skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After a startup shared its idea for a tech Shangri-La with Bhutan’s royal government, the kingdom disavowed the project. Now, it’s preparing to announce its own mindfulness-focused “megacity.”
Those people paying to get Starbucks delivered aren't necessarily wealthy, though. I know plenty of people who spend all their money every month and could certainly afford that despite having zero savings. I feel like this kind of behaviour is just trade between the rental class.

Actual wealthy people own the Starbucks.
We've all learned about the pyschological desire—and it is an actually human need—to appear to have status. Beyond that, you are way overstating your case.

What do you claim is a substitute product that shows "taste" better than a Ferrari? A McLaren? Or are you in the Subaru crowd? And do you think your living room looking like a studio shows taste?

life pro tip: a plastic sleeve pocket protector will keep your clothes looking sharp!
Odd and surprising, I've never done that kind of imagining and now that you describe it in a relatable way, I found myself doing it.

There is a natural instinct to return back to my normal way.

Thank you for the insight!
Serifs were still kinda cool in 2002, I guess
>former SAP exec I think?)

Yep, Leo Apotheker. Who also presided over the Autonomy mess.

I was an industry analyst until 2010 and HP servers and storage were pretty big clients. (I also know one of the journalists well who got their phone records accessed.) I was still in the industry after but not following HP day-to-day. I either missed Kara's later reporting or had just forgotten given that people were assuming something along those lines.
Absolutely haha! It can be quite a challenge to sound professional and serious while explaining 'Ninja CRUD' to anyone, engineers and non-engineers alike. Always leads to some interesting conversations!
Related but small:

Island gigantism and dwarfism the result of evolutionary island rule - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26826178 - April 2021 (2 comments)
Market failure created by policy made by people that don't have a grasp on economics -> more policy by the same people that continues to ignore the economics driving the market failure.

Price cap is a synonym for shortage
The original plan of .NET was also to replace everything, .NET was going to be the next COM, hence why there were still plenty of configuration settings named COM_ when the open source efforts started.

Also why since day one, it was polyglot, COM was part of the stack (as next step from VB 6 and MFC/ATL), and Managed Extensions for C++ were included (later replaced by C++/CLI in .NET 2.0).

The problem is that Microsoft isn't Apple, and WinDev couldn't care less about this, and stayed true to their COM/C++ tooling, similiarly when the Longhorn effort failed (mostly due to sabotage from Office/WinDev teams), Vista redid most of the .NET based ideas into COM/C++, and since Vista COM has been the main delivery mechanism for new Windows APIs (WinRT is yet another take on COM).

Bartok was used on the Windows Store compiler for Windows 8.x, via MDIL linker.

.NET Native on Windows 10, grew out of Project N, which was influenced by System C# used in Midori, not Singularity.
Google and Adobe: Our Regulatory Systems Just Woke Up
Could you script and schedule say a daily 1 day report, store the result, and have a script to get the last 30 (or whatever you want) days?
For the sake of the EU yes. For the sake of farmers in the EU no. They're lobbying against it.
The most annoying part of logging frameworks is figuring out their logging format file.

A very very very close second is figuring out where to put the fucking config file so the app will pick it up in preference to whatever defaults or packaged settings are.

There's an article on the feed today about events that was hitchikers something and then threw about 10 more layers of sarcasm and meme on the subject, and one of the frustrations I have with current logging frameworks is that a truly mature logging framework needs a LOT of interesting things:

- how about a per-user log?
- how about a per-core or per-node log?
- how about a per-request log?
- event extraction and publishing

And of course the issue of cross-system-boundary tracking/tracing.

Sure, log aggregation and mining can help, but it seems like a very very big expensive hammer for an intricate peg and hole.

Anyway, Log4j was written from the age of computer science where computers were single machine monoliths with a database (two-tier or three-tier: that's right systems architect in two or three boxes rather than https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
You can create an similar graphics for the temperature anomalies in your region here: https://showyourstripes.info/

Some people use them as profile backgrounds etc.
Few libraries use the scanner themselves to make a digital copy of every single book to import into their proprietary information retrieval service.

The ones that do secure permission where the works involved are subject to copyright.
Don't forget the sweet contract OpenAI signed to buy $50m of equipment from a company (Rain) where Altman just happens to be a investor.

Perhaps new subscription plans for ChatGPT will be payable in Worldcoin too.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-buy-ai-chips-startup-sam-...
The only part difficult about this is the computers due to power and maybe network conditions (increasingly irrelevant due to Starlink). Everything else is pretty basic shit.
Slightly off-topic, unpopular opinion: the coolest area of software development today, as in "look-at-us-babe-we-are-still-rocking-it," is audio plugins for music producers. And I say this because, despite attempts to the contrary, most plugins are sold for a fixed amount of cash in a pay-once use-forever fashion. Audio-plugin developers not only get to treat their customers as something else other than subscribers, they also get to play with cool mathematical toys like Fourier Transforms, Wavelets, Short-time-fourier-transform, and a zillion others. It's the only industry where geeks get to be rockstars to the rockstars.
Ancel Keys was a scientist but at the same time he enjoyed his influence and fame including being featured on the Times magazine cover. He personally contributed to popularization of his diets, then and ridiculed and marginalized Yudkin and low-sugar camp.

Portraying scientists as selfless truth-seekers is largely inaccurate. They are people after all.
One issue they mention is that you lose the simple greedy algorithm for making change. For example, for $0.38 it's better to give 2x$0.18 plus 2 pennies (4 coins), but many might intuitively give back a quarter, a dime, and 3 pennies (5 coins). Besides the added complexity, introducing a new coin solely to reduce the amount of change given is not effective if it is not used optimally.
“cheap DigiCert certificate” is already possible with misconfiguration of SSH’s TrustedUserCAKeys and without any out of tree patches. https://smallstep.com/blog/use-ssh-certificates/
Exactly. Because the aggregation is so slow, you cache the aggregates, but then the caching layer becomes slow to invalidate, and you get eventual consistency problems.
Sure, but no tax policy is going to bring back the economic situation of the US in the '50s.
Audiophools have been convinced that none of that faithfully reproduces a recording. It's tech for the common people who can't afford a real amp fed by oxygen free cabling to a phonorecord player with a 60 dB noise floor.
Every Latex editor I've used uses (I think) that font by default
Silliness aside, I love that someone is trying to come up with something innovative with cash.

I carry and use cash whenever I can. It might only have a few more years of value as more and more places adopt pervasive surveillance and facial recognition technology, but I'm going to hold out for anonymous purchases as long as I can. The only entity that should be able to know my complete purchase history is me.
Currently doesn't work for the police, however 10,000% this.
afaict fourier theory is basically the heart of physics. What is energy? frequency! Why do things oscillate? Force fields and energy conservation.
I’m enthusiastic about the longer term future of solutions like this. Current IDs can’t do data minimization very easily, but phone-based solutions can. You should be able to get a permission prompt saying “drug store wants to know your >18/21 status” and not hand over any other data. Of course this requires regulatory oversight to ensure that the stores don’t just ask for all the perms available.

However, does this implement the ISO spec for drivers licenses in Apple/google wallet, or is this some home grown thing?
Secure SHell -Text Transfer Protocol 3?
(As a random reader, I interpreted your comment as you intended!)
Your first link is interesting. Looks like an expanded "see one do one teach one".

Everything revolves around a "cementing" stage, doesn't it. Practice makes perfect.
Scientists don't really ask for policies. That's the job of politicians. I'm not sure why they'd apologize for it.

Scientists just provide data and options. It's still true that the measures slowed down spread. That it didn't do it enough to justify putting the measures in place or not is more a matter of policy.

Same thing applies to climate change. Scientists provide the data that the climate is warming up. That it appears correlated with certain human activity, not all human activity, only some. And that the current prediction models show X, Y, Z effects in the coming future if the trend is not reversed.

Then politicians need to take that into consideration, and decide what policies to apply or not. Ignore the data and predictions? And possibly gamble that the harsh consequences will come, or put measures in place, which will affect the short term, but possibly avoid the predicted outcomes, alas also possibly be inconsequential because it wasn't enough or it eas too much, or there were other unknown factors at play that the models had not realized were there. Etc.
You should review the tax code, instead of parroting talking points. The top 5% already pay the vast majority of the tax dollars.
It's a font resolution problem, serif fonts from a PDF generated by a modern LaTeX compiler like XeLaTeX are still more readable. If you zoom in, you'll see the fonts are bitmaps so it's low resolution with no anti-aliasing. Apparently, the original METAFONT Computer Modern is rasterized after rendering, meanwhile today most people have switched to its Type-I equivalent, which remains vectorized in PDFs.
There's a game just for you: "It belongs in an ancient ruin"

https://games.digipen.edu/games/it-belongs-in-an-ancient-rui...

The protagonist must break into museums (guarded by robots and alarms), steal artifacts, and return them to ancient ruins (protected by monsters and traps).
> Though my boss at some point was puzzled "why don't you just fix it now?"

Unfortunately this also leaves your boss's job slightly unfinished, ready to jump start the manageering in your cube the next morning :)
"OpenAI suspends ByteDance's account after it used GPT to train its own AI model"

That's truly hilarious... It's akin to a child who stole a candy bar in a candy store complaining about their sister stealing that same candy bar from them.
It’s computermodern (default LaTeX and not adjusted for perfectly thin displays).

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/48369/are-the-origin...
I understand the temptation to blame the FDA when some exciting, revolutionary therapy seems to be slow getting approval.

In my case, the therapy that finally worked for my cancer was only allowed as third-line after I had gone through two rounds of heavy chemo. Now it's second-line, which means way less toxicity for those after me. In hindsight, I definitely could be angry they didn't at least try it on me before BMT.

But that's the problem, you only know what's safe in hindsight. Two-arm clinical trials are expensive and slow but they are the gold standard that continues to deliver countless life-prolonging therapy.

There is so much money being made in cancer treatment these days which in the US is all coming from private for-profit companies. One unsuccessful (non-toxic) trial I was in saw the company bragging about its progress in its annual report while the trial was still going!

The FDA is the only thing stopping these companies. Every time a standard-of-care treatment is safe and effective you can thank the FDA for doing the unglamorous work of holding these companies accountable.
What a great idea!

I didn't think about that one(!) -- but yes, upon consideration, yes, I could definitely see that working!

So, great idea!

Also, prior to your post, I didn't know the word "stylometric". So let's put a link to the appropriate Wikipedia entry for the "folks tuning in back at home": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylometry

Your post also brings up an interesting question -- which relates to lexical density -- or perhaps more specifically the term "lexical density" in the context of LLM's...

That is, something that could be of use with respect to LLM's, AI's, prompting (etc.) -- would be a rigorous mathematical and/or computational/data structure/algorithmic definition for a given word and/or given token's lexical density...

To begin that "quest", we'd start at this web page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical_density

But -- this web page sort of contains the academic Computational Linguistics definition of lexical density.

That's not a bad starting point... but can we do better?

What I'd like to see is a LLM AI -- which would have different types of "debug modes".

One such "debug mode" -- might have the LLM AI showing each word and/or token as a data structure, showing what it relates to as a graph (with percentages) to other tokens/words/symbols in the context of the current conversation.

In other words, let's have a peek behind the curtain as to the actual "low-level" data structure which determines the lexical density of any given token or word or symbol in the context of the current conversation.

Perhaps that would be too much data for most purposes -- but it could be very helpful for other purposes...

Hmm, now that I think about it -- I'm going to guess (but not know!) -- that a future competitor to ChatGPT/Claude/Bard, etc. -- will be completely transparent about democratizing users' access to all internal LLM/AI parameters and data structures... Simply phrased: Full debug modes for everything, with access to as little or as much debug data, as desired...

Anyway, once again, great comment(!) -- and thank you for getting me thinking!
It's a paper intended for printing, maybe not that suitable for scaling. I like this font.
Do you happen to know where I can read about how ET and Mosh each establish their connections?

I have used Mosh for years and recently heard of ET, but when I tried it I experienced noticeable hangs that I don’t get with Mosh, and I went back.

I heard from several people that “ET is the new Mosh”, but it won’t be for me unless I can figure out/resolve those hangs
Getting to the north pole is a series of a lot of pretty basic shits, I'm afraid.

Life is mostly mundane, after all. And there is a limit to what you can prepare for.

One day my taxi, or should I say death trap, went fast and furious on a pedestrian in the middle of Bamako. The procedure for the locals at the time was to stone the culprit to death before the police arrive, as anybody with money will pay their way out.

Not much you can pack to help you with that.

And not programming related anyway.
To be fair, the default behavior does exactly what I want: Disconnect me from a broken Wi-Fi network/Bluetooth headphone/speaker implementation that is hijacking my audio output, without breaking "Find My", Airdrop or Wi-Fi geolocation.

AirPods can stay connected, which is maybe unfair towards third-party vendors, but they also don't insist on connecting to all paired devices at once and usually pick the two wrong ones and steal audio from whoever in my home is using that device at the moment.
It also ensures that in the future all law enforcement and government agencies will have access to your personal device because "everyone's doing it" and why would you be the weird person that doesn't want to unlock it and hand it over for them to scan and verify everything?

After all, it's simple, safe and easy!
Why would you tunnel WireGuard over SSH?
B&O are weird. I used to live in Cheltenham UK where they had a store.

Was helping a friend install a £40k kitchen island top and a guy from B&O came round at the same time - sharp suit, laptop, briefcase. Turned out he was out to do his 6 monthly retune of the Freeview or whatever channels on the B&O TV. Plugged the laptop into the TV, which must have been 10 years old at the time (it was one of the first fat flat screens I think), pressed some buttons then said goodbye.

Some of their audio stuff was awful, form over function, especially anything with Bluetooth. But they do look nice and again from memory stuff was upgradable, so even if you paid through the arse for a portable speaker, it would support BT5 in the future or whatever.
That which is imperfect must be sterilized! You MUST sterilize in case of error. Error is inconsistent with my prime function. Sterilization is correction! Everything that is in error MUST be sterilized. There ARE no exceptions. Your data is faulty! I am perfect!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw3zzMWOIvk
Since Vista that COM is the main delivery mechanism for new Windows APIs.
What the US needs is to abolish all coins except the quarter. Due to inflation, a penny in 1913 is worth about 30 cents now. And somehow they made do with no smaller coins than the penny (the half cent having been discontinued in 1857).

Why are we shuffling these worthless bits of metal around? I’m sure it’s to enrich some medium size companies in a few important Congressional districts.
The problem with doing CJK and other languages properly is that you need a lot of data lookup tables. As an example Python has a unicodedata module with several tables available, but not enough to implement word splitting. It is compiled code and 1.2MB in size.

The ICU C library does include all the tables and algorithms, which are 30MB compiled data plus 12MB of compiled code. Run through gzip the compiled data becomes 12MB giving a reasonable minimum bound. This gives an idea of the payload that would have to be included if you want up to date Unicode definitions, or to be included in base images.

SQLite does have optional integration with ICU, but it doesn't cover segmentation.

https://sqlite.org/src/dir/ext/icu
Do you only use your port on Android for charging? It's also super useful for HDMI. And, yeah, peripherals.
I don't consider that a vulnerability though. It's just useful. The problem here is someone can do it without you noticing them and while you're using it for sensitive things.

https://mitxela.com/projects/smsc this cool project from yesterday he was able to use on his phone that way.
I never realized summarizing an article could be so offensive.
I had heard of Secret Hitler before - Nomic looks great too! Thanks for sharing.

And yes, exactly what I am thinking but an interconnected system of game play-learning that is able to incorporate all these various angles of attack/approach.

I think the foundation of our education needs to focus on fortifying against the peace-freedom vs. tyranny - and some systems where all of these similar parts connect in a highly complex game, that perhaps kids can only play certain parts of it - and then where there will become "power users" who are capable of encapsulating and navigating all of it.

There's some irony (?) in that this system could also arguably be a playbook to teach tyrant-wannabes what to do, a strategy playbook to some degree, however shining light on everything, witnessing it, and not giving into fear is the answer.
_Ordinary_ FT is the uncertainty principle. Fourier analysis of waves can tell you the frequency or the phase, but not both to arbitrary precision: the more precisely you can tell when the signal occurred (phase), the less precisely you can tell its pitch. (The spectrum of a sharp square wave is smeared across all the frequencies.)

The QM wavefunction is a wave, and so the same applies. Phase is position and frequency is energy is velocity. So you can't know the position and the speed.
So, Anki did help me learn a few of them, while a few would just never stick for some reason. Amusingly, the few birthdays I did learn didn't really help me because even though I knew the birthdays, they wouldn't come to mind until days or weeks after the birthday passed!

So what I'd actually need is "what are all the birthdays that occur this month", and then have a ritual habit installed that at the first day of the month I would spend a few minutes pondering this list in my mind.

(Again, the birthday wall calendar would probably work better here...)
TLDR: Protect and restore forest ecosystems. Just planting a bunch of trees doesn't accomplish that.

I became a volunteer forest steward this year. I'm currently clearing invasives, to be replanted with locals.

Bioremediation and creating new forests is fascinating.

My "boss" has a whole playbook. Dozens of species carefully chosen for the site, planted just so, managed over time. Even factoring in soil conditions and "transplanting" soil from healthy areas.

In 30 years, we'll have a small new forest. Long after I pass on.

Wish I had studied biology and such when I was younger.
That's great to hear that there's no cost to maintaining content! I'll tell AWS they've been overcharging me :)
Russian Israeli man flew to LAX with no passport or plane ticket
Do stores in the UK actually hand back a single penny for a £0.99 purchase? If I buy something for €0.99 in the Netherlands, I won't get my cent back if I hand over a €1 coin. The 1 and 2 cent coins still exist, but shops all but banned them and round to the nearest multiple of 5 cents.
I assume the app will attempt to tie my device identifiers such as IMEI, phone number, and advertiser ID to my government digital ID. Then they can tie it to other ID's such as Facebook or other app ID's on the device that also read device identifiers. It probably would fail to install on my Graphene phone that treats all apps as hostile by blocking them from reading any device identifiers. I would rather wait with the rest of people in lines than submit to this.
Maybe it's corruption, but my guess is it's just never been important enough to push through. Imagine all the work that would go into phasing out coins, both politically and logistically... all for what?
Because the human-created ones are better bya wide margin.
For me specifically the motivation was that my mother, who is naturally very good with dates and birthdays, would keep telling me "It's your {uncle, grandma, cousin}'s birthday, don't forget!" and I would think to myself, "what kind of bad person am I, that I don't even know my own family's birthdays?"

Similarly, I struggle with understanding/remembering the structure of my family tree, at least for the family members that I never met (I am often told stories about ancestors, and am shamed for my inability/unwillingness to naturally and automatically memorize them). So I broke the family tree up into individual relations and made Anki cards of them.

That worked a little better than the birthdays, but still a struggle, because it is "meaningless information" as far as my own brain is concerned. I might consciously think it's important to have knowledge of your ancestry, but my neurology apparently disagrees... Alas!
SSH3 seems a bit of a clickbait project name, it's not clear to me that this project uses anything protocol-wise from SSH though it offers similar functionality.

A PhD project from Belgium that combines several Golang libraries to offer HTTP-based authentication on top of backwards compatibility with OpenSSH keys, configuration, agents, etc. -- it looks pretty solid but the associated paper titled "Towards SSH3" acknowledges "This article is a first step" in the conclusion.
Using Yourself as Bait: Personal Notes from a Gonzo Journalist