skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the interesting bit about Dockerfiles. They look _looks_ deterministic, and they even are for a while while you're looking at it as a developer. I've done a detailed writeup of how it's not deterministic in https://docs.stablebuild.com/why-stablebuild
You could legitimately argue that it began in 1918 though.
Microsoft defends barging in on Chrome with pop-up ads pushing Bing, GPT-4
And that assumes that `foo` and `bar` are not overwritten or deleted in your package repository, and that the git repository remains available.
Sandi Toksvig made the point in a QI episode that if you use IIII, you get a pleasing symmetry with the number of Vs and Xs on a clock face. Four numbers with only Is, four numbers with a V and four numbers with a X.

I'd be surprised if that was the reason, but it's kind of neat.

I II III IIII

V VI VII VIII

IX X XI XII
>As far as I know, the SAS is not actually blocked. At least it's not in Windows 11. However you can't do anything else until you have accepted or canceled the UAC prompt. So Ctrl-Alt-Del would basically just cancel UAC.

Apparently it's buried behind another group policy:

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/112476-enable-ctrl-alt-d...
Yeah that was the wrong group policy, this should be the correct one: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/112476-enable-ctrl-alt-d...
I got my great grandparents's German made sofa set from my mother some years ago (she was downsizing and didn't have room).

Solid hardwood with carvings all over, legs shaped as claws etc.

But frankly it looked horrible in a modern home, and wasn't all that comfortable to sit in.

So I sold it to a carpenter who was renovating an old wooden building in the remote north (Iceland) to have an interior that would fit the year of construction (I believe around the year 1905).

Kind of like the idea that it is now in a much better place.
Upon reflection: it comes down to whether your colleagues have an oral or a literate communication style. In the former case, async won't work and will be avoided; in the latter case it will be preferred even given physical proximity.
GitHub is Facebook for tech companies. It has the network effect, like a social media app.
Awesome, but this project seems to be abandoned?
It's not a big difference.

This topic is about Australia, not Europe. Our parking spaces are at least 240cm wide. Enough room for SUVs to park next to each other no problem.

In fact the more common SUV in Australia is the Mitsubishi Outlander. Models from 2007-2018 are only 180cm wide, just 2cm wider than a Corolla sedan.

https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/toyota-corolla-2018...

2cm is not worth getting your panties in a twist about, and not worth making new laws about.
Design the entire turbine as a 200 meter long helicopter, fly it to site, land it tail-first. It's easy.
Dockerfiles look deterministic, but they are not
I don't think so.

https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/security/secf60513daa/...

From what I understand, the keyboard just acts as a sensor, but doesn't store anything - neither securely nor otherwise.

"The Magic Keyboard with Touch ID performs the role of the biometric sensor; it doesn’t store biometric templates, perform biometric matching or enforce security policies (for example, having to enter the password after 48 hours without an unlock). The Touch ID sensor in the Magic Keyboard with Touch ID must be securely paired to the Secure Enclave on the Mac before it can be used, and then the Secure Enclave performs the enrolment and matching operations and enforces security policies in the same way it would for a built-in Touch ID sensor."
Also, Cleopatra considered herself Greek (or rather hellinistic) and had the lineage to prove that. She is remembered fondly because she was decently respectful of her Egyptian subjects, but that was mostly in contrast to her predecessors.
> this is going to have as big of an impact on humanity as the computer or the internet did and every engineer or aspiring entrepreneur should pay it attention

I predict it will go the way of 3D TVs. Most people don't want to walk around with half a kilogram of computers inside goggles strapped to their faces.
This is the Watchmaker’s Four
Apologies for editorializing the title a bit :-)

Reading through the comments in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39720007 I saw a common misconception pop up again: Dockerfiles are not deterministic. But they _look_ like they are, and even are for a while: Build a Dockerfile on your local machine; then build it again => most likely exactly the same container. Stuff starts to break down quickly though; so I did this writeup some time ago that should be informative for the wider community.
I've been using Void for a couple of months now on a Raspberry Pi-based project. I'm impressed by its balance between simplicity and functionality. Namely, it doesn't have systemd (rather `runit`) so it's a lot easier to understand what's going on without a whole other level of complexity. (Caveat: I'm running a headless/server setup, so can't comment on anything related to GUIs using Void.)

Second up would be Arch, which encourages somewhat manual installation and configuration, yet does include systemd.
These creatures seem unfeasible from an engineering perspective.

From the image, their substantial head (the weight of a man?) is on the end of a six meter horizontal length (6m is my estimate, from the image). Yes, the body is a big weight, and yes there is the counterbalance of a (relatively small) tail. If I were to hold a small broom, with the brush end away from me, I am only able to do this for a short while - and yet, these creatures spent all their days like this, swaying their heads around as they go!

It seems to me that the tension and pain these creatures must have been in because of their design and the effect of gravity would be too great to bear. If we look at something comparable that we know exists, we see a giraffe - these are slightly unfeasible too, but they are far smaller (3m neck?) but the angle of the neck is almost upright, hence there have nothing like the force dinosaurs would have had to bear.

It would be good to have a structural engineer go over the numbers for this dinosaur. I would expect a breaking point would be reached, and that there is no way the long neck could support such a heavy head over such a length without failure. We are talking about flesh and bone (which is surely incredible in its way, but holding huge weight up - the head - is not what meat and bone are good for; these are not lengths of metal.

PS, apparently a giraffe neck is only 2m, not 3 as I guessed.
No, no, and oh god no.

Best bets are: VBA, php, ruby, bash/shell/powershell.
This really doesn't look as cool as it sounds. The title / header reminds one of operating systems of the past; attempts to have the OS as database like OS/400, but the reality seems far more like a cloud hosted Linux + Postgres + Node/TS + Temporal (or something like it). As in, nothing to see here that we didn't already trivially have. Is there more to see besides the rock star at the helm?
Useful article. I just tried to update an app to a paid version, and it popped up this dialog.

Of course, I refused to enter it, for the reasons herein.

Frustrating, as I did want to support the developer.

Do we have a current workaround?
If you forget Italian fascists trying to bring it back, otherwise you could push it to the end of WWII
This (and most other examples here) could just as easily be explained by nationalism. specifically nationalist projects to claim a much older heritage for the current nation state, to legitimize the current nation, and to give it a glorious and hard fought past so people will be proud of their country.

Personally I think a lot of the idea of countries having existed 'for a long time' is the result of these nationalist projects that all occured in the 1800 hundreds
Windows solved this problem in the 90s by capturing a magic keystroke that only it had access to and requesting that the user enter the keystroke before logging in.

The developers at Microsoft searched for a keystroke that absolutely no application would be interested in using itself, and then they stumbled across the perfect one: Ctrl+Alt+Del (soft reboot sequence in DOS). That's why you had to press Ctrl+Alt+Del in order to log in to Windows NT based operating systems for a long time.
The ice age made water animals grow a lot since ice helps concentrate plankton. Earth is cooler today than at almost any other point in history, so makes sense we see bigger water animals today than historically. The ice age did the opposite for land animals, so we have smaller land animals than in history as well.
I spent nearly 40 years of my life glasses-free. Now I need to wear glasses to read a computer display without eye strain. I'd go back to glasses-free in a heartbeat, if I could.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_classification

"The manufacturing processes for ultra-processed foods typically involve techniques such as extrusion"

"along with the addition of various cosmetic additives, including those for ... colour."
I tried using the product and out of curiosity inspected the editor. The editor is basically a CodeMirror plugin with all the tech heavy-lifting like realtime collaboration is enabled by CodeMirror itself.

It's clearly an overstretch to call this a Google Docs alternative, especially since Google docs is powered by insane levels of engineering. I know because I work on a competing word-processing product.

It's mildly surprising seeing such a shell product receiving millions of dollars in funding and even a published post in TechCrunch!
> Why would the proprietor of the data not be able to sell it? Assuming of course their terms of use plainly and clearly state that the data belongs to them

And assuming we collectively (as “we the people ”) grant them the ability to actually own this data. There's plenty of good reasons to consider that the data doesn't belong to reddit, that it's just public stuff that they happen to host in exchange for user traffic and advertising revenues.
True...but "last pharaon queen of Egypt" may be misleading, for those unfamiliar with the history:

Cleopatra was a Macedonian Greek, descended from one of Alexander the Great's generals. Alexander had conquered Egypt about 3 centuries earlier...taking it from the Persians, who had previously conquered the final "native" XXX Dynasty...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemaic_Kingdom

And giving Egypt's foreign conqueror the title "Pharaoh", if only for domestic consumption, persisted for centuries after Cleopatra:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_pharaoh

Though Rome's appointed provincial governors mostly didn't care if the locals called them "Pharaoh".
I go to the local theatre regularly. I don't encounter phone usage a lot (thankfully), but when I do, it's usually a senior.
In Japanese its often the case that a kanji has different ways of reading it, so it's not just that.
>Documentation is just plain AWFUL (as in: complete and technically accurate, but maddeningly obtuse)

Documentation is often just plain erroneous, especially for the new CLI and flakes, not even edge cases. I remember spending some time trying to understand why nix develop doesn't work like described and how to make it work like it should. I feel like nobody ever actually used it for its intended purpose. Turns out that by default it doesn't just drop you into the build-time environment like the docs claim (hermetically sealed with stdenv scripts available), it's not sealed by default and the commandline options have confusing naming, you need to fish out the knowledge from the sources to make it work. Plenty of little things like this.

>In theory, Nix is idempotent and deterministic

I surely wish they talked more about edge cases that break reproducibility. Things like floating point code being sensitive to the order of operations with state potentially leaking from OS preemption, and all that. Which might be obvious, but not saying obvious things explicitly is how you get people shoot themselves in the foot.
Another fun fact is that mammoths weren't extinct yet when the pyramids were built.
Having been amused by the headlined tiny factlet about clock faces when I was a child, I observe that the pseudish BBC copyright declaration system is, apart from the odd regnal number in law citations and apart from 19th century hymnals, pretty much my only significant exposure to Roman numerals through my entire life.

The last time I even saw a clock face with Roman numerals, it was when clearing the house of a person who had died.

The HHGTTG in the 1980s was sarcastic about digital watches being thought a pretty neat idea by humans, but they have definitely caught on. I have three clocks within view right now as I type this, one on an answer 'phone, and they are all digital readouts. None of them has an analogue option.

Fun fact: The pseudish BBC copyright declaration system did not begin until the middle 1970s. Before then, copyright years were in Indian numerals. In contrast to all of the earlier discussion on this page about the age and length of the Roman Empire, this particular practice post-dates the U.K.'s accession into the EEC and the U.K.'s conversion to decimal coinage.

Another fun fact: It isn't solely the BBC, in fairness. ITV companies did this back then, too. Granada's Crown Court has Roman numerals in the copyright year in its end credits, for just one example.

GRANADA
Colour Production
© Granada UK MCMLXXVIII
As many bazel rules, rules_oci's predecessor (rules_docker) was an unmaintained spagetti of hell, now we are pushed to rules_oci, and it's rpmtree recommended way of installing rpms which then in turn don't support post install script...

All this bazel-is-our-savior complex burns down when we want to build a tiny bit complicated thing with it. And we unfortunately do try to do that (our devbox image), which with full caching takes long minutes to an hour, and it's a freaking thousands pine mess instead of using a lined dockerfioe with pinned versions.

I absolutely hate bazel and its broken unmaintained Google-abandoned rulesets and I wish we either used either Docker or Buck2 for everything.
hey hey!!
the tool is really cool.
What tech stack did you used to develop this?? I also see you have disabled inspect chrome tab, why that so?
> If someone is showing you a tv show it seems extremely rude to me to not look at the show as a way of passively showing disinterest vs just saying it’s not for you; no?

Those aren't your only two options. There are almost infinite ways to communicate.
> Are we gonna ignore the fact that VR pornography exists?

On the Apple Vision Pro?
Is anyone more knowledgeable able to interpret the paper beyond ‘brain waves wash toxins’?

Are they actually responsible for the observed activity, or do they merely trigger some ‘flushing’ mechanism inherent to the cells? Or, are the waves a result of that process?
The only disadvantage I can see is that you’d have your birthday in the same day of the week every year. If you are born on a Monday, you’ll celebrate on a Monday every year in your life.
Looks like every simulation is a new lottery, would be interesting to simulate "x per lottery" as well. eg. spend 10,000, 5/lottery
Legally maybe that all works, but ethically the data doesn't belong more to Reddit than Google.

They should find a better economic model than selling user data.
Has been done, Marain script from Iain M. Banks' Culture novel series:

https://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/marain.htm
Maintaining something like that is a pain unless you have tooling like Renovate to inform and update the digests and versions.
This. I regret not trying a PhD. It is like turning down a call option :-)
> If I were to hold a small broom, with the brush end away from me, I am only able to do this for a short while

I can do that for hours, do you mean you hold the broom in only a hand with no other support? Instead consider holding a broom by supporting it with your arm like people held spears, humans held spears that way for hours no problem.

This dinosaur was built with the body to optimally support that neck and head, it doesn't have the same issues you have with that broom at all. And it can be that long the same skyscrapers can be so high, by having a big base and being smaller and smaller the further away it gets.
More details at Washington Univ' site: https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/neurons-help-flush-waste-out...

Could not find any free access to the paper, even though the Univ' says "This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH); the BJC Investigators Program at Washington University; and the Neuroscience Innovation Foundation."

These kind of grant funded research should be accessible at the least from the Univ' websites.
I'm kinda shocked that neither the Vision Pro or the Quest allow for actual AR development since the passthrough cameras aren't available to 3p devs.
projecting power you get challenged less, but when you do get challenged it’s much more likely that you won’t be able to back it up
The EU disagrees, and have implemented the right to data erasure from search indexes. In the GDPR and applicable to Google since 2016, it says here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten
https://peropesis.org/
Ask HN: How do you deal with realization of death? too busy to thinkaboutit?
Bought a Framework laptop last year to make sure I never get into a situation of having to throw away a whole expensive laptop just because the manufacturer decided I shouldn't be able to replace or upgrade parts easily or cheaply myself.

You know, like Apple does.
Nope. Want to work at OpenAI and Anthropic as researcher? Or hell even a small betting outfit as a quant? PhD.
I've tried to get my ryzen 5700x desktop to sleep and wakeup but it won't. Sometimes I can get it to sleep but even after making sure every wakeup is enabled, nothing will wake it up. Not even the power button; I have to 120 reset it to get it to turn back on!

I really really want to do this, and it's been such a huge annoyance that it's not working.
Shoe-Billed Stork
Std::set is using red black trees, did you mean std unordered set?
> Apple has had the advantage of green field engineering it exactly how they want it to be from the ground up.

It's not quite green field on the software side, albeit mostly. Clearly they already have experiencing re-platforming a whole operating system multiple times. The underpinnings of macOS power everything from desktops to smartphones to watches to tablets already all with diverging user interfaces. They had a solid first-party foundation to build the interface they want; Facebook is ultimately a third-party to Android and is having to solve the same Android hardware integration problems as everyone else.
Why can't the blades be broken down into managable segments and assembled on-site? The military folds and unfolds airplane wings all the time on aircraft carriers.

(It's an honest question; you must have thought of it, of course.)
My family cottage has an electric stove/oven that was manufactured in the 1930's. Works flawlessly.
Or, rather, our idea of what the standard was, skewed as it is by survivorship bias and coming centuries after the fact, is superficial and wrong.
Bounce lighting is another cheap way of getting diffuse illumination.
Passthrough will never be good enough so as to get rid of the sense of disconnect.
Definitely https://shipflask.com ;)
> She is remembered fondly because...

From accounts by professional ancient historians, that "fact" may mostly be PR spin and "rule of cool" myth. For instance:

https://acoup.blog/2023/05/26/collections-on-the-reign-of-cl...
I just won $100,000,000. https://tinypic.host/image/D5mU9w
Yes, the book "The Naked Sun". Ironically on that planet they were completely reliant on real time video meetings, no async communication was used at all.

But the video meetings did seem cool.
Start ups will always be there whether you want to be the founder or employee 1 or whatever.
Ah yes, this works (just tested on Win 11)
A lot of DB optimizations are almost invisible to the user, yet have a profound impact on performance. Like what Omnigres does with their query caching feature.

DBOS will definitely be an interesting thing to watch out for, if it looks to make things available at a low level.
Inform me of whether the pilot can adjust their seat? What am I supposed to do with that info?
This is relatively well-known in watch circles as the "watchmaker's four".
this is my favourite way to learn
I very much doubt most people coding in C++ would turn off exceptions. Virtually every new runtime construct being added is designed for exceptions.

There are some niches where exceptions are frowned upon, but those are small.
I feel that synchronous work is best for lots of small tasks that need to be completed urgently. Like putting out fires. But for large projects that need deep understanding and have long horizons, async is better.
But you write and read fine apparently? I always thougth it was linked.
You can actually activate PIN-to-drive authentication on a Tesla. It's a useful added security feature for when you need someone you don't know to use your car, like valet parking or leaving it at a body shop, but you can activate it as default as well.
or like... some type of lizard?
This is kind of fast. Is there any way I can add more modules to this? Or run it on a github repo?
Most home screens these days are quite large and most movies in 2023 weren't good enough to warrant watching on an even bigger screen.

2024 is shaping up to be very good for movies so far, so we'll have to see how attitudes towards movie theaters evolve.
Yes, we have many sequences of avian dinosaurs (birds) and presumably future genome engineering methods will allow us to take those avian dinosaurs and give them the phenotype of titanosaurs and other extinct dinosaurs. But we will never be able to tell what DNA they had. It's gone. The best we can do is metabolomics.
> I don’t enjoy the dreams anymore, I’m pretty bored of them now that I know what they probably do mechanically.

Why would you think that you know what the dreams are? Could you tell the rest of us please? Perhaps you are coming at this from a materialistic perspective?

I personally don't think there is anything straightforward about dreams. Whether you take a 'spiritual' approach (have you ever had a deja vu?) or a psychoanalytic view (messages from the subconscious, whatever that is) or some other perspective, there is nothing mechanistic or boring in dreams for me.
Don’t get me started on flame retardants. It’s definitely lobbying. So they can use cheaper materials which tend be more flammable then just drench it in toxic liquid and call it job done
Phillips master ultra efficient, similar to their Dubai lamp, may be what you need. Running much less power per led is more efficient, so there's less heat and the lifetime is massively increased. Big Clive put a good video out about Dubai lamps a few years back.
Ahhh, I remember my old college course on time complexity, which was effectively the professor picking on random kids and saying something like - "I have some 4 dimensional matrix multiplication algorithm which then uses a bloom filters to match on random ids... what is the time complexity of this?", and some poor kid would stutter something like, "aaaaahhhh.... O(nlogn)", only to have the professor to shout "No, wrong!" and go pick on someone else.
Obfs4 is what you need
Not yet, but I believe that Click house does.

Avro would be another contender in the space.
Technically you don't actually need an area that only the OS can exclusively access. If the OS is allowed to draw on top of everything you can still solve this problem, as Apple does on older iPhones. (Though you still need to be very careful, as markings displayed out-of-context can be made to be misleading. An orange dot disappears in an orange underlay, for example.)
Google is investing in bringing up Rust in the latter. Carbon is by another team, of which there are many at the company.