skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really hope they:

1) have a solution for spam (both blatant and subtle)

2) actively support their moderators

3) have well thought out and consistently enforced policies.

Reddit lost all of my goodwill years ago because of this.
It would be extremely unusual to print a vinyl record from anything less than 44.1 kHz / 16 bit wave or aiff.

Also, for what it’s worth you can find online audio tests (https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/...) that let you test if you can hear the difference between CD quality audio vs high bit rate mp3. Basically nobody can determine the difference with accuracy.
> I can't imagine what would've happened if we adopted block signaling for ATC ...

You don't have to imagine. We already do in many places. The North Atlantic Tracks are essentially exactly that. Aircraft give position reports and estimates, those positions reports are used to decide whether an aircraft can climb though which levels etc.

It's also used extensively in an IFR non-radar environments. Exactly why aircraft have to cancel IFR at uncontrolled airfields in the US or under a procedural ATC service in the UK. You hear it a lot around the Caribbean and Bahamas too.
> If you ever feel the itch of going towards ergonomic split keyboards

Unlikely. I caught my [nearly perfect] unicorn, but I'm not telling you what it is, because a.) it is too embarrassing and b.) don't wanna ruin your chase :-)

There are some hints I can tell you though:

+ it's low profile (Kailh)
+ it's TKL 80% and 100%
+ it's available ANSI and ISO
+ it's wireless
o it's not split (I like it this way but it depends on personal taste)
- it's NOT hot swappable
- it's not QMK / ZMK

Probably I'm going to work on the hot-swappable thing via Mill-Max 7305 or 3305 (already ordered a pack), but the soldering will really take time, even if I use soldering paste and I have to order a second one for experimens.
17.5Mbps is one episode on a DVD. Asking "getting up and switching your DVD every episode" to compete with streaming is laughable. Nobody would accept that today.

In a world without DRM, streaming would be even more attractive.

Just look at music as a real example. There wasn't any DRM for the majority of the digital music purchasing era (only a brief window of AAC protection from iTunes, but Apple took it DRM-free afterward and for the majority of the iPod era).

We already had completely DRM-free media with the iPod that was far smaller in file size and less cumbersome to store and manage than video.

Despite that ease and convenience, locally stored digital music was eaten completely alive by streaming subscriptions because the convenience was so much better. [1]

Nothing about losing DRM makes managing terabytes of media simple for the average person.

Let's say I wanted to store my favorite show, which for the purpose of this argument is Seinfeld. I need to be able to pick any episode at any time and just play it with no waiting. It's in really nice HD quality (thanks film!), so I store it at 10 Mbps.

I will need 297GB of storage to store the entire show.

That's just one show!!

It's also somewhat of a misnomer that VHS was affordable, at least not in the same sense as streaming. VHS tapes started out very expensive and were initially only practical for recording and re-using since each tape cost double digits of dollars. Video rental stores became popular especially because owning home video in the beginning was somewhat expensive. The technology really only became cost-practical for read-only media in its last 10 years. You would buy a movie once for ~$20-25 and that's it, you'd have your single copy of one movie. That costs more before inflation than a digital movie purchase today! VHS as you describe it is a recording technology (home movies, recording your own content, etc). As a consumption medium, streaming would demolish it, just like it demolished the digital purchase market for movies, TV, and music.

Again, use digital music as your practical example: in a world without DRM, recording your own media suffocates under the convenience and pricing pressure of streaming.

[1] https://www.riaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2023-Year-En...
Yeah that one. Messed up the name.
Yep. It was a little shocking when I learned that about HCB a while ago. Totally agree.
I'm not trying to call anyone out, just thought that what is being discussed is concepts laid out doughnut shaped around that word.
Is the 3 body problem mostly meaningful above a certain mass? If you had small satellites could you deal with it?
> However there are issues. How do you even begin to formalize concepts like human well-being?

Oh agreed! But with AI we might(!) have the luxury to create different types of brains; logically correct brains for space flight, building structures (or at least the calcuations), taxes, accounting, physics, math etc and brains with feelings for many other things. Have those cooperate.

ps. thanks for the links!
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I think we need to move away from thinking of money as a store of wealth, but a indication of value. (wealth is a side effect, it will of course always be a store of wealth.)

Pegging currency to gold or silver gives it the illusion of being of a fixed value, that can't be gamed or changed. However history says otherwise. Its continuously mined, and there are industrial uses so Gold and silver's actual value will still fluctuate.

plus whilst tradeable gold is normally stored in vaults, there is still a boat load of "free" gold that can move around and cause monetary problems. Its a side plot of one of the James Bond books.

You also have to remember that even if there is a physical backed standard, banks still need to lend, which means that in practice it'll still be a fiat currency, just not centrally controlled.
Please stop quoting Sam Altman’s out of thin air and self-serving predictions. Come back when you or Altman have a meaningful way to measure programmer “productivity” and a real definition of what “best” and “top 100” means. This kind of nonsense fluffing of AI execs and investors does not serve actual programmers.

Sam Altman and Elon Musk know next to nothing about writing software, and we should take everything they say in that context.
Joe Rogan does this all the time "Well I'm just an idiot who don't know nothing about nothing, but let me proceed to divulge the following BS to hundreds of millions of people as if it were an uncontroversial fact. When I get fact checked we can laugh it off together."
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They are called transitive dependencies.

Considering how packages ften have optional and unstated dependencies I'd expect an analysis of transitive dependency chains to become very vague, at best distinguishing between packages that are used mostly directly or, like urllib, mostly indirectly.
RSS feeds have a TTL inside the feed. Do feed readers respect it?

https://www.rssboard.org/rss-draft-1#element-channel-ttl
Accept-Language is an array, not a string.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ac...
Surely there's more to economics than controlling who you get to marry brother!
Private employers added just 77,000 jobs in February, far below expectations
Hmm, I found this:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070315091415/http://news.com.c...

"Whoever...utilizes any device or software that can be used to originate telecommunications or other types of communications that are transmitted, in whole or in part, by the Internet... without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person...who receives the communications...shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both."

Drawn up in 2005, passed by Bush in 2006.
> 2 m/s

7.2 kph; 4.5 mph.
Consumers in the US constantly complain of inflation and things becoming unaffordable, so much that it's become both a GOP and dem talking point. They definitely want to encourage US-made goods, but that would mean prices go up. and realistically consumers buy the cheap stuff from china en masse, knowing it's low quality, just because they want to save money. Or at least that's my 0.02 on the situation. I don't know how we solve it either.
Because the US has a pretty sizable naval fleet of the US Navy plus US Coast Guard, extensive surveillance capabilities due to the "war on drugs", the jurisdiction and responsibilities are relatively clear, and outside of the 12-mile zone the cables simply are too deep to be affected by anchor dragging.

In contrast, the North and Baltic sea are a hodgepodge of individual nations' 12-mile zones, the Baltic Sea operates under an entirely different set of agreements that guarantee free passage, and it's not really deep so submarine infrastructure like cables can be hit by anything from anchors to divers with explosives.
If I understand correctly, the definition of "largest trading partner" in the graphic is misleading because it is based exclusively on physical goods. But the US exports to many countries an impressive amount of digital services (Microsoft, Google, Meta, Apple). If we take into account the value of these services I think that many parts of the map would return to blue.
I recall visiting an experimental green technology farm in Wales back in about 1997. One of the things they were doing was composting leftover cardboard by peeing on it and waiting for it to breakdown. They also had a nifty water driven lift, and a big display about tidal power. I wish I could remember where exactly that place was.
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The authors of the JS version of SICP had a problem:
Scheme is expression based and JavaScript is statement based.

When I say Scheme is expression based, I am alluding to the fact that constructs such as `if`, `cond`, `case` etc. are all expressions. Scheme also has several binding constructs (let, letrec, etc) that allows in an expression context to bind the result of a computation in a subexpression. These are all expressions.

The expression version of `if` is in JavaScript called ternary if.
A direct translation from Scheme to JavaScript therefore uses ternary if.

But why make a direct translation?

Well, later in the book one writes an interpreter for Scheme.
This interpreter shows how the expression based language constructs are implemented. It is therefore necessary that the reader is very familiar with these constructs.
It solves the problem? The problem of shipping gold to mars? This is as made-up a problem as you get. Might as well say "What if advanced aliens come to Earth who already use crypto based currencies and the only way to stop them from destroying the earth is to pay them in ripple. So basically we need the reserve to save all life on earth."
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Yes, it does. I used the ISO-3166-1 code list (source: https://github.com/wooorm/iso-3166/blob/main/1.js) as a reference, and Copilot auto-completed every other country.
Everything has a reason. Xi didn't make that decision for the lulz. The reason is they see Taiwan as part of China and in active rebellion. Simple as. That doesn't make it right, but that explains why they are doing it. You don't have to accept that but that's what actual chinese and taiwanese nationals have told me and I'm inclined to believe them.
I do not accept your hypothetical scenarios, but I am willing to investigate them.

People often point to Napoleon or Hitler and claim that Russia fears an invasion over the flatlands of Eastern Europe. Yet, if we investigate this, we find that Russia's European neighbors are building defensive lines on their side, while Russia is not. This suggests that Russia is not afraid of a ground invasion, but its neighbors are.

Likewise, if you look at a globe, Ukraine is nowhere near the launch sites or flight paths of Russian nuclear missiles headed for the US. The Earth is not flat. Nuclear missiles would be launched from sites near in central and northern Russia, flying north over the pole toward the US - not west over Ukraine. Ukraine is geographically irrelevant to these flight paths because it is too far south.

So again, how does NATO threaten Russia?

There is one far easier explanation: NATO is not a threat to Russian security but a threat to Russian ambitions. NATO stands in the way of Russia invading other countries. If every country in Europe were isolated and didn't cooperate with others, a Russian invasion would face only their regular forces. For example, Estonia has just a few tens of thousands of soldiers, less than 100 artillery guns, a few HIMARSes, and some anti-ship missiles. No tanks, no air force, no navy. That's it - something Russia could clearly defeat. But with NATO, Russia could potentially face everything up to American carrier groups and nuclear missiles when invading Estonia. Managable risk grows into unlimited risk.

This is self-evident from the invasion of Ukraine as well. Without foreign military aid, Ukraine could have been defeated long ago, but with the aid, Russia is stuck fighting for just the first fifth of Ukraine. Foreign military aid made the difference between victory and defeat for Russia in Ukraine, so naturally, they seek to isolate countries they intend to invade from military partnerships.
That's devious and evil. Do you have further details about the mechanics? e.g. if it's delivered by JavaScript embedded in a PDF then maybe one could introduce a proxy that strips that out.
> Then where's my global setting to tell the browser what languages I speak, so it'd know what header to send?

Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/choose-display-language...

Chrome insists that the first language be the UI language, and Safari insists that the first language be the _system_ language.
ChatGPT, please summarize in bullet points.
Any language that implements linear types has values that can't be ignored and need to be passed to some "destructor" (could just be a deconstruction pattern assignment/similar).

Examples: Austral, some of these https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substructural_type_system#Pr... in particular at least ATS, Alms, Granule, LinearML
Though most haven't gone beyond research languages yet.
This makes me glad that when I reflashed my phone a few weeks ago, I left out Google Play.
> These exist because of misbehaved web servers that block based on user agen't or send different content. And since you are complaining aber faked user agents that probably includes you.

That's a niche. It's about 1 million percent more likely a fake request is coming from an overzealous AI scraper nowadays. I have blocked hundreds of them and I'm on the verge of giving up and handing over money to Cloudflare just for their AI scraping protection.
Yes congress step is currently just formality.
Sure we cause a mass extinction, I’m not saying “we don’t have any impact on other species”. My point still stands, the nature doesn’t care, this isn’t the first extinction and I bet won’t be the last.

However, you didn’t address my main question: how can we be a burden to a red wasteland?
I'm Finnish. I don't recall ever hearing about a cable being cut in the Baltic Sea before 2022, and based on quick Googling, cannot find any reports of such incidents either. And now they occur several times per year. Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action.
> Then where's my global setting to tell the browser what languages I speak, so it'd know what header to send?

In Chrome: chrome://settings/languages

In Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/choose-display-language...
> but charging them with the cost of repair plus additional penalty could be a good starting point.

Good luck enforcing that. The "shadow fleet" ships all operate under flags of convenience and ownership is hidden behind layers upon layers of shell companies.
You need signals from 3+ different locations to navigate, and the two stable Lagrange points, L4 and L5, are as far from the moon as Earth is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point.
My strategy is to have an exponential backoff. I start a new feed set to query every 30 minutes, and if there’s no new post, I double the period. If there’s is a new post, I halve it. My reader goes through every feed every half hour, and randomizes which feeds it checks: a 1/4 chance for a 2 hour feed, a 1/48 chance for a 24 hour feed, etc.
Yes, I have a small team of (me being 1/3) doing formal verification in my company and we do this and it doesn't actually matter if how the AI got there; we can mathematically say it's correct which is what matters. We do (and did) program synthesis and proofs but this is all very far from doing anything serious at scale.
> Wow... having just gone through a 20+ hour byzantine nightmare of setting up postfix & dovecot

Did you do this by hand / manually, or use a 'pre-canned' solution like:

* https://mailcow.email

* https://workaround.org
What kernel is the built-in browser of Telegram's Android client based on?
What kernel is the built-in browser of Telegram's Android client based on?
I tried to output chromium and found it was false
The article is drama piece that makes you go on a scavenger hunt for the Five Ws. I stopped reading as soon as I noticed the pattern. I would ask AI to summarize, but my enthusiasm for learning anything from this kind of article has waned dramatically over the years.
It could mean people are being payed to post content to keep momentum.
Wouldn't the next step be plopping some down on the moon?
Transferring public assets to private hands is very profitable to the buyers. That's how Putin became a trillionaire.
This is the start of modern illiteracy.
Unlike gold, the "finite supply" of BTC is socially constructed.

That's my whole argument for gold. The finite supply isn't socially constructed, and getting more requires building real infrastructure.
Lunar Pathfinder.

https://www.sstl.co.uk/what-we-do/lunar-mission-services

QUOTE:
A constellation of interconnected lunar orbiters will enable surface missions operating on the far side of the Moon, without direct to Earth line of sight, to keep constant contact with Earth. It will also provide lunar navigation signals to support critical mission phases such as precision landing of scientific equipment and the operation of rovers.
In addition to communication services, the Lunar Pathfinder spacecraft has been selected by ESA and NASA to host a number of experimental payloads:

An ESA GNSS receiver capable of detecting weak signals coming from the Earth GNSS infrastructure (GPS and Galileo), demonstrating its potential role into Lunar navigation
A NASA retro-reflector to demonstrate laser ranging capabilities
An ESA radiation monitor to study orbital radiation conditions

Acting both as technology and service demonstrator, Lunar Pathfinder is the opportunity for scientific and commercial mission developers to support the development, test and standardisation of Lunar communication infrastructure, and for emerging off-planet telcos to acquire experience of lunar asset operations and off-planet service delivery.

Lunar Pathfinder is due to operate in an Elliptical Lunar Frozen Orbit (ELFO) for an operational lifetime of 8 years. The spacecraft can operate 2 simultaneous channels of communication with lunar assets: 1 in S-band and 1 in UHF. Performance, such as coverage and data-rate, depend both on the relative position of the user asset to Pathfinder at the moment of the connection, as well as the capabilities of the communication module onboard the user asset. Once safely retrieved onboard Lunar Pathfinder, communications are relayed back to Earth ground stations in X-band.
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It's not common, as only one was ever made, but the Lisp processor described in Sussman and Steele's paper "Design of LISP-based Processors, or SCHEME: A Dielectric LISP, or Finite Memories Considered Harmful, or LAMBDA: The Ultimate Opcode", had built-in, hardware-implemented garbage collection.

I was once at a meetup for Lisp hackers, and discussing something or another with one of them, who referred to Lisp as a "low-level language". When I expressed some astonishment at this characterization, he decided I needed to be introduced to another hacker named "Jerry", who would explain everything.

"Jerry" turned out to be Gerald Sussman, who very excitedly explained to me that Lisp was the instruction set for a virtual machine, which he and a colleague had turned into an actual machine, the processor mentioned above.
The issue with mainstream economy is that it is way too abstract. It does not discriminate between USD 100 worth of marketing consulting and USD 100 worth of crops.

Yes, water it cheap. But you die if you can't access it for just a couple of weeks - this is a risk based approach. And this is something traditional economists do not look at too much.
Given Kevin Rose's web3 turn, I don't have high hopes.
i can't wait for the "there's been confusion about what we've done" message to come out. cuz its always us, right? the customer is always wrong in this era of techno-feudalism.
Some of these games are better than recent AAA titles...
Cool! I didn't know that.

I tried it out then reverted to the default.

Because I keep forgetting it's not the 90s and "we" have also invented such brilliant things as browser fingerprinting.
> It feels very necessary for my own mental health that these discussions have a space, can you see that side too? And I feel Furthermore a responsibility to the people whose mental health and everything else is being affected directly by these off the wall decisions.

I feel that there is definite emotional need for seeing that at least some of your peers share enough of your values to have a similar reaction to you - although that can cut both ways. For example, during COVID, many of the discussions were IMHO cesspools of misinformation with incredibly angry takes. In that situation I preferred having fewer of these threads on the main page.

Intellectually, I'm not so sure. I mean, at some point you either agree that all of this is crazy or you don't. You can certainly discuss immigration, government spending, even some hot button issues like DEI with some amount of civility, but when you're faced with what looks to be a descent into authoritarianism, is there really anything left to discuss? I'm not sure.
Yeah, the formalisations can be hard to crunch through (especially because of [1]). But this book in particular is quite well laid out. I'd suggest getting a math background on the (very) basics of "contraction mappings", as this is something the book kind of assumes you have the knowledge of.

[1] There's a lot of confusing naming. For example, due to its historic ties with behavioural psychology, there are a bunch of things called "eligibility traces" and so on. Also, even more than the usual "obscurity through notation" seen in all of math and AI, early RL literature in particular has particularly bad notation. You'd see the same letter mean completely different things (sometimes even opposite!) in two different papers.
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