skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Playing Escape from Tarkov is fun. The server tick is higher than the player tick. AI use the server tick (since they are on the server) so AI bosses will often shoot you one time on your screen and then the death screen will show you received 6 or 7 bullet wounds which killed you in an instant. Server ticked and the AI fired for long enough that when the server finally updates your client you receive all the extra tick info at once. Barely see the boss? He saw you for long enough to instagib you.
Europe has mostly Europeans, Asia mostly Asians, Oceania (Aus & NZ) mostly Europeans.

Unsurprisingly, then, if you break down the rate of homicide by firearm in the US by race, you see similar statistics. ie. European/White Americans have a rate that puts them among the safer European countries; African Americans are among the highest in the world.
Well, usually the real risks for co-sleep are in the first month. There are still after, but drops heavily. Past 6 months (or was it 1 year?) I think everything goes off a cliff, you can sleep however you want
This is the Dropbox comment of our time.
can we just pile it up into a huge salt mountain? and maybe eat some of it?
I'm writing a book [1] about "bona fide" applications of mathematics to practical programming problems, where bona fide is my own personal definition [2]. I've had my eye on claims of applications of category theory for many years, and none of them have quite fit the bill (sorry, John, if you're reading this). When they talk about applications to databases it seems quite unrealistic or lacking in sufficient detail to evaluate. And when I talk to people who are actually on the front lines that try to use category theory to solve some problem, they tell me that it ended up being completely useless.

I'm open to having my mind changed. The one application that's come the closest is UMAP, [3] though the last time I checked, a few years ago, the jury was still out on whether the structure it produces in applied contexts like biology is spurious.

So what specific applications do you know of category theory to practical problems? For the purpose of this post "application" means used by someone in a production software setting to solve a problem not related to category theory. Someone who doesn't care about category theory should care about the problem being solved.

And, to be sure, category theory is fine an dandy in its applications to other areas of math, as a unifying language for homology and whatnot. I'm talking about the kind of claims category theory folks sometimes make like "category theory is ushering in a programming revolution and you need to learn it to stay relevant"

[1]: http://pmfpbook.org/

[2]: https://buttondown.email/j2kun/archive/whats-in-production/

[3]: https://umap-learn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Gen-Xer here. I think many of us are going to be working another 30+ years.

(Well, I've recently told some prospective co-founders that I'd like to have FIRE money in 5 years. But the only point of that is to have financial security and an upgrade from the ramen startup lifestyle I've had too long. Then I'm almost certainly going to keep working, and eventually switch to working on interesting open source, hopefully for another 25. Then something like metal-detecting on the beach, and returning people's lost items. :)
if people paid for Chrome, Google would have to stop collecting data on its users. Google would much rather have that data than some <$20 fee. If Chrome was its own company, Google's money to be the default search engine would be more than they could earn from selling the browser. Free. Always has. Always will be. wait, that's the other data hoover.
It actually does hint at (the lack of) vendor lock in, when talking about the capability to switch to self hosted.
Totally understand the privacy concern. If it helps, I'm a person, not a company—and I put my photo and personal links right on the homepage so folks can decide if they would like to trust me with this sensitive information.
Indeed, however all but eight or nine of them were rather foolish
> Of course, this can be, like in this case, wrongly applied to disastrous effects. But it has also saved many children from abusive parents

So what is the relative frequency of these two outcomes? You can't ignore the wrong applications; if they outnumber the proper ones, then the system is doing more harm than good.
This sentiment has been repeated in a few comments. But, why can’t the deno deploy implementation be reimplemented, by yourself, by running a foundationDB server with mvSQLite[1]?
That shouldn’t require any changes to the code.

[1] https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite
A thing that was just made for baby boomers and that will ruin everyone else while they wont get it
At least in Australia they will be fine. 11% of your income is taken before you receive it and put in to retirement funds. It’s also taxed at a much lower rate.

To end up at retirement age without any savings accumulated, you’d have to either have been unemployed for your whole life, or run a business/be self employed and never make any contributions to retirement savings.
> I've started keeping a short length of paracord on my desk to practice knots during video calls. It makes a great fidget toy.

This is literally what I started doing like 6 months ago, and I went from knowing only how to tie my shoes to having a great repertoire of knots. It’s great to have a couple hanks of paracord in the car now to tie stuff down, and more versatile (and safer) than the bungee straps.
Making the option that bypasses the security measures less obvious is a feature. This is a case of assuming that developers are Apple’s model user when it’s non-developers who are likely to install “Macsweeper” because a popup ad told them they had a virus.
Would you mind sharing some prompts you've found particularly interesting?
Could this be used to run playwright.dev with GPU acceleration?
Yes, for those looking to do it themselves, there's a how-to guide on the blog: https://blog.talktomel.com/blog/7-ways-to-unsubscribe-from-p...
Signal totally lost my confidence with the Chinese IME debacle. They were told repeatedly for a year that Chinese Signal users were vulnerable and needed a warning in the app. They intentionally ignored the problem because the wrong type of person was reporting it. Then once enough white men repeated the complaint, they put the warning in. Prejudice is a security vulnerability if it makes you ignore vulnerability reports. Signal have demonstrated that they have this security vulnerability and as far as I can see they haven’t taken any steps to close it.
I always assumed it was a closed bot system.
Boring will mean your brain will also decay much faster.
If they don't have a good reason to suspect abuse, yes. If the medical system assumes an adversarial position with parents, then reasonable people might rightfully avoid taking their kids to the doctor.
Once upon a time, stocks were listed alphabetically in something called newspapers.
I wonder if there’s a business model around sharing the results of security reviews. Even if Company A can’t fully trust the review of Company B, you could A could provide a lot of context for B to reduce the cost of starting an evaluation from zero.
VLC development is primarily funded by Naver (Space Green), I believe. Could be misinformed.

http://www.videolan.org/contribute.html
Useful when travelling so you don’t have a phone in your hand at all times.

Few things are more enjoyable for me than looking at photo albums from trips I took years ago with loved ones.
Roth IRA restricts contribution based on income. Furthermore, the contribution limits are a small fraction of what they are for employer-based retirement accounts, not enough to build a real retirement.

A not small number of high-income Americans don’t qualify for anything but a traditional IRA, which has paltry limits.
Tapping the "learn more" feels like such an adult thing to do rather than just bitching about it online without reading any of the details first.
I side with Apple, because I feel that they protect my privacy and security. Google is just trying to force Apple users onto a messaging service that is largely hosted on their servers and run by them so they can collect information about users and target us with ads.

Do I really need Google knowing when I'm typing a message or my location or all the other information they will surely be able to extract when they are running the messaging platform that all my messages are going over?

The beauty of the iPhone is paying for the service instead of having your data be the service and getting it for free. It's a big reason why people are switching to iPhone away from Android.

Does Google actually care about our security or privacy, or are they just trying to force us onto their platform?
Apple Wallet app can now show current account balances from UK banks
I foresee a new subgenre of reality shows.
even if it’s only 90% true it can still a useful characterization of corporations

also, I think a lot of corporations do philanthropy as advertising, hoping it will be in a positive effect on revenue. So, still doing everything for the bottom line
They contain NeXTOS and Classic MacOS but have been modified so much it is hard to say.

Like saying Windows 10 has MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 code. Really hard to say but it may be possible.
Creationism, but with a science-y spin this time.
The culture of Australia is not the culture of the United States.

I am extremely confident attempting to repeal the Second Amendment wouldbe met with violence if necessary. Lone actors, small groups, guerrilla warfare, or full-blown civil war are all not only likely, but all but guaranteed depending on the specifics.

Plus, firearms are durable goods, and won’t just “go away” even if you ignore the political implications. There are literally more firearms in the US than people.

Please note that my comments here, unless otherwise stated, are informed by my understanding of the political environment rather than my personal beliefs.
Further concentrated salt solutions deposit in the device, clogging it causing it to not work. You could harvest the salt, but then it is no longer passive.
I want to suggest an alternative encoding/notation where instead of single (very nicely chosen) Unicode codepoints, the operators are single (perhaps less well-suited) printable ASCII characters. This would make the language into its own, human-authorable, bytecode!
I don't think it would be culturally insensitive. It's not really a widely practiced religion, and the word is a generic word in chinese that applies to other religions. Jesus said 'i am the way truth and life', they use Tao to translate Way in the chinese bible.
The study references "clinicians" rather than "doctors." Clinicians include psychologists, pharmacists, nurses, physicians, paramedics, etc.
I was going to ask if it was even safe to keep those batteries in device long term, but the answer is already out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37684415

Those warning stickers asking you to remove the batteries when the device won't be used for a long time were not just decorative.
I would say even “recognizing original author and presenting yourself as an editor” would be even more fair.
https://archive.ph/DiYAk

It’s not just a matter of enticing new immigrants but of retaining bright minds already in the country. In 2009, a Turkish graduate of the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Erdal Arikan, published a paper that solved a fundamental problem in information theory, allowing for much faster and more accurate data transfers. Unable to get an academic appointment or funding to work on this seemingly esoteric problem in the United States, he returned to his home country. As a foreign citizen, he would have had to find a U.S. employer interested in his project to be able to stay.

Back in Turkey, Arikan turned to China. It turned out that Arikan’s insight was the breakthrough needed to leap from 4G telecommunications networks to much faster 5G mobile internet services. Four years later, China’s national telecommunications champion, Huawei, was using Arikan’s discovery to invent some of the first 5G technologies. Today, Huawei holds over two-thirds of the patents related to Arikan’s solution—10 times more than its nearest competitor. And while Huawei has produced one-third of the 5G infrastructure now operating around the world, the United States does not have a single major company competing in this race. Had the United States been able to retain Arikan—simply by allowing him to stay in the country instead of making his visa contingent on immediately finding a sponsor for his work—this history might well have been different.
I would also recommend Red Dead Restoration (https://www.youtube.com/@RedDeadRestoration). The creator occasionally dips into ASMR territory but the restorations sometimes double as chemistry lessons.
Additionally, discoverability is relative to experience: I’m a developer and, as such, I can be assumed to know about right-click menus. So putting something there that’s more intended for me _is_ designing a discoverable user interface.
Show HN: Hallucinating Computer Science Education?
Podurama is this
Yeah seems like a category error: desalination is a mode of production, tap is a mode of delivery
The thing is, people like to live near where the work is.

If one office among many is closing down, that puts these homes right in the centre of the action. That might make for a good residence and justify the cost. But if swaths of offices are closing down, as suggested earlier, there won't be any nearby work left. Why would people want to live in those converted buildings?

"the building is already there" can be said about any ghost town. Hell, in those ghost towns, many of those buildings are houses already. There being a building isn't a compelling enough reason to want to live somewhere.
I shouldn't need to apologize for making an example.

How about you quit being such a pedant. An example is not supposed to be exactly the same in every way. It doesn't even need to be mostly the same. It can be only kinda sorta maybe related and that's ok. It's just an example.

Somehow analogies an examples came to mean perfect clones. That's not what they are.
You may be right about drone, helicopter and other flight application batteries (to save weight) but 2s, 3s and above batteries for r/c cars and trucks are usually within a rugged hard shell to protect them from inevitable shocks. Examples: https://www.amainhobbies.com/rc-car-lipo-lihv-batteries/c139...

Many people store their batteries in an ammo box or "lipo safe" such as these to protect against fire: https://www.amazon.com/lipo-safe/s?k=lipo+safe
Salt deposit clog the devices, harvesting the salt sould require labor. Rejecting the salt allows the device to run passively for years.
Well, many SQL databases, although not SQLite, have table partitioning feature which does exactly this. The main benefit is that one can configure tablespace (in PostgreSQL terms; essentially the drives to store data) and storage parameters separately for each partition.

Indexes are just the tip of the iceberg (but sometimes just using partial indexes may do wonders), it’s ability to tweak stuff like fillfactor for a frequently updated small portion of the table (e.g. active sessions vs archived sessions) is that makes a lot of difference.
There's a fun book by steven pressfield called "put your ass where your heart wants to be"

In it he talks about stuff like this, with respect to your work. In it he says things like move to where you need to be.

This is like that with respect to your personal life, and I think it's powerfully true.
What worked in Australia was the national unification of gun laws - Queensland, Tasmania, and the two territorries were aligned with the laws in the (then) bulk of the populated parts of Australia - NSW, Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia.

The gun buy back was good deal to encourage people to turn in any old guns that they either didn't want to licence or were unable to licence (due to having a criminal record or the gun being fully automatic).

Having a modern up to date, searchable central registry of guns, ownership, and requiring every sale to be recorded is a major advantage for Australia over the US.

In Australia twelve years olds can join a gun club (with parental permission) and the majority of people can own a gun if they wish - subject to a record free from violence and a demonstration of competance and ability to keep and store weapons safely.

I'm in rural Australia and have some guns for feral control use.

My neighbour has a fairly decent assortment of guns and shoots ULR (ultra long range) targets at 5,000 yards.

Annual setup and test with initial flight path drone PoV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7owwTz7Z0OE
I just wanted to echo your experiences growing up in a suburb with lots of single-family houses. Even though we were in different classes (slightly different ages) there were loads of kids in the blocks around my house. We'd play games in the green belt (utility corridor) or at the park in the middle or meet up for swimming in the community pool in the summer time. I'd walk or ride my bike to friend's houses all the time to play their Nintendo and they'd come over to my place to play my Sega. You don't need to live in a dense city with massive apartment complexes to have neighborhood friends.

And yeah, I definitely had friends that I mostly only saw during activities (sports, band, scouts, etc.) they were still good and close friends. Spending over a decade of at least one night a week together tends to make people pretty close.
List of features killed from Microsoft Skype
I thought Google was bad[0], but this is just one product from Microsoft.

[0]: https://killedbygoogle.com/
Only open standards with multiple interworking implementations give you that choice, though. The cost of moving to something else is no different with commercial SW as it is with F/OSS when you have to start from scratch, as opposed to being able to switch to alternative implementations (such as a database or message middleware).
It wasn't notarization, it was the OCSP for Developer ID code signing certificates.
A Futuristic Plan to Make Steel with Nuclear Fusion
Retirement is a little tweeting bird, chirping in the meadow. Retirement is a wreath of pretty flowers that smell bad.
I don’t use it either. I don’t need sudo enough so I just don’t find the need. My password is strong but it’s not like it’s 58 characters.

I love Touch ID in general on this Mac. This just didn’t do anything special for me, so I never really adopted it.
Seriously, why isn't anyone else talking about this. They turned this around SO FAST.
I strongly disagree.

A firearm is the most effective defensive weapon a person can have, surely - but not even close to the most destructive.

If someone’s goal is indiscriminate destruction, an automobile is much more effective. Explosive, incendiaries, or even poisons would be all cause more destruction than a firearm.

Handguns in particular are relatively ineffective as weapons go. A knife attack is more likely to result in the death of the victim than a handgun. The reason handguns are carried more than knives for defense is that knives typically kill through blood loss while firearms do so through immediate physical trauma.
Then they’ll monetize in two places.

Why would they stop with the ads?
> Your claim was that we can only know about reality through inductive reasoning, and this is the part I'm disputing, not that science itself is not inductive.

My claim still stands resolute in dispute of your claim. You can't know anything through probability/inductive reasoning. At best you can say something is "probably" true, but even this is a limit that's impossible to reach. If you observe something 1 billion times and that observation confirms your hypothesis, you never know if the next 10 trillion observations can deny your hypothesis completely. So even saying something is "probably true" can't even be done. Nothing can be truly known in science and therefore reality as we know it.

>Mathematical reasoning is deductive, and mathematics is part of reality.

It's only part of reality in the same way a fantasy novel is part of reality. It just so happens that it matches our observations. But observations are not always the same or consistent, how will you verify logic and math consistently hold true in reality? You would recursively use stats and science to determine it's veracity which suffers from the same issue as I stated above... you can't prove anything to be true with science.

Math and logic is an axiom of reality. We simply assume it to be true and there's no way to prove that it's true. But here's the kicker. EVEN if we assume science and logic to be true, we STILL can't prove anything to be true in reality. This is because of exactly what I'm talking about above... we can never know the true sample size of all possible observations... any amount of observations or samples we have is finite, but the universe is unknown and samples are potentially infinite. Therefore any sample could be 1/1000000000 of what's out there.

I'm not making any of this up. This is real stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability

Quotation from the article:

"One of the questions in the scientific method is: how does one move from observations to scientific laws? This is the problem of induction. Suppose we want to put the hypothesis that all swans are white to the test. We come across a white swan. We cannot validly argue (or induce) from "here is a white swan" to "all swans are white"; doing so would require a logical fallacy such as, for example, affirming the consequent.[4]"
You can definitely go to a mall and get ray bans with solid barrel hinges
> Run ffprobe --help for details.

But we all wanted to know, does it stdout or stderr? :-D

(It prints help to stdout, and a bunch of junk to stderr)

$ ffprobe --help 2>/dev/null
Simple multimedia streams analyzer
usage: ffprobe [OPTIONS] INPUT_FILE

$ ffprobe --help >/dev/null
ffprobe version 6.0 Copyright (c) 2007-2023 the FFmpeg developers
built with Apple clang version 14.0.0 (clang-1400.0.29.202)
Can you not just regulate the ammo? No need to take the guns away if you just stop selling the ammo, which will presumably be exhausted over time.
And he was played by Marc Anthony (singer)!
The vram and processing power in my phone will never follow what is available when not limited by the constraints of a phone
For the DIY route see https://www.catalogchoice.org/, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
Rasperry Pi 5 Specs and Images Leaked from Element14?
Practically every professional player is that good - even non-professional-but-serious players can reliably control recoil, at least for the first few shots (which are all that matter, anyway)
NMC chemistries: 70-80% charge, minimal humidity (corrosion of electronics is always a concern), very cold, and in a fire-proof container.

Pb chemistries (automotive, boat, etc.): trickle charge with periodic desulphation.
Japanese railway workers in 60's and 70's were issued the Citizen Homer Second Setting. It's big feature was hacking seconds (https://www.fratellowatches.com/citizen-homer-second-setting...). I'm fortunate to own one of these.
security = 1/convenience
no paywall: https://archive.ph/cKGS5
Fistfights at Burning Man.
Upper Peninsula in Michigan is pretty cheap (I've seen nice home listings for under $300k on Zillow), has some ski resorts (not sure how good they are, I've been in the area but not to ski, but there's several up there)

They're no Rocky Mountains, but the Porcupine Mountains are up there and still pretty nice. And Lake Superior is right there also, as well as a bunch of waterfalls. And at night you can see the Milky Way.

Some places to ski up there: https://localfreshies.com/upper-peninsula-skiing/

Not a lot of jobs up there though, that I could tell. If I moved up there I'd have to work remote for sure.
A founder breakup is not business as usual.