skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Let’s hope that one of them was, “Australia should be a republic”"

Not that far from where I live at the intersection of two busy roads there used to be a tall concrete Besser block wall with spray-painted graffiti scrawled on it in large black lettering which read:

"The Australian people are bloody-minded sheep."

The truly remarkable thing about the graffiti was that in over 20 years no one covered it up or spray-painted over it. (And it would have been easy as there was a bus stop right nearby with easy pedestrian access.)

The wall has gone now as it has made way for apartments (I had always meant to photograph it but had never gotten around to doing so). :(

Two observations: that no one had bothered to tamper with the message or paint over it (and, say, the Council could easily have, it being on a public thoroughfare and that removing graffiti was a policy) says something rather profound in that amongst the population there's a general acceptance of the fact.

Second, the Australian electorate is remarkably politically conservative. With the exception of a few minor instances, it has never done anything radical and that's essentially been the case right back to federation in 1901 (that was when Australia became an independent state after Britain gave it its Independence).

Thus, as a nation, Australia has always kowtowed to Britain and after WWII it has done so with the US.

When a law is enacted in Australia one can bet top dollar that it's already been enacted in Britain or more latterly the US (but to a lesser extent). Originality doesn't exist in Australia's political DNA.

That's why Australia is part of the Five Eyes agreement, without Britain and the US it'd behave like a lost child at a country fair.

Trouble is everyone knows it, especially so the Chinese who've essentially enslaved the country economically.
There are a couple sticky notes programs that appear to be in the Ubuntu repos at least. I guess it isn't "built in" in the sense that it comes pre-installed on install disk, but it would be installed in the same way as any other first-party software.
Well I added "wherever" as a catchall - public is pretty much public. And there's a chain issue - if you ban country A, but not country B, and A is allowed to connect to B, then A can still find a path through to you - it's all just one network with a near infinite number of paths.
> If you can physically drive 50+ mph down a street signed for 25 mph then whoever built the road may have been thoughtful but they certainly weren't thinking about safety.

Here's a nearby example road: https://www.google.com/maps/search/39.20251909603638,+-76.82...

We have regular speed bumps. They drive 50+mph, slow down, go over them, and then accelerate back up to 50+mph like it's NASCAR or something.
"...If so, the good times won’t last forever."

"...Don’t panic. Even if our vacuum is only metastable, given its staying power so far, it will probably last for billions of years more."

Ooph, such a wild ride an article!

No wonder a participating scientist, as mentioned, has worked himself to a disturbing need to seek therapy.

Reading this, it seems that the science is very comfy operating with time concept as we know it, projecting its flow into the 'billions of years' into the future. Time as a sole witness to truth and to the human struggle to comprehend its own destiny. But could this time too be a temporary or a even dynamic state or even a dimension itself?
You jest but a fluorinated hydrocarbon is probably particularly well suited for the task
pipenv is the only thing I use at work (in production!) and it's excellent - for at least 2 years now.

We don't have problems with builds, and we do not have trouble updating packages (unlike trying to upgrade requirements.txt manually). We also have the ability to include dev packages (like black) without having to ship them into production.

I don't understand the animosity.
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Do not forget to add in the cost of a new battery replacement as these "refurbished" phones come with worn out batteries....
My experience is pretty much the same. This is nothing new, too, since I have been using Gnome on and off since about 20 years ago. From confusing UI dialogs or elements, to the continuous reduction of changeable settings (and replacement of those by some dubious defaults), almost everything makes me think that even Windows 11 has a better UI/UX than Gnome

On my personal laptop I switched from Xfce to KDE a while ago and never looked back. The experience is just so much better IMHO
We lost common access to the means that were used to communicate earlier. For example, anonymous and unrevocable access to the phone network used to exist in the form of payphones, which are being phased out.
> your chargeback becomes a claim against the bankrupt airline and you'll get something or nothing, depending on how much is left in the airline.

No, you get your money back, and the bank now has a claim against the airline.

I haven't been through this exact scenario in my life, but I've been in plenty of non-delivery situations, however, I can't make a good faith claim that they were flat-out chargebacks, because on all of the cards that I made the purchases with, purchase protection or insurance was a listed benefit, namely on the Amex Platinum.

But there must be a card with similar chargeback benefits that's available to everyone in basically every EU country.

Nevertheless, there are plenty of opportunities to get your money back in such a situation.
There are mods which heavily optimize the java client performance, these would have a greater effect than just ahead-of-time compilation. For instance, the modpack at https://github.com/Fabulously-Optimized/fabulously-optimized packages several of these performance mods together (see https://github.com/Fabulously-Optimized/fabulously-optimized... for the list).
Eyeballing the results, DALL-E is clearly the winner particularly with the weirder requests, although it (on purpose) won't generate real people. Stable Diffusion is still pretty good and less censored, while Midjourney is often poor quality or straight up wrong -- occasionally in amusing ways (see "shark eating a cheeseburger"), but clearly not following the prompt.
When is the last time the government has been held accountable to the people?
> It can be an effective way to handle unwanted interactions from accounts you do not want to engage with,” Twitter says on a help page.

"unwanted interactions from accounts" --- when did people become accounts?
Damn, This stuff is interesting.
Back in the Depression, my grandfather and a friend posted an ad. It claimed to be a medical laboratory who needed cats for an experiment, and offering $0.25 per cat if people would bring their cats to the local train station at whatever time.

Of course there were no lab representatives waiting at the appointed time, so lots of people just dumped their cats (or perhaps they were feral cats that they rounded up?) at the train station. The neighborhood was infested with them for some time after that.

Unusually for gramps, he actually proved that this particular story was true. He actually had a newspaper clipping that told the story.
I wonder if that is part of the reason @jack is no longer the CEO
I believe for iMessage it is actually uninstalled. Unless apple goes through the trouble of actually faking an uninstall option / screen.
Thanks a lot for the information!!

But for now, as my Finnish is still very poor (but I'm learning), I rely a lot on the Helsinki Times to get news about Finland.
Have you tried clicking the Instagram logo at the top left lately? It should open a drop-down menu where you can pick “following”, though I’m not sure if this has rolled out to everyone yet.
So..Suckers. Got it.
> Just massively raise the odds that the thing that displaces facebook is also owned by facebook.

Nah. Buy the good ones early enough.
I guess with "1K" they mean 1080p, because then it'd suddenly make sense. I'd be really curious who made the mistake of calling it "1K".
A lot of the TikTok users that I follow are now getting sponsored to do ads as part of their regular content, and I will typically watch it because I am interested in the person and therefore interested in how they execute an advertisement. Win/win/win.
Sales pitch: "An Apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Watch your kids thrive and develop healthy habits".

As you can tell, I'm not an ad person.
> I am 99% sure SQLite is going to win unless you actually care about data durability at power loss time.

SQLite will handle a power loss just fine.

From https://www.sqlite.org/howtocorrupt.html:

"An SQLite database is highly resistant to corruption. If an application crash, or an operating-system crash, or even a power failure occurs in the middle of a transaction, the partially written transaction should be automatically rolled back the next time the database file is accessed. The recovery process is fully automatic and does not require any action on the part of the user or the application."

From https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html:

"Crash testing seeks to demonstrate that an SQLite database will not go corrupt if the application or operating system crashes or if there is a power failure in the middle of a database update. A separate white-paper titled Atomic Commit in SQLite describes the defensive measure SQLite takes to prevent database corruption following a crash. Crash tests strive to verify that those defensive measures are working correctly.

It is impractical to do crash testing using real power failures, of course, and so crash testing is done in simulation. An alternative Virtual File System is inserted that allows the test harness to simulate the state of the database file following a crash."
>Startup are a none issue

Yes it is. Developing any short term job -- that runs multiple seconds and goes away -- like lambda or k8s jobs with Java is meaningless for exactly this reason. The startup time is longer than the run time.
Amazon fails to overturn New York City union election
Have you considered getting legal insurance? Here in the Netherlands they are €10-15 a month, and in these times of chatbots, shady webshops and all kinds of services failing, they are sure to pay themselves out.
They went to where the people they wanted to communicate with were, and communicated with them.

The people they want to communicate with have all moved to social media.

Before the Internet, there were systems in place for public discourse. Most of them have been dismantled. In the 1970s or 1980s, you read or wrote letters to the editor (now nonexistent or ignored), subscribed to specialty publications (all moved to social media), attended physical meetings (now organized mostly over social media if they happen at all). You might even have literally gone down to the public square to see what people had posted or were saying there (but nobody's posting or speaking now, because nobody's listening, because they've all moved to social media).

If you build a new public square, and everybody abandons the old one, you don't get to forbid soapboxing in the new one because the old one is "still available".

... and formal "board meetings" and one-to-one communication are NOT what is meant by public discourse.
Is there a way to encode all of them into base64 or another format that would allow serialization of everything into one bundle?
I ran OSX on QEMU/KVM on a Ryzen emulated to be an IceLake Intel cpu and got close to ~90%+ performance of my native machine according to geekbench.

So my QEMU OSX instance got better performance than a Mac Pro max, very well near the top ~5 scores for macs in geekbench.

Props
Microsoft, Activision Blizzard have days to show merger won't harm competition
"You have every right to go protest in that empty square over there."
> allowing for doctors to check in on their patients and replace either the batteries or the pacemakers themselves

I cynically read this as "we needed to get more money out of these patients"
NoSQL was very popular at that time.
5 seems young. But we did allow my daughter an Apple Watch when she turned 10. Not letting her have a full smartphone just yet.
People don't realize that once they're done coming after "them" they're coming after you.
I think the EFFs efforts to support adjacent groups is awesome and completely inline with their goals.
Thanks for pointing this out.
I'm just imaginging trying to explain to TSA that this is the reason their radiological alarms are going off...
A Minecraft server is not a short term job.
> But I'm also glad that the GNOME folks have decided to chart a different path even when that results in the occasional (or not-so-occasional) design misstep

I would agree with this if GNOME also didn't treat their own technologies as an all-or-nothing scenario. One of the biggest problems I have is that GNOME is genuinely incapable of admitting when they're wrong; to a lesser extent with stuff like implementing EGLStream in GBM, and to a larger extent things like ignoring tickets because they don't fit their personal agenda. I'd argue that GNOME's development philosophy is what's holding back technologies like Wayland, Flatpak and even PipeWire. Their refusal to make modest concessions in the name of usability end up whittling down their desktop environment to little more than an iPad. They're welcome to design whatever they want, but forcing everyone else to jump through their hoops and threatening downstream vendors is simply not a good look.
It may interest you to know that the guy you are replying to is Julius “zeekill” Kivimaki of Lizard Squad fame.
Xcel smart thermostat users lose their cool after power company locks them out
I will not go into the specifics of ideology or politics, but I will point out that I think your statements are valid but ignore the current reality.

Consider "Parler":

- They were trying to cater to users who were banned from twitter.

- They set up services using AWS. AWS Banned them.

- They built their own infrastructure to get around the ban.

- Google/Apple banned them from their mobile devices so no user could use them.

I think the current reality is a bit more complicated than it used to be. Or should be. Perhaps.
> for keeping in touch when they start school

Do you mean generally once they’re school aged or while at school? I can’t see a reason a child at school would need to keep in touch with parents while at school. I don’t think I had to call home ever in 14 years of schooling.
We just need AI to judge the competitions, then we have gone full circle.
> sudo snap install --classic gnome-info-collect

I was tempted to install it but it's a snap on Ubuntu. I don't really like that Canonical is pushing snap so much. Hopefully it will go the way of Unity but it will take too long for me. I'm considering to switch to a different distribution, Debian derived.
For the statutory eu compensation you didn’t need to hire anyone, the process is super easy, the airline by law has to have the form online, you submit it, and if they don’t answer in 3 weeks you file the complaint with the faa equivalent in the country you were traveling to, and let the airline know.

I had to do it with Icelandair, and once I told them I had filed a complaint with the government they started answering emails.

It took like 2 months from start to finish, but I got it.
> Minecraft Bedrock edition runs better. It has feature parity but is not compatible with java server, and requires a new purchase IIRC.

That's no longer the case. If you have one, you can "purchase" the other for free. See https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/java---bedrock-editi... and https://help.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/6657208607501 for details.

Also, there are mods for the Java server which allow both Java and Bedrock clients to connect to the same server and play together. I don't know the details, but I have played in a server which used these mods.
Coinbase Users Across Georgia Milk Price Bug for 100x Profit
It can be. Then again, if you're using an Nvidia machine you'll be treated to random segfaults on GNOME regardless of which driver you use. The reason for this is simply because they never wrote a proper Mutter backend for Nvidia, which doesn't really confer "just works" to me.
Zionism started way before WWI
TikTok is just AI/ML engagement algorithms unleashed, they never gave into the backlash that YouTube and Facebook did after the 2016 election and just continued optimizing purely for engagement metrics.

US tech companies dumbed down their own content algorithms and are somehow shocked that they are now getting destroyed. Social media is a drug, TikTok is providing the purest form right now
We have regular speed bumps. The cars accelerate back up to 50+mph right after driving over them.
Disclaimer: I work on the GraalVM team.

The students "measured noticeable reductions in terms of memory footprint of up to 43%" [1] in some preliminary experiments. More from the accompanying blog post:

"We also hope that the Minecraft community builds on our work and helps benchmark different configurations for native Minecraft servers in more detail and in larger settings."

Please feel free to share any numbers on CPU/memory usage with us!

[1] https://medium.com/graalvm/native-minecraft-servers-with-gra...
There's only one company legally producing TEL anymore plus few doing so illegally in China. If as GAMI claims all supplies to make G100UL are available in every refinery handling commercial fuels... That's going to be a possible investment goals for everyone across the world just to get rid of Innospec as supplier
I'm not sure what you mean by implementation of TLS. It's just standard Java TLS libraries, though of course we can be pretty strict about which ciphers are in use - we do control the client to that extent and are typically pretty good about keeping on top of that at least.
Isn't it legal to fire an employee who speaks against their company?
> My theory has been that people have been conditioned out of posting to Instagram (if you don't have a literally perfect life, then why post) and as a result Instagram just has less content to draw upon. I think this effort to chase TikTok isn't going to pan out because "regular" people aren't posting to Instagram.

This is a good observation. From my IG acquaintances too, it seems that only those with instagrammable lives are the ones still posting. The guy who does scenic hikes, the girl who goes to the exciting parties, those with perfect bodies. The occasional wedding or graduation photo. Many others have stopped posting pictures completely or sporadically post photos.
I'm curious, where did this happen?
I live in a city that's been defunded by economic circumstance. There are simply not enough blue bodies to harass people over the petty stuff. The cops focus on violent crime and drug trafficking because staffing levels are low enough that there is a sufficient amount of "resume enhancing" crime like that to satisfy the needs of the department. Playing with MRAPs, harassing the citizenry on a hunch and perving through people's location data for no good reason is what departments that are well staffed enough to have idle hours do. Make no mistake, this is not a great environment to be a cop. You look at the department demographics and it's basically the young guys who will be up and out and being managed by a few old guys who are fresh out of fucks to give. I'm sure for people wrongly targeted by them there is little recourse but it doesn't seem like they spend a lot of time going off on people who've done little wrong.

The caveat is that you are on your own for securing your property and the department basically laughs at the "standards of polite behavior and endangering the public" crimes that the HN crowd tend to take very seriously.

Overall I'd give it a 9/10. I'm very happy with my department's performance so far as I can see it.
I think NovemberWhisky is talking about an internal support tool & lazy employees, not customers. maybe I’m reading it wrong
Is it normal for Google to relocate employees from San Francisco to Sao Paulo?
This was honestly the opinion I had for a long time - I held out because the idea of yet another device that need charged annoyed me. Then I started running again and decided to give the apple watch a go, and the charging is surprisingly a non-issue. I take it off before I go to bed and put it on the little charger on my nightstand, and tbh I sometimes see my phone light up with a notification saying that it's fully charged before I've made it to sleep.

There are a few things I'd definitely like to change or tweak[0] but overall I'm surprised how it's become a normal part of my life.

[0] here are the top-of-the head things

- message notifications seem to behave like the device has extremely low resources, so messages (FB messenger) longer than something like 140 chars are truncated and I have to read them on my phone

- when you click a notification that someone sent a picture (through, say, FB messenger) it'll show a full screen image of the person who sent the picture ... not of the actual picture

- syncing up with a friend over walkie talkie or fitness is extremely flakey. I connected with 2 friends for the fitness, and never managed to get the walkie talkie working no matter how much troubleshooting I did

- if i'm listening to music from my watch on my airpods (another bit of kit i hated the idea of but have grown to tolerate) on a run while leaving my phone at home, the music will suddenly cut out from the watch when I return and get in range of my iphone

- as a dev I'd like to fiddle more with it and create watch faces, but as it stands you can only create complications for existing faces

- I have no idea how Apple calculate their VO2 max estimation. It seems utterly random, I've seen mine shoot up during periods when I've been inactive, and I've seen triathlete friends report that they're "below-average" fitness. I feel like I could hand my watch over to an Olympic athlete for a competition and it’d still report mine as 49.6 afterwards
This is a Minecraft server, so it's going to be running 24/7.
back in the day gnome files had image previews for the icon in the list view -- it was handy and got me by with the lack of image previews in the filepicker. but they recently took them out :/ iirc one of the devs said they couldnt make out the 16px icons on their screen anyway, and poof.. its easy to rag on gnome for some of this stuff but i really love it for the most part. i love that it's minimal and out of my way. anyway. thanks gnome team. let the haters hate