skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There might be a possible benefit from the lack of light flickering from AC-driven electric lights, but that is only true if the space is daylit.

The change isn't from AC-driven lighting to non-AC-driven lighting. It's the other way around. I'm seeing a regular AC-driven lightbulb above the screen. Monitor backlights are DC-driven.
> I already linked you this survey that showed that Hamas doesn't have widespread support

You're survey shows frustration with ineffective governance. There are lots of governments out there that people are frustrated with, yet still support.

> Oh, okay. You are fine with just repeatedly bombing a captive population. It takes all kinds I guess.

I'm not fine with it. But that doesn't change the fact that from Israeli's point of view, it is a better option than doing nothing. Allowing Hamas to conduct another massacre in the future is unacceptable. It's also unacceptable to allow Hamas to continue to rain down missiles on Israel - they're still launching them into Israel every single day.
I am pretty sure that something like this was conceived of by David E. H. Jones, under the pen name Daedalus, for one of his tongue-in-cheek columns in either New Scientist or Nature.

IIRC, the scheme, for creating a large space telescope in situ, went something like this: 1) create a flat film of some uncured polymer resin, polymer solution or heat-softened plastic on a large ring; 2) inflate it into a hemispherical dome by applying moderate gas pressure on one side; 3) allow the material to harden; 4) release the pressure, which will cause the bubble to adopt a parabolic shape; 5) use ion beam deposition to apply a reflective surface. I can't say whether my recollection of the geometrical claim on which this proposal is based is accurate, or, if so, whether it is correct.

Most of Jones's proposals were wildly yet entertainingly infeasible, but not always, and he is somewhat well known for conceiving of a form of 3-D printing (using a laser-polymerized monomer) before any serious proposals for the concept. There are a couple of collections of his Daedalus columns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._H._Jones
> nobody seems to have identified what functional programming is defined as

Nobody asked (until now, so thank you for asking!), and this is a fairly well discussed topic for anyone who cares to search!

You will probably get a lot of slightly different answers depending on who you ask or where you look, but I think a very strong common thread is "referential transparency". Functional programming gives you that, and that is the property that makes FP particularly well suited for parallel computation. Referential transparency is related to the concept of "function purity" (in the sense that either one usually guarantees the other), which you will often hear people talk about as well. The two concepts are so intimately tied that sometimes I wonder if they're two different perspectives on the same thing.

This, along with the fact that FP has been an active area of research (an important part of innovation) for a long time, is why I brought it up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_function

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referential_transparency

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2938...

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> programmers can just use functions to code and end up with functional programming, it isn't an obscure style

That's not how it works. Note that functional programming has nothing to do with merely "writing functions".

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> without any substance, the debate rages

The substance is there and there is plenty of it, but learning requires work.
I don't think being able to monitor my blood pressure at any random time as useful. As my doctor explained to me, the studies that determine what is the normal BP range obtain the measurements after the patient has been sitting in a relaxed environment for around 15 minutes. This is something I need to schedule once or twice a week to check that my hypertension is under control.

If I were to start taking measurements at random times, such as while walking or watching an action movie, the results would be misleading as they were not obtained under the same conditions as the gold standard measurements.

I would also question how accurate these new devices are. I used to use a wrist cuff BP monitor but one day I took it into the doctor's office and did a side by side comparison with my doctor's BP monitor. My wrist cuff BP monitor was reading about 20mmHg too low. I thought I had my hypertension under control but it wasn't. I've since replaced it with an arm cuff BP monitor. If I have to go to the effort of sitting and relaxing for 15 minutes to obtain a measurement, attaching an arm cuff is not much of an inconvenience.
Yeah, I confused MAME with retroArch. MOVE ALONG, NOTHING TO SEE.
They've been giving evacuation warnings and then proceeding to bomb the very areas where people have been fleeing to... https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/why-is-israel-atta...
V8 allocates a “gigacage” around every wasm memory area on modern 64 bit processors and marks them so the OS will trap on an unexpected access. This is much more efficient than doing a bounds check on every access. These pages are not actually resident.

“Big number is scary” is not a good way to understand performance.
You keep missing the fact that Israel is actually, right at this moment, following through with their words. It is reality. Hamas doing a genocide is conjecture.
Browser centipede ouroboros
And people who make that argument are idiots--it necessarily implies that if everyone were to magically switch to Bitcoin overnight, then every military in the world would be abolished at the same time as unnecessary. It makes no sense to allocate anything larger than exactly 0% of the military's emissions to the "cost" of currency, because that is how much effort the military spends on enforcing its value.

(You'd actually have a stronger argument trying to allocate a portion of the police budget to it, as it's the police forces who would enforce payment of debts in government specie, not military, and in the US at least, the military is prohibited from acting in a police capacity.)
In 2007 I was taking apart LCD screens to do multitouch experiments. One of the things that I noticed was that without the backlight panel, you could light up the screen using ambient light and use a camera to get infrared light to reflect your fingertips for detection. A bunch of folks in the NUI space were doing this. Projectors, LCDs, front detection, back detection, capacitive touches, optical touches, etc.

The biggest issue with this approach is color balance. Imperfect light creates imperfect colors. The LCD is tuned to display colors at the light intensity of the backlight panel it uses. Without the backlight and filters, light is uneven, unbalanced, and it will show in the screen. Fine if you’re just doing text. Not fine if you’re editing video. In the end, this is not a new approach to monitors but much much worse.
Normally ceasefires only happen when its beneficial to both sides. One side doesn't get to call a time-out in a war just because they suddenly started losing. That's not the way war works and wouldn't happen in any other conflict either.
Indivisibility refers to the fact that an unlimited number of people can consume intellectual property, which differentiates it from tangible property. In the video, she uses multiple copied bicycles to illustrate the point.

I think Jefferson was making a more nuanced point, namely that someone should not be given exclusive ownership of an idea in perpetuity, and specifically rails against the concept of inheritability of intellectual property. But he also carved out a caveat that “Society may give an exclusive right to the profits arising from them, as an encouragement to men to pursue ideas which may produce utility, but this may or may not be done, according to the will and convenience of the society” That falls right in line with what the constitution conveys. There is nothing contradictory between Jeffersons words and what ended up in the constitution as I read it.

With all that said, again, it doesn’t necessarily matter what a single founding father thought. What matters is what they codified into law as a group, and if society has modified that law.
One thing to note for HN comment readers is that this guy is a MD with experience in kidney function despite not being a nephrologist. He's also not a teenager or in his 20s. That's important due to remaining expected lifespan, as well as the vital importance of functioning kidneys (preferably plural) after a car crash or a gunshot wound.
> factoids

That word does not mean what you think it means.

The "-oid" suffix denotes a thing that seems like X, but is not X (e.g. "asteroid" -> "seems like a star, but is not a star (it's a space-rock) - or "cuboid": "seems like a cube, but is not a cube".
In a comment section where people are (rightfully) arguing the interpretation of microgram differences and the merits of different visualization schemes, I think we can be nuanced here as well and use language that reflects the fact that transgender men and nonbinary people also get pregnant, even though most pregnant people are indeed women.
Maintaining a massive scale infra with the same availability and durability as S3 is really expensive. It's possible but hard.
I don't particularly value an Israeli life any higher than I do a Palestinian one. Palestinians have died in larger numbers, just not as suddenly and that's what makes the difference in terms of the response but dead is dead, no matter whether you're the statistic of the day or a victim in a large scale attack.

Hamas has given Israel a good reason to strike back but not indiscriminately and in retribution you have to work really hard to not sink to the level of your attacker - or even lower. Note that Israel has zero reasons to keep settling more and more ground and bulldozing more Palestinian homes and that as long as that keeps happening and they overreact to various attacks this conflict will simply never end. And that's exactly how Hamas and the Hawks want it, because it legitimizes their existence, they relish the conflict.
I agree, the funding model would have to be different.

I think there may actually some schools that already do it, but you don’t hear about them much because the research-funded model ultimately drives prestige. A school that just provides a really great education is simply less likely to be famous.
> Like, what is really the point of your comment

Basically that what matters are international norms rather than international laws, and while Israel is plainly breaking international laws, it's less clear that they're breaking international norms.
R1 single family zoning is making everyone have to build housing a certain way.
I mean, war crimes take place in the context of war, so anything standard during a war would also be pretty common during a war crime. I don't think you can really draw any conclusions from that.
I was excited to get a door opener that I could open remotely and ended up with a MyQ model. I'm pretty sure that I managed to successfully control my door once or twice in 5 years. The app could never find one or both openers, the "door open" alerts never worked, and I eventually uninstalled the app and installed a keypad.
Built in JS, hard pass.
This is sick! How are you handling pinning?
> and make enemies with all its neighbours

too late.

Israel exists because it won the 1967 war, when many of its neighbors simultaneously tried to invade.
Take control over all water sources, electricity and disconnect it, ask people to leave their house without even enough food and destroy whatever they have gained during the life time. And still bomb them claiming that location they moved has military targets.
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2023/8/27/photos-palestini... (pre Oct 7)
Nematode revived after 46,000 years in Siberian permafrost
> and stop participating in online society?

Sure. This site is one of very few sites I can bear to visit. I come here for the comments, I don't even open the links anymore, I just assume people will quote anything important.

When I made my own website, I deliberately set out to avoid as many of these obnoxious dark patterns as humanly possible. The result was basically a marginally improved motherfucking website and I'm actually pretty happy with it. I think that's how websites should be.

If the web is gonna turn into an opaque proprietary mess for the benefit of advertisers, it doesn't even deserve to exist.

> Are you going to stop buying from ecommerce sites

Absolutely. I already avoid it.

> viewing youtube

Absolutely. I already use yt-dlp, if that stops working I'm just gonna forget about it.

> and reading your gmail?

I rarely read it anyway.
I remember reading Schneier's Applied Cryptography, where he mentioned Landauer's principle [1] and things like the entire energy output of our sun over an appreciable amount of time. If you play with it, you end up realizing that a 50 character line noise password is absolutely insane overkill (assuming you didn't realize that from other, unrelated directions.)

Cryptography benefits from having a larger than practical keyspace due to what happens if the algorithm is weakened beyond brute force. But this happening isn't a given.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle
Here's a related Intercept article re: TwitX from today:

https://theintercept.com/2023/10/27/elon-musk-twitter-purchase/

This recent PBS Frontline episode was also quite good:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/elon-musks-twitter-takeover/
I'm almost certain that the bandwidth cost is much higher than what they gain for recommendation algorithms. It's like saying "Yeah, that guy steals from your store, but at least now you know what's in demand!" (Not equating ad-block to stealing, just trying to show the value difference)
POO, TRD, SHT, ASS, and TED
To give another data point: I’m familiar with that project and the parent’s project but I also agreed with you.

I would have no idea what that project is just looking the website.

It’s a immutable distro, and that particular flavor is more opinionated on what package is installed at first.

Cool birds picture tho
The Creator of Rails on Internet's Hidden Price: Our Private Data [video]
Fun fact. 40 acres and a mule lasted less than a year. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cr...
I like Debian for servers but prefer fedora for a workstation. Maybe I’m weird.
I wonder what is the tipping point for the Arab world. What is the magic number, 10k,20k,100k dead. Does it get to a point where Egypt, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon even Jordan, SA, etc start to say enough is enough.

This could turn into a pretty big war, dragging in all kinds of countries. If they end up destroying all of Gaza and killing 50k and no one does anything then the Palestinians should understand they have been abandon by the Arab world and have no future.

Interesting times...
My FSD drives me ~25 miles roundtrip for work everyday
Oh, sorry for taking so long to respond. You need very expensive equipment to detect gravitational waves at all, and it's not off the shelf either. They might be able to get the cost for a leading edge facility under 1 billion dollars and 5 years build time depending on how well you manage it. I'm saying the frequency itself is not profound, it won't give you psi powers or expand your mind any more than the frequency of ocean waves will.
I think polling shows majority just want to leave Gaza. I mean half of Gaza is unemployed and Hamas pays. Hamas also provides social services. The only thing that separates Hamas from a fringe radical group is money and a plan to use it to leave Gaza.
By that logic emulators and virtual machines shouldn't be possible.
Hamas is 8% of Gaza's males and whatever families support them at the least.

"If you lost your brother, mother, sister, etc, wouldn't that push you to... doing something? Anything?"

Are you saying you support Israel's response?
Oh, so if only they went back to a total lockdown of Gaza and treated it like a more maximum security prison, then this wouldn’t have happened?

What if they didn’t treat it like a prison, or Palestinians like subhuman prisoners? Do you think that maybe then they wouldn’t want to go on raids and kill people? That those 1400 soldiers and civilians would still be alive?
this kills the bird
I don't use the hot-air hand dryers because they physically hurt my ears. They're so damn loud. I don't know which one is worse, the Dyson Airblade or the Xcelerator.
When the land appreciates enough there is no economic harm. If the land reaches $1 million per acre, a developer might want to build a triplex, townhouses, quadplex, etc. and buy you out bagging the owner a nice profit. However local zoning usually forbids upzoning making this productive activity that can ease the housing shortage literally illegal.
> Automate your mitigations

Think long and hard about this one. Multiple times in my three-decade career I've seen automated mitigations make the problem worst. So really consider whether self-healing is something you need.

I built my company's in-house mobile crash reporting solution in 2014. Part of the backend has had one server running Redis as a single point of failure. The failover process is only semi-automated. A human has to initiate it after confirming alerts about it being down are valid. There's also no real financial cost to it going down - at worst my company's mobile app developers are inconvenienced for a bit.

In the decade the system has been operational I can count on two fingers the number of times I've had to failover.

Despite this system having no SLA it's had better uptime than much more critical internal systems.

Conversely:

https://github.blog/2023-05-16-addressing-githubs-recent-ava...

https://github.blog/2018-10-30-oct21-post-incident-analysis/

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/12/27/gith...

To be fair, GitHub operates at a much larger scale. My point is only that redundancy and automated mitigations add complexity and are almost by definition rarely tested and operate under unforeseen circumstances.

So really, consider your SLA and the cost of an outage and balance that against the complexity you'll add by guarding against an outage.

I think my first introduction to this was circa 1998 when I had a pair of NetApps clustered into an HA configuration and one of them failed and caused the other to corrupt all its disks. Fun times. A similar thing happened around the same time with a pair of Cisco PIX firewalls. I've been leery of HA and automated failover/mitigations ever since.
Yeah, if you’re not costing them money they’ll probably leave it alone.
No one really seems to have any idea. Israel doesn't want these people, and no one else seems to either. We can't force Israel (or anyone else) to take these people, and we can't force Israel to lift their blockage either. So they remain stuck in what's essentially the world's largest open-air prison (the entire Gaza strip is roughly the size of the Dublin metro area, but given that ~500 to 1,000 metres from the border can de-facto result in getting shot means it's even smaller than that).

That's really the core issue, and when the smoke clears from the current episode everyone will move on to other things, and we'll be having the same discussions in several years time when a new conflict inevitably emerged. Back in the 90s there was real hope and a path forward, but we seem further away than ever from that.

The entire problem seems intractable, without a clear "just do this" solution. I'm not seeing the will for a two-state solution among the population on either side, and Hamas is not like the IRA (or Arafat) who can be satisfied with a compromise, and neither are the extremist religious Jewish nutjobs for that matter.
One of them started this war and now want to have a time out? It's not a game of cops and robbers.
That's a somewhat fair thing to point out, but it's also a bit thick to think that what people find so objectionable about Israel's retaliation is that it breaks international law or norms or any other such standard.

It's about the basic morality of its imposition of collective punishment on the population of Gaza, while of course its population rages incandescently on the collective punishment Hamas sought to inflict on them, and stuff like that.

Collective punishment is rarely a moral answer.

Luckily, in this thread, we seem to have no people who are deranged enough to approve of Hamas's attack. But we do have people deranged enough to approve of Israel's response and who want everyone to think that when a Palestinian is killed, it's either a lie, or just tough, just collateral damage, but that when an Israeli is killed, it justifies the killing and further dispossession of hundreds and thousands of Palestinians in recompense.
Aka, a blade. Except the dimension is an odd one, 2u/2.

See pictures: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FfT7MHoUoAE90QZ?format=jpg&name=...
I didn’t make an argument; I posed a question to the parent.
Not at all, Fedora Workstation is a pretty decent desktop.

I run Debian on all of my server stuff at home too. It's not a perfect desktop, but the consistency between machines is something I appreciate.

I use it as my stable base while running most applications from Flatpaks. They're up to date but the OS itself never surprises me.
I entirely agree, and I feel moreover that it's the moral obligation of the United States to use our substantial foreign policy influence with Israel to compel a more humane treatment of Palestinians.

Nevertheless when people point out that this is a "genocide" or that Israel is committing "war crimes" I wonder what point is actually being made. If it wasn't against international law, would that make it ok to collectively punish Palestine? I certainly don't think it would.

At some level it just feels like weaponization of language, or at the very least like lazy thinking. One party is breaking laws, and breaking laws is bad, so that party is bad. But that logic would've applied to the USA in WWII, so as far as I'm concerned it's not at all elucidating.
This is an unnecessarily complicated way to block adverts. Just proxy them through the site the user is visiting. Done.
There's also inmediate feedback

150k salary ships, sells, or is out of a job or the company goes bankrupt, whichever is 1st

The equvalent researcher, with almost all kinds of research, will always keep the same job for years, and the University is always going to be around regardless of the research being done
Flutter on web is horrible if you do it that way. There is a native renderer that renders to dom and is much faster.
There are other options that are even more shockingly quaint. Effectively Gaza is being strangled, no water, no power, no aid. This can't last without mass casualties and if and when that happens the only effect it will have is to swell the ranks of Hamas even further, perpetuating the conflict.
For a sr sde yearly salary, you can own one too. The application process is nevertheless, "may issue".
(Co maintainer here) Yeah this why don't call it a distro. It's just your scripts/ansible playbooks and then github runs "podman build" regularly and spits out an image at the end.

At the end of the day it's just running a build step in CI so that your machines just end up with the final image instead of running the playbook/script on each one. Hope that helps!