skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The implication that gTLDs are bad and new ones shouldn't be introduced because of this is a bit silly to me.

That wasn't what the article stated. The article stated that the problem is that the new TLDs are so cheap as to be disposable, and the registration requirements are lax. The combination makes them attractive to criminals.

It's literally the first sentence of the article:

"Phishing attacks increased nearly 40 percent in the year ending August 2024, with much of that growth concentrated at a small number of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) — such as .shop, .top, .xyz — that attract scammers with rock-bottom prices and no meaningful registration requirements, new research finds."
Setting aside the actual physical and technological limitations here, I think such immortality would create a whole new kind of population problem. Population growth, in some sense, would explode. Or, more realistically, you’d have two classes of people: those living, and those “immortal,” those who could afford immortality, and those who were poor and would have to die permanently.

That said, I think this is all a pipe dream and totally infeasible.
It would be hell on earth literally
> Does 4k matter?

The PC I'm typing this on has two 27in 4k screens. I'm sitting so that I look at them from about 75cm away (that's 2.5 feet in weird units).

I archive most of my video files in 720p, because I genuinely don't see that big of a difference between even 720p and 1080p. It is definitely visible, but usually, it does not add much to the experience, considering that most videos today are produced to be watchable on smartphones and tablets just as much as cinema screens or huge TVs. I only make an exception here for "cinematic" content that was intended for the very big screen. That does not necessarily mean movies, but also certain YouTube videos, like "Timelapse of the Future": https://youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA - This one hits differently for me in 4K vs. just 1080p. Having to watch this in just 720p would be tragic, because its cinematography relies on 4K's ability to resolve very fine lines.

So why would I make a point to have both my screens be 4K? Because where else do you look at fine lines a lot? You're looking at it right now: Text. For any occupation that requires reading a lot of text (like programming!), 4K absolutely makes a difference. Even if I don't decrease the font size to get more text on screen at once, just having the outlines of the glyphs be sharper reduces eye strain in my experience.
Is the reuse of the commit hash and date intentional and part of the joke?

Besides that, I like seeing and preserving this kind of history. And when I don't want to, there are ways to filter the logs.
Agreed. I’ve been using Preact on an entirely client-side SPA with a simple RPC-like backend all in typescript for 5 years or so. I can’t think of a single major dependency that has changed significantly in that time. But, I did make an effort to minimize my dependencies.
It's not a particularly hard problem. Most countries have rules on what you can use as a business name or register as a trademark. Domain names are just more of the same.

And you don't really own your domain. You are just renting it from whichever authority is responsible for the TLD. If you stop paying, the authority will eventually take it back.
Folks are still getting funded for these sorts of ideas (LLM-based agents) but until I see a single working proof of concept, I'm convinced they're all doomed.
Yeah, feels like an act of desperation rather than a cunning plan. Didn't even get his own party on side, never mind influential foreign figures to recognise him as the legitimate leader, and it looks like troops who responded to his orders to attend Parliament didn't exactly follow them to the letter. Unanimous vote as well, so if anything it was any support he might have had in Parliament that was unable or unwilling to turn up.
Programming is an individual activity; developing software is a social activity. Current tools and teaching are still biased in favor of the former, resulting in most of our troubles in the latter.
Getting rid of cars doesn't solve the societal problems at play; the people embody the problems. To see the future of these districts, look at Philadelphia's Kensington, but just add skyscrapers. As rural can go to suburbs, suburbs to urban, and urban can only go to decline, I have visions of vast wastelands of urban decay covering the USA.
> If anything, the US-led blockade of advanced chips to China will make it more likely for China to use force.

you watched too much MSM

1. the whole taiwan thing is just an excuse to force the united state to waste more resources on a topic selected and controlled by China. nothing is better at wasting US efforts by forcing it to keep investing borrowed $ in its military presence over 10,000km away from its mainland, nothing is affordable at such distance.

2. Taiwan doesn't make those ASML machines, they operate those imported machines very efficiently, that is all. China is playing a long game, trying to master and eventually control the full semiconductor supply chain at any cost by developing its own industrial bases. In such a big picture, Taiwan with what it has today is tiny, it doesn't worth such an invasion. With 1.4 billion population and its ongoing competitions with the US, China doesn't have the luxury to select which sectors or fields it must control - it has to control everything to just have its people employed on half decent pays.
That font glow looks completely wrong, it looks like a lazy blur applied on top
Yonhap (Korea state news) :

The National Assembly voted Wednesday to demand President Yoon Suk Yeol lift emergency martial law.

Under the Constitution, martial law must be lifted when a parliamentary majority demands it.

Of the 300 members of parliament, 190 were present and all 190 voted in favor of a motion demanding the lifting of martial law.
With the motion's passage, the martial law declaration is void, according to the parliamentary speaker's office. [1]

[1] https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20241204001651315
The selection of human poets is cooked to give the result they wanted. I will grant the authors may have lied to themselves. But I don't think honest scientists would have ever constructed a study like this. It is comparing human avant garde jazz to AI dance music and concluding that "AI music" is more danceable than "human music", without including human dance music! It's just infuriating.
The Great Equalizer
I never deal with co.xx to be honest. Most websites I visit are on ccTLDs. Whenever I see a .com link to any local business, I start out by assuming it's a scam website.

That said, .app has found plenty of adoption. Tech companies absolutely love .io and .ai is now also gaining popularity. The good American URLs have all been bought years ago so people flock to ccTLDs and gTLDs for new products and businesses. Even .engineering has a few interesting businesses on it these days.

As for .sucks, it's clearly a cash grab, but banning it hardly solves a problem. ycombinatorsucks.com is a lot cheaper than ycombinator.sucks, and if ycombinator pre-emptively buys ycombinatorsucks.com, you could just buy ycombinatorisshit.com or ycombinatorisadoodoohead.com.
The retconning is wild. Anything to avoid an introspective look at why the Party failed.
Well. How would you like a 290 years old Putin keeping a tight grip on Russia in the 23rd century?
I suppose this is where I plug my own 30 year old 3D engine (caution: it's not very good) https://github.com/pjc50/ancient-3d-for-turboc
And they sold NUCs to ASUS. For mini PC servers I would always go intel for QVS transcoding. AMD is not on the same level as Intels media engine.

Intels iGPUs also support SR-IOV these days so you can get GPU acceleration to multiple VMs.

Streaming (local network - Sunshine/Moonlight) these days is really good. So good I consider moving my gaming machine to the garage and just stream it to a thin client or steam deck.
As a perl programmer from decades past (I transitioned to Java during the perl 6 winter), I've been finding that groovy and even more recently scala are really nice tools for what I'd have traditionally done in perl.

When doing this year's advent of code, some of the terseness of symbols reminded me of perl.

Perl lost me and I transitioned too far away from its ecosystem professionally to return for more than a dalliance or occasional debugging ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16219876 ).
> De Gaulle was called by the president of the 4th republic to counter the military insurgents.

Massu, who had gained prominence and authority when he ruthlessly suppressed Algerian militants, famously declared that unless de Gaulle was returned to power, the French Army would openly revolt.

> When the military woke up again in 62 in Algiers, De Gaulle crushed them.

Because then, the coup was directed against him!
It's an absolute technical liability to build anything new in Perl these days.
Hmmm "Eat the rich" has failed, but I like this "Send the rich to Mars" alternative ... where do I donate?
In a presidential system the president’s party is the government and the other parties are the opposition. Doesn’t matter how many seats in parliament anyone has.
> The react community has 10 python v2->v3 situation in any given year.

That is not my experience. Maybe you could share with us some examples?

My most important dependencies, after React itself and TypeScript, are react-router (which released v6 in 2021) and react-query (which released v5 in 2023). I don't remember other major breaking changes in recent years, at least with the dependencies I'm using.
Wouldn't any change we make to who dies when also be natural? How is that not natural selection? Did earlier generations not attempt to stay alive?
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No. Straight ChatGPT. I wasn’t even logged in.
> but the reality is we'd be in exactly the same situation as today, but with a population rapidly screeching beyond all known sustainable limits far faster than it is today

I don’t think this is a given. Most developed nations have bad birth rates for example
I will sound awfully smug, but I tend to understand most of the biblical and homeric references, only some of the star wars ones (those referring to the original trilogy) and absolutely none of those about marvel films of which I haven't seen any. It means I can go enjoy some Dante :)
Those seem to be very different purposes? Also, Ghidra is really good these days.
Facebook's Little Red Book for Employees in 20212 Remastered [pdf]
I believe that the years of uni, i.e. living in the UK on a student visa, do not count towards the 5 years required to get indefinite leave to remain (permanent residence).
Craigslist used to donate over $100,000 every single year. Not sure when that stopped. That is really what kept perl going between the years of 2010 and 2016 or so. The board was actually paying a couple of people to do maintenance on the core repository and code. I believe they still do that but obviously due to deficits that is going to get difficult.

It's sad when so many companies are dependent upon perl, but donate nothing. A good case in point is AT&t in the 1980s was broken up into 20 plus different companies. They were then remerged back in the 1990s. But when they merged, they had 20 different computer systems and perl was actually used to glue all those systems together and handle data sanitation and ETL pipelines. Yet AT&t never donated anything to perl.
Whether their attempt to overturn it is successful remains to be seen.
The most influencer lawsuit that could change the industry
OG post: https://spaccapeli.com/i-remastered-facebooks-little-red-boo...
The only connection in that article to "the west" is a brief reference to two American doctors, one a surgeon who worked in Papua New Guinea and the second a cancer researcher at the University of Hawaii. The bulk of the article is about the struggles Papua New Guinea (and other non-western places) are having with an addictive substance.

I can find no mention of energy drinks in the article.
If you want another simple tool that is much more advanced, try out https://ipapi.is/
Do perl support typescript ?
> A computer doesn't need to have a gigahertz burst mode just to run an efficient little OS for coding.

If efficiency is your goal, you should prefer the N100 which is built on a 7nm class process compared to the Pi 5's 16nm.
on the other hand, new TLDs make ICANN a lot of money, and isn't that the important thing?
General anesthesia is not good for the brain.
The brain is not enough; the mass-spaced effect allows for the formation of memories in non-neural tissues throughout the body.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-53922-x
https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2024/novemb...
Imagine people like putin pouring billions in, easily sacrificing millions to achieve such thing for themselves, and ideally nobody else. A truly terrible scenario worth fighting against.

Some folks are scared of rogue AI, when biggest threat to mankind always was, is and will be other, properly messed up humans with certain capabilities.
My impression of Perl, as someone who wrote two scripts in it twenty years ago and has been on the Internet since the middle-old days, is that it is a language suited to being clever.
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"What goes around... Comes around" — Sepultura (1996)
I wish we'd reframe the way this gets talked about. It's pedantic, but we can't escape death. All matter in the universe will eventually decay or transmute into something very different from what it now is. And my answer to the question posed of when you'd want to die is unknown. I can't say 150 years. I can't imagine a specific age I'd hit at which I'd want to die. But at the same time, while I might want to outlive the Earth, I don't want to outlive all baryonic matter and somehow persist into the age of the universe in which all other matter is black holes, and there is neither light nor sound, nothing to touch, and all I would ever experience is quadrillions of years of utter loneliness. There is no immortality and nobody would want it if they really thought about what it would entail.

But cessation of aging would be wonderful. I'd love to live indefinitely and not have my body or mind noticeably decay. Research like this should be done, but we need to be honest about what we're trying to accomplish. Nobody will ever escape death, and when you start getting large enough numbers, I'm not sure it would make any difference to live longer. Even if we somehow achieve brain uploading, which I don't see entails you living longer so much as making copies of yourself with different identities, every storage medium has a capacity limit. At some point, the only way to form new memories to evict old ones, and the experience of living 90 trillion years won't be any different than 1 trillion years if 1 trillion years of experience is all you can store.

That said, we need to also be humble about what is even achievable. The very idea of a high resolution scan capturing the entirety of your brain state is already science fiction. We have another home page story right now about controversy over whether the brain has a microbiome. The only reason that's a question is because we have no means of opening up a living brain to see. We can't even accurately measure a person's body fat without dissection. The limitations of non-invasive remote imaging that don't kill the animal being imaged are quite severe and constitute a large reason medicine isn't more effective than it is. There is no technology we are on a known arc toward achieving that will make it possible to capture molecular-level detail of an entire brain as it is still running. I don't see how you can base an entire research project on a premise that doesn't exist and we have no idea if it ever will exist.
Neat ideas here. I've listed 3 thoughts/concerns:

1. Deadlocks
2. Programmer Experience
3. Updating the code with in-flight tasks

To avoid deadlocks, it seems like the executor should need to know what the dependencies are before attempting execute tasks. If we have 4 threads of execution, it seems like we could get into a state where all 4 of our threads are blocking on semaphores waiting for another task to provide a dependent value. And at scale, if it can happen, it definitely will happen eventually.

Potentially related-- it could make sense for the engine to give preference to completing partially completed tasks before starting new fresh tasks.

Also, I wonder if there's a way to lay the specification of tasks out so it looks more like normal code-- potentially with async await. What I mean by normal code is this: It's much more natural to write a program with 2 steps like this:

name = await ask_for_name()
await greet(name)

Than to redo that in a task way like this

def ask_for_name():
...
return TaskResult(next_task=greet(name))

def greet():
...

If I have 7 steps with some loops and conditionals, it becomes much more difficult to grok the structure with the disjointed task structure, and much more difficult to restructure and reorganize it. I wonder if there's a way to pull it off where the distributed task structure is still there but the code feels more natural. Using this framework we're essentially writing the code in a fragmented way that's challenging to reorganize and reason about.

What will happen when we change the task code and deploy a new version; I wonder what happens to the tasks that were in flight at the moment we deploy?
Well, the explicit demands of the 1958 coup was to put him in place, and in that sense it did succeed - now, whether or not he participated in the planning of it is basically a mystery, but it does seem plausible (even though there is, to my knowledge, no proof of this) simply on the basis that he was the direct beneficiary of it.

Additionally, during the 1958 coup itself he did basically give his support for it in the sense that he explicitly said he was "ready to assume the powers of the republic" if asked for (which is what the leaders of the coup demanded be done).
Works without, although the "conversations" are somehow quite depressing.
I've often felt this is the other way round: Facebook hired a massive frontend team, and therefore they have to continually create work for themselves.
> A random human won't sing off the cuff with their tonal center magically quantized to one of the twelve keys in our modern western tuning (Equal Temperament).

Why is that relevant? Whatever pitch they pick would fall into one of the 12 buckets, even if it isn't precisely the correct pitch.
Skia Canvas: Browserless implementation of the HTML Canvas drawing API for node
What if the constituent of the brain changes, would you feel you or would it be like another person just go on being conscious. If you don’t know what makes consciousness, most likely you just “die” after the brain freeze. This ain’t like sleeping or coma where your system is kept running continuously
Due to peculiarities, I've visited downtown Denver during weekdays and weekends many times over the last few months. Compared to pre-pandemic, weekdays are laid back, there's on street parking a lot of the time. Weekends there's no on street parking, restaurants appear to be full for brunch, and there's lots of pedestrians.

City of Denver did make lots of efforts to get people to live downtown for the last 20-30 years. The new lodo buildings behind Union Station are all "walkable city" type, with sidewalks and commerce on the ground floor.
How about we ban them entirely
I've been with DNSimple for years (personal and business accounts) and am watching closely to see whether I need to think about moving off in the next year or so. I've also started to feel like something is off … price hikes with no added benefits have me wondering if it would really be so bad to manage DNS for ≈ 30 domains at Hover or something.
Because we've collectively been propagandised out of any sense of class consciousness. We don't have class solidarity with our fellow workers. Instead we see ourselves as Jeff Bezos-in-waiting, "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" [1]. We have been manipulated into hyper-individualism and division across pointless lines like race or gender identity as a means of preventing labor solidarity.

Depending on which country you're talking about, leftist momentum has neutered if not outright eviscerated. In the US, the New Deal Democrats dominated Congress for 60 years only to sell their souls to the same neoliberals and corporate overlords as the right-wing.

So now we have rising fascism because there's no counter-balance to capitalism and fascism is, depending on who you listen to, either the political wing of capitalism or it's simply capitalism in crisis.

People from the 1930s and 1940s are still alive yet here we are again. The Red Scare did unimaginable damage to our society.

So this isn't new. It's simply the culmination of a 50+ year long project.

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/328134-john-steinbeck-once-...
If the Peter principle is just “you succeed until you don’t” then it’s tautological and applies in all contexts.
Very ironic given the ruling party in SK is called "People Power".
> according to ChatGPT the minimum interval between 2 MIDI messages is 0.77 milliseconds.

Thank you for stating your source. However, ChatGPT isn’t deterministic. I asked it the same thing and it responded it depends on several factors, including the MIDI protocol version and the device or software used, and that the minimum between two messages is between 1 and 2 milliseconds.

Which of those is true? Perhaps neither. A quick web search didn’t provide a straightforward answer. Point being that we should avoid propagating even more wrong information, especially since it’s not relevant to your point (which makes sense).
I'm also skeptical of the idea that one can "upload" consciousness and it would still be "you". I suppose this is true in a philosophical sense, but in a practical sense, subjective experience of consciousness rules the roost. It's inevitably going to be a mere copy of you. You don't get to experience any of it. Similar to a software project which is forked, I think it makes more sense to classify it as an entirely different entity at that point.

I suppose there are valid use cases for this, but I'm not that narcissistic to think the world needs eternal copies of me.

The continued subjective experience of the original consciousness is where I believe the real value lies. Digitisation of consciousness, assuming it has any sound scientific basis in the first place, would practically need to look more like the gradual replacement of brain (and bodily) matter with something more durable, enduring, and controllable. A slow process in which carbon is exchanged for silicon, or cellular damage is continuously reversed and aging kept at bay.
Related: I wrote a MUD engine and worldbuilder when I decided I wanted to learn Node.