skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We keep plugging biology into our understanding of physics, which I believe, is the greatest limitation to our understanding. We don't know what we don't know.

What I mean by this is that we thought we understood the body when we understood thermodynamics. The blood pumps through the heart, goes to the brain, nutrients feed the muscles, etc etc.
Then we discovered how electricity works and we thought "oh! of course, it's all electric!" The heart pumps because of electricity, and the nerves are all electric synapses, etc etc.

I fully expect in the future we will look at quantum mechanics and apply that to our understanding of biology (if we aren't doing that yet), and down the rabbit hole we will continue.

That doesn't mean we can't do some incredible things with our current understanding of the brain, I work in neurotech at https://affectablesleep.com, where we are increasing the effectiveness of deep sleep. We know the mechanism we can use to trick the brain to increasing the synchronous firing of neurons which define deep sleep, but we don't know WHY it works.
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It's not that surprising if you consider that all the browsers on that page, except for Firefox and Safari, are Chrome-based
Saudi-owned Scopely buys Pokémon Go in $3.5B gaming deal
I wasn’t able to figure how to make a uv installed python version a global when “python” is called, at least in the current shell, as I need it in CI.
I love thinking about the "what if?" universe where we never figured out semiconductors and transistors, but still had roughly the same level of human progress. Would everything be clockwork like Syberia [1]? Would we have something akin to iPhones but done entirely with electro-mechanical stuff with antennas? I guess this is sort of the appeal of something like Steampunk.

Mechanical calculators are ridiculously cool to me. If I ever become an eccentric billionaire, I really want to buy an original Curta calculator [2], just because I respect the genius and engineering required to design such a thing.

The one in this video is also very cool. Very satisfying to watch all the gears turn at once.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syberia

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta
So far it’s all optional stuff. I think the editor is worth trying purely for how snappy the UI is, whilst not really missing any of the nice major features of VS Code that I actually use. Even without the AI stuff, it is an editor with a lot of potential.
It is true. Deal with it and get over it.

In 10 years, no trace of our current practices will remain in a recognizable form. It'll take longer than most of us think -- imagine how nonplussed Winograd and the rest of the SHRDLU-era AI gurus would have been to see how long it took to pull off the dice-matching trick in the video -- but when it does happen, it'll happen faster than we think. We're not yet at the tipping point, but it's close.
I use Firefox for Container tabs. It’s useful for sites where I can’t have multiple tabs opened to same site but different login. That’s my main reason for sticking to Firefox.
Can confirm this is all true. I used to be the "why should I switch" guy. The productivity improvement from not context switching while pip installs a requirements file is completely worth it.
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> England there are people who fight against those who are trying to restore the forest, because the island

England isn’t an island, it shares land borders with Scotland and Wales.
This was a commercial produced for European television in 2005. Barely anyone even had an HDTV back then. I certainly saw it in standard definition when it aired.
I can’t overstate how much my judgment has improved over the past ten years.
WOW.
Even more incredible?
I’m not done yet.

If I knew then what I know now…
I would have saved myself a whole lot of trouble.
But, alas — such is the way of things.

I suffered so I could learn.

And I wouldn’t have grown if I didn’t suffer.

Suffering creates the desire to heal.

It’s a noble desire.

Because true strength begins with humility.

Why do people seek transformation?
I see it so clearly at the Zen Center.

Why would anyone sit still for seven whole days?

Because good things don’t come easy.

Because we want freedom.

We want to be unburdened from all our pain.

We want a joy that cannot be found in the outside world.

And we work hard for it.
Macromedia's Rich Internet Application (RIA) concept aimed beyond mere navigation, delivering purposeful, desktop-like experiences.
I've worked in two factories in my life. Dairy, and Printing. Dairy was 24/7/365. Printing was (averaging) 20/7/365 (product/layout change, maintenance, cleaning, etc.)

My father was a fireman. Knowing what I know from him, I would never go to work for a factory that they got THOSE massive energy demanding machines that run non-stop and the fuel is ammonia. It is a near-certain death sentence, especially in 'some countries' where safety is 'a bit more relaxed'.
That very well could be what it was. If it had been anything other than:

1. Spotless.

2. Parked right behind Klein's (and by extension, my) house.

3. Skittish, such that they closed the door right after I took the picture and drove off less than a minute later without pulling any gear up out of a manhole or something.

then that's probably what I'd chalk it up to. I am absolutely not 100% convinced it was, say, an undercover NSA van.

And yet, that's exactly what I thought it was from the moment I saw the gear racks and monitors inside.
I would not jump to conclusions so soon.

A) I would question why they would do the effort of still doing surveillance on him

B) if they do, they are usually so smart to keep the door closed

C) like others have mentioned, sewer cleaning comes with a lot of tech (I assume remote controlled machines)
I am willing to believe it was innocuous. The guy already spilled the beans and has been blackballed from government access. Does he require clandestine surveillance any more? Easy enough to get “national security” reasons why all of his devices need to be tapped. More intimidating to have visible GMen watching him for life.
We talk about the internet, disinformation, all kinds of new factors.

But much of the forces driving us towards our current anomie feel like they've been around for a while. Talk Radio has been breeding grounds for extreme discontent & chainsawing for years.

Anyhow, there's such interesting & old material here. How organization loses authentic meaning, disconnects. Leads very directly to Baudrillard, the hyperreal overtaking & disintegrating in meaning.
Deadlines!

Project Management is always disregarded as waste in hacker circles, but figuring out how to move projects forward is a worthwhile role in projects.
He revealed unlawful surveillance years prior to and of the same gravity as Snowden, but only one became a celebrity. I would love to know the reason for that.
I'm seeing Carmen Sandiego in it for some reason, but the modern version (from 2014) has a film noir detective in the same spot (the application icon is still the lady in the hat): https://youtu.be/h-_UNm_gycU?t=94
> Narcan is extremely potent. While our LE and EMTs carry IN (nasal) Narcan, our Medical Director actually prefers us to gently titrate IV Narcan while providing airway management and ventilation. His perspective is that 1) that makes life a lot easier for everyone involved, because sometimes those patients "come up swinging", and 2) there's a hope that if even a few per cent of those patients are gently roused by the time they get to the ER, they may be more willing to consider addiction help.

Sorry, can you explain this a bit more? Why would a patient who wakes up more gently be more willing to consider addiction help?
You can see several examples on this page http://toastytech.com/guis/win31.html that depict an icon with a computer which is almost identical to the one used by putty.

I had to zoom in to verify that it's not the same.
This does look quite close to what I wanted. Thank you. Unfortunately, it also looks to no longer be under development.
You can't fake influence
That's almost definitely just a sewer inspection van; I found videos that company has of "multi-sensor pipeline inspections" with the same van, open, with the same equipment visible, and a bunch of people following a bunch of equipment down into a manhole.
You have a lot of questions, so go to https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/

Some possible answers:

> . Unfortunately I also designed a language with top-level execution and nested functions - neither of which I could come up with a good compilation model for if I wanted to preserve the single-pass, no AST, no IR design of the compiler.

- This is the major PITA of C: Is an actual terrible target for transpilers that have aspirations and sophisticated features like Strings, some decent type system, or whatever. So, your option is to target something that is as close to semantics of your language (Basically, any other language that is not C), to the point where your target is MORE sophisticated than your own lang.

- I think Zig (for speed/apparent simplicity) and Rust could be good targets instead of C (I wish Rust were way faster to compile!). Assuming Zig, it will simplify other aspects like cross compiling

- I don't think is totally possible to avoid have a semi-interpreter for the transpiler, where you at most need a prelude with some hand-crafted functions that do the lifting. With this I mean things like `fn int(I:Int):Int'` so your code output is like `plus(int(1), int(2))`. Langs like APL/J use this for great effects and basically side-step the need for a vm/opcode. (see also: Compiling with closures)
All due respect, but that's the average experience in Arch Linux forums, unfortunately. At least we now have LLMs to RTFM for us.
first ?

https://zero.fortescue.com/en/case-studies/green-pioneer

I dont think so.
What part of CGNAT requires the network address translation to be symmetrical?
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That depends. If the problem has been solved before and the answer is known and it is in the corpus, then it can give you the correct answer without actually executing any code.
Personally, thank you for this awesome work!

I find the ease and intuitiveness of navigating it as well as the clarity of the information presented even for the density of a small window or many columns outstandingly pleasant.

Kudos to you!
Climb buildings? ಠ_ಠ
I love the idea, but GenAI isn't really up to it. The images are awful - like a Hammer Horror/Netflix-does-history vibe, but it's strangely addictive!
Sounds like the guy to trim Intel to be sold in in parts.

Intel engineers: thank you for these amazing machines, for all these years. They shaped many lives. We salute you.
> Wether there is annexion or not, does it make it any better for the dead?

It reduces the number of dead going forward by lowering the upside from wars of conquest.
I'm not in the most common browser and even for me, with a good connection, it took a while to load.
Yea, it's a good thing that since we live in a democracy we'd never elect anyone with bad intentions.

What a silly take.
> As Gauss famously said, there is "no royal road" to mathematical mastery.

This is not the point, but the saying "there is no royal road to geometry" is far older than Gauss! It goes back at least to Proclus, who attributes it to Euclid.
Yes. Then again, there’s Banksy’s take:

> People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. (…)

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/461383-people-are-taking-th...
I could imagine this to become a pastime for curious kids, and parents having nothing against them spending time on it. It still needs development and quality improvements, but that is a direction I could imagine it taking.
Is there a reliable way to, for instance, distrust all FB/Meta certs in my homelab so that any service that attempts to contact them would fail?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43347834
Uv really fixes Python. It takes it from "oh god I have to fight Python again" to "wow it was actually fast and easy".

I think all the other projects (pyenv, poetry, pip, etc.) should voluntarily retire for the good of Python. If everyone moved to Uv right now, Python would be in a far better place. I'm serious. (It's not going to happen though because the Python community has no taste.)

The only very minor issue I've had is once or twice the package cache invalidation hasn't worked correctly and `uv pip install` installed an outdated package until I `uv clean`ed. Not a big deal though considering it solves so many Python clusterfucks.
We benefit from drug dealers too. They bring extra money into the community and they give rappers something to rap about.
1.4M-year-old skull found in Spain earliest human face of Western Europe
This is truly remarkable- one of the best use cases for text-to-video products! Lots of fun with learning aspect
That seems like a justification that is right on the knife's edge of being a self-licking ice cream cone.
The point is that mass domestic surveillance of American nationals violates common understanding of the law. It makes no sense for the requirements to get a wiretap to be so stringent but the requirements to monitor someone's internet traffic to be nonexistent, just because it's laundered through "intelligence gathering" and you argue it's therefore not "law enforcement."
Transcript of Secret Meeting Between Julian Assange and Eric Schmidt (2011)
Add a Bluetooth keyboard, & then the two being separate products becomes a farce.

I love the new MacBook Air's looks, but I can't help but constantly imagine how much better it would be as a detachable, or as a 2-in-1 convertible.

The thing is, the laptop is just a bad format period. Ideally you don't want to be looking just above where you type: good ergonomics requires distance between those two. An elevated tablet with a Bluetooth keyboard is a far far better option.

But Apple has these market segments that prevent actual good from being possible.
"Jewish Onliner is vague about how it uses AI to produce its articles, but the technology is known for making lots of mistakes and hallucinating information that is not true. It is quite possible that Jewish Onliner relied on AI to source information it used to write the article."

I'm not defending the treatment of the activist, but this is a pretty weak criticism of the newspaper.
Brave supports manifest V2 because the Chromium upstream hasn't removed it for enterprise use yet. As soon as that changes, Brave does not have a plan to continue maintaining V2. What you call Google payola is really the independence that allows Mozilla to develop a browser engine that isn't being actively crippled by Google's initiatives. That's the important piece. Brave is not a sustainable play because they have no way to fund a forked version of the chromium browser engine when Google inevitably cripples it to invade our privacy even further.
shitiest ux pattern ever
> times 0.769 kg/m^3 density at STP

The ship's tank is not at STP. The ammonia inside it is pressurized into a liquid.
> Do the people in Zambia deserve an open, equitable web any less than Americans or Europeans do?

They deserve an open, equitable web as much as we all do. I'm afraid that Mozilla's tendencies to waste money on such projects instead of using it to improve their main product aren't helping though.
There is just one screenshot and you can’t do anything without signing up.
If you want a deeper understanding of how rainbows work, this incredible video on the Veritasium channel is a delight!

https://youtu.be/24GfgNtnjXc
Haha, "Mozilla, please commit suicide". Whatever they're currently doing is fine. They've succeeded in their aim and now they're searching for a new thing to target affiliated with their space given their revenue numbers. Pretty logical thing to do for them. Good luck to Mozilla.
oh man what a trip down memory lane that was!!! I haven't seen win3.1 for sooooooo long.. thank you for the link and the trip!
Probably not because it's more gentle in itself. More that the experience isn't immediately "antagonistic" with law enforcement presence, the sudden rush of being brought out of the narcotic stupor (well, respiratory depression), in a often less-than-ideal environment.

To be very real, most people that we get to the ER and they take over bringing up the Narcan until that respiratory drive kicks back in (kinda a sleepy morning wakeup feeling), will still AMA and leave. But some may consider or talk about it a bit. And maybe there's a more positive longer term outcome.
I say this without intending to denigrate Snowden at all: Klein's situation was less messy. Snowden had a top secret clearance and vowed to safeguard all the secrets he came across. Klein was just a regular guy doing regular work for a regular company when he saw something strange. That doesn't mean I think Snowden was wrong, just that there's a ton of room for people to say "I agree with him but he shouldn't have done that because he swore not to". Klein didn't have those obligations.
We don't have that, and didn't need it for SOC2.

(We have other ways of tracking prod changes, but our auditors don't know anything about them.)
Also ambiguous would be sympathy for this but not for the many private citizens called out publicly on social media by platform owners and government officials for the express purpose of risking those citizens' safety, especially since most citizens don't have the secret service and endless taxpayer money to protect them.
> funding is the string simply because it can be taken away

Endow a working group under Fraunhofer [1]. Their product is simply and solely a browser engine. Nothing more.

[1] https://www.fraunhofer.de/en.html
I live in a country where there is no way to pay for YT Premium or any other Google service. I'd be glad to pay if there was an option.
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My hope is that one day there is a Rainbolt for Time Portal. For someone like that to exist, the game has to be hard. That said, I agree the scoring could definitely use some improvement!
>with such good json support in the most popular SQL databases

Wait, was that the reason people were doing NoSQL? JSON support? I thought it was about sharding, write scalability, etc.
I didn't know that UV would now edit the script for you. That is just icing on the cake!

For the curious, the format is codified here: https://peps.python.org/pep-0723/
It involves math at a research level, but from what I've observed, people in industry with engineering job titles make relatively little use of math. They will frequently tell you with that sheepish smile: "Oh, I'm not really a math person." Students are told with great confidence by older engineers that they'll never use their college math after they graduate.

Not exactly AI by today's standards, but a lot of the math that they need has been rolled into their software tools. And Excel is quite powerful.
Kepler's Impossible Equation [video]
A lot of cell networks won't work with STUN. I've tried in personal projects to have a home computer with wifi communicate through a stun server to a mobile device using mobile data. It don't work.
the air being pushed out/around from aircraft engines probably.

most running engines produce some low freqs, and also slow-rotational things.. like cars' wheels thumping on streets and roughnesses there.. esp. thousands of those. And then combinations of almost same freqs produce very low differentials - something on 50hz and another on 53hz will yield some 3hz. Which cannot be heard, it's to be felt.

Another similar silence happens if one is in a street/ suburb/ block-of-flats full of airconditioners-on-walls when the power goes off.
Canada also has an English vs French problem that cannot be resolved at this point.
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I was excited by the title until I saw it was all AI :(

It would’ve been cool to collect actual images from history. I’m sure there are 1000s of public domain images that could be used.
I thinkbhe's a better writer than speaker, but I suspect if I'd seen him speak first I'd have it the other way around.

I love all his Usenix articles and they always cheer me up if I'm having a grumpy day at work.
I mean, unless you work in software or extremely high-budget movies, Linux is a pretty tough sell.

A lot of the "mainstream" apps simply do not exist on Linux. LibreOffice isn't so bad, but most people simply want Microsoft Office. Lightworks is decent software, but most people want Adobe Premiere. Gimp is alright but most people want Photoshop, etc.

This isn't to say that Linux software "worse", I actually like Lightworks more than Premiere, and there are some applications that are competitive with the "brand name" applications like Krita, but "having good software available" is only half the battle. People get used to certain workflows, and if Linux doesn't support that workflow most people aren't going to think it's worth it to switch over.

I do work in software, and I run NixOS, and I like it a lot, since programming tools on Linux are generally very good (especially if you work in server-land like I do). I'm just saying that I don't really blame people who don't want to switch over.
Sound Mirrors that protected Britain before Radar
Hamilton Ulmer was involved in both. Back when Twitter was a thing it was really cool to follow his process.