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Ask HN: Could near death experiences have coevolved with belief in an afterlife?
Maybe people who believe in an afterlife have more children on average (e.g., because they have a more positive view of life)?

And maybe near death experiences encourage belief in an afterlife within a community?

And so maybe the two coevolved?
> The problem with using another programming language is that they rarely have good ergonomics for doing what bash does: stringing together commands, command input, command output, and files. If you try to do that in another programming language, things suddenly get a lot more complicate or at least more verbose.

tclsh is one way around that. Use a real first-class programming language, but in a mode where calling programs is as easy as it is in shell.
Looks great and comes in perfectly in time for me.

One concern: All my data incl. CV is stored plainly in the cloud, correct?
Its just not as easy as that. Most of the chinese services are tied to wechat or whatever and english support is patchy.
I would be a little surprised if design patents can protect against portrayals in media like games/movies.
What?? What happened
In San Francisco..yeah. At least when I lived there the general mentality of servers was a littlw militant. Not tipping a bartender by mistake had one almost come across the bar at me. If I were not tipping in a major city, I would hustle out before the server noticed.
Launching my first ever iOS app in the Apple App Store: Chatty Butler
I recently wrote a detailed article about my journey building a new iOS app, from scratch, in public.

From day one, to beta release, to App Store launch & on Product Hunt. I hope it will help others looking to launch their own app in Apple's App Store!
Good to hear.

ReactOS is a project that I wish would get off the ground. Perhaps people will finally start to see value in it as Windows enshitifies more and more each year.

I think people often don't understand how difficult of an endeavor making an open source Windows NT clone is. Unix V6 was taugt in universities with annotated source code for 15 years before Linux came around.

Meanwhile, neither Windows nor OpenVMS were ever legally source available.
My point was more that you can add these guardrails without having to keep track of what the model had previously generated.

And I think if you used a perfectly balanced dataset for training, you’d get these guardrails for free because the right probabilities would be baked into the model’s weights.
This stance is reckless and negligent. Pragmatically, you can be found liable. Ethically, it's cut and dried.
I think if they did this manufacturers would get sued. You have to have windows on some computers. They're locked in. If you further have to pay, this might brick the device, and that I think would mean violating your rights of ownership.
Yeah, that's a pretty shortsighted take of things. Do you really believe that Nvidia hasn't taken steps do make sure their moat is as wide as possible?
Passkeys are more than good enough. Software keys are indistinguishable from hardware keys in the context of credential phishing. Both kinds of keys have the same weaknesses, too, e.g. OAuth phishing (keys do nothing) and DNS hijacking (keys degrade to the same security value as OTP).

Other threat models (malware, physical access) are a different story, of course.
That's kinda revisionist. In fact ia64 owned the FP benchmark space for almost a decade, taking over from Alpha and only falling behind P6 derivatives once those started getting all the high end process slots (itself because Intel was demolishing other manufacturers in the high-margin datacenter market).

The point was that ia64 was certainly not an "inferior" ISA, It did just fine by any circuit-design measure you want. Like every other ISA, it failed in the market for reasons other than logic design.
I'm always amazed when you type in things like "Gothic Quarter of Barcelona", "at a home in Arcosanti Arizona", "busy Manhattan street", "red carpet at the Oscars", etc, it basically nails the background in any style.
Those Windows 1 icons are on the desktop, not a task bar.
That's a fair question - and no, almost all data is optional. But... people do enter this, and companies have roles with open compensation as well. I'm talking about an aggregated view into anonymized data here.

EDIT: Just realized I wrote "applicant tracking system" above. Total slip of the tongue, this is an _application_ tracking platform for job seekers, not an ATS used by companies. Though I do sometimes think of Rolepad as an ATS for the candidate.
I'm pretty certain the article is saying it is _not_ like captcha in that it is so trivial to circumvent that it's completely useless, rather than just useless sometimes.
Galois Open Sources Yapall – Yet Another Pointer Analysis for LLVM
It's very cool. How will you keep the characters consistent? I generated a simple 3 panel page and there were some variations between the same character across two panels. I think it could be worth it to have special character design pages (like the bonus art/mini posters many comics use now).

The only negative feeling I had was that the layouts are kind of dull, no real way to do angled panels and break up the strict horizontal/vertical flow. But since this would probably be used in combination with image editor software, that is not such a big deal.
If so, couldn't a malicious disc revoke all TVs?
The idea of telling a human generated "the quick brown fox..." from a machine-generated one was always a fantasy. Text has no birthmark.

Current LLMs have stylistic quirks imprinted on them by RLHF (ChatGPT's endless "it should be noted" and "it is important to remember that" verbiage is a good example), but they learned those from human writing.
a very large number of consumer and high-end camera equipment does have unique ID of the device. Some metadata stores those device IDs along with other values like mfg or light settings. Its not signed into a binding chain, only marked at image creation time. The vast majority of people I expect would just copy the data files blindly.
Shhh... You'll make me miss undergrad. c:
Yes! See my reply to the commenter above you.
Unbundling AI
A single car accident can end a life, yet we drive cars. The value gained by technology like 23andme is vastly outweighs the cost of some occasional negligence or theoretical harm.

Besides, if you can find a specific person who was specifically harmed by this exact breach, I bet you could sue for damages, and get more than $75k.
StellarPeers & Product Alliance are pretty good.
Wages would go down in dollar amount, rather than purchasing power if the dollar wasn't devalued.

Noticing that you're being paid less doesn't mean you're paid more, or even the same
Well, they could divide up the CEOs pay and give those 75,000 workers the $175 they deserve.
In DC we call that a tourist fee. Several of the restaurants near the National Mall will add a "guest fee" or "tourism fee" to the bill, but you won't find it explained or listed anywhere. They probably rake in a lot of money from foreign tourists that way.
The entire new world is very mixed. Ancestry tests are useful for people from North and South America, Southern Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand etc. those are a massive number of scenarios.

There’s a lot of health information that’s useful. Propensity to alcohol dependency, propensity for fat retention, propensity for diabetes and high blood pressure etc. You can also download your SNPs and use that information on other sites that give you a lot more, less verified information.
iPhone 15 Pro's that are out now are on 3nm.
The "too hard" argument is just so much baby crying instead of just having a principle and putting the tiniest bit of effort towards it.

It's like people that leave a grocery cart in the parking spot and then try to justify it.
I use wireguard for this stuff these days. Life is simpler now :) .
Retailers appear to be facing a self-checkout reckoning
I’m amazed how well my wife’s old 8 plus has held up.

Was one of the reasons I switched.
They actually will destroy it,if you have the paperwork.
https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CFH/DGDS/Pages/nbs/nbsconse...

(Or you know, give you a certificate that says they destroyed it.)
> the platform allocators are utterly terrible the allocation overhead is orders of magnitude higher than in even a relatively basic runtime, thus the program is dog slow

Huh. I’ve seen lots of people write slow Rust code because they didn’t realize there were allocations. But the complaint is usually “my rust program is only 5x faster than my equivalent python program instead of 100x how come”?

Can you point out some good blog posts about Rust or C++ being slower than a “basic runtime” due to inferior allocator?
Good point and I'm also big on privacy.

But you could extremely easily wrap some End-to-End-Encryption around this, right?

In fact I might just try and do that when I find the time soon.
I'm highly skeptical that this hasn't already been done, considering that acousto-optic lenses are a known thing -- it's just a question of which material you're using (air, crystal, liquid, etc): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acousto-optic_modulator

Even a 10-second Google search yielded examples of prior art. For example:

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7647/abc23c/...

How is this any different? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Terabits-per-Second Data Rates Achieved at Short Range (2020)
It's like the Netflix series Dark. It's a cycle.

Start API Client

Traction

VC Funding

Bloatware

Deprecate Scratchpad

Delete Scratchpad

Bruno will put an end to this. Honestly, I don't care if I end up making little money from Bruno. This shit has to stop. An API Client need not be VC funded.

It's been a decade now. 10yrs.
The car makes an annoying beep beep sound, but it doesn't force the user to use a seatbelt. The onus and responsibility is ultimately on the end user.
Ah, so the vehicle efficiency disparity existed before the internal combustion engine.
Even then, if the employer has some technical requirements it's on them to supply what is required for the job.

It's not up to him to build a VM, it's up to them to supply one if that is a satisfactory middle ground for the employee.
Itanium had some specific performance strong points. FP was one. Certain types of security code was another. In fact (and I may have the details somewhat wrong) but an HP CTO co-founded a security startup, Secure64?, on the back of Itanium security code performance.

But logic design is irrelevant beyond a certain point. Intel certainly had the process chops at the time and knew how to design microprocessors given a certain set of parameters. It's just the parameters were wrong (see Intel's late step-down from frequency on x86 above all else as well--driven I was told at a very high level by Microsoft's nervousness around multicore).
ls and cat and ssh are also old.
Thanks! I suppose the answer depends on what you mean by "plainly in the cloud" :) It is indeed stored in Amazon's RDS, which is a managed service. I approached this as a real product rather than a weekend project when it comes to security (application and infrastructure) and there is a lot in place protecting the data - Firebase's jwt auth, XSS and SQL injection protection, default passwordless logins, data encrypted at rest, database in private subnet, DB credentials in a secrets vault with automatic rotation, multi-factor auth for all of my access to infra, probably a bunch more. Are there specific concerns not addressed here?
What the US needs is a great price comparison service. That is how we get by in Sweden before and after Amazon. Google Shopping is not it.

Such a price comparison service needs a large team manually curating categories and most of all: the product metadatas. So much manual work. Yet it all made sense, even in a country of just 10M people. (The company is called Prisjakt and is now starting to go to shit for unrelated reasons.)
It really baffles me how people think "people who genuinely believes black people are an inferiors species" and "people who try to get a rise out of people fur teh lulz" are really literally exactly the same.

They're obviously not. You may have the same moral judgement about these people, and that's fine, but that's not the same as reality.

And it ABSOLUTELY matters, because if you want to do something about this then you need to actually understand the problem on a meaningful level, which includes people's motivations. You're never going to solve anything you don't understand (except, maybe, by accident).

A prime minister who fucks a goat because he's being blackmailed to do so is not the same as someone who does so for pleasure (who is different still from someone who does it for sadistic reasons). To describe all these as "simply a goatfucker" would be silly, even idiotic.

It's one of those nice-sounding one-liners that falls over with even the most superficial and casual of scrutiny.
Old US history textbooks tend to be problematic, skipping much and occasionally repeating myth as fact.
Why would you want to rewrite the code of the workflow during execution, vs defining that logic upfront?
assuming your last name is the same as in your HN username you are not in the file either

(as to how I verified: the file is still available on the leak site)
A lovely story thanks for sharing! You might be selling yourself short with that kind of emotional intelligence (hopefully you found your person :)).
A blue sea Navy is vulnerable to a growing number of long range weapons. On top of my head, nuclear EMPs. Hypothetically, a hostile great power military may be willing to blast above uninhabited Pacific, compared to above densely populated Europe / Asia. Yuck.
You could scoop up some bonds yielding 5-10% depending on your risk tolerance.

Could wait for stock market to drop (if it a happens) and grab some of your favorite companies for cheaper
oh sure, design an entire cpu on a 6502 with 128kb of ram, no problem.

It's wild how spoiled we are. The ATmega328p on a $10 Arduino Nano is 10x faster than that
No, this is global: I use direnv too.

It’s more like “roll your own oh-my-zsh”
Depending on how much ram you have, fine-tune then quanitize & run with llama.cpp, which works quite well.
I'm going to push back somewhat on global variables. I think they can actually be very helpful when you are working in the debugger, particularly with memory dumps. Instead of looking across a bunch of different threads, you can inspect globals directly.

In terms of not wasting vertical space, I think you'll run into issues since it starts to conflict with readability from familiarity. People aren't used to having a bunch of statements on a single line so they may not notice it. There's a similar phenomenon with reading research papers where it is very time consuming initially because you may be unfamiliar with the structure, but after a while, you can read them very quickly since you know what to skip over and what to pay close attention to.
I've definitely seen workflows written as single step graphs, where the output is opening a new workflow with a different single step

It was hard to read and understand
generally environment variables are set with ALL_CAPS keys and underscores.

Not sure if this is a bash hold over to differentiate ENV_VAR vs local reg_var or like an os/global constant naming hold over.

Generally if you call "env" on your cmd line (all of my)/most keys are ENV_VAR capitalized.
I would say that this is true for the breed of programmers that like to help other people, who I respect over anyone who goes for higher paying work. Gov.uk has some real stars associated with it
bizarre... I wonder why they don't just accept a raw data upload from 23andMe?
Yeap, same here. Don't think I'll ever try any of them.
In this context I assumed “distribution” meant “operating system distribution”
Yes for real. They are at war and next year russia is going to outpace them on military production if things keep going the way they are going… functional governments and holidays are not going to be much of a consolation when that happens
Tech giants Meta, Amazon lay off more workers as cuts continue
Personally speaking I never realized how much fan noise and hot air coming from the machine distracted me until it wasn't there anymore.
I presume the training is on things not to do, not how to avoid detection.

So if you analyze data, someone else has collected it, and someone else gets your output, and everybody has different opsec requirements.

And everyone has different domain expertise. The mathematicians who come up with encryption algorithms likely don’t have the same expertise as the people who decap chips to extract keys.

> Then again, we may only be learning of those who are (paradoxically) lacking in basic operational security.

History has shown this is definitely the case, both in espionage and crime in general.
Huh? When you buy or install windows 12 they will ask you to agree to the subscription terms. You don’t own windows even now in most cases
You don't. You pull a North Vietnam and never surrender to the occupation forces. Eventually the enemy cannot afford to sustain an occupation and withdraws. America has so many more guns than any other country on earth and people intelligent enough to use them well that an invasion force has NO CHANCE of success in the medium to long term. Never underestimate the amount of power and influence a small group of people with rifles and irregular warfare tactics can wield. Especially locals that know every square inch of their backyards by heart. Look no further than Ukraine for a recent example, which is somehow hanging on for over two years mostly with light arms, almost no training, while completely outgunned. America has geography strongly in its favor except Alaska. A successful adversary would need to fragment and manufacture American allegiances with divide and conquer tactics to succeed.
I'd definitely pay. I can draw and have multiple comics I'd like to do, but am not so good that I could commit to the time involved for long-form. This would be ideal as an assistive technology.
Blazor is pretty slick. I spent some time with these videos and it might be an easy way to get going.

blazortrain.com
There'd be an excess of bored former soldiers and a barely secured excess of military hardware loose in a nation polarised and sharply divided.

If the FBI terror watchlists are in any way accurate it's not threats from beyond the borders that the U(?)SofA would be threatened by.
Both my grandparents were able to do the above, own a home, etc. and eat way more meat every day than I have my entire life. All without college educations, and on a single income.

The best example I've heard of this recently:

Look at the intro to the Simpsons. A blue collar worker, single income household with 2 kids could afford to own their own 2 story home, own two cars, etc. This was considered perfectly average and normal when the series started. It is not average now.
I am going to take a more direct path to initiating a conversation with my local US Congressional Representative. Time to visit his office. Sending a note via the website was a waste of time. Not saying an in-person visit won't lead to equivalent results. I just have to try.
> The way he stole Fail0verflow's work with the PS3 security leak after failing to find a hypervisor exploit for months absolutely soured any respect I had for him at the time

That sounds interesting. I tried googling about it but can't really find much other than that failoverflow found a key and didn't release it, and then geohot released his own subsequently. I'd love to hear more about how directly he "stole" the work from the Fail0verflow team.

edit: Reading some sibling comments here, it seems you are either mistaken and/or were exaggerating your claim about the "theft" here. As far as I can tell, he simply took their findings and made his own version of an exploit that they had detailed publicly. That may be in poor taste in this particular community but it's certainly not theft. I do agree that his behavior there was lacking in decency, but not to the degree implied here where I was thinking he _literally_ stole their exploit by hacking them, or something similar to that.
The actual paper seems to be https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.00076.
A few implementations of true(1):

coreutils: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coreutils/coreutils/master...

openbsd: https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/usr.bin/true/true.c?rev=1.1

busybox: https://git.busybox.net/busybox/plain/coreutils/true.c?h=1_3...
In general I think it will lower prices, certainly not as much as if there were 4+ on the market where it's hard to anticipate your rivals. a 2 body system is pretty straight forward, 3 body can be stable for a while with some restrictions, a 4 body problem is really damn hard...
That's at least superficially also true when I'm sitting on the toilet.

Every sunset is unique, and so is every bowel movement.
What addons are you referring to?
they know where you live
Lost of people do that. I suspect that half of the "zomg look at these stupid flat earthers!!11" images on reddit and such is basically one troll posting something outlandish and then another troll replying with something slightly more outlandish. Also see the history of trolls on e.g. Conservapedia and such.
I mean, they don't have that _exact_ reason, but they have "Conflict of interest". Here's the reasons shown to me I can report with https://elixi.re/i/yf61g.jpg .

Can always get friends to report the fake reviews too. I've seen other people get legit one star reviews removed. I've even had my own real one star reviews removed
Not just an app, requires a paid monthly subscription. Sigh.
I can’t stand Postman, it’s just clunky in a distinctive Electron-powered way I can’t explain. I don’t get this new wave of dev tools that try to bypass programming but feel more complicated than just programming. The environment variable setting is weird, doesn’t handle /r/n without a plugin.

Anytime I want to automate or do something slightly more complex than run a request it becomes a homework assignment.

I’d much rather just use Python and work up a small library. Everyone has their own preferences in the end and it’s much less painful doing it my own way.
http://toastytech.com/guis/win1012.html

You can call it whatever you want but it's an inviolable horizontal container on the bottom of the screen reserved for iconified applications and storage controls upon which applications can not occlude.

Maybe calling it an iconify dock is more appropriate. Microsoft called it "Icon Area": https://archive.org/details/microsoft-windows-1.03-hp-150-3....

Windows 1.0 doesn't really have a desktop metaphor in the modern sense as in some rectangle with free floating icons which represent arbitrary files or folders. Windows 2.0 made the icon space the entire background which can be occluded by applications and 3.0 introduced the merging of the metaphors into a "desktop" that we're all familiar with. Stating they're all equivalent I think is a bit of stretch.
I assume what the GP actually meant was that glibc's allocator isn't tuned for any specific workloads. It tries to be a jack-of-all-trades, and in doing so, just ends up being okay-ish.

As for what allocator you should be using, it depends on your workload. You'd need to test out some different options to see what works best. And "best" might also be something you have to define. Maybe you're ok with higher baseline memory usage if allocations are faster. Or maybe you want the lower memory usage.
Alex Miller (the organizer) decided to stop. Probably best to let him explain in his own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suv76aL0NrA
The game development equivalent of these is renderDoc. I was stunned when I learned its existance for the first time.
Alternate title: how Microsoft handed Linux the keys to desktop dominance

I wonder if Windows will be included with GamePass™
> Wasn't this obvious from the get go that this can't work?

It needs to publicly fail first to manufacture consent for full surveillance of every human interaction with any computer. Nobody would ever want that otherwise.