skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MLC stands for "Mandelbrot Locally Connected". It's not obvious, but this is equivalent to the bulbs of the Mandelbrot set (the domains of parameters where almost all points get attracted toward periodic orbits) are dense in the Mandelbrot set. Everyone believes it to be true.
Also consider putting an automatic gas shutoff valve on your house (and get your neighbors to do the same). They’re a cheap way to decrease the chance that your earthquake kit is on fire just when you need it!
With a sufficiently large version of this, why couldn't you jump, crouch, crawl, and lie down? The system would move you back towards the center between jumps.

A remaining missing piece is possibly some type of Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation system. Tell me if I'm totally off-base on this, but this seems like a technological achievable problem.

I'm not saying it's perfect (you can't simulate scrambling over a rock, for example), but it would enable a pretty wide range of movements.
Likely they're talking about small probabilities and meant what they said. If not, who knows. (Quite probably not even them)
please don't force me to use oauth providers either.
Of course. You act like we’re not aware. We are and have made peace with it.
Trying to use my European learnt Spanish in the USA always gets laughs from the Latine population, when they can finally figure out what I'm saying.
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I remain fascinated by UFOs/UAPs. I have been this way since I was a child, although I went from "I want to believe" to "This is an example of people being stupid" and finally my current position.

UAPs are intermittent, non-reproducible phenomenon. Life is full of such experiences.

Sadly, when these experiences involve extraordinary experiences, they tend to make all of those involved look stupid. Turns out people and organizations don't like looking stupid.

The reason National Security is so tied up in this area is that when or if a new weapons system is deployed against the U.S., it's going to involve a lot of these exact kinds of reports. Any investigation into any of them is, in effect, an investigation into how the country learns from strange new things, like the Chinese joining the Korean War. These kinds of public investigations simply cannot occur.

I still love these stories, but I love them because they tell us what happens when a large organization comes across really weird stuff it has no labels or processes for.

There's no conspiracy here, that's my guess. Maybe a conspiracy of human nature.

The UFO/UAP story is going nowhere, and it says a lot more about us than it does about anything in nature that anybody might encounter.

ADD: I'm glad Kirkpatrick is getting some reputational payback here. I'll leave my opinions of his essay aside. I strongly support dragging out the Sagan response and banging on it again and again until folks finally focus on the real issues involved. Recommended reading: Hynek's biography, "The Close Encounters Man" https://www.amazon.com/Close-Encounters-Man-World-Believe/dp...
If von Neuman probes are possible, and some percentage of civilizations create them, then at least von Neuman probes should be here.

von Neuman probes solve the travel time, cost, and distance objections for ETI even if light speed is the absolute limit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_spacecraft
I'm saying that one specific part (Natural Law) is the foundation for all law and is more important then all the others parts when it comes to behavior of individuals and corporations. Natural law takes presence over it all because it's the foundation of all law.
Really? I have not got that impression so far. I sure don't. I would guess, that it is actually more people are here for tech news and reading like-minded people's thoughts. Keeping up to date with development and technologies.
RVs are all over the place in PNW suburbia. RVing is a hugely popular pasttime. As for actually keeping it at the ready, that's an issue for the owner, not society.
The problem is that there are really only a few large platforms: windows, Android, macOS and iOS. These are also owned by three mega corps. The issue here is that free market mechanisms break down in the small competitor count limit.
I was being sarcastic about the article saying "continent" and then only mentioning one country.
I'm always interested in checking out new tools. That's how I noticed Warp in the first place if it wasn't for the account requirement, I would have given it a go to see if it would have improved my workflow compared to what I currently use (iTerm).

I never got as far as figuring out if it would be that because the requirement for account stopped me on my tracks at the very beginning.
Seriously. I've been looking for ways to turn that off, without luck.

No Reddit/YouTube/Facebook/Twitter I'm not installing an app just to use your browser based service. Stop asking every time I browse your site.

Is it a mobile browser feature or something built-in to the website?

I've read Chrome used to have some setting to disable it, but of course Google removed it because users found it too useful.
And like with the iPad, Apple doesn't make a profit from selling hardware, but hooking you up on a fantasy of a digital life, they only ever tease technologically, but never really deliver. At some point, you will always find yourself held back by artificial and practical limitations (at least if you desire to actually use the hardware as advertised), with the false promise of yet another Apple gadget finally making you whole. They don't make profit from producing either tablets, or smart watches, but the sunken cost fallacy in their ultimately crippling ecosystem.

If Apple made a profit by selling standalone devices, I could respect this argument. But especially with the iPad and its fully capable processing power to replace a general purpose computing device, it's easy to see how their business "ingenuity" is set up.

As someone, who fell for it twice, I think frustration and sadness about yet another competitor dropping out is absolutely warranted and relatable.
Nethergate was great(!) I think it hit an interesting story and setting, better than many of his other games that were available at that time, for me.
WFM now too... Fluke maybe!
Reddit actually has a particularly cursed combination of the two: "Log in or install app to see this content".

No idea why the (SFW!) content I wanted to look at was considered "18+" in the first place; it was just a discussion of a company that I was curious about. I can't help but think that they're getting more and more liberal in applying this content flag, since it must drive either account creations or app installs (and often both). I even have a Reddit account, but now I just can't be bothered to follow any search results there anymore.

The web is really getting smaller and smaller by the day, with large platforms gobbling up content and engagement under the guise of being "just another website/forum/blog/..." at first, but inevitably ending behind a paywall, login-wall, or in a mandatory app install, and often even all three.
Didn't .local start out this way until it was co-opted by Apple for some network abomination? Any new private domain is just going to get co-opted by something else soon enough. Browser authors and network service authors are going to start using it for random, incompatible purposes and break everything.

If you need DNS, register and use a real domain name. Everything else is going to be a hack. Anyone tech-savvy enough to know what an internal, unroutable TLD is, and have a use for one, is going to be just as comfortable and capable of managing a real domain.

I support the idea of something like .internal, but I'm certain it will be made useless for its intended purpose in short order.
For me there is a muscle memory component. I can easily switch between keys that I regularly play in, but going to something like c# is difficult because I don’t have the muscle memory for it. I mainly play by ear and chord notations too. I have never been able to read sheet music real time.
Also, what is he really trying to benchmark? Would it be informative to generate 10^9 random numbers and add them up, or is there a specific goal of finding how fast a counter is incremented?
Totally agree. I’d actually prefer this type of system if it’s in fact faster than checkout with a cashier. Especially now that it seems many markets have dramatically cut down on staff and it can take shocking amounts of time to checkout.
You have no idea how much this question has been vexing me! I gave up on the development of a public good product because I couldn’t answer that very question (low cost braille reader). I couldn’t get it to work seamlessly without high precision and couldn’t achieve high precision at low cost. Bought a couple of cheap inkjets and stripped them for parts, found proprietary optical strips and encoders, but still couldn’t figure out how they managed to machine/manufacture the plastic/nylon/POM parts to such high precision and still make a profit. In the end, I surmised they don't make a profit off the parts (though selling at a loss is illegal in the EU?) and rely on the cartridges to make money, but the bigger part of the equation is that they probably have those parts manufactured in massive numbers and with highly tuned and optimized designs carefully matched to the manufacturing process and the application.

I even put out ads trying to hire someone that’s worked as an (electro)mechanical engineer at an inkjet company to hire on a contract basis but got no responses. It’s possible those are mainly outsourced - or that the know how turned into domain knowledge that can’t be reproduced these days!
You can read the patent here: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20180217662A1/en
when they're talking about probabilities like the one in 600 thousand of dying on this trip, they are the same

if you have a model where a probability goes outside the (0, 1) range for some input parameter value, that obviously isn't a valid answer, but it may just mean that the parameter value is well outside the model's range of validity. you are surely right that if we extrapolate this probability model of doubling the risk of death per 16 kph speed increase beyond about 400 kph we get invalid probabilities, but i think that probably the model breaks down well before that point
I've been using it with Vultr as well without a hitch.
There are two analogies of Alan Watts which I love.

Whirpool analogy : You see, each one of us is like a whirlpool. The water changes but the shape remains.

Sense of Self as a "beacon signal" : In olden days, when the telephone conversation was recorded, it beeped at fixed intervals to remind both parties that this conversation is being recorded. Deep down in our subconscious we have the similar signal to indicate that all these experiences are happening to the same entity across space and time.
Good thing the greater good is more important than what you personally like or dislike. There are people who like to smoke indoors, but thankfully that's also not allowed (everywhere).

Also, nobody is forcing you out of Apple's ranch. You are free to stay locked in if that's what you like. It's the other people who now have an alternative.
Missile defense is a misnomer. The distinction between a defensive and offensive capability is meaningless in the context of arms races and mutually assured destruction. As we pour billions into shooting down ICBMs, China will pour billions into new delivery systems to evade that defense, and vice versa.

The net result is that money on all sides is taxed away from things that people actually need and want (food, shelter, medicine, schools, parks, the arts) and directed into things that either rust in silos and bases or kill us all.

The only way to stop an arms race is to increase transparency and to negotiate treaties with our peers.
But what would be its homology, for instance?
Cite for curious folks?
Open source with big asterisk. AOSP grows more anemic by the day as more and more of the Android that ships on consumer devices becomes proprietary, even on Google devices.

While custom ROMs exist you’re then at the mercy of cat and mouse hacks to evade security checks from bank apps and the like, something that many don’t have the time or energy for.
Ask HN: How do I develop personal apps for Nintendo Switch?
I’ve been looking into portable grooveboxes, something like Zynthian, but I realized a Nintendo Switch would be perfect hardware wise if I could develop or port something personally, not meant to go on the App Store. Would that be possible or is it completely locked down?
To distract/exhaust people, pseudo-solutions analogous to cookie pop-ups (do not improve privacy), recommending shorter shower to battle a drought (malicious/idiotic), etc may be suggested.

People interests appear to be used as a rhetoric device, while the actual solutions are harmful to EU business (latest example: AI regulations).

Nothing to be jealous of.
Without getting too far into the plot, there are definitely dystopian elements, though the part in SF isn't really dystopian in the way that Bridge Trilogy is, so yea. Depends on what OP wants.
Isn't a few degrees a lot though?
> expose your internal hostnames if you enable DNSSEC

Zone content enumeration in DNSsec was fixed by NSEC3 records (RFC5155, March 2008)
It’s an arbitrary benchmark, inspired by this: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VioxsWYzoJk
No one is being gaslit. They're being forced to return against their volition. Everyone is aware of the ruse.
Yet most patented inventions are pretty obvious on how to copy without the need to look at the patent, same with this case.

So we have no benefit of "open access to the mechanism" but with the deleterious effect of the "temporary (1/5 of a long human life) monopoly".
Office work is weird
> If there aliens the number of ppl in gov has to be small

Not trying to nitpick, but what was this supposed to mean? I am genuinely struggling to understand what you were trying to say, so here is the best possible interpretation I could come up with. Please correct me if I got it wrong.

Was it something like “If there [are] aliens [that the US government is aware of, then] the number of ppl in gov [who are in the know] has to be small”?
The Scandal of Screens
If you are interested in rendering the Mandelbrot set in a variety of ways, as well as its 3D extensions, look here: https://iquilezles.org/articles/

The last part is about fractals, especially the Mandelbrot set. With some theoretical and some practical articles.
what difference does the date make? you are seeing a picture of the dog who was last seen/lived in that neighborhood, have you seen it? if you care to, bear it in mind over the next hours while you are in that neighborhood. I don't think a lost pet poster is supposed to accomplish more than that, you don't need to draw a circle on a map based on how many days it's been
if you want to learn more this guy has some awesome videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXZD0NBVR2c
No true Scotchman something something. You can't really gatekeep who qualifies as a Christian.
A feature that makes it easier to switch will also make it less risky to sign up in the first place.

Giving away a feature that is a competitor's cash cow could weaken that competitor's stranglehold on customers you want to connect with or drive the competitor out of business.

At a particular point in time, increasing market share could be more important for a company than making a profit.

It could be culturally uncommon to charge for some essential feature (say bank accounts), but without that feature you wouldn't be able to upsell customers on other features (credit cards, mortgages).

Ad funded companies give away features and entire services for free in order to be more attractive for ad customers.

Of course, if a feature is bad for a company in every conceivable direct and indirect way, even in combination with other features, now and in the future, under any and all circumstances, it would not introduce that feature at all.

Introducing a completely broken feature is unlikely to make much sense. Introducing lots of low quality features that make the product feel flaky but "full featured" could make some sense unfortunately.
Big “if”.
Why should they be here? That seems a stretch to me. We don't know the motivations by those who could send them.
Imagine an idea more detached from reality than yours. Wow.
AFAIK it does have a lock screen.
So your suggestion is to make it uneconomical to be a competitor in this market? sure, that'll help
Just another front-man for the mystery schools. In this case, the Esalen branch. Same as Steiner or Blavatsky, but for a different generation. "Astral projection" through meditation and spiritual discipline did not fit the 20th century mindset, so we get people like Watts and McKenna and Leary selling hyperspace in a pill. Of course there was a contradiction between his private life and "his" teachings, because he was a deceiver, just like the rest of them.
I guess we can all believe what we want to believe. But Y Combinator (who sponsors this website) is a venture capital firm, which seeks to generate returns on capital by investing in companies. This website, therefore, is designed to reflect and encourage the interests of capital. You can pretend Y Combinator is something other than a venture capital firm if you want, but one day you'll realize that they too only care about getting money.
The economics are undeniable. I also think it means wages will not grow meaningfully for knowledge workers in urban locales, so you almost have no choice but to go remote and move to a LCOL area to increase your real income.
I still have my pebble(s, actually, originals and time). I haven't yet found any smartwatch with as much of a community around it as it had (and still does, many years after the company was sold).

My (attempt at a) replacement is a withings scanwatch, but it doesn't do color or have apps.
The pebble physical buttons are awesome for doing something when you're restricted from using your phone somehow. The two weeks of battery life was also amazing. Anybody know any smartwatches with two weeks or more of runtime on a charge?
Many people are being told “you work better in the office“ by their leadership. If that’s not gaslighting I’m not sure what it is.
I see the empire pf California is using industry to do their dirty work of waging a war on personal agency again.
I sarcastically replied without having noticed that!
>The point of undergraduates is to learn enough on their own that merely talking with them does not make the professor want to poke his own eyes out.

I would agree if the students weren't paying insane sums to be there. When they pay tens of thousands a year to be there and be taught by experts, it's disrespectful to the customer to not even show up for work. If the student is required to teach themself, then what value does the university add? Why not just buy a set of textbooks and have some kind of exam company certify you? What is the value proposition of an institution which doesn't give a fuck about its customers?
I did it in QuickBasic (also on a 486).

Now that's slow.
I worked at a company that changed the retention policy for email and other communication to 12 months. I instantly lost tons of old notes. I started saving important emails to Google Docs so I could still reference. It was very annoying.
"No leverage"? What does that mean? I can choose not to install their apps. That's all the "leverage" I'm entitled to.
On a tangential note, I always found unzipping/untarring in Midnight Commander excruciatingly slow, and copying of many files just barely tolerable.
Sorry but if I input energy into the system by walking, and the holotiles input energy by producing ultrasound… how is this energy dissipated?
i just spent three hours on the bus today and i would much rather have spent an hour in a car instead, though my risk of dying would surely be higher

there are a lot of places within 100 km of my house that i'd enjoy visiting but where public transport doesn't go. if i had a car, i could go there easily. if that means shortening my life expectancy by 20 minutes, that seems like a worthwhile tradeoff. the risk i'd be imposing on innocent people around me by driving a car is ethically trickier
The frequency is similar to those which are typically being used for that kind of task (Germany has shut down one of the biggest time sync radio station recently).

For me it seems like a test for a wave pass, I mean if you want to send a message to some submarine via radio wave but have some hesitation whether the message reach the receiver, no callbacks are allowed for obvious reasons.
It's very disappointing, but all evidence indicates that we (a technological species) are alone, in this area, at this time. It even seems possible that we might be the first technological species in our Local Group.[0]

If someone could prove me wrong, I would be so excited!

Please prove me wrong!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Group
An alien visitation would be THE single most significant event to ever happen to humanity. The idea that it would be able to be kept secret is ridiculous.
> And how could Apple force them to pay?

Apple has structured this so that you still need an Apple developer account to release an app (because apps still have to be notarized to run on iOS regardless of where you download them, which is a process they control). So, they're still the gatekeeper, and can impose rules on you to pass through that gate on pain of having your access revoked.

Their argument is implicitly that they're allowing what the EU has required them to allow, and so anything else is fair game. In particular, that so long as they're allowing people access according to the EU's requirements, they're allowed to charge them for use of the platform.

I imagine that there'll be lawsuits / regulatory action from the EU to work out whether they're right, of course.
One thing my mom (an occupational therapist) brought up when seeing this was the potential applications for therapy. I'm not sure of the nuances, but one concept that comes to mind is that you could increase force on a user such that you can get a persons strength increasing without them even noticing it.

I'm not really sure what types of solutions currently exist in these spaces, and I'm sure that this would be a very expensive solution for this topic, but future thinking possibilities of this type of thing seem like they could have applications outside of just VR.
Back in the late 90's I began teaching my kids how to drive a car after they tested for their learner's permit. I drilled them that a car can be a weapon if used irresponsibility. We talked about the manslaughter issue you mentioned and the terribleness of living with the fact of killing someone because of speeding or distraction.

Today, with cell phones and infotainment screens in our cars, I still see people "flying" down the highway with no apparent thought for other people's safety. Both my vehicles have dash cams for the reason of video proof of what happened if one of these morons crashes into me and takes my life.
It makes sense to send them everywhere to have a sensor network wherever you go. The only reason why they may not be out there is because of Great Filter or because we are the first ones in our vicinity (would not be strange as our Universe is fairly young).
No doubt. But at least bow people can drop the “working hard act”. We all know how little you guys work.

Previously people would take new tasks on weekly basis, now every single task takes the whole sprint.

And no, there is nothing that can be done since labor laws haven’t been updated and most likely won’t be before we hit AGI. I just wish I could coast like my colleagues or had the balls to start another job on the side
I can barely believe this comment was downvoted. For design sake, I hope the downvoters were not Smalltalkers.
I read it like that.
Gotta respect that they know what they want.