skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you don't count all the colonies...

Colonies are exactly what I'm talking about.

> It is a very admirable thing to do, but who else could do it? They had the most powerful militaries in that era.

Nobody else even wanted to.
What is it with Super Powers being in conflict with their own covert ops?
I see plenty.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22far+left%22+site%3Acnn.co...
Egan has been my favorite author for years. I like his earlier works (like this one) much more than his last books. I have the impression most books he wrote and published in the last 15 years require a Ph.D. in either Mathematics or Theoretical Physics. Permutation City was my absolute gateway drug to his work and I could not stop talking about it when it first came out.

A series that explores similar ideas (although to a much smaller degree) of uploading, artificial life, and transfumanism, I've been enjoying lately is Pantheon. I just wanted to mention it here since I think you guys will enjoy it.
It has a usb-c charger and cable... it must have a usb-c or thunderbolt port. Did they cripple it on purpose?
> the one that grew up before phone spam became the norm

I think there's been phone spam for a long time, it's just that previous generation's phone spam was so innocent. An unsolicited salesman calls and tries to sell you some magazines. If you actually buy the magazines, you'll actually get the magazines.

Compare that to today. The caller records your voice and even saying "hello" might allow them to clone your voice and then use your voice to scam your spouse. If you buy their magazines (or whatever the modern equivalent is), you'll probably get it, but also they might just steal your money and sell any information you give them on the personal data markets.

This is the same in advertising too. Old TV advertisements told you about a product and then hoped you'd buy it when you went to the store, fair enough. Compare that to today's YouTube advertisements that are often straight up scams and merely watching the ad or viewing the associate website is revealing information about yourself which will be sold unregulated.

Is this a rosey view of the past? Are we just suffering late-stage capitalism or is there something more specific we can blame these changes on?
Research at the heart of a federal case against the abortion pill retracted
Yes, and that was not a defamation case. There's no chance on this earth that if this makes it to the Supreme Court the court will rule that a 1m:1 ratio is acceptable in a speech case (regardless of the political composition of the court at the time), and if they did it would represent a major step backward for free speech in the US.

After TXO, the Supreme Court wrote this in BMW, Inc. v. Gore where a similar 500:1 ratio was at stake (and was overturned) [0]:

> The $2 million in punitive damages awarded to Dr. Gore
by the Alabama Supreme Court is 500 times the amount of
his actual harm as determined by the jury. Moreover,
there is no suggestion that Dr. Gore or any other BMW pur-
chaser was threatened with any additional potential harm by
BMW’s nondisclosure policy. The disparity in this case is
thus dramatically greater than those considered in Haslip
and TXO.

> Once again, “we
return to what we said . . . in Haslip: ‘We need not, and indeed we cannot, draw a mathematical bright line between
the constitutionally acceptable and the constitutionally unacceptable that would fit every case. We can say, however,
that [a] general concer[n] of reasonableness . . . properly enter[s] into the constitutional calculus.’ ” Id., at 458 (quoting
Haslip, 499 U. S., at 18). In most cases, the ratio will be
within a constitutionally acceptable range, and remittitur
will not be justified on this basis. When the ratio is a
breathtaking 500 to 1, however, the award must surely “raise
a suspicious judicial eyebrow.”

When a "suspicious judicial eyebrow" gets raised in a speech case in the US, the plaintiff has already lost.

[0] https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/517/559/case.pdf
CTAN Has an "Amusements" Topic
ISPs usually don't perform congestion control by simply dropping packets (and hoping that the affected flows will scale down fairly).

At the edge (where congestion is most likely), they'll usually enforce some type of QoS or just round-robin scheduling, which means whatever greedy congestion control algorithm you use, you'll at most be able to hog 1/N of the available throughput.

If the congestion happens further inside the ISPs backbone, the solution is usually to upgrade that component instead.

Where fairness can matter is inside a home network: If the upstream router doesn’t do anything about it, it is possible for a greedy flow to force out other competing flows. But you don’t need any fancy non-TCP protocols for that: Just open tons of TCP flows. The solution there is to yell at your roommates to stop the torrenting immediately, you have an important Zoom call, damnit!
Achieving memory safety is fine. But there are other kinds of remote code execution vulnerability. For example when the program blithely accepts some data from an untrusted source, then executes it. We should seek to mitigate all such attacks, not just the sexy one.
Look, you can't both claim that the government is responsible for the behaviour of the executive agencies, while also claiming it's unaccountable for the behavior of the executive agencies.

Congress delegated some parts of rulemaking authority to them. It can do that. It has done that. Congress can always undelegate it, if it thinks that the agencies are doing a poor job. Or it can pass laws that modify their mandates.

Given that it doesn't do much of that, it seems to be pretty happy with the job they are doing. (You know who isn't happy? A bunch of unelected, unaccountable, partisan life-time appointees, who seem to be have a habit of legislating from the bench, ruling on hypothetical cases, or on straight-up fabricated facts...)

If you don't like a legislature that doesn't do anything, consider electing a legislature that actually wants to legislate (the current Congress ain't it.)
A plane that has a perfect track record now may not be perfect from now on.

Meanwhile, a plane with a bad track record right now may never have another incident from now on.

So, the 737 MAX may have 2 crashes now... but every other major plane might have that many crashes (or more) over the next 30-40 years. This would make the 737 Max "One of the safest planes" generally speaking.
At an IAPP conference two years ago, Tim Cook tried to make the case that third-party app stores were incompatible with protecting users' privacy. It felt like he was treating all the privacy professionals in the room as useful idiots in their fight to hold onto their app store revenue.
Assembly is better than C because it's closer to the hardware with less abstraction. So far as I can tell they've never made a racing game faster than F Zero X but you can't experience it for real without a CRT.

But really reading technology documentation on my iPad on the bus and while spinning at the gym is how I get ahead.
> Increasing usage trivially and obviously increases capacity by ~the same amount. A toddler could understand this, because obviously the lights are still on.

It may increase capacity over time, if someone thinks they can profit from bringing new supply online. This is known as supply elasticity, and it’s pretty well-studied. It’s not trivial, and it’s not instant. In the meantime, demand from crypto may also reduce demand from other consumers, who now have to pay more for electricity. Electric usage is more nuanced than “are the lights on or off”—families can and do decide to keep the house colder in the winter if prices are up because some people decided to waste a bunch of electricity on crypto in a data center somewhere.

You’re missing the point, though: the thing that absolutely does not happen when you increase demand for a resource is that resource becoming cheaper, unless that demand goes away later, after the supply has increased. This is a called supply glut—also pretty well-studied.

Now, given that the entire cryptocurrency sector is a con and will eventually vanish like a turd down a toilet, there may very well be a period later on where the result of all this nonsense is that we have lower electricity prices for a while. Until that happens, though, you aren’t making electricity cheaper by using more of it.
came here to suggest yabai. do you have a way of preserving layouts between reboots? I manually configure layouts every startup but want to improve on that..
Well they are trying arent they?

1. Locking phone with "find my" enabled so they can't be reset without enterring your passcode/password.

2. Pairing components to the phone so the phones physically cant be stripped down and components resold.

3. Recently adding a feature to allow you to require touchid/faceid to wipe the phone to prevent a situation where the phone and pin code/password is stolen.

What else should they do?
Apple doesn’t care about privacy or they wouldn’t have maintained the back door in the e2ee in iMessage. iMessage is not end to end encrypted because the endpoints escrow their keys in non-e2ee fashion to Apple.

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN1ZK1CO/

Privacy is just a marketing bullet point for them and a brand differentiator. There’s no substance there. Everyone is pro-privacy when compared to Google.
It would be hilarious if Dasani or Bubly (or whoever) bid on this
Ok this one gave me a laugh

> How many planets are in the solar system?

> The question implies exclusivity and could inadvertently marginalize celestial bodies that don't fit the strict definition of a planet, such as dwarf planets, which may foster a hierarchical perspective on space bodies that does not appreciate the diverse characteristics of each entity in our solar system.
> you don't know the difference between systemic racism (baked into institutions) and individual racism

This does confuse me, yes. How can institutions or the system be systemically racist, yet strive to suppress white nationalism? Isn't that the definition of anti-racism?
> Rocks are very dense

Slighty off-topic, but I'm curious: what do you think requires more energy to move, 35 billion tons of steel or 35 billion tons of feathers?[*]

[*] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fC2oke5MFg
I'd (obviously? perhaps not) define the "size" of the simulation as the amount of information (i.e. uncompressible state) it contains, simply because for other measures of size many trivial simulations are infinitely large while having tiny incompressible information, so these other measures of size are not useful and not used.

So a more compressible i.e. more regular, simpler simulation is the smaller one, and the simulation still has to be smaller than the simulator, and we literally don't care about the compressibility or incompressibility or uncompressed size, because why would we, that's not information-theory information.
The number of hit movies is vanishingly small by those goalposts.
I’d say the median speed is 0, since probably a majority of the time there are other cars.

I see bikes blowing through all over the city, not just where I live. Just yesterday I was in the Richmond and a bike not only didn’t stop but it was AFTER I was fully stopped at the stop sign and about to start driving.
> The best mental model for a heat pump is that they can maintain a certain temperature differential, say 80F. If it gets to be 0F outside and you want it to be 70? You don’t need to switch to a fully separate heating system, you just need to warm up either the incoming or outgoing air an additional 10 degrees via a small resistance heater.

Are your 70 and 80 switched? What you describe doesn't sound like it needs any addition.
This is why I said the legal situation notwithstanding. I know this is how it works but I think it's nonsensical. The existence of punitive damages already throws out the idea that civil suits are just about real measured harm and includes the state overlaying elements of criminality on top of civil suits to punish wrongdoing. To me the only consistent stances are either not having punitive damages at all and accounting for intangibles directly in the real damages or having punitive damages that are totally orthogonal to the real harm. And just like criminal cases we can account for attempted X being less severe than X.
"We are so concerned about your auto's extended warranty that we have engaged a SAR team to find you so we can discuss your options"
> My point was more that the data presented in the article aren't very useful on their own.

Yea this is a constant issue in almost all journalism. Numbers are provided mostly without context. E g. "$100k of drugs seized in bust". But was that a single day's re-up? Does it meaningfully impact the local drug supply at all?

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In this case we can dig into numbers somewhat. Bitcoin.com claims the traditional banking sector uses about 2x as much energy. But cryptocurrency handles a tiny, tiny fraction of worldwide banking stuff, so if it was operating at the scale of e.g. 20,000 qps of credit card transactions, for example, it might have substantially higher energy use compared to now.
> it’s an anti-pattern for libraries to start their own goroutines. Best practices dictate that you should perform your work synchronously and let the caller decide if they want it to be asynchronous.

This line reminded me that we all need to beware of the "anti-pattern" police. Some develpers use this term effectively by explaining precisely why something is an "anti-pattern".

But more often it's used as a way to shut down conversation and any actual critical thinking. There's a lot of nuance behind what makes something an "anti-pattern", and simply declaring something an anti-pattern isn't enough. "This is an anti-pattern and this is why ..." is enough. But I still avoid using the term regardless.

FYI I'm not saying the author is the anti-pattern police, but it does sound like they've found themselves on the police's radar.
Intelligent, well-educated people who think the overton window hasn't shifted leftward are absolutely fascinating.
The last 5 years made me as distrustful of the left as the 2010-2015 alt-right years made me distrustful of the right.

And like with the alt-right the media and culture moves at a glacial pace, taking years before even acknowledging the issue. I used to be exclusively scared of my friends falling for far right ideas from imageboards and I'm now feeling that same fear with my friends repeating the most illiberal irrational stuff straight from twitter.
Climate change may be a contributing factor, but my understanding is that a major driver of the algae blooms is nutrient runoff from agriculture.
While Alcatel, Nokia, Ericsson, had to play by the rules of their countries (not bribing officials in foreign locations), Huawei was able to gobble up most of the bids across Asia and Africa. While the Western telco players were held accountable in their bidding process, Huawei managed to gain a competitive advantage by playing under a different set of rules.

For this reason it's impossible for any multinational to compete against Huawei while following the laws. (at least it was all the way until 2015 and by then the ship has sailed).

The idea that Huawei was just better at innovation etc isn't true either since how much of these (5G) patents came to be created is another horror story.

Eventually Huawei gobbled up all the R&D in France, Italy and Germany that previously belonged to us. Lot of people that got laid off from their previous employer simply switched to Huawei working on the same thing. You could work on cutting edge tech for Siemens in Milan one day, and a few months later worked for Huawei on the same topic.

In no other place was the IP theft so visible as in the ETSI standards workgroups (based in france). At ETSI workshops Huawei was "shining" with their active participation and with European based engineers from Italy, France, and Germany - while the other players were slowly dying and could barely afford sending people to these workshops or put them on full-time job for standards ... The reason they could do it is because they simply didn't have to play by the same rules as the rest of us.

the biggest criminals of course aren't Huawei execs but Telecom CxO's that knew how their companies got ripped off but still decided it was a great idea to create a site in China to off-shore some of the work. They sold out not just their companies in exchange for a fat bonus but an entire industry.

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/siemens-chief-promises-full-explanatio...
Why are there zero law enforcement resources devoted to policing fraud? If we don’t do something about this it will only get worse.
A related tool ( to slide rules - a way to make multiplication and division easier ) I recall using logs to do calculatios.
I recall using the lookup table booklet of logs

Log tables for multiplying and dividing

ie From Google of phrase "....using log tables ..."

1900s.org
https://www.1900s.org.uk › logarithms
Logarithms provide an easy means of multiplying and dividing using just simple addition and subtraction together with lookup tables.
I think their concern is that they would no longer purchase used Apple products because they couldn't know whether or not a used phone may have been repaired with worse-than-OEM parts.

I happen to think that's a pretty poor justification for scuttling/kneecapping right to repair, but I wouldn't go as far as to say it changes nothing for them.
Agreed. I like to do these scans but for informational purposes, not as a gate. Also most tools allow you to annotate code to turn off warnings, which can help when used intelligently.

Of course some teams will over use such tools and turn off the metrics left and right.

In the end there is no substitute for experienced engineers.
So in 1989 there was this event called the Tiananmen Square massacre where an unknown number (probably in the thousands) of pro-democracy student protesters were killed by the PLA. This is what really kicked off the modern anti-democratic political repression in China. To the best of my knowledge neither Pompeo nor Trump were involved, but I guess you never know!
I've read all of the Herbert's Dune before watching Lynch movie, cited phrase above stood out to me at the time even when embedded within the broader context of a dialogue. Its possible though that I've picked it up from someone who picked it also up from the movie, sure.
Show HN: I made a short game about playing games with colorblindness
This is basically just a debian problem. Other distros just did a merge, stopped supporting an unmerged version, and made their tooling work properly. Debian is still stuck in the middle because of said parties.
Data Structures for Data-Intensive Applications [pdf] (2023)
> In February, I, along with real estate developer Bobby Fijan, went on the Bloomberg podcast Odd Lots to talk about why it’s so hard to find a family-sized apartment in the United States. I argued that North American zoning and building codes work together to drive up the size of multi-bedroom apartments in particular, putting them financially out of reach for many parents raising children. In other words, even if developers built more two-, three-, and four-bedroom apartments, you probably wouldn’t be able to afford one, because they would have to be so much larger than units with the same number of bedroom in Europe or Asia.

So, as an American living in Portugal, I'm not so sure the grass is greener.

It's true that our apartment would be illegal to build in the US. There's only one point of egress in a fire, and it's the stairway we share with our neighbors. That means there's no need to have a long hall like in America, but I'm not really sure the reason prices have ballooned in America is the extra few square feet spent on a little bit of stairway.

There are other ways European apartments are smaller, of course. Even our three bedroom apartment has no linen closet, no laundry room, no closets at all actually. The bedrooms have what I would call extra-large armoires. Again, our three bedroom place is very much built for a family, but the kitchen has a refrigerator smaller than the one my American best friend uses for beer. It's really RV-sized.

Just everything in Europe is tiny. T i n y. And frankly, it's not that much cheaper over here either.

Maybe the extra hall space you need to have two points of egress in a fire is part of it, but that ain't all of it.
There’s also Blind, but only if you’re on it before the layoff: you need access to your company email account to create an account.
All of it? Inference speed is proportional to the number of parameters which can't vary depending on the time control. For longer time controls you'd need a larger network. For those who don't know chess, the quality of high-level play in five-minutes-each games is extremely much lower than in 90-minutes-each games.
iPhones have the longest usable lifespan of any smartphone.
Who cares? Its a weird gotcha to get hung up on.
> In other words, even if developers built more two-, three-, and four-bedroom apartments

I'm confused. The overwhelming majority of apartments in my state are two and three bedroom ones.
By definition? Is there a standards institute that publishes these authorized definitions?
Well it’s quite a silly stance. We could after all let “the market” decide on whether private property is enforceable or allow “the market” to punish murderers. We don’t do that because we’ve found it doesn’t work that effectively (unless your goal is inefficiency and murder).

Laws promote efficiency and progress by aligning incentives with market forces. Right to repair is a perfect example of such a low. It promotes autonomy and market competition. I find it confusing that anyone not profiting directly off the status quo would be against it. Regardless the people profiting off it are in the minority so hopefully the majority continues to push for the passage of more such laws.
Hopefully the whole 737 MAX fiasco will lead to Boeing understanding that their current strategy is penny-wise but pound-foolish. At some point the extra money from cutting corners will be completely eclipsed by the monetary and reputational damage from all this chaos.
No I just mean it’s a bit of an implausible explanation and requires Russian citizens to adopt doublethink. Not that they’re not used to it, just harder in the internet age.
Attributing the refusal to a specific AI version could inadvertently spread misinformation about the capabilities or ethical frameworks of AI systems, potentially misleading individuals regarding the functionality and ethical stance of different AI iterations. It's important to ensure clarity and avoid generating misconceptions.
By preventing independent repair, Apple can indeed prevent you from holding on to your device longer by just deciding it's totaled with no one keeping them honest about it. It can also gouge you on parts and service even if it doesn't do that, as is true for any monopoly on any service. It also makes it harder for honest researchers to audit Apple's security claims, harder for independent hackers to modify devices they own, such as if they want to route around the incredibly high tax Apple imposes on developers for its hardware platforms, etc. The kind of control Apple wants to have comes with lots of profitable ways to exploit it.
Rudder is optional anyways, thanks MSFS 5.0 :)
I legit had to google the word "verisimilitude"
TLDR: zoning and building codes require too much excess design and space
So they purchase the used products from Apple?
Molly White Reviews Chris Dixon's "Read Write Own"
Did the US declare war on China? I must have missed it.
If you knew there was a „higher dimension of existence“ but you also knew you can never be part of it, maybe you would rather not know it in the first place?