skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This stuff pre-dates .NET and quite honestly I think that’s what m$ was going for in those early days. VBScript was pretty annoying and dealing with COM objects sucked badly. Back in the day we’d build in a local VB interop with JavaScript so we could make system calls and interact with native Windows stuffs. This predates JSON so at the time we’d use XmlHttpRpc to talk to remote/hosted services.

I’ll double down on the urge to drop TypeScript. That pile of nonsense came from the classic OOP folks - “But where are my TYPEs!? How do I know what type that variable is!?” (first the Java/C++ folks then the .NET folks “solved” the brain fuzz around functional programming and dynamic types by giving you TypeScript)

Having been out of the m$ ecosystem for some time, I’m kinda surprised HTAs are still around, I’m guessing to avoid breaking things. Once .NET started taking off - I always assumed that would replace the VBScript side of things and let you build proper, elegant system interfaces for your JavaScript app. I really imagined the goal was to drop Windows forms/object controls - but I always imagined BATTLES at m$ over being able to create Windows “apps” that didn’t conform to native UI controls, couldn’t be controlled through Windows theming engines, etc. kinduva brand control battle. I always imagined some team going “NOOO, just build a web app, you’re breaking all the UI rules!!!”
Mpox: Thailand confirms first Asian case
No, lol.

The people who think closed source software is evil are an incrementally small minority of the population who just happen to be very loud about it.

Developers are broadly on the other hand, super cheap, and generally unwilling to pay for software, believing they could write everything themselves and thinking that is always a good use of their time for the business.
Wait until a manager who's evaluating a technical decision you're making copies and pastes ChatGPT's "analysis" of your proposal and asks you to respond to it.
Because browsers can require certificates to be in the certificate transparency logs to be valid. Chrome already does this. If a government convinces a CA to create a malicious certificate and publishes this cert to the CT logs to perform MITM, it will get found out and that CA can close its doors.
This article is from a while ago. I do recall differently abled being proposed at some point though it has not caught on.
A human can become addicted to literally any behavior. The solution isn’t to make illegal the behaviors that can be harmful when done in excess, it is to provide addiction counseling resources at no cost funded by the people who can control themselves. And higher amounts of control, like allowing users to ban themselves, or indicators that flag users as problem gamblers.

Making the behaviors illegal doesn’t actually help people you mention, it just drives them to less safe avenues and jail. Hardly help if you ask me.

People also have a right to discover for themselves that something is dangerous to them personally. It sucks, but not everyone is going to know off the bat that they have alcoholic tendencies.
Figured I wasn't the only one.
Firefox about config privacy tweeks
Ironically, several of my friends and I got COVID at our delayed graduation ceremony.

And they did multiple years of graduations at once, which made it exceptionally long. By the midway point even the professors onstage in their regalia were all scrolling on their phones.

I think you made the right choice!
One response might be that stupidity isn’t something the government should be taxing.
If problem gambling were a rational decision, there would be no problem gamblers.

I don't think you have a good grasp on the psychiatric issues at play here.
Static/strong typing is not necessary in JS.

Yes, ES6 brings the OOPiness
Avoid clothes made from synthetic fibers.
Am I the only one surprised this took as much detailed study as it did? Nobody noticed a lot more greenery about in the basins they're talking about? Or nobody noticed the fact that it hadn't been raining in those places in the spring and wondered why the plants there were still fine?

These don't seem like observations that require laboratories and massive studies to me.
The article says that Robinhood has "an undisclosed $10 fee on every $100 investment." That seems absurdly high. But is it true? I did a minute of research and couldn't find any fees like that.
Thanks. It looks like this includes comments which blows up the page count dramatically. A little unfortunate.
If you use macOS/iOS, there is Orion. Webkit based, zero telemetry, lifetime license $150 USD, no other source of funding.

https://kagi.com/orion
Humanity is going to face a reckoning about free will and agency at some point, I think.

If the gambler is but a slave to their lizard brain, then isn't the murderer too? Surely no-one sits down and performs calculus and determines "I will gamble" or "I will murder", they both come from an impairment of our higher senses of reasoning by our baser instincts of rage or pleasure.

I'm obviously not advocating for murder, to be clear. But maybe if we better understand our position philosophically, maybe we'll end up with less brutal prisons ("they're not in here because they are ontologically evil, but because their hardware predisposes them to harm others and we have to contain them for the good of the many") and more sympathetic/realistic laws that focus on controlling harm and are less caught up in vague notions of "freedom" (the freedom to have your hardware bugs exploited by gambling companies?) that are too shallow in the face of a better philosophical understanding of what free will and agency look like for creatures whose programming is primarily informed by a billion years of evolution to crave orgasms and sugar.
>a guy that made a good living ... never a good idea

Arguably the term for a bad idea that works is "good idea"
> a friend called the state lottery a tax on stupidity.

I'm pretty sure that virtually all of the stupid people buying a lottery tickets understand that lottery tickets have a negative expected value.

But so does insurance, and yet people rationally buy that.

Higher moments matter. When you have wealth you pay to reduce variance. When you lack wealth you pay to increase it.
"Mostly". "Close".

Two counterexamples don't add up to "nope".

But maybe, instead of "obsolete", I should have said "not state of the art". Is there anything that NATO has given Ukraine that is state of the art? HIMARS might be. Were the Abrams and Bradleys state of the art, or were they old revs?
Is Storm Shadow actually state of the art?
Thx for sharing!

For a long time, I was lazy, and took pride in quoting Bill Gates "I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it."

I thought I was smart, but after years I discovered I became more lazy, and had never developed any deep knowledge on matter.

"if it's the more difficult path, it's probably the better path", I like that :)
This comment makes is pretty obvious that you have not personally dealt with, and probably do not intimately know anyone who has dealt with, addition.

Congrats to you.
I do something similar on all my laptops:

- have custom secure boot platform key

- use a unified kernel image (UKI) which means I directly boot the kernel from efi (and place it in the efi partition)

- sign the image with that platform key (I use sbctrl)

- have every thing else including swap partition for hybernation fully disk encrypted, I could set it up to auto unlock using TPM2 but I would recommend using a long password. TPM2+password would be optimal. There had been too many cases of leaky TPMs and especially on a laptop you don't want to fully rely on it (through you in turn could decide to auto login if PCRs are unchanged, or login using only the (often not so secure) fingerprint reader etc.)

- efi password, I mean if you don't set that you lose most secure boot benefits... EDIT: Not really most, there is still a bunch of ways it helps but it's anyway a bad idea to rely on secure boot and not have a efi password

As bonus tip:

- include the vfat in your initramfs (i.e. `MODULES=(vfat)` in `/etc/mkinitcpio.conf`) if your booting kernel and installed kernel modules ever mismatch that is nice to have to fix the issue
Ongoing thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41311479
AI, Rust, crypto, Medium, SAAS startups

It's a fuckin perfect hacker news bingo.

Magnificent!
> I think the drug war has been such a colossal failure (often doing more harm to many of the people it was ostensibly meant to protect) that trying to make comparisons to drugs doesn't make the argument that you want.

I mean, valid point. But many mainstream folk who don't follow this science closely only associate addiction with drugs, hence the comparison.

FWIW, I also oppose the drug war because the only thing it's accomplished reliably is enriching dangerous people, fostering the year over year growth of the authoritarian state, and making the drugs themselves far, far more dangerous than they ever had to be.

> I think sports gambling is clearly less addictive than drugs since underground gambling was never as big an industry as the drug trade, and I think that makes it far easier to deal with like a normal activity with externalities.

I would just park that as being underground gambling is far less required. If you want heroin, you need to go to an underground dealer, there's no "legitimate" source of heroin. If you want to gamble, there are absolutely oodles of sources for that, that are completely legal and above board.
You obviously know more than I do. I just have some second-hand non-classified info related to submarine-launched.
The article actually seemed to suggest that eating after fasting increased the chance of "precancerous growths", which seems like "bad things".
Fair, but I was reminiscing about "those days" (20 years ago) and used the costs from that time.
I love gambling. I play poker every weekend and go to Las Vegas several times a year, sometimes for less than 24 hrs just to gamble.

Even I think that gambling is ruining sports. I like it when it's off to the side, when people are betting in Vegas and gathered around the sportbooks, but when it's factored directly in the game with TV ads, it's really offputting and highlights how easily sports can be manipulated by corrupt people that want to skew the results.
I present to you the Wikipedia List of Cognitive Biases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Egoce... . There is a lot of overlap on a topic like this, but probably something like the "Illusion of validity".

That being said, listening to your own body is not a bad strategy. The nervous system evolved in tandem with this particular extremely complex system and is arguably purpose-built to keep it in good working order.
It seems unlikely that climate-zone preferences motivated the prehistoric spread of humanity, as that would require both a knowledge of the possibilities and the means to exploit them. More likely, people settled where they could support themselves and moved when that no longer was the case, either from micro-climactic changes or population pressure.

Large-scale migration into the arid parts of North America and elsewhere was first facilitated by the development of the technology to use deep aquifers.
Check out k9s, if you use kubernetes. It made me 100x more efficient when working across multiple clusters and namespaces.
The expectation of „quickly gain“ is the problem.
Thanks @Eridrus! Can you give me some insight into how would you look at it when making a recommendation about it? I don't know you so it's hard to give an example, an old example that comes to mind quickly for me is JBoss vs BEA if you're old enough to remember that xD
Firstly, it’s functional with closures… From there prototypal - so you can express whatever you want… the key is being functional. This was a key to the advent of JSON, but is also one of the most elegant and powerful bits of JS
Looking at it through that lens, I can't see the advertising of gambling as any different from advertising suicide.

It's a personal choice after all.

Fuck those people who are already degenerate suiciders, they should just get some control.

(/s to the last two sentences).

Advertising bright shiny new toys to children.

Advertising big 4wd trucks to adult males who haven't progressed to emotional maturity beyond the level of the children to whom bright shiny new toys are advertised.

Advertising as a whole is a fucking shit show. Swap your hard earned for this thing that might make you feel like your life is slightly more worthwhile for a few seconds. Pbbbt (flapping lips and tongue noise).
Differing levels of support based on price point is very common for a subscription software.

> Someone is paying you money and you won't help them?

$20 a month is not a lot of money, and isn't enough money for personal attention. The kind of support that the author was providing costs at least $50 an hour, if not more!

This is why, for example, Lawyers charge hundreds of dollars an hour.
AI pair programming in your terminal
This is possibly intentionally referring to a singular group supply. Likewise, in a household or workplace, you could say that you had some of "the coffee", if you were partaking in the household or workplace group supply.
Yeah, there’s a few more I’ve found now too. It’s interesting, any search box can trigger it, for example, the settings app search.

Essentially anything for x will crash it: “”:x
To me, what's presented here is more "art as code" (not that there's anything wrong with that)

Code can be beautiful in its own right, regardless of syntax. "clean" and/or well-formatted code is nice, but the real beauty comes from the algorithmic logic and structure.
Inflation is usually priced pretty efficiently into securities on top of whatever growth. However, it gets a bit more complex when you are trading securities in multiple currencies. I am not sure how Norway handles that, but they almost certainly have a team of currency traders to manage it.
What could be a solution to balance the freedom vs harm of those services?

For an adhd brain most of the internet is addictive, at least for me. My solution was to delete my social media accounts (still youtube is a problem), but I wouldn't want to be banned from those services just by my pre-condition.
HPS' ChatGPT Tools
this looks like really good improvements over commonmark. i'd like to start using djot to render existing markdown files, and slowly start writing new files in djot utilizing some of the extra features. i tend to write my markdown such that it would mostly be a valid djot file anyway (no html, #-only for headings, empty lines between all block elements, etc.) -- but i see one design choice that prevents me from making this transition.

it looks like djot has changed the syntax for inline italic/bold text in a way that's incompatible with markdown. i see why it was done, but it's a shame because it looks like this is the only thing that really prevents rolling this out as a "soft" transition.
In terms of the biology of the brain, gambling is more similar to alcohol and opioids than to cigarettes.

But, yeah, informing people of the risk is critical. Most people develop addictions early in life without a full grasp of the danger to which they are exposing themselves.

Advertising and other marketing techniques and social pressures pull them into the behavior patterns that lead to addiction. Once the addiction is formed, it's usually too late at that point.
Completely agree. It's the sort of case that their should be jail time, just not financial consequences.
Some teams have intentionally thrown games just to get higher draft picks for the next season.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-astros-tanked-their...
So don’t ”white” people have a color? I’m kind of a pinkish beige myself.
The author mentions an undisclosed $10 fee on every $100 invested in Robinhood. I've had an active Robinhood account since 2017 and I've never been charged a fee to invest.
for line in f:

is multiple mistakes in a single line.
Ideally such a casino wouldn't take any risk/reward on its own balance sheet. So there'd be no upside for the house on how any particular bet played out. Kind of like hosting your friends poker game where you're not playing personally.

Even if you allowed gambling addicts to play, would there be much harm? They'd never lose money on average and you could impose affordability tests to mitigate people getting cleaned out.
No, just save the seed value. The one-time-use emergency codes are pointless.

You can have 40 different devices all generating valid current totp codes at the same time, and you can spin up a new one at any time if you kjust have any way to access your passwords.

IE, if you have any form of copy of say a keepass db anywhere, it can contain the seed values for each site right along with the passwords, and you can buy a brand new phone or laptop, of any platform or os, and install any keepss compatible app, and load that db file, you will need to know the password for that db file itself out of your head, and then keepass itself can display the totp codes or you can read the seed values and enter them into some other totp app to generate the totp codes.

Always have accessible copies of your password manager db that's all. The seed values are just more stuff you keep in the db just like the passwords.

The problem is just that no one tells you that the number in the original qr code is savable and reusable. They show you the qr code or a url and don't tell you that it's the keys to your own kingdom. They let you just throw it away without ever telling you what it actually was.

If you have a working totp for some site right now, go and use it one last time to disable 2fa on that site, and the re-enable it, and this time keep the seed value. Put it right into a keepass db and sync that to at least one other place. Safe for life after that.

The one-time-use emergency codes you can ignore. Fine keep them, but they don't give you anything you don't already have with the seed value. Maybe they could be used to give to like family members or employees or something for weird never-actually-use-this scenarios, the one-time-use nature might be useful, and the ability to revoke it by just using it yourself to burn it.
Basically everything you said was wrong..

The other problem with simd is that in modern cpu-centric languages it often requires a rewrite for every vector width.

Nope, you can use many existing libraries that present the same interface for all sizes, or write your own(which is what I did).

And for 80% of the cases by the point there is enough vectorizable data for a programmer to look into simd, a gpu can provide 1000%+ of perf AND a certain level of portability.

Transfer latency & bandwidth to GPU is horrible, just utterly horrible. And GPU to CPU perf dif is more like 5x, and in games etc the GPU is already nearly maxed out

And it also takes a lot of space on your cpu die. Like, A LOT.

Relative to the performance it can offer it is a very small area. The gains in the article are small compared to what I see, probably the author is new to SIMD.*
That looks cool. I want to raise some nits, though:

- If they're sending and receiving along diagonals, aren't those actually bishop-neighbors, not rook-neighbors?

- Think you meant Crypt of the Necro _dancer_

- The grid in the background makes it hard to discern whether they also send to rook-neighbors

- Secret 4th nit - Wait, are the cells just rotated 45 in the diagram and not in the prose?
I tried one meal per day for three weeks and I had to quit because my heart would start racing after my meal.

Really bizarre. I couldn’t find any information.
I agree with your sentiments that advertisement during a game should be illegal.

Addiction hits people hard. Not just people.. FAMILIES. Life is hard enough and people without knowing they can fall in to it unexpectedly, or are peer pressured to try it. You get that dopamine hit. One little win. One win here, one win there. Betting more and more. Then it's all gone. Yeah, it is their decision. It's their decision to quit too, and that's hard.

Internet gambling hits kids with video game skins/trades, I don't agree with that either.. it sets them on the wrong, and I do me very wrong path. It's an epidemic. I live in a small town where indian reservations collect everybody's social security checks. They sit there like zombies and press the button hoping for a return, never getting one. Push. Push. Push. Money gone. Many of my friends lost themselves to betting and gambling addiction, and addiction over all. While I agree, it's their decision, addiction takes the best humans in my opinion.

I believe in things that better people, we may not always know what they are, but a positive influence from somebody can start right here: I believe in you, and if you're out there and have a gambling addiction, there is hope and you can fight it, and you aren't lost. https://www.ncpgambling.org/help-treatment/help-by-state/ - https://www.ncpgambling.org/help-treatment/treatment-facilit...

And if you want to just talk about it, my e-mails in my profile and we can message from there.

I'm completely anti-gambling, but to each their own if somebody wants to I won't try to persuade them.
Two separate incidents? Some people really don’t learn, huh?
No, intellectual property is as evil as nuclear codes, Coke, or Disney.
The free software zealots started out as normal guys looking to save a
buck and only later came to justify their cheapness with some insane
moral legerdemain.
I don't understand why people think Tailwind is a crutch. It's a tool that uses low level abstractions to build things quickly and lends itself to easier maintenance over time. It has its limits, just like high-abstraction CSS or other frameworks have.

It's a bit like saying a van is a "crutch" when you take your family on vacation and that "really" you should be using a bicycle with a trailer on it.
A social project to help gamblers lose less money.
Thinking the same thing. Weird
I would be worried about where that compose file is being stored. I keep my compose files in a git repo and after I edit them just do `docker compose up -d` (in fact, I hit a key in my editor and it runs that for me, showing the output).
Just to add to this -- In QM/QFT there is an inverse relationship between energy & distance, meaning small distances (or sizes) correspond to high energy interactions (see e.g. [1]). One consequence is that at small enough scale (the Planck scale), the energy scale gets so large that quantum gravity effects are expected to be non-negligible. Formulating a theory of quantum gravity that fits into the Standard Model of particle physics & agrees with general relativity is an open problem in physics, therefore the Planck scale is at least the smallest distance that can conceivably be modeled given our current knowledge.

[1] https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/731971/equivalen...
Are there any other studies in the topic except on mice?
This is sheer scaremongering.

"If you dare to assert your right to privacy, thousands of people will lose their jobs!"

It relies on several layers of propaganda, and has no more basis in reality than trickle-down economics.