skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's interesting here is that life on earth has commonly defined has been around gathering negative entropy for several billion years (photosynthesis and the rise of oxygen for over 3 billion) and growing exponentially on earth. That is a sizeable fraction of the age of the universe. Human like ancestors have been using fire for over a million years (based on the oxygen generated above), agriculture for thousands, and industry for hundreds.

All of these are exponential increases in energy density, entropy generation, and negative entropy consumption. To not describe them as phase changes is odd. It's telling that economic growth over the last 4000 years (first farming and now industry in the last ~400) also appear to be exponential over several orders of magnitude. Whether there's a quick end to this or not is an open question, but they still look like phase changes. That weather is starting to be affected is equally telling.

A conflation of consciousness with life seems weird, though. If ordered psuedo-crystals are life (or clay-RNA / DNA crystals) or even viruses are life, I don't know anyone claiming they're conscious. It would be like assuming life caused capitalism or industry, when certainly they fit very different exponential curves. Making arguments that industrialization (use of power other than human/animal work) isn't a "phase change" in economy would also be similarly strange.

Now, whether it "confronts physical laws" or requires an explanation, I have no idea. They do seem to be transitions at least as interesting as weather on Jupiter.

https://communities.springernature.com/posts/were-humans-the...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earliest_known_life_forms

https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/longgrow.pdf
Well, this exactly explains why HN's site has become so unreliable for me.

As soon as this post appeared, I began receiving timeouts. 90% of the time, the front page won't load, the host won't respond.

I have no troubles with any other IPv4 or IPv6 sites. My home network has been running IPv6 for about 8 years, since my ISP enabled it and I worked out some good router settings.

I routinely verify that all 3 of my devices are preferring IPv6. These timeouts are not occurring on my Android 11 phone, only on my Chromebook for now. Windows 10 Pro, not tested.
> I don't see why anyone burn their house down for temporary warmth.

Muilenburg got $62.2 million for burning his house down:

https://www.manufacturing.net/aerospace/news/21109798/boeing...
Apple dials back car's self-driving features and delays launch to 2028
Nobody is in a position to EOL v4. We'd need a planetary government for that, and we don't have one. It would be nice, but we have to work with what we've got and not what we wish we had.

I run my desktop with no v4, so it's clearly possible to push handling for v4 out of your network. You could outsource it to somebody else even, for example by using one of the DNS servers listed on https://nat64.net/.
Seems inevitable. Newspapers no longer have a business model that works. Even the "savvy" ones are overly reliant on display ads ... and display ads are getting less and less desirable to advertisers vs other modes of marketing (such as paid placement in the content of influencers).

Newspapers have to evolve and evolve quickly to survive. Unfortunately, the type of people that have grown into leadership positions within newspapers and the type of people that work in newsrooms, are typically not the kinds of people that can evolve (or even think evolution or change is desirable).

Take the typical hostile reaction of mainstream journalists towards any new tech development out of silicon valley. Will that breed of skeptic be able to move fast and find a new model that works?

I think the last gasps of the existing media behemoths will come not with them innovating, but with them going to Washington DC and trying to legislate their existence back into relevancy via various attempts to break the open internet.
Long since resigned.

It's impossible to keep a secret on the internet. You can't secure military technology, bank secrets, crypto tokens or prevent piracy.

Computers were designed to be open by default.

General purpose computing mannufactured across the planet with everybody having a hand in the supply chain has become the betrayal system.

Security follows the traditional Mafia protection scheme racket.

- Some Romanian hacker leaks data from your web server and sells it.

- You pay developers to close the vuln.

- You pay cybersecurity a protection fee to prevent it happening again.

- It happens again.

Developing a real technology that can give secure control back to the owner-operator goes against good business incentives. You can't farm users and share the wealth on a truly secure computing model.
Is there not wider EU regulation dealing with responsible disclosure? I know for a fact that in Romania you can do that, if and only if you follow certain steps (definitely not public disclosure after 3 days, obviously), and I _think_ the source is EU regulation, not local law. IANAL etc.
The space currently assigned to globally routable addresses is 1/8th of the v6 address space. Over 50% of the addressable space is currently reserved.

The numbers are frankly mind-bending. Even if we we make a complete pigs ear of assigning billions of IPs to billions of networks in the current /3, we have space for more than one do-over.

But I do believe there's a higher chance the next /3 will be assigned to Mars.
Exactly! Price discovery in Bitcoin has always been a nightmare, but now there's at least a chance of getting some serious information into the market.
I get that. There's tons of amazing possibilities and it's fun to imagine them and to hope they come out. I'm going to try to make something with my kiddo for the FW, but of course the focus will be on bonding and helping my kiddo build skills, understanding, and connection. So we might not quite get to putting the e-ink reader on the backside of the lid.
We have been told that so many times at work, but I know most snr people seem to leave them and their smart watches in listen mode as they occasionally go off in video calls.
> On the other hand, if you don't take the vaccine, the worst that happens is Pfizer doesn't get your money.

Also, y'know, the whole increased risk of serious illness due to a lack of immune protection that would be granted by the vaccine.
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For Property Investors, the Price of Homes Is Still Not Right
Flatpaks are a perfectly functional option https://flathub.org/apps/org.mozilla.firefox
Given that the OP is asking about a problem caused by not having enough control over the software they're running, it's entirely valid to respond by suggesting software that gives the user more control.
I totally agree with this stance. Among my peer group a couple of folks own a second property they rent out and the "if we didn't where would our tenant live?" vibe is bizarre. They'd live in a house, maybe even being able to afford the one you rent to them.
Cool ideas and nice writeup. Thanks for sharing!
I often use ping to check if a machine is alive or is reachable at large. Then it might be more informative if ping tried all addresses the name resolves to. You wouldn't need to specify the protocol version.
How can there ever be price stability without any mechanism to buffer changes in economic activity?

The demand for money is highly variable and roughly correlated with economic activity (just think of 2020!), so with the supply fixed, large swings will always occur even (and especially) in a world where Bitcoin really becomes a usable currency.
Yeah there's no reason for this to be flagged. Bad look for Rust IMO if lots of Rust users are flagging valid criticisms.
> The Count to the Eschaton Sequence is a six-novel series written by John C. Wright.
Oh yeah? I tried Silverblue a couple years ago, and the Nvidia driver stopped working after a motherboard swap. I tried Kinoite but KDE Plasma's subpixel antialiasing looks terrible on HiDPI displays. Maybe that's some of the "convenience and polish" that you just have to sacrifice in order to use FOSS, but I could also just use software that's properly polished and not care whether it is FOSS or not.

And no, I'm not rebuilding my computer for linux, you would not be the first person to point out that I should replace my Nvidia GPU with an AMD one.

I will note though that GNOME is one of the nicest DEs I've ever used, at least back when graphics acceleration worked. Trackpads finally seem to be a first-class citizen, something Apple has already been doing for almost two decades (and, in fact, it's an Apple trackpad that works quite well with it).
Sony did lose its appeal during the PS3 OtherOS lawsuit (it ultimately settled) ...

but for the macOS case can you not just reinstall? There may be a difference between inconvenience and impossibility.
With proprietary software, how many times a producer did fix breakage or add missing feature for you because you bought a licence (subscription)? How fast was it?
it has always been easy to short crypto. Futures, for example.
Which isotope? It makes quite a difference, and there's no "naturally occurring" with Pu.
Used to cycle 10km to work. I daily saw motorists ignore all sorts of things too. Every large group has a certain percentage of assholes, on account of the human race just having a certain percentage of them. That's not an excuse for anything, especially when we're talking about pretty dangerous behaviour.

Here's the thing: people WILL literally try to run you off the road, even when you're the most careful law-abiding cyclists that exists. I've had people try to run me off the road even though it was a dedicated cycle path, only to proceed to rant at me that it was all a waste of money. Even standing still at a traffic light will have people drive up way close up to your rear wheel and you look back and they shout "piss off you cunt". The amount of aggression from some is unhinged beyond proportions.

So when people come back with "yeah, but some cyclists break rules" ... Well sure, but that kind of misses the point. You get aggression even when following the rules not doing anything.
NASA subcontracted about everything for the space program.
Issue 52: Artificial Intelligence
In the big picture view of bitcoin, a 15% drop in the price is meaningless. Even with the drop, the 5-year return for bitcoin is 995%.
It should all be free, like getting credit reports is now. We need a robust and accessible way to manage our data personas, assuming that all of the supposed secrets are in fact public data.
Is it just me or is this a recreation of Electron, but without the separate browser instance?
Congrats! Amazing milestone.
Build (don't buy) your own community platform
I fully agree, but practically, this is what many companies are doing right now.
I feel like the license definitely can supersede that - you obviously wouldn't be GPL compliant if you required everyone who got access to your code to sign an NDA, for example.
Is it safe to just connect to the WiFi and download e.g. Firefox, or it's better to get it using a Flash memory while still offline?
Unity was already massive by its 5-7th year. It had tons and tons of released games at that stage. Not sure exactly why that hasn't happened with Godot but i guess it might still happen, just a bit more slowly.
>> I wonder how this thing, especially its upper floors, will fare the first time it meets up with a Moore-level storm

It almost certainly wouldn't meet up with one. The Moore tornado was an EF-5 tornado, there have only ever been 59 confirmed EF-5 tornadoes in the US since 1950. The last Moore-level storm was the Moore storm itself in 2013.

The chance of any specific building in Tornado Alley being hit by a tornado of any strength in a year is said to be 1 in 5,000. Violent tornadoes are 0.1% of all tornadoes.

In addition, Oklahoma is not the only state at risk of EF-5 tornadoes. If you're not going to build in Oklahoma due to tornado risk, you probably shouldn't build in Dallas, Chicago, Minneapolis, or Omaha either, among other places.

Map of all confirmed EF-5 tornado locations in the US: https://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/f5torns.html.
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> Short term profits is what matter to the elite in these conglomerates

That is not true. Long-term profits are by far the best thing for the owners in a corporation. See: Berkshire Hathaway.

What happened here is someone got to be in charge who did not have the brain to do the job.

When you see short-termism among CEO's, that's either due to

a) owners not aligning the CEO's incentives correctly due to the owners' negligence or stupidity, or

b) the CEO does indeed have the correct incentives, but is stupid.

Boeing profits have cratered since 2019: https://valustox.com/BA

If they focused on making great planes with reasonable R&D costs, everyone there would be vastly better off financially.
Yes. Ubuntu maintained their own deb package that redirected to a snap install.
What was unexpected was Grayscale + FTX taking a major dump on the market. The assumption was some speculators who bought in anticipation of the approval would take profits, not that the biggest holder of Bitcoin would undergo major liquidation. The people who bought the GBTC trust at a discount want to exit.
devkitPro (libnx) has a complete OpenGL implementation with solid SDL2 port. I have ported my game engine to it with ease. There are even homebrew Godot ports for Switch that have been going on for years now. There's absolutely no trouble with writing proper homebrew for the Switch, no deals with Nintendo necessary.
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Epic’s store is 12%. Tim Sweeney tweeted that Epic take 5% as profit and the rest are costs[1].

Puts the other stores’ 30% in context, though Xbox/Playstation/Nintendo do significantly more QA than Epic.

[1] https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/112044179501033881...
You also need to show actual harm in a lawsuit. Inconvenience is not harm. "You increased my version number!" is not harm. "Your update put me out of business for a week" is harm.
Like, just … a program?
You can just use your old Firefox profile. Copy it from

~/snap/firefox/common/.mozilla/firefox

to

~/.mozilla/firefox/
For normal Apt updates [0]

sudo dpkg-reconfigure --priority=low unattended-upgrades

or edit /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades.

For Snap [1]

snap refresh --hold=forever firefox

Or for all Snap applications

snap refresh --hold=forever

(Various other useful options are documented, like only updating at weekends, or when the application isn't running.)

[0] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticSecurityUpdates

[1] https://askubuntu.com/questions/930593/how-to-disable-autore...
What about operational recovery? How does a user of this protect their infomation against device failure / theft / fire ?
I hope the Chrome devs will add some features like those in Arc browser, such as summarizing content while hovering over a link and pressing Shift.
compared to a black hole though?
> Here is the thing, we aren't entitled to anything in life.

Are you sure about that? I'm entitled to a lot of things if my country's laws are anything to go by, for some reasonable definition of entitlement. I could be entitled to running my own software on a Switch if lawmakers say so. The EU already forced Apple, so what's another platform?
Between yesterday's thread and this thread today, is serverfree going to be the buzzword of the week?
The web export is very very bad currently. I know there is a PR where that is getting worked on, but currently it's basically recommended to use Godot 3.6 if you want to web export. It outright does not work for safari (and Im not sure if safari is the issue in this case, or at least not anymore. Webgl2 has been fully supported since v15 ?)
Sounds like the approach microsoft took pre windows update. That worked well at scale.
I'm not rejecting the physics of airtravel, or that planes can in principle be engineered and built safely.
They wanted to avoid FURBYGATE. They avoided FURBYGATE. Sounds reasonable to me!
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/after-2
Vroom laying off 90% of workforce, shutting down used-vehicle platform
Now Bitcoin represents a store of value, not a platform for transactions like Visa, PayPal, Venmo, etc.
Agreed, perhaps requiring companies who handle sensitive data to carry insurance and licensing engineers who build those systems, something like the PE.
it has always been generally easy to buy bitcoin. this is not 2012. Any American who can open up a brokerage account can also open a Coinbase account. Or Robinhood. Or BITO. Tons of ways to do it.
Each physical cart has a unique certificate, signed by a private key held by Nintendo. That certificate is verified locally by the console, against a public key in the firmware. Without CFW, you have no way to bypass that signature verification.

In short, the flashcart works by making a full clone of the cart, cert and all. The console doesn't know it's not talking to an original game. That is, until Nintendo's servers notice multiple consoles playing the "same" cartridge at the same time.

If you really are only making and playing backups of your own games then you'd probably be fine, but I don't think anyone really buys these products with that use case in mind.
Must have been "one of the good ones".
I can easily trust my older relatives to do fine on macOS, Linux would be either painful or more realistically a no go.
Because historically in the United States at least, the ability to pass down your wealth to your children has been one of few reliable ways to ensure your children aren't themselves thrown into the meat grinder of poverty. Hence why huge swaths of it are called "generational poverty:" their parents didn't have shit, and they too will not have shit.

That the privileged groups have leveraged this to keep their children from suffering the same fate is not a bad thing. No one deserves to be squeezed dry like the poor are. But the notion that we need to replace houses for these people as a way to accomplish this is not wrong, and making whatever it is be not-houses is a way to get communities that were brutalized by red-lining the ability to accomplish the same thing.

This is far above my pay grade. I just sick of the status-quo warriors endlessly citing the fact that we don't yet have a perfect solution as a reason to keep on using the broken current solution.
Feels like an excellent track record to me: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/firefox-esr ;)
And Mike is also a prolific Firefox developer.
The city I live near has walk signs come on automatically, followed about five seconds later by the parallel automobile light. This seems to be standard timing for a Leading Pedestrian Interval[1]. Because this happens in both directions it adds ~10 seconds to a roughly two-minute traffic cycle but it allows people to use the road without a beg button.

Certainly this would be a poor tradeoff in rural/suburban areas where most traffic cycles have no pedestrians or cyclists. Those use cases should use beg buttons.

But in a city where most traffic cycles include at least one pedestrian or cyclist then it seems like a useful tradeoff to increase convenience and accessibility for pedestrians and cyclists. What's more it may increase automobile efficiency as well: adding a couple Leading Pedestrian Intervals to every traffic cycle takes similar overall time than adding a full Barnes Dance[2] to half the traffic cycles. So if more than half of the traffic cycles include pedestrians crossing then everyone is probably better off with automatic walk signs on a leading pedestrian interval.

Of course if the city wants to really encourage walking they can do both and have the beg buttons trigger a Barnes dance for those who are young, old, nervous, or just need extra time to cross.

[1] https://highways.dot.gov/safety/proven-safety-countermeasure...

[2] what you describe above where all walk signs are on and all automobiles are stopped: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestrian_scramble
Around half of the global demand is apparently for jewellery:

https://www.gold.org/goldhub/data#demand-and-supply
I think the complexity researchers over the years have created a wide range of tooling for analysing complex systems across a large number of domains.

Consider complexity economics, computational social sciences, network sciences and cascading networks, evolutionary theories, parts of systems biology, connectomics and computational neuroscience etc.

The Santa Fe institute has been at the forefront and has an amazing collections of publications in their own press. David krakaeur's book "Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute" is like a 20 year survey paper and an amazing read.
Tell us more about these IRC channels responsive to FOIA request
Boneless-skinless chicken breast, 97/3 ground turkey, white fish, low fat/low sugar greek yogurt and other similar dairy products like Skyr.
But realistically for the end user, an Android device only gives the impression of control, does not mean it will never update and keep working.
I used inc file, it was pricey but it worked really well.
> `Clone` is not zero cost

I think you've misunderstood. "Zero cost abstraction" is not the same as "zero cost".
Access to which is currently very limited as well.
Yes but that is in the past. Why would someone want to put money in today is a more relevant discussion.
This isn’t actionable, though.

If I’d bought Beanie Babies or Stanley Cups at a very particular point in time, I might be up 1,000% at another very particular point in time.

If I’d bought Bitcoin in 2021, I might still be down almost 50%.

None of this answers the question “Why would I want to buy Bitcoin?”
> Since the first author name is zero characters long, the regex skips that line, and the fake second author line is used instead. Git ignores extra author lines after the first, so Codespaces looks at the second author line but Git looks at the first. This means we can create GitHub-signed commits with any author name+email.

Classic weird machine exploit of looking at two independent ad hoc parsers and finding inputs where they desynchronize and enter different states.
It would break reflection surely? It's nice to have as a configuration / flag though as many project will be able to require it.
I'm not sure the idealism was ever really there.

I've been in the FOSS community for 25 years, and I could see and feel an entire generation of contributors missing in action for a good long while. Legions of young folks thinking they had found the ticket to convert their nerdiness into money, status and sex. The crypto-induced brain drain from arguably more useful SW was enormous. And I saw very little of it happen for noble reasons.
That has nothing at all to do with the window panel blowout though
>slim to none

"and slim just left town" if you want to keep to the Western motif
You are trying to make the facts fit the theory.

Also, if we assume this were some kind of guild-related standard, it becomes even more odd that they are not mentioned in any accounts or records.
Nobody's done anything for me specifically, but if it's something multiple people need in their workflows, I've seen plenty of examples of things being added due to community demand. It's not fast, but nobody gave me a "do it yourself and open a pull request" attitude, which is one of my greatest gripes with open-source software.
Bloomberg: Apple targets 2028 release date for its own electric vehicle
In 2024? What a ridiculous notion
I have a motorcycle lift and a car lift, but the desk is great for motorcycle engine rebuilds or working on a steering rack, just like a normal workbench but you can raise what you're working on to chest high instead of bending over all the time.