skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> After half a year we moved on to our second language: Lua, specifically in the video game system Roblox. I almost wish we had skipped this one because it was a bit too advanced for these students

I wonder if they meant Lua or its integration with Roblox was too advanced. I would think Lua is a simpler and easier to learn language relative to Javascript and D.
If you nest an object within another object you often want to embed the child directly in its parent, sharing the memory and avoiding the indirection that you get if you nest with a reference as is the typical approach with GC languages. Also embedding makes it clear that it's a 1:1 relation, i.e. non-optional, fixed identity etc.

AFAICT few GC languages allow you to do this, basically you have to buy into indirection and end up with webs of objects.

This is quite cache unfriendly, but the bigger issue for me is that it makes the code less clear and requires additional complexities since you can't just jump from a child to its parent by subtracting an offset from its address.
Pretty sure it’s embraced by Millenials. Kids toys and room decorations used to be vivid bright colors, and now they are a sea of beige highlighted with very faint pastal colors if they have color at all.

https://www.crateandbarrel.com/kids/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/hot-new-baby-gear-is-sad-beige-...
The example SVG: https://berthub.eu/trifecta/i/Tcp2y3TbBzU

doesn't execute the javascript when visited directly in any browser I tried. Does it make a difference if it's embedded in a html page?
The problem is not that some of the suspicions of wrongdoing turn to be true, the problem is believing something that is clearly utter nonsense and has been debunked constantly. Even worse, many of these are pushed by malicious state actors.
It looks like they implement something similar to Bonjour [1] using multicast DNS [2]. Not sure if it's basically a reimplementation like Avahi [3] or if it's a slightly different protocol (only skimmed the code [4] briefly).

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_(software)

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast_DNS

[3]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avahi_(software)

[4]: https://github.com/localsend/localsend/tree/main/app/lib/pro...
Tech Prophecy and the Underappreciated Causal Power of Ideas [Pinker 2019] [pdf]
Essay in "Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at AI" from 2019.
Shareholder Vote Exchange. A platform to sell your shareholder voting rights
The Ozempic Plateau
https://archive.is/nKnCU
Now OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants billions for AI chip fabs
I wonder if immigration is also a reason. I have children with who speak Italian abd it's often not possible to access the movies dubbed in Italian, even on Disney+, even though I know for a fact that they exist. Obviously nobody is going to license the italian dub for Canada, so there is no way for me to purchase the Italian version.
Is that like greige ?

https://www.thespruce.com/greige-best-neutral-color-ever-797...
TerminusDb and the Semantic Web (2022)
I feel like commenters in this thread are talking past each other.

Some are saying "of course sites are still tracking you in incognito!", but is is unclear to me what they mean by this. I see the following interpretations:

1. Sites can still use local storage so they can track you for the duration of your incognito session, but they cannot connect this tracking to your regular session or other incognito sessions as incognito sessions start with empty local storage and discard it at the end of the session.

2. Sites do not rely on local storage, instead using fingerprinting via a combination of IP, HTTP headers, information they can query via JS, etc., so incognito has no effect on sites' ability to track you.

3. Google has special privileges in Chrome to track you when you are incognito.
Time for self-driving amphibious containers.
New @XPayments spotted today. and it gained 80k followers in a very short time period.

if X adds payment, it only means one thing
we are so back.
dupe/previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39058428
Reimagining Web APIs – Multilingual/ Rusty Web Servers
Pitchfork's Importance Shouldn't Be Underrated
Nah, it's the fish oil that does it.
https://archive.is/JKkTX
It's not a game if the answer is always No. Just always say No.
I'm not sure many religious people would agree that this is how it works. Theologically, God is never thought to be a bottom-up process, or a democratic process. Historically, I'm not sure it works either, as doctrine has always been a complex mixture of top-down ex cathedra declarations, and reactions to those declarations, and the interaction between what somebody in power wants, what they can get, and what happens next. This feels like somebody casting religion in terms of graphs because they understand graphs and think about them a lot. Like a programmer saying "after all, what is a marriage but a state machine?" or something unproductive like that.
HGTV's Home Town goes for a more vernacular look, so is to be applauded. What they do seems more labor intensive though.
World War 3 has been going on since 2010. We are currently in one of history's times of great turbulence.

(Most people lived through the fall of the Roman Empire and didn't even notice it.)
> Muslims would be pretty firm that Mo was just a prophet.

Nobody said that "the guy at the top of the pyramid making most of the money" is supposed to be god.

Doesn't matter anyway, y'all are taking a joke way too seriously.
Vacuum: Theory and Technologies
In my experience, the default shell history settings don't work well with multi-shell environments such as tmux. What I have done is in ~/.bash_profile, I create a subdir of ~/.historydirs and put in each of my history files (HISTFILE, LESSHISTFILE, PY_HISTFILE, etc.) which will be unique for a given tmux pane. This means that I can not only search for an exact command, but I can also get useful contextual information related (e.g. What folder did I last cd to?)
The Saudis are indeed incompetent (and mostly hired mercenaries to do the actual ground fighting anyway, surprise surprise they were not too eager to actually risk their lives for MBS). The UAE armed forces, on the other hand, are quite effective.
> these evangelists are clearly not Cristian

No true scottsman would ever have perpetrated such a scam. In fact, true scottsmen never do anything bad.
I thought data itself couldn't be copyrighted. I wonder what the original file contained.
That sounds like a great way to lose an upcoming world war to some people who DGAF about pollution, climate, or other people in general.
I don’t know if it’s millennials per se but subreddits about cozy, nice living spaces are upvoting for whatever reason quite uniformly empty and gray minimalist designs. Like a distopian hospital from the future or something.
Not just in Maine. Our GP in Maryland ( home to JohnsHopkins!) decided to transition to "concierge service" which we couldn't afford. It took nine (9!) months to find a GP who was taking on new patients. Most developed country in the world?
$ rsync --dry-run -a --stats rsync://rsync.textfiles.com/textfiles ./textfiles.com
…
Number of files: 866,935 (reg: 826,831, dir: 40,083, link: 21)
…
Total file size: 319,889,987,473 bytes
…
Previous posts only count if the post has had significant discussion which this one doesn't appear to have had in the last year. If you think there's something else wrong with the submission just email the mods.
It was probably just stuck in a tree.
I wonder what religions adhere to this? There's nothing "average" about the gods I've read about, and their desired moralities are often beyond the reach of the average adherant.
I remember about 2017 or 2018 giving a talk about Ethereum and asking how many people in the audience of maybe 400 had heard of the CAP theorem.

One hand went up in the back. That's when I knew our culture was doomed.

CAP is (for the record) why the blockchain is and is not "just a database" -- it's a database which takes a different position on CAP and as a result can be used for different things to other databases.
Except this restriction effectively bans xkcd passes (4 random dictionary words)
I don't believe this is true. In incognito mode you don't have the same gaia or dblck cookie ids. Your traffic is logged in icognito mode by Google but as a different user under a different identifier.

Now certain websites could use tracking methodologies based on ip address and device signatures to identify you as the same user and set a cookie identifying you as the same user for purposes like remarketing, but Google itself doesn't join this data from their own logs.

This announcement is just clarifying that Google does log data in icognito mode as do other websites. It doesn't say that Google joins your icognito session data with your non-icognito session data.
For terminal apps, go + bubbletea
But hot water isn't as useful as electricity.

In summer, when solar is plentiful, radiators aren't run, and showers tend to be cool. In winter, when there's higher demand, there's less solar.

Electricity is fungible. It can become heat, or light, or compute, or just about anything. Hot water isn't that versatile.
Thanks! I'm not sure if I'll have the bandwidth to help yet, but interested to hear about the problem you are facing. I'll reach out this week.
I don’t think you’re supposed to hold your breathe when lifting…
Delphi still exists. So does Lazarus ( open source version ).

For BASIC, there is GAMBAS.

There is also OpenXava for Java.

The lack of popularity is not just because they do not exist.
I see it as an “iphonification” of industrial design and architecture. White cars became trendy in the early 2010s, after the white iPhone 4. Every item that wants to be perceived as a quality one is targeting that minimalistic, uncluttered, quirk-free look.
This is how we incubate various diseases. Monkey pox being a good example (but it’s origin story doesn’t get mentioned because it goes against the current zeitgeist).
Steve Jobs brainstorms with the NeXT team 1985: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udi0rk3jZYM
This blog post plays too loose and fast with its terms to be useful as a model of anything:

- It's tautological. A tribe is defined as a connected graph of members with a shared mean opinion, and then God is defined as that shared mean opinion. You can't do that - you can't assume what you're setting out to prove. Nor can you just call something a term (like 'God') and then assume it actually has other properties we associate with the term - you have to demonstrate that. In other words, all this blog post does is propose a definition and fail to show how that definition remotely captures that interesting properties we care about. I can call birdsong "trees" all I want, I doubt I'll be getting calls from the department of forestry anytime soon.

- It assumes a bad foundation. N in the author's formulation is clearly infinite (I challenge anyone to describe a procedure to enumerate all possible opinions), but the author assumes its finite. What they really want to mean is that you can assign a numeric score to a person that describes inclination towards agreement with a particular proposition, which is still workable.

This is, frankly, bad armchair philosophy.
A more efficient way to do that would be to flag people doing that to admins, not to tell them not to do it
Silence is equivalent to a “no” (posix comp.). That’s documentation enough.
That second one looks like a sanitarium for babies.
Why can’t “more rotors” be another solution?
If linked via an <img> tag, browsers will run the SVG in a script-less context. The problem is direct linking, then you have a potential XSS.

Here it’s the CSP directive (Content-Security-Policy: script-src ‘none’) which is neutering it, as indicated by the comment your got the SVG from.

However from what I remember of my experiments script-src none can severely degrade SVGs even though they don’t use JS, because it affects some styling.
To be fair, the developers of Syncthing have been explicit that Syncthing is not intended to be a file transfer application, and that you should avoid doing so. Syncthing is designed to keep two folders on separate devices in sync at all times.

That said, I have used it at times to "transfer" a single file that I copy paste elsewhere and then delete from the sync folder. Sorry Syncthing devs..
This kinda reminds of the previous project that created "iMessage for Android"...
Do consider Syncthing particularly if you are using Android. If using apple iOS you'd need the möbius sync client.

https://syncthing.net/

https://www.mobiussync.com/

One thing that it beats the cloud / centralized sync on is because the connection is direct between devices when the initial transfer is completed the file is completely there on the other device. With a cloud type of sync you do the transfer twice. I've seen stack up on large media or with the structure of cloud services pricing making it expensive depending on how your workflow is setup with inside and outside parties. For example, Dropbox deduction from all parties' storage limits not just the sharer.

You can also point Syncthing at a local sync of Dropbox or Google drive and then forward the files to other recipients from that for some purposes.
I'm building an ai-startup that can take up on your user account and continue on your behalf conversations while you're away. If anyone is interested to join drop me a message
Great question, I'm also interested in this type of content though I know few examples. Since you like PsychOdyssey also check out Double Fine Adventure and the few Amnesia Fortnight series (also on DoubleFine's Youtube channel) if you haven't.
If you use mesh gradient with Inkscape, it will append about 17K of Javascript to the end of the SVG that starts like this:

<script id="mesh_polyfill" type="text/javascript">

It surprised me the first time I saw it.

The script appears to be minimized version of what's here:

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/tree/master/src/exten...
Contrast it with beautiful areas like the Amalfi Coast or any old town in the Mediterranean. They have color and trees. The advent of concrete, specifically Portland cement, brought on the gray brutalism. Builders would rather leave the stark concrete raw than color it.
After the pandemic purchasing spike for both home schooling and work from home, every computer manufacturer's sales declined.

In Apple's case you also have the people who upgraded early for the M1 performance boost, and they aren't likely to toss out a new computer unless they are doing cutting edge tasks.
Oh they do that garbage in Canada too? I thought i was able to escape it by leaving Italy
These don't actually work. Adversarial optimization is largely model-specific.
This is true, but also so old that it is well known by now.

It can be blocked by CSP IIRC.
I thought the analogy to linear algebra added very little. It seems more they’ve just littered words about vectors around the word average. They just want the word average.

I think there might be some interesting analogies to vectors out there, so it annoys me that they’ve basically made a head-fake toward them and then just used the word average.

I think you are going in a better direction. I’d call a person’s opinions a point in a many-dimensional space, a space of issues. Then, to come up with a discourse we project those opinions into a some space of ideals. I think what things like the 1D left/right spectrum and the 2D political compass miss is that there isn’t some objectively correct way of picking the unit vectors for the space you are projecting onto. Probably we’d want to do the PCA, but that’s based on the population.

I’d also place the discussion in terms of political opinions rather than some analogy to a god or some gods, since they bring in a lot of feelings.
Civilian ships can be surprisingly resilient. Many oil tankers survived hits from the same missiles that crippled the USS Stark.
Definitely do not fuck anybody you work with on a daily basis.

Never works out well. Got the T-shirt.
I suspect you could use your infrastructure ti give you a pretty good idea of where the split is as you have tools like your bug tracing system, different branches on repos etc to figure out adequately how much time goes where. Much better than time cards unless you’re a government contractor.
Reading QR codes without a computer
> Setting up the server is no effort at all.

This assumes that the user has a level of technical knowledge that most people don’t have.
I am sure reassembling a Mac Mini into a custom shed makes sense on the scale of GitHub but for smaller companies https://www.racksolutions.com/mac-mini-shelf.html usually suffices.
>Is it really too much to ask for pedestrians to look left before crossing?

Yes, is that even a real question? A pedestrian with a walk signal should be able to cross without looking for traffic. They shouldn't need to anticipate that the car approaching a red light is going to just roll into the crosswalk without stopping.
What a wonderful fable. I enjoyed reading it and wish there was more research occuring in this field. Still, I'm impressed from what I hear in the news from time to time.
> Why teach someone a language they can’t use at work?

Not everything is about work, especially for children.
According to the page the HTTP CORS headers prevent JS execution. But the problem remains that svg can embed and execute JS on servers without these non-default headers.
That doesn't change the fact they are transporting half their freight by truck while the US transports a small fraction of that.. Also, US does have rivers and canal transport as well. Mississippi and Erie canal.
There's a wild amount of mechanical, electronic and software work going on in the Tampa Bay area.

Work is a lot more physical here than what I saw during 2+ decades in the SF Bay area (which was mostly software oriented, IME).

There's a ton of defense tech companies, medical tech, finance and (at least) 2 huge PCB assemblers are also here (Kimbal and Jabil).

St Pete and Tampa both have extensive areas filled with small physical production companies that can do machining, lasers, plastics, engineering, etc. The services can be pricey and a bit slow because they're built around defense/medical budgets, but unlike many other geographic areas, they are available domestically and folks tend to be really helpful.
I see quality building as a materials problem. I'm little surprised at the number of comments promoting that color is tied to quality.

I see color generally as the least significant feature of design. There are situation where color becomes important to communicate ideas. These moments I see as design details. I don't see them generally as intrinsic to design.

Mosts of the factors I see discussed in this thread are more related to mass manufacturing and trying to guess what people want.

Everything is ugly becuase few people take personal responsibility in making the world better.
Wow you weren’t kidding. Looks like a sheet metal factory.
I completely agree. For one thing, they're probably looking at the wrong things since student effectiveness will dominate teacher effectiveness, and that is where the hard problems come (knowing what to look at, what to measure, proxy measurement error, and measurement distinction)
> esoteric

> 1. understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; recondite

> 2. belonging to the select few

Just because some people give special meaning to the phrase "esoteric programming language," doesn't mean that people who don't know about it should be chastised for not knowing the... esoteric meaning of the phrase. This reeks of "my club uses this adjective only for this occasion, you're not using it right, you don't belong to the club, go away".
Also, different icognito sessions will be logged as different users since all the cookies are deleted when you close all your incognito browsers.

So the TLDR, is that yes data is being logged for an incognito session by Google, but that data isn't tied together by Google across icognito sessions or icognito and non-icognito sessions.
True, but for that alone I'd assume that there's no lack of trying. Innovation through dozens (hundreds?) of suppliers each trying to sell to installation companies.

In old-google-speak those are certainly not moonshot projects, but I'm sue that this organic innovation of many hands, eyes and minds has already achieved quite a bit. In the other hand that kind of innovation is prone to getting stuck in local optima and one of the reasons I believe that the "scaffolding as robot rails" approach might be worthwhile is that it would be somewhat moonshotty, and that moonshottyness could very well knock the state of the art out of local optima if it happens to be stuck.
> They also multiply the number of potential customers, so I don’t see that being a problem.

This is something I believe requires some research, because each platform is a bit of a different market. Point in case, the market for Magnet exists only because macOS has no Aero Snap type system built into its window management — a utility like it probably wouldn’t sell enough copies to justify Windows or Linux ports.

There’s plenty of software where multiplatform makes sense, but it’s not certainly not universal.
The concept of RAII has emerged gradually and it would be hard to pinpoint a moment for its appearance. I am not aware of any specific feature of RAII that has appeared in Common Lisp before other languages.

The concepts of constructors and destructors have been introduced by C.A.R. Hoare in November 1965, in "Record Handling", a proposal for the extension of Algol.

At that time, Hoare was using the Cobol terms, i.e. "record" for what later was named "object" and "record class" for what later, in Simula 67, was abbreviated to "class". All the "records" discussed by Hoare were allocated dynamically, in the heap.

Constructor (Hoare, 1965-11): "In order to bring records into existence in the first place, the record class identifier should be used as if it were a function designator"

Destructor (Hoare, 1965-11): "a standard procedure "destroy" is proposed, which takes as parameter a reference to a record, and which reverses the effect of having created that record"

The next step towards RAII has been done by Bjarne Stroustrup in "C with Classes" in April 1980, when he made the invocation of the destructors implicit at the exit from a block, by introducing the special member function "delete" for this purpose. Despite the name, the 1980 "delete" member functions corresponded to what later, in C++, were renamed as destructors.

So in 1980, RAII was complete, but it was not yet promoted as a universal strategy for managing resources.

In 1980, Common Lisp did not exist.

Most older Lisps did not have any concept similar with the Algol block, so it would have been impossible for them to invoke implicitly some cleanup functions at block exits. They relied only on the garbage collector, where there is no RAII in the Stroustrup sense, even if GC and RAII are alternative methods for avoiding the explicit invocations of "free", "close" and the like.
That's exactly why I switched email providers. I want a reliable login, password and 2FA scheme where if I have all 3, I'm in. Google doesn't have that.
> biblically taught

And there’s the key. If only people would read the Bible. If they would read even just Philippians 3:12 or Hebrews 10:26 or any of a number of other passages, they would see at once what heresy “once saved, always saved” is.

But no, Christianity is too often just a club. Most people have no actual interest in the Bible. God has ever worked with minorities and remnants. Christianity strongly Bible-based will always be small by comparison.

I rather like the way Dickens framed it in A Christmas Carol:

> “There are some upon this earth of yours,” returned the Spirit, “who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us, and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.”