skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These kludgey hacks have a very early 2000s feel to them.

Shame there isn’t a way to just put custom firmware on a TV.
https://archive.ph/tw7GE
What's the functional difference between FreeDOS and some executables "for testing and troubleshooting any component" versus UEFI binaries for the same?

UEFI is roughly a modernized subset of DOS in firmware, with saner calling conventions.
> In the capital tax system you would have paid between 15.000 and 100.000 EUR of taxes on that over the same 10 years. Which is... much less.

Unless bitcoin crashes to zero. Then you've not only lost the $100K you spent to buy the bitcoin. You've also paid these taxes just because you possessed this now-worthless asset.

This is why capital taxes suck: you haven't actually made any money until you sell the asset. You can easily end up paying taxes on something that has zero value.
> It's possibly true, but there's no evidence it is.

I mean, which leftist revolutions lead to a radically egalitarian society instead of an authoritarian? If there is one, I'd love to read about it.

"Better" as in, more likely to prevail in real terms. You can obviously go too far with that and paralyze yourself within a hierarchy, but some is better than none.
Thanks for the summary. I kinda low-key love the idea of converting floats into a fixed point representation that covers the entire range represented by the float type. I mean the accumulator is only 32 KB, which is likely to be in L1 the entire time on modern hardware, and any given float is only going to need two 64 bit words, + 13 bits (12 bits for offset, and 1 for sign) to be represented in this scheme.
Personally I don't have the issue of wake up when moving the mouse with my Linux laptops (mint and Ubuntu based)
This looks like iffy blogspam of https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/bolt/docs/Opt...

The claim in it is 'up to 5% improvement' so the title seems overstated as well.
One thing that caught my eye was "both were coated in human or animal fat" and "throwing stick smeared in human or kangaroo fat".

I mean the "human fat" part, that seemed strange.

Getting human fat non-lethally is probably impossible using technology from 12000 years ago. If the fat was obtained from a human corpse, it would rule out at least burying the body. But still, wouldn't obtaining the fat from a non-buried corpse disturb the deceased on some religious-spiritual level?

Or was it common to mutilate dead enemies or something like that?

Edit: Oh, OK, I saw others asking the same question and replies which shed light on this.
It sort of worked when there were expectations to stay on topic, but at this point a revamped Usenet would need to draw users away from brand-safe social media feeds curated with machine learning funded by advertising.
> your voting system turns into a popularity contest with rabid attention seekers that can hold the average public attention for longer than anyone else

What? This is of course what we already have in many western democracies. Adding the hypothetical ability to "recall representatives easily" as the parent describes doesn't cause this problem.

The root of the issue here is just representative vs direct democracy, and GP is obviously correct that technology could be allowing us to create/withdraw support closer to real-time than whatever the election cycle is. Not to mention just having more of a voice on more issues, like why do we need the representatives anyway?

Since in the limit direct democracy basically is anarchic, these types of discussions are IMO one of the best ways to ground otherwise theoretical discussions about anarchism and avoids the trigger word.

The truth is that most people on all sides of the political spectrum only want elections until their preferred king is in charge, then they become staunch royalists, supporters of dynasties/dictators/fascists, whatever you want to call it.

My paradoxical observation is that people who really believe in democracy are almost always anarchists, deep down. To test yourself, just ask whether you want the government to do things "in the interest of the public", regardless of whether the public agrees that it is desirable. If you "want to protect the public" from actually having their own preferences because "they don't know better", this paternalism is right next door to fascism. It doesn't matter much whether you're forcing them to pay for good things like education programs, or for bad things like an unjust war. When you go down the road that "representatives are necessary because the people can't make decisions" or that "term limits are necessary because the public is fickle", you're really saying you just want democracy until your preferred king is installed.
> Second is situations where you'd rather not add an additional dependency, but bash is pretty much a given. For example, CI environments, scripts in dev environments, container entrypoints. Or things that area already written in bash.

Is this tool not an additional dependency?

> But bash is just really ubiquitous

Biggest crime of the Unix world probably.
Isn't this just glorified bind mount? I skimmed the article but could not see what this does other than let you write files in your docker container through VS code. Why not just set up a bind mount and run any old editor?
This is only 1 disk, so you are way more likely to lose all your data due to an ordinary single disk failure than to some ram errors.
Most ISS tours only include US segments. There are few sporadic Russian side videos, but none of them were e.g. AI remastered into Gaussian splats.
The entire concept of network attached storage is kind of cargo-cult in the vast majority of personal use cases. Just put the drives in your computer. Fewer abstraction layers, fewer problems, cheaper, faster, less fragile, easier to debug and fix if problems do happen. It's just not as hip or cool sounding as "NAS".
In fact, his wider body of work ends up prefiguring a politics that's primarily anti-communist, not leftist.
They're also purging server side location data and moving it to devices.

https://support.google.com/maps/answer/14169818

https://blog.google/products/maps/updates-to-location-histor...

https://9to5google.com/2023/12/12/google-location-history-ti...

From the last link, importantly:

> Update 12/15: This change means that Google will no longer respond to geofence warrants from law enforcement that request information on all devices near a particular incident.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusfarivar/2023/12/14/google-...

https://9to5google.com/2019/04/13/google-android-location-hi...
All objective observations of time involve reading numbers. You can't test subjective perception.

Ok ok, so the experiment actually just tested whether an individual frame of a high frame rate display could be read while while falling. Since it could not, we do not have objective evidence for the subjective "time slowing down" experience. We just know that there was no difference from the control, i.e. subjects were unable to read display at high frame rate under normal conditions.

That's all you know. Sure, maybe stressful conditions make it harder to read, but then again the watch is stationary with respect to the eye while falling.
You're welcome!

I think while it's tempting to suggest education will solve it, its a biological/social impossibility as well. Many people go through the same curriculum but outcomes are very different for various reasons such as underlying cognitive abilities or the presence of other external factors in your life (e.g. having to work part time to support ones self, an abusive stressful household).

This issue is probably why the founding fathers wanted to put guardrails over who is eligible to vote in effort to select for a population that is more likely to be able to interpret legal issues (white, presumably educated landowners presumably familiar with reading contracts and conducting business).

This of course runs into the typical issues around disenfranchisement, since the representative government favors voters (and especially donors as these campaigns are unfortunately donor financed) and their issues over nonvoters. Kamala Harris was just in Brentwood over the weekend with the job of soliciting donations with the wealthy democratic donor base vs. being a VPOTUS, and I find that a little bit unsavory considering we don't even need to have campaigning to have an effective government at all, in theory. It only serves to give those with money an unequal influence on the political process relative to the rest of the electorate.
I think we just define functional programming differently. How do you define it?

Also, I just noticed this part again:

> Honestly the hardest thing learning OCaml was figuring out where to put the brackets and semicolons. I am 100% serious.

Unironically, I'd recommend Haskell, or another programming language with similar whitespace-sensitive syntax. I'm more familiar with Haskell than OCaml (though inexperienced in both), and the semicolons and other delimiters actually got me as well.

> They're talking about all the borrowing, lifetime and generics syntax. Not the basic blocks and semicolons.

That's half the syntax to get confused about. But, ignoring that, people also get confused by the implicit returns at the ends of blocks.
Why would one snapshot help?
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>Saying "one of these functions is correct" is not a decision procedure. You actually need to decide which one of them is correct.

That's precisely what a decision procedure is, it's an algorithm that takes as input the description of a Turing machine, and an input, and returns true if and only if the Turing machine halts when given the input. You are using the term "decide" as if there were some kind of agency involved, like you have to actually "choose" what is correct or incorrect, but no such agency is involved, it is a purely mechanical process.

>There are particular Turing machines whose decidability is extremely meaningful.

You are mixing up the notion of decidability with the notion of halting, and there is a subtle difference. The Turing machine that encodes the Goldbach conjecture proves the conjecture if it halts, and disproves the conjecture if it doesn't halt. That is an interesting and meaningful property of such a Turing machine. What is not meaningful or interesting is whether that particular Turing machine is decidable.

As I said, there is a subtle difference between whether a Turing machine halts or not, and whether it's decidable whether it halts or not. The former is interesting, the latter is not particularly insightful.
>I mean, which leftist revolutions lead to a radically egalitarian society

The one referenced in the article. Although it was brief before it was crushed.

Would have been interesting to see how it developed. Since it didn't, we have no evidence it wouldn't have.

While it was active, it was a marvel of human effort.
And if this is the Toms Skujins case, it spins for like 3 seconds on video after the video cuts to him. It's obvious that he just had lifted his bike up and spun the pedals to see if everything was in order before biking on. And when an alternate video later was released, this was proven to be true.
Cool! Does the name derive from pair-programming, is that the main intent?
A few decades of maturity, testing and network effects.
As everyone else is saying, power usage should be less this way. Probably less latency to traverse the switch than a software bridge, too. Switching should continue to function if the host OS crashes, combined with a watchdog and recovery, you could have a more available system where maybe some things don't work for a brief interval, but much better than a software bridge (assuming the switch chip doesn't crash or get stuck, anyway).

It depends on what your goals are though. If you want to inspect all traffic passing through the switch, having 4 interfaces is clearly better. If your host based switch is also doing a lot of communication, 4 interfaces gives you 4gbps from the hkst rather than 1gbps. Etc.

Ex-enterprise quad 1G cards are $15 or less on ebay. I'm partial to silicom quad bypass 1g_ PEG4BPI-SD; the bypass feature can be fun, and they're cheaper cause they're weird (you can mostly configure them to be 'standard nics' once and then plug them into anything without much fuss, but getting there can be challenging. Early ones come with pci ids set to silicom as the vendor and subvendor which makes them harder to use; the -SD cards have intel vendor id and silicom subvendor, so the normal driver will attach.

4x10g ports would be more to manage, and you might not have enough throughput for software bridging, depending on the host system. And quad port 10g cards are harder to find. 2x10G is reasonably priced though, if you're patient.
I found this here years ago: Python With Kurly braces.

https://github.com/umlet/pwk
Used to have fun back in my childhood playing Round Sounds from a set of speakers on the roof of the apartment building. People on the street started looking for the airplane.

https://aircraftrecords.com/products/round-sounds-volume-1?v...
Sure, it's the appreciation that there are unknowns and how to treat them. As you know, the best SCIENTISTS aren't 100% sure about very much. Reverence and wonder can cut across it all.
Fully justified paragraphs make this a tough read.
> DC and Baltimore are vastly different in culture, recreational activities, industries, demographics, etc. People don't live downtown in one and work in the other. The commute would kill you. Average income in DC is nearly double what it is in Baltimore.

Culture, recreational activities, demographics, etc. vary quite a bit in other "twin city" type situations as well. Dallas and Fort Worth are about as culturally different as you can get at that distance, and of course people don't live downtown in one and work in the other - people are making a very specific choice with very specific tradeoffs when it comes to living in a downtown area in general, and those don't make sense if you're not explicitly spending most of your time in that area. Income is about the only thing that doesn't hold true in the Texas and Minnesota examples listed elsewhere in the comments, and DC has some conditions fairly specific to it that cause that.
I seem to remember that glandium had done something like this on the Firefox binary to optimize the startup, with impressive speedup. Can't find the details, though.
Microsoft lays off employees in new round of cuts
> Days after the disaster, once the water pressure equalized, nine of the eleven sunken barges popped out of the whirlpool and refloated on the lake's surface.

wow.

> there were no human deaths, three dogs were reported killed. All 55 employees in the mine at the time of the accident escaped

omF...g the mine was active!? and folks were just drilling on top of it!???

huh. good old 1980s.
Social geoscience (impact of geology on society) is very much core to geoscience and geoethics. Ironically, UNESCO and IUGS authored the paper below calling for a change in how we perceive geoscience..that was cited by the DDE project.

https://www.escubed.org/journals/earth-science-systems-and-s...
Yeah, I'm sure he knows that - he lives in Andorra - but I read it as him being surprised that of all the tasty things they weren't allowed to eat (as the article makes clear the food during the Tour tends to be pretty bland) the first thing they'd crave is a salad.
You can look it up. Or ask Google “time now in PST”. (“Pacific standard time” - which means San Francisco, obviously. It’s not like other people live near the Pacific Ocean).

But there’s PT (pacific time), as well as PST and PDT (pacific standard and daylight savings time) if you need to be specific with whether or not daylight savings is happening.

EST, according to Google, is the east coast of America when daylight savings is not happening. For Sydney and Melbourne, you want AEST / AEDT / AET depending on if you want to specify Australian east coast standard, daylight savings or current time (which changes depending on the date).

It’s all hilariously exhausting to keep track of. Simple enough you think you can remember it, but complex enough you will miss your meeting even though you checked twice because the calendar was set to the wrong timezone and it didn’t matter until today. The relative time between Australia and California changes 4 times a year by 1 hour, depending on the local daylight savings time in both countries. I hate it.
Assertion 1 is quite weak. The stronger version is that consciousness is the mechanism by which the universe processes information, and choice (as we experience it) is the mechanism by which the universe updates its state. Under this assertion, the laws of physics are nothing more than an application of the central limit theorem on the distribution of conscious choices made by all the little bits of the universe involved in the system. This view also implies that space and reality are "virtual" or "imaginary" much like George Berkeley suggested 300 years ago.
Nice article, Thank you for the write-up.

First time I saw somebody 'creatively using' an RTL83something switch was https://spritesmods.com/?art=rtl8366sb, and there were others since then, but yours was the first 'build my own managed switch', instead of 'adding an external brain to an unmanaged switch'
Depends on what you think is boring and if that’s a good thing. I couldn’t go back to endless meetings about what it is I’m doing. I worked at a startup that started employing work-shy middle management types and it destroyed my enjoyment of the job. Just created noise where it wasn’t needed. I can’t do a boring job. Don’t see the point
Right, just like Democritus "predicted" atoms.
Why should we care about ‘prediction markets’?

Not only they are obviously highly speculative but also prone to easy manipulation by insiders (likely in this case both Biden and Trump associate/aide insiders) which are the only people who make money.

I remember when PredictIt shutdown and yet we have polymarket (gross crypto prediction market) and others encouraging people to gamble while insiders are allowed to rig the market.

So I’m curious why prediction markets should platforms should exist at all.
Kowloon was a sizable locale in the videogame Shenmue 2. I don't know how true to life that section was, but it was honestly one of the most depressing environments I've ever encountered in a videogame. It was racing up and down dozens of identical floors featuring nothing but dank, claustrophobic apartments.
Compelling.

I really buy his argument about our interior experience being a multimodal user interface (MUI) over stimulus from some information system. We describe the universe in terms of a 4D space-time with forces and particles, but this is really the MUI we've constructed (or evolution has constructed) that maximizes our predictive power when "actuating" our MUI (e.g interacting with that external system).

I haven't thought about this before, and kinda rejected it on first reading of Hoffman's work, but think I grok it now. Because our internal experience is a MUI, and that MUI (4D space time, particles) can't be considered a "true reality", it's just an interface, then other conscious entities are more "real" than our MUI. That is, the fundamental true reality that really matters is other conscious agents (e.g. Conscious Realism).

A slightly more wacky theory I like to think about is how this intersects with the simulation argument. If our reality isn't ring 0 (e.g. there's an outer reality that is actually time-stepping our universe), then the conscious interior experience we have in our reality may be due to the properties of reality in the outer universe "leaking through" into our simulation.

This actually aligns well with the Hoffman's MUI argument. We live in some information processing system. Through evolution we've constructed a MUI that we see as 4D space time. But this doesn't at all reflect the true reality of our universe being a process simulated in the ring 0 reality. Conscious Realism then arises because ring 0 reality has properties that imbue pattern of information processing with interior experience.
Bit of a side note, but the article is a bit misleading here.

Collatz-TM connections have been investigated much earlier.

My fav is John Conway in 1972, who showed that the generalized Collatz problem is undecidable.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture#Undecidable...
It's not limited to governments, but in the case of governments, yes. Noam Chomsky is for democracy, and democratic institutions.

In the workplace, it's the workers who should have all of the decision making.
Some Lenovo Tiny models, https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/lenovo-thi...
Jony Ive Opens Up on What It Was Like Working for Steve Jobs
Yes, stuff should be, but a 15 minute adjustment within a zone suddenly is going to screw a lot of devices. Not everything that consumes UTC is internet-connected.

Heck, every existing radio-derived clock that presents time to users would be obsolete (lots of GPS, WWV/DCF watches, etc).

A lot of them have TZ-related breakage, but they usually let you set a manual hour offset or consume a daylight flag.
Iffy blogspam? Phoronix? To me it reads like a well written summary.
Why would you assume that?

Because in the vast majority of cases, when someone posts some version of "The US/West could have prevented this war if they wanted to" (or "It could have ended with the March 2022 negotiations") that's exactly what they mean (territorial concessions), either tacitly or explicitly.

But of course I'll take your word that this wasn't the sense you were intending.

As to what you're now saying:

For one that doesn't like a diplomatic solution, but an overtly military one.

More importantly, the Budapest Memorandum doesn't establish that the US has any "commitments" to come to the aid of any of the 3 countries (BY, UA, KZ) should they come under attack (and Russia would never have signed it if it did). It merely asks that the signatory powers respect the newly established sovereign status of these countries; to refrain from using force or economic coercion against them; and to not nuke them, please. And that the signing powers will consult each other in situations that pertain to these commitments.

That's why the language was specifically chosen to read "Security Assurances" and not "Guarantees". The latter implies a commitment to some kind of a military response, like NATO's Article 5. But the former does not.

You can still maintain the position that the US/UK should have done something different in 2014 or 2022 -- but the simple fact is, there was no commitment expressed in the Budapest Memorandum which required them to do so. And this is probably the main reason they ultimately did not.

This, and a perfectly reasonable desire not to stumble into a direct and intrinsically risky confrontation with their main nuclear rival. Or a protracted / large-scale conflict of any kind with no clear signal of public support.
That is confusing but you can do something similar-ish for a written self-post by writing a comment in the thread saying you're the author, etc. Tends to make the discussion somewhat better too since it seems to reduce tropey first post type comments.
The metre is a basic checksum, but there are more elaborated systems (pathas) of chanting verses that aids in correct learning and memorization.

Some of it is described here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedic_chant#Oral_transmission

An example in action - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLdq15ptqUs
Nope, Microsoft aren't idiots. If they gave away this API access for free, this would cannabalize Sales Navigator and their paid products
Right. In general relativity the fact that you can't escape a black hole isn't about velocity, it's about geometry. There's literally, physically, no path out.