skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the company even existed when a Windows update caused an issue. And given the number of Windows installations, even the most obscure software or setup is likely to affect a lot of people.
I've heard solid rumors that they do have their own internal linux distro, specifically so the hardware teams can do bringup without a dependency on the XNU team(s). That Linux distro is also supposed to be kind of a shit show held together with bubblegum and paperclips, in contrast to asahi which is bending over backwards to do things right (gods bless them).
The numbers I'm seeing in the comments certainly make the case for how unlikely it is for a startup employee to make anything off their startup stock options, if this is how unlikely it is for the founder to make anything.
I've had no issues with google translate, there is a conversation mode where each person can just tap a button, speak into it, and it converts speech to text and then translates.

Sure you wont want to have a nuanced philosophical discussion, but you can easily have a conversation with it.
As someone who has been doing frontend, backend, systems administration and general black magic since before the jquery days, I can tell you that managing frontend requirements was absolute hell back then. You literally had to put the script and style tags in the right order in your header or footer and just kind of hope the timing worked out. People how work exclusively on the backend tend to underestimate the complexity of frontend builds in the same way that non-technical people underestimate the complexity of all software engineering. The truth is, something as common as an autocomplete input is an application unto itself, with multiple dependencies all with load priorities. I don't have to imagine what this was like back in the jquery era, because I experienced it and it sucked.

I noted this earlier in the thread, but the fact is that any user-facing application with a UI is going to include JS/TS and CSS, and therefore is going to include a frontend build of some kind. Any build included in an application comes with the requisite build orchestration for all environments, so Docker config, build specific config, CI config, etc. If you add a second language to an application, you add a second build, and the cost of setup and maintenance of your application basically doubles. Not only that, you now have to have engineers proficient in multiple languages on your build. Most engineers are really haughty about the language they write and the part of the codebase they prefer to work on, so finding someone who is equally comfortable AND proficient writing python applications and frontend code is extremely hard. Most likely you'll get a Python engineer who will reluctantly write some awful React and complain about the entire time, or vice versa.

So if you come to me and try to add some Python or Ruby or god help you PHP to my single build Node/React application because you think its somehow going to make things simpler, I will simply eject you into the sun.

I'll write an API in any language that makes sense for the performance requirements. But if the app has a UI, absent any legacy requirements that force you to do otherwise, it 100% absolutely has to be entirely in JS or TS or you are shooting yourself in the foot.
I'm not abandoning my observations. I'm just not willing to 100% say that something is worse than the status quo when I haven't really objectively analyzed either of case. It could be that far more human drivers roll through these stop signs in my neighborhood than I think. So is it bad that the Cruise cars did it? Absolutely. However, imo, if they do it significantly less than human drivers maybe it's better somehow? Idk. I'm not sure how to compare these things. I do know for sure that I'm not really comfortable with Cruise cars on the road but that may not be a rational feeling. I really just dont have enough information to know.
That's a great question. I can't remember any exceptions, which is alarming. Except myself, and I was just an absent mod, never mean. And my lackadaisical attention to the forums was what lead to me hiring all these unpaid mods.

I'm endlessly fascinated by this subject as I'm about to go down the rabbit hole of opening another series of forums and I have no idea how to protect against this.
I think that's actually just an example of either ask culture or guess culture, depending on the context.

If the friend should only say yes if they really want to, then that's ask culture.

If the friend should feel obligated to say yes, then that's guess culture.

The only difference here is that the request is worded differently (as a statement rather than as a question), which is simply close friends adopting their own language conventions, a slightly-related but independent concept.
> or, even better, to prevent the HSM from being used by anything without my overt permission

Can't you already do that with an existing TPM? You just set an owner authentication password and an endorsement authentication password and no application can use it anymore unless you provide the password.

Technically it would still be possible to use it as a very slow cryptographic coprocessor I guess, but that benign and useless. It does still provide access to some platform measurements, but they can't be signed by a authenticated (or even safely stored) key, so they are easy to fake.

In addition to that the OS of course can be used to completely block access to it if needed.

The problem is not that people can't stop applications from using it, it is just that in practice people don't care.
It does cost money. It costs in electricity, and in cost for hardware.

Yes, I do turn off JS in my browser.

I think a major problem in software development right now is the mindset you have. I want software that just does what it needs to and has as small of a footprint as it can to do that. I avoid topheavy software.
It's only an obvious choice if you're a psychopath or a sociopath.

The machines are definitively - and canonically! - not.
ULA and Launch Industry Structure Changes
Not to detract from an interesting post, but the last point about programming languages is confusing, and seems to give little information.

Use expressive, untyped Ruby or inexpressive, strongly typed Go? Or SBCL ?

Most people would put Ruby and Go on pretty opposite sides of the spectrum.

Maybe you prototyped in SBCL when you needed extreme flexibility/iteration speed at first, and then switched to Go when maintenance became more important? That's a fairly common evolution at big companies.
This is one of the reasons I love HN. Occasionally there's a headline like this one that I understand 0% of.
https://wir2022.wid.world/chapter-2/

In figure 2.3, it shows that global inequality hasn't been lower since the 1870s, back when virtually all but the rich would be living in poverty by the standards of today.
Get this: in Japanese culture, you are expected to refuse three times.
> the online store market would be divided somehow.

There is online shopping other than Amazon.
First Pixel 6a Capyloon images are available
https://www.google.com/maps/@29.9717687,31.1322225,620m/data...

I knew they were outside of cairo, which means close to the river generally. and was just going to walk the nile but "sphinx cafe" showed up when I got close. You can seem the ok from sattelite view no the top right half.

I was just going to look for giza but I found them before I saw giza pop up. I didn't search I scrolled from north america.
> Spectacles that are marketed to filter out blue light probably make no difference to eye strain caused by computer use or to sleep quality, according to a review of 17 randomized controlled trials of the best available evidence so far.

This seems like a highly misleading summary of what the meta-analysis showed, or rather, didn't show. "There is no proof that it works" somehow transmutes into "this proves it doesn't work". They are not the same.

The joke about Cochrane Review meta-analyses is that the answer is always, "more research is required", and this looks like another example: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...

First, they find too few studies to meta-analyze. So how can they show that it "probably makes no difference to sleep quality", as the headline screams? Let's go through their comments:

Depression: the quoted CI is "‐33.95 to 53.47". You could drive a truck through that, and most of those values would be practically important. This is just uninformative.

Critical flicker fusion: no one cares, so any numbers don't matter.

Daytime alertness: too few studies / uninformative, so they provide no numbers.

Sleep quality: 3 RCTs hit statistical-significance for benefits, 3 did not (did the 3 have point-estimates for benefit? unspecified), they decline to meta-analyze the 6 together to provide an actual number. ("Potential effects on sleep quality were also indeterminate, with included trials reporting mixed outcomes among heterogeneous study populations.") If this shows anything, it shows that blue-filtering spectacles probably make a difference to sleep quality...

Adverse effects: some anecdotal evidence, no numbers.

Various other metrics: not reported enough to discuss.

So, this is largely completely uninformative, except for the one metric "sleep quality" where they explicitly contradict the headline. ('Indeterminate' does not mean 'probably makes no difference to sleep quality'!)

Medicalxpress screwed this one up.
That's why the same question really applies to standard but insane practice of using sudo to get root. There is no security difference between root and lowuser that can sudo into root.

Sudoing into root from lowuser account is in some scenarios potentially more dangerous than just using both accounts separately, as the user who uses root regularly/very often gets accustomed to the fact his commands are powerful and can screw his system, so mistakes almost never happen. While sudoing all the time creates a false sense of security and the user is more likely to run harmful command with sudo.
Sounds like they are just making life hard for themselves, I always check prepaid-data-sim-card.fandom.com before the trip and get the most suitable sim card at the airport.
I mean that energy has to come from somewhere...
In the novel I’m currently reading, Popco (which I think the HN crowd would totally dig), there’s a section where there’s a seminar in network theory talking about the reason things like 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon, or any network of connected nodes, manage to have connections with so few hops is because there end up being superconnectors which are connected to a large number of other nodes. I realized I had that role in my circle of friends in my 20s after I moved away and then came back for a visit a few months later and discovered that few of them had seen each other in the intervening months. You likely play that role on your block. Remember, with great power comes great responsibility.
You can run binaries from decades ago on Linux too. This is about a DOS binary. Well, a command line program that just uses system calls is fine too.
I never really got into Runescape but I did start programming in PHP with notepad and attribute a very accurate "tab pinky" to those long nights. If I remember correctly, Notepad was the only thing I directly edit remote files in using CuteFTP, so I think that's why I used it at the time as I learned by editing existing "scripts." Good times.
> check out your world in data. For better or worse the income equality thing is outweighed by the gains in China and India but most of the world seems to be improving on that front.

>There are still countries getting worse though sadly

Do you mean https://ourworldindata.org/?

It would be far more constructive to give an actual link to proof than some massive site.

No offense, but that's like me saying, "You want proof that climate change is real? Check the internet," that's not proof, just some nebulous hand-waving. No one would or should believe that.

Their source data for the slight decline [1] in global inequality (which is only hypothetical) is the Worldbank [2], a source that has been heavily criticized for data-rigging [3-5].

The Worldbank also tries to present itself as helping to reduce inequality [6], so they have a bias for showing results.

I am not saying you are wrong or right, but let us keep the conversation quality on this website strong.

[1]: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-and-between-countr...

[2]: https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/9592514681766870...

[3]: https://www.reuters.com/business/world-bank-imf-face-long-te...

[4]: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-10-15/the-ge...

[5]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/09/20/theres-de...

[6]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/09/20/theres-de...
> 7Zip, I believe, had a similar flaw "recently".

why did you put quotes around that word?
While true and actually pretty cool, a comment like this is a pretty good explanation of why we haven’t had widespread adoption of Linux on the desktop. I can imagine the users’ eyes glazing over.
Finding a set of mututally orthogonal vectors. For a given sparsity, after a large enough dimention, two randomly chosen vector will almost always be orthogonal.
It's a very solo friendly MMO. Private servers are usually for people who want changes to the official game (or removal of changes), and sometimes just to avoid paying subscription fees. This one is aiming to replicate the official state of the game as it was in 2009.

It's mostly a "grind" sort of game with simplistic combat. It's pretty relaxing for the most part, though it does have some tense PvP elements if you enter into some special areas. You can definitely play it fully focused, but most people would conside it a "Second Monitor" game. i.e. You can watch YouTube or do work and keep old-school RuneScape active on a second screen, interacting every minute or so.
The dev also "knows" that 'star' is available as an abbreviation. And in a realistic set of options for a real tool like git, there might be combinatorially many possible abbreviations which he now has to "know" and think about every possible intersection or ambiguity.
"The poor often say, “‘Why don’t the rich pay for it?’ or ‘The rich should pay more in taxes and give it to the poor.’” However, the real rich never pay taxes. The people who pay taxes are the educated, middle class."

- Rich Dad, Poor Dad
The AI Progress Paradox
Wow I am terrible at guessing. Very educational though. Nice work. I also really appreciated how it saves your state so it persists on reloads.

I wonder if there are other things that have such a well documented and defined taxonomy that we could use for similar games.
Sidewalk Garden
Well, I do all my development on a single machine, so the SSH thing doesn't appeal to me that much. Maybe when I'm running something in production on a headless server somewhere, but why do development that way? I use other TUI tools that way and they're great.

I was hoping for some other awesome use cases of tmux, because I really want a reason to use it.
My grandfather’s parents were Swedish, and that attitude certainly describes their side of the family: don’t talk about how you feel, don’t complain, don’t express emotions hot or cold.
I would suspect part of it is the lack of novelty, its like travelling from Australia to New Zealand, its a different country but similar enough that it doesn't really feel "overseas".
Technically it is impossible for this to happen for P=NP since if P=NP then there is a straight forward algorithm for solving SAT by universal search.
The best part is that the US Government already did this -- it runs the second largest PKI. Second only to the Internet. It has issued more than 20 million certificates to individuals.
How can you overcomplicate an ecommerce website so much? If Amazon doesn't need an SPA (and in fact works with JS disabled last I checked) why do you?
That was exactly what I was driving at, thanks. In order to take the drives "out of the computer box", one needs to get through the lock on that computer box first.
If you are willing to settle for expected instead of worst case time, there are many string-related algorithms that are O(m/n). Intuition is that as the string size grows it's "more likely" to have some property on expectation.
There's also some interesting things about the paper that set off some flags for me. I've studied radiation extensively, but not medicine fwiw.

- I'm always wary of anyone that will do something like write 2000 keV instead of 2MeV. They also are constantly saying "photon radiation" instead of "gamma," which just reads weird. Neither of these are "incorrect" though.

- They seem to not be accounting for neutrons which is quite a common source if we're talking about reactor workers or Hiroshima. The neutrons get absorbed into the atoms and then it sheds energy through gamma radiation, but a new neutron results in potentially a different chemistry in addition to the ionization energies. Actually reactors depend on this: 235U + 1n -> 236U -> 89Kr + 114Ba + 3n + 2gamma. You just don't often see the 236U discussed, but it is unstable and causes the splitting.

- They use Japanese atomic bomb survivors as comparisons but that's not great and there are many studies looking at radiation workers (both these get neutron doses). There's two big aspects here that matter. First, acute dosage is very different from chronic exposure, and atomic bomb dosages are going to be acute (not just Japanese, but also soldiers). Most workers are going to be chronic, but some may be acute which you need to account for. They don't seem to. There are also many studies on places in the world where the natural background radiation is over the 100mGy that they are saying doubles the cancer rate, but people from these places don't show increased cancer rates (this is mostly radon too, so alpha radiation, and of course this is chronic and not acute).

I don't feel qualified to invalidate the work btw, but these seemed points of note. I know there are some users here with some more expertise, especially in radiation physics, so I was hoping someone could help me understand.
By golly, you don't suppose that Brian Conrad, Professor of Mathematics at Stanford, could come up with a better math framework for California than the one produced by a very large committee, do you? Hmmm... and I bet he could shave it down from 900 pages to under a hundred! They should hire me as a consultant!
Its very rare that anyone should consume youtube directly. RSS feeds of subscribed channels are the way to go, then you direct link to videos you want and it makes it easy to switch to an alternate provider if youtube breaks the channel. Its dead simple to set this up with freshrss, for example.
> workers can buy a home

Home ownership in the US is higher than in:

- New Zealand

- Sweden

- France

- Japan

- Austria

- Germany

- Switzerland

Home ownership in the US is lower than in:

- Kosovo

- Russia

- Norway

- Spain

- Italy

https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/home-ownership-rat...
I’m sure ULA’s bet on Jeff’s rocket engine will be bigger than Bored Apes.
I don't know what to tell you other than that you broke the first guideline I quoted by caricaturing what the other person had written, and you broke the second guideline I quoted by being sarcastic and needlessly personal.
Researchers estimate anthropogenic mercury emissions from 1500 to 1900
Cool. Sounds like you got a good deal. :)
Computing is broader than the web.
I think if China was 'desperate' they would remove the 2 child limit per only child.
Do you not see how that attitude is totally selfish, and in practice comes across that way no matter where you’re from.

Treat everyone, no matter who they are, like someone you admire and you can’t go wrong anywhere in the world.
I consulted on a project suffering from similar problems. I came in after they'd been working on it for about 10 months, maybe a bit more. It took me less than 2 months to figure the team knew fuckall about the technology stack they chose. I had been told coming in that the team lacked experience. No one on the team had used the chosen technology stack at all before it was chosen for this project, and it showed. It took me a bit of digging and asking questions to find out the full truth.

On the down side, the technologies the team did know were all outside of my expertise. I could sort of muddle through understanding but I was by no means experienced enough to be making any recommendations about it.

The system did need a total reset. If they wanted to stick with the technology they had chosen, they needed a different team, or at very least a different team structure with a couple of genuine experts setting direction and the inexperienced people given tasks appropriate to their abilities. If they wanted to keep the team, they'd need to start over with different technologies.

In the end I wrote up a document of recommendations for the leaders, with a list of problem areas and suggested direction. I never said explicitly to throw it out and start over, but left it to management to figure out the implications.
Completely ignore regenerative braking - bias? :

> A car’s exhaust can put at most 1.9 mg of particulate matter into the air for each kilometer driven down. EU rules are slightly looser at 4.5 mg/km.

Could brakes come close to that? Well, depending on the vehicle, disc brake pads have 100 to 400g of friction material. Perhaps 80% of that material is worn away before replacement, which happens after something like 65,000 km. Assuming 200 g of friction material, that suggests an average of

4 brakes × 200 (g/brake) × 0.8 / (65000 km) = 9.8 mg/km

of material lost from brakes.
Faculty chairs do come with physical chairs. The ones I’ve seen are nice, wooden chairs with a little metal plaque with the title and the holder of the chair. I suspect new chairs are purchased for each new holder of the title, and you get to permanently keep yours.
They’ll be Dutch when they’re in America, and American when they’re in the Netherlands. So it goes.
Thanks for giving some context on the matter. If the base language is not capable to provide a way to implement those, then that makes sense. I do like the idea of having the base being small but still capable to allow for these features to be implemented in a library. From the link you gave, it does seem that these would require more support than what is available in a smaller language.
Is that because Tcl/Tk never added modern features?
I have to edit my vimrc maybe once a year.
Yeah completely agree. Think the article was good read but talking about "Western society" as one bucket for something like this is _far_ too broad a brush.

What counts as Western society, California to Greece?
And why you don’t allow developers to make business decisions.
> Plenty of teams manage to ship working code without either of these problems.

The key point is that the team in this story didn’t. They needed something extreme to make progress.

And remember that nearly all deadlines are arbitrary. Somebody needs to pick some date to see if something gets done by that date. There’s nothing wrong with an “arbitrary” deadline like the one described in the article.
I vote. I participate in local politics. And yet, decade after decade, my voice is overridden by the desires of the ultra-wealthy. Where I live, developers run the city, with many council members literally working for development firms for their day jobs, and yet rent continues to increase. The developers are making a killing out there, they aren't struggling to afford their tenth condo building like the individuals and families struggling to find a rental within their price range.
Uh no. You're wrong on all counts.

The worst is that LLM's do not "understand" software. If you think they do, you are the one with a bad understanding of them and how they work. So I can stop talking to you.

And any talking about my software is a level relevant to this because we don't know the weights an LLM has.
I want to go back to the Jquery days. It’s more than sufficient for 95% of websites.