skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Up until 90s or so more people been on moon surface than sailed around world non-stop single handed.

Now it’s a race every few years - Vendee Globe. Something like half do not finish.
You have a highly searchable, holistically complete, moment-to-moment timeline of someone's life, under your control.

With enough moments, you can craft a narrative of your design - out of their moments.

This should be an expected product from the company that built-out the largest surveillance system (of civilians, not suspected of a crime) in the world.

ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Awareness_System
Why are Americans so against a national registry? What are the actual arguments against it? Pretty every other developed country has one.
1Password hasn’t been working well the last few months. Half the time the Safari extension is not working and shows a Reload button but that isn’t working either. Quality went down a lot
I actually think national ID systems need a dual mechanism where you can hand out IDs that are unique for any given relationship you establish. That way business relationships can be formed with the government providing assurance of identity, but even if the business leaks all those ID numbers nothing can actually happen to you unless the business’ private key is stolen. Similarly, the government can only establish your identity but cannot determine your relationships with businesses or other individuals. You can also choose to revoke ID permissions for any relationship and entities are not allowed to store identifying info about you (i.e. they have to query the government database whenever they need it) similar to how they’re not allowed to store CC info.
"We currently don't understand how to make sense of the neural activity within language models" this is why peopl are up-in-arms.
I have gotten somewhat used to Raycast's window management tools, and it is not really possible to use them with AeroSpace.

For example, with Raycast I can resize and float a window using "reasonable size" option, which also puts it in the middle. I can use left half and right half to create a split, or I can maximise a window or even use quarters or thirds. With AeroSpace, trrying to move the windows in the tiles using left half, right half, or left two thirds or using reasonable size to float the windows, it doesn't work.

Also, there are bugs associated with moving apps to "next desktop" and "previous desktop". AeroSpace seems to have its own implementation of Mac's multiple desktops called workspaces, so the video guide actually doesn't show transitioning between different desktops, but different workspaces. As a result, using "next desktop" and "previous desktop" completely breaks the tiling. I would've liked Workspaces to just be associated directly with the different Mac desktops so that the movement between workspaces just moves to the different desktops so there is some compatibility with Raycast and native MacOS.
None of those things are true. ADHD people are pretty bad at being addicted to anything, and therapeutic stimulant doses are actually neuroprotective.

Just watch your blood pressure, but you should do that anyway.
There was a time that was how you achieved throughput. IPC was janky and unreliable and often slow, and threads offered a cleaner interface for cooperative multitasking on a single runtime. That’s changed as IPC and async improved, and the dangers of threaded led to more safety in threading, leading to slower threading performance.
Certainly, owners sometimes leave properties vacant, and sometimes do so for long periods, for various reasons. The housing market, however, should be big enough and robust enough to allow for some of that occurring.

Personally, I'd like there to be so much more housing that landlords have to compete with each other for who can provide the best apartment for the lowest price rather than potential tenants competing with each other for who can pay the most for the only apartment that is available.
Yes, Clojure.specs are technically not types, they cannot enforce constraints broadly at compile-time. Yet they still can enforce finer-grained constraints at runtime. From the practical point of view, specs are really great tool for building robust software and have other properties like simplifying property-based testing through automatic generation of test cases.

Take for example a trivial example when we need to validate user data with the following constraints:

- Age: Must be between 18 and 120.

- Name: Must be a non-empty string.

- Email: Must follow a valid email format.

- Credit Card Number: Must pass the Luhn algorithm check.

Something like that is pretty straightforward to achieve in Clojure.spec within 20 lines of code. It's close to impossible to get with any advanced static type system, because type systems can't deal well with custom constraints; they often can't offer detailed, human-readable error messages for the cases like that; they often can't describe complex and nested data structures, or trying to do so would be cumbersome and less expressive.

So, they are not types. Okay. Cisco built their cybersecurity platform using Clojure. The market capitalization is about $180B. I imagine this would be a few dozen billions more if they had chosen to use an "actual type system", amiright?

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edit: After thinking about it a bit more, I have to admit that I spoke too harshly. It's not "close to impossible" You probably can create a type that checks for these constraints, but you would likely need to use a dependent type system or refined types, perhaps something like LiquidHaskell., and it still would be very tricky, especially with the credit card part. In Clojure.spec - it's very trivial.
A bomb on a train doesn’t bring down the train
Right but the SR-71 had a pretty significant fuselage cross-section that is basically pure drag. If going for max efficiency, the entire nosecone of the rocket should probably be the air intake. Basically take one of the SR-71's engines put it vertical and mount the payload inside of it under the shock cone. TWR needs to be high enough to eliminate the need for wings.

Some of the newer missiles like the BrahMos are designed like this and have a ramjet powered second stage to save on oxidizer. It doesn't reach anywhere near orbital speed, but with this design, the shock cone takes the majority of the heating vs. the SR-71 where there were many exposed parts and materials.
Depends on your definition of "worth solving".

If the goal is profit, follow the trends, add AI to everything and claim that your new tech will save lives.

If the goal is to improve society, the biggest problems we are facing now are the result of too much tech. Find a way to do less with less in an acceptable way. The ideal tech is one that does just what we need but using a fraction of the energy we currently use.
A labor of love, congratulations.
1. You create a ULA prefix (fc00:/7) on your local network. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_local_address

2. Then you have your router advertise that prefix.

3. Then you have your DNS server pick a non-temporary address within that prefix (either manually set it, or let the OS pick one).

4. Then you tell your router to advertise that address as the DNS server in the RA.

Depending on how you have your network set up, your DNS server will have probably four IPv6 addresses: A link-local one; one on the ULA prefix you created; a non-temporary address on the prefix delegated by your ISP; and one or more temporary addresses on the prefix delegated by your ISP.

Outgoing connections (for recursive resolving) will be on one of the temporary addresses from the PD prefix. The DNS server listens on the static ULA address.

You need to configure your firewall such that traffic from the delegated prefix can get to the ULA one, and vice versa. This usually just means blocking traffic from the WAN port to the ULA prefix.
I'm a home ipv4 admin. What I or someone similar would need is the last part that shows how you set up a basic network with some local addresses I care about and a few I want to expose publicly. It's nice that the guide includes the concepts, but the first thing anyone will want to do is just make it work.

Step 2 says to set up ULAs. Are these static or dynamic? It says "don't pick numbers." If dynamic, how does step 5 work? If static, what about visitors in my house?

Step 3 mentions a LAN DNS. Where do I set that up? I don't recall my router having that option somewhere, and I'd rather not rely on a machine for it.
> What is the distinction between a state registry and a national registry?

The difference between centralisation and decentralisation. States can fight back against the federal government's requests in a way that is simply not feasible for almost any person.

> a pseudo-central vs. central system hardly seems like a different solution

Under this model, the e.g. TSA wouldn't be allowed to keep a copy of your ID. It would have to poll for it anew each time.

Looping back to the above: the TSA making this promise to us is almost meaningless. The TSA making this promise to the states could create real problems for it if it were found to be breaking the law.

> that would also mean that if you need to interact with anything non-local that is now also not possible

Correct.
The non-stimulant ADHD drugs actually all have worse side effects than the stimulant ones, and they're harder to stop taking. You can quit Vyvanse cold turkey or take it as needed and be pretty OK, but if you quit Strattera it takes weeks to work again once you start it.

And you can't quit Intuniv without titrating off for a week or two or you'll feel pretty sick.
There is a reason why it says Boeing's Starliner and not NASA's
> We don't need to turn all pathologies into a positive trait to be cherished.

I don’t think your parent was doing that. As I understand this theory is that societies which take care of their disabled have a survival advantage over societies that don’t. Even though diversity is debilitating to the individual, it still benefits society as a whole.

A short description of the mechanism could be something like: Variability is the raw material for evolution through natural selection. Having a high cognitive and behavioral variability offers greater opportunities for societies to benefit from natural selection. Societies which take care of neuro-divergent individuals have a greater cognitive and behavioral variability.
"will have had", "will have been" - amazing construction
I also couldn't figure out to how to get that working. It's seems you need both DNS via RA (RFC6106) and (stateless) DHCPv6.

Then there was a bug in CoreDNS that wouldn't bind link local. What I learned from the text is that I should have probably generated a unique address for the DNS.

It is not only confusing theoretically but also the ISP router config makes it even more confusing.
>> I didn't read that part of your comment

Typical. I sincerely hope that is not a bellwether of...OK what the fuck is a bellwether?
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Divorce: The Arcade Machine (~2014)
Having a slow day, I found myself dumbscrolling Youtube Shorts and found something actually interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KFs-sIMp89s

That was an unusual mechanical game! I have to know more. I quickly found the original creator Tim Hunkin and his Youtube channel, a hidden gem by itself.

https://www.youtube.com/@timhunkin1/videos

Featured his own video of the Divorce arcade machine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUe5FGIcYq8

with a blog post about the making of the machine, way more interesting than just play the game.

And some 'grisly themed' (as he said) machines like the PET OR MEAT machine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OGzD8PiO7k

https://www.timhunkin.com/a169_petormeat-writing.htm

Apparently inspired in some very old machines depicting executions for a coin.
I'm still getting into this rabbit hole.
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>In the heart of a vibrant skatepark,

Vibrant? It's made of white concrete.

>a skateboarder is caught in a moment of pure exhilaration.

Oh, great we're mind-reading from pictures now? His face isn't even visible.

> adding balance to the daring stunt.

What incredible commentary.

>palm trees sway gently, adding a touch of nature to the urban setting.

The trees aren't swaying. But because sometimes trees sway, I guess it'll just say it.

> A few spectators can be seen in the distance, their attention riveted on the airborne skateboarder

The spectators look more like they are just glancing over, nowhere near "riveted".

> The image captures not just a moment, but a story of skill, courage, and the joy of skateboarding.

This adds literally nothing.
> You can also choose to revoke ID permissions for any relationship and entities are not allowed to store identifying info about you (i.e. they have to query the government database whenever they need it) similar to how they’re not allowed to store CC info

How do you propose doing this without a centralised (or public) place that tracks your relationships?

If the answer is local, you'd expect to be inundated with cases within a few years of people who couldn't revoke a permission because they lost their phone or whatnot.
I used to take Amtrak to/from Chicago 2-3 times a year, and once as I was headed back home TSA had set up shop at the Chicago station and was checking everyone.

I don’t travel by train these days so I have no idea whether that has happened again.
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The problem may have more to do with Uganda and having a surveillance state than it has to do with National ID cards.

Most European countries have them and they are as uncontroversial as passports.

Countries without national ID cards are not especially more privacy minded : for the purpose of identity verification they just use alternative documents & processes that are less straightforward and at least as intrusive (e.g. driving licenses, utility bills and credit checks in the US and UK).

IMO it's much more honest to recognize that there's a legitimate need to be able to prove one's identity in a functioning society, and to build a dedicated system for that, instead of tying your existence as a citizen to your ability / willingness to drive a large piece of metal around.
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Similarly, vectorizing some code doesn't always speed things up. I'm dealing with this problem at work right now. Sometimes complicated loops are pretty well optimized already! That said, vectorization can often make things easier to read.
These steps depend on whether you're using networkd, netplan, NetworkManager, ConnMan, etc.
Russia opens terrorist investigation after freight train derailed

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-opens-terrorist-...

Millions of Americans face risk of a toxic ‘bomb train’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/01/2...

Less than a year ago, a disastrous train derailment sent a massive plume of dangerous chemicals billowing over East Palestine, Ohio, startling the town of nearly 5,000 residents and onlookers nationwide.

Now, a new report warns that more of these catastrophes may loom: At any given moment, more than an estimated 3 million people are unknowingly at risk, as toxic trains full of a highly combustible and carcinogenic chemical used to make plastic move between Texas and New Jersey.
Since for telescope what matters is the surface size of the mirror (light collected is proportional to surface which is proportional to r^2), the 9m telescope is ~1.9x better than 6.5m one. This is a big difference. Not even counting the loses from a non perfect alignment of a folding mirror compared to a fixed one.
There are different types of radiation and body's response to them are different. Elevated levels of simple gamma rays (and maybe also protons) are reasonably tolerated - the body has mechanisms to recover from that.

However, a steady dose of relativistic heavy nuclei is entirely different matter. Gun wound vs bulldozed over. Cells have mechanisms for repairing local damage, even in the cell nucleus. However, a fact heavy nucleus wrecks so much that the repair mechanisms have no chance - a cell that got hit simply dies (or, at least, is never going to be able to divide again). The damage is cumulative, does not get repaired.

In game parlance: Gammas reduces your HP (that can come back over time, if the hits do not occur too fast). Fast heavy nucleus reduces your max UP. You are doomed, given enough time.
> Why are Americans so against a national registry?

Literally this article.

(Not saying it's consistent with our various national registries. But it's not some dumbshit concern.)

> every other developed country has one

American culture is uniquely individualistic. Our First Amendment, for instance, remains unique despite having hundreds of years of precedence.
10 min ago here: Walmart announces ambitious plan to exploit it's customers for data.

4 Hours Earlier here: Costco, same.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40601934
If there's anything in this press release to justify how "characters added by AI" is more true a reflection of quality than commit count is of productivity, I didn't see it.

It's a short release and I read it twice, so if it was there I feel like I'd have noticed.
Up in arms for what reason? That neural networks are perfectly interpretable? That's the nature of huge amorphous deep networks. These feature extraction forays are a good step forward though.
For what it's worth, I've been running Windows 11 full-time on both Skylake ("sixth generation") and Ivy Bridge-EP ("third generation") systems without issue, though not for gaming.

Assuming your system meets all other Windows 11 system requirements (TPM 2.0, etc.), you should have no problem installing Windows 11. You'll have to download it yourself and trigger the upgrade manually (mount the ISO and run "setup.exe"), and click through a warning message, but AFAIK no other workarounds are required.

Whether doing so is advisable depends on your appetite for risk, but I'd personally be more worried about application developers than Microsoft when it comes to breaking changes in the future: Windows 11 updates have to remain compatible with every CPU on the supported list*; new applications and version upgrades have no similar requirements.

* AFAIK, this does not necessarily apply to new Windows 11 versions, though even here, I'd expect fewer breaking changes than with applications and games that typically have stricter CPU requirements to begin with.
Im kind of in the same boat, I'm on a CGNAT with a apartment community, they don't have IPv6 at all, matter of fact they barely VLAN the apartments / wifi apart. I've rick rolled the entire complex's chromecasts before
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To be fair, that's often the case with open source stuff. And though I understand the frustration, it is kind of the deal.

Google makes AOSP open source not because they want to spend resources on your contributions, but for control. Pretty sure it's similar in many other projects like Flutter, Protobuf, gRPC, ... And not only Google, of course.

Signal is open source for security reasons: they want people to be able to audit the code. Definitely not to spend resources reviewing community contributions.

I know it sucks: I have spent time contributing perfectly valid features to open source projects that were never even reviewed. But on the other hand I have seen people try to contribute big PRs to projects I maintain and I am just not paid to adopt (and later maintain) their code.

Conclusion: unless you contribute something they directly need (a bugfix, or if you are lucky enough to contribute a feature they directly need better and faster than them), then don't bother. But that's valid for most open source projects.
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How does this:

> With IPv4, when your router connects to your ISP, you get one public address for the WAN, and you use a picked private address like 192.168.0.0/24 for your LAN. With IPv6, since you want a globally routable address for hosts on your LAN also, you need to ask the ISP for a routable prefix.

jive with this:

> You want to use these ULA for all your LAN communication. If you want to reach your printer or a media server, put their ULAs in the DNS and not the globally routable one.

Why have globally-routable IPv6 addresses if you're not going to use them?

I was put off initially by the first quoted paragraph because while the hard-outside-chewy-center security model is not a strong model, it is easy to reason about especially when you have very heterogeneous devices on your home LAN, including ones you don't control the OS of. I like using private addresses for my home LAN and even if I had an IPv4 /24, I wouldn't give addresses from it to machines on my LAN.

I use wireguard to access things on my LAN, with a somewhat-janky split-horizen DNS setup where the DNS server is on my LAN, so I have to be connected to wireguard to even resolve the names.
Because you are afraid of being dropped out there into a months-long grind to find anything.
I'm saying that if tech companies hired like normal, sane companies, that would not be a fear.
Sure, they might not keep you through probation (and YOU have a lot of influence over that). But if not, you go start at another company. That's the benefit I'm talking about with not having stupid long, arduous interview processes: Not having stupid long, arduous interview processes.
This is what I was thought in school 15 years ago. I suppose this stuff comes in and out of fashion
While I agree it’s painful, I’ve seen examples of ai reproducing exact bastardized versions of famous instagram digital artists. You can clearly see where it learned from it and it’s extremely obvious, not in the sense of one who could say “oh yes I was inspired by this” but a literal 1:1 copy that has the drunken haze of melted ai nonsense over top. In this respect I was like damn … that may piss me off.
I'm not coming "after you." I'm sorry if you feel attacked, and I apologize if you think I'm angry. We're in a public forum, and I'm simply expressing my opinions (for everyone to see and read). They are not specifically aimed at you or in response to what you've said. This particular comment wasn't even a response to your comment; it just happened to be in the same thread.
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