skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would the servers know where to route the poll requests without metadata? They wouldn't.
30% of your saving at 25k is nothing. Head of product at series A-B company should be north of 200k salary. Just buy your shares and be a big frugal about eating out for a year.
> ask yourself if you've ever had highly parallel workloads that involve writing and seeking the same files at the same moment.

Uhhhh, databases?
Lego Fortnite: Gaming giant launches Minecraft rival
Leonardo AI Realtime Canvas [video]
Many people don’t realize that yeast leavened bread is about 1% alcohol and as high as 2%. Obviously we let children eat it. Why would small beer at the same percentage be a problem?
From “Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology”:

Biologists cannot even agree on a unique definition of life itself; but that hasn’t stopped them from unraveling aspects of the cell, the double helix, photosynthesis, enzymes and a host of other living phenomena…
Like search engines are a band-aid over bad, incomplete and outdated documentation.
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Seems like their target market is sensitive to betting/gambling prompts.
But in the dvd case you don’t expect someone to effectively repossess your dvd a couple years down the road without reimbursing you. You don’t own the content but you do own your dvd which allows you to indefinitely watch the content.
Honestly, the real mystery is why so many people are confused about “why, despite universe seeming so vast, there are no signs of other alien civilizations” in 2023.

We have all the elements for answers if we focus on what we know, and forget the hand wavy sci-fi speculation.

1) Complex life is rare.

2) Reaching a space faring stage is even rarer. (we’re the most minimal definition of “space faring” you could come up with, and even then we got really lucky with so many things)

3) The universe is huge. It’s like, the hugest thing there is, man. And except for some little bits of interesting dust here and there, it’s mostly empty. As empty as it is huge.

So, does life - in any form - exist elsewhere in the universe? Almost certainly.

Are/were there life forms elsewhere in the universe that escaped their home planet gravity to go explore their moon or other planets in their solar system? Seems quite probable.

Is there any shot we are sufficiently close in space/time to encounter such another advanced life form? Almost certainly not.
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Exactly this; that's why for both Messenger and WhatsApp the APIs are very closed and protected so that nobody can make any third party clients.

E2EE is great but does not help at all if you don't want Facebook to read your messages and profile you based on their content / who you talk to etc.
I am the author of this. Safety is one. Recently, another strength is Wasm support ;) youki has been an important key person for Wasm support in K8s.
From Indiegogo to Orthrus: Rethinking Open-Source Funding
Ben Pekuah: "Meat That Isn't Meat"
Did the automatic title changer do this? Completely different from the submitted post.
The separation of experiment and environment is an artificial distinction. Decoherence is caused by random phase shifts, which may appear due to interaction with the environment, but by the entropic definition of temperature, a sufficiently large and warm object will be disorderly enough to have this effect as well. You can not be hot and coherent at the same time, as the first implies a large degree of disorder and the other implies a large degree of order.

> In fact, proponents of MWI believe that the whole universe, which is an isolated system, is itself a quantum system.

MWI doesn't make any experimentally verifiable predictions as far as I'm aware, so is not particularly in this discussion.
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> their practices with the NES were not quality control; they were doing price control

A little of both: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons

Yes, restricting overall game production held up prices, but a market of uncertain quality tends to drive down prices even for high-quality goods.
I was very young, but I don't recall anyone referring to it as a crash until 20 years later. At the time it just seemed like Atari came out, ran it's course, and then the NES came out and blew it away.
Instead of technical debt you should take on product debt.

Do not take on tech debt. If you absolutely need to pay it off ASAP
Even if one wants to leave what happened in 1948 in the past, Israel is still doing plenty of damage to Palestinians today, for example:

1. Indefinitely blockading the Gaza Strip by sea and air thus not allowing it to trade normally with foreign countries.

2. In the West Bank, applying separate legal systems to Jews (who have Israeli citizenship due to their ethnicity) and Arabs (who have no way to become Israeli citizens)

3. Continuing to expand Jewish-only settlements in the occupied West Bank (remember no country recognizes the West Bank as belonging to Israel, not even Israel themselves, so this is one of the most unambiguously illegal things according to international law that you can possibly imagine).

4. Generally restricting the freedom of movement and property rights of non-Jewish civilians in the West Bank (which, again, does not actually belong to Israel). Something like 99% of building permits in Area C go to Jews only.

Does all this justify killing innocent civilians in random parts of Israel proper? No, I don’t think it does. But it’s all still horrible. I wanted to point it out because a standard pro-Israel talking point is that 1948 is so far in the past that wanting to fix it is akin to trying to evict all whites from former Native American land in the US. Be that as it may, Israel is STILL doing plenty of harm TODAY and could at least stop that much.
Patagonia? Chick-Fil-A?

I think when you go full B2B, you are destined to be a soulless corporate automaton.
The best part of C++ is you can ignore all the iostream nonsense and use printf
> There is a threshold that matter can cross, beyond which the laws of physics do not explain or predict what happens; on the other side of that threshold is life.

This made me think whether this is a type of computational limitation. That there is simply too much complexity and too many variables but theoretically it should still be possible. Perhaps this is a bit reductionist pov.

> Life brings complexity into the universe, she says, in its own being and in its products, because it has memory: in DNA, in repeating molecular reactions, in the instructions for making a chair.

Following this train of thought, if I assume that there is no fundamental difference between matter and life, life becomes a type of black hole of computational complexity. Like those parts of the unobservable universe which we could never peer into because of hard limits in physics. I can perhaps rationalize on a piece of paper that life is fundamentally deterministic but I can only think it, not behold it. DNA, memory is like some intense potential energy, a tightly wound spring that slowly lets off its energy in complex ways over potentially eons. Hence we are not fundamentally different than the light of the sun, warming the surface of rocks and evaporating water, but undergoing a far more intense process than simple evaporation.
It's not complicated at all. The party of this conflict which is the settler-colonizer would like everyone to believe it's complicated but it's quite simple: A people were ethnically cleansed from the lands they lived on for centuries and those people continue to be oppressed and subjugated till this day, not only denied to return back to the lands they were expelled from, but continue until now to be forcibly expelled from the small amounts they remain on.
>inside unsigned sections of a firmware update

Why would you leave some sections of a firmware update unsigned??
Sounds like a good idea. Free speech isn’t the highest law.
It's the Swedish (perhaps Nordic) model. It's not like that throughout Europe.
What are the reasons that makes this possible? The articles I have seen are not explaining what makes this different? What needs to be invented to get end to end security for push? I might be missing the obvious, apologies upfront.
A solid 20% of games in my steam library have Linux versions and many (tens of them!) were built for Linux first. Its way more common for indie/smaller dev strategy games though. Also have you seen the android gaming market cap? Depending who you trust most numbers I've seen have double the number of players on Android and iOS then Windows, Mac, and Linux combined and 3-5x the revenue.
The difference is that computers and phones do things other than play games. The 2600 didn't.
Now, there is the fact that there may be two sides to the story: Is it that people stopped buying games or that the market was so crowded that it was difficult for companies to make a profit? I don't know if that is plausible or not.
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We all have different definitions of important problems.

For me, Secure General Purpose computation is one of the most important problems, but most people don't seem to even realize the scope/nature of the problem. You've got an entire industry focused on the wrong problems, and thus offering the wrong solutions.

The problem is one of a huge missing feature, the ability to spend a chunk of your compute resources (CPU time, files, etc) on a problem in a safe and secure manner.

Because of this, much effort is being put on "safe" languages, "safe" programming techniques, teaching users how to be "safe", and updating/patching everything, every day, on every device in the world.

At it isn't working. That approach can't work.

Thus, computing isn't something you can trust. You're left in a world of potential land mines everywhere, metaphorically. This then makes any play outside of the cleared zones (FAANG run sites) unsafe. So effectively, general purpose use of the internet is no-go to 99.9% of the public.

This gives the gatekeepers almost unchecked power to control discourse, and subvert Democracy.

It can be fixed, the solutions have been known since the 1970s. There's no general interest in this, nor even a perception that the problems can be solved. We've generally convinced ourselves that computers require the services/subscriptions from experts to "keep them safe"

Would you want a locksmith continuously updating your locks on your doors? Why put up with one on your computer?
Build: Refactor all components to single package
hello,

hmmm ... idk. for LAN-based appliances, which will likely even have invalid names a la

* router.my.home

or

* nas.my.home

or whatever "dummy-tld" + local domain one uses ...

so if i want to use certificates in such an environment, i would create my own CA and import its public cert(s) into my browsers - or OSes - certificate-store.

problem solved!!

and also learned some useful lessons regarding "run your own CA" :)

cheersv
Firefox supports ublock on mobile.
The public cries about the cost of these things but they also cry when our boys get killed. I'm an optimist. When I see expensive NVGs or other kit I see more soldiers and marines making it home to their families.
OP has written:
> even here in the west

No indeed it's not specific to the west, but the emphasis was worth it: many western people have such an high opinion of their country that they believe it could only happen in Iran, Russia, North Korea and the likes
thank you, very interesting!
Maybe because Russia is buying all the gold: https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/russians-bought-... to circumvent sanctions: https://www.reuters.com/markets/russia-with-gold-uae-cashes-...
If reciprocal aid only applied to small factions and not to society as a whole, that would suggest solidarity must have a different meaning than it does here.

If a government organised its society instead of a society organising its government, that would suggest democracy must have a different meaning than it does here.

(and, yes, I'm completely open to the idea that these words do have different connotations in different cultures; part of the trouble is vastly different experiences: it is easy to be skeptical of governments in general if one has never personally experienced a functional one)
I don’t think you really need to solve those problems to cause trouble.

You just need to think you have.
This headline feels slightly misleading to me. As far as I can tell, this research shows that sperm whale clicks have spectral properties which are analogous in some ways to human vowels. In particular, they exhibit formants (essentially, amplified frequency bands), and analysing them reveals that these whales produce two different kinds of clicks. While fascinating in their own right, I feel it isn’t entirely fair to call these ‘vowels and diphthongs’ without qualification: these seem to admit a lot less variation than do human vowels.
Push notifications are such a great way to spy on people, because so many apps send highly private information as push notification. Even if you install them on-premise, because the only well-supported battery-friendly way to send notifications is through Google's and Apple's servers.

The most serious of secure messengers moved to push notifications that just cause the app to wake up and fetch the real message from the server to show as notification, but there are still plenty of apps that just send the full message as push notification.
In particular you can see just how much better (in terms of quality / resolution, not latency) the thermal vision is. Absolutely not surprising that they're trying to merge the two solutions to get the best of both worlds - fast updates from amplified visual, higher fidelity / resolution / range from the thermal channel.
On concurrency, Java is the last to the party. Many languages had solved it in various ways before:

- async/await camp with C# and F#, Swift, Rust, Python, TS/JS (yes, I know, event loop)

- Erlang/Elixir and BEAM family

- virtual threads and/or coroutines - Go, Java, Kotlin

Generally, I don't feel like in 2023 concurrency and parallelism are problematic areas anymore aside from existing aged stacks. From a perspective of mainly .NET ecosystem resident, it has been a shitshow outside of it for a long time indeed with many architectural choices throughout the industry paying for the Java sins (e.g. Kafka) and imposing limitations that seemed nonsensical and embarrassing even 7 years ago.
At some point LLMs will become the universal translator as seen in Star Trek.
If I understand the parent comment right, this was an argument against ProtonMail's End-to-End Encrypted Webmail 5+ years ago.

The argument being that some assurances typically associated with E2EE (that "even we can't see what you're doing") are shakier without a disinterested third party serving the application to the user. If you have some target user `Mr. X`, and you operate the distribution of your app `Y`, you could theoretically serve them a malicious app that sidesteps E2EE. And since it's just a web app: the blast radius is much smaller than if you were to go through the whole update process with Google or Apple and have it distributed to all users.
OP’s question rejects the premise of your justification. Facebook doesn’t have much of a track record of “doing the right thing” for its users.
Fountain codes and other tricks might help.

Ie any block could be useful for multiple inboxes and messages. See also how freenet used to do it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet
Imagine hanging out with Snowden, you both have done a few rounds of pints. Suddenly you slip up about your music preferences. Next thing you know, tomorrow you see a tweet on Snowden's Twitter account and thousands of comments laughing at you.
Part of my problem is definitely understanding some aspects of these circuits on a deeper level.

I haven't done any MFOS builds but I have done a few "cores" to various synth modules (Moritz Klein's youtube is great for this) on the breadboard -- most successful was a square wave oscillator based on a schmitt trigger -- but often I'm overwhelmed by the supporting circuitry which is sometimes more complicated than the core.

For example: I cannot get my head around the design of an exponential converter.

I have trouble understainding the feedback loop between the two transistors. Ignoring that, even, as far as I can tell it creates an exponential relationship between voltage and current. However, my schmitt trigger is voltage-controlled, so don't I need a transimpedence amplifier of some sort to get back to voltage? But I can't see anything that looks transimpedence amplifier in the diagram...

I constantly feel like I have about 1/3 of the knowledge I need to proceed.

Perhaps I just need to accept certain things are outside of my understanding right now?
Currently the guy who owns the place wants it that way. The next owner may not be the same. There are plenty in that industry that would gladly milk every penny they can out of customers instead of giving them good value.

Gabe understands the bargain he has struck with his customers. That is not necessarily true of the next guy. Take for example Atari. Atari in the early 80s was a powerhouse. Because Nolan Bushnell orchestrated it that way. He basically had dozens of companies making one off batches for 'the next atari console'. It cost him about a quarter million a year. But it locked out any competition he had. When Warner bought them out they said 'thats a dumb expense get rid of it'. Suddenly there were dozens of competitors and a glut of stuff. Some deals are just understood for their side effects not the primary thing. Not all MBA's understand that.

But nothing will motivate someone. Unless they decide to do it. As a customer all I can do is go elsewhere (if there is an elsewhere).

Also as you point out there a plenty of other stores out there but they have not really made the same bargain (other than gog). GoG being the only exception but they positioned themselves as the 'old dos games' place. Even though they have plenty of other stuff.

It will be a sad day when Gabe says 'im out'.
Those are actually tiny compared to most US tech companies with a global reach. The issue is that here in Europe everyone speaks their own language, and it's not feasible to advertise your tech stuff to the entire continent. There's no TV channels here where you can reach 300M people with a single commercial in a single language.

It's also an issue with capital. Everyone was shocked when Mistral raised what, 300M dollars? Ask on the street if anyone's heard of Mistral, and then ask about ChatGPT.

Meanwhile effing xAI from Elon, that no one really cares about is looking to raise $1B.

Here in Europe we're sadly not on the same level. Available capital is smaller. Reach is smaller (in practice but not in theory). Profit margins are smaller. Regulation is higher.

In 2023 you need extreme luck to create something in Europe that reaches a global audience to the point it's not worth trying. Just go for your local domestic market instead.
A lot of discussion yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38543155
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> simplifying: "laws and moral codes exist to restrict 'human nature'"

I strongly disagree with that. Laws (and moral codes) exist to codify the general, agreed-upon human nature. They therefore "restrict," as you say, a subset of people whose internal moral compass is broken.

To pick the most extreme example: most people don't need a law, or even a moral code, to not kill other people. We all (for some large and growing, but not 100%) agreed that killing is wrong, and most of us do not need the threat of a murder trial to talk us out of killing someone who cuts in front of us at the fast food line. To be clear, not 100% of us, but more than 50%, and I hope in many places, much more than 50% of us.

For other, less extreme crimes, the percent of people in consensus might be lower. But even for something like speeding on the highway I think human nature is, on average, a limiting factor more than laws or moral codes, rather than being an uncontrolled source of chaos reined in by law.

People (on average) drive maybe 60-80 mph on the highway (depending on the highway -- looking at you, Montana). If there were no speed limit at all, that wouldn't jump that much: the average speed on the autobahn is apparently 125kph, or 78mph.

Everyone's human nature is, on average, reasonably aligned, and laws tend to reflect that average.
> Pointing out that the Romans had slaves as if it somehow differentiated them seems misleading

I'm sorry are you being purposefully obtuse here?

>Because they didn't do anything substantively different in this regard?

Anyway that's tangential and semi-irrelevant to my point. The scale of slavery in Roman Italy was on a completely different level than anywhere else in the Mediterranean or the Hellenic world. As far as we can tell the level of exploitation the Roman aristocracy engaged in didn't really have any parallel in the ancient world (and it didn't benefit anyone but them especially not the lower class Roman citizens in the Italian countryside).

> n some cases, less, and other cases more.

I would assume it was usually less. Sometimes significantly. In part because of depopulation following the extreme atrocities inflicted by the Romans and because most of the newly captured slaves were transported to Italy. You might have a point though for instance the Romans basically slavery in Carthage which was quite and an achievement by ancient standards...

> He could have chosen to go east to do his conquering

I don't think he could've chosen that at all considering the political situation in the Roman empire at the time.

> It wouldn't be surprising if they both agreed that it was time someone do something about the threat they posed.

Everything you're saying is almost purely conjecture. In any case reducing/removing the Gaulic threat to Rome you keep talking about (which again wasn't really an issue on the Italian side of the alps anymore anyway). Anyway the exact justification are hardly relevant when Ceasar's conquest was mainly driven by personal ambition and greed (which doesn't make him special compared to most other Roman, Celtic or Greek warlords he was just extremely effective at it).
Can you clarify? I’m confused why quick access to grab helps and why this has anything to do with firing