skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our balance of powers works that way, it's not a novel concept that was just invented. The president does not have some special power because he won the electoral college election, majority of voters, plurality or whatever. He still has to follow the rule of law, he still has to obey court orders. If the president does some action that a federal judge rules was illegal, then they can stop it. This is completely ordinary and every president faces this, Biden, Trump 1, Bush2, Reagan etc.
Life is already an analog computer running on hardware (the universe). You could be correct that if life is using the hardware to the fullest extent, simulating it again would you a horrendous double virtualization penalty.

We could already be living under that same double virt penalty.

I think we have an outsized focus on free will, partly because free will is a trick played on us by evolution. It takes an exorbitant amount of effort to exercise anything close to what most people would consider free will and the phase lag is measured in hours if not years.
Service to others is certainly something that fills people’s cups and sometimes the best way to serve is to offer your expertise in whatever domain it may be.
So, in such an org, how do you prevent bus factor 1 problems?
> They want me to do their work for them. During the Covid lockdown, faculty bent over backwards in every way we knew how to accommodate students during an unprecedented (in our lifetimes) health crisis. Now students expect that as a matter of routine. I am frequently asked for my PowerPoint slides, which basically function for me as lecture notes. It is unimaginable to me that I would have ever asked one of my professors for their own lecture notes. No, you can’t have my slides. Get the notes from a classmate. Read the book. Come to office hours for a conversation if you are still confused after the preceding steps. Last week I had an email from a student who essentially asked me to recap an entire week’s worth of lecture material for him prior to yesterday’s midterm. No, I’m not doing that. I’m not writing you a 3000-word email. Try coming to class.

I dunno man. Not writing a 3000 word email is one thing, but if you make a power point an then don't share it electronically, it smells like you are cajoling students to attend your lectures in order to stroke your ego. These people are paying a lot of money to attend your course; if they feel that they would get more value out of looking at your power point without attending your lectures that is not something that should be sneered away. Both as an undergraduate student and a graduate TA I was always very put off by this kind of high-handed bullying instructors would engage in to juice attendance of their courses. Just teach well and evaluate accurately. That's what they're paying you for. They're not paying for you to harass them into being at some inconvenient place at a particular time every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
If the economy grows by 2.5% a year but the wealthiest grows by 9% a year, where is the money coming from.
There are some machines that add some encrypted metadata to the image, which can be used as an attestation that the picture was taken with that machine, and it wasn't modified. E.g. search for Leica M11-P (Actually I have no idea if there are any others... if not, I guess there will be)
Mandatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2608/
https://archive.is/HvY9Y
It's bizarre that someone claiming to be an English teacher doesn't grasp why people started and stopped reading. Your role existed solely to legitimize the print media industry and shall quietly disappear with its demise. You aren't special, nothing you do matters. Give up.
Maybe it's just me, but I find the argument that "Americans won't do X cool thing that Europeans/the rest of the world do because they [are dumb/are corrupt/love money/hate each other/believe in American exceptionalism]" to be a very cynical and lazy argument. Note that the person I was replying to was talking about policies and goals like UHC and High Speed Rail, not specifically about fluoridated water – that was the context in which I was replying.
They have, at Exoscale. My officemate leads the team doing it.
this is just downright false unless a transfer occurred or you are trying to get into a venue's pavilion, and security's being extra detailed.

source: literally seen quite a few hundreds of concerts.
> There's also no guarantee that a binary produced today on Linux will even work on the various distributions of Linux today due to the same installed library version problem.

On Linux, you are supposed to share the source code, not the binaries. FOSS source is easier to fix than a binary blob. This is why the FSF exists.
This kind of bothsidesing is either hopelessly naive, intellectually lazy or a deliberate attempt to minimize right-wing violence by falsely claiming the "left" is just as bad.

What conservative ideas do we "need" exactly?

there is no compromising with fascism. We are quite literally black-bagging people and unlawfully deporting them and/or putting them in camps, some in our country, some in third-party nations like El Salvador. What's the compromise here? Only black-bag half as many people?

Also, in the US in particular, there is functionally no "left". Everyone is a neoliberal and we have two parties: the center-right Democrats and the far-right Republicans who both defend American imperialism and domestic and foreign capitalist exploitation, who only differ on inconsequential "social" issues.

> In the end we all have a the same goal

No, we don't. The goal of our political establishment is to further concentrate wealth in the hands of the already ultra-wealthy and further impoverish the working class.

You still enjoy a lot of benefits that the left fought for and the right bitterly opposed: weekends, a 40 hour working week, vacations, job safety, Social Security, Medicare and so on. The right wants to literally do away with all of those things.

The core organizing principle of the American right is cruelty. It's exacting revenge on their perceived enemies, be they immigrants, trans people, queer people, women or black and brown people.
Why not educate the users about the dangers misuse and abuse lead to the attention span, instead of banning things?

I vaguely recall too students back in the era where our biggest distraction was MSN messenger and our university forums. They kept both off until late at night.

We're letting people experience the downsides of the attention economy when it's almost (if not entirely) too late to avoid the negatives.
Yes!!! That's why I would ban just the "addiction-optimized psychological experiments".

I would also ban them globally, not just for kids but like I'm sure that would be a whole 'nother discussion.
I can’t find the exact citation at the moment, but I believe that American students were described as viewing the education process as transactional in a wider sense by Max Weber in 1905 (Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism I think?)
Their annual report, and their advertiser platform doesn’t really back up whatever it is you are implying here.

I would be incredibly surprised to find that reddits officers are willing to risk life ruining fines to lie in their filings about this.
Or they just take the more nuanced JS Mill view that free speech is about truth and not simply about being able to say whatever you want without any consequences. Being offensive for the sake of being offensive has nothing to do with finding truth, so isn't perceived as a question of free speech.
I didn't know forgejo existed and I have been using gitlab ce which is getting more and more difficult to deal with for just home use. All of a sudden I see that I am no longer getting minor updates because my debian version isn't the latest and during my last update it broke the db again.

forgejo seems to have everything I need including CI pipeline and container registry so I am definitely going to give it a try before trying to update gitlab.
Ah okay, so they wrote a strongly worded letter that said they couldn't confirm it was disinformation but that it had the signs of a disinformation campaign? So, they didn't threaten punishment or coerce these companies into doing it? Is that correct? You also didn't address the part where Republicans submitted many similar "censorship" requests that they had to keep a special database.

> "We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not, and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement—just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case," the letter said.[0]

> called up Twitter in the early morning hours of
September 9, 2019, officials had what they believed was a serious issue to report:
Famous model Chrissy Teigen had just called President Donald Trump “a pussy ass
bitch” on Twitter — and the White House wanted the tweet to come down.[1]

> That exchange — revealed during Wednesday’s House Oversight Committee hearing
on Twitter by Rep. Gerry Connolly — and others like it are nowhere to be found in
Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files” releases, which have focused almost exclusively on
requests from Democrats and the feds to the social media company. The newly
empowered Republican majority in the House of Representatives is now devoting significant resources and time to investigating this supposed “collusion” between
liberal politicians and Twitter.[1]

[0]: https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000175-4393-d7aa-af77-579f9...

[1]: https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/115286/documents/...
If you read the Final Scientific Integrity Policy, included towards the bottom is the statement:

"and under “Protecting Scientific Processes,” a statement noting that early termination of extramural awards is prohibited except under certain specific circumstances."

Clearly, this is not a policy that the current administration commits to.
> But there’s a difference between schematics and an operating manual. “We know the wiring; we don’t know the dynamics,” Cohen said.

They have the architecture, but can't read the weights and biases as it were? I was under the impression that they somehow mapped the activations, but if not then they're really just flying blind.
Docker Model Runner (With Apple Silicon GPU Acceleration)
It doesn't take any energy to maintain a static magnetic field though.
Imagine a massive planet spinning in empty vacuum. Can the inhabitants slow down their planet, and generate electricity?

I suspect that they can generate electricity with angular momentum with it, that can be only used to do work with the equivalent angular momentum.
There was a decent science fiction serris based on this premise:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/700919.Signal_to_Noise

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/737628.A_Signal_Shattere...
> There, the phone addiction crisis solved.

I think you're putting too much emphasis on The Algorithm. It's a problem, and I agree it's probably the worst offender, but similar problems were observed decades ago with children (and adults...) allowed to watch too many hours of uninterrupted TV. Cutting back to chronological feeds might improve some things but I don't think that's the root of the issue.

I would suggest the primary difference between then and now is accessibility. As a kid, my screen time was limited not just by my parents indulgence but the social pressure from using a shared device. Smart phones let you carry your personal distraction with you.

I agree they are a wonderful invention but I'm not sure grade school students need to be connecting to anyone, anywhere throughout the entire school day.
What’s the latest in Forgejo vs. Gitea?
I can imagine, this is a fairly regular exchange here in America.
You're not wrong, many students approach college as a vocational training facility. I'd say they do want to learn, but the focus is on "learning to get a job".

If you're lucky (and I was) at some point you understand that it's not about the material, it's about the process.

Research, assimilate, question, formulate, communicate.

These skills, and the understanding of how to use them, are the real goal -the material is just there to keep your interest.

Yes, obviously, if you are going into chemistry then learn chemistry and so on. But round out your course with other things. Oceanography can give you insight to computer science, literature can promote better communication.

Alas a large number of folks will leave college and never grasp the real value of why they were there. That's OK. The world needs workers.

But if you are at college now, or perhaps going soon, try and see beyond the next assignment. Try and see the process which underlies it.

Most of all college is there to teach you to think. So stop doing for just a moment and start thinking.

Once you see behind the curtain you can't unsee it. And ironically even if I tell you it's there, I can't make you look. Experience doesn't work like that.
Mint is one you'll often see recommended for older folks, for good reason. The Cinnamon desktop is simple and familiar to Windows users and it has good compatibility. The only real gotcha is being based on Debian (like Ubuntu), so packages will be somewhat out of date, but for browsing and printing and whatnot that's not really an issue.

Anecdotally my experience with printing on Linux has actually been smoother than Windows in recent years, but we're talking about printers here so YMMV.
Until they go bust and then are bought at fire sale prices
Musk is an idiot who hires people a lot smarter than him. Every company he has he bought and succeeds only to the extent that he leaves it alone.
I've already read one where some weird alien ants hollow out the earth to make it spin faster, and take advantage of the increase in speed to generate power somehow (maybe by building a geostationary conductive belt around the planet, that acts as the "stator"?)
Ah yes, the Battlestar Galactica theory of life's origins on earth
Walks, Vibes, and Code: Vibe Coding a GPX Viewer and iOS HealthKit Exporter
That's part of it, but the author acknowledges that college has been transactional for quite a while. What has exacerbated the issue was COVID and the rise of extremely potent, addictive social media. I wouldn't be surprised if we look back on social media as the digital equivalent of children drinking and smoking weed, i.e. something that causes permanent damage to one's brain.
No, otherwise Mars would have a magnetic field just like Earth.
Change. One. Thing. At. A. Time
Hi everyone, this was my first attempt at writing an emulator. I went with the Chip 8 cause it seemed to be the easiest one. I then used tiny.js to manage some aspects of the display; I was trying to emulate that glow from an old monitor
This project seems a bit funny to me. Cell level simulation is the current bottleneck of the project, why would we not start at the cellular level, and then move up to multicellular organisms? Of course this ultimately leads to the question, can we truly simulate anything if we can’t simulate at the quantum level?(at scale) It would be quite profound to find out that we can fully simulate complex life while abstracting the lower levels, if that were the case, maybe we don’t need them either! Good riddance to all those quantum conundrums (;
Actually I think that's a great observation! I hadn't thought of that one. But Facebook, open AI, Google, Microsoft have even more money than musk and I'm sure they wont allow that.
Eric Nylund's books are uniformly excellent, even (perhaps surprisingly) the Halo tie-ins
> Why not educate the users about the dangers misuse and abuse lead to the attention span, instead of banning things?

Because social media is precisely in the short term benefit x long term risk that human brains are bad at conceptualizing. Same reasons for why we mandate belts in cars.
This looks wonderful to use. Is there video playback?

I’ve been thinking lots about the YouTube algorithm, how it’s based on engagement, not educational value, and how it’s such a huge missed opportunity for our kids.

So I’ve been building my own YouTube exploration app, for my own kids.

Email me if you’re interested in testing.

jim.jones1@gmail.com
2x is basically no safe margin for something like water. Of course you can question the quality of the study, but if it's actually 2x, fluoride in tap water should be treated like lead pipes.
"Meeting" is what the Quakers call "church".
"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things."
-- Douglas Adams
NB. The term "schizo" and "normie" are the parent commenter's choice of words, not mine. Hence each is in quotes. No reference to actual, medically-diagnosed mental illness is made; I presumed the parent commenter's terms are simply another attempt to divide internet users into groups. This "us" and "them" perspective, e.g., "technical" and "non-technical", "schizo" and "normie", etc., as silly as it is, pervades a majority of HN comments.
That assumes that they are using the telemetry to create a better product for the user rather than the developer.
I've used this guide [1] to help me understand the instructions.

1 - https://tobiasvl.github.io/blog/write-a-chip-8-emulator
> What has changed exactly? Chronic absenteeism. As a friend in Sociology put it, “Attendance is a HUGE problem—many just treat class as optional.” Last semester across all sections, my average student missed two weeks of class.

My brother and I graduated from university a little over 4 years ago and we were both top students (he studied music and I studied applied math). There were classes where he and I (without exaggeration) skipped more than 90% of the lectures.

I understand that some professors view this as disrepsectful, but when your lectures consist of simply reading off the lecture notes that you're going to upload online anyway, lectures become a waste of time that could be better spent with more studying on our own.
Thanks for the link. I've heard of Anbernic, but didn't know they had one that's the same design as the GBA
Why do we need this myth of things working in the past? It didn't work and was a horror show. This is bordering on the absurd "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" logic that doesn't ever really work outside the heros journey and action movies.
Clojure's loop/recur is specifically tail recursion like scala's tailrec or the optimization described in the blogpost. It doesn't use trampolines to enable tail calls that aren't tail recursion.
from the literal posted article:

> Worse is the resistance to original thought. What I mean is the reflexive submission of the cheapest cliché as novel insight.

what a world we live in...
Just use hypercore with hyperdrive. And be free!
curl | sh is an abhorrent practice and should never be used.
Reminds me of a glorious question from undergraduate physics:

Calculate the change in the length of the Earth's day if the UK were to switch to vehicles driving on the right-hand side of the road rather than the left..
FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado
I will leave them to those interested in trading their attention in lieu of money.
I think it’s good in the sense of things that are positively affecting others’ lives.
Call me old fashioned, but I don't think it'd be that bad for schools to be almost completely analog. Obviously not for classes like CS, but do math class es or English classes really need computers? The whole "digital learning" push feels like it hasn't resulted in significantly better learning than with a book, pen, and paper.
To be honest my interviewers couldn’t sound less interested when I told them about my thoughts on Camus' Caligula and my love-hate relationship with Livy's History of Rome when I applied for jobs, same when I applied for PhDs.

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Similar things happened when I try to quote Dijkstra and "Out of the Tarpit" during coding interviews. I then started to quote Uncle Bob and they start to understand more. I am not sure people care about reading. Mind you this was the new grad job market.
I don't believe you can choose to make good (whatever that means) things. You can certainly choose not to try, but choosing to try and believing you'll succeed is a recipe for disappointment in my opinion. All you can do is make a sincere effort at whatever you choose to do and the world will decide if it's good or not.
You have a great point about finding cost efficiencies - there was a time cloud was cheaper.

Maybe it's an understanding that doesn't change because the decision makers were non-techincal people (when finance oversees IT despite not understanding it)

Virtualizing and then sharing a dedicated server as a VPS was a big step forward.

Only, hardware kept getting cheaper and faster, as well as internet.
We have those, too.
Yes. It's even possible to guarantee that any image comes unmodified from the camera
Truth is not considered a defense to the crime of "causing offense" in the UK. Besides, the official standard of what's considered to be "truth" as opposed to "misinformation" is often skewed in ways that are entirely self-serving.
> The dominance of Windows is crazy, even today, Mac desktops and laptops are comparatively niche

I was actually surprised that macOS/Linux/ChromeOS together are >20% of all desktop/laptops. I would have expected Microsoft machines to be closer to 90% than 80%.
You're welcome.

If you are interested in more background on biological brains, c.elegans is really just "the very first breakthrough" (in the phraseology of Max Bennett's A Brief History Of Intelligence -- a recent, worthwhile popular science book).
If it takes talking to them to get discounts, might as well look at all the options and get the real discount of not being on the cloud.
How to radicalize a generation, in just a few easy steps.
Burying the waste is an excellent solution. We are currently dealing with the much more dangerous problem of hydrocarbon combustion waste by releasing it into the atmosphere.
Too bad all European spaceports seem to be so awkwardly placed for the purpose of spectating launches. Main one in one of the most remote areas of jungle in the world, there's one in Sweden (been focusing on suborbital launches) far to the north where only moose live, now this. Americans are really lucky in that regard.
Computers from my childhood wouldn't fit in my bedroom but I did bring punchcards home.
Raising Kids to Have an Analog Childhood in a Digital World
Used it to learn RDMA, needed to do it for my job and it really helped me to divide topic into easier concepts. Cool stuff!
I really dislike this idea that social media is somehow to blame. It's too superficial.

Right-wing hate speech dominates social media because it's the normative position of our society. All of that existed long before social media. The only reason people think otherwise is probably because they were too young to observe it.

Segregation only officially ended ~60 years ago. Even after that we have had, and even continue to have, economic segregation.

Slavery might've been officially abolished ~160 years ago but it exists to this day in the form of convict leasing.

Queer people were criminalized and persecuted up until the late 20th century.

Women only really gained bodily autonomy in the 1960s and 1970s (and lost some of it in 2022).

Social media simply reflects how popular all of these ideas still are.