skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Judith Butler, Slavoj Žižek, Daniel Dennett, Martha Nussbaum, Jürgen Habermas, Peter Singer, Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Alain Badiou...
The one argument in this post that is just wrong is the person who blamed ADHD. "I can't write longer than a tweet!".

But... You just did. Even the argument itself is an example of how it's false.
Oh lots of changes to make it harder for small companies to register and file. I’m shocked…

Getting rid of web filing in favour of software filing seems retrograde
You’re overlooking a hidden pernicious effect, that IQ is a relative measure that does not identify a declining trend very effectively, i.e., any identified decline in IQ is both a momentary and transient indicator as the norm, i.e., 100 IQ, integrated; and the 100 IQ norm also does not say anything about the overall relative state to any other previous state.

In other words, this is how we end up with Idiocracy where a low IQ person becomes the smartest person in the world right under everyone’s nose.
> The environment has never been stable, not once in the history of the environment. It is constantly changing.

You are making a false equivalence here. That fact that the environment changes naturally does not mean, that it doesn't matter how we influence it.
> The problem is that these "very true" ideas have gone out of fashion for a reason: they don't scale.

Well, it isn't clear whether the new ideas that have replaced them actually will "scale" for the long-run. Look at the demographic collapse of secular progressives, while countercultural religious conservatives breed like rabbits – Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?, as Eric Kaufmann's book asks
Sigh. The lungs use surface area to transfer oxygen to the blood and remove carbon dioxide. The digestive tract uses large surface area to transfer nutrients and water into the blood. One deals with gasses the other with solids and liquids. Both have soft tissues for asbestos fibres to penetrate.

Once they do, they cannot be broken down by your body, and they will eventually cause damage like mesothelioma.

I hope that explains my point.
I imagine you can apply for naturalization straight away if you get your green card issue retroactively fixed.
HTTP/1 remains the one with the highest bandwidth.

No surprise here.
The coming obligatory mass conscription in the West will make all of this moot, anyway. The obesity pandemic will be a lot harder for many of the Western militaries to overcome, though.
BTW. Motif (on X11) used small bevelled squares for check boxes and a bevelled diamond shape for radio buttons.
There was no checkmark, cross or coloured circle. Bevelled in was active. Bevelled out was not.

Example: https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/motif/vol6a/Vol6a_html/V6a....
I do this too, when I can either use a handle/index instead of a pointer, or when I can guarantee that the vectors size is constant (so that pointers/iterators are stable). I’ve also written my own vector that stores its elements in pages so that if its capacity needs to increase, the elements don’t need relocation.

I only really use C++ for a toy game engine right now and in that codebase I don’t use any smart pointers and most objects/functions get passed references to their object dependencies. I classify objects into groups where each groups ownership is very clear. So its owner is responsible for maintaining the memory and any raw pointers can always be assumed to be borrowed references. I use handles then the underlying objects lifetime might differ from whatever is holding a handle to it. Short lived objects are kept trivial and allocated from stack/bump allocators or pools and reset at well defined times (every frame, end of level, etc)

I’m much happier this way than when I used smart pointers or when I had less well defined memory ownership.
What is that zoomer UI you are referring to?
Last I checked bubble sort was the fastest sort for small counts of small objects. That was 10 years ago though so thing might have changed potentially something that might take better advantage of vector ops.

It's also often the correct choice for something like a collision partition for a physics sim where elements are most likely in the same sort position each frame.
There is a lot of interest at the moment in monitoring lines. The capacity of a line can change due to things like weather conditions. The capacity is rated based on a conservative set of assumptions. Sensors mean that they could send more power safely. This could help connect more renewable power.
I'm sorry, but omnidirectional treadmills can't work and here's why
> suggestion would cause similar accidents every 4-6 years

That seems like somewhat absurd speculation. Both of those events made future incidents significantly less likely. Also Chernobyl was totally avoidable and only happened because of extreme incompetence prevalent in the USSR.
It worked until it didn't, and when it didn't anymore the failure was spectacular.
We've been using "rocket surgery" as a portmanteau of "rocket science" and "brain surgery" for decades, though.
I think it's the time. I've noticed the comments change tone at the weekend.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet doesn't seem to contain any reference to genetic algorithms but if you have something related to share, I'd love to learn more.
Why do you even wanna get rid of it? It's only the social media and endlessly scrolling news sites. Thats needs to be avoided.

Playing games on the phone.. too. I just have Tetris on my mobile.

So it's just impulse control on my side.
Denial of Shitter attacks are always unethical.

For real though, this is a cool idea and hack, but only a real bastard would put the toilet out of action deliberately. Of course that sort of person does happen to frequent British trains and this is hence valuable research.During the Polish train hacking debacle it was suggested that saboteurs be charged with harming vital national infrastructure, I hope that toiletblockers would be similarly indicted.
MS Drone: Sir more deep fakes have emerged

Satya: Mmm hmm, and why do I care?

MS Drone: They’re of Taylor Swift..

Satya: Noooooo!!! Everyone knows Taylor is off limits, let us declare war on general purpose computing
You won't worry about citrus greening disease soon either.

You'll worry about something else, then you'll stop worrying about that too.
Lowering or removing tax is subsidy for all intents and purpose. It functions in the same way.
Interesting, but is it possible to speed up, or change the color scheme?
They are correct:

Daily Sea Surface Temperature (notice the new paradigm started in 2023 and extending into 2024):

https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/

Daily Surface Air Temperature:

https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/?dm_id=world

Daily Sea Ice Extent (click on "Show Southern Hemisphere", also showing concerns of being low in 2023):

https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/seaice/

The most shocking is the sea surface temperature, but we see rising temperature in all layers of the troposphere. A factor that has dampened global warming for very long, since the last ice age, is the ocean's capacity for absorbing heat. If this gets saturated, and since surface waters don't mix much with deep waters.. If the same surplus heat equivalent to 15 hiroshima bombs per second today hits the surface, and rising. All that goes into heating air and surface, it's going to accellerate warming going forward. Early projections are in fact showing accelleration already.

That most people are incapable of emotionally processing this, is part of the problem.
Does this apply to the City of London[0]? My understanding is that it has its own rules with regards to transparency for example. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London

[1] https://platform-production.s3.amazonaws.com/therules-134-Ci...

EDIT: Added a reference.
> From my observations the current rightwing meme is that women in rich countries haven't had sufficient numbers of children and measures to drive increased population should be put in place.

When you get to the far right wing, it's not just about "are there sufficient numbers of children?" but "Is my favoured population subgroup having sufficient numbers of children?"

i.e. racism
This reads like an extremely one sided take with a myopic US west coast moralising slant. The author seems oblivious to the irony of calling something worldcon, then throwing a tantrum if the world does dare not to prostrate to their idiological microbubble.
>"woke" people were massively downvoted and banned, then people who thought women deserve same rights as men, then anyone who criticized government

Interesting, the poster below has the opposite view:

>Owners and moderators of Habr despise Russia

>they always optimized the karma system to stimulate the authors not for posting original interesting content but to stimulate those who hate Russia and downvote those who love their country

My take would be that Habr is OK with the both views and people only notice the bans/downvotes when posts which align with their political views are banned/downvoted.
Kicad is by far the best and most feature complete. I've used it to make dozens of boards.
This is... an impressively bad analogy. As in it took me some time to even parse if it wasn't by chance something that was supposed to go somewhere else.

Maybe if you're dealing with some innocent "looking" by obvious teen on unsecured system it would have a sliver of relation to what was happening.

If anything, the biggest issue is that when the events happened, there were no "code of practice" to follow. Officials were even less useful than today. Checking for what the unauthorized access was used is today the basic of basics, and part of that comes from the experiences of what Germans call "KGB Hack". Especially when one works in national lab under auspices of Department of Energy, and traces intrusion (again, something I'd take for granted today, to check which way the attack comes if only to bolster future defenses) to a military contractor. The story probably would have ended there if it wasn't one of the first such cases - today I'd call up appropriate unit and led them lead the way.

And even then, sometimes you have to sleuth your way if only to keep the agencies honest, because sometimes the only way to get them actually acting is to publicize what happened so that public starts asking questions.

P.S. And I say that as someone who was born on the other side of the Iron Curtain and would be on short list to be vaporized under american policy of "kill as many civilians as soon as possible"

P.P.S. Sometimes the police/others will, in fact, quietly mention that they might be interested in more data off the books.
Hiring has been beyond broken well before LLMs came around. Most applicants don't even get a response when they apply to a job, especially with large/popular companies.

I'm more optimistic on this you and think AI can help with the hiring process. There's just too many applicants and good applicants fall through the cracks. This is also not all that new. HR has long had systems to try to bubble up good candidates. This will just make those better.

Currently, the best way to get in with a big tech company is knowing someone and working around the standard hiring process. How is that fair? Or how do we accept that most candidates never get a response? I'd argue there is a lot of room for improvement.
> But the sort of person that I would recommend it to would certainly already be using a tiling window manager on their desktop, and probably doesn’t care much about phones in general.

Guilty as charged.

The parts I like are the parts that work, and I think I was lucky enough not to encounter so many bugs as you did. Furthermore the hackability may be not great, but I'd venture it's still superior to the alternatives where I'd presumably need to spin up a build env for KDE or Gnome and deploy a whole new release.
I would probably not use the word hacked here, more ruined – Yes, if we use things out of their intended use, block doors, forces switches even though locked, hold switches in intermediate states, it will ruin things.

Maybe this is why toilets never work on trains when I need them. What a shame...
> Choosing to be neutral is to say that the strongest party should win.

In a war the strongest party also usually wins, so it's totally rational to not incur the opportunity costs of risking one's life by joining a war.
Pretty much so, yes. It is cheaper to just get some random dude on Fiverr who has no clue about GUI design, but can whip up something pretty that impresses the manager who has no idea about UX and GUI design either.
I take it then that you haven't read the book.
I'm not interested in "fighting" climate change while the entire western world is busy burning gasoline and trading with China.
I would say almost the opposite, with the caveat that I don't think MacPorts is much better. I've grown to dread interacting with homebrew because it's increasingly opinionated with none of the benefits of being opinionated. Want to encode h.265 video? Brew still hasn't adopted an up-to-date libx265, so there's no NEON support. Want to use postgis? Welp you're stuck with Postgres 14. Want to do change anything about a package? Welp now you've gotta go track down whatever repository and go down that road instead of using command line arguments.

And bash? bash has one killer feature: readline. zsh has some interesting eye candy but still can't match readline's history search where you can anchor the search from an arbitrary point in the command string.

The only must have app I've found so far is Little Snitch (application firewall).

Beyond that most of the setup I've done on my daily drive is undoing the brain damage Apple's imparted with Sonoma. For all the bugs and enshittification perhaps the most difficult part has been that you simply can't find all of the settings in the System Settings app via its search. The new style keyboard navigation (which involves mercilessly clobbering UI widgets) is available under the accessibility page (where the old style keyboard navigation option used to live), but the less intrusive old style keyboard navigation is now under the keyboard page.

I forget why I disabled "show widgets in stage manager", but it had nothing to do with stage manager.

There are a few things that are worth changing from the command line: e.g. the new text input wigdet / cursor that provides the visual caps lock indication (and worse the occasional input source icon).

Edit: Oh yeah. An up-to-date sqlite is super helpful, as well as a more flexible terminal app (iTerm2 and/or WezTerm for me). And of course some fonts.
I'm starting the question chaotic climate happening in my lifetime - 37. "Not being around" is something geriatrics get to enjoy, so basically all of our politicians.
Was there anything wrong, with the good old mechanical locks in train toilets?

I have seen so many (elderly) people struggle to properly use the fancy electric ones (and lots of embarrassment, with doors that were indeed not locked) and apparently some people have fun, intentionally disabling them.
You know, some people sometimes just have a urgent buisness and are in need of a working toilet on a train.
A reminder that the Oxford union voted for pacifism in 1933 but it didn't stop them fighting in ww2

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_and_Country_debate
The use of that mixture of rocket science and brain surgery predates that book from 2009 by at least 15 years.
The use of proportions rather than actual totals means the number of recruits could have dropped by that same 12.4% in every category, in which case the focus on race is completely meaningless.
This is unexpectedly hypnotizing.
Yes, because it isn't so expensive to turn things around. An estimated 100-200% in global GDP is needed to reach carbon net zero by 2050. Annually we need to spend 2-6% of GDP to solve this.
> An essential is to establish credibility: 'Leave it to me - stay off my turf - and it will get done.' When they say the VIP needs something, find out what they really need and deliver that with amazing promptness and reliability (i.e., no saying later, 'oh, I didn't think of that!'). Everyone will be happy and impressed.

I do agree that this is necessary, but I would add that for more effective policy, there needs to be (semi-)public demonstrations of those with higher titles actively refusing excessive access rights beyond their scope so that everyone can see the commitment to the security practices. We started this in a previous org and it was as simple of statements as when someone offers to give additional access rights to someone who really doesn't need it, the someone declines with the reasons:

- It's a security risk to give out too many permissions

- [The someone] shouldn't have that access anyways, it should always be gated

This made it a lot easier to talk VIPs/whatever out of their temporary obsession with higher privileges as there was just an established social norm that the right thing to do is not to seek more access rights than are absolutely needed. Along with a very strong enforcement of change management on access rights that required very publicly visible documentation for such changes, it just got a lot easier to make the social cost of persons wanting access rights they didn't need too expensive for the VIPs/whatever -- none of them wanted to be the person in the change management report that got flagged for requesting access for frivolous reasons. For a short time we even levied the results of phishing email test emails against such VIPs/whatever as a demonstration that they really do need restricted rights, though this was forced to stop as it was "too embarrassing" for some of the VIPs/whatevers who had a horrible track record with phishing emails.

It's very simple to introduce, but enforcement just takes some time and a few potentially awkward conversations at first to prepare for the first "real fight" over access rights.
Sorry but the 'twitter will die any day now' narrative was utterly pervasive across reddit and endless media sources were cited on a daily basis in the 6-month period that followed the buyout. It was basically the _only_ topic on r/whitepeopletwitter which had 3+ posts hit the frontpage daily.

It isn't something you can gaslight away. Everyone who was there saw it. It happened.

Interestingly enough most of the reddit posts were deleted after 3 days once they'd fallen off the frontpage. It didn't matter, there were always more being made lol. Does make it awfully hard to cite, though. Odd.
Two things. I didn’t say anything about school in the 1960s. I only said, they used they’ve used the IQ test for about a century to good effect. When they abandoned it for expediency, the results were tragic. That’s why they’ll stick to the IQ test, correct or not.

You’re saying that the US military has issues and it may well have. I’m no expert on that. But I still believe that a person who has dropped out of high school has a lot to offer society. It seems like the US military is coming around to the same line of thinking, as long as the person passes the IQ test. I think that’s a reasonable compromise.

The program might fail but if we never try then we’ll never know.
It's a form of vandalism, breaking toilets for fun and bragging about it.
Not cool.

Of course you can damage or break any physical system if you apply too much force or use it the wrong way intentionally.
UK train toilets are a classic in the bad design book. You have people who haven't locked the door being exposed to the carriage, you have people unable to close the door and people unable to open the door. And that's if you manage to get to the toilet and it hasn't been ruined by a previous occupant.
These mechanical hacks are always fun to discover. Although, that poor soul waiting for the toilet, just to find that it was locked with nobody inside - that could be you.

These things are harder to test. It’s not just software and state machines.

And then there are the truly dangerous mechanical “hacks”. Eg the radiology machine that incorrectly dosed radiation. Therac-25.
Not sure exactly what you're referring to. There are additional rules if you're listed on the London Stock Exchange (both legal as a PLC and contractual with the exchange itself, if I understand it correctly), but that's not the City per se?
Most systems can be hacked with force. You can also "hack" you way into a bank vault if you have 15 million tons of dynamite and an atomic bomb (not sure if there would be anything to come for in the vault at this point, though)
List of films about nuclear issues
Not wrong the science, but on the doomerism, that was my comment. I have a few friends on this extreme-depression-due-to-climate-change and it's not helpful to their health.

Think of it like this, death is unpreventable and we still live our lives. So even if the world collapse was totally unpreventable (I think we can still turn it around), it's still better to go down fighting and living life.
I chuckled when switching to dark mode on this website. The result is hilarious. When clicking it the page becomes dark and your cursor becomes like a flashlight. Definitely doesn't help with reading. Feels like it's a statement against dark mode. I love opinionated blogs like this.
You’ve missed the point of the video if you think the goal is maximising mean living standards.
> Denial of Shitter attacks are always unethical.

Here in Germany, the railway itself is the worst culprit - in December, when DB took over the notorious Hof-Munich line, I travelled on a 6-car double decker train that had 5 broken toilets, all of them because either the water was out or the sewage tank full. Not fun.

The second worst culprits are idiots throwing trash into the toilet. Diapers, tampons and wet wipes don't belong into regular toilets - but especially not into vacuum toilets like on trains or planes.
- Slight reduction in transmission and distribution costs, since more electricity is generated directly at the site of consumption

The generation being at the site of consumption has another big benefit: one of the largest roadblocks in the way of utility scale solar in Australia is that it's slow to get approval for the large grid connection you need to actually export that power. That time represents a cost that is sometimes larger than the cost of the actual grid connection itself.
> expose those networks via non-overlapping blocks

For this to work you need to expose the services to those non-overlapping blocks, ie write DNS views and associated shenanigans.

At this point you are half-way to IPv6, so why bother with implementing NAT44 at all?
Pressing a button would be optional. No need to give Apple's customers a confusing choice - just transfer all their money to Apple who can prioritise Apple's needs appropriately.
> warm body canon fodder

Man, your Army Band really takes their Bach to the extreme.
I kept an apple notes entry for this when I set up my M1 mbp.

Things installed on new MacBook

- Spotify

- Xcode tools

- Vs code

- iterm2

- Home-brew

- Zsh and ohmyzsh

- Emacs (mainly for org mode)

- Obsidian

- Firefox

- Chrome

- Node and typescript

- Steam

- Python

- Nord theme everywhere

- amphetamine app (screen sleep/no sleep)

- rectangle app (window management)

- Discord app

- vlc

- zotero

- latex / texshop

- zoom

I use the stock reminders, notes, calendar apps

I use the freeform app as it works well with my ipad and apple pencil.

I would like a better calendar app with a nicer UX.
The drone thing is just a fantasy some of us nerds like to tell ourselves, I've seen it in some reddit subs, too.

As per North Korea, they were able to come up with 1 million artillery shells for their friends the Russians, while the West couldn't do the same for their friends the Ukrainians [1], I'd say that North Korea got the better of the West here.

[1] https://unn.ua/en/news/it-seems-that-north-korea-is-a-more-e...
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1155#issuecomment-19...