skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are ways to do it safely. I support regional banks and our procedure is to whitelist the drive by uuid in our antivirus (requires a decent drive, not whatever bargain bin marketing object you have banging around) and also using bitlocker to encrypt it.

So when you connect the drive for the first time, bitlocker reformats it and encrypts the partition, making it clean for business data and preventing you from bringing it to a non-bank computer.

It is not ideal, but ** batch processing must happen daily OR ELSE ** even if that means driving a flash drive or an emergency uhaul rental's worth of paper across the state at a moment's notice. Every bank has progressively subgrade procedure sets depending on how bad their emergency is to ensure that this work is done.
Does anyone know how Mullvad vpn security compares with Proton vpn?
Outlook is terrible, period.

I've been running the O365 Outlook version at my company and they broke simple things. I want to search for an email, so I select the folder, then click search and start typing.

In the new Outlook, the moment I press the first key for my search query, the focus moves off of the search bar, for no reason whatsoever, so every. single. fucking. goddamn. time. I want to search, I select the folder, click into the search box, type 1 character, move my hand off the keyboard, over to the mouse, to re-click into the goddamn search box, then continue typing.

That's Microsoft "improving" a product.

Man, I fucking hate these people.
Considering I've spent most of my 80 hours in Armored Core 6 just designing ACs (building, equipping, painting, creating new decals and applying decals, testing, taking pictures, naming, writing lore)... yes I think it is. The only games I really get into are ones that let me express creativity.
Of course as a counter to this, the deer is not shooting back so the hunter can with little fear take their time to aim.

Yea, bows are insanely deadly, but it totally ignores that guns vs bows isn't really the discussion about war. Artillery (and more modern missiles) are what rack up the kills.
As chronicled in ‘A Canticle for Leibowitz’
it's encrypted
Sounds like somebody shipped a bug into production.
Self Checkouts
> instead of having to do 12 different simple instruction, you can just do the one obscure instruction appropriate to the situation

That one instruction just turns into 12 micro-ops, though, and then you need a much more complicated front-end to decode it. (And a smart enough compiler to use it in the first place.)

You do benefit from higher code density, but when you compare real-world RISC and CISC code the size difference is arguably small enough that it's not worth it, especially when there are other improvements to spend resources on that provide more benefits, like better branch prediction.

Also, instruction sets like ARM and RISC-V aren't needlessly minimalist, so you still get "extra" instructions such as vector/SIMD extensions where it makes sense. The old-school kitchen-sink instruction sets aren't popular any more for a reason.
"Russians"
I have a Quest 2 and I've had to limit my playing of it not because of wrist RSI but it seems like I tend to accidentally overextend my upper forearm muscles anytime I play anything twitchy in it, like Beat Saber or action games, and my forearm muscles stretch or tear or something and take a while to heal back up. Super annoying.

I don't think I'm doing anything too crazy with it either, so it's a little worrying, since it's happened pretty much every time I've played it lately.
OpenAI GPTs Directory
Created a website that catalogs GPTs that people have been created, since the OpenAI GPT Store isn't launching until a little bit later this month. Until then, I've been collecting GPTs that people have been posting online and created a directory on this website
I'm on Bay Area tech Twitter and there's a growing movement called effective accelerationism. E/accs lionize tech billionaires and call for increased investment in futuristic technologies like AI, decreased regulation, generally more rigid social hierarchies, etc.

I want to peacefully coexist with people in my social circles but it's hard to hide my disdain. I believe a lot of tech billionaires are essentially nihilists creating these stories as a way to increase their wealth and power.

A lot of their values seem to stem from doing too much Adderall, too much coke, and too many hallucinogens. Sometimes it seems like they came up with a lot of this stuff while playing video games on LSD.

Effective accelerationism doesn't value humanity. If anyone gets crushed beneath the wheels of technological "progress," if society turns out worse for the majority of people, well, that's not their problem.
Blow needs to release his new game. Also I know these things take a long time but this was originally announced to come out in 2021. Has he just been working on Jai?
US tech war on China has become a race between how fast Nvidia can make, sell and ship degraded chips vs US lawmakers ability to push through export control legislation. 6-12 months seems to be the window of opportunity. The fact that Nvidia are trying at all says it all about the size and importance of the China market to chip design and manufacturing
I do recall a study on language learning, but I can't seem to dredge it up.

Here's one on visual memory in mice: https://www.lucid.news/could-ketamine-restore-child-like-bra... (links to https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(21)006...)

In general, the relevant keywords for further investigation are "ketamine neuroplasticity"
Fish Speakers. God Emperor Of Dune.
out of curiosity- what are you using it for?
It spins up docker containers to create an ssh connection?!
Oh no!! What will they do??
Once you add up the real world factor of half-assed implementations and bad business/tech decisions, you end up with DHCP and NAT (or its IPv6 cousin, NPT) to solve issues.
> Why are there no (or far fewer) reports from similarly advanced countries which also have a free press?

Air superiority? Most European air defences have an American nexus.
Directgov 2010 and beyond: revolution not evolution (2010)
> rather than the human response.

I can agree that the government's response in 2020 was horrible, and those people at the top should be held accountable for that awful response.

> Early statistics showed the overwhelming majority of people would be fine if exposed to the virus,

Hospitals were overwhelmed. That was the concern. The people who were "fine"? Many of them did so only because they were hospitalized. If we just exposed everyone to it all at once, it would have been a lot worse.

> We can see that nations like Sweden which never locked down turned out fine.

If by "turned out fine" you mean having significantly more deaths than neighboring countries and still suffering economic issues, sure.

> survival was still the order of 98%

Survival rate ignores long-term damage, which we are still learning about today, and is an ignorant statistic to use. It's why many disasters talk about casualties and not just deaths. It's like saying less than 1.5% of the children in Uvalde survived.

> The virus emerged from Wuhan, where there was the virology lab...

And not a single US Intelligence agency has come out strongly in favor of the Wuhan Lab theory, beyond one saying it's "plausible."

> Supply chains shattered, or in other words, the trade war that Trump initiated against China had escalated... Monetary policy in response to the supply shocks caused widespread inflation and reduced living standards for young Americans with little wealth.

The argument here being that it was Trump's trade war with China that increased inflation and reduced living standards...
Maybe it depends on what you're prototyping. In web dev I see what you mean.

But in game dev I'm often prototyping something to see if it works at all, or to check its performance. Ignoring types is faster when spending 1-2 hours/days quickly hammering out something that just barely works. On version 2 or 3, add typings.

Maybe it also depends on the timeframe of the prototyping project. After a few days it can become tech debt. (Though I still suspect there are some long term advantages to untyped.)
Regarding scandals, I'm glad he stopped mixing extreme religious ideologies with tech content on the blog.

He also seems to be brand loyal, but I'm being too harsh.
> Tangent: what does an airplane's autopilot do? I always assumed it was basically doing lane-keeping within virtual flight-path lanes we've drawn in the sky.

It's even simpler than that: a basic autopilot can keep a set heading and altitude without constant adjustments from the pilot, and a basic autothrottle can keep a set speed without constant adjustment of the throttle from the pilot. The pilot gives them simple instructions like "heading 123" and "altitude 1234" and "speed 200" through buttons on the aircraft's panel. This allows for hands-free flying (the pilot doesn't have to hold the controls all the time when the autopilot and autothrottle are active).

More advanced autopilots can follow parts of the flight plan, like "fly to waypoint ABC then to waypoint DEF then to waypoint GHI", automatically changing their setting to the next one every time a relevant waypoint is reached, but even then the pilot still has to give it instructions regularly (for instance, when a controller tells the pilot through the radio to use a specific altitude, the pilot has to set that altitude in the autopilot). And, of course, the pilot still has to be ready to take control at a moment's notice; whenever the autopilot sees something it doesn't like, it deactivates (with a warning tone and blinking lights).
No, but I recently learned that Abuse[1], a multi-platform (including Linux) run-and-gun game from 1996 had its game logic in Lisp.

[1] https://github.com/antrad/Abuse_1996/tree/master/data/lisp
Anything on the California side has to deal with extensive environmental impact regulation, and deserts are fragile. That mine is in California.

If you go exploring in Balarat or around Death Valley, it’s easy to find intact mines that are 70+ years old with everything nearly intact (except for the rat nests anyway).

As to if that regulation is appropriate given its remote location, etc. that’s up to the California state legislature.

Notably, mining is a much larger part of the state economy in Nevada, on the other side of the border.
In the lines before he mentioned flying and electric waves, so I think he means that. Bread would fall under commodities.

There is really only one way to read his message. Which is a good thing, given that it is intended to be transmitted across 5000 years.
haha, I remember doing the same thing with various garbage laptops I got years ago at work, it was worth it to just spend like $50 of my own money to not have headaches and finish my work much faster...
> computers marketed as "Pro" devices

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

Which is the problem in a nutshell. No one knows what it means.

The parent worked as a dev for a year with the machine and was happy with it. I am also a dev, and am still on a M1 8gb Air that I got in early 2021, and I'm very happy with it. Probably the best laptop I've ever had the pleasure to work on.

For my workload, I don't think the difference between a 8gb and 16gb machine would be measurable. Some people really would prefer the $200.
I think the problem is that there is, globally, only a handful (well, a few dozen handfuls) of individuals who can really move the needle by a lot just on a whim. If tomorrow I decide to dedicate the rest of my life to making the metaverse happen, that's just one idiot toiling away. If Zuck decides the same thing, in a few years it might be socially unacceptable to not have fun in the metaverse.

Having just a few people have such an outsized influence might still be acceptable, but (and I think this is Stross' point) they just exhibit such exceptionally bad decision making as to what to focus on that it's hard to defend. It may be that there are tons of billionaires that just spend their money on luxury items and the occasional philanthropic venture, and who we don't hear much about. But the ones we do hear about really seem to be the poster boys for "money corrupts."
Materials like that aren't new, but at this very moment they aren't viable (insane cost, short life-span, etc)
Like this… http://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=07.%20Linux%20on%208bit
Understanding Git: The History and Internals
Then again, that's also the decade where people thought you could make dinosaurs out of dead mosquitos.
iTunes Store mostly. Those are all DRM-free.

"All songs offered by the iTunes Store come without Digital Rights Management (DRM) protection. These DRM-free songs, called iTunes Plus, have no usage restrictions and feature high-quality, 256 kbps AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) encoding."

https://support.apple.com/guide/music/intro-to-the-itunes-st...
Aye, I know (and it's obvious from TFA), hence the ";)".
I'm having trouble remembering what they're called, but I do remember reading about these. I saw a demonstration where they slightly pulled at the desktop power plug in order to hook a thin device around the plug connectors to provide power, and then they could transport the desktop around.
You shouldn’t be writing that in dynamic languages anyway.
I'm confused. I understand very little about electronics, but it seems the question was about asynchronous DRAM controller while the XT and PET answers appear to describe a synchronous setup?

Can someone explain?
GitHub announces Copilot assistant that can learn about companies' private code
Texture Healing for Monospace Fonts
So wild, I googled this exact thing yesterday and got to the same stackoverflow post. And now it's on the first page of HN.
What I also find interesting and revealing is how surprised they are when others find their vision of the future (the near and the far) scary and dystopic, and challenge them. I used to tell crypto bros (most of whom have done a quick transition to AI-brohood recently) why and how their idea of the crypto-driven economy sucked, and they would just treat me like a weirdo who just didn't get it. This is all before the big crash, of course. I guess part of it is how crypto was getting insane amounts of funding, which legitimized and corroborated the idea, and also created a strong echo chamber where they were shielded from criticism. Money is great at making you ignore that you might, just might, be completely wrong.
The repo: https://github.com/dkfans/keeperfx
Pretty sure Google's data center is in Council Bluffs, but yeah. Iowa produces the greenest energy of any state in the country with upwards of 60% of its energy coming from renewables in 2022 (and climbing rapidly).
It’s surprising since I would expect Apple to check whatever they get back from a transcription service.
I think it's just semantics, but what I found incorrect was saying that DHTML was just little snippets – that entirely depends on the use, I remember entire websites written with DHTML that were cutting edge at the time.

For me the reason to include ActiveX is because it came bundled with the web browser (IE) while for Flash you had to install the Macromedia plugin. Also, while Flash probably could interact with the DOM I personally almost never saw it done; I definitely remember ActiveX controls that would interface with the DOM, used almost in the way React and co are these days (!)
Japan begins third release of treated Fukushima wastewater
Damn :’(
It's not borne out of stupidity: lots of the people involved know what they're doing.

But when someone pushes an argument that could be disassembled by a bright middle schooler, it's okay to call it "stupid."

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
That's very short sighted especially coming from technical people. Programmers and developers use software to automate, that is what apps are. Apps automate some aspect of life, work, etc. The ultimate app is of course AI, and until it becomes AGI (in the wholistic sense that it's just like another human) it's just another tool that will automate parts of development.

As someone mentioned in the article, AI won't make games faster to make necessarily. It will still be a trade-off, where AAA with AI will be a level above what we have today, with rich dialogue and more RNG, but it will be harder to implement and also control for quality.
Midjourney 2.0?
These two games are an absolute masterclass in atmosphere and ambiance.
> it's a shocking infringement

This is wanting one’s cake and eating it too.

Facebook makes a product. Users use it. In the past, people reasonably complained that there was no way to pay without compromising one’s privacy. Now there is. (I want enforcement to confirm that those paying are not being tracked. But given that constitutes fraud, it will be enforced.)

Rejecting tracking and paying is like rejecting ad-corrupted journalism and paywalls: it isn’t a principled stance, it’s just wanting free stuff.
But that complain doesn't make sense IMO.

There are other laptops you can buy for cheaper. And even Apple has Macbook Air which is much cheaper while still more than enough to do most types of office tasks or internet browsing. So someobody wants not only a Macbook, but also a new Macbook and top model for that matter.

It is like saying you want to buy top of the line Mercedes and complain the options are expensive. Yes, they are expensive, but nobody forces you to buy top of the line Mercedes. If you can't afford, don't complain about it.
And my neighbor who believes the construction noises she's hearing at night are from the pedophile ring (led by Biden and Hillary) digging tunnels to transport children they sell online with their names disguised as SKUs on regular-looking furniture websites

True story
> I'm curious if you could talk about any of the consequences at all.

One major consequence is that your software and setup scripts are likely to continue to work over many major releases. Basic system tools don't often get replaced, so you don't need to worry about migrating to a new tool to configure interfaces, or a new firewall (although you do have three firewalls to choose from, they all have been there for a long time) or a drastically new init system etc.

Otoh, there are many projects that are made for Linux only. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally. Lots of assumptions creep in, people write Makefiles that need GNU make, and call make recursively with 'make' instead of $(MAKE), but FreeBSD has BSD make as make, and GNU make, if you install it, as gmake. FreeBSD sets up cc to be llvm's clang, and I don't think that's common in Linux. Many projects compile with either, but some don't. Specialized linking is tricky. Compiler and linker changes are probably an exception to my rule earlier about not replacing tools, but there's a case to be made that clang is at least as good as gcc, and the license is a better fit; there's no requirement that the base be all BSD licensed, but it's nice to move in that direction where possible.

System monitoring is different, but capabilities are roughly similar. FreeBSD has some nice things, and Linux has some nice things, I've got my preferences, but whatever.

I don't think it's hard to take a reasonable systems aware person and sit them down with a FreeBSD book and a FreeBSD system and get acceptable results. Yes, mastery takes time, but consultancies are available if you need mastery right now, and don't have time to develop it in house.
Most day traders lose money each year. I doubt very many have sustained gains over a decade. Some do, and they do all the talking and marketing in the space.

Might as well save the time and play the lotto
You do know what the "T" in "TCO" stands for right? Hint: it's not the price you paid for the hardware upfront.
Isn't the JTAG programmer something you can run on any old arduino if you happen to have one lying around?
We have a dang.

(Edited for proper awesomeness)
Same amount of ram in the s22.
Those tests are what I would expect but I will say that I think most people who buy base configuration macs are not doing heavy production workloads like those tested. Doubling your ram is certainly going to be the most cost efficient upgrade, but I'm not convinced that the majority of buyers of the base model would find that to be money well spent.
Defending a known bad actor which has shown a pattern of same behaviour is.
I worked at Google 2016-2020 as an SRE in Ads. It was ok. It was definitely big corporation in that making globally optimal decisions was mired in bureaucracy and the upper management would say whatever they think would make the company happiest rather than their actual goals (lots of internal "PR" instead of transparency). But I don't think this is actually much different from other large companies, and day to day work was clear and valuable to the company.
When you get into an RFC, you will be qualified to say that.
Headline says "Despite Incentives" but subheadline contradicts this, suggesting that red states have lagged on providing incentives.

edit: first paragraph also states that gas prices are cheaper, which is another incentive.
People say this a lot but I think something else is true. The cyberpunk visions are obvious applications of certain technologies. When that technology becomes capable and people start to apply it, they name it after what was coined previously.
If you spend 3 months studying you better spend the vast majority of it figuring out how to make antibiotics and gather supplies.

Unless you were fighting other humans with ranged weapons, you'd be far, far better off with spears and traps.
Good question. We are active. Currently, the site gets about 10k DAU and there are lots of creator discussions happening on Discord + Forum.
But does this mean ad free? If so, worth it for any real users.
Compared to the alternatives at the time (and really now) it absolutely is. Without decent search the web is a mess, it's just mountains of information with no logic or organisation and the best content and information is nothing if you can't locate it.

These days their search is starting to turn. Too many sponsored results, no way to avoid the AI takeover or copycat sites. In short the search doesn't actually find you the best results. But still it's hard to avoid it. There's no better way to find what you are looking for wherever it is on the web.
Double down on invading their neighbors?
>Are we just going to ignore all the productivity gains that china got from moving away from an agrarian economy to

Yes. I am, at least.

You can write your own comment emphasizing ut instead, if you like. Then I can write a snarky, "are we just gonna.." comment in reply.

Or.. we could just discuss it without the snark. In fact, let's please do that.

What is the meaning of the claim that assembly is "low value?" To whom? The consumer? The worker? Financier? Company?

I called it "low margin" and capital intensive... because these are the economic/financial characteristics.
How easy is it to create a game for kids with math questions behind?
Last week in relation to my Wi-Fi driver; a recent kernel update resolved it though.
That’s interesting/surprising. I remember this in the Eclipse days, and it was often attributed to Java’s allocation-heavy style, garbage collection, and lack of value types

Also Java style of tiny classes and tiny files.

It’s an issue on both the implementation side and the thing-being-implemented

I would have thought Rust would be better on both fronts.

How many lines are the Rust codebases and their dependencies?
I'm no physicist but I assume that you'd need to put a lot more energy into the system before the water starts boiling, so you wouldn't have to worry about it?

If the energy would just be lost otherwise, you might as well go all the way to 100℃?

That's at 1 atm, perhaps the water is a bit pressurized as well?

A bit further down there's this confusing quote though:

> District heat is stored in two rock caverns in Mustikkamaa. The temperature of the water in the caverns varies between 50 and 90 °C.