skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have the time maybe look towards a community college and take a modern mechanics class! I took one in undergrad and it gives you insight into special relativity and basic quantum. Though I don’t remember a lot of it, it was really exciting to be able to practice the math and be able to ask the professor my questions.

I feel like with these topics you need to dive into the details to gain a strong understanding but then you only realize how much there is to learn.
Have a data structure for CPU registers.
Have a data structure for memory.
Have a data structure for i/o.
Read a series of instructions that are being emulated.
Create a series of rules as to how those instructions interact with CPU, memory, i/o, in a mutable fashion. A long if/then/elif/elif/elif/elif/else type loop, or switch case type loop, if you will.
Create bridges between particular pieces of memory and system output: video, sound, controllers.
That's most of it in the classic case at least.
Now you have an emulator.

The "big league" emulators work differently. They may be simple compilers. Instead of compiling C code or java code, they compile machine code from system A to system B. A transpiler. This affords speed beyond the simple case. Speed, however, is only necessary if the machine running the emulator is weak, or if the machine being emulated is strong.
Yandex is excellent. I use it too. I lately have been using Ecosia as well.
Don’t do this, a cheap non-programmable thermostat is a better option and inexpensive.
Not sure where they are getting all the numbers, but 85GW is no where near the "max": https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards/supplyanddemand
You can call your product Wireshark <Something> and then people will be able to find it by that. That way, you don't need to revise your current commitments to use the Wireshark name.
> I manage a python monorepo in prod and dependency management is hell.

Why does it work for FAANG but not for you?
no, dyneema is not hdpe; it's uhmwpe, and it isn't just strain-hardened, it's gelspun
If I may make some assumptions about you:

1. You're a person of a particular frame of mind who finds it easy and natural to talk to computers in programming languages

2. You knew a different language before, perhaps one you learnt at a young age

3. You've messed around with computers for years now and have built up a conceptual model of what the hardware and software components are and how things fit together. So if a new thing comes along, you can hang it on your tree of knowledge. Consider the difficulty someone might have making hello_world.py if they don't know what an OS is, or how to edit text, or any of the basics.

None of the above generalizes to the population at large.
The author here uses "differently abled". As a member of the disabled community, I've never met a disabled person who uses "differently abled".

But also, don't call us crippled. (Some people with disabilities do reclaim that term.)

Likewise, I call myself queer, but don't call me queer unless you are also queer.

Language like this fascinates me, because not only does it evolve, there is insider and outsider use. The cishet community can use lgbtq+, and that describes the same group of people as queer, but it means something quite radically different. Queer is steeped in radical implication in a way lgbtq+ is not.

Nothing in my post is meant to judge you, reader, more to say, "wow! Language is fucking wild!" I'm excited to see where it goes over the remainder of my life.
It is, however, enough to make small programs and extend from there. Especially following a book like K&R.
Unfortunately tech has done this too.

surveillance and dossier building - advertising

behavioral data gathering - telemetry

I'm sure there are more for recurring charges, dark patterns, predatory pricing and all the cleaned-up names associated with enshittification.
Wait, Indians and Asians are not in BIPOC?! I thought it was a union of the adjectives, not an intersection. Like LGBT you know, you don’t have to be all of them to be LGBT. TIL

Uh oh. I’ve been using it wrong for a while, whoops.
Time to expertise is down to zero in “Fake until you make it” circles. 260 week-long iterations later, having survived the “hype curve” and the “Valley of Death”, they declare themselves “battle-proven”. A.k.a. experts.
We'll never have AI, because once we figure something out it stops being AI.

Modern generative stuff like LLMs and image diffusers counts at least as much as the various older used-to-be-AI things.
> I mean everything in the universe is in motion and spins…

My understanding is that is a pretty open question as to whether or not blackholes due spin at all, or if they are all uniform apart from mass. Last I heard they do have temperature and electric charge and mass.

Another question is what does the concept of motion even mean for a singularity. How do you define the concept of distance in a non-euclidean space for an object to move through in the first place. What can the idea of movement even mean for an object that has a horizon beyond which it functionally becomes cut off from the rest of the universe.
> Terrifying study

Easy on the hyperbole. Let's assume that this study is correct, and everyone at median age of 50 is walking around with this level of microplastics in the stated organs. Are we all dead? Disabled? Dying? No. Our lifespans are amongst the longest in human history. I'm doing OK. How about you?

Far bigger practical concerns are that we're fat and lethargic and suffering from metabolic disease, heart disease, cancer and diabetes en masse because we eat too much. About the only thing you can do with this finding is wave your hands around and make hypothetical links to this and that (as they do in the paper), or try to claim that this is really, secretly the underlying cause of the stuff that is actually, observably killing us.

I'm not saying there's no concern here, but I am not "terrified" of this. I am actually scared of getting fat, or falling down when I get old from being weak. These are things that happen to nearly all of us.

Anyway, first rule of science: when we look for things, we find things. If you are "terrified" by everything new you find, you are applying an emotional judgment to what you see, and not being objective enough.
true, conventional welding or sintering would be a bad idea. but you can connect them together with brazing, laser-welding, explosive welding, ultrasonic welding, self-propagating high-temperature synthesis of an intermetallic like nickel aluminide, electrodeposition, lashing, or globs of glue
Ryzen 9000 Series Community Update: Gaming Performance
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Attack surface management is a crucial aspect of Cybersecurity. By reducing the attack surface of your domains, you can optimize the active cyber defense effort significantly.
Visual Novels (whether Ren'Py or otherwise) can be roughly divided into 3 groups:

1. Zero-or-minimal interactivity. A sequence of scenes with the occasional multiple-choice menu. When you get the occasional branch or maybe some randomness, it quickly leads to either a merge with the other branch (sometimes: just missed content on one side) or a Bad End. These are probably the vast majority of VNs, and the reason VNs have such a bad reputation - they're basically equivalent in complexity to the dialogue of a single NPC in a real videogame, just with more useless filler. At best these can be a way of the author showing off their ability to draw.

2. Moderate interactivity. Although still clearly based on a DAG of menus connected by scenes, these have a little state and long-term consequences from early choices. You might get a concept of player stats or custom menus (see #3) for a change, but they're not critical. Most "good" VNs aspire to this.

3. High interactivity. Since they have all the essential complexity of a real videogame, these really don't deserve the stigma of being called Visual Novels (even though they're implemented on a VN engine), and it's unfortunate when they are tagged as such (because that means people will filter them out). This doesn't actually make them good (many of them comparable to the slop that comes out of RPGMaker etc.), but at least they're meaningfully called games. The critical factor here is you revisit the same "menus" multiple times in a playthrough; often these menus have custom UI (for example "click where you want to go on the map"). Usually you have some kind of resources to manage and there's a meaningful day counter (where each day you get roughly the same choices).
It's important to remind people that all this is solved, by Nix, btw.
This is more about launching. Launching is not finishing. We are using recent versions of things that launched decades ago.

When you're working on software that has no obvious finish (development could go on indefinitely) you have to set up small milestones. Okay, in this release we're going to get this and that and other thing working, with documentation and test cases. That is in a concrete target. When we have those three things with documentation and test cases we've hit the target and nothing blocks that release anymore.
The point is that that is only possible in an environment where such hate has become possible where it previously wasn't. Regardless of your opinion on euphemisms, that is not a good thing.
The windows demo is a standalone 32 bit executable. The installer version is only available for premium users. I might toggle some features to test what is tripping the antivirus, it would be much nicer if they told me what the categories mean (what do I do with Trojan.Malware.300983.susgen???).

How are you checking the access time? File Explorer's "Properties" window changes the access time in Windows 10, that tripped me up during development.
> amateurs writing bad code

in volume, this turns into support writing the code.

I think of how the south park movie folks sent so much questionable content to the censors that the compromise in the end let through lots of the puppet sex.
Please don’t do this. Reddit exists, keep HN high quality less jokey. If there is humor it should be hacker culture, not low hanging.
How do you handle being corrected? It's ok to not keep up, if someone is like, "heads up, that term is more considered offensive. You might not have known, but here's the updated one"

If you are like, "oh, shoot, didn't know, I'll try to remember that" then most folks are pretty chill.

It's only when someone is like, "it's too fucking hard to remember the current term every decade I just want to use the term that offends people because I refuse to update a pointer in my memory!" That people generally get edgier over.
Wasn't meant to be a dig.

The featured article is about electrostatic motors that provide less than one horsepower. Therefore any comparison to "large motors" is kind of off subject.
Azimov has a famous quote about ignorance that is appropriate. Clearly your ignorance is just as valuable and insightful as the experts.
Yes, but the first is far funnier and therefore better.
I worked in Netherlands in a startup and we had a non-compete
What are some examples of behaviors that would exemplify their heavy censorship?
This. I want to (and sometimes try) to fix more things myself, but web search is so full of SEO garbage that I dread trawling through the results. I think part of the solution is similar to what I did for cooking: lean on a couple of high-quality sites and older printed books.
Don't nitpick. :) We could remove superficial aspects from most texts to make them more sparse. It does not mean we should.

The poster had men on their mind, and that is fine. This isn't a presidential address where every word will have reverberating cultural impact — it's a comment deep in a thread on HN.

And you understood the core message, so it served its purpose.

There are also things to be said about how men used to connect over DIY — there was a time a few generations back where men used to build each others' houses and cars. But my key point is that nitpicking stops conversations and ideas, let's not do that.
Over half the population doesn't have the funds to enforce that and effectively ultimately has no such rights in this situation and many like it.
Well it's been 10 years since he went missing. When people go missing for a long time they are declared legally dead, regardless of their age
What Is Std:Ref?
PTSD is an acronym, so it hides the meaning, restricts the awareness. The name itself kind of sucks too.

Horrors of War Syndrome would probably be better.
Designing my own watch (2020)
Not only are accusations of "virtue signaling" generally a sign of a conversation not being worth my time, I'll even go a step further; I think there's a genuinely useful phenomenon where some takes are so common from people I consider to be trying to discuss in bad faith that someone not even being willing to pretend not to have them is a legitimately useful way for me to filter out conversations that wouldn't end up having any value for either side, and this honestly does seem to fit the meaning of "virtue signalling". If I'm tacitly asking for "virtue-signalling" by not being willing to discuss politics with, say, relatives who have binged too much Fox News over the past decade, then so be it.
> so that his wife could collect his pension and insurance policies, worth about $5,000 and $2,000 respectively
Well, I've seen our allies use a $249,000-a-pop FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank missile against a solitary soldier where a $0.49 rifle shell would do [1], so I don't price matters. Especially when we're giving the stuff away.

[1] /r/CombatFootage
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This is a really good argument to debunk most complicated conspiracy theories.
It's not military "weird sadism," it's meatheadedness in some areas of the military.

The aviation communities had this suitcased 40+ years ago with mandatory crew rest requirements that can only be broken in legitimate combat.
The only games I still have windows around for are sim racing (with wheel support). Maybe someday we’ll get those in Linux too.
If someone's being dangerously erratic, it may be best to just turn and take a different route.
For basic SETNX single instance redis instances, sure.

But for the Redlock algorithm, I've never encountered anyone that was already running 5 redis masters to use out of convenience.

You're much more likely to have an etcd, consul, Zookeeper, etc cluster that you could use for coarse-grained distributed locking.
Man, this really sounds like the plot to a Cohen Brothers movie.

Or maybe it's just in Florida. (Checks) Yeah, okay, Florida.
As a former aviator JO . . . you're drinking the Kool-Aid. You didn't need to do that, you just did it.
Not every attempt is a good attempt. I'm disabled, not differently abled. But I'm also not crippled nor retarded.

If, a decade from now, someone comes up with a better term I might be whatever that is.

But I still am glad we've moved on past early 20th century labels and are trying new ones on. Some might not fit nicely, but they are progress generally.
Do miners run in Texas?
Serious PC gaming requires mod managers, which are all written for Windows AFAIK
Nothing at all. I believe you don't even need to use web components. You can just throw in <my-person>Joe Bloggs</my-person> and that's valid HTML-whatever.

But it's not a standard that is recognised, and so is no kind of metadata format.
I always make gpt fix the code it created. How else would I learn.
> I ran the nuclear power plant on the USS La Jolla (SSN-701) for five years. Per the Engineering Department Organization Manual, you're not allowed to do any operations in the power plant if you haven't gotten a certain number of hours of sleep in the past however many hours. This is the most laughably ignored rule on the ship. It's very normal to have people operating the power plant after being awake for 40 hours straight.

And this is why aviators mock nukes. Because we actually understand what gets people killed and avoid it.
> Freedom of choice is a fundamental part of human nature.

Not when it kills people, which speeding does.
i built a chrome extension recently and i was evaluating/trying out different frameworks for building a browser extension.

for anyone who is interested for an alternative to Plasmo, i chanced upon https://github.com/extension-js/extension.js
For the problems given in the article, it will 100% work. It's very easy for Claude 3.5 or gpt-4o to look at documentation for a couple of API endpoints, compare it to submitted code, and point out invalid endpoints and properties. It can provide correct code also if the custom is asking for something possible.

It won't be flawless but if the issues are as basic as stated in this article, then it seems like a good option.

It will cost money to use the good models though. So I think the first step would be to make sure if they ask for an invalid endpoint it says that in so many words in the API response, and if they ask for an invalid property it states that also.

Then if that doesn't give them a clue, an LLM scans incoming support requests and automatically answers them. Or flags them for review.. To prevent abuse, it might be a person doing it but just pressing a button to send an auto-answer.

But maybe a relatively cheap bot in a Discord channel or something connected to llama 3.1 70b would be good enough to start, and people have to provide a ticket number from that bot to get an answer from a person.
yes but different users share different needs so sometimes it's hard to pick!
Are you playing Cyberpunk or Alan Wake 2?
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/burner-second-phone-number/id5...
Understanding the Risks of Trivial Packages in Modern Software Projects
You can't be serious. That approach has so many downsides you can't list them in a hackernews comment. For example, icons will not be scaled in your method. So any app like audacity where tons of icons are the primary visual component are completely unusable. Not to mention icons on the taskbar look garbage. And not to mention...

You get the idea
I wonder if they were checking for extra entries in the Windows boot config database instead (i.e. Windows chain loading grub), but most people go the other way?
I'm a bit confused about what really is being interpreted here, because my reading of the specification indicates that the entire image is read as a single expression in the lambda calculus but the graphic interpreter looks like a procedural execution at the first glance. Is it just a visualization of beta-reduction in progress?

EDIT: I think I got it and I think calling this as an "encoding" is a misnomer. The program starts with a single term `turnstyle(x, y, dir)` which gets lazily evaluated to the actual term. So not only the evaluation might be lazy, but the parsing is also lazy and this is a key point of this esolang which should be highlighted more in my opinion.
time have changed though. there are better implementations of these, and many companies have built successful startups based around these ideas. look around, it’s the age of distributed locking!
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I'm pretty sure that the person you're replying to isn't making a claim about the utility of checklists but the content of the enumerated checklist items.
> they learned to tell the Parisian taxi drivers "Sank Roo Doe Noo!"

What exactly is this supposed to mean? Badly mangled phonetic French?
why do you need a phone number for a google account?
Honestly decided to focus of Swift server ecosystem is lacking but I really like the lang
Try DIY books, especially published before LLMs. There are several almanacs that focus on all types of household, car, and electronics work. Look for the thick comprehensive ones.
I've been programming since I was 4 years old but with literally zero resources or assistance beyond "take books out from the library" for 20 years. It wasn't until I was about 28 until I had the chops to get into the industry (largely down to never having a need or opportunity to learn SQL -- also I mean as a developer, I had a prior career in IT) and even then it wasn't until I was 31 before I had the confidence enough to interview...

On the other hand, I have a wealth of other general computer and protocol knowledge and have been working circles around most of my coworkers since day one. In the typical tech startup world I _rarely_ encounter coworkers with truly deep knowledge outside of whatever language they work in.

IMO the skill isn't about being able to "write code", it's about being able to model how things work.
Docker Joins Movement to Dump Passwords for Security
Yes. It indicates there is one.
If you review the numbers, it's clear they are cheesing the numbers.
It's a bit like national debt.
In national debt, if you owe $100 today, you will owe $200 tomorrow, $300 the next day, and so on -- debt accumulates in a cumulative manner.

So for unemployment the plan is to cheese the numbers, to accumulate, in a similar fashion. When Kamala wins, and Trump triggers the riots, they'll have a snatch & power grab and punt all the job losses to the other team. Then, thusly, the employment debt is eliminated.
The second one actually seems to be harder for some people. It requires separating the syntax from the semantics

Agreed on all further ones, however
sounds like OP TFA just drove around! sounds like how everyone and my grandma finds their house. it’s like tptacek says: ‘talk to me when you get deep in 801.11!’ -tptacek via armondo
I prefer doug stanhopes contribution on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv3-d98v9zc
Black holes form before any infinities. They form when enough mass-energy occupies a small region of space. And neither quantity is infinity. Due to how energy is related to wavelength, and that we need smaller wavelengths to probe smaller, and because everything has wavelength, we get that smaller scales require more energy (this is a simplification but correct). At a certain small enough size, again not infinity, we get a black hole due to energy density of that region of space. And any more energy just makes a bigger black hole. So we can’t actually get endlesssly smaller scales. The singularity is also a mathematical one and not something most physicists claim exists physically. I mean as a related example, there’s no way to physically infinitely divide space so infinities of calculus don’t imply infinities of spatial division.

QM I’m less sure where you think infinities pop up physically? One interesting thing is you’d need an infinitely size measuring apparatus to have absolutely certain measurement results due to random fluctuations, but as per above we can’t have infinitely size devices except for infinitely sized black holes, which won’t really help us. A lot of this is said more rigorously by Nima Arkani Hamed in his recorded public lectures.
Really sad to see Firefox’s direction but also not sure how they should be funded to avoid these things. I’m also not sure that the web can be made into something different unless web standards aren’t freed of influence by giants like Google
That's because those people are ageist. It's hard to keep re-learning things when you grow older.

I don't know if the above statement is parody or reality in this ever changing political correctness climate.
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Again - if you read about the era and understand that the US was in various proxy conflicts with the communist USSR, and understand the motivations of the people in power at the time, the stated reason of trying to curb communism is entirely logical - although again, the reason of protecting American corporate interests was a factor too, although not the main factor.

If you read the history and can make an alternative argument that cites actual evidence, I’d be glad to hear it. Otherwise you don’t seem to know what you’re talking about.