skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Important work can be criminal

Yeah, illegal/criminal merely means that it's against the law and will be prosecuted if it can be pinned to you.

As an outlandishly severe example: helping Jews in Nazi Germany was criminal.
As a parent of three I’d suggest that it’s probably the best to teach them to use them as tools not entertainment.

As I quoted elsewhere, any extremist or reductionist position makes things worse for them.
You have to show exuberance when demonstrating your brand loyalty, otherwise you’re not loyal enough to pass the ad. You’ll need to watch the entire reeducation, I mean ad, in that case.
obviously unaware about today's youth
Well what if we had committed to solar and wind in the 1950s as opposed to the 1990s?

Certainly wind would have been viable at its current price points 40 years earlier than we have it now.

I do think there does exist a world where nuclear power is competitive, but I don't think it involved solid fuel rods and pressurized water and gigantic domes. There probably is a MSR design out there that could probably compete but we would have had to have started funding that back in the '60s and '70s.

We went solid fuel rod in the '60s and that kind of was it. I don't think solid fuel rod can be competitive no matter what regulatory environment
The format is both simple and not.

Recurrence relations are tricky.

Timezones are tricky and many implementations don't include them or don't read the included zones.

DST changes are really tricky, and some times that exist can't be represented as local times.
I asked this question in a thread a few days ago and got downvoted. I’d probably have better luck preaching sobriety in a bar ha but I really think society needs to wake up to the toxicity of technology much like we did cigarettes.
I clearly remember 12 year olds who were active on LiveJournal and a couple other less known social networking sites back in 2002-2003. The only difference it was done via a desktop computer rather than an iPhone.
> A simpler explanation is that Borges had some experience (don't we all?) with partisans, reviewers, and even scholars, who seem wilfully to imagine their chosen text as written at a different time and by a different author than it had been.

I don't think this does the Menard story justice (although I'm not sure I buy the interpretation you're critiquing either)

You're on the right lines but you paint it as some kind of irritated put down of bad interpretations. I think Borges trying to probe (in a witty and playful way) the thing that we all do when when we attempt to read something from another time or place. He's not particularly passing judgement as I don't think he is claiming there's an easy way round the problems.

EDIT - I've just done the thing I hate other people doing - replying to a comment without reading TFA properly. I'll remedy this but I want my reply to stand because I disagree with your characterisation and it's currently the top comment.
> But if the listener can't tell the difference?

I think a listener can tell the difference. But for the sake of argument: if not, and if I fell for it, I would be absolutely furious and feel deceived. It would be like falling in love with a woman and discovering she's an android.

But let me make a very human argument. A big part of why this is so important to me is that it feels like a line in the sand. Technology has already devalued humanity to a very disturbing degree, and is increasingly alienating us all not only from each other, but from ourselves as human beings. And much of the stuff I hear from the current LLM crowd is pretty overt about this and celebrates it.

If machines are able to subvert and mimic the very essence of what it is to be human, then we have lost. What would be the point of even carrying on at all?

> pop artists already have meticulously crafted "he/she is real not a corporate product" PR and people feel it to be real.

A thing can be both real human communication and a corporate product, but I get what you're saying here. And that is likely why pop music is largely uninteresting to me. It's empty. It's junk food as compared to real food.

As I said before, lots of people don't need to have a human communication in order to find value in music. They're fine with it just being pretty sounds. Others do need that connection. I'm just in that latter camp. As long as people like me exist, there will be a need for actual artists.
Since we repealed the law forbidding oil export, it's a global market.

Riyadh and Houston have always been on great terms as they have common goals and common enemies.

The Dems propose moving to a green economy, this is terrible for all fossil fuel extractors.
Very interesting comparison
This is a gamechanger. Im shifting my tech portfolioto MS
The petrodollar was never about access to Saudi oil. Even when we imported large amounts of oil, we also produced a lot and we had very many different suppliers.

The petrodollar was about creating a massive market for USD despite us having a massive trade deficit. Every country that wanted to buy oil had to hold USD and US treasuries to buy the oil.

This cemented the USD as the world currency therefore financing our budgetary (as opposed to trade) deficit with cheap interest rates.
Like the other commenter in this thread who says "... not social suicide ..." I would suggest just implementing the rules yourself regardless of what society is doing. The trend (as you can imagine) is definitely still going younger and younger. And unless you have the funds to fight off the marketing teams of Google and Apple, I imagine that will continue.

My kids are fine. Even with their parents fighting tooth and nail to keep them off devices as much as possible, they will still be on them sometimes (in your home or out of it). Maybe my kids are just weird to not be craving social media - just being able to send text messages to her friends seems to be enough for my 14 year old currently. Is that the same thing? My observations say "definitely not".

They complain about it sometimes, (and I complain about their usage sometimes) but nobody is really angry and everybody is really reasonable. Your mileage may vary.
>Certainly the fossil fuel establishment, one of the strongest forces on the planet, would always prefer a GOP candidate over a Dem. Is this not common knowledge?

Yes, since Dems always worked just fine for them too.
3 quick points:

- It's also possible that the covid vaccines don't contribute to long covid.

- Some people have problems with vaccines, but don't push it. People are not losing their legs left and right.

- It's good to understand the risks of taking drugs (while keeping in mind our own limitations on the subject), but it's also important to understand the risks of not taking said drugs.
'Noodle Rat' a New Cross-Platform Malware Targets Windows and Linux Systems
I re-read it often. It’s one of the best short stories I’ve read in the entire life.
What skills/concepts would one need to acquire in order to fully grasp all that you've detailed here?
Nope, it's much more insidious than that. The user is already on your website, which could be a legitimate website with a malicious owner.

If you look at the screenshot, it's a perfectly valid interpretation for a non tech-savvy user to interpret that as "realhealthysnacks is asking me to install a legitimate Microsoft application".

Now change the simplified example for a real one from a SaaS product login page with several "Login with ..." buttons, and one of them triggers this.
No that’s basically the law. What is extremism is depriving them of what is an essential tool in these times.

Teach don’t preach.
For the most part, the mechanics of the current bipartisan system.

In the current election system of primaries (in place since 1972), an incumbent has never lost. They haven't even lost a state in 44 years. So basically the incumbent has a defacto first right of refusal when it comes to their party's nomination.

The other party has been shaped by a political movement with a lot of power and momentum, and the founder of that movement more or less has the same defacto first right of refusal.
What? Giving them the phone. Or not giving them the phone?
I'm curious about the mom's screen time metrics, and whether she considered giving up her own iPhone.
So posting the contents of my ~/.mozilla/firefox/default/extensions/ on GitHub is going to remove all of them from the store? Goodness, I wonder why no one thought of that until now.
He also uses Instagram and/or Threads.
Unity Catalog: Open, Multi-Modal Catalog for Data and AI
Linus Torvalds Guided Tour of His Home Office (2014) [video]
At least among my peer group, there’s clear support for holding off on smart phones for kids until at least high school, so I have hope.
I love C#.

> I’m not a fan of Rust.

I wonder why? Care to elaborate?
Were you popular? I feel like social dynamics must play a role. I mean I'm pretty sure blue vs green bubbles are a big deal in some circles let alone social media.
IMO the problem with phones for teens it that they have nothing to use them for except socialization. Adult phone addiction is a problem but phones are also tools for adults. Answering emails, calling the doctor's office, checking your credit card statement, etc. Teens have literally no use for phones except for communication/socialization. They also have abundant free time. One plan I've been thinking about for my own kid (currently 9mo old) is he's allowed to have a phone as long as he also has a job (or suitable job-like activity appropriate for a teen).
Who do you think started Korea? Free clue: It wasn't the US.

Afghanistan? You seem to forget that Russia also invaded them.

You also seem to forget Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Georgia, and Ukraine.

So, no, the wars started by "the West" are not significantly more than the wars started by Russia or the USSR.
Because you never make mistakes or misremember, I suppose? How graceful of you.
There is a another agreement long in the works that involves a defense treaty but also involves normalization with Israel and path to Palestinian state. But it will probably risk getting dragged into another conflict given the Houthis are their neighbors. Also Saudi Arabia has human rights issues. So in the end I don't know how Congress will vote on this. Would having a Palestinian state resolve all tensions in that region?
It’s misinformed on scale of effects, like saying Apple changing the preferences typeface on iMac is going to have massive effects down the road. Like, sure, maybe. But that’s true of literally anything.

It would take some serious changes in the global economy to make this news impactful. At which point we might as well call out the possibility of the Teton Pass collapse influencing the odds of China invading Taiwan.
We don't (net) sell it. In fact we don't sell very much the world wants
> This leads to one of my favorite axioms: every group chat has a n-1 group containing everyone except that annoying member. And if you think your chat doesn’t have such a group, oh boy, do I have some bad news for you.

This is directly at odds with the aforementioned moderation. The slack that I'm in has no qualms about warning toxic members of their shit, and making them ex-members if they have to. Thus the only N-1 groups are the positive kind - we're planning birthday things for the excluded member, not toxicly gossiping about them behind their back. It does take a more social aware and heavy handed moderation team, but this is a large group slack which has more features than one giant group chat.

There are private channels there for specific invite-only groups, but they're still focused on a specific topic rather than excluding that one terrible person.

The existence of an N-1 chat is a signal that the group can't do the hard thing and actually talk to that one person.
If we are going to think bigger I suggest more than 2 viable parties.
Whoa, look at that - the impersonator is suspended now.
They absolutely did. The PPEs were far too anemic to run anything like halflife on their own.

Gabe Newell famously sounded off about how useless it was and wouldn't transfer to any other hardware, but he ended up being wrong. The architectural model forced on you by the SPEs is the model that the industry (not just games but any compute intensive work) has embraced for the heavy multicore but coherent system world.

Rather than the "thread per vague activity" model, we've embraced a one thread per core with a work stealing scheduler walking a DAG of chunked compute tasks.

For a modern view of this, this is exactly how Rust's rayon library works.

The whole thing reminds me of a lot of the complaints about the N64, a lot of which ended up being the fact that DRAM was no longer a single cycle away like it was for the SNES. Yes cache conscious code is more difficult to write, but that memory hierarchy architecture was more a harbinger of the new world rather than a one off weirdness of a single console.
PowerPC's sort of descendant/predecessor POWER is still developed and sold. Raptor Computing seems to be the only company selling POWER based systems to the general public.
Designing My Own Watch (2020)
Note: netik’s bio indicates they used to work at Twitter.
I barely remember 2049. I remember so much of the original. Ridley Scott and team created the world from scratch and mastered the atmosphere. 2049 is very good, but it's basically a requel.
How did we not have this 10-15 years ago? It just feels like not enough people work on, or care enough about assistive tech till it impacts them personally.
Ads are shitty now, but the idea that they're evil in principle is a bit extremist and misplaced.

The best concert I ever saw was one that I wouldn't have known about until I saw an ad for it. I've seen many good movies I wouldn't have been aware of if there weren't TV commercials for them. And if there's a new restaurant in town that's something I'd like to know because I may want to try it. I don't go out of my way to follow concert, movie, or restaurant news.

And I'm not likely to do so but if I was ever to open my own business, it would be nice if people could become aware of it so that I'd have any chance to survive against incumbents.

The internet has poisoned advertising with surveillance and tackiness and excess, but before ad tech I think we had it pretty good. You could mute TV commercials, there were fewer, longer breaks of several at once. Once there were DVRs, you could skip them. They weren't unskippable like streaming can now make them.
Could long covid help cause WW3? Yeah, sure, why not? So could Parkinson’s / Alzheimer’s / other dementia, or an unfortunately timed heart attack or bout of food poisoning or whatever.

Could ChatGPT compensate for this? No. You need mechanisms whereby leaders can be removed from office without waiting for an election, and you need these mechanisms to actually get used when these sorts of mental impairments take place.
I think of movies as the equivalent of short stories and serialized series as novels. That distinction also seems to hold when it comes to adaptations.
"they cannot use"

They can, India will happily sell them stuff for rupees, but the problem is that Indian exports mostly don't match Russian import needs.
What specifically about them?
I got one in 2018 for $200 and it was okay as a netflix and Youtube machine, and nothing more. The Linux features were harder to activate and use than just buying a used Thinkpad for also $200, with a way better processor and twice as much memory, so I eventually did that to replace it and should have done that first. It aged like raw meat for being a "premium" product.

Mine in particular died a slow and painful death. The thermal paste had aged out, and the fan died, though was cheap and easy to replace, but even after, it still was nonfunctional, as it would die after being on for just a few minutes. Because it was running Linux with weird userland stuff like Crouton, it was devilishly hard to debug. I also just do not know how to debug Linux nearly as well as I understand Windows "internals".

It's too bad because it was a pretty laptop with a very nice screen.
Attention control seems to be a top cultivative practice. What you put your attention on, how long, etc.

Good practice delivers health, sensitivity, kindness. Bad delivers bad health, bad behavior.

Pleasure, habit and popularity is a bad guide here. You might actually have to fight for your sanity.
One side is currently run like a cult, and the other has an incumbent with a massive fundraising apparatus behind him. Just because some people complain on the internet doesn't mean that there are enough of them to make a meaningful difference when it comes to selecting candidates.
The industry runs on oil (and gas) and that's not going to be phased away as easily as cars.

It would be nice to see something like Tesla but for heavy/industrial machinery, though. I think I saw something somewhere, but can't find the source at this time.
Does this mean you don't plan on taking any ideas from screen/tmux and implementing them in your tool?
Some folks say it's not Fortune 100 but Fortune 1 ;-)
Eactly, Eagan is "math-fi", and Borges is "philosophy-fi". And yeah, what Eagan does is absolutely mind blowing. He mathematically derives entire universes entirely unlike our own, determines what it would be like to live in them, and then writes about characters that do.

(And this isn't boring shit like "this world is four-dimensional, so its inhabitants need more legs, woah!", this is bizarre shit like "better clear the road so that we can rotate the museum down it, before the sun moves on".)
> "disabling seamless SSO"

It is never going to happen in the corporate. Never.
'social suicide' is a vague term but my daughter has been spending a fair amount of this summer break texting groups of friends and/or playing online multi-player games with friends. Nothing good would come of my taking away her phone.
I wonder if there's a market for phones whose software can only do a few things. I mean: maps, phone, whatsapp.

Obviously in theory stock Android can do that but they don't really take child locks seriously because they have the wrong threat model for it - they think "it only has to be securish because most children aren't going to be smart enough to circumvent it and it's not serious if they do anyway", instead of "it has to be actually secure because you only need one smart child out of thousands to figure out a bypass and it is serious because it affects peoples lives".

So maybe you could have an Android distro where it literally white-lists a few apps and servers at the OS level.
> under armed guard

Get rid of the guard. They might turn the computer on.
Has anyone made a rate-limited phone UX? Not just measuring screen time, but pre-agreed quotas, e.g. N mins per hour during specific time periods or locations, for the entire phone, specific apps, and/or contact groups.
That’s the thing. For a desktop app, they can pop up a chromeless web view with the Oauth login page. You can’t vet the authenticity at all.
Agree. Just saying it would be good for their economy. (And if done properly, could be supported by the U.S.)
I just use hardware kill switches on my phone and laptop.
No. No I don't think I will.
I'm not so sure. I see my 10-year-old daughter use her iPad and its very constructive, she's on screen sharing/video with her friends quite a lot, its healthy socialization. I imagine it becomes a problem when the child can't regulate their usage. But that's where we can use screentime and parental controls.
That’s comparing apples to two sacks of apples, one of which is 30 years older.

The A320neo entered service in 2016 and has over 3,000 of the type in service and has zero fatal accidents involving passengers or flight crew (there have been five fatalities from two incidents involving runway incursions by ground crew). There have been no serious in-flight incidents.

The 737max was introduced in 2017 and has over 1500 in service, about half of the airbus A320 neo. It has had two fatal accidents resulting in 346 fatalities and one serious in-flight incident. The record is not great.

If you want to compare all 737 models back to the first flight of the A320 I’m pretty sure it’ll be closer, but flying is much safer than it was even with the 737max.

However I do believe that Boeing will resolve the issues. It will take time to fix the culture that resulted caused them though.
Do you speak English?

If COVID does not cause long COVID, what are you implying is the cause?

If a car hitting you does not cause death by vehicular manslaughter, what causes it?
> The goal of a software project, however, is not optimal individual learning about programming, it is usually something else.

Sure. It’s my goal. Not my project’s. My project doesn’t care about anything really.

The name of the game for me (the programmer) is maximizing my output without getting burned out. To that end, my intermediate goal is to find fun where I can. That’s the game.
I keep hearing that, but I still see plenty of ads (and other dark patterns like data collection you can't turn off) in Enterprise builds.

I heard Win10 LTSC was somewhat better so I'm hoping there will be a Win11 LTSC coming out at some time with longer support.
> Most satellites are still under control and steered to a predetermined area for reentry over the South Pacific.

This is not true, most satellites do not perform controlled re-entry. In order to perform controlled re-entry, you need to have enough thrust to perform the final de-orbit maneuver in a short amount of time before you get so low that you start to lose attitude control of the spacecraft and wouldn't be able to guarantee you are firing your thrusters in the correct direction. To do this in a short amount of time means you need a high thrust system, in other words a chemical propulsion system and not electric propulsion.

All of the Starlink satellites use electric propulsion to do their de-orbit so they are performing uncontrolled re-entry. NASA's Orbital Debris Mitigation Standard Practices (ODMSP) say that you can perform uncontrolled re-entry if the probably of casualties on the ground is less than 1 in 10,000. There are NASA analysis tools that are used to do that assessment of what kind of debris would survive re-entry. This is likely getting updated in the near future to be more conservative though as there was recently a piece of an old ISS battery they thought would burn up hit someone's house in Florida:

https://spacenews.com/uncontrolled-reentry-of-space-debris-p...
It's a bit of an outdated quote now with the Schengen area, high speed trains, cheap flights and comfortable modern cars. We frequently do weekend trips 1000 kilometers away from home. And in the summer most Dutch families I know drive all the way to Spain or the south of France to go on Holiday, which is over 1200 kilometers. In the winter those same people drive to Austria or Switzerland for a ski-trip.

I have done a couple of road trips within Europe that were over 6000 kilometers.
I actually don't think that it's very true to the original - arguably, it loses the entire point of the original. In particular, I agree with Gwern's take (https://gwern.net/story-of-your-life) that the original Story of Your Life does not involve any time travel/precognition, while Arrival makes it very clear that Louise has precognition.

To be clear, I quite like Arrival. I just think its message is quite different from the short story.
Really? "Both sides."

> You all are wealthy enough, he (Trump) said, that you should raise $1 billion to return me to the White House. At the dinner, he vowed to immediately reverse dozens of President Biden’s environmental rules and policies and stop new ones from being enacted

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/09/trump-oil...
Outnumbered by "the PS3 has no games" memes though.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/playstation-has-no-games/phot...
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