skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hold my acronym.

I present you... the MISERIE CUBS:

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Malaysia

India

South Africa

Ethiopia

Russia

Iran

Egypt

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China

United Arab Emirates

Brazil

Saudi Arabia

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Note: splitting into two words is necessary to keep Iran separate from Saudi Arabia & UAE, lest they get into a fight.

India / China too, to be on the safe side.

Brazil and Ethiopia have effectively no trade between them[1] (23 million — that's nothing even for Ethiopia), so putting them together makes little sense anyway.

[1]https://www.worldstopexports.com/ethiopias-top-trading-partn...
>the near equivalence made between language and consciousness that goes back to Descartes

more like Aristotle
React 19 release was just postponed to God knows when, the post says.
10 print "If the universe is non-deterministic, that provides an explanation for free will!"
20 print "How? Coin flips don't have free will..."
30 goto 10
And Malaysia is Muslim because???
According to 23andme I am 2 to 4% neanderthal, and I think of myself as human...
Going to need another one of these, Xe: https://xeiaso.net/shitposts/no-way-to-prevent-this/CVE-2024...
I wouldn't buy a laptop with a 16:9 screen in 2024.

Plus it's OLED, so higher power use, psychological pressure to make everything black, and danger of burn-in.
I imagined a small, red, dense foam ball actively being placed by a feminine hand with matching red nails and a fancy bracelet onto a white marble slab with olive green marbling. The slab is a couple inches thick and overhangs the cabinets below it. The point of view, like watching from my own eyes, is looking down at the counter with the ball being placed by the ephemeral hand as if they stood opposite me.

What color was the ball? I didn't have to think; I knew it was red. However, I can't tell you much about the cabinets or the arm or body attached to the hand. Totally unrendered and void.
Haven’t read the first paper but the second is a fairly naive straw man argument. If anything, it’s arguing against free will, which many panpsychists reject anyway. Free will or “outside forces” is not at all a prerequisite for panpsychism.

Actually his paper is a (decent) argument for panpsychism: we know that we ourselves (as individuals) are conscious, and we know that there’s nothing special at the physical level about our brain-stuff as compared to tree-stuff or rock-stuff or anything else. Particles in a brain are not somehow specially imbued with consciousness "energy", yet they obviously have it. Ergo the reasonable prediction would be that other things have it too and it’s much more a question of configuration that yields more or less of the emergent property of consciousness (much like different configurations and states of atoms can yield more or less magnetic force, conductivity, energy, temperature, etc) - all of which are only possible in certain configurations of energy/matter because all energy/matter itself has the properties required to yield those effects. That is the panpsychist argument, and it has nothing to do with free will.
When I was in the Navy, the policy of Electric Boat (manufacturer of USN’s submarines) was if you wanted to bring a phone anywhere near a boat, it couldn’t have a camera. However, they would also accept permanently disabling it. A shipmate took his shiny new BlackBerry Storm, hole-punched the camera, and got security to sign off on it.

The Navy took a dimmer view of things, and forbade any phone in the engine room (which is where the nuclear reactor is controlled), camera or not. For a brief period of time, it was being discussed that they would also ban eReaders anywhere, but that didn’t get traction while I was in. I have to imagine things have gotten stricter if anything, given the capabilities of modern devices.
I was a bit afraid of referencing kanbans so prominently because its not super ubiquitous outside of engineering, but I'm not super happy with the lead text so I'll try shuffling things around.

The landing page is straight out of bootstrap examples, its a centered hero + feature list lol

Thanks!
> but if we scale to twice the processing power, then start accepting twice the request rate – we will actually be serving each request in half the time we originally did.

Not necessarily. If processing power is increased by doubling the clock of a processor or using a hard disk that spins and seeks twice as fast, this may be the case.

But we all know that when you have a single threaded work item, adding a second core does not cause the single threaded work to complete in half the time. If the arrival rate is substantially lower than 1/S, the second core will be of negligible value, and maybe of negative value due to synchronization overhead. This overhead is unlikely to be seen when doubling from 1 to 2, but is more likely at high levels of scaling.

If the processor is saturated, service time includes queue time, and service time is dominated by queue time, increasing processing power by doubling the number of processors may make it so that service time can almost be cut in half. How close to half depends on the ratio of queue time to processing time.
Fedora 41 Hopes the Gimp 3.0 Photoshop Alternative Will Be Ready to Shine
Hardware planes will hopefully reduce the latency again as it will allow windows to skip the compositor and allow mapping parts of the framebuffer to a window buffer.

I believe there's some work on Linux already for them, but I'm not so sure on Windows. I would be surprised if macOS doesn't already use them in some capacity given Apple's obsession with delegating everything to firmware on a co-processor.
> I'm looking for checks and balances

Try a cooling-off period. Switzerland does it for referendums. Absent a super-majority, a bill needs a certain amount of time between initial and final approval.
As employment has fallen, pay growth has lagged that of total U.S. workers. Between January 2018 and January 2024, the median base pay for developers grew by 24 percent while pay growth for total U.S. workers grew 30 percent.
The Steam Deck OS is based on Arch but the developers roll out releases at their own pace.
In my mind you could not be proving that we need product people more. They'd never say "It ultimately doesn’t matter what the users want" - they'd say "let's find a way to build what users want" not "let's grow the possible things a model can do well".
$1k to Millions: The Salesflow Growth Story
Yes. But I found the explanations of the GP a little misleading, especially the eager/lazy part.
If you want to feel even older look up your highschool drug dealer on facebook. Mine did not age well at all, looks like my grandpa even though we were in the same grade.
If it's a rainy place the original, else this
Be careful about looking as if they're abusing that dominant position. Back at the highwater of the "Wintel" dominance, early 2000s, Intel staff reportedly found Microsoft hair-raising, boasting openly of crushing the competition, choking off their air supply, undercutting then till they bled to death, etc. Intel had already had the antitrust stick brandished at it and had made sure the troops all understood the importance of the marketplace at least looking like a fair fight.
As far as I also understand Google Messages now uses this as well to gatekeep access to carrier RCS.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/1/24087418/google-messages-b...
And are users more responsible with their data? I'm not saying to trust companies, I'm merely saying that it's a harder challenge to put the burden on users doing everything correctly than on the products being built with more ethics in mind.
Carabiner Collection
My thoughts didn't go to scent but to environment change; things moving can signify the presence of another animal, one that is trying to hide itself. Could be an ambush predator.
true; he resigned in September 2023[0].

[0] https://www.thorn.org/blog/an-update-from-thorn/
Robots.txt: The Nuclear Option
Interesting, in the US, the best time to see crazy laws passed is every 4 years, between Nov 5 and Jan 7(?), if a new President is elected and a number of Congress people are thrown out of office from a specific Party.

That is because the people who need to leave office will usually join with the opposition to get laws passed that they wanted but were afraid to vote for before the election.
Robots and Specialized Software Open New Solar Farm Development Opportunities
Nonsense, AGI isn't even defined yet.
> Word changes every font to wingdings. (This is a real thing)

If the military used Microsoft, America would be in ruins.
This is a tool for teachers who want to randomly assign students to seats in customized classrooms.

I'm a student myself, and my teachers used to randomize the seating of the students in the beginning, in order to mix everyone with each other and create good class dynamics.

However, the tools they used weren’t good because when they had to manually copy and paste the class list and also set a group size number in order to fit the arrangement of the classroom.

And when the teacher had finished it, the students had already entered the classroom and seated themselves in their own way. This happened often because the teachers hadn’t really much time to prepare before each lesson and they had bigger priorities than fixing randomized seats for the students.

My teacher needed a better solution to this, so I made it!

Let me know what you think!
Boeing hid questionable parts from regulators, possibly installed in 737 MAX
How much of this article is written by the author instead of Cadence itself? The use of certain adjectives to describe how excellent some numbers are seems weird coming from a generic news editor. I don't know if I can trust this is as groundbreaking as it sounds.
Starlink Mini Specifications leak. Order page revealed
If we're going to start throwing guidelines around, how about the one's at the top of the page?

> Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
> The supersonic airliner is for some reason not available either.

This whole comment shows a solid amount of ignorance of history, but this particular quote is completely preposterous. "for some reason" is money, plain and simple. Just go read the Wikipedia article on Concorde. And there are plenty of supersonic military airplanes, the technology is definitely there.

> Same happened in Rome, and Rome itself together with Greece rediscovered civilization from a much darker age before them.

Did you ever hear about Ancient Egypt?
> Generally Neanderthals are pointed out as an exception to cross species fertility since...

There's no such rule and Neanderthals are not notable as an exception. Fertility is just a very rough proxy for genetic distance, which is correlated to our arbitrary "species" buckets but by no means a real line or hard rule. Many, many reasonably closely related species can interbreed, like jaguars and lions. Most of homo that had the opportunity could probably interbreed.
Please don't bring that old American libertarian fantasy about moving if you don't like a local law to Europe.

The amount of people who would consider selling their house, moving their family and job because they don't like some local policy or its implementation is essentially zero.
SEC filings would be enough for materiality one would assume.
I think we would need better AI to make games where you can only give high level commands enjoyable.
Not only that, but a dataset that includes LLM-generated content has been known to reduce model quality. I remember there being a paper on it but I can't seem to find it now. Essentially, the internet now being chock full of LLM garbage means that any model you train on it is going to end up quite a bit worse than it could have been, simply because of the dataset being "poisoned" by preexisting LLMs. I bet OpenAI's only real advantage is having a dataset that was gathered before LLM use was widespread.
I work in open source (donations based) and I don't believe the internet has been ruined.
Seemingly the user has the perl "abbreviate everything" virus. Very nice nonetheless.
"If you got nothing to hide"

- send me all your messages

- let me take a movie of you in the shower

- it means you trust the government to correctly interpret all your data

- you have no political preference, or trust all parties will treat you well

- you have no medical condition

- society won't discriminate you based on any of your data

- you are not competing with anyone who might see your data
People are focusing on the technical challenge, but there's a deeper issue with this idea: using mining is solving the problem "by side-effect."

The way economics is supposed to solve this sort of problem is via liability (and probably insurance). This doesn't require solving the space mining problem, just an actuarial problem.

But of course, the problem is that certain international actors wouldn't accept any sort of rules-based accountability for damage when it's caused by their space junk.
Yeah, I get your point, it's indeed a trade off.

Having "last used" order makes quickly switch between two windows very easy, which is something I personally use more. It's easier than pressing alt+tab/shift+alt+tab alternately.

To switch to the third window, you can use alt+tab+tab.
> everyone who loves to play online games or watch DRM-encumbered content, so the majority of the population...

It is sad to hear that. In my view DRM = malware.
Baretail is what I have used allot. Really old but works good. Like the simple config to color lines. https://www.baremetalsoft.com/baretail/
What security implications?
"Fake Processes. Scarecrow will create a number of background processes that don't do anything, but look like security research tools.
Fake registry entries. Scarecrow creates registry entries to make it look like security tools are installed on your computer."

I'd be interested to see this tested, there's tons of good malware repos out there like vx-underground's collections that can be used to test it.

If you dont wanna share the source, somewhat logical. Perhaps run a test versus gigabytes of malware samples and let us know which ones actually query these process names / values you create and disable themselves as a result??
I disagree. Teachers don't have those powers unless parents explicitly opt in.

Also, your argument is pretty much "if you don't like it just leave". Which is one of the worst arguments for pretty much anything.
I decided to use Bitdefender a few months ago becouse i suspected my Mac had malware. I was right, there was a adware in the firefox files so it did it’s job.

But, my experience with the antivirus was horrible. When i first opened the app there were popus everywhere advertising for their other products, and the overall ui didn’t look trustworthy.

I am no security expert, so I’m asking: is this the best way to deal with malware?
Competition is great, free markets are superb, agree.

I'm a big Apple fan and well into that ecosystem on every device from watch to desktop and everything in between, but I doubt that Apple will care, because customers like me don't care.

I don't buy a Macbook because of its performance vs a windows machine. I buy one because of its performance vs my old Macbook.

It's not just about the silicon. It's what Apple and its customers tout as "vertical integration" - I don't have to worry about drivers and chipsets and configuring things, it all just works. Apple isn't right for everyone, but they know who they're right for, and they're great at shipping product to them.

What will be interesting with the new Snapdragon chips is Linux and BSD support. I don't want or need Windows, or Copilot+, or any other MS nonsense. But if I can have a blazing fast FLOSS machine for a little less money than the MB[P]s with M3, it might turn my head, maybe.
> Isn’t it nine

The founding members (in reality just China and India) are the ones with competing and diametrically opposed interests and veto each other.

> But looking at military vulnerability, Malaysia is obviously subject to one more than the other

Not severely. Indian sanctions on Malaysian imports and ban on exporting key foodstuff to Malaysia collapsed Mahathir Mohammed's government when he became overly chummy with Turkey, Pakistan, and Qatar (thus pissing off UAE and KSA as well), and has been contributing to severe inflation in Malaysia

> Iran further undermining India

India's relationship with Iran is compartmentalized to investments and it's presence in Iranian Balochistan.

Iran's only seaport located outside the Persian/Arab Gulf chokepoint is Chabahr Port, which is operated and funded by an Indian SoE. Most of the highways in Iranian Balochistan and Iranian Khorasan are Indian built and operated as well.

> China’s security relationship with Russia

It's not a unified bonhomie. A good example is the North Korea problem.

While China keeps NK on a short leash, they limit any military technology transfers to NK because CN values the relationship with SK and JP more (even despite the trade wars from the last decade).

Russia has been undermining China in NK by transferring military and nuclear technology and opening it's market to NK [0], infringing on China's near-abroad and also making it's relations with SK and JP extremely rocky (which is bad because China is trying to negotiate a FTA between CN-SK-JP, which is increasingly looking like a failure [1].

There are similar clashes in Central Asia [2], Vietnam [3], and the Sahel [4].

And Russia does use India as a negotiating tactic with China, as it was Russia that negotiated the current status quo between China and India after the Galwan Crisis almost became a regional war [5]

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The reality is, China's push for a multi-polar world only makes it harder for China to leverage it's own best interests within regional powers as well.

The same way it is very difficult for the US to get China to bend, China has a difficult time with regional powers like much of ASEAN, KSA, UAE, India, SK, JP, etc.

[0] - https://thediplomat.com/2024/05/china-and-russia-disagree-on...

[1] - https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/explained/article/3266464/tal...

[2] - https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/05/31/central-asia-russia-chi...

[3] - https://worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/9781800611641_00...

[4] - https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/07/19/wagner-china-russia-afr...

[5] - https://eastasiaforum.org/2020/10/23/how-russia-emerged-as-k...
I find it extremely annoying (using a mouse wheel).
> It seems like we're stuck at a pre-set level of latency,

I booted and used an old computer recently. Not Windows 3.11 old, but old enough to have a mechanical hard drive.

The experience was anything but low latency. It’s easy to forget just how slow mechanical hard drives were in the past.

Modern desktops are extremely fast. Closing a window and having a tiny delay doesn’t bother me in the slightest because it has zero impact in my workflow.

I can launch code editors quickly, grep through files at an incredible rate, and compile large projects with a dozen threads in parallel. Getting worked up over a split second delay in closing a window is not a concern in the slightest.

Regardless, it has nothing to do with next generation PCIe bandwidth. I don’t understand why this is the top voted comment on this otherwise interesting article. Is HN just a place to find creative ways to be cynical and complain about things these days?
You will find "the secret of our success" an interesting read.

One thing I remember is: There are some cultures out there hunting seals with some tools that are made using parts... of seals. Some European explorers almost perished where locals were just living their routine (supported by their cultural baggage).
I doubt it. Language and human evolution operate on different time scales. We wouldn't be able to converse with someone from 13th century England. If anything I will expect selective pressure on languages—those that are easy to use are more likely to be adopted.

Secondarily, I would expect this effect to be swamped by other factors (e.g. conquest).
The US is a large, rich homogeneous market with a population of over 300 million. There's no wonder foreign companies want to get a foothold in this market, and it's no wonder US companies don't tend to look outside of the US until there's nothing to do in the US.

I don't think anyone disagrees about that.
This has been hypothesized, but the fact that there aren’t many or any purely sign languages still around and other primates don’t show signs of using signs makes that seem like a reach, IMO
Circling back to my original point, wherever we draw the line on notability and inclusion vs exclusion, there are going to be people on either side unhappy about the location of the line.

It's probably easier for all parties to let the Minecraft community draw their own line on their own wiki(s) (which is exactly what happens).
https://xkcd.com/272/
We’re just arguing anecdotes at this point, but I’ve known a lot of left wing activists, and I have never met one who only cared about a narrow set of issues. In fact, the more typical failure mode is wanting to fight on so many fronts at once that they seem to struggle to focus.
I have found Play Integrity Fix [1] with playcurl [2] is reliable enough for passing Play Integrity in Wallet and other apps. My current issue is that Google Messages has its own integrity checks that are stricter than Play Integrity, and will silently stop handling RCS messages if it fails those checks. I currently have RCS disabled because it is too unreliable.

[1] https://github.com/chiteroman/PlayIntegrityFix
[2] https://github.com/daboynb/PlayIntegrityNEXT
Found a mathematician.
Sorry, no I do not.
There's a reason it costs money and it's because the CAs have to undergo costly audits. Microsoft publishes a list of trusted CAs:

https://ccadb.my.salesforce-sites.com/microsoft/IncludedCACe...
> Alas, a pipe dream.

Or "tube" dream as it were.
"My basic theory is that what the EC has wanted all along is to force Apple not merely open up iOS to other methods of distribution, but to force Apple to allow apps to be distributed through those non-App-Store channels free of charge. But they don’t want to come out and say, flatly, that they seek to forbid Apple from monetizing its IP from all developers on the platform, because that’s so radically anti-capitalist. " That's such an uneducated take, I can't believe. If you enforce competition I see it as a very pro capitalist move.
I know tone is hard to read over text but I'm honestly baffled how you got "very angry" from my comment. I'm simply responding? Nobody claims that vegan leather is perfect but veganism is about making a best effort. Objecting to pleather on the grounds of "microplastics" seems like an unreasonably high standard. Are we also to deny that lettuce is vegan because slugs get killed? Defining "vegan" in such a way that nothing is vegan is counterproductive.
Boiling the frog, so to speak
I have to use a 3rd party Japanese IME precisely because of 2. No idea why they haven't add an option for it to be default to あ mode.

Also, in ANY modern Chinese IME (Microsoft or 3rd party), switching between English/中文 mode is simply pressing shift once. You still have to use alt+` for that in JP IME, which I find unbearable.
New programs are unfortunately bound to old APIs. There's not much you can do here to fix the problem.
Painting at Dora (2013)
> Chinese maps since Russia’s war on Ukraine have started renaming Eastern Russian territories to Chinese.

I couldn't find a reference for this. I could find a reference to a single island at their border that has been disputed for 30 years. All of these disputes have been ongoing for a long time.

The west has its fractures. US caught spying on Merkel. France's Macron has stated that he wants to diversify his ties to keep China included in trade relations. The west has been more unified in the last couple years because of the Ukraine War.

US and company are equally reliant on BRICS. Small shifts in balance can have ripple effects in the economies.