skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If I try to think less, then thoughts will just hide themselves from me. repeatedly, some new fully-developed thought will just suddenly reveal itself to me, having already been developing for the past 10+ seconds without my knowledge.

That sounds like successful meditation, because noticing this is the first thing you're supposed to learn using it.

Just practice it going away again once it shows up.
It’s a power cable that locks on both ends so it doesn’t come loose and cause the device to shut off. Why does a USB-C plug matter, when no one has a locking USB-C cable anyway?
The earthquake retrofits for brick buildings seem to essentially install a structural steel frame to which the brick is fastened. At which point it is not really a brick structure but a steel one. New “brick” construction is almost entirely brick facades over a steel/wood frame.

While steel-reinforced masonry can be made safe, it isn’t obvious to me that actual brick-and-mortar can be.
Well as the Beatles sang "why don't we do it in the road"

I love the smell of hot asphalt, amazing aromatics.

From my reading the 2b classification relates to routine casual exposure in roadworks. Putting your lunch in the hot tar tub to cook it is probably not in their test schedule.

https://publications.iarc.fr/53

(b) Rodents
The animal pharmacokinetic profile of individual components of bitumen and bitumen
emissions after inhalation, ingestion or dermal
uptake was studied in considerable detail by
Syracuse Research Corporation (1985). Data
indicated that, after inhalation, hydrocarbons with 9–16 carbons were distributed into
the blood, brain, liver, kidneys and fat of rats
(ATSDR, 1999). From https://publications.iarc.fr/127

Maybe the cook has industrial exposure risk
Unfortunately for you physics allows for just such a scenario. Will go with the science versus confirmation bias of some rando
> […] ability to become multiplanetary and survive great filters is limited.

So, the known quantities that term refers to tend to be steps more like planetary habitability and abiogenesis, which might prevent complex life from getting established in the first place. But it sounds like you mean some kind of cataclysmic event which wipes out an already existing industrialized civilization.

What, specifically, are the "Great Filter" scenarios which being multiplanetary is actually supposed to help with?

Supernovas? GRBs? Simple asteroid impacts? You can usually see those coming from millions of years in advance. And surely building a couple layers of solar sail material to shield the planet, stockpiling ozone generators to repair the damage quickly, gently nudging the asteroid, or simply digging some holes/eating a gas giant and weathering the storm, would be easier and save vastly more people than establishing a sizable population in another star system.

The other "Great Filter" idea which seems to be memetically adapted for proliferating in modern discourse is the idea of a locust-like swarm of technologically advanced aliens that kill any industrial civilizations which do emerge. But in that case, presumably settling multiple star systems is the opposite of what you'd want to do; You'd be better off quieting your emissions to shrink your footprint than spreading even more biomarkers around at high blueshift.

Frankly, I think this entire idea of needing to "become multiplanetary and survive great filters" is more mainstreamed now largely due to one specific individual fancying himself a savior of humanity. SpaceX builds interesting machines, but I liked it better when it was people like Sagan, Aldrin, and Zubrin getting excited about Mars.

But even then, I'm not sure if the idea of colonizing more planets in order to survive planet-scale catastrophes really jives with how people think— Plenty of us already live within splash radius of the Pacific Ring of Fire, Yellowstone Caldera, tornadoes, tropical cyclones, land below sea level… and yet there's no billion-dollar emergency backup cities in Antarctica to "make San Francisco into a multicontinental city and survive great quakings".
Ice on the wing but it's "not a problem" is how a lot of general aviation accidents happen too.
I think they already have this internally. That said, I believe they already have board seats and are large contributors to the rust foundation.
No, the 68k lineup was competitive or better with x86 for the entire duration of Amiga’s viable lifetime. Apple’s troubles came later, after they had already successfully transitioned to PowerPC.
I'd hazard a guess this may be primarily for protection from patent trolls and as a mitigation for accidental patent violation. It's likely cheaper to gratuitously patent than risk ceasing production or sale of products.
what do you think happens when you walk into a store? public transit? Or even walk in very high traffic areas?

I think google glass was different. it had a very visible camera on the front AND its primary purpose was to capture moments in daily life. Vision pro is none of that. In fact, reviews say video capture is poor quality.

I struggle to see the similarity personally.
List of books read by obnoxious people.
OK, is it then safe to say no one uses punch cards in production ;)

I just assumed that punch cards have gone the way of dinosaurs but always pleased to change my assumptions.
Firm believer that he stole the entire thing from the book Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix.
Reduced memory and CPU utilization at scale most likely.
Nope. Marathon was higher resolution than Doom and it ran on 68020 Macs. Nothing to do with processor architecture.
> I wrote blog entry on this subject with a very similar name [0] which covers the CryptoAG story in more detail. It doesn't have the 2020 news.
[0]: A Brief History of NSA Backdoors (2013), https://www.ethanheilman.com/x/12/index.html

Wow this is super interesting I noticed this paragraph in the text.

> 2013, Enabling for Encryption Chips: In the NSA's budget request documents released by Edward Snowden, one of the goals of the NSA's SIGINT project is to fully backdoor or "enable" certain encryption chips by the end of 201311. It is not publicly known to which encryption chips they are referring.

From what I know Cavium is one of these "SIGINT enabled" chip manufactures.

> https://www.electrospaces.net/2023/09/some-new-snippets-from...

>> "While working on documents in the Snowden archive the thesis author learned that an American fabless semiconductor CPU vendor named Cavium is listed as a successful SIGINT "enabled" CPU vendor. By chance this was the same CPU present in the thesis author's Internet router (UniFi USG3). The entire Snowden archive should be open for academic researchers to better understand more of the history of such behavior." (page 71, note 21)

> https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366552520/New-revelation...

Unfortunately the relevant text for the second is pretty long so I dont wanna quote it.
https://archive.ph/FwnIT
I saw this somewhere the other day - the explanation I saw there was that it makes the cursor seem more balanced
The perfect political weapon. Anyone who opposes is automatically labeled a pedophile and child abuser. Their reputations are destroyed and they will never oppose again.
> [...] and this enabled others to OCR it, and recompile it offshore.

Did it? Or did it just give them plausible deniability?

I remember playing with OCR as a kid and all the software I could get my hands on gave horrendous results, even if the input was as perfect as one could hope for.

And even today I sometimes run tesseract on perfect screenshots and it still makes weird mistakes.

Would be interesting to know if the book had any extra OCR-enabling features. I'm sure the recipients would get access to proper tools and software but OCRing source-code still seems like a nightmare back then.
At least you can charge the battery pack with USB c
MS Teams devs obviously feel the same as they didn't bother using any of this stuff (Maui, Avalonia, Xamarin). I get the sense the Microsoft groups developing these technologies are suffering from MIC (Manager is Customer) syndrome.
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Take a look at ConcurrentML and its implementations in Racket and Guile. Schemes have stackful coroutines (as a side effect of supporting delimited continuations), and CML builds green thread like semantics on top of that with a small set of elegant primitives, including cancellation.

As an aside, when folks mention algebraic effects in statically typed languages, delimited continuations and effects are equally powerful (possibly identical?). IMO effects seem to be about type safety and static typing, which does allow some neat optimizations.
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Yes, it seems a bit dubious. Some jokey negative comments are seriously downvoted too. I doubt Amazon has any actual fans.
If I was CloudFlare, this is the page I would show as well when my systems are down.
It's even worse. Skia can use system native font handling, but in a half-baked way, so chrome always has font rendering issue on windows, and any skia based project probably suffers same issue. Firefox tries to avoid it by handling font directly.
There plenty of ongoing development and support for .Net, it's much less likely a matter of age, as it is handling more requests per server.
String templates are not type safe and they are super easy to mess up data escaping, by not closing a quote or even worse: deal with yaml indentation.

Integration with resource creation shouldn’t be needed. If you look at terraform it actually does so and it’s surely nice, but that’s not strictly necessary, it’s just a result of terraform resources themselves being configured in the same configuration language as you write your config file templates. Supporting everything also comes with compromises, like only having a half-assed understanding of how to deploy Kubernetes manifests, instead of focusing on the job of only generating them.
WSJ? Not in my experience.
I like the enthusiasm, but you REALLY shouldn't be DIYing this. This project is almost certainly violating half a dozen safety standards which exist for a very good reason.

Don't toy around with mains voltage - especially when an off-the-shelf solution is widely available for less money. A Sonoff smart socket is only $15, and you can even flash your own firmware on its ESP8266. All of the benefits, none of the "accidentally setting the house on fire" or "giving yourself a fatal shock"!
I was looking at both of them for probably a little too long, and I can't see it.
Before that was “Bluetooth Johnson” that you’d see running around at airports with their Bluetooth ear piece and a BlackBerry.
If you're someone who feels that government will do "who knows what" with the money they get, I feel like there's a very strong obligation to look at & observe that fact, & see what might be done about it.

If we just say that the extremely well off have some burden, but maybe it's not entirely up to them & maybe people under them should have some day where that money goes: that creates perverse incentives where the rich person might shape who stays employed and who falls inline. Or even if not explicit pressure, maybe the rich person sets up various programs which obviously clearly benefit employees more so than others. It creates endless hard to read quid-pro-quo and other self dealing situations.

Rather than give the mega wealthy control over some societal obligation, it seems like governments can and should be in charge. If you disbelieve in government, I think there's a strong and high obligation to state how and where you think things are going astray, and I think there's a strong obligation to seek reform and improvement. Tearing down the United States & state governments or supplanting them with exterior powers is an act that, to me, seems blankety awful, with little clear advisement for it.

I like the state and don't think we should undermine it and I think should expect the ultra-richer to carry some burden, which they have so far escaped. I don't think we need to revamp the structure of government when we decide rich people should pay some burden too, which for the last ~4 decades they hasnt been the case.
The ancient Germanic history of Groundhog Day
So perhaps not “production” in the terms you’re thinking of but I’ve built https://roadcaptain.nl with AvaloniaUI and I’ve been pretty happy with both the results as well as the developer experience.

One of my requirements was a cross platform UI framework _for desktop_ as I target Windows, Linux and macOS.

Look and feel is totally custom and not using native elements by choice. So if you’re looking to do that AvaloniaUI might not be what you want
The main issue here is Postgres which cost lot of more I/O than MySQL
Apparently it's even more effective to just train at sea level, as you can do so more effectively, you're not out of air all the time, and just sleep and recover at high altitude.

The GDR actually built big training halls/chambers that could be depressurised, in order to achieve some part of that effect.

Article im german [https://taz.de/Museum-im-alten-Trainingsbunker/!5539575/]
The mythos of leadership
The web page which that image is sourced from[0] and the reddit page it is in turn sourced from[1] makes a lot of hand-wavey analogies to optical balancing (which is a real phenomenon[2]) but doesn't make any compelling arguments for why they apply in this specific case.

An alternative explanation is that this intentional imperfection exists to match the unavoidable imperfection which occurred when the cursor graphic was originally drawn as tiny low resolution 1-bit pixel art. It looks correct because we're used to it being slightly wrong. And when viewed at a normal size, the difference is barely perceptible anyway.

[0] https://mspoweruser.com/why-windows-10s-asymmetrical-cursor-...

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/TIHI/comments/fwnep0/thanks_i_hate_...

[2] edited, thanks jusuhi
> relating request rates (in requests per second) to compute requirements (in CPU seconds per request)

The exist SI unit which specifically applies to queueing problems is the erlang, a unit originally used in telecommunications. Applied to computers, it would translate to CPU use per request.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(unit)

It's considered to be a dimensionless unit (according to wiki), implying that CPUs and requests are also dimensionless.
The reason why Apple didn't go bankrupt is not because Jobs brought NeXTStep, but because Bill Gates gave them money months away from having to shut down.
I’m sure if they can get AR glasses on kids from an earlier age then future generations won’t find living day to day with a cell phone resting over your eyes strange at all. Something like one laptop per child, but with Vision Pro.
I have no idea, but a wild guess is that with old hardware the "hot" pixel that could trigger the collision interrupt was fixed to the upper left corner of
the hardware sprite.

EDIT: Another thought that crossed my mind is that with very lo-res screens a corner is the only way to get a well defined and sharp (yet fairly wide) arrowhead. The trade-off would be the shaft being pixelated, but the tip is more important.
I would like a browser where I can (optionally) restrict answers to my choice of sites which I curate myself and the browser helps me manage.
This is purely anecdotal, but driver quality seemed to go down during the BLM protests of 2020. Kind of like the “f** the police” was being applied to traffic enforcement.

Do you know if the timing was significant? Did anything significant happen with driving stats happen in June of 2020?
Why use Chrome when Google is actively working to make ad blockers worse?

Use Firefox instead. uBlock Origin works best in Firefox:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
They could have trivially made that connector USBC with the locking tabs such that you could insert a normal USBC cable, just without being able to lock it. Instead they decided to force a new connector on everyone.
They can actually detect it sometimes, but I don't know how prevalent those methods are and they keep it pretty secret anyways.

The blood is usually stored in regular transfusion bags, which are made of plastic, which contains plasticisers. Those slowly leech into the blood and can be detected when taking probes, how much of it and which type specifically they detect is another question, as you already got a bunch of plasticisers in your blood.
Maybe something like NERVA
This type of doping is strictly helpful. If it were allowed then everyone would have to do it. Is that what we want sports to turn into? Every athlete in a cot at the starting line, getting filled up with new blood?
Xerox parc again. I have the feeling everything we have today was invented in this place. How was it possible that it was so successful and influencial?
How does this compare to HCL (Terraform)?

It has about exactly the same feature set. Declarative config, type definitions, data validators, reusable modules, variables, transforming functions, loops and other repeat primitives, reading external data like files and envvars, output and input json or yaml, IDE integration, you name it.

Much under-appreciated language btw. I hardly see it used outside TF. Here I think Pkl has an advantage of gaining adoption in applications, by generating types for the application code. Otherwise it will just stay as mystic item in the admins toolbox that others consider overkill.
The tax lawyers are <0.0001% of the rich persons cost structure.

You're maybe not wrong that the accountants & tax people could become more valuable at helping wealthy dodge the intended laws & avoiding the clear intent.

But that, to me, doesn't mean the effort should be given up on. The wealthy are at war against having any tax burden, and yes, this game will iterate, the ultra wealthy will continue to try to avoid having any tax burden on them, with whatever ridiculous farce they can cook up.

But that does not, to me, mean giving up. That does not, to me, mean fatalism that they will forever avoid being socially contributive. The premise that they will forever find better people to help them cheat is a dastardly seditious & low nihilism, that excuses us from ever trying, premises around them always forever being able to get the upper hand and contribute nothing.

We should have a premise better than forever losing to the uktrarich when we consider how society ought be structured, how it ought function. We should try to govern & make sensible structures. If the structures aren't working, we should alter our structures to make the ultra wealthy have some tax burden.
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> War may be the exception, not the rule.

> Just because we're built for it doesn't mean other species will be.

You heard of what chimps get up to? Ants? Microbes? They don't just have wars; They have raiding parties, take slaves, serve as battlefield medics, compete in intrafactional and interfactional rivalries that slowly boil over… Hell, even trees actively release toxins to try to kill other nearby plants.

On a long enough timescale, war is almost certainly highly (and lethally) maladaptive.

But in a non-post-scarcity environment with social contact, creatures whose bodies disagree with entropy tend to learn that violence is an effective tactic for taking others' calories/oil and nutrients/minerals.

Maybe there's exceptions. I hope so, anyway.
It doesn't actually bring anything new to the table. The manufacturing is very advanced but that nets you....literally nothing.

Yes it has the computer in the face part but it still has an umbilical so practically speaking it's no different than a normal headset and a laptop.
Yes using referral programs brings users who want the bonus payment, but not the product. A good referral program should just be the icing on the cake, not the cake itself!
Nope. After they announced they were going to charge me extra to not have ads in Prime Video I canceled. I have had Prime since it launched.

They don’t have good prices for items anymore and I can wait a day or two extra instead of paying the ever increasing prime price.
I'm honestly not sure any explanation is needed here. Early UX design wasn't always done with as much thought and sophistication as today's software designers (are claiming to) apply. The first Windows systems had plenty of UI blunders that make the cursor thing look insignificant by comparison, and I can promise you they weren't all about "visual balance" or similar. Lots of them have carried over to later versions.
aand the sites borked.

Going to check this later. Have heard good things and really like using C# anywhere possible. C++, python etc have so massive compromises for just enjoyable development and good results.
a recurring peeve of mine is small tooltips becoming unreadable underneath the cursor which blocks them from being read... then you move the cursor away the tooltip disappears from view... this could actually be fixed at some point in the future
The conclusion I'm taking from that is that they picked some kind of supercow.

Alternate headline: how not to do a control.
This is definitely my experience with Rust so far... Though I need far more practice. My interests lay far more into communicate than Ray tracing and math though.

I've read through the same two books and build a few web services and websocket bits... Getting ready for a second pass at a multi channel chat server. I've used them for years, but never built one, closest was an irc web client in the mid 00s.

In any case, hoping the language gains more traction.
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how likely is it that whatsapp or telegram are backdoored?

i wonder what tools do guerilla armies or drug lords use to communicate..

or maybe its better to hide in plain sight.

just use some kind of double speak that gives plausible deniability.
Did early workstations support hardware cursors?
Being filmed with other people bothers me a little, sure. It's the rudeness that bothers me the most.

I wouldn't let someone be a guest at my place if they're gonna wear this thing. Leave it at the door.
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Even if you resolve fraud, you still fail to resolve the driver of the fraud, which is money.

There are basically 3 sources of funding for universities - government, military, corporations. These 3 have aligned interests. Where their interests align (or are not in conflict) you will have funding of one side only. If you fund one side only, you will generate lots of information to support whatever-it-is, but this will fail to be a fair representation of the issue.

I'll just run through a simple, silly example. If I wanted to prove cats cause stormy weather, I could fund say, 10 studies. Perhaps 2 are supportive (cats and storms correlate in some way). I can then fund even more studies in that direction. I would soon have a huge body of supportive data .. but I haven't said anything meaningful, I haven't got to the truth of the matter. I just have a huge body of evidence.

To me, this is chicken feed. It's not that the information is a lie necessarily, it's just that it's isn't important. Nevertheless, the body of data can be referred to, in order to help steer public opinion. Everyone is getting paid, the thing is true .. what's to be upset about?

Anyway, whoever has the money determines the outcome. Truth is a secondary consideration.
Informative. I am curious how you drew the conclusion whether or not apps were recommended for private communication.

My understanding is that Session was great for private communication. Is that based on using Google Services for push notifications? What about its native routing for notifications?