skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know this reminds me of a point made by C.S. Lewis in his book the abolition of man. He points out that when we say we've conquered nature (or in the modern parlance "made progress") what we have really done is taken power from some men and given it to others.

I think your comment perfectly highlights that, essentially the advancement of technology has now allowed the technicians and "experts" to now reach into your home and control how and when you use power arbitrarily at their discretion.
He did not use phone/SMS as his 2FA it seems, because he knew it's insecure, per his tweet. But nevertheless Twitter requires a phone number for verified accounts and that phone number can be used to reset the Twitter account password. There is nothing the user can do. Since these incompetent telecom employees get social engineered again and again, it's simply bad practice to have anything phone number related for security. Twitter and other companies need to change this, it's not safe.
I'm dumb and ignorant, therefore we all are.
>if you install it on a different one it will.

Making the developer pay for user's hardware upgrades is still insane.
> So the "tallest and most dense wind farms are long past being completely invisible" means that they are so large as to be visible even from space?

As you ascend, the tallest wind farms cease to become visible at about 30-40 miles of altitude. At that point you still have more 200 miles to ascend before reaching the low end of low earth orbit. So by the time you reach LEO, you are long past the point where wind farms became invisible.

> This is begging the question.

I am proposing you attempt to visualize the scale of things involved in your question, and that such a visualization ought to make the answer very clear. If the question were "at what point does my box fan collection affect the climate in my zip code" I would answer in a similar way.
> The outcome distribution of a measurement is described by the Born rule, the collapse postulate on the other hand tells us that the wave function will change to the actually measured state. Related but not the same.

Born rule is also a postulate.

> This change is non-unitary and therefore incompatible with the Schrödinger equation

Yes that's why unitary evolution has a separate postulate

> If you want, consider the combined quantum system of the system under investigation and the measurement device, why should that system not evolve unitarily?

Well, because that's the postulate
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/4.0/tutorials/platform/conso...
> clients relied on memory stored by the Xserver, they made synchronous calls that were expected to return values, and multiple clients talked to multple clients.

Wasn't that just an issue with the Xlib interface? I thought Xcb made everything async.
There's a funny story in one of his essays where he's talking to Heinlein about this strange habit other writers have of endlessly redrafting.

"I just write down the first draft, read it through from start to finish and write up the second draft, and that's it," Asimov says.

"What's the second draft for?" Heinlein says.
I have no personal experience with selling a SaaS, but read that AWS mostly sold to startups at first because there were no migration costs yet. Out of curiosity, has the same been attempted with Eathly and, if yes, did that work?
Thank you! Re: gamification, I guess I finally found a use for all the time I spent playing Gemstone III when I was 12. It seems that MUDs or writing about them were well represented in the training data because preventing it from veering off into D&D like fantasy was actually the hardest part (hence the talking rat incident).

Something I wrote about Gemstone years ago:

http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/10/dont-cry-for-me-elanth...
Adding to this as a relay operator, while I can't speak for the Tor Project or other operators, I think this is a perfectly valid use case for Tor and I happily provide ressources for it.
Note that they don't remember all their past (like a gps device with a memory). They just remember how many times one of them has looped around a second one. This is well defined because they live in a plane. More details in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anyon
What a load of guff!

Let's say a power station fails unexpectedly. There are several options.

1) Expect politicians to do their job in times of emergency.

2) Rolling blackouts.. or maybe build or incentivize through fines and regulations adequate backup and reserve in the system?

3) Give up and hand over control of peoples possessions to the corporate giants. (ask them nicely not to just use this to reduce reserves and maximize profits)

Never mind that there hasn't been a real power shortage in my country for 70 years.
Where do you get the idea it's written in Perl? The pages end with .phtml, which is a clear marker of PHP.
Asimov had a humorous style of writing. Of course when he wrote "there is very little that is new to me" he was aware of how arrogant that sounded; he's playing this for laughs. He could also be quite self-deprecating.
I would think teaching students critical thinking and good research and citation practices would be more valuable, no?

Regarding cheating, I often review CVs and written tests for software developer roles and I often see ChatGPT being used to pimp CVs and rewrite fragments of pages from the internet. They are often wrong or re-written in a way that makes it easy to reverse engineer the source.
Every VC and founder needs to read this post - there are no absolute rights or wrongs. So, whatever worked for Google will not work for Instacart.. whatever thesis of investing worked in the last decade will not work in the next decade.. Start from first principles!
Android could append the unique app identifier (ie. "com.myapp") to the end of any data to be signed. Then the user can't be tracked between apps. But it also prevents you using 'sim sign in' to sign in to the same service from a web browser and app for example.
It seems pretty clear in the "Detailed FAQ"

> We are introducing a Unity Runtime Fee that applies to certain Unity subscription plans based on per-game installs across any Unity-supported game platform.

> An install is defined as the installation and initialization of a project on an end user’s device.

> Each time a game is downloaded, Unity’s runtime code is also installed. The Unity Runtime Fee goes towards the continued investment in that code to support the billions of devices served every month.
As someone who has been moving countries and subsequently changing phone numbers, every couple of years, SMS 2FA is such a pain.

It's hard to recall all services that have your phone number for migrating them, and even if you do, many won't accept a foreign number.

I've resorted to holding on to my old phone numbers by transferring them to prepaid SIMs.
I never understood the appeal of rails when django was available, and used python which many more people already know/knew.
Startup Secrets
I've been in the startup space for 10 + years with a personal brand, here are 5 things I've learned along the way. Would love for you to comment some of your life lessons too!

Everyone will think you’re doing amazing even if you feel like you’re losing your mind. Sounds crazy right?! You have to be crazy to run a startup. This lifestyle is undeniably hard yet confusing and mentally (sometimes physically) exhausting. I say this because you should know what you’re in for. If you’re working a 9-5 job and want to have a startup, time management and a virtual assistant are going to become your best friends.

Make a fake assistant. Let her / him be your best friend, biggest cheerleader, and be as real as you’ll let this fake person be. Check more on Reddit about this one.

The more money you put in, the more money you get out. You will need to make money and you will need to use that money and you will do this in a cycle until you don’t have to anymore.

Your friendships and personal relationships will suffer if you don’t stay honest with yourself. You can rely on yourself, yourself, yourself, yourself…should I keep going on? I sleep, eat, breathe this company and have no interest in any distraction. Stop with the white lies and start being honest.

Read. Last week someone told me that they don’t read because they read a lot for work and I instantly felt stupid having a conversation with this person. That sounds bad but for real bro? You don’t read for fun because you read for work? If anyone is casting for a new season of Dumb and Dumber, I’ve got a new cast member for you!
"SMS 2FA" makes bank account balances strictly less secure. The main thing you need to do to keep your bank balance secure is verify your transactions every statement period. Increasing login friction discourages the checking of transactions.
So what version of USB is this? /s
We live in a world where apex predators such as the wolf no longer exist where it evolved in many cases. Without the pressure from smaller more numerous predators such as coyotes or cats, I expect disease spreading pest populations such as the rat would explode. Theres a lot of handwringing about not disturbing the environment, but just about all around the world its already very disturbed and scarred with human activity anyhow, to the point we don’t even realize how badly we screwed up the dynamics of the environment, e.g. by culling the wolf for example.
> The question has already been "Why aren't you using Unreal?" and that's just going to get harder.

Lack of Web and Mobile support
In 2017, the average US household made 5.1 daily vehicle trips with a length of 9.6 miles: https://www.bts.gov/content/average-annual-pmt-vmt-person-tr...

This is more than the average German car drives daily, but still perfectly manageable for modern (or even 5 year old) EVs. Even assuming an EV can't be charged anywhere, it could still handle 6 days worth of these trips. Even if you commute 300+ miles daily, you could probably spend 20 minutes per trip at a public charger.

Again, maybe this isn't for you. That is fine. But EVs are perfectly suitable for the vast majority of car users and it would be up to you at this point to disprove that statement.
I’ve enjoyed using Unity for the last 6 years but this is a deal breaker. It’s just wrong and makes one wonder what other policies they’re considering.

After taking some time to mourn I plan on looking into Godot. I expect to take a big productivity hit but at least I won’t be continuing to invest my time into working on a platform that is so anti-dev.
I think that's why it's such an effective scam, these types of posts are everywhere around cryptocurrency fanbases, but this time it came from a reputable person within the community.
Maybe we should have a reality check on the true cost of tech. Anything that can break the behavior of the tech industry due to cheap money is a good thing for the long term health of the industry.
I'm not that much in context regarding BLAS. People are trying to optimize the code as much as possible, but some optimizations are not approved to be merged due to over-complexity in the code understanding.
Not sure if nobody has tried to implement it, but there's PLOT: http://users.rcn.com/david-moon/PLOT/

Although it does look like it would take more than a weekend to write a compiler for it... :3
You have to sign a transaction, but I _think_ the details of transactions can be obscure enough to not be clear what you're authorizing. Accidentally authorizing the transfer of tokens/NFTs, which are then drained.
Crypto bros are self selecting for scams. If your world view has been degraded to see zero trust as a solution rather than a dystopian end state, meaning you’ve lost all trust in society, you’re highly vulnerable to be conned by the authority figures you secretly crave to trust.

It’s much of what Elon,
Trump and other populists actively foster and exploit in their fan base through relentless conspiracy theories and undermining of trust into anyone who isn’t them.

There’s a paradox here - the more people have their trust violated, the more distrustful they get, the easier they get scam as the overhead of approaching every transaction / interact in life with an adversarial mindset exhausts critical capacity and drives people into desperate savior fantasies - technological miracles, charlatans. snakeoil, the twentieths coin or pump and dump.

Zero trust (non security version - the inability to extend trust) is a miserable desperate state to be in as a human being and makes people highly vulnerable to getting taken advantage of and crypto signaling on social media either identifies you as a scammer or as a mark. You still believe technology can solve societies trust dilemma, you are asking for it at this point.

And the longer the scamming goes on, the stronger the signal of this self identifying audience becomes. It’s like responding to Nigerian prince emails at this point.

Go reddit, look at the safemoon subreddit. It’s … wild how many times you can rip off some people and have them get more militant in their belief they are smart.

As a footnote, more and more tech companies explore this to prop up shrinking profit margins. By selling previously valuable trust marks such as the top result on google (there was a time you could trust this) or flat out verification marks that previously were meant to foster Trust and Safety for money, erosion of trust becomes a profitable feature. It’s good for platforms when users cannot tell placed / bought placement and fake news from actual valuable content.

It’s just terminal for society - each time someone is scammed, has their trust betrayed, they slide a little bit closer into that state that is so exploitable by populists.
Being the source of the overwhelming majority of Mozilla's revenue gives them the control they want without touching the code base.

How else do you explain the fact that Google payments to Mozilla over the last decade have done nothing but increase as Firefox's worldwide user share has done nothing but decline --- now to the point of insignificance; less than Opera?
That was a code management f up though. Someone plugged a test battery into production IIRC.
I'm not saying there were no dumb people in the past, I'm saying that being amazed that most people of the past could not see further than their nose is a very naive take.
Don't commercially available software controlled USB hubs exist already? The Yepkit YKUSH 3 came to mind immediately (https://www.yepkit.com/product/300110/YKUSH3) and is the only device I've seen that explicitly says that it disconnects both the data lines and power lines when switching. A casual search also finds https://www.usbgear.com/managed-hubs.html
How dare you question the current ruling? Don’t you know that we are most likely to hit no more warming than 2C by the end of this century? This was to advert crisis. However the current ruling moved to 1.5 C. Now don’t question things.

Rather you should accept a transition to energy that is highly dependent on stable weather given the fact that we are supposed to face unstable weather. We don’t know if we’ll get less sun and wind due to the collapse of the jet stream. Therefore we need to invest in more solar and wind. It’s not hard.

Allow the government to be more authoritarian. Notice I’m not recommending the fascist governments like the GOP (yes I know the article is on the UK). No, I’m recommending the soft handed authoritarianism provided by our leftist benefactors. They’ll let you love whoever you want (including children if you’re a MAP). Love them. Accept them. Allow them to quarter people in your home. After all you wouldn’t even have a home if it wasn’t for the government.
Writing into Water
That's my general perception as well, but I'm not sure what the alternatives are. I suppose I shouldn't have narrowly focused on business school - what I really mean is just what the author describes. Someone who has specifically trained to become a manager.
Signals don't work on Windows. We want a unified API for all platforms. Also signals don't carry arguments, which is necessary to push a new config. At runtime, Caddy doesn't know where the config came from because config is just data.
This seems in contrast to Borges, who was never done with corrections and redrafting, going as far as to buy back an edition of a book already in print so that he could make additional corrections (or so the story goes...).

Anyway, I'm a fan of Asimov.
The United States has already tried nation building in this century in Afghanistan (where the Taliban rule, a return to the status quo pre-9/11) and Iraq (which was an unmitigated disaster). If the US focused more on improving itself instead of building other nations then I think the world would be a better place.

I'm not saying isolationism, and foreign aid is good, but let other countries fix their problems (potentially with aid from us, but not direct military intervention) because if the shoe were on the other foot, they'd not lift a finger to assist us (except for maybe Cuba).
Fox can easily kill a cat. The entire head will fit in their jaws. They are probably yapping at eachother.
It’s inconvenient, but surely you’re able to pretty easily get the number ported to a new eSIM…? You should still have the account and basically should just need to find some WiFi to download it on a different device?

I travel a fair bit, all this makes me think how hard this would be if I was in, say, Europe and my phone was stolen - to get a new physical SIM I’d need to visit a physical store in Australia! Perhaps I could have a family member visit and send it to me in the mail, but in just a slightly different situation the physical SIM is potentially a lot more problematic!
Does this apply to existing games? I can see a lot of companies running on margins going it of business here.

I wonder if this entire fee will be passed directly to the customer
Some the absolute worst managers I've ever had were the ones who were also "management coaches" or trained by them. They just read a bunch of books and blindly applied it to everything and taught others to do the same.
What I mean was that if you ran a large function that would take a few seconds, any UI redraw would be blocked completely for that time. So resizing a window would not cause a redraw of the UI until it came out of the function, pressing a button would not visually reflect the button status, basically it would seem like the application was hanging.

You could avoid this by peppering DoEvents in your loop. However, this was not always possible like if you were calling an external DLL function. I had an application that would talk to a Kodak digital camera by using their DLL and that would take considerable time.

It's really what separates a serious programming language from a toy, or at most a prototyping tool. Like Fisher Price, you can make something quick but it's not capable of actual use.

I think people have this rose-colored view because back in those days UX standards sucked and many apps had a lot of quirkiness. But times were changing and even a few years later this was unacceptable.

There were no official background threads, you could use the Win32 Threads API but it would cause instability due to not having memory protection.

But this "hanging" behaviour was really not suitable for a general purpose application. Electron doesn't have this issue because the renderer is independent from the javascript code.
In fact, the Plus plan is being removed completely. It's only mentioned off-handedly in the last paragraph of the article, but it's another giant change for indie devs (who have no choice but to migrate from Plus to Pro).

They are offering a free upgrade from Plus to Pro for one year, but that does nothing once that time elapses - you have to pay the Pro fees or drop down to Personal, which is not viable for most games.
My desktop is my "supercomputer" for heavy tasks. The philosophy of "supercomputer on the go" never made sense to me. Sure, it'd be cool, but you're limited by battery, heat, and upgradability/expansion. To me, a laptop has always been a temporary subset of your full computing power while you're away.
Party.Server – New API for a programmable primitive
Having been in two positions where I was managed by someone "Who went to school for managing" I disagree pretty strongly that they are better. I may have just been unlucky.
It's not the thread it's most likely you. I don't know if people tell you but dealing with you is likely to be extremely painful if you say rude garbage like this to peoples faces.

Multiple databases can "work" but you get the problem I described above.

You know when you go to a company and eventually you see idiot practices or technical debt? Unfortunately this belongs to that category. You seeing it at dozens of companies doesn't validate anything except for the fact that bad patterns are common.

It also validates the existence of people who often do things poorly and don't know it (aka you).
Tesla Semi proves itself in new independent test
If you don't see this as AI generated... I dunno what to tell you. It was pasted right out ChatGPT.. the short paragraphs, passive phrasing, and tone - lots of wiggle phrases like "But not many know about this solution." "Nevertheless, I was surprised to see how many reviewers mentioned in the comments how much storage and time they saved! Some reviews even mention the actual numbers the app gave them." "

Lots of words to say nothing of substance.

If it reads like a bad high school essay - it's ChatGPT!
Super-Earths in Need for Extremly Big Rockets (2018)
That was the whole purpose of Project Mainline [0], which turned many critical system components into modules that can be updated through the Play Store regardless of manufacturer and OS updates.

Media codecs is one of the first things they turned into a module, specifically for this reason; it is one of the biggest source of security patches. I actually remember hearing a stat that 90%+ of security patches are limited to a very small handful of components (media codec, crypt lib, network stack). So by turning those into modules that can be updated independently of the OS, all Android devices get to benefit from it, even years after they're abandoned by their OEMs.

[0] https://source.android.com/docs/core/ota/modular-system
That's naive. We all feel like we're the master of our story, but our history books show us that people are products of their time--their physical, social, and cultural environment. With determined effort, one person can fight the tide, but one person is a rounding error.
Everything. It is basically treated like Amazon. Why search "dog beds" on a shopping platform when you can search it on TikTok and see videos from people with real dogs on the beds. But also yes probably mostly clothes
Slow browser devs didn't stop this marginally better format from being added with CVEs such as this, but it does prevent significantly better formats from being added, so being slow isn't the way to go, the safety issues should be addressed with safety tools like memory safe languages and other wuffs instead of slowing down the progress
I think you missed the entire point of the essay. You should actually read it.

Science is incremental, revolutions in science mostly just adjust the edges of our knowledge, at more and more extreme corner cases (extreme high energies, extreme high/low temperatures, etc). No, we absolutely don't know it all, but as always, new knowledge and theories will only affect those edges, and refine the predictions for the nth+1 decimal place.

By and by, the science that directly affects our daily lives has remained stable and most progress has been in the engineering to put all this knowledge to practical and efficient use.
When I used to write code in dynamically typed languages, I would fill the gap with testing. But when I started using typescript instead of JavaScript, I found myself needing to write far fewer tests. Now I typically only write tests for code that I know is more likely to have bugs.
The big assumption with the data is that all cats are equivocal in hunting ability and access to resources, when we know this isn’t the case.