skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The slide rules, also known colloquially as “slip sticks”, were the only calculators available before the electronic age, traveled with the Apollo 11 on the Moon and, essentials on board aircraft for the dead reckoning, are still required as a means of emergency.

This sentence is funny for several reasons, not least of which is it comes after a long list of pre-electronics calculators.

The mention of dead reckoning totally reminded me of one of the coolest math books I ever bought, and I think I first heard about it in a comment here on HN. Maybe I can pass this recommend on to someone else who will appreciate it. “Dead Reckoning: Calculating Without Instruments” by Ronald Doerfler https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Reckoning-Calculating-Without-In...

It covers how to do lots of calculations very efficiently mentally or manually on paper, not just arithmetic but roots and powers, logarithms and exponents, and trig functions (sin,cos,tan,asin,acos,atan). Lots of interesting number theory, lots of stuff that’s useful in computer science, and a tour de force of the most important analog calculator this article didn’t cover: the human calculator. ;)
A very similar thing applies to taboos in society. Various things were taboo in the past, often in various cultures, while recently people have made efforts to get rid of them. If we don't understand why these taboos existed in the first place, we may make a serious mistake.
Can’t upvote this enough. There are so many categories of homeless. It’s such a a board bucket that any policy that helps some may have a negative effect on others or is at least ineffective. To lump them all together makes the problem unsolvable
Maybe I am misunderstanding it but I read that the survey here was taken in January 2023, and 2007 was compared to "when reporting began," which isn't specified where within 2007.
I think, as others have mentioned, there is an implicit ethnonationalism here in linking various governments, specifically post-colonial states (say Nigeria) with the tribes that live in them. Now, its important to note two things here. 1) many of these tribes, before colonialism, before the establishment of the contemporary west-african states, were in fact slave empires, and the reason they had such rich cultural products was for the same reason that western nations, at the time, did. So the moral status of those objects is ambiguous at best, which leads to point 2) that these objects should be stored in whatever facility can host them best. We all admit Nigeria is not as wealthy as the UK, so its entirely possible that the UK after returning perhaps, thousands of precious artifacts, worth an uncountable sum, a desperate government might, given the right circumstances, sell them, whereas the UK probably will not (at least not in the near future).

Call me conservative if you like, but culturally important objects are often only designated as such the moment they are placed in a museum. Who knows if the former slave empire tribes of west Africa would've valued all the pieces so highly had they not been put on display. By "getting them back," these ethnic groups are merely reproducing the same order that they oppose, in fact they have completed, in a way, the colonial circuit, by becoming a mirror of the power that created them.
Why Aren't We SIEVE-Ing?
There is a lot of misinterpretation about this concept, which tends to reduce the problem to a "conservative vs progressive" debacle.

A modern equivalent of his thought is the Lindy Effect [1], where every day a non-perishable thing survives (an idea, a technology, or in the original example, a Broadway show) adds another day in its expected survival.

Simply put, the longer one thing lasts, the longer it is expected to last. The fence is his metaphorical way of saying that what may be holding a change (thus, a fence) may have its reason and its strength is positively correlated with its lifespan.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
Is the adventure mode like that old Microprose Magic the Gathering game? My brother and I loved playing that as kids!
First hi-res night atlas of the Iberian Peninsula using SDGSAT-1
You have colortemperature, and it has several layers available: GR (green-red) and BG (blue-green) - They are the ratios of those bands. CCT is Correlated Color Temperature. Median_cal is the calibratedimage.

All data courtesy of the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS). And with its SDGSAT-1 satellite it is ideal for classifying lighting technologies.
Your point being...?
You dont “can”. You must.

The only real validation of a product - either people pay for it or not.
I'd assume that this listening functionality only comes with certain apps, that's certainly the case for ultrasonic tracking apps [0]. Probably you have just managed to avoid installing such apps.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-device_tracking#Applicat...
Says on his website he shot everything with a Leica Q2, if he shot with the Original Q before the Q2 came out in '19, then he shot the whole project 28mm f1.7 as that's the lens glued to the Q series.
And I didn’t think South Crossers were never told what the A in USofA stands for but here we are.
Surely if Microsoft (this big corp, that happens to own a cloud) wanted to find a way for GitHub to offer a pleasant experience, they would have.
I really don’t buy that last paragraph. It’s the idea the AI Pin founders keep saying - you don’t want apps, the device chooses it for you, etc. In a world where you have economical choice, that’s quite hard to imagine: would there be no competition? What good is it for you if you can’t even choose what music app you want? Without _something_ like an app, how do you even know what you can interact with?
Any idea how to tell if grapheneOS fixed this in its sunfish (4a) branch? I'm stuck on android 13 with a 4a and I need Bluetooth to open my car door. If graphene fixed this, it would spur me to finally move to it. I just can't justify getting a new phone when this one works fine.
In testing I want miri, but knowing that there already is a very similar lint, I want that expanded
> Also, here is a fun twist. Your words can be used against you in court, but not for you. For instance: if the cop writes down a bunch of stuff you said while being arrested, and your defense lawyer wants to look at it -they are not allowed to see it-. They can only see the stuff the cops use to charge you

This is incorrect.

Withholding exculpatory evidence can get cops & prosecution into a lot of hot water.

This is called the Brady or Brady/Giglio rule.

Brady v. Maryland (373 U.S. 83 (1963)

Giglio v. United States (405 U.S. 150 (1972)
If history has taught us anything, the idea of "settled science" is as anti science as it comes.
The .ai TLD is itself a website
The falling nutritional value of crops
Nope, you're entirely correct.

It's for vocabulary and terminology mainly, or other simple facts like historical dates, country capitals, etc.

It's irrelevant to conceptual learning, where it may be very difficult to understand something, but once you do you understand it for life.
I’m pretty sure the only anomalies that have ever produced geographic temperature changes as drastic as the ones visualized are things like city-sized asteroid collisions or volcanic eruptions that blot out the sun. If you haven’t noticed any of those, then it’s probably safe to assume that approximately 100% of the effect is down to human activity.
I can totally see how a bad faith interpretation could lead to “Chesterton’s big fucking infinite barrier”. And of course bad faith interpretations abound in politics.

It reminds me of people I’ve worked with who will always bring up edge cases in any discussion. They use their “ability” to identify edge cases to shut down conversation and present themselves as the smartest in the room. If they can think of ways this design might fail of course they must be the most qualified to do the design right? It really has a chilling effect on teams and has, in my experience, lead to really bad technical decisions.
Electric micromobility (e.g., e-bikes and scooters) probably makes more sense for more people right now. Keep an ICE vehicle for long-distance travel. But use your relatively cheap e-bike---that you can charge on a standard AC plug, even in an apartment---for short-distance chores and grocery runs.

Of course, people who live in car-only suburbs need not apply.
This comment is generating far more snark than the parent to be frank.

Not everyone wants to use a USB-C dongle so they can use their old 3.5 headphones, and even more people don’t really care about being able to have a mouse and keyboard on their phone in the first place.

If you want me to show you what the “thoughtful discussion” is: The parent made the point that phone companies have been following a trend of locking down physical access in favor of wireless tech. I’ll add that this has not only removed beloved features, but now that everyone is being forced down the Bluetooth/wifi stack we are far more susceptible in public when exploits like these rear their ugly heads. There are roundabout solutions like using a USB-C dongle but… really? Does anyone find that to be effective at all? What about when you want more than one connection? You need a splitter or a hub. It’s just such a seemingly useless “improvement” if it feels like we’re going backwards having to buy extra stuff.

If you want to reply with your disagreement, please do so in a thoughtful manner. Please think before you post. I come to this website not for snark, but for thoughtful conversation ;) Ty
Ok, forget the packing lists, advice, and all this survivalist stuff. All I want to know is what _kind of jobs_ requires preparation like this. This is not covered in the article, I have an impression - deliberately so.
This reminds me of https://youtu.be/b2F-DItXtZs
Spiraling doom won't get us to reduce emissions. Id give airships a chance. I've been flight free for almost a decade but I would take an airship somewhere if it was done to a luxurious standard. Although for a bipedal mammal being airborne is a luxury in itself.
Worse, some of the spammers never acknowledge unsubscribing.

One of them is a local coffee roaster so I can yell at the owners face for this.

I quited gmail a long time ago, I’m not sure if you can run some custom filters on headers like LIST. Some of the worst offender uses the same sender address for both transactional and marketing emails, but sometimes the header can tell some difference.
I know everyone always just responds to the title, but do read/listen to this one. I think it's Dwarkesh's best episode ever. Dwarkesh always asks great questions, and Matuschak has this amazing knack of interpreting those questions in the most interesting ways, while constantly challenging their assumptions.
It’s a great ideal, but there are interests other than purely environmental (or purely “fairness”) that must be taken into account as a matter of sheer necessity.
You don’t run it because you don’t want to, not because the device can’t run it
> That seems high to me. Where does that come from?

it is high (and i agree too high imo), but many apps utilize a lot of 3rd party libraries that take a loooong time to compile (just off the top of my head, various "reactive" frameworks, realm, firebase related libs etc)

you might ask why not deliver binary libs to cut down the time, well that used to be easy with obj-c/c dylibs but swift doesnt have a stable abi outside of apple libs, so every new swift update requires recompilation and swift package manager doesnt have much in the way of caching binaries for dependencies in a ci afaik
Next outfit could power itself with solar energy
What? Of course we should! It is of course partially caused by humanity. But it’s a common debate among researchers exactly how much the trends are affecting the changes.
He tried at the beginning to say only when the DB gets too big should you even think about this but there are things you can do there as well.
A large language model finds new solutions to math problems
Note that destruction is mostly easier than creation. There are only a few exceptions, like state regulations and bureaucracy.
Tree plantations are not the environmental solution they’re purported to be
There is nothing special about coders as far as getting into physics goes.

Knowing math can help you in general for sure. Knowing programming will help you if you get into numerical simulations etc.

Other than that - there is nothing to suggest here.

You choose your goal (“get into physics” is not a goal) and you start digging towards it like everybody else.
I strongly doubt it. Sam was pretty damn rich before OpenAI. He's written a lot of stuff about AI and how he worried someone would do it. The original plan was roughly build the basis for ethical AI, have someone else build on top of it, which somehow pivoted into everyone using their API.

If they just wanted money, they could have cut out a lot of the ethical filters and choke out competitors. Google didn't stop NSFW. Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, etc didn't. AI is bound to be used for NSFW among other things, but they've set the standards to make it ethical.

I think eventually they did let loose to try to keep ahead of competitors. This probably pissed off the board and led to the drama recently? Just speculation. Because the new models are nowhere near as anal as the initial release.
The architecture from hell. Hard to debug. Why didn't my service pick up that event? Error handling. What happens with the state if a service throws an exception? Resource hog. How do I map/reduce all these events into a state?

I do like events. They go into my elk stack where I can look at pretty graphs which gives me a story of how my system behaves over time.
If you read my previous comment carefully, you'd see that I'm not claiming that he's a conservative and can't possibly be a troll. I'm only pointing out that it's possible that he's just a conservative, and people are hastily jumping to the "troll" conclusion with seemingly little evidence.
A rather ridiculous assertion, if you ask me. CSS is quite easy to grok, if one already knows HTML. Now, if one’s using some sort of “framework”, rather than iterating from scratch - then I could agree - but then one has to blame the framework, not the language.

Too many people introduce unnecessary complexity, flinging on framework, after framework, when their time would be better served, learning CSS from first principles.
I agree with your basic point, but this has very little to do with the difference between hardware and software, but boils down to the question of whether there is an actual implementation.

Maybe that should be the requirement then, instead of saying "software patents cannot exist, but hardware patents can".
Is this wayland all over again? We do three or four new things well, and everybody is supposed to just stop doing everything else ?

Is this "a secure shell" (as in, somebody's personal spin on the topic) or like a new "official" direction?

The readme isn't clear on these aspects.
I've looked a bit, and realized what I really want is a distraction-free phone that's otherwise fully functional.

None of these things are a problem:

- podcast + music streaming

- local search + navigation

- high end camera (I don't care if my daily driver phone costs $100 or $1000+ as long as it lasts > 4 years)

- sms + signal

- phone calls

- mobile payments (including shitty parking apps, plane tickets, etc)

- internet of sh*t controller apps (car, appliances, etc).

- weather

- calendar

- email

- document scanning and file management

The main problems are:

- web browser

- news apps

So, basically, what I want is a mobile phone ecosystem where the apps don't assume a web browser is installed (local search, mobile payments, my car, weather, tickets, etc, etc, apps all assume a web browser), and where I can uninstall the web browser and the news app.

On the other hand, I'd like to live in a world where you don't need to install a bunch of malicious code on your machine in order to do basic day-to-day things, which would push me towards that web-browser-only phone OS that Mozilla tried to build.

I don't have a great solution. The only thing I can think of is that, in the same way that businesses are legally required to accept cash, they should also be legally required to provide a sane, supported API so third party apps and operating systems can use their services (yes; I know that this is impractical too).
yep it immediately caught my attention
Bathroom repairs are always more expensive than you'd think, it is indeed a fallacy!
Usually lurk here - I sincerely hope you will get to better places, how you handle your situation sounds admirable
That’s a faulty statement! https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
Fair point. Although the main implication is that a POS doesn’t negate the risk, it just has different risk vectors.
The Benin Bronzes are a bit different. Returning them to Benin means returning them to the heirs of an extremely nasty and oppressive state:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomey#Slavery

One of the purposes of the expedition was the abolition of slavery in Benin, and objective it achieved.
Didn't the French try this during the revolutions (1792?) like Vendémiaire, Brumaire, Frimaire, etc.

Found it : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar
I always liked the framing that Charles Darwin basically worked with the current forms of life as one huge Chesterton's wall: This is what species look like -- how the hell did they get that way and why?

We can use his techniques to work with the little fences we find. I wrote some examples here: https://two-wrongs.com/lessons-from-evolution
Not just "convenience vs. security", also the plain old "backward compatibility vs. security". The BlueZ vulnerability was patched years ago but it was not enabled due to backward compatibility concerns:

diff --git a/profiles/input/input.conf b/profiles/input/input.conf
index 4c70bc561f..d8645f3dd6 100644
--- a/profiles/input/input.conf
+++ b/profiles/input/input.conf
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
# platforms may want to make sure that input connections only come from bonded
# device connections. Several older mice have been known for not supporting
# pairing/encryption.
-# Defaults to false to maximize device compatibility.
+# Defaults to true for security.
#ClassicBondedOnly=true

# LE upgrade security
I was looking forward to reading this based solely on the title, but I find the writing style and tone to be quite unbearable. The forced attempt at being relatable and light-hearted comes across as patronizing and distracts from the intended message or points being conveyed.
Yes, the rate of change is way too fast, comparable to a meteorite or volcano eruption, except there aren't
I had an interesting case of this recently.

A predecessor seemed to have a series of processes, each of which seemed to be dealing with the errors created by the previous process. However, their notes made it clear that they thought that the mistakes had an external cause, blaming 'the system'. I felt that I could remove all of the steps and replace them with a correct first step. As an advocate of Chesterton's fence, I found it hard to simply accept that my predecessor had built a fence around a phantom, but it seems to be the case. By not finding any reason for the fence I kept hunting for the same phantom. This is the limitation of the model, the erector of the fence may have been wrong.
It is a funny satirical piece of literature.
Day:Month::Number:Word makes for an easier pattern recognition. It’s the same DD/MM ambiguity problem, but using DD/OCT solves it quite well in conversation and otherwise.
State of JavaScript 2023
contactless support is still very spotty in the US, both from issuing banks and at merchants.
It's a legitimate question, but I can't tell if you're wondering whether we have significant influence on it at all, or if you are just wondering what fraction the solar cycle being at its maximum ~now (iirc) and other such effects are (which I imagine is no more than a few percent, since previous ones are not immediately apparent in the visualization of the previous 10k-odd years (https://xkcd.com/1732/); or even if we're only a tiny fraction on top of nature's mechanisms, that's apparently 'that much' too much greenhouse gases)
I was a team once that strongly considered event sourcing. To me, it seemed like a solution looking for a problem. It could have worked for us, but we ended up passing on it as the benefits were not immediately clear and the risk of doing something new and the lessons learned that would come with it just didn’t seem in the best interest of the project/company. Maybe that makes us tools for passing up a learning opportunity, but I don’t regret getting into that rabbit hole without a fox chasing us down it.
Which also enable people like ISIS to complete destroy the artifacts of entire cultures.
> And finally, what if we’re exiting an ice age (we are still technically in one)?

Yes we are living in an ice age, which began 3 million years ago. We are currently in a warm interglacial that started 11,000 years ago.
> For releasing a lock, it is obvious enough that a single atomic store is sufficient

It is not obvious at all. You need a fence plus a store (or a fenced store). And for a long time many locks implementations used a full fence. IIRC, for example, only relatively recentish there was enough confidence to relax the spinlock release to a release barrier on Linux.
If early adopters won't pay for it, nobody will. Your early adopters are often the ones hacking a solution at a higher price and are happy to shell out money for something that works better than theirs.

There are some free business models (e.g. Google, Facebook) but this is a hard route that requires tons of capital, and probably involves selling the free users as the product.
>They would still be able to cause trouble by sponsoring terrorist groups,

The US country hasn't experienced 'real terrorism' (IRA, Baader Meinhoff, Red Brigade etc), especially on a sustained scale. It would indeed be a terrible thing for just a few lone wolves to pop over the border. Being such a vast continent the damage could be horrifying, not least of all for brown people.
(Big nod to George Carlin).
When Kent recently gave a talk at Plato's Elevate Conference, he was asked: "What is the thing you enjoy where you completely lose track of time?" He said "Poker." without a second of hesitation. He clearly loves the game to come up in his writing.
noted for next time, thanks
Asimov has refuted this argument more eloquently than I could here: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~dbalmer/eportfolio/Nature%20of%20...
You are right, judges can not be wrong, but they can misdirect themselves.
"Child slavery" is a known problem with cobalt mining, not lithium mining.
Ummm…

> There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming at an unprecedented rate. Human activity is the principal cause.

That’s the sub-headline from your link which is exactly what I said, just with a bit less flourish.
Extremely rapidly, and it is wholly unprecedented in the geological record[0]. At this point, expressing curiosity about this rather than putting forth the trivial effort to find the amply available high-quality evidence is difficult to read as anything other than bad faith.

[0]https://phys.org/news/2021-11-global-temperatures-years-toda...
I used a degoogled pixel 6 pro for a while, and it got multi-day battery life until I installed the google play services. After that, it dropped to the advertised ~ 1 day life.

Between not having tracking crap and notification polling waking the modem up and the e-ink display, I'd expect them to already be at half a week.

Anyway, I'd love to see someone build a high-spec dumb phone that's minimally distracting and that that respects privacy.
Startups are typically capex constrained, at least until series C. Clouds are favorable to capex constraints.

Having personally tried to be cheaper than the cloud in 2013 through large hardware buys, negotiated contracts etc. I found that the roi relative to a progressively discounting cloud weren’t there.