into you, but their driving into you is not a right they chose to exercise.

The same is true even for non-emergency vehicles. If another car has a green light, and you suddenly run a red light and drive in front of them and they drive into you, the liability might be yours, even though their right-of-way did not give them the right to do that.
"That being said, I don't know if short session expiration is the best solution in 2023. As the article points out, major corporations like Google don't use short sessions, even though their services are used for a variety of sensitive things and they're huge targets."

Is it possible that Google might prefer that users stay "logged in" because this allows Google to conduct more data collection, for purposes of supporting its online advertising services business. Perhaps staying logged in is "more secure" for the ad targets that use Google than logging out. Maybe its both, but not in equal measure. Which one would be more important to Google and its shareholders. Would a company like Google make tradeoffs that favour its bottom line. Are there any differences between the core business of Google (advertising) versus the core business of financial institutions. For example, Google's customers are advertisers. The folks that have Google "accounts" for non-advertising purposes, i.e., probably the majority of folks in the world who have Google accounts, are not customers.
I mean, what is on them?

If I saw a James Bond film where someone broke into someone's house to steal a framed decommissioned 8-inch floppy off the wall in order to obtain valuable nuclear secrets, I would call it far fetched.
My claim is that Microsoft operating system was silently detecting competitors software and changing behavior to break compatibility. That is proven. The war on WordPerfect was equally shady.

Did Microsoft clean its act at some point and stopped doing so? They force Edge at every opportunity, so even the behavior that almost got them forcefully partitioned is back.

I don’t think we have caught them outright sabotaging e.g. Chrome aside from the default browser shenanigans, but who would bother to check unless it’s a repeatable crash? Aside from Chrome what app do they even have a need to sabotage? Steam?
On Richard Stallman and Ubuntu (2012)
Let's try not to make this personal by saying how we seem to each other, shall we?

As for how asking about how the impact of the Fed's policy is primarily about Obama or Trump, liberal or conservative, maybe it isn't. You tell me since you brought it up. If it's not about Obama or Trump, liberal or conservative, then perhaps you brought it up to say that other people besides Pelosi contributed to the ocean of money that poured into SF. If that's why you brought it up, then I wonder why you want to make that point. After all, I never said Pelosi deserves all the blame. I never said she deserves the largest share of the blame. A challenge was made at the top of thread, if I recall, to make an argument as to why Pelosi deserves some of the blame, ANY of the blame. I took up that challenge as I saw it. If it's your objective to argue that she deserves none of the blame, then I'd like to see that argument.
Mini Show HN: https://sfotty.cyco130.com/
I have a command line Windows binary compiled over 30 years ago (June 1996) that won't run on Windows 10 (64 bit). Windows complains, "ANAGRAMS.EXE is not compatible with the version of Windows you're running. Check your computer's system information and then contact the software publisher."

Is this issue specific to Windows 10, and would it work on Windows 11?
> No, they are harassing a person who is exercising their right to associate with whomever they want.

Harassing is carrying a _ton_ of load, way above its capacity, in the essay. I'm very curious for your perspective on what incidents were harrassment.

There's a certain motte-and-bailey aspect in my read, the narrow claims are
their talk on Geoff's work was not accepted at an academic conference and someone removed Geoff's name from their paper.

The broader claims range as petty as the conference added a non-standard tricky clause to harrass them and engineer the denial of their proposal, before their proposal was made (?, also, it's a bog-standard morals clause in my read) and as vast as you must allow anyone to associate with you & it's immoral to decide who you associate with unless they've been convicted of a crime by a jury in the United States.

It suffers from its rigidness and righteousness.
This plumber problem is not just for movies. It's very difficult to go along with any narrative when its errors offend your competence. It's also why technically competent people tend not to prevail in narrative driven companies or institutions, which is pretty much all of them. Just watch the movie and sustain the dissonance.
I'm genuinely curious, what is the point you're trying to make?

Do you think American doesn't have cultural differences within? Or that those cultures don't correlate at all with geography? Or with ancestry?
Tokyo IS in a bit of a bind right now around IC cards for visitors.

Because of a "chip shortage" suica and passmo cards are not being sold right now (except for commuter cards)

Mobile suica and passmo only works on phones that have felica hardware and licenses. Recent iphones do worldwide, but most(all?) androids sold outside of Japan do not have this available.
No we aren’t social animals

And yet, here you are...
A nice design would be: When you park the car, solar panels cover all the windows or open like flower petals from the roof for maximum power harvesting.
> you can't sell that as a sport to people and foment tribal thoughts as easily

Panem et circenses. My niche theory on why we've become so politicised, is because it's become entertainment. Trash reality TV.

Today the circenses are not the gladiators fighting for their lives, but the Orange Man vs Old Geezer sitcom on dinner time TV and in the front page of your newspapers. One will find there is little difference between the trashy TV fan and the person avidly following political debates.

Meanwhile those reality stars keep stealing and making their friends richer, disregarding any laws because they're the ones making them.
Just think how awful the 737MAX was reported on in the press to a 757 stabilizer trim design engineer (me).
Some people's ears are better than their theory. Plenty of examples.
> Besides being able to SSH into a session

Does it need to do anything other than that? I simply can't imagine not having that feature. The way I use computers would have to fundamentally and radically change.

I have long-running sessions on a personal server which I can access from any computer or mobile device I own, seamlessly. I can start compiling, put away the laptop, go do something, and come back to the complete job later. I can check the progress on my phone.

But, I don't actually bother with tmux on the laptop. You're right that the tiling features are not essential on their own (but do become useful in the context of a remote session).
San Francisco’s real estate market has been crippled by a cyberattack
AI2 drops biggest open dataset yet for training language models
I don't understand this view. I used vscode and the amount of customization I had to do, per project was equal or greater then what I have to do with neovim. Do you never change anything or have to fiddle with extensions to get the desired behavior? Or creating run configurations for projects?
"Why does Pliny the Elder of Awake divide nature expecting to discover unity? Why does Brahe bother to measure the “cracks and imperfections” in the “mighty lid” of our collective funeral urn? If Voetmann has expressed anything in the first two translations of this marvelous triptych, it’s that the soul and nature reflect and contain each other; that questions of one necessitate questions of the other, even if the answers are miserable. It is a perilous game acquiring knowledge of the universe for no other reason than curiosity. But perhaps we too cannot help ourselves, even today."

For as much as we know today that was not known hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands of years ago, we're still roughly the same humans.

Curiosity killed the cat, and may well kill us, too, which at least makes for an interesting story for alien anthropologists digging around the ruins we leave behind.
The rise of the open kitchen
i think my comment was justified and quite on point. it is very much a cultural thing in india to have servants from a lower and less respected caste. it's not nice but that's how it is. and yes, the caste system is very much racist.
> Despite these accolades, Stuart knows that there is always more to learn: “She’s hesitant about calling herself an artist,” says Horler, “And that is quite a traditional view. It shows how misunderstood art is today, that people can just call themselves artists… From the Renaissance right up until at least the Twenties, you had to qualify. And that’s missing now.”

It seems like when we decided that art doesn't have to be representational, having traditional drafting and drawing skills began a slow and perfectly rational decline. Is that even controversial? It may not be coincidental that the role of fine art in our culture declined at the same time as well, but that's a conjecture I can't defend in this paragraph.

On the other hand, there are more illustrators than ever, and illustrators still often technical chops and craftsmanship. Comic book artists and digital painters and the like are (or were, before AI) flourishing and doing really exciting work in the non-fine-art space.
My guess culture in laws will not say where they want to go for dinner, but they will raise endless hypotheticals about where other people might want to go, even if other people didn’t say it.

That way the discussion never ends and we end up somewhere nobody wants to go….
> I’m surprised we weren’t doing this already.

Because they don't work very well in real life. Article doesn't have any experimental proof it works, saves training time, or size, or anything..

And it doesn't mention another promising approach: mix of experts. There are many ways of implementing it. I mean the general idea of specialized fragments of the NN which are selectively called. They don't have to be trained all at once.
>ugly and unlikeable caricatures for their cast and embed so much anti-intellectualism

Isaac Asimov saying is quoted for a reason...

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’
> Do we have to do the "I don't really get it so nobody else should have it" kind of thing.

Do we have to do the ad hominem thing? I studied FP and type theory in grad school. It's possible to know about FP and not want to use it in software engineering.
It's a thread:

https://nitter.net/flybayer/status/1692528075676758025