skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
consumption of neural tissue isn’t the only transmission vector though. (See TFA for an example, in fact.) If it were a prion disease, just the law of averages dictates that we’d see some transmission from things like organ transplants from pre-symptomatic carriers. There’s no evidence of that at all that i’m aware of. (disclaimer: I work at a startup in cognitive testing, so while i’m certainly not a researcher in the field, i do see quite a bit of research on dementia-adjacent diseases)
Common lisp let's you do recursion when you need it and not when you don't. Using recursion for iterating through a list is stupid because you bury the lead in the middle of a function and you do the same thing until you stop. Using recursion for a tree or more connected graphs isn't because they are fundamentally recursive.
Being an actual legal adult does not mean that you can buy alcohol or tobacco.
Companies need to learn mandating office working unnecessarily serves no one but potential employees who now know not to apply to your company.
I really like the idea of Nyxt, but I had trouble using/scripting it in practice last time I tried (back in June).

IIRC, my issues were:

1) Vim keybindings being somewhat clumsier than using Vimium on Chrome

2) Flatpak being tricky to use (I think this was just my own unfamiliarity)

3) I never figured out if it had emacs-style introspective documentation (e.g. describe-key, describe-function)

4) I couldn't get restore-history-by-name to work (save-history-by-name did work).

My plan was to script Nyxt in order to write my own session manager, by saving/restoring named histories. Then, I could associate them with emacs desktop sessions and JIRA tasks to improve my ability to stop/resume/look back at tasks.

Ultimately, I found that the Session Buddy extension for Chrome was a better fit for my use case (and it stores its session in a sqlite database that was easy to query programmatically).

The other thing that I tried was directly querying Chrome's session files for a list of tabs, but this was unreliable (the file was often out of date and didn't include suspended tabs). Supposedly it's possible to get a correct tab list on MacOS via Applescript.

All of which is to say, Nyxt looks great and I hope it keeps getting better and I encourage others to try it, but the last time that I personally tried it I ended up concluding that Chrome+Vimium+SessionBuddy was a better fit for what I wanted out of my browser.
Quite hard to believe when typing the phrase into Goggle brings up the dictionary definition as the #1 result.
Global services is a substantial portion of their revenues and given their work output, I’d say yes.
Yes, it definitely has amazing detail in its design and world building. The moral subject matters it deals with though, seem to be more superficial compared to Deus Ex, in my opinion. You have similar themes, but with different impact on the player. 2077 is almost normalizing the tech and making you think it's mundane, ordinary, and something you get used to as you play through it, while Deus Ex made it part of the moral dilemma, keeping the player thinking about what it means to be human.
I learned about this recently when my nephew got married. I wrote the card for their wedding gift in cursive and he and his wife asked me what language it was written in.
Janet’s value proposition is pretty similar to Lua — easy embedding, simple C API, minimalist runtime. But Janet improves on some weird Lua warts (block-scoped variables by default, 0-indexed collections, separate types for sequential and associative arrays). Plus it bundles a pretty nice standard library.

I’ve seen this comparison before, so clearly Janet isn’t doing a good job of explaining itself, but I think the only thing Janet and Scheme have in common are a few parentheses. Different core data structures, different feelings about mutability, completely different macro system…

Guile and Janet share PEGs (sorta) and embeddability but I didn’t think those were standardized at all. (I don’t really know any schemes.)
I don't know where your neuro-jack is installed, but if it's not in the skull then I don't know how you even connect to the all-mind.
Chrome Font rendering gets different when its weight is over 600
ChatGPT also uses the first approach for image generation. It even released before direct access to Dall-E 3 did.
Why? It’s a good idea…
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/435/
The ACLU recently campaigned for a free sex change for a prisoner who murdered a 14 year old girl and then raped her corpse, lamenting his "suffering":

https://www.feministcurrent.com/2023/06/16/whats-current-acl...

https://imgur.com/a/Y46XC3Z
Would they be better off if the managers were worse paid?
> As the enemy drone was flying in at a low altitude, a U.S. drone was returning to the small installation known as Tower 22, according to a preliminary report cited by two officials, who were not authorized to comment and insisted on anonymity...

SO - we're not using IFF for drones, or the IFF was spoofed, or the ground-based IFF equipment was non-operational or ignored...or the latter just sucks so bad that the overworked troops don't bother.
ChatGPT already does that to generate images for DALLE 3
This is my ideal scenario kinda. A company that is remote first but has offices near where you can go and work with your co-workers when it makes sense.

It just seems like most places these day is one or the other in terms of remote or fully in office.
You've provided links to things the vast bulk of people in earth sciences, particularly climatic related earth and atmospherics are already well aware of.

Yet they, in near majority, still stand behind the broad predictions of future climate change - even being aware of the work of Smale and Lorenz .. perhaps it's that 40+ year old understanding of stability, robustness, and the Dzhanibekov effect in which the broad arc of motion is entirely predictable despite wobbles on a minor axis or two.

Normalisation and may other adjustments to data sets are stock in trade operations across all the observational sciences- geophysical mineral exploration, radiometric surveying, radio astronomy, distributed signal aquisition, etc. etc. etc. You'll note for example that NASA et al are out in front about doing such things.

Predictions of trains headed for derailment based on speed, mass, and topography are not refuted by an inability to predict where the centrepiece vase in the dining car comes to rest.
I can say at least that Haskell is this way for me.
People don't usually throw out their server hardware after 3 years. After 3 years is up they'll probably sell service plans. And with the code being all open source some owners may go the self-supported route, though probably most will buy service plans.
Google continues to make record breaking profits each year. It isn't unsustainable, it's never been better. Ad companies keep paying Google for serving their ads, and it's working great.

Consumers can't really go anywhere else. All search solutions are terrible right now. All ad serving solutions are equally terrible. The best solution is to get an ad blocker and if you're trying to serve ads then target your audience yourself.
"It always amazes me how people can be so confident yet so wrong" could apply to your post too.

Yes it's a problem of physics and it's because they are trying to make DRAM too dense.

It's a problem of physics - there's various ways to try to mitigate it but the only way to completely avoid it would probably be to use SRAM

It's not some conspiracy by "Big RAM"

Look at the evidence. This didn't start showing up until around 2009-2010, and the industry managed to convince authors of widely-used memory testing tools to downplay the severity and/or not enable RH tests by default, because they didn't want the truth to be known that almost all RAM is defective. It might not be a conspiracy, but it sure is corporate greed.

Would you rather pay a little more for RAM that will work correctly under all access patterns, or RAM that is certain to produce bit errors under some conditions that can be encountered in practice? Unfortunately, with newer DDR3 and later generations, it seems you don't get a choice.
Interesting points about the WARC format.I'm just wondering how it handles tricky stuff like those cache-busting query parameters and dynamic content generated by scripts. These seem like important details for preserving web pages accurately.
So? 25% doesn't mean it can't happen. I wouldn't cross the road if there was a 25% of being hit by a car.

The real way to measure predictive accuracy is to find _all_ the times they gave something a 25% chance of happening. If the predictions are accurate then roughly 25% of those things should have happened.
I'm glad it works for you. One thing I've learned from bitter experience is "don't swim upstream". Meaning, you're likely to have problems when you're using tech outside the way it was intended. Apple intends apps to be developed in Swift with XCode, so that's what they support and when they develop new features that's what they have in mind. They don't care about Expo and if they do something that breaks Expo or Flutter or any other third-party service, that's not their problem and they aren't going to do anything about it. Expo et al are always going to be second class citizens to Apple.

Cocoapods are on their way out. I use Swift Package Manager on new projects and it's literally a couple clicks to install whatever package you want. Haven't had any problems yet.
> Just because a GPU includes a 3D graphics pipeline that doesn't mean that everything has to go through it.

That’s how modern Windows does that in practice. Everything does go through the 3D graphics pipeline, and starting from Win8 it’s impossible to disable.

I’m not even sure modern PC hardware supports these hardware layers, except for one small extra layer for hardware mouse cursor. On my computer D3DCAPS_OVERLAY and DDCAPS_OVERLAY flags are unset. The driver reports to the OS the hardware doesn’t support any hardware overlay surfaces.
You should check out langchain
I'm not meteorologist, but love aviation, so dig these things deep.

For me, this case most probably example of Great climate event, which for some reason missed by scientists.

What could trigger it, is light mystery, because even now scientific coverage of Earth is not constantly complete, and in 1862 existed whole regions without good scientific network (now, only some countries closed for science).

Most probably, reason was some fluctuations of Gulf Stream or Supervolcano.
I wrote in thousands of passbooks in my time at a bank - they were truly a pain in the arse, but also a true artefact of old school ways.

High quality little things for sure, and a lot of history surrounding some of them, I’ve seen and written in books probably 100 years old.

The reason they’re a pain in the arse is the small size, both sides must be filled out which is awkward, and you have to enter the transaction through a computer anyway so it doubles the work, plus you feel shit for not having fantastic handwriting like 90% of the entries.

I know why people want to see their balance physically, but I feel people are holding onto a relic of their past due to financial illiteracy on a grand scale in the UK.
Support. (Like, official vendor support & hardware support)

It's really nice to type a command and see a CLI representation of where the drives are physically located on your system for example.

All the IllumOS distributions are defunct (SmartOS hasn't seen a release since 2020 and that's the most recent) aside from OpenIndiana, which I haven't looked at in a long time.

*EDIT:* Seems OpenIndiana is not binary compatible due to using glibc over Sun Studios libc. Which might prevent some people from switching.
Also to expand on my comment above, I spent a few years working in schools and I was surprised to see a trend I had noticed prior was reflected in the students: the tech skills don't seem to be as prevalent as in prior generations. My very casual theory is that the transition in UI's over the years from powerful and flexible to dumb and barely configurable, has led to fewer kids exploring software and getting a knack for (and confidence in) tinkering. Again, I don't think AI will improve this long term, so it will be interesting to see what new developers are like in 20 years if it's safe to assume that many devs have this background of 'software curiosity' if I can call it that.

And before someone well ackshually's me: yes I recognise that this technology progression isn't unique to software.
I've really only tried Ready Player One. I've heard the Marvel ones are decent. Anything animated, like a Pixar should be good, since they can just re-render from the 2nd camera location for the other eye.

Be aware 3D BluRays won't play without a 3D display, like a 3D TV, or a PSVR...

For PSVR it will be lower res than ideal, and due to the BluRay player not using the camera for tracking the headset, will drift slowly to the side. (As I said, Sony's not been good for non-game PSVR support).

Finding 3D BluRays is the trickier part. I've found it easier to order region free disks from amazon.co.uk than trying to find anything in Canada.
Tile? I think they were even around before Apple's one.
Lots of Windows devices pre-dating the iPhone had comparable full colour touch screens. Its competition certainly wasn't the "132x65 pixel black and white screen".
I agree it's MUCH better than it used to be (and huge credit to Jen Simmons and her team for making this possible). However Safari APIs are still WAY behind Chrome/Android and I think this is probably intentional to push developers into using the App Store so Apple can collect their 30% tax

https://fugu-tracker.web.app/
Pipewire has basically nothing to do with anything. It mostly achieves what jack already does, which is fine, but it can't magically fix a kernel that can't consistently maintain a 0.5ms deadline on servicing a user process.
> “IBM is focused on providing a work environment that balances flexibility with the face-to-face interactions that make us more productive, innovative and better able to serve our clients,”

Despite all the evidence that shows people are not more productive, innovative or happy working from an office. In fact, the reverse.

It's about commercial real estate values, and a management culture that finds itself unable to manage remotely.
like r/wallstreetbets. Some people making consistent huge $ over there. You look for a setup which has a edge, like buying 0-day SPY calls if the market is down a bit. Backtest strategy and use something like the Kelly formula to find optimal betting amount. if you can make a living at this, then I guess that would make you a professional.
this theory has been around a long time

https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Back-Pain-first-Text/dp/B004T...
Someday, I'll be able to buy the prediction that my travel destination rains during my stay there. Someday.
Or just because it's interesting and people might ask. I could imagine it being a hallucination, but it could also be an easter egg of sorts.
Indeed, though Canterbury pilgrims generally walked. For the majority, walking it was part of the religious point of the journey.
Is it on archive.org ( The wayback machine) ? In case the online version/ site suddenly disappears. Owner could have passed away or the email whatever may no longer be checked .... etc
Great interview, but man that ending was abrupt.
Well, the boffins figured out somehow that if you get a blood transfusion from an Opossum you become immune to all snake venom for a while.

(Seems wikipedia removed this factoid now... and other sources state "most" snake venom)

I assume they tested on animals, not humans.
> Modeling IaC using HCL for Terraform isn't any better. I'm done writing configs in pseudo-languages. It sucks.

Counterpoint, yes, it is better. It's an extremely straightforward DSL, with easily understandable docs. Importantly (IMO), it's a declarative language, which is how infrastructure should be defined, because it a. produces exactly what you tell it to, without any surprises b. results in short* and easily understandable code.

*: Short is relative. I've worked with massive TF codebases. I meant that I don't have to spend LoC telling Terraform how to do something, I just tell it what the end result should be.
And the isolation. Sociable people claim they just look at people and can't get words to come out after being in a truck for six months.
Non-mainstream languages can be a very positive signal for employers I've found.
> If people can get paid the same amount while working half as many days, most of them will work fewer days. Half of people would not be unemployed.

I gave a simple thought experiment, but you're trying to escape making a trade off. Yes, in the real world, people value free time, you can employee people part time, and there are other employers besides Walmart, but that's outside the point I'm trying to make. If we're going for full realism, Walmart would also go bankrupt if they laid off half their workforce and paid the rest twice as much.
At least in the US I can see a reasonable argument for most people needing to drive, but it's much less obvious people need to drive the vehicles they do the way that they do to meet basic transportation requirements. One obvious if almost certainly unpopular solution would be to have the basic drivers license you get now with essentially no effort only cover small speed limited cars that would pose far less risk to everyone else on the road. If you want or need something larger or faster, require a separate license with testing, experience, and re-certification requirements in-line with the extra responsibility operating such a vehicle should involve. You abuse that even a little, back to a GPS speed limited Corolla hatchback you go.

This addresses the issue with a lack of driving alternative while also addressing the cases where people need more than basic transportation. But I guarantee people would lose their minds and start setting fire to their local DMV if such a change were even theoretically proposed. Because the problem with car culture in the US (and elsewhere) isn't that driving is a necessity, it's that being a driver comes with such a massive sense of unearned entitlement that any restrictions at all for any reason are treated as a massive violation of God given rights. Even attempts to enforce existing laws are met with absurd levels of hostility, like the opposition to red light or speed cameras.

I say this as someone who likes driving and likes cars, but as someone who is also a private pilot, the reason we don't have a driving safety culture like we have a flying safety culture is that the absolute worst possible example of an unsafe pilot you could imagine is basically the average driver. And not only is that driving behavior accepted in a way it never would be in the aviation community, but it's treated as an unassailable right.
Could they test the donor first for these proteins or whatever is causing it?
> WARC is also resistant to hardware errors though, and has this property without requiring constant fsyncing.

I just downloaded a sample WARC file to check for any checksums to detect bit rot, but I couldn't find one. Can you share any resources I can explore to understand how WARC is more resistant to hardware errors compared to other file formats?
What Amazon acquisitions have put other companies out of business?

Amazon bought Eero, yet I haven’t seen other WiFi router companies go out of business.

Amazon bought Ring, then a competitor was so successful that Amazon bought Blink.

This notion that Amazon’s acquisition would put competitors out of business seems to be a weird dream. Especially when it is known an easier path to “unfairly compete” would be to just create an Amazon-labeled robotic vacuum and put that on the market.
again, specifics please. which languages are you thinking of?

I don't see how e.g. [1] or [2] are "falling flat on their faces".

[1] https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/designing-with-types...

[2] https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-va...

or even something as basic as non-nullable types, enforced at compile time. a clear, obvious win.
>Amiga needs 2038 date patch like NeXT.

Kinda, but that'd be AmigaOS (netbsd already uses 64bit time), and the year isn't 2038 because AmigaOS does not base its time on UNIX epoch.
I love Haskell and know there are efforts to fix this, but I find it hard to disagree.
> single player narrative driven games after the dubious success of Starfield is going to be hard to justify

The best selling game of 2023 was Hogwarts Legacy.
And thank goodness for that. It is impossible to reason about types in such monstrosities.
That's a new one to me, I've never had a Hy program perform substantially worse than the equivalent Python. I'm curious what the offending code was!
That list is wrong. At first glance the Vatican should be on it, the Falkland Islands shouldn't (not being a country), and Syria shouldn't. This very attack was initially believed to have been against one of the US military bases in Syria.

As others have pointed out marine embassy guards exist. Many countries, including the US, also assign military attachés as diplomatic personnel.

A better metric is countries with a US base or cooperative security location. There are 80, or about 40% of all countries. Still high, but more more plausible. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/10/infographic-us-mili...
French Guiana and New Caledonia are French territories, not countries. They have no US consulate (go to Suriname for French Guiana and to Fidji for New Caledonia).
In WI, you lose it for a year on first offense. Second offense is life.

Source: https://wisconsindot.gov/Documents/dmv/shared/cdl-disq.pdf
> The opposite could not be further from the truth.

This means that what you're replying to was absolutely true.
Good riddance. In the subsequent 30 years since I learned cursive in the 5th grade I can only think of a handful of times it has been relevant in my life. Even having learned this useless arcane skill it doesn't solve the problem that a lot of the cursive you encounter in the real world is completely illegible. Even in terms of hand written note taking it's not leaps and bounds better than a fast sloppy efficient style of writing print.
I can't help but notice that you shifted the goalpost subtly from "better for everyone" to "not worse for everyone" there.

If the pie was shared more fairly, then yes they would be better off and I daresay that their incentives would be better aligned with getting those numbers up. And yes, that would mean managers not pulling down millions.
I mostly thought it would be a cool party trick: bundle your site into your web server and now you have a whole website with no dependencies including file system!

But then recently FrankenPHP came on the scene and now you can bundle your entire PHP app into the server that also includes the PHP runtime in a static binary and you have a totally portable, dependency-free, high performing web app. Your devops just got a lot easier with no external dependencies and easy deployments!
Ask HN: What 2010s app needs disrupted?
It seems like the 2010s were all about "disruption". Established pre-internet companies were being surpassed by small nimble startups (Amazon killed Barnes and Noble, YouTube killed television, etc.) But likely some of these companies have themselves become slow and bloated. Which concept which was disrupted in the 2000s or 2010s needs re-disrupting?
Arch is not what I would call cutting-edge, and I would call it boring.

The overriding philosophy of Arch is simplicity. That simplicity pushes the burden of having some basic understanding onto the user, as many kinds of guided tutorials and wizards are anything but simple.

> it is designed with the expectation that you will read the wiki

It is designed with the expectation that you will read the documentation, which is true for many things, as a simple example, many home appliances.