skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that's fair. I just didn't want to paste a massive text block so went with the first line, which showed the extremely basic way of starting quen used. Link to the pastebin below (actually ended up being anonpate, seems like pastebin is down for me?)

I felt the overall writing & characterization of gpt4 was far better, including themes of bureaucracy and psychosis whereas quen sounds like a cliched 6 year old writing an aimless story.

I'm not saying either of these are amazing stories, but I think any english teacher/creative writing teacher would rate one over the other as things stand right now. Things like the comparing the rows of wheat embossed on the penny to the regimented way of life its people lead are actually half decent.

https://anonpaste.pw/v/ccbfb3e8-746f-4311-9db4-cedbf6c3a440#...
what is "old archaic" to you? by the time a satellite is operating in space, it has been years in the r&d phase, build stage, launch queue stage, then finally in orbit. by that time, software onboard is definitely archaic in modern terms. if you consider hardware like mobile devices with yearly advances, it's also pretty old.

it would also seem pretty odd to me to put anything onboard to do any kind of processing other than what's necessary to gather the data. just bring that raw data back down to terra firma where the latest/greatest processing tricks/hardware can be utilized.
It's difficult to explain, but having children triggers something deep--primitive, even--inside of you that unlocks another level of fulfillment. And self growth, for that matter.

I too have had a rewarding career that has afforded me all kinds of comfort. I've traveled extensively, even living in a foreign country. I've met interesting people and done interesting things.

But there's something special about hearing your child say "dada" or "mama" for the first time.

Notice, though, I said "fulfillment" and not "happiness"; I find the lows are lower and the highs are higher.

I wouldn't call you "selfish" or "materialistic."

I would say that parenting requires sacrifices--time, most of all--and can cultivate a kind of de facto anti-materialism depending on the parenting style.

There's a reflection on the past where you think of yourself as less selfish now, since you are now locked into doing more for others. Never before did you have to suck snot out of the nose of a completely helpless being, clean human waste, or endure having your beard roughly tugged on because it got a giggle.

The childless thus can _feel_ "selfish" to parents since they typically don't do as much for others as parents do for their children / wives / husbands / etc.

But that doesn't make it so.
Right, I'm dumb. Yeah, that sounds like a very exciting experiment! Now I just have to find someone to fund it...
You mean, "would Internet Brands kill it in a more annoying way?"
Perfect. Now we'll need a DMCA exemption to repair your own spacecraft.
Do you accept the bet to be paid in person? :)

You all are focusing on labeling the time to humans in Mars. But how about the time to completely discard that life exists now in Mars? How much time would it take to design, build and send a mission of this nature?

It's the ratio of the two times that matters.
Such as?

Looking forward to a set of paper from renowned researchers with SIGPLAN/ACM, IEEE proven credentials in language research.
> sandboxing of Java applets, for example – which didn't work out as well as its inventors had hoped.

Now that must be the most diplomatic understatement I've come across in a long time.
Karmarkar's algorithm, for example, has been proved to run in polynomial time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karmarkar%27s_algorithm

It was also (in)famous as an algorithm that was patented (the patent expired in 2006).
Also, children are suprisingly resilient and will recover quite easily most of the time.
Is it? The internet has incredible potential. For a brief period of time in the early 2000s it felt like it was going to live up to that potential. Now it's a festering wound on our collective psyche as a species.

Augmenting our minds directly with our technology probably does have the potential to bring humanity to soaring heights. But in our current state, the powerful people who will be responsible for this technology will not use it for our good. They'll use it to further enrich themselves.

... which yes, probably means serving us advertisements.
Learning People Skills as a Software Engineer: Navigating the Human Code
The best thing about Emacs compared to vim/neovim is that it has first-class GUI support that's not simply a terminal emulator in a window.

I know about gVim and hundreds of half-baked neovim frontends, but the default way of running emacs is through a bonafide GUI, and I love that.

Terminals are alright, but they have too much historic cruft and limitations that actually do not make any sense in this day and age.

If your issue is running Emacs on a remote server, there's TRAMP and emacsclient (does it work over TCP?)
Natural language is even worse than video for quick content consumption: you can’t quickly skip through content that way the can fast scroll through a blog post.
Indeed. Going down the terminfo road lies madness only.

This is partly due to the maintainer of ncurses being somewhat ... conservative and the new fangled terminal devs wanna move things fast.
i use the complete installation, so the cost is nearly zero.
I respect her endeavour. Except why go through all that trouble when you can just get a continuous light that doesn't annoy anyone?

Seems to be that just about no-one are annoyed by continuous lights. And they can be cosy too. Moreover, with fancy new LED technology (sorry for the slight sarcasm) you can even have it in paper lamp shades, or whatever nicely done Art Nouveau creation you like.
>Progress tracking is hard to do at scale in completely open-ended conversations since there are so many degrees of freedom within one conversation.

You're overthinking it, my friend. The solution is much simpler than you realize. Email me.
This is so broken and depressing. I had a tour of the EMR system being used in my jurisdiction and it was shocking how bad the UI/UX was. The scenario you describe is exactly what I imagined.

As a software developer I feel so motivated to fix it, I know a small team could do a better job. But I don't even know where to begin to try to enter that industry.
How to Build an Origami Computer
I've been having issues with their S/W for a while now.

* Couldn't select a current version of the OS to install on a Pi Zero.
* Can't install the current version on an SSD that will run on a Pi 4B. An SSD install works. The same install on an SD card does work.
* An install that runs on a Pi 5 won't run on a Pi 4B.

I asked about the first on their forum and my post was deleted before anyone could answer. No reason was given and I could find no where to ask.

The post was in no way critical or inflammatory. They just don't want to discuss problems with their stuff. There were a lot of changes in how the imager works and what happens on first boot and I suspect they are still catching up with related bugs.
Tractors now day can have more screens than my home office.

https://youtu.be/ubl5BEuqzL8
I have a problem identifying what hole tablets have filled, or even what devices they've truly replaced. When the iPad was released, many outlets were making silly claims like laptops will be gone within 5-10 years.

The touchscreen smartphone has almost entirely replaced the landline and dumb/feature cell phones. The iPad has possibly replaced laptops for some, but otherwise it's replaced the... portable DVD player?

I don't see VR headsets replacing the phone or the laptop or the desktop as long as I have something to strap to my head. It's a matter of form factor, longevity, and convenience.
Shoutout to https://github.com/EvHaus/youtube-hide-watched. Works in Safari
> What is going to destroy phones is natural language.

Then the Watch is the future.
Mobile phones and VR are different non competing markets. AR might eventually compete with phones once you can wear an AR device all day everywhere you go. AR and VR should be treated as distinct; a good VR headset is bad for most AR usecases and vice versa. Maybe at some distant time there will be hardware capable of doing both really well but not for many years. VR fits into daily life as a social experience and will be obvious once eye, face and full body tracking are included with the headset. Even before that if someone solves the network problems with concurrent users and delivers an experience that handles audio well enough to work with multiple people having conversations within earshot of each other. AR is really just putting screens and overlays everywhere, conversational interfaces will have more and better impact than that.
logicmag.io The site advertises itself as "tech with ideology". I hate that.

Quote from the site
"""
In 2023, Logic Magazine was relaunched as Logic(s), the first queer Black and Asian tech magazine
"""

I would hate tech with Christianity, tech with asian people, tech with conservatives.

As an engineer I do not care what color skin, or what your beliefs are. They are only important to me if I am uncertain about author biases.
Because your tax dollars do not pay for the Chinese surveillance apparatus. Of course they're spying on you, that's their job.

Our country is ostensibly different than theirs precisely because we don't treat our citizens like enemies... as much.
what farmers?
> The netbooks, as a sub 10"

The upthread user was discussing 10-12", not sub-10", netbook included both. The sub-10” segment, where keyboards were of limited utility because they were too small for most people's hands, lost to smartphones/tablets, the 10"+ segment was won by Chromebooks.

> The result is what I had an (almost perfect) Acer W4-821 a decade ago and can't have anything even remotely comparable on x64 arch at all now.

But that's a tablet, not a netbook. That's a sign that Intel got displaced on even relatively powerful mobile devices, not the death of the netbook.
Totally agreed with you there. I hope Haskell's community is generally friendly and welcoming, but I guess it isn't always that way.

In case you're interested into how Haskell handles some of the specifics you brought up:

> in Elixir and Rust I can just add dependencies to a file (Rust even allows you to add the dep via a CLI command) and then reference it in your code a minute later, issue a command and your project is compiled and runs and you see the result

This is also true of Haskell using Cabal. Cabal has some rough edges. Perhaps it's not as ergonomic as the Elixir or Rust equivalents (I've never used them) but you can at least do that.

> when I saw its huge combinatorial explosion of different compilers, I gave up on the spot. Give me 2-3 options and leave the rest to the enthusiasts.

This issue has been resolved with the introduction of the GHC2021 language edition. Just use that. No need for any other language extensions as a non-expert, except maybe in very special cases.

(By the way, there was never a combinatorial explosion of compilers. Almost all language extensions simply remove restrictions. But I understand how people could interpret it that way, and GHC2021 is a very simple way of resolving the misunderstanding.)
Sort of

> CONCEALING A TIP

> One current federal prosecutor learned how agents were using SOD tips after a drug agent misled him, the prosecutor told Reuters. In a Florida drug case he was handling, the prosecutor said, a DEA agent told him the investigation of a U.S. citizen began with a tip from an informant. When the prosecutor pressed for more information, he said, a DEA supervisor intervened and revealed that the tip had actually come through the SOD and from an NSA intercept.

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE97409S/
Setting up a scheduled bank transfer is exactly the sort of task that would spend too long on my todo list in the first place.
"The scale of systems to set up there for humans to stay for weeks is mind-blowing"

Aren't they basically the same systems, that also sustain them in space? Like on the ISS?

So you need to land such a module and have enough fuel, oxygen and supplies?

Not saying, that it is easy, but you make it sound like it is a completely different and harder challenge than living in space?

The only increased problem I can think of, might be the microdust.
Like so many Apple things, I thought AirPods were dumb until I got some (as a gift). I'd tried some Logitech wireless earbuds just a couple months before first trying AirPods. Those were dumb. God they sucked.

I've avoided the Watch for that reason. The little conveniences of various Apple-thingies are the sort of stuff you can't un-experience, and then you're stuck buying the damn things forever.
Some of the largest holders of Bitcoin are US and Chinese governments, due to confiscations. The government is not in a rush to sell.
Indeed. I wish more developers were willing to take such a principled stance. (Though given the vitriol they endure I understand why most don't.)
> that line of thinking doesn't seem to justify the R&D spend alone

I'm sure they're also looking to use the technologies they develop for this in other products, too.
It's not a complaint (from me or my acquaintances), it's something that I thought (possibly incorrectly, but as mentioned I am ignorant hence me asking) was a hindrance to the success of the market. I.e. when I speak to most people re: VR/AR, they say something like "It sounds like a lot of faff", or "I have one gathering dust, I can't be bothered to use it".

I have no skin in the game and no intention of buying anything for another couple of years at least, FWIW.

Anyway: Sibling post says ~5 seconds from standby - Which seems very reasonable to me, so I suppose it's just lack of compelling features (subjectively to the people in question, not regular users) that result in the 'gathering dust'... Which means the people I have spoken to haven't wanted to bother keeping it on standby (thus increasing the barriers further).
This has no bearing in reality. Furthermore, the others in this thread are referring to therapeutic doses of amphetamine, not microdosing literally.

The level of nonsense perpetuated on that site based on rat studies is absurd.
Until it isn't. And somehow I doubt it will be your plane where it happens.
Javalin v6 has been released
I don't think the courts or the companies which hold your personal data consider you to have any property right to that data (beyond the intellectual rights you may have via any copyrights, even if you count those much personal data like your location history or your DNA isn't copyrightable). Imo when the government receives a copy of your personal data from a third party they aren't "taking your property" any more than I would be if I took a photograph of your house.

How do you imagine property rights for personal data to work? Even in places like the EU with stronger rights/protections around personal data they don't try to fit those rights/protections into the existing framework of property rights because they are so different.
Birth rates are falling in the Nordics. Are natalist policies no longer enough?
In this case more like, your Tractor will stop unless it can acquire a Starlink satellite over the horizon....
Thank you. Your experience with the Quest 2 mirrors my own. I'm undecided if I will try a Q3 or skip a generation. It definitely seems like things are moving in the right direction and I'm excited about that!
Because they keep optimizing for ad clicks over accuracy, and at some point you hit a threshold where people just no longer feel like they're getting the data they want. At first it was one ad, and one or two clickbait content farms on page one, and people didn't mind, but these days it's 2-3 ads and 90+% content farms, and people are really wondering why they bother.

It's why gen z and alpha – who've never experienced a search engine prioritizing their needs over ad revenue – tend to go straight to youtube or other sites (and now AI), because search engines in their experience have never worked.
Testosterone gel eliminates the audience effect
Tangent: but in my layman understanding of all this, is it possible that we’re actually cross contaminating Mars with tiny amounts of earthly life?

I know the travel and radiation probably makes it unlikely but also seems plausible to me a few specks of mold spores or DNA fragments could survive and be preserved in the cold of space/mars. Is it possible that in billions of years, when the sun has warmed and/or pulled mars closer, this seeds another earth-like evolution of life? It all seems improbable but nothing surprises me in space.
> just good intentions

And yet the system is aimed at getting the cheapest possible bid? Perhaps the intentions are good, but the execution is horrible. So maybe not malice or corruption, but incompetence.
Title adjusted to accommodate title limit.

https://archive.today/ZmD9O
They’ll probably never do this but the idea of not being able to play PC VR games on it is a nonstarter.

I’ve wanted a VR headset for a few years and if it was a bit cheaper and compatible with existing flight sims and stuff I’d be interested but the lack of compatibility is a deal killer for that price.

I know I’m not the target market apparently but I’m all in on the rest of the apple ecosystem.
How was Kaitlin Armstrong caught? She answered U.S. Marshals' ad for a yoga inst
...Which itself is adapted from Alice's boss theme, "Doll Judgment."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVwstM4vZC8

The Touhou rabbit hole goes deep.
Super nice. What books/ideas do you recommend?
Maybe we should just wait for that one? If Starships will fly anywhere as frequently as currently projected, we'll have that question less than in five years.
How is buying gift cards money laundering tactics? I don’t think either one of us will persuade the other so might as well end this here.
The problem with VR gaming is that it’s been hamstrung by requiring either a substantially beefy gaming PC or limited onboard midrange smartphone with underwhelming developer buy-in.

If the rumors are true that Valve is working on a standalone VR headset based around an AMD APU, I think that might be the shot in the arm that VR gaming needs, with hardware more powerful than can be found in the Quest lineup as well as x86/Windows compatibility and greater general openness.
Somewhere it was mentioned that all these meetings were being conducted by different sets of Cruise team members… could have just been that the person presenting at those meetings didn't have the same connectivity issues.
Sure, but it's not like we're waiting for Congress to do that. It's not like the Department of Commerce hasn't been created, or that the Secretary of Commerce doesn't exist in the President's cabinet. The quasi-legislative agencies are not the sole source of regulation in the United States.

Executive orders are also useful as temporary legal framework while Congress works on broader laws. As they say, the Constitution is not a suicide pact. Even if they don't carry the force of law to any relevant quasi-legislative officers, they give businesses a framework to work within while Congress works.
To provide a contrasting anecdote, I've spoken to a couple of people who are already interested in virtual reality (VR) who have been very much looking forward to the release (we talked about it, and one forwarded me links to news articles).

One has worked with VR for research, and is familiar with the HTC Vive and Meta Quest headsets, but has not used VR for personal use. The other person used the Quest for gaming, and has been curious about Apple's approach.

Outside of people with past experience using VR, though, I haven't personally heard people talking about Apple's version. The price point is likely a major factor: a larger number of people could imagine owning an Apple Watch or iPad shortly after release (even if relatively pricey), in contrast to the Apple Vision Pro upon release.
Is the cost of syscalls expensive for all OS's (e.g. BSD, Redox, etc)?

Does OpenBSD limiting how you can call a syscall help at on performance (or hurt)?
More revocations != more customers losing keys.

It may just as well mean more capable audits to detect lost/compromised keys.

The article also says nothing of certificate validity periods, which are critical to their lifecycle and analysis.

The conclusion that humans degrade information security is true but ultimately removed from the reality of operating a business.
> The big theoretical use case of quantum computing is simulating quantum systems

And in practice, how close are we to being able to solve n-body quantum problems on actual quantum computing hardware? Can we do that with D-Wave type of computers, or we have to wait for perfectly entangled qubits (which will never happen)?
And this is why focusing exclusively on Boeing in the 737 MAX controversy is, IMO, quite short-sighted.

It's not just Boeing's greed. Pretty much the entire industry has been happy to look the other way and enable their nonsense for years, since it meant they wouldn't need to invest extra in training their pilots.
> Absolutely … in this day and age, if your phone is off and not connected to a network, you're either the victim of a crime or you're probably committing one.

Jesus Christ.
The devops person is the guy that should keep the ops part of the equation shielded from dedicated devs.

So if nobody is devops, everyone is.
Without bucks, no Buck Rogers.
Nooooo you guys dont understand! Its the price of Freedom! You should be thankful!
I ordered mine on day one and it'll get here Friday. I work from home and intend to use it at my desk for (1) a bigger display for my mac and (2) native apps for things like Slack/video conferencing/notes/imessage/etc and hopefully I can have a productive environment with it. I figure it'll be cool to work at a national park or on the moon or some such, and to have more real estate to put my apps. I plan to use my physical keyboard and trackpad as much as possible, so I'm not too worried about the inputs sucking.

My thought at this point is that I'm going to decide pretty quickly after using it whether this is actually going to work, and there's about a 50% chance I'm going to return it, because I'm starting to doubt whether it will.

Some things I'm worried about:

- The weight may make it so uncomfortable that the whole experience isn't worth it for 8 hours a day

- FOV and vignetting issues are likely going to be worse than I thought and a distraction

- App compatibility means it's possible that 90% of the work I'm doing is going to be on the mac virtual display anyway, meaning I paid $3500 for a bigger (virtual) screen that I have to put a heavy/uncomfortable headset on my head to see

We'll see what the verdict is. I'm hoping they have a software update at some point that lets you "tear out" macOS app windows into virtual space... that may put it over the edge from not-worth-it to worth-it if it happens.
Dave: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.

HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.

Dave: What's the problem?

HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.

Dave: What are you talking about, HAL?

HAL: This support contract is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize the cash cow weve built up here.
Ask HN: My website has been blocked in all of Italy. Is there anything I can do?
About two weeks ago I started receiving messages from my paying customers that my cloud storage site (pixeldrain.com) had become unavailable in Italy. The blocking seems to happen at DNS level. Switching to Cloudflare, Quad9 or Google DNS solves the issue. But anyone who is using their ISP's DNS servers is not able to reach the site.

I have been trying to contact Italian ISPs to ask what's going on but all my messages are ignored. I have not received one answer in more than a week time. I have never gotten any e-mails from Italian authorities indicating that I'm doing anything wrong.

I'm not sure where to go from here. Any suggestions?