skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I haven't seen any convincing arguments that polyamory does not reduce to a harem system.

I haven't seen any convincing arguments that it does in humans. If women and men are equally polyamorous, that actually means more sex available broadly speaking, and when you aren't dating to reproduce or settle down forever, your standards can be looser as well.

Now, I don't believe polyamory will ever be dominant, or even mainstream, I just despise the "loser need sex for cohesion" argument.
Not the transaction financial information but certainly the purchase amount and location are not covered by PCI restrictions and if a gas chain can find someone to pay them for that information, then they already have the arrangements and are doing so.
dang followed up on it and it turned out someone flagged it by mistake
Yes, it's rare to find someone who possesses deep technological know-how and is also a brilliant teacher and communicator. Andrej Karpathy is another who comes to mind. Fortunately, I've discovered that more people fit this mold recently.
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I'm assuming you work for Postman. I hope you know that because of this, as well as the account requirement, other REST tools are going to eat your lunch. I don't think this was a good move.
It might not be clear from the reporting but I guess the paper‘s title (linked from the bottom of the article) might give a clue already:

„Acousto-optic modulation of gigawatt-scale laser pulses in ambient air“, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-023-01304-y (open access)

Here’s an excerpt from the abstract:

„Modern photonics […] can involve parameter regimes where the wavelength or high optical powers involved restrict control due to absorption, light-induced damage or optical nonlinearity in solid media. Here we propose to circumvent these constraints using gaseous media tailored by high-intensity ultrasound waves. We demonstrate an implementation of this approach by efficiently deflecting ultrashort laser pulses using ultrasound waves in ambient air, without the use of transmissive solid media. At optical peak powers of 20 GW, exceeding previous limits of solid-based acousto-optic modulation by about three orders of magnitude, we reach a deflection efficiency greater than 50% while preserving excellent beam quality.“
Latest news from 10 months ago. Hope they're still hanging in there. Not sure I'll ever go back to 3P ROMs, unless I keep another phone beyond its official EOL.
> But keep in mind that "buffer overflow within a struct" is often considered a feature.

Yes this is used rampantly in any kind of code that's running in basically all of the world's network appliances that do packet processing.

I'd even say it's considered "best practice" by most C programmers.
Why do you feel That Tesla FSD is "buggy shit"? No, it's not perfect, but it is mindblowingly amazing. At the current state I'm quite happy with what I paid for it. I've driven over a million miles in the last 35+ years, it's quite nice to have my car drive me now.
Perhaps, although you’d presumably need Intel’s private keys in order to sign the revocation list.
TIL, and thanks for pointing that out. Apparently there’s a tiny subset of PNG world that can cope with bit-shifted 12-bit, but apparently like JPEG, support is diminished and ultimately not dependable.
You use GPT-4 to extract log patterns, does it really need LLM? There are more traditional approach such as https://github.com/logpai/logparser
Yeah, they really need to add variety and not just the royalty-free variety. Perhaps playing songs not in any of your existing playlists or recent listening history is easy to implement.
Props on using Bun!
I'm not sure your conclusion follows from your data. Sequential monogamy isn't polyamory. There seems to be strong evidence that, given autonomy, most people aren't monogamous for 20+ years, but it doesn't follow that they'd stay with their first partner if there wasn't a social stigma against leaving them even if they could have sexual relations outside of that relationship.

My hypothesis is that most people are generally monogamous, but not to the same person indefinitely, and that transition is either marked by divorce/breakup if socially monogamous, or an odd transition period where they haven't really broken up with their last committed partner but have functionally done so if they're polyamorous.

I've certainly seen both ends of this specific spectrum work for those involved, but it seems about as general as anything else about human sexuality.
2FA would've prevented those logins. I think sites should very much start mandating 2FA imho.
Dismissing a multi-millenia multi-cultural fundamental norm as "indoctrination" severely downplays the collective learning of uncountable generations.

There is a common view of cultural norms as at worst tyrannical or at best random and arbitrary, rather than the sophisticated and curated product of billions of human lives.

Social iconoclasts dismiss organized religion, marriage, sexual norms, social duty, gender roles, and cultural traditions. Base human psychology and sociology must bow to their intellect and are theirs to shape as they choose.

> For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

> Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

> Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

> Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

> For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

> Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Perhaps music-industry lawyers? Competition is definitely desired in this space.
... Do you really believe this? There's countless services out there that don't require 2fa by default. Honestly it's probably easier to list the ones that do.

If you think that means the company can be held liable, I'd honestly start leaking my information on the internet if I were you. You have millions of dollars of lawsuits to go win apparently.
It's not a fantasy in a good way: most parents (even in stable relationships) would prefer to have more support than they get. Communities are getting weaker as third spaces disappear, and people are far more likely to have to move far away from extended family (or have extended family move far away from them). The reality of the modern world is that the two parents and paid caretakers are often all that's available.
I think the core of our disagreement lies in your statement here: "You don't understand scientists then. They don't want to be "set for life". They want status within their own bizarre little community." I know some, but not all, scientists, and I can't put them firmly in that category. They're motivated by all sorts of things, as are the rest of us. I do know people who have left academia because they came to hold this belief through negative experiences, but I also know people who have avoided such. I don't think I or you can presume to make such sweeping pronouncements on such a large and varied group of people. I also believe the idea that contrarian scientists immediately lose their career when they question the status quo is an easily falsifiable claim. Is there a general pressure to conform to group think? Yes. Are there painful trends in academia? Yes. Behind the current state of climate science is quite a bit of evidence. I am open to it being entirely wrong, but it seems quite a bit more likely to me that it is right, at least correct enough to take action. The consequences of taking action are far lower than the consequences of not taking action.
One really nifty use case of continuations is the Seaside Smalltalk web framework [1]. It implements stateful request/response conversations with Smalltalk's ability to capture and serialize continuations.

Continuation-based web frameworks are really nifty, but have potential scaling bottlenecks. IIRC HN originally used some type of continuation web framework with Arc, but ran into scaling and caching headaches. Dunno how it works these days.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaside_(software)
> it's a real problem that we have const-async-fallible-panicking-allocating combinatorial explosion.

True, but there's no free lunch: you either have the ability to express these things in the type system, or you don't. I'm personally very happy rust has `Result` even though it's legitimately much more tedious than having invisible exceptions.

> A big goal of Rust is to be accessible, and all these sorts of "function colors" are a hindrance to that goal.

It's always a trade-off between usability and expressive power. And not every Rust user have the same priorities. As an application developer, I care less about having allocations expressed in a tractable way than a kernel developer for instance.

> An effects system could abstract all of this away

Maybe, but it's not clear yet if that's something that could be added at this point. Also it would add yet another layer of complexity which is also a factor that needs to be taken into accounts.

> And now it's annoying to write sync and async Rust.

Honestly, this is just a matter of tooling: the annotation could/should be transitively added to every caller function (with a boundary at threads spawn) by something like `cargo fix`.
Sorry, no idea; I wasn’t a DEC employee — I was (one of their many) outside counsel.
// relic of the evolutionary selection process.

I am guessing at what you mean here... Is forming a couple that is oriented to raising kids no longer an evolutionary advantage?
Fine, replace what I said with the 12 or 13 mini. They’re both better phones than the SE.
Yep! Cheating and combating cheating is a never-ending arms race! You can use heuristics on the server to try and detect suspect behavior, but the issue is that the very best players can be very difficult to distinguish from cheaters. Even with client-side anti-cheat, you have to have the cheat before you can add the signature to have the client-side search for it and ban the player, so there are no simple solutions unfortunately. (Most of this coming from my previous life working on PC games :) )
Yes, they are to blame. The whole point of edgy humor is to imagine the person behind the screen fuming at the bait that you posted. By giving them what they want, you have become the punchline that they were seeking, hence encouraging them to continue posting bait and getting you outraged.
> user aversion to 2FA is often rational.

The account recovery process should be setup at the start of the 2FA setup - e.g., you get emailed a bunch of backup codes (easiest way imho).

The site should not be using their own 2FA app, but use a standard OTP implementation, and let the user use their own OTP app (most people default to google's authy, but there's a couple out there that are common too).

Or, as an alternative, delegate the login to email and use a password-less login mechanism (effectively delegating the account security to the email's security). I argue this is actually more convenient, but some people (esp. young people?) have an aversion to email which i don't understand.
Sometimes packages don’t come with sane defaults. Or something conflicts somewhere. Im tempted to plunder doom config, but I suspect it’s not straight forward.
The Dutch flower markets are still a big tourist attraction, on the top lists of things to do in Amsterdam.

People say “bubble” with their mind so focused on what they think is dumb ways of spending money, and they miss the lasting cultural impact, which is actually what matters.

I’m not a fan of the apes(there’s more interesting tighter communities in the nft space), but I see more and more ape-branded stuff appearing here in China. That’s probably not making the nft holders any direct money as they’re unlikely to be paying for taking the images, but these waves are unpredictable.

Mona Lisa wasn’t that famous till it was stolen…
It's not just serial monogamy, it's also infidelity, having an emotional relationship with someone without it turning into infidelity, etc. Agree the single data point alone wrt divorce rate does not lead us to my thesis, but in aggregate, it appears humans are not made for long term aggressive monogamy. That is what I meant by "People are already polyamorous"; they already want to or do love (or some other combination of relationships stronger than platonic friendship) more than one person at a time.
I'm glad I don't see a single comment here supporting this nonsense. I hope some of the intelligence and understanding from this community permeates to the general public should these morons attempt to proceed with their ill-conceived plan.
> My favorite hostile response was that allowing people to certify images as real would steal peoples' rights. I didn't follow the logic, but the guy who made the argument was really into it.

My guess is likely because it seems like this would be impossible to implement without adding DRM to the smartphone and/or locking down Open Source image editors out of the attestation process. You would need to prevent access to the software, firmware, etc... otherwise the device could be virtualized or the program recompiled to circumvent the signature.

And for obvious reasons there's going to be pushback to adding that kind of DRM to smartphones. The tech does likely exist; this sounds to me like just normal attestation? It would likely hook into something like the Play Integrity API. A lot of people already hate the Play Integrity API though.

It's not the tech that's the problem, it is as you say, that people are hesitant to do it because it would require locking down the phone's software stack in a way that is widely understood by many developers and user advocates to be anti-user and in contrast to user rights to control their own devices and load their own software and/or firmware onto their devices.

I could maybe see an argument introducing some kind of signature to a raw camera input in firmware before it ever reached the user at all -- mostly just because devs seem to have given up the fight about custom firmware on a phone in general. But if you're talking about the phone signing the image after light editing like a crop has happened, at that point you're talking about moving this signature into user-space code, and while I'm sure that problem could have been explained better to you by the devs, it's not surprising to me at all that you'd get a hostile response to that suggestion because I don't see how it would be possible to do that without locking down user-space code.
Ty just fixed it. whew
Certainly looks like a downwards trend though. California is now the worst tipping state. If money continues to get tighter it will become more and more normal to justify a smaller tip. I think you can justify 10% now.
Spectrum? Lots of cable internet right now has upstream limitations, but fiber is making it to more homes and upstream limitations are (slowly) improving on cable.

As a society we have something like a 20% CAGR on upstream speeds over the past few years. It may get better even faster, because DOCSIS 4 is coming soon and is full duplex over the same channels.

But even at 20mbps, uploading a 70B model might take you 12 hours... after you spent many hours fine-tuning it. It's annoying but not an unmanageable problem.
I'm glad steam deck helped with linux for gaming, because i'm not paying a monthly fee for windows
Only about a quarter of divorce is related to infidelity.
hue hue hue (evil founder laugh)
Been there, done that, in 2012. The array syntax can be more C-like and interfaces can be backwards-compatible.[1] Many people have been down this road. Selling it is harder than doing it.

[1] http://animats.com/papers/languages/safearraysforc43.pdf
It is a lot of hassle, and the user isn't really protected because the invalidation relies on public releases of email/password combinations; there's obviously going to be plenty of private releases, which means it's actually just security theatre.

2FA, or passwordless logins, are the solution. Forcing the user to change their password (at the most inconvenient of times - right after they logged in, but before they're able to use the site) is annoying at best, and does nothing at worst.
This “ceremony” as you call it can totally be handled by the compiler, the same way the compiler deals with the unwinding ceremony without you ever knowing about it. The only reason why we ask the programmer to do it by themselves, is because explicitness is favored.

This is exactly the same reasoning as the difference between Rust's `Result` and C++ exceptions. They serve the same purpose, they spread into the code base the same way (if on of the function you transitively call can raise an exception, you can raise an exception) but in one case we ask the programmer to to the bookkeeping manually so that it's explicit when reading the code.

The only meaningful difference between stackful and stackless coroutines is the ability to write recursive function call. If your coroutines are stackless you need to box to avoid the sizedness issue, but in practice it's only marginally different from segmented stacks. If you have a moving GC and can just relocate the stack then you performance in case of recursive function call will be better, but it's also true about boxing if you have a generational collector with bump allocation. So this is mostly a difference of GC vs no-GC, in a situation where GC is actually improving performance characteristics.
I love this idea. When you're in the hiring process, you're managing an absolute mountain of detail between your various applications. There's so much pain and toil, and a lot of it is lost once you get a job, and if you're ever laid off you need to scramble to gather it all again.

LinkedIn _kinda_ works here but it's a distant afterthought for them.
Rocky Linux should go beyond Centos 2 and become Redhat 2.
The 12 mini is not a successor to the original SE in neither concept nor positioning.

The idea of the original SE was to reuse an old form factor and old production line to make a bottom tier low cost phone with newer internals.

The iPhone 12 mini was a new design that made no compromises compared to its larger iPhone 12 cousin. Exact same hardware, camera, screen tech, etc, just a smaller size battery.

I strongly disagree that “everything else is a phablet.” After shrinking some bezels the current iPhone lineup is very similar size to the iPhone 6/6S/7/8.

The iPhone 15 is 5.81 x 2.82 x 0.31 inches

The iPhone 6S is 5.44 x 2.64 x 0.28 in

I realize that fractions of an inch make a big difference on mobile devices but that’s still not a whole lot of change. Under 10mm of additional height and under 6mm of extra width.
I came home once in Bristol, UK and there was a Harrier hovering a few tens of feet above my house slowly rotating. I do not know why it was there. I lived at the end of a runway.

It left once I pulled into my driveway.

Concorde used to miss my roof by a very short amount when it would land on the runway, and everything would jiggle off my shelves.
Supporting custom date time formats in struct tags is a huge quality of life improvement, a lot of unnecessary boilerplate saved there
Many sites like Google including my banking sites send me an email when a new IP / location is used for login.

This alerts if there is a sudden login without my knowledge and one click to disable.

23&me could have definitely done that to alert logins.

It is 100% on 23&me even though used id/passwords were used.

Genetic data is by definition extremely personal.
Thanks! Yeah I plan to get to the bottom of it. I will probably propose to just keep a branch with full history somewhere (we need to keep history for auditability) and reset the main branch from a recent state.
I fully defend Microsoft's right to do this (whether they actually will do it is as yet unknown), but it in no way benefits users. There is competition in the OS area, and a few people will gravitate to Linux; more might go to ChromeOS or MacOS. The subscription rate will have to be set so that it's not more expensive over say 3 years to buy a PC with Windows than it is to buy a comparable Mac (if they don't do that, they will be handing Apple a massive tool to increase sales).

I think Chromebooks might do well in that environment, especially for naïve users (though they have their uses even for advanced users; I like my Chromebooks and their Linux VMs). You buy the machine, plug it in, and it fires up almost immediately; and your machine has software support now for 10 years at no cost (if you trust Google to deliver on that). I suspect that many canny purchasers will compare Microsoft's subscription cost to Google's ($0), and decide accordingly.

My guess (and my track record is clear, in 1976 I predicted that Apple would be bankrupt within a year) is that Microsoft will offer a combined Windows/Office365 subscription, and a barebones “free” Windows that nags the user to “upgrade”.
The simplest way it was put was like this: you buy a book and pay the initial price. Then you pay with your time to read it. Simplified but gives you an idea because everything we bring in, needs something else from you at some point in the future.
Used to do this on a runway that we would rent so we could practice drifting our Japanese supercars without killing too many sets of tyres.
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I didn't know .tiff could contain multiple images, and could utilize JPEG and so on internally. Fascinating.
Instagram's CEO actually talks about this movement from public engagement to private groups, stories/dms in a podcast, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHIsVfdqg74

Very noticeable trend as after the explosion of IG around 2017, a lot of convos went to from fb messenger to ig group/telegram/discord/signal and obviously whatsapp

Personally seeing posting to the main feed as being too extra, usually someone trying to sell something, instagram being too full of ads/irrelevant info or bait at the worst... which I guess you could say is the same for most of the big public websites