skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How on earth would they patch all the historical blocks?
How would one adapt this to vanilla js (or clojurescript)?
I don't see any problem with that. Information that increases personal autonomy should be available to anyone, everywhere, and for any reason.

When you talk about "help being given," I suppose you are referring to drugs that don't work for most and therapy that cannot address the underlying problems.
Blockchain developers play a crucial role in the development and maintenance of blockchain-based systems and applications
Could we have a more useful title please?

The article contains the text "SiFive has instigated a large number of layoffs." I suggest that as a vastly more useful title than "gosh golly something happened".
It's just complexity. Stuff gets missed, stuff gets updated but the cascading effect it will have on other logic gets overlooked,etc... complexity breeds vulnerability. But scdlt, layered security defenses and countermeasures can reduce risk. I like to think our inability to grasp vast levels of complexity is the root cause.
For the writers markdown diffability is bad since it mixes style and content

Strange to call markdown neutral given how it's tied to HTML, and that you could just as well convert your "non-neutral" rich format to the same targets

How is Markdown _Super_<span style="color:blue">Widget</span> easier to globally find&replace vs. anything else that you create an index for in a database?
I didn't neglect to mention it, I just didn't think it's relevant at all. Of course, I agree, 99% of therapists are utter frauds who don't actually want to help anyone, but I thought that was not really relevant to the discussion here so I didn't say it. Otherwise, 100% agreed:)

edit: your comment was edited to include much more detail, so my comment is not relevant or up-to-date anymore.
FPGA soft cores for space applications. You can't (or at least couldn't at the time) license ARM cores for FPGA deployments outside of R&D because ARM is psychotic.
I agree, but I don't think victims of suicidal impulses are negatively impacted by resources being out there.

They're probably not going to impulse search for a suicide method, impulse read pages of instructions, impulse order the necessary equipment, impulse prepare said equipment and then kill themselves.

Instead they'll likely just use a firearm, as you said, or a rope, both items that are immediately accessible to most people.
I think this is just propaganda for the upcoming Online Safety Bill.
Round-based? What part of real-time action is that?
Meeting AI at an Interview
We all know where AI is going and it started to help us at various topics. Currently I am exploring how it can help us find a job or find talent. Talently is one of these products that show us how and improve these experiences. It is getting really interesting! Looking forward to your thoughts.
> water

Weights you read are dry weights.

> tincture

Tinctures at least homogenize. So a “0.05g” dose of a tincture is consistent within the batch, and more consistent between batches.

This is how medicine worked up to the 19th century.
It's not only about “handle”, it's about not eating through all of your battery before you're done watching the video. But no, “any” phone cannot reliably play 1080p AV1:

https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of...

“Overall AV1 real-time playback of 720p 30fps @ 2Mbps is feasible for low-end devices with 4 threads and 1080p 30fps @ 4Mbps is feasible for high-end and mid-range devices with 4 threads using Dav1d decoder.”
Funny thing - I live in Europe, but I am not European. I think the EU is such a net positive for everyone involved that I am dumbfounded whenever I hear some European person speak against it.

The main problems I see on the EU is that it is not integrated enough. There's a lot of bureaucracy that could be optimized if some things were more centralized (e.g.: labor laws, defense spending, etc).
Luckily duckduckgo still returns the forum as top result.
An Exhaustive Review of Thomas Sowell's New Book
The relevant firmware project to answer here is coreboot: My contributions range from technical contributions (see git log, ~3.5% of commits are mine, as poor a benchmark as that is) to support in our forums to documentation to behind-the-scenes work that keeps the community together or pushes back against even more blobs.

As for "why more and more hardware needs closed firmware": In 2005, which PC started from open source firmware, outside select data center deployments?
>Oct 21, 2023: Okta confirmed publicly that their internal support systems were compromised. This answers how the HAR file was accessed by the attacker and that the initial compromise was not through the employee’s laptop.

how can "the industry" trust okta?!
It’s certainly a grand experiment. Going to have some population-level impacts soon.
The Russians, or the Chinese.
> Software engineers often do not want to think about the Ops problem their code will create over time

That's an easy problem: pay them less and make it clear that this is why
It happens - committing to doing the act, then having a change of heart and phoning 999/911/112 for help which doesn't come in time.
It’s unethical to stand by and allow a manufacturer this kind of control over their customers either by legal or technological means.

It should be illegal to impose such terms on anyone who purchases anything from you.

Freeing those phones was a virtuous act, even if done for self interested reasons.
The way I look at it, I doubt there will be widespread use of structural diffing while code editing itself is based on plain text files consisting of lines and characters.

Structured diffing requires structural understanding of the code. But only tool that is capable to properly understanding the code is compiler you are using to compiler, and even that only if you don't have mistakes.
Version control and thus diffing needs to be robust. Knowing how many times I have seen intelisense (or similar IDE) fail due to various reasons, i wouldn't want similar when doing diff. You don't want it to fail just because you used a new language feature which isn't supported by diff tool yet. I have seen failures even in syntax highlighters which only need a very simplified understanding of code.

I could see moving away from line based diffs if we switched to structural code editing and source code was saved as some kind of AST instead of plaintext, and editors enforced that only valid source code(at least in structural sense) can be saved.

There can be middleground like what the difftastic does with fallback to text based diffing. But I consider that as nice to have but optional functionality. Seeing how many developers have strong attachment, to specific tools and their existing workflow, I am not surprised about lack of adoption. Developers might not even be against those specific improvements, but the adoption can be easily blocked by lack of integration, lack of some unrelated functionality in the software that does have the integration, setting up process feeling like more effort than benefits of slightly better diff. I have also heard plenty of times the argument of "If you need fancy tools for code to be readable/workable then the problem is in your code not the tools". While there is some grain of truth in it, that doesn't mean you can't use better tools while still writing code which could be understood without them.

Line based diff is in the good enough territory. There are cases where structural diff can do a lot more but with good fraction actual code edits the output of structural diff will be the same as line based diff+smarter diff viewers which highlight the parts of line that were modified (instead of whole line) and option to hide whitespace changes.
I made a comment here yesterday how you can't use github accounts alone to measure someone's ability for similar reasons(I was arguing how IT/security certs have their place because they're proctored).
> 1password passwords are encrypted with a key only you have.

Are they? How does the vault password recovery work, then?
Then you are making a slideshow, not a game.

The whole point of games is real-time action.

It does not need to be violent, but it needs physics that give you the feeling of being there.

Multiplayer > VR
When people have the right to control their own lives, they will sometimes make bad decisions. Yes, sometimes that means a person will kill themselves in a spur of the moment thing when they really shouldn't have. And other times that means a person will contemplate suicide a really long time, continue their unnecessary suffering, and later regret their choice to live.

Give people autonomy and they sometimes make bad decisions. Is that not obvious? What do you want? You want to be the judge who decides for others how they should live or die? Get off your high horse, you're not God.
I think there has been some serious misinterpretation of what 'real time' means in the context of this paper; and, possibly, that the researchers have avoided overt clickbait claims because they knew the term 'real time' would do the work for them.

This is not some neural codec that can convert any novel or unseen object live, like a kind of 3D YOLO - the paper mentions that it requires up to 24 hours of training on a per case basis.

Nothing can be edited, no textures or movements - all you can do is remove people or speed them up or slow them down, and that's been possible in NeRF for a few years now.
you can (that means apple can too) wipe the device remotely

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT210515

they can also brick stolen phones
https://www.ubergizmo.com/2020/06/apple-brick-track-looted-i...
you can find some of them on openstreetmap by searching for "bunker_type=pillbox"

https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1Cno
SRead Chrome Extension Released
Woman's Pockets Are Inferior
I mentioned it elsewhere but a big draw is FPGA soft cores or others forms of embedded CPU stuff. ARM licensing terms are bonkers so riscv has a major advantage if you need something better than a NIOS II or Microblaze (soft cores that Intel and Xilinx provide respectively).
> This looks to be all about MUDs

Oh, disappointing.

> I think of infocom style games like zork

Yeah, that's what I was hoping for. Tsk.
"We noticed that some consumers were simply opening the doors without waiting for the benefit of the information, so version 2 features interlocks!"
It's not that bad, based on what I've seen of Amazon's track record. If it's like The Expanse, it'll be really great (though Expanse s4-6 wasn't quite as good as s1-3 IMO, with s4 being the weakest; it seemed like the budget was kinda low there). On the other hand, if it's like Rings of Power, it'll be visually fantastic but with an uninspired story and an overall bland, paint-by-numbers feeling.

The place where something can be either a masterpiece, or utter trash, is the SyFy Channel. SyFy is where s1-3 of The Expanse came from. But it's also the company that recently gave us "The Ark", which is possibly the worst sci-fi TV show I have ever seen, and that includes some seriously ridiculous TV shows in the 1970s and 80s. And somehow, they've even ordered a second season for this vile excuse for sci-fi.
> multiple sources confirm that most of the engineering team, especially the physical design engineers

The answer to your question: yes.
So what?

USA is not the world police.

If there's no strategic interest or benefit I don't think I should have to work a few extra hours per week to help pay for that war.
PDFTK and pdfjam are two other useful command line tools. I use PDFTK for merging PDFs, extracting/deleting/duplicating pages, and decompressing so I can extract and manipulate text/data in raw PDF commands. I use pdfjam for n-up and adjusting page size and margins.
Worse: Nearly 100% of that open source firmware is running on proprietary hardware! (and the really tiny epsilon that isn't - doesn't matter)
Sharp Color E-Paper Display EPoster 25.3in
This reads like a chatgpt generated response
Screening is always a pain point and considering the use of AI now, this seems to be the way forward. Super exciting stuff!
I understand your point, but if my password vault was a self hosted piece of software and a self hosted vault file, I'd be nervous every day of losing data.
That's cool. My Redmi phone makers won't even send it a few miles across this same planet!
Sounds like they were basically a victim of venture capital. First the pressure to grow (too) rapidly, then the gutting for failure to deliver. Growing a company with wild ambitions sustainably is hard. I feel sorry for the employees that tried.

And of course 9 women can't deliver a baby in one month.
To be fair, using other mechanical devices might also be frowned upon.
I think it's better to say - if your phone was 12 billion miles from Earth and used to send sensitive scientific data - it would get updates as well.
Americans' confidence in technology firms has dropped
Matches made in heaven: Twitter, Congress, political parties, and Facebook, in that order.
What do you think it does to the family relationship? Besides the emotional effects for everyone directly affected (mom, biological dad, stepdad, daughter, siblings; lifelong!), how does the taboo change dynamics with friends and other relatives? Lying, looking away, knowing but not wanting to know, etc.

There is plenty of material available about how adult children struggle their whole life with it, and how secrets like that can fuck you up quite badly later on; for multiple generations. Do you want to live with that responsibility? How do you think it will change how you deal with responsibility in general?

Food for thought.
> We’ve made a similar app (to combat sugar addiction), but we made a conscious decision to avoid collecting any information we don't have to.

That was intriguing to me (especially the respectful data collection). Found the app through your profile, but it’s not available in my country.
I love this style of diff, I am missing it in vscode after switching from JetBrains
If a set of basic laws can only be interpreted by professional judges, the laws are more or less useless. On the contrary basic laws should be a foundation of a social contract that hopefully most within a society agree upon.
You can have branches, but the ""rule"" is that no branch should live for more than, say, a day.

This trades the integration complexity and problems for some new.. challenges :)
It doesn't lack utility. It has large negative utility.
Thinking about banning the forum instead of trying understand the stories, the pain, how we could help is stupid.

I feel like again "peoples" wabt to remove the red flare instead of going for the root cause. Because it is much easier. This is very present for mental health. Ignore the cause, just fet some surgery and a lot of medicine until it get worse and you die. Change you way of living, explore past traumas, question your strongest beliefs ? Hell no. Better ban a forum and call it fixed.
I always wondered if this trait came together with mourning, thoughs on an afterlife and ultimately spiritual beliefs.
The small goal setting is the happy path of its usage. As you rightfully notice, those actually in need of such app should seek real treatments and gamification could be part of them - if and only if those doctors recommend it. Otherwise I can imagine the app also building (untreated) frustration if some goals are not correct for whatever reason, and also frustration because some would think they get real treatment while they're not. Just guessing as I'm not a psychologist.
They (almost any device maker) have ability to do that, that's the important part. Wiping, remotely installing apps etc - everything included
Yep. From the page (capitals are original):

"THIS KIT IS NOT A COMPLETE HOUSE. YOU ARE BUYING A DOME FRAMING KIT Only! THIS ITEM IS NOT IN STOCK AND REQUIRES A 6 MONTHS LEAD TIME."
That's still a lot faster than FT8 or WSPR & both are perfectly usable for things like 16g solar powered balooon probes with a RPi Pico and a GPS, flying around the globe. :)

https://www.zachtek.com/post/a-new-wspr-transmitter-for-ball...

Should be similar out there & also likely not much stuff to take photos of.
I am also baffled by this. It's not like 1Password doesn't have the chops to roll their own SSO in a secure way specially given that resorting to use Okta puts you just on top of their attack surface.
Apple/Google Pay also implement the EMV standards, so at least in theory, it shouldn’t make a difference. In practice, I don’t know and I can’t check, unfortunately. It’s possible that they chose not to implement this particular tag.

I did query the chip on my plastic MC Debit and it definitely reveals my name.
Sounds like a lot of that is over land, I hear people on the ground really don't like that.
I appreciate the effort but can't help feeling the app trivializes and infantilizes the issue of 'social anxiety' with it's one-size-fits-all approach. There may be many reasons a person has social anxiety. Maybe they were severely abused and learned to be fearful of people. Maybe they have autism and find themselves anxious trying to communicate with neurotypical people. Maybe they're just... shy and haven't been in the world enough. We really don't know what the issue is and I do think the context matters if you're trying to help.

Apps like this are asking for trouble because rather than having people invest in an approach that may work (like a clinical psychologist) they try something like this and end up coming away feeling alone and let down. Maybe now the person won't bother to seek real help because they feel it will be more of the same. I think if you're going to venture into ad hoc mental health treatment you ought to know what you're doing. And I can't say I think the author does here.
From Wikipedia:

> There are three different computer types on the Voyager spacecraft, two of each kind, sometimes used for redundancy. They are proprietary, custom-built computers built from CMOS and TTL medium-scale CMOS integrated circuits and discrete components, mostly from the 7400 series of Texas Instruments.[34] Total number of words among the six computers is about 32K.

32K memory to manage such a complex device for 46 years .. Nowadays the size of an OS is measured in GB's.
I've tried it with a German Autobahn. I would say it's heavily biased to detect asphalt and replace it with some kind of pavement and flowers. Sometimes also the not so nice cobbled variant. It also had the space of 4 lanes and made a single one out of it.

Another experiment had a large construction site on the image. Kinda funny it left the barrier protecting the area completely untouched and just placed flowers on the other side of the road.

It's hard to get good or realistic results because it seems to hate grey areas (not in the sky) and likes green. So if there's a grass strip it's likely to remain unaltered. If it detect bushes it renders them to trees so people could spend time under them.
So in conclusion, it knows what people would enjoy. In that matter it works out.
Just FWIW...

* eke out -- extend something by stretching it or using less.

* eek -- a noise of surprise or fear, stereotypically used upon seeing mice.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/eke--out
I had exactly the same thought.

Almost everything starts "lightweight", limited, easy to handle and use syntax, short but expressive - until you add feature by feature to it, and voila end up building tools on top of your tool.

From a business perspective Jetbrains is doomed to follow this path, since they wanna make money, they have to lure you into their ecosystem and make switching to other solutions as hard as possible. Also they have to add feature by feature just to simulate progress.

There is some magic in simply sticking to one system and never change, say MD. It has its limitations, but this is true for everything.

JetBrains' tool looks promising, but I fear it will be a creepy mess in 5 years from now.
Battery manufacturing emissions are dwarfed by lifetime emissions of a gasoline powered car, according to the EPA. They do about double the emissions for manufacturing, but that's not all that much.

https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/electric-vehicle-myths

This doesn't take away the main point of your comment of course, you're right that keeping a vehicle longer is the most impactful decision.
I'm aware of that post and it's bollocks. None of its examples actually work, and even if they did they wouldn't be enough to prove a general law.
"Open" for the cheap price of ~$230
Not when you only paid on the order of $1,000 for it. For so little, nobody is going to bother to support your device for decades, no matter how near or far away it is from you or what you happen to be doing with it.

The original Voyager budget was $865 million (~$5 billion today), and has paid out even more for maintenance and operation since. Spend that much money on an iPhone and not only will updates be available for decades, but someone from Apple will come and personally install the updates for you.
but "upper middle class" in the US is the 1% ! I think it starts at something like 60k income per family member (so 120k for a couple)
Sumatra is know for being small, with the portable version currently being 15.3 MiB. QtCore and QtGui together is some 11 MiB (checking the DLLs used by KDE programs on Windows), so those alone would increase the size significantly.
> a force of misery and evil.

My internet happy place is pretty dandy. Trust in media and democracy wasn't destroyed by the internet, on the contrary, it was destroyed by people that didn't want to accept different perspectives anymore, tried to silence others and consolidate the content on previously free internet platforms.
From what I've heard, the problem with this type of site isn't really the people expressing their own suicidal thoughts.

The problem the motivations of the people who responding to these expressions. Apparently these sites attract "angel of death" type characters who aren't suicidal themselves but appear to enjoy nudging suicidal people towards concrete action.

In the example I heard about, the site adopted moderation policies that were quick to delete any replies that were even vaguely anti-suicide (have you considered talking to someone), but had no problems leaving up replies encouraging people towards suicide. That site also had a paid members-only area that had instructions for foolproof suicide methods (which one of their members sold the ingredients for)

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So you have people who are struggling with suicidal thoughts, and they stumble across one of these sites. And they get sucked into an echo chamber where suicide isn't just talked about openly, but encouraged and even glorified.
There is also another interesting observation: "The gap between C# and Java never has been so small." https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
that's more apples than we can fit on the planet. For such special tasks I would think it's ok to need special tools
Relaunched about a year ago.

The website is so unremittingly awful I didn't even spin up a Windows VM to try it. Massive, all bitmaps, almost no text, no actual info at all, mentions blockchain.

https://www.winamp.com/
People jest the quality of our current software, but it's a real concern. The programmer of the '2023 update' is conditioned to bundle too much unneccesary bloat to the update that could eventually slow down and obsolete the device.
Anti-Israel activists attempt to "wipe Tel Aviv off the map"
"vandalism" implies destruction of something of value. I propose the phrase "guerrilla maintenance".
Microsoft teams will happily copy the name and time of the person that sent you a message, even though you didn't highlight it. Thanks Microsoft!
I saw a recording of some sort of career advice online meeting for laid-off SiFive employees on YouTube about a week ago.

I managed to find it in my cache, but it has been set to private, which is good, because the description contained a link to a spreedcheet of 37 employees and their contacts + job descriptions.