skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cities has a particular connotation of dense, urban areas and it's not necessarily the only way high population density can exist on a landscape. California is a good example here, with some of the highest precolumbian population densities in what's now the US. Most of those people lived in Central Valley in large villages often exceeding 2,000-5000 people. However, there was very little high level political organization compared to say, Central Mexico and their primary food sources fall outside typical definitions of agriculture (though they were definitely intensive and involved lots of complicated plant management).

Within the Bay area, populations were centered around exploiting marine resources. Hundreds of large shell middens dozens of feet high littered the precolonial coast, most of which are now destroyed. Even pleasanton, far inland, harvested marine resources because it was a swamp filled with fish.

The PNW still has extant remains of massive precolonial villages, like Ozette [0].

The Southeast/Midwest was another case where we have massive villages, in some cases supporting 10s of thousands of people.

Etc. We don't see these today because we quite literally built on top of them. I used to live near a suburban neighborhood built atop an old Hohokam village where thousands of cremations had been recovered. None of the residents I met knew that the "hill" in the middle was the bulldozed remains of the Pueblo.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozette_Indian_Village_Archeolo...
You don't have to save the world or feed the hungry to help other people.

Just sharing your knowledge can be a hand up to someone in a bind, even a complete stranger on the internet who doesn't even give out an upvote.

Everyone's gifts are different, and none of them are universal.
my wife had lg g4 that develop overheat boot problem: by the time it booted it was overheated enough to reboot itself.

in order to get everything off the phone i froze it in freezer. it gave me enough time to boot it and copy everything via usb
Never seen this done to a whole laptop, but it wasn't an uncommon last ditch method for pulling files off a dying HDD back in the days of spinning platters.

Preferably in a zip lock vacuum bag and left over night.

This is a 17 year old article, but I'm a little skeptical that 10 minutes in the fridge whilst still in the laptop would have made much difference. Probably the forced reboot did just as much.

On the other end of the heat spectrum, there's baking a motherboard to reflow the solder:
https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/6dygu...
Probably the same thing as when I hallucinate at highway speeds.
Yeah, I lost it a bit there and I deserved those downvotes.
I concur with your sibling commenter:

> I would treat any advice posted publicly on the internet about how to breach the GFW as probably-malicious. They are better at networking than you are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37786214
There's only so much room for simple methods.

So maybe you get to pick the most crackable for you out of 25 options. But you can't hide a proper backdoor like that.
First question when I tried to play:

Who was the inventive genius behind the Apple computer?

a. Bill Gates

b. Steve Wozniak

c. Ken Williams

d. Steve Russell
There's better functionality coming, but for at the moment, users need to jump over to the apps domain to install. "Getting" or "Installing" means adding to home screen. The flow isn't ideal at the moment, and some web apps aren't installable (e.g. don't have a manifest/service worker), but it's early in the movement. You're not really missing anything, other than the fact that we have to start somewhere :-P
So you want a... reader mode plugin? How would it use an LLM beneficially?
When talking about other OS, you might want to turn it off if you have your disk encrypted. So it serves its purpose.
Maybe we can do that when other churches have a similar problem:

"A whistleblower alleged over the weekend that the church operates its investment arm as a 'clandestine hedge fund.'"

(I'm sure many do, and I think the tax exemption of religious institutions is wrong to begin with.)
Oldest evidence of human cannibalism as a funerary practice
Not really a KDE thing but having multiple screens with differing refresh rates is a pain on all distros I've tested. Either you add a lot of buffering to avoid screen tearing, or you get screen tearing.
North American agriculture appears to have been cursed with poor cereals for cultivation--basically none of those crops survive today as major cereal crops, unlike all the other agricultural hotspots. Corn doesn't arrive until ~1000, and the arrival of corn radically alters the makeup of North America.

Cahokia is the largest city of North America (peaking at probably 10-20k people), starting about 1050, peaking perhaps 1200, and being completely abandoned by about 1350 for unknown reasons. And after Cahokia, there's... no other major city. Mississippian sites in general decline in size, and there seems to be a general aversion to urban centers. It's hard to make out what is going on, because then comes catastrophic European contact that destroys all of the cultures with only fragmentary evidence of contemporary lifestyle.

One theory that I've heard is that we're seeing what is essentially the endgame of proto-civilization: the North American cultures are trying out alternatives to urban, territorial polities. Perhaps something akin to Greece during the Greek Dark Ages. If European contact had come two or three centuries later, we might have seen the emergence of territorial states in North America.

The exception to this in North America is of course the Southwest, which was in cultural contact with South America and Mesoamerica. Corn arrives to the Southwest far earlier than the rest of North America--maybe 2000 BC at the earliest, although it doesn't clearly hold until about 500 BC.
Parent is not talking about market share, they're talking about utility. The utility in using Windows over the alternatives is none, they're saying.

And you could argue that, if you wanted. But pretending they were talking about market share and then using it as a "lol HN" generalization is disingenuous, at best.
When I read "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" I became more concerned, yet somehow remained head-above-water optimistic. When I see articles like this one shared on HN the optimism all but disappears. Our worst traits (e.g., greed, vanity, etc) are being used against us. We're making entertainment out of our own demise.

We have met the enemy and he / she is us.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Surveillance_Capi...
This pattern emerged around the same time as "can't print black when out of colored ink" and "printer cartridge DRM". I'm extremely incredulous that this is a bug rather than intentional.
Best way to stay motivated is to ship often and regularly, and get feedback from (potential) customers as often as possible.

You can be the customer, which helps. But other customers, ideally paying customers, is motivating assuming you have a goal of making some money.
wow! a new version of rust!
responsive design concepts would enable this
DST policies vary by country and (US) state. The US DST schedule can be changed, and has been — twice in the last 50 years. There are proposals to do so again, both nationally and within states. Implementing automatic DST adjustment puts you on the hook for software updates forever. It’s much easier to just let people change the time manually when they need to, like they do with other appliances.

IMHO, the real failure is when devices make it hard to figure out how to change the time.
That seems ok! Not sure about encourage the user to switch, but maybe mention that in x browsers works.

Also have in mind that on Firefox mobile app, PWAs _have_ install capabilities, so the alert should _only_ be targeted to Firefox desktop.
I don't feel entitled to anything, it was just a suggestion for how they can communicate better, which they ostensibly want. I constantly get lauded for good presentations, and see others do them with unforced errors, so I thought I'd do my part to level the playing field.

Ironically enough, aren't you doing the same thing now, berating me for giving free information the wrong way? How about just learning from the advice and moving on?
Swap work block to writer block and it describes my typical Saturday.
I swear by the lowest end brother duplexing monochrome laser printer. Mine is the dw2270 which was <$150 at the time. Rock solid. No fuss ever.

I’ve praised it here before. It’s the sort of printer that I wonder they stay in business selling because each customer is a customer for life but only buys one item.
Am I an electrician because I’ve replaced receptacles, switches, fans, etc.?

Is someone a plumber if they followed step-by-step directions to replace the flush valve in their toilet, without understanding how any of it works, or what the parts are for?

Where is the boundary? To me, it boils down to two things - do you spend the majority of your work time on it, and do you understand how your tools work? The former is necessary because even though I was an electrician’s apprentice as a teenager, and can explain how pretty much anything electrical works, it’s not my primary job, so it would be weird to claim that. The latter is necessary because otherwise, you’re diluting the title for those that have it. I can explain how max() works (or at least, an implementation of it). I can give pros/cons for functions.
The people that act like goat fuckers look bad because they are goat fuckers...other goat fuckers also look like goat fuckers.

And then fucking a goat ironically looks an awful lot like fucking a goat.
The cheap ones are great too. There are a few models at $150 and under. There are minor differentiators for them like Airprint and double-sided printing.

I bought one a few months ago. Best computer-related thing I've purchased in ages. It JUST WORKS.

As the review says,

Here’s the best printer in 2023: the Brother laser
printer that everyone has. Stop thinking about it
and just buy one. It will be fine! [...]

The Brother whatever-it-is will print return labels
for online shopping, never run out of toner, and
generally be a printer instead of the physical
instantiation of a business model.

https://www.theverge.com/23642073/best-printer-2023-brother-...
A great example of self-service actually making things worse for people. There are many, many more of those, and it leads me to believe that software's transformation of the economy isn't as positive on the net as people seem to believe.
Data roaming on a non-Chinese SIM card is the simplest approach, and perfectly sufficient if all you want to do is use Google search etc.
It's everywhere now.
You're right, it should be a more distro-level effort in userspace. Definitely leave the kernel alone (for the most part).

The point is, some level of AI will be needed for the Linux Desktop to make it more accessible for the next few billion users.

As beautiful as it is for humans to interface with the computer through a terminal, it can easily be as confusing and tedious.

Harnessing the power of some of the best FOSS software systems in the world should not be limited to people who are willing to master it.
Hi, the app is completely free. The pricing model is from the old iPad app, but cannot be removed from the app store listing (Apple doesn't allow it).

If a pricing plan is introduced later it will be for future features (which might cost a bit to run the infrastructure). All current features will remain free.
If one enjoys fast, 0-copy I/O on Linux, here's an article.[0]

PS: Precision of language to avoid confusion: "Indeterministic" is a philosophy term, while the CS term is "nondeterministic".

0. https://blog.superpat.com/zero-copy-in-linux-with-sendfile-a...
The French underestimated their decommissioning costs by a large factor. They will spend decades paying that down with no power being generated from the plants they are closing down.
Rumor has it, it may eventually replace Linux as the underlying OS to Android/ART. By now I'm thinking G's leadership is realizing the epic undertaking it would mean to bring Fuchsia to maturity... and I give Fuchsia a 50/50 chance of ending up in the vast Google graveyard (https://killedbygoogle.com/) in the next 5 years.

I'm curious why they couldn't poach one of the L4 microkernels to build Fuchsia on, specifically SEL4 which is used in Genode/SculptOS, same as they did with Linux and Android. It would've given them a strong base to build on, saved time/$$$....
SEC seeks to force Elon Musk to testify in probe of Twitter stock purchases
Wikipedia says the same thing you posted. But that's not what "unconditional surrender" means.
Scientists discover the highest energy gamma-rays ever from a pulsar
Blind signatures are totally different from hash chains.
Curious if you have plans for an android app as well?
The key combo you use to get into dev mode, ctrl+D, will exit the warning screen before it beeps.
Image Golf
I miss the old days in the 60's when Lockheed would produce a mach-3 capable spy plane in a few short months. Now they're pulling a BMW and selling subscription services for heated seats.
New footprint dates bolster claim that humans lived in Americas during Ice Age
It's to my understanding that the Neverware acquisition eventually led to ChromeOS Flex which is ChromeOS designed to run on any generic x86_64 platform.

https://chromeenterprise.google/intl/en_ca/os/chromeosflex/

https://support.google.com/chromeosflex/answer/11552529
nah, that's tmux is for. I've had sessions running for a month+
I absolutely love being a solo developer when I have the right client/gig. Unfortunately, finding those opportunities can be difficult.

I enjoy the cyclical development pattern where I spend a LOT of time - not quite gamedev crunch time, but occasionally close - building the first main production iteration. Then I get to relax a little and balance adding features and reducing debt. And finally I reach a maintenance and support phase which typically requires very little time and effort. That last phase is when you'll find me traveling, "living the good life".

But even during the early intensive phases, having the freedom and authority to decide what tools to use, where to physically work from, and even what time of day to work is of such value that the heavy workload is less painful than big company in-office alternative scenarios.

As for routine, exercise is indeed a big benefit and contributor toward success. Some office work situations have good workout opportunities, but many do not. And if the daily commute takes a lot of time, then exercise is one of the things that tends to get cut or squeezed down to a level where it doesn't provide much benefit.
Oh I see, after the invasion. I thought GP meant before it.
Putting aside ethics, I wouldn't want to sell a zero day to a Russian company because if they swindle you, there's no recourse.
If they made it harder to accidentally switch watch faces, I’m all in. I kept looking at my watch and finding the face had changed due to it being too easy to press it and change it. Make it so that you have to actually choose something. I finally had to delete all other faces so my preferred face was always there.
Nice write-up. If you require additional performance, use ndarray or GPU.js (or try out taichi.js if WebGPU is available).

Hamsters.js can also provide speedups, given you can translate your problem into a 'threaded' task.
The gboard Japan team has a long beautiful history of these that hasn’t been stamped out by Mountain View :)
On further investigation, though they can't be deleted, they can be removed from sale. Thanks for drawing my attention to this.
Cool so that offended a country, like how can a backwater of a dead nation make us reasonable conditions when we want blood of millions? Cool
Toyota Thinks the Century SUV Will Attract Young Buyers, but Why?
"Let's have a universal connector"

"The biggest EV manufacturer does not want to change their connector"

"OK so let's use theirs"

"..."

This is why we talk about blockers
Yep. My name thousands of times + more recently Manipur
https://github.com/willhartung/planet/releases/tag/v1.0.0

It's a "simple" GUI wrapper around a fractal planet generator (that I did not create).

I'm not very good at GUIs. I don't have the visual eye, I'm lousy at detail. 99% of the time I'm happy with something that spits out the answer I want awash in a sea of debug logs and printlns. I have a great tolerance to ignoring all of that.

I bogged down on the installers because I loathe configuring build tools, hunting down plugins, tweaking configurations.

It ended up as 4000 lines of code just for the GUI part, which seemed surprising. But that's the nature of it. GUIs are just heaps and gobs of detail, and events, and wiring it all up.

But I did it, it's "done", even if imperfect, even if the box has rounded corners as I shoved it into the outbox. And its got all sorts of things I wouldn't do again, which is useful.

Getting it out was like an interview with Columbo, always "one more thing". One of my "last minute" changes took me a month.

I was considering doing a YT video (or series) just going through this thing. Seems small enough, but addresses "real problems", rather than just examples, maybe there's value seeing it all together. Some examples of, perhaps, what "not to do".

Share and enjoy!
Reminds me of a time that a friend of a friend had me attempt to reflow an old laptop with a $20 heat gun. HP DV6000 or a 9000, if anybody remembers those failure rates. He had two.

I'd worked in a warranty depot and had some experience with the tear down by then.

The reflow didn't work for us, but we did manage to make one of the two functional again.
I wonder. The article mentions an image rendering library exploit. I'm guessing WhatsApp doesn't write their own so the source code is probably available somewhere.

Apps really need to stop processing exotic formats in unsafe languages. Every phone zero day I hear about is related to media processing.
More like the undisclpined person has several layers of structure to keep them on track.

Both external and internal rewards. And external punishments, Ie on review, pay cut, fired etc.
But isn’t “installable” the entire point of this site, and your company?

If you want you help the discussion against native apps, you need to clearly take the side of proper installable PWAs, not just links to websites. It feels misleading and gives argument ammo to the “native always” crowd.
Does renaming Widgets.exe or WidgetsService.exe disable them completely?
I've used

https://sbert.net/

My take is you might like keyword searches better for some queries and you might like embedding search for others.

The problems of: (1) How to combine keyword search and embedding search (you'd imagine you'd want a ranking function that handles both) and (2) How to handle chunks are both hard.

As for (2) you probably want to make the chunks as big as you practically can, you should be chunking on tokens instead of characters if you at all can.

With the chunks of course you don't get a score for the query-document relationship you get the query-chunk score instead which isn't quite the score you really want, aggregating all the chunk hits and properly chunking the data is an open problem to say the least.
This would basically be a Nostradamus attack. If we're going around claiming exciting (read: improbable) things about P256 I don't know what stops us from claiming the NSA can generate collisions in the hash functions it also chose the parameters for.
Cool, I don’t have a large sample size so I could easily be wrong here. Something I just came across is various models have different monthly page expectations for their 2 year of ink promotion:

“Based on average monthly document print volumes of about 150 pages (ST-C2100), 200 pages (ST-C4100), 300 pages (ST-M1000/ST-M3000/ST-C5000/ST-C5500/ST-C8000/ST-C8090) and 750 pages (WF-M5799 Supertank). Promo applies to ink only. Printer covered by Epson 2-year limited warranty.” https://epson.com/supertank-ink-tank-printers-for-business

I don’t remember the model numbers but those where way past 750 pages per month if that’s helpful.
You can execute this on every reboot.
I was dumbstruck to learn that Hiroyuki Nishimura, the owner of 4chan, is a hero in Japan, with a wide range of activities, including YouTube, television, magazines, and books.
SSH tunneling always works for me.
If you say so. I'm on windows and most of my memory is going to chrome and firefox.

I've had some pretty severe issues with a chromebook running out of memory because the devs decided swap wasn't allowed (and I could never get the kernel to build and install properly). The builtin chrome definitely doesn't stop single websites from using most of a gigabyte of RAM.
Sure people lie and spread misinformation (willingly or unwittingly). But coming up with plausible sounding lies take effort.

LLMs on the other hand are amazing and prolific liars and can produce a lot of bullshit for a price that’s effectively free - in fact it’s cheaper to create a LLM that’s inaccurate than one that’s … less inaccurate. The truth to lie ratio on the internet is about to take a huge hit. LLMs really are a Pandora’s Box.
"decentralized" isnt necessary to a block chain. However when people say "block chain" in everyday use, they're usually talking about that type. It's a case where the everyday use of a word is different to the actual technical meaning.
An endorsement for DOSBox. Also, I got booted back out to the command line for entering an age < 10. I remember as a kid flipping through video game catalogues that were included in DOS games bought from the store and marveling at an ECG graphic rendition of a model in a hot tub.
One thing to note is that the Pentagon and other DoD / three-letter federal agencies have already been purchasing per-seat and per-node subscription plans from FedRAMP certified vendors. The difference is that the annual budget is pre-allocated, so the threat/risk of cancellation is much lower compared to the rest of the private sector. I feel like the high cost of FedRAMP certification combined with the reduced cancellation pressure leads to stagnation / low competition in this space.
Back in the day, our IT guy in his 70’s pulled this trick on someone’s hard drive to recover a critical last minute presentation. The story became a staple of office parties. See you on the other side John.
I'm still experimenting and reading through the documentation, but I'm semi certain Project X is also compatible with Trojan:

https://github.com/XTLS
The token is further hashed with the application secret key the same way any token would be.
People like the person you're responding to, who haven't spent any significant amount of time to develop any sort of skills, console themselves by saying that no one is anything, because they themselves are nothing.

"No one is an artist. No one is a programmer. No one is a football player."

It doesn't make any sense of course, but it makes them feel like less of a loser.

It's a sad coping mechanism.
I hope it's something like SHA1("Bill Clinton is a poopy head.")
Joining and starting a meetup are two completely different things. Joining is low effort, you just need to rock up. Starting one now needs venues, advertising (as in posting the event, updates) and other work like things.
No mention of the rates they are being paid.