skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are GPUs not listed simply because there is no workable alternative at the moment? Presumably they are going to attempt that next if/when anyone can make a workable alternative to Nvidia chips?
I think that's how they justified it, but all the looting and slave labor are what required the justification.

The book "Why Nations Fail" spends a while discussing the Spanish approach to the Americas, and "Extractive" doesn't even begin to cover it.
I'm trying to imagine artifacts that demonstrate/embed a set of politics and values in a blatant way (i.e. appalling the reader) just to prove the point that such things are possible.

For example, a whip specially-designed for the convenience of some humans to inflict coercive pain on others who can't fight back.

Or for a more sci-fi bent, imagine an array of mass-produced devices which can reduce a planetary ecosystem into decaying goo while simultaneously reporting on buried ore veins. It tells you something about the likely values and activities of those who would create and use it.
I use Aegis as my main app for 2FA so I can answer these questions:

> Can you do an encrypted backup on demand (protected with a password you supply)?

Yes!

> Is there any desktop app such backup can be opened/read with (or even eg. read with something like sqlite db browser)?

It's just plain JSON once decrypted, so it's always readable; I do know the GNOME Circle app "Authenticator" can natively import Aegis backups as well, since it's what I use on my desktop machine, but I don't know what other apps exist.

> Can the app be configured to save an encrypted copy to eg. Dropbox whenever changes are made?

It does have some facilities for automatic and cloud backups judging from the settings page, but I've never tried them

> Is it recommended to install from Play store, or the APK off GitHub?

If you do the latter you'd lose automatic updates. I used F-Droid.
Not perfect sure, but I don't think any other modern system exists that can still run most executables compiled for it nearly a quarter of a century ago?

Still not enough to make me want to use it, but I am genuinely impressed by that.
If the next "hard step" is aliens going from biological to artificial, how can we be sure what sorts of signals they might leak? We're not even there yet ourselves.
Took two tries for it to sign me up through my google log in. First one just didn't take for whatever reason.

I initially loaded a PDF, did the sign up thing, but then it completely lost what I had uploaded. Ok, no problem, try again, but after signing in it says failed. It didn't say failed before. Now I can't do anything with it. Can't even delete it.

The whole "order placed" popup is a little on-the-nose. Feels weird.
Most applications as a whole are absolutely stateful. Individual components of them might not be (app servers are stateless with the DB/Redis containing all state), but the whole app from an external client's perspective is stateful.

If we're talking about reliability/outage recovery, we're considering the application as one single unit visible from the external client's perspective - so everything including the DB (or equivalent stateful component) must be redundant.

Sadly this is also where a lot of cloud-native tooling and best practices fall short. There are endless ways to run stateless workloads redundantly, but stateful/CAP-bound workloads seem to be ignored/handwaved away.

I've seen my fair share of stacks that are doing the right thing when it comes to the easy/stateless parts (redundancy, infinite horizontal scalability), but everyone kinda ignores the elephant in the room which is the CAP-bound primary datastore that everything else depends on, which isn't horizontally scalable and its failover/replication behavior is ignored/misunderstood and untested, and they only get away with it because modern HW is reliable enough that its outage/failover windows are rare enough that the temporary misunderstood/unexpected/undefined behavior during those flies under the radar.
> It would imply the Great Filter is likely to be ahead of us

How?
It has android cloud as well as automatic local backups. I do automatic local backups and use Syncthing to sync them off my phone. Works a charm!
Lambda is a special form
> Majority of teens have heard of it and 13% admit using it

Your source says "Roughly one-in-five teenagers *who have heard of ChatGPT* say they have used it".

This is certainly not "majority" of teens.
Very poor example.

Technical brilliance didn't protect Alan Turing from a badly-written sex law pushed out in 1885, but technical brilliance wasn't the cause of his mistreatment.

Whereas it was technical brilliance that made a young, 8-year-old 210 iq child the target of exploitation by NASA in an era where child-exploitation was already frowned upon for decades.

And of course, in the height of irony one of the aims of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Law_Amendment_Act_188... was to protect the very young; so a very poor example indeed.
I dont think those ~$20 listings are for legit cards :) Real 1TB cards are ~$100
This indeed felt like a excelent overview of many deeper wells that engineers are bound to have to dive into. That could be the best explaination of why we fundamentally don't solve social issues with purely technical solutions, they're always intertwined.

Robert Mose is mentionned midway, so I'd point out that the 99 percent invisible podcast is currently doing a book club on "The Power Broker" [0]. A lot of the issues touched here are inherently design issues, and I think the whole podcast would be a feast for anyone interested.

[0] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/power-broker-01-rober...
Yes, but it will preserve semantic markup.
I firmly agree that control characters, including tab and newline, should have been shown the door decades ago. All they do is make problems.

But spaces in filenames are really just an inconvenience at most for heavy terminal users, and are a natural thing to use for basically everyone else. All my markdown files are word-word-word.md, but all my WYSIWIG documents are "Word word word.doc".

The hassle of constantly explaining to angry civilians "why won't it let me write this file" would be worse than the hassle of having to quote or backslash-escape the occasional path in the shell.
this story is tragic and it is not widely known, and also..

the story of Jonah in the Hebrew bible describes a city of 100,000+ people .. and that was just one city somewhere at that time.. that was three thousand years ago in the Middle East
If they're always supposed to look the same, then Unicode should encode them the same, even if they mean different things in different contexts.
> In support of this: in Russian, the adjective for "lucky" and "happy" is the same – schastlivyi.

Where are you getting this info from?

I am a native speaker, and the two words one would typically use for “lucky” in Russian are “везучий” or “удачливый”. I’ve never heard of“счастливый” being used to refer to any kind of luck or even allude to it. If someone asked me to translate that word, it is straight up the exact same as what “happy” is in english, no different/extra connotations or anything.
Both problems are missing the point: you cannot handle Unicode correctly without locale information (which needs to be carried alongside as metadata outside of the string itself).

To a Swede or a Finn, o and ö are different letters, as distinct as a and b (ö sorts at the very end at the alphabet). A search function that mixes them up would be very frustrating. On the other hand, to an American, a search function that doesn't find "coöperation" when you search for "cooperation" is also very frustrating. Back in Sweden, v and w are basically the same letter, especially when it comes to people's last names, and should probably be treated the same. Further south, if you try to lowercase an I and the text is in Turkish (or in certain other Turkic languages), you want a dotless i (ı), not a regular lowercase i. This is extremely spooky if you try to do case insensitive equality comparisons and aren't paying attention, because if you do it wrong and end up with a regular lowercase i, you've lost information and uppercasing again will not restore the original string.

There are tons and tons of problems like this in European languages. The root cause is exactly the same as the Han unification gripes: Unicode without locale information is not enough to handle natural languages in the way users expect.
How's this better than the MHTML functionality built into my browser?
A fun system would be: you 'have to' peer review publicly a (part of a) paper (at least) when you cite it in your paper.

So that often cited paper get a lot of different (small) public reviews that can be curated from time to time, obscure papers get at least one review justifying why it's relevant to cite them in the new work.

Some could argue that this is too much work added to the writing process.. But.. At the same time.. Shouldn't we read the papers we cite? Why not automatically write a small review of it? It has not to be huge, only the justification on why we (can) use it in our work.
Gotta disagree. When you know enough about hardware engineering you'll understand that there are very talented folks around the world and if you released a vulnerable piece of hardware, SOMEONE SOMEWHERE will notice.

You could argue that Spectre, etc. are part of that, but I don't think that is the case.

This is just retaliation because of all the Taiwan crap, but more importantly, it does not matter as much as many folks think.
I didn't know about that, but it seems a poor trade-off to me. Acute appendicitis is the most common abdominal surgical emergency in the world.
C++

is Incremented C

which is Big C

which is Capital C
Well said.

This is also increasingly on my mind.
For similar sounding names, this fuzzy match is pretty effective.
https://www.archives.gov/research/census/soundex
Do people actually direct sell stock? At least retail investors
ASCII 1967 (and the equivalent ECMA-6) suggested this, and that the characters ,"'`~ could be shaped to look like a cedilla, diaeresis, acute accent, grave accent, and raised tilde respectively for that purpose. But I've never once seen or heard of that method used.

ASCII also allowed the characters @[\]^{|}~ to be replaced by others in ‘national character allocations’, and this was commonly used in the 7-bit ASCII era.

In the 8-bit days, for alphabetic scripts, typically the range 0xA0–0xFF would represent a block of characters (e.g. an ISO 8859¹ range) selected by convention or explicitly by ISO 2022². (There were also pre-standard similar methods like DEC NRCS and IBM's EBCDIC code pages.)

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_2022
They’re not the only one that opted for this. Type “Jacaranda city” into google and you get…Pretoria, South Africa.

Pretty but unfortunately invasive and water thirst so a rather mixed blessing
X does, you can use xrandr --setmonitor.

For example, splitting a 5120x1440 monitor into three:

xrandr --setmonitor DisplayPort-0-0 1280/297x1440/340+0+0 none
xrandr --setmonitor DisplayPort-0-1 2560/595x1440/340+1280+0 none
xrandr --setmonitor DisplayPort-0-2 1280/297x1440/340+3840+0 none
"It's not about luck. It's about managing risk - so that in the end it looks like luck" - Ben Brown
> This sounds familiar, including an unstable or uncertain view of oneself caused by – depending on the situation – not knowing if one's pretty smart and inventive, or a total idiot not capable of living life.

Also a familiar feeling to me as well.
> Godot bashed game engine

It's a typo - 'Godot based game engine' is what it should read I think.
The latter. When writing a somewhat standard implementation people expect redundant special forms (like both if and cond) so there are more than you think. OTOH you can implement some in terms of the others so maybe there aren’t as many as one might thing.

Also, of course, in 3Lisp you can run code in your interpreter and so define new control structures and such. Turns out there aren’t many interesting ones and they have mostly already been thought of.

One new control structure that didn’t need to modify its own interpreter was method combinators. Turns out they mainly useful for unpredictable behavior, except in very simple cases like :before and :after.
Two counterpoints:

1. Unicode isn't a method of storing pixel or graphic representations of writing systems; it's meant to store text, regardless of how similar certain characters look.

2. What do you do about screen readers & the like? If it encounters something that looks like a little half-moon glyph that's in the middle of a sentence about foreign alphabets that reads "Por ejemplo, la letra 'c'", should it pronounce it as the English "see" or as Russian "ess"?
2) ???
Thanks for the more in-depth analysis. It's interesting. But my point - which I didn't really say clearly enough - is: you can't only compare MW, which is what a lot of these calculations tend to do, even if you scale provides for capacity. The fact that nuclear (or any base load provider) works all the time makes it much, much more valuable than something that works intermittently.
Since when has the broad term "networking" started referring to just Web protocols? Can I use this to build any random server (like, say, an FTP server) that provides services over the network? Skimming the docs, it doesn't seem like it.
Steve Gibson invented something you may like: Simple Quick Reliable Login https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm
My memory is rubbish generally except I can draw the floorplan of anywhere I have lived or stayed. But directions, conversations, dates, forget it!
> That would be bad news.

I don't think so. We already know there is a filter for our race. The sun is one terminus, sometime after the earth is uninhabitable to human life (due to ecology). So there's nothing to lose but some time.
I don’t think this is controversial. 5rps is nothing.

Anyone saying otherwise failed to do basic capacity planning. Granted at any given time the number of junior/untrained/nontraditional engineers outnumber senior engineers so it’s not surprising things are build out of proportion, and I suspect that’s what’s behind the majority of the anecdotes.
Given prices, I think a lot of singles who don't spend much time at hone would rather have a dorm like technical residence in an ideal location. It is of course illegal to have a boarding house in the Boston area because it would lead to a plague, of lower real estate prices.
Would be handy for navigating the warp. ;)
At the smallest level, even every byte of an in-flight HTTP request is still state. State, and for that matter "uptime" really depend on what the application/service ultimately does and what the agreement/SLA with the end-customer is.

The correct high-availability solution should take business requirements into account and there is no silver bullet. Running everything on a $5 VPS is no silver bullet, but neither is your typical "cloud-native" "best practice" stack that everyone keeps cargo-culting which often leads to unnecessary cost while leaving many hard questions (such as replicating CAP-bound stateful databases) unanswered.
> You missed this part:

> > in government computers

That's the rub. In a country where the ruling party has a significant stake in most core 'private' enterprises, the line between government and non-government is very blurry. Presumably someone in the Chinese government has an opinion on where this line is, or should be, drawn.
2460 represent
The ship of Chinese consumers getting spied on sailed a long, long time ago.

Pinduoduo got banned by Android as malware (in the US their app is Temu). As far as I know that is exceedingly rare
This is a good paper. Though emergence doesn’t necessarily require a sudden jump in metrics, or unpredictability. New abilities can emerge gradually.
Truly marvellous!
That's a highly specific solution that doesn't address the fundamental interplay between atomics and various kinds of synchronization primitives.
> Whereas billionaire employees doing work on wall street

What's a billionaire employee?
There's plenty of cities in the US where you can experience totality. The bottleneck will probably be renting a car from the airport.

1. Check the Clear Sky Charts map fghorow shared (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39807463)

2. Look up flights to major cities in the path

3. Check rental car availability
Depends on what exactly you mean by "bank," but for a real chartered US bank:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/banking_12779.htm

Realistically, the first part of the answer is "get an experienced lawyer."
I use Aegis only as backup because the workflow is cumbersome as you say (the app itself is flawless in my book), my primary TOTP authenticator is KeePass. I use the exact same KeePass setup on Linux, Windows and MacOS and copying a TOTP token is only a hotkey away. My KeePass also acts as SSH agent which also works with Cygwin, MSYS and WSL. On Android I use KeePassDX which also supports TOTP. I almost never ever open Aegis and when I do it's mostly to check that I can remember the password. I sync my KeePass databases across all devices and OSes with Syncthing.
It certainly has its use cases, e.g. classes with intrusive reference count, where the "release" method would destroy the object once the refcount has reached 0.
Would you live your life in a simulation? Prescient 70s experiment suggested no
> They would eiher have to use Wine (which isn’t 100% compatible)

If anything, Apple can afford to shove a few millions onto Wine. Most of the heavy lifting has already been done, you can run a lot of Windows apps with just a few issues.

The nasty exceptions tend to be anything involving DRM and anti-cheat, as well as stuff requiring interfacing with external hardware directly.
Streams have numerous design problems (e.g. representation is managed by the stream, not the thing you’re printing) making the shift operator syntax the least of the problems.
Maybe you can start by asking the right questions
You hire a family of thieves led by a patriarch who knows a golden goose egg when he sees one.
I feel like Spotify'a recommendations want to funnel me into a cohort whose music taste I supposedly share, but I actually don't. Last.fm seemed to both consider my likes more directly and more creatively. 15% or so of duds are fine, it's better than "oh you liked that dark techno track, it's mini-popular right now so have 20 more".

By the way, last.fm radio exists again, though YouTube is the music source these days.
> It certainly is more democratic than any alternatives I'm aware of

It's no different at all, to any other economic system.

> If business is controlled by a democratically elected government, and 49% of the country voted against those officials, there is no way for them to start their own alternative business to articulate those preferences in the market.

If you have 1 dollar and I have one hundred thousand, the same problem exists. This has nothing to do with capitalism or democracy, per se.
This is not "some" -the majority of Australian nuclear backers are the mining sector, the established mining lobby, and the right wing. The socialist case for nuclear exists ("electricity plus soviet power == communism"), but is not being made.

Here's a leading hint: the main campaign page in Australia for the pro nuclear push is the Murdoch press. The political party leading the push is the conservative party, and it is being led by the right wing conservative leadership against the wishes of the middle ground and soft-left side of the party.

You aren't wrong that any movement has some stink: this movement is lead by the nose.
D2 is fantastic. You can customise a lot of stuff in the diagrams with free layout engines. And it spits out SVGs which you can tweak with an editor (like Affinity Designer).

I have a bunch of styles which I always dump in D2 to generate consistent looking diagrams. Might be useful if you have a design system and you want to give your diagrams branded look and feel.

I also tried to figure out how to write a custom layout engine but apparently I need more weekends of time to work on it.
But C is already capital C! Even .d would have been a better extension.
I wouldn't characterize it as a game, really. AFAICT (not (yet) a pilot) it's a really a simulator: https://www.x-plane.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Plane_(simulator)

Bonus: it supports Linux!
Is art imitating reality or the other way round?
Can’t argue on that. More transparency is always good for end user.
His point was that the advocates churning out propaganda about nuclear power likely have zero interest in global warming.

I think this is probably true. Their reasons for promoting nuclear power have nothing to do with that.
The adage I’ve heard is that 90+% eclipses only give you 10% experience of totality.

I’m in Charlottetown, and I’ll be driving to North Cape (as will the rest of the Island). Between worrying about the weather, I’m also concerned that I won’t be able to get to North Cape in the first place.

So far, I managed to beat the solar glasses rush by ordering in January. I’m trying to figure out the timing to get to North Cape early enough to have a spot to park, but not too early that my kids will lose their minds with the waiting.
Thank you! I'm thinking about starting strength training again, it was really good when I did it, but I'll definitely do less weight and be much more careful about injuries, as I'm past forty.

It sounds like it's pretty essential for maintaining good muscle density as I age, though.
There's the anthropological concept of "Chinese" and then there's the identitarian notion. This is analogous to biological versus identitarian notions of gender.
I’d really enjoy a prehensile tail, despite the adaptations required for trousers and chairs.

Also, I was enough a nerd growing up that other kids would have pulled it.
Author of SingleFile here, one of the major differences is that monolith doesn't use a web browser to take page captures. As a result, it doesn't support JavaScript, for example. SingleFile, on the other hand, requires a Chromium-based browser to be installed. It should also produce smaller pages and is capable of generating ZIP or self-extracting ZIP files. However, it will take longer to capture a page. Note that since version 2, it is now possible to download executable files of the CLI tool [1].

[1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/single-file-cli/releases
> He should be tarred, feathered, and run out of town.

I can't imagine what this could possibly mean. What should actually happen to him for posting messages on message boards?
> I think you’re using short-hand

Yes I was using short-hand.

Because you're the only one here trying to make the stupid argument that OpenSSH code is somehow not trustworthy.

Frankly, if you don't trust OpenSSH code for the reasons you suggest, then you should not be trusting any Operating System, whether BSD, Linux, Mac or Windows.

As I said, OpenSSH is used extensively, INCLUDING in security-critical environments, the sort of security-critical environments that you can be sure have done their homework, even if they don't publish it.

The simple fact of the matter is this:

Given the widespread global deployment of OpenSSH for DECADES now, if there were shortcomings in the code, you would have heard of it because we would be seeing BILLIONS of compromised endpoints.

Fact is, there aren't, unless you haven't bothered to update your system in the last decade.

So you can talk about fuzzing or whatever until you are blue in the face, but widespread global deployment is hard to beat, because that's REAL WORLD, failed attempts at finding zero-day exploits and all !
I wonder how they plan to monetize given they already have a handful investors.
> Officially change my name?

My German last name also contains an ü, so when we emigrated to an English-speaking country and obtained dual-citizenship we used 'ue' for that passport and I now use 'ue' on a day-to-day basis. This also means I have two slightly different legal surnames depending by which passport I go.