skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Space Force just stood up the 75th ISR squadron, whose job it is to perform counter-space activities ie stopping China from destroying (physically or otherwise) US satellites. Which is a little orthogonal to the gist of the article which is more about the scenario "SpaceX gets hacked and their secrets advance the enemy" a la LockMart's F-35, instead of "SpaceX gets hacked and 30% of StarLink falls out of the sky."

But still, there's an unresolved tension of who protects the network of the private contractor. Should the 75th ISR have authority to unilaterally act within SpaceX's network because that's where the Chinese are? If no, should SpaceX be legislated to fight that battle?
Or that they've had several accidents, but just didn't happen to be "officially" drunk when the accidents occurred, even though there's evidence they were drinking shortly before...
Meditation is a healthy habit.
I mean as I understand it one way of approaching meditation looks like this: at first you just concentrate on your breathing, avoiding extraneous thoughts, then once you can do that without distraction, you move on and try to step back from your thoughts, watching them arrive and letting them go.

once you can do that—something I could do after a few days of practice—how far are you realistically from being able to not have those thoughts at all? perhaps that's a huge leap, but I would be surprised
IBM selling The Weather Channel and the rest of its weather business
If you really have substantial traffic, I would do one of two things:

(1) Sell to a direct response marketer who can monetize this audience by selling hair treatments. OR,

(2) Learn how to sell hair treatments yourself on the site.
As I have taught my children: there are so many cameras around you are always being watched, or can be traced through cameras.
As for the "free internet", I told my kids it's already fucking dead.
>mass siphoning of location data

The issue is indeed legitimate, but it would be a systematic issue with all non-western/non-US apps, not just TikTok which is being singled out in an ad hoc manner. And it has as much to do with Google's store/android location data policies as it is with the apps.

>My personal view is a law is needed that bans central collection of location data.

Agreed.

...

UPD: I also suspect that preserving location data from state actors is a lost battle and modern SIGINT satellite constellations are already capable of pinpointing location of phones en masse, or will be capable of doing it in the coming years.
Very good? Zephyr generally wraps the hardware SDKs for the things built into the microcontroller. And then their own portable drivers for any outside peripherals, like I2C/SPI/Onewire/etc.
Simple things I do when creating new sites
1. Understand the business / talk to clients

2. Go through existing/similar systems to see how they work

3. Put together business requirements / spec doc. Usually a single doc.

4. Experiment & test (ie 3rd party APIs etc..)

5. Dig deeper into unknowns (ie. "I've never created that, lets think about the details")

6. Design draft database

7. Start writing code for major/most complex parts of the site

8. Fix/improve each of above as I move forward.

What else would you add?

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Ofcourse there's more things to but my main goal is to always get the fundamentals/main goal right and go from there.

This is usually the "core" of the system.
I've worked at places where we were not allowed to install Python, nor were we allowed to run executables that weren't greenlighted by IT beforehand.
I wish we still had headphone jacks so I could use $10 disposable headphones from Best Buy...
I applied for a job at the Library of Congress once. By the time they got around to contacting me, I was already a couple of months into another job. Then my info got stolen in the USAJobs data breach. None of that is their fault per se, but it's a limitation of the position. You end up with people who want stability above all else. It actually could be a good thing for the Internet Archive which basically just needs to continue existing forever.
No.

In principle, even half-baked driver assistance can make things safer, but it all depends upon the way the driver is integrated into that system.

Humans are terrible at vigilance tasks, and if you ask them to passively monitor a system that gets things right 98% of the time, you're going to have a bad time. Even worse if you strongly imply that the system is good enough (e.g. "the person in the driver's seat is only there for legal reasons")
it works a bit differently i think, but it does have a fuzzy search. if i type "cd ae[tab]" then fish will list all directories with the letters a and e in them, except when there are entries that start with "ae" then it will only show those. that is fuzzy search only comes when there are no better matches.
Moderation is necessarily inconsistent because we don't see everything that gets posted—there's far too much to read it all. We don't even see 10%; we're lucky if we see 1%. If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com.

That said, if you're participating here, we need you (like other users) to follow the rules regardless of what other commenters are doing. It always feels like the other person (a) started it, and (b) did worse. Since everyone feels that way, using that as a guide for one's own behavior just leads to a downward spiral.
You are right, they did create this situation and they are going to be inheriting the future. But your demoralization only benefits them even more, they want you to give up because ultimately they and their offspring will take the resources you and your family had. Life is a struggle sometimes, but we shouldn't just give up, you have to keep fighting. Life only seems terrible for us because we are viewing it in comparison with the generation that came before us, which was an anomaly in the broader scope of history. Before them (the boomers) life was even worse than we have it now, but that does not mean that there can't be a bright future for those who choose to continue fighting.

Your removal from the gene pool is not only the end of your family, which fought for generations to secure a future for you, but it is also a small death of your culture and your values, which I think are great and deserve to continue on.
Don't zero knowledge maths give us a mechanism in theory to theoretically guarantee privacy and verity?

In practice, I agree with your conclusion as the likely course of action.
This is an initial release. Probably needs some API throttling and code could use some refactoring.
Thank you, came here looking for this.

It seems like over the past few years Chrome has gotten more comfortable with shoving stuff into the top right section, with icons just popping in and out based on context. I used to have muscle memory for my extensions there, and now from right to left there's a kebab settings overflow button, a profile switcher icon (I don't even use profiles), a reading list button (again, not using that), an extensions overflow puzzle piece icon, and finally my extensions. I always have to think twice before clicking anything up there.

Now having the download button that's only sometimes there is one more thing to throw me off. I couldn't even figure out what would make it disappear. I'd clear the downloads list and it's still there.
> ... 2 people can outproduce even the largest companies.

Only if they're not including documentation. Or maybe only very, very, very minimal documentation.

If you want full documentation, translated to a bunch of languages, then (for now at least) you'll need more than those 2 people.
Exactly. A whole team of people dedicated to managing a single subcontractor working on the iOS and tvOS apps.
The Insect Apocalypse Is Coming
What are the feds going to do with all these cat meme videos?
We can add another company in the sector to the bunch:

https://www.prometheusfuels.com/news/dude-wheres-my-fuel

I am curious how do they compare
If it wasn't a wood veneer, what was it? Paint?
Who answers phone calls, let alone from unknown numbers, these days?
Using CloudFlare DNS by any chance?

Archive.ph Getting Cloudflare Blocked? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37082908
What does “easier” mean in that context? You just need to enable it once, and then you get a prompt every time you start the browser, almost like in Chrome in fact…
Enabling it for the first time is less intuitive than it could/should be but since everybody just googles “how to use Chrome profiles” without trying to figure of out by themselves, it's not too big of a difference…
The teleological identity of capitalism and AI
Waking Up by Sam Harris.

It's more insight than mindfulness, but remains secular. Loads of content from big names.

Highly recommended.
You haven't moved on because of your parents.

SSN is voluntary. If parents would stop opting-in their babies into this data scheme, Americans could grow up without these numbers.

After ominous threats about 'must choose name for baby' my wife and I left the hospital with our baby. Health insurer sent new member card with name 'baby girl' which worked great for all the follow-ups. And nobody from big government forced me to apply for SSN. We did get a passport (SSN on that application is optional) and travelled internationally before the first birthday.

Most of this nonsense data collection is voluntary. More and more in life I say "No thank you" and move on. Many Americans get a warm blanket feeling by putting their children into voluntary data schemes.
It seems like the Nix community is already headed towards a soft fork. DetSys already provides their own Nix installer, and now FlakeHub. Jetpack has Devbox, which is an entirely different interface over flakes.

I’m no Nix expert but I’ve used it enough to know that the hype exceeds the capabilities and especially the UX of the tool currently. (Just as an example, pinning versions that aren’t in the current nixpkgs release isn’t even possible right now without resorting to overlays and other hacks.) Frankly I’m glad that people are working to make it more user friendly. It reminds me a lot of when I first tried Stack for Haskell: packages just worked out of the box, no more tracking down arcane cabal-install errors and figuring out why it didn’t build in my machine.
If it is possible, this would make off-grid living nearly trivial (from my perspective in the US Southwest). Solar panels to generate electricity, this system to create propane or electricity, and a large off-the shelf propane tank for cloudy days (or weeks!).
Why not both?

Can't the LOC start maintaining a copy of the Internet Archive? The IA should exist independently, but there's no reason we should keep the archive in one place.
It’s interesting seeing people in this thread complaining that AHK keeps them tied to windows, I feel the same about Keyboard Maestro on my Macs.

I switched to a 90% Windows environment at my new job. Gave Windows + AHK a shot to potentially reduce headaches when IT issues would pop up.

I couldn’t do it. AHK’s syntax is ridiculous, and whenever I would try to download and trial scripts I had to infer if it was v1 or v2. I switched back to the Mac with KM and am much happier for it.

Is there anything like KM for Windows??
Whenever someone talks enthusiastically about meditation, I remind myself that all the popular meditation gurus I see on Youtube talk nonsense, pseudoscience, lack common sense and use manipulative psychological tricks. None of them admit any errors and ironically are quite conceited for those who claim to have conquered ego.

I am sure meditative states must feel nice. But all I see beyond that are cults and none of the meditators seem that much at detached peace. They get incensed at criticism.
The nipple on the ThinkPad is unsurpassed. It's basically the reason I can't migrate away from them.
And complete lack of ads and load times..
I look forward to seeing this get abused. Having worked with a psychometric analysis program entirely implemented in VBA, I genuinely wonder how Excel/Python will live alongside R in academia - at least for the people who are really conservative about the tools they use.
If the Establishment exists to promote the success of the American Experiment, why did the American Experiment do better between January 20th 2017 and January 19, 2021 than it has since under the control of the establishment?
Sure there is a difference between those things. My point is toward the now-ness rather than whether we are conversing via proximity and sound waves.
”identity theft” is the biggest pr win since “jaywalking”. Nothing has been stolen from me, I am still me. Someone claiming to have my credit history took money from a lender and they believed them.
This is quite something. Runs Python off-client, sandboxed in the cloud. Definitely cuts down many steps of typical workflows, down to getting the result into a Powerpoint slide.

Why use Jupyter NBs in a corpo setting going forward?
Wow, i wasn't interested at first because i'm already using flakes and i didn't think this had much value to me - i don't mind adding a flakes repo directly, for example. Then someone linked the discussion on Discourse[1] which has..:

> FlakeHub not only indexes flakes, but provides a mechanism for fetching compatible versions based on Semantic versioning — and, unlike pinning tags in your flake.nix inputs, keeping them up to date.

> This means that you can specify that you want your input to be compatible with whatever is the latest release at the time that you add it, and get bugfixes with every nix flake update, without manually having to keep track of the releases made upstream, nor follow a development branch which may introduce breaking changes at any time.

Which is stupidly sexy to me. Semver-like is something i've been wanting so badly from Flakes/Nix. This has my attention now.

[1]: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/introducing-flakehub/32044/6
Web-bugs: A repo used by the Web Compatibility community to track issues
That optimizes for Demo-driven development though. I've seen a lot of flashy "clever" stuff created for demos which were later totally abandoned. And a lot of basement-level code wrangling that is difficult to demo.
I don't think you can download full resolution Pixabay images from Bing or Google.
Thank you A. Rosenzweig.
> They obviously don't care about standards…

Apple has invented, contributed to, and adopted a long list of standards. You can easily Google or ChatGPT the list if you don't know your tech history.

Apple deprecated OpenGL and OpenCL support in 2018 for very reasonable technological and strategic reasons that I understand you disagree with. But that doesn't change the fact that OpenGL is a terrible fit for modern computing/GPU architectures.
It would be unfortunate if our brains were actually non-deterministic. Chaos theory is about deterministic systems!

I'm pretty sure the brain is a chaotic system. Mostly because the other options are all <boring>.

Which behavior would you pick?

* static/equilibrium. (doesn't change over time)

* periodic (like a pendulum or sine wave)

* chaotic (unpredictable complex behavior, sensitive to initial conditions)

* stochastic (random noise, possibly subject to statistical analysis)

Only stochastic behavior is non-deterministic, and what we actually want is the chaotic behavior.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory
> The boom of construction of these alternative energy sources has definitely been lagged by the transmission utility corporations, which don't move as fast as their deregulated counterparts. There's definitely plans to expand and improve those lines, but those changes often move slower due to the entrenched utility interests.

I'm a bit confused about what you mean by 'regulation'. Are you speaking specifically of renewables as 'non-regulated' because anyone can build a solar station, but only a regulated utility can build a transmission line?

To my understanding, the regulation that most people refer to regarding Texas power utilities is pricing, not infrastructure. See:

> Another difference between ERCOT and other grid operators, is that the Texas grid operator does not run a capacity market, meaning there is no mandatory capacity mechanism, but instead incentivizes units to remain online for extra capacity through scarcity pricing.[0]

Can you explain what you mean by regulation in the context of new power generation and the transmission of that power?

[0] https://www.utilitydive.com/news/congress-texas-should-rethi...
Definitely an allusion to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle
> Of course, Asahi Lina and I are two individuals with minimal funding. It’s a little awkward that we beat the big corporation…

Is the big corporation even racing you? Does it care? What devs and superusers want is regularly at odds with what makes sense for the actual business cases of a product.

I want all these things, too! But I recognize that it doesn't happen because what I want fails to make a solid business case, not because Apple is somehow incapable of writing an OpenGL driver for their own hardware.

If I'm in charge of the resourcing that could be committed to broader graphics standards support for M1/M2, what is the concrete (not hypothetical) case one can present to sell me that this is the right thing to focus on? I won't pretend to have the answer to this. There may very well be a very strong case to make. But it just doesn't quite feel right how I notice, on a daily basis, this lack of exploration or even just appreciation of all the factors and constraints that exist outside the technical portion of the problem. Maybe I'm just sensitive to this kind of issue because I feel this pain often at work.
The patent-holder has licensed the technology to company with a large sunk cost in handling petroleum from the ground. I suppose SHV Energy could decide to put up a solar farm driving CO2 -> C3H8 catalysis, but where's the money in it for them? I would like to be happily surprised, but my guess is it's some form of green-washing.
Me too. Several teams are trying to land grab by "wrapping" Nix with extra stuff.

But as good as flakes are, they still have big problems. flake.lock size explosion, UI hassles, no cross compiling support.
It's because OpenGL is a dying specification based on an outdated, horrible programming model, and Khronos's conformance tests are weird and ridiculous. The conformance tests are not open-source (there's a separate "conformance suite" available on GitHub which is based on Google's dEQP, not the Khronos internal test suite), and there can be some pretty major bugs and gaps in your implementation while still getting it "certified standards-compatible".

Apple has committed to support for OpenGL 3.1, and that's it. They even rewrote their OpenGL driver for Apple M1 to be an emulation layer on top of Metal, so that existing applications keep working, but they're not going to implement any newer versions of OpenGL. Nor should they.

I have a lot of criticisms of Apple, and I think they could be doing a lot to make Metal a better API with better tooling, but not caring about OpenGL is a perfectly sane decision here.
In my opinion, this misses the point that cheap, year-round, exciting, and well-covered tournament play is one of the best advertisements for Magic that Wizards could possibly invest in. That was the whole reason the Pro Tour existed to begin with: Homelands was bad, and everyone knew it was bad, but when there were people playing New York Type 2 with a minimum of 5 Homelands cards in their decks, it got people excited about it.

Per MaRo: "The whole point of the Pro Tour is that it's a marketing vehicle. We want to be aspirational, but we were also trying to get them to focus on what the latest sets were going to be." [1]

With Secret Lair, unbelievably expensive Commander Masters packs (yes, even accounting for inflation), and the whole 001/001 Ring situation, Wizards is raking in the dough. They should subsidize these events extremely heavily.

1: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/feature/oral-history-first...
Vanguard literally provides for investment in every security. All of them. Every single one. I currently own interest in every equity security available to a US investor by purchasing a single ETF. How is it that Vanguard (which is owned by its funds which in turn are owned by individual investors in those funds) would benefit from coercing literally every publicly traded company from transacting with every other non-publicly business? For instance, of what benefit is it to Vanguard to prevent Sysco from selling food to restaurants that are not publicly traded? Should Apple not sell phones and laptops to any non-publicly traded business? Should Amazon stop transacting with non-publicly traded companies? How does any of that work in my interest as an owner of Vanguard?
I think the TGV is pretty much on time, that's why they have no problem with that.
This is a logical approach until you have to explain how you came up with the name “Themicals”. If you’re selling a SaaS product maybe things like “Onychodon” may be a good fit but would kill you in the elevator pitch.

Btw, both of those names were made with Markov as you described.
This comment seems out of touch with why people use Excel. The fact is, Excel is popular because it manages to be pretty easy to use, while also being extraordinarily powerful and flexible. For most users, they'll ask "why would I program something in Python when Excel has a built in function to handle that?"
Financial calculations are also sometimes already used to doing math in integral pennies (or eighths of a penny) for performance/storage reasons. That works just fine with one BigInt. Or you can build arbitrary-precision rationals from just two BigInts. (There are some JS libraries out there already for that.)
Yeah it's less than ideal however FWIW graham's comments [1] seem to indicate that this project stemmed out of fairly rapid development over the course of a weekend with some additional time taken to polish it up.

If that's the case they may see this as some easy duct tape over top of flakes that could take the pain off of flakes itself while flakes actually work through the process of stabilizing.

[1] https://discourse.nixos.org/t/introducing-flakehub/32044/7
I’ve been meditating casually for almost 10 years, I couldn’t sit still for a minute when I started and can sit regularly for an hour now.

I still have a lot of skepticism about the sensations that other meditators describe feeling, like jhanas and profound states of tranquility and whatnot. I have experienced deeper calmness and have made some insights about my brain (eg thoughts are like a sensor organ not unlike a constantly generating LLM), but I haven’t experienced anything like the sometimes superhuman claims that come from people in this community. Naval Ravikant has claimed he can experience psychedelic states just through meditation, Nick Cammarata at OpenAI makes claims about achieving perfect equanimity and being able to feel jhanas that are better than sex but also doesn’t feel desire for it because of aforementioned equanimity. There are many others on social media who make similar claims. From the outside, all of these people seem like normal humans, maybe calmer and wiser than usual, but who still seek material comfort and the validation of others just like anyone else does.

I wonder, what do others make of these superhuman meditation claims? How does one verify that their sensations during meditation are real reflections of how the brain works and not just increasingly subtle hallucinations? If you convinced everyone that the brain has a secret mechanism to feel perfect happiness, wouldn’t a lot of people hallucinate that they’ve experienced it even if it wasn’t real?
Because it was a pointless war based on lies that stole $1T from the american people.

> Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.