skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see collaboration software primarily in the context of work in a company. Self hosting OS is something I rarely see, as focus on your own product renders such endeavours a distraction. You substitute money for speed.

I like it when there is more competition. It forces Retool, Appsmith, etc to up their game and not become complacent. One of them may have a couple of extrea feature here or there right now, but 12-18 months from now the current tech lead will become a wash and the race is on.

The big price in this space probably is the great unbundling of enterprise software, i.e. taking a bite out of Oracle, SAP. I attended a top 100 customers event at SAP once, you'd be shocked at the amount of despreration (from massive global 500 companies) to get SAP to implemented the stuff they urgently need. Apparently it takes multiple years on average...
Wow, handles MFA, thats really cool! TIL
Get rid of hierarchies and there might be 100,000 people working on these problems. The masses are limited by the ceiling of greedy egomaniacs. So tired of seeing singular human names take credit for the works of thousands.
Right, you only roll out storage as fast as you have overcapacity to charge it from.

The amount of storage build-out that justifies, thus far, is easy to accommodate with batteries. Later, as renewables shoulder more of the load, the storage needs to get bigger and you start looking for economies of scale.

Ultimately, instead of paying to build out long-term storage, most places will rely on imports of synthesized liquid fuel to burn in peaker plants, from places that produce excess reliably, e.g. tropics, for solar, and reliably windy places. It is always windy somewhere. That synthetic liquid fuel is most likely ammonia.

And, while waiting for those to come online and undercut NG, you just continue peaking with NG.

Today people are breaking ground for factories to build ammonia synthesis equipment, which will take remarkably long to finish and start producing. Then those need to build enough synthesis equipment to absorb hundreds and thousands of excess GW. And we will have ships to transport it in, tanks to keep it in.

All that is a huge job, but it will be done. The stuff that handles an equal amount of petroleum and NG was built and is used, and will wind down and be scrapped.
Sure, but once again its a bloody text messaging app.

Mattermost is almost free compared to that.. people paying 120k a year for that have lost their mind regardless of the value they extract from it.
> max 6 character (alphanumeric) no symbol password policy

You forgot to add case isn't significant. Still, even such small passwords can be secure if managed right. It's been that way for many years, and I don't recall seeing anything about it being broken, so I guess it must be work ok. I doubt the ombudsman would care.

On the other hand, every 10 or 20 logins, after logging in it doesn't display the internet banking home page. Instead it displays the home pages CSS stylesheet. That behaviour has also been there for years. I don't know how you even do that.
Could it just be confirmation bias? Or could it be that the correlation is the other way around: You see something online, decide to pick that as your topic with your partner (unconciously) and the ads show up because of the initial location you have seen the topic.
Just because that the messages might be sent end-to-end encrypted from Sue to Joe does not mean Meta cannot read them.

Meta has control over the app Sue uses. So they could send them to Meta unencrypted in addition to sending them to Joe in an encrypted fashion.

Or they just extract the relevant terms:

Sue->Joe: "Hello Joe, I'm so excited! We are going to have a baby! Let's call it Dingbert. You're not the father! Jim is. I hope you don't mind too much!".

Sue->Meta: "Sue will have a baby"

Insta->Sue: "Check out these cute baby clothes!"
Very cool. One 'flaw' that immediately strikes me as cool is that the cars are transparent — so, for instance, when a car passes you between you and the oncoming traffic, you see the taillights, but also the oncoming headlights/streetlights are not obscured by the car. So it's sort of disembodied headlights and taillights, which makes the effect even cooler... fun!
I think such jobs should be labeled as Business, or Enterprise Developer. For example, a software to manage a bank is different from Github codespaces
, which is a web-based IDE, which may requires CS knowledge to develop and it seems more appealing to me.
But what i don't get along is the job title: Backend or SWE or System Engineer? When I google it's always web tutorials, or managing a database,... Hence it confuses me about what to learn to acquire such jobs.
See also: Logo, Bullshit & Co., Inc.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32778046
Ripping Blu-Rays as is makes little sense except for preservation as most of them have hardcoded black bars in the video stream instead of letting playback devices letterbox/pillarbox as needed. Apparently the standard only supports a few resolutions, not even including 24:10 and other common cinema aspect ratios.

Also still plenty of Blu-Rays around using VC-1 which is garbage compared to current codecs. Perhaps all new ones have migrated to H.264 - at least all UHD ones I have seen have.
Please explain? We'd had multiple, interdependent crises in the past, but apparently, until now, we were ok just calling them "multiple crises".

What changed?
OpenSwoole 2022 gRPC for PHP
Wow, the phrase "information superhighway" really brought me back. I hadn't heard that for quite some time!
By those standards, it feels like the author blindsided themselves immensely. Not only did the genre evolve to be more, the old style was picked up by indies. RPG maker games in particular (ironically not RPGs most of the time). Simultaneously, narrative became far more important in the other genres. Bing-bing-wahoo expanded beyond a cake invitation.

All of these were true prior to 2004, and other genres evolved too.
Originally, they saved bandwidth. High res images would take time. I believe it continues because they want you to see below at other potential articles/ads.
Wow, congrats on the speedup! Breakthroughs like that feel really good.
> Maybe it's a "demo"?

Yep!
No keyboard app. We use the regular Android Keyboard provided by Google.
An extra £100b in debt to keep power prices down and now this. Where is the money to pay debts to come from? More "austerity"?
Tbf I think that's the point
This might be of help: https://backchannel.org/blog/friendfeed-schemaless-mysql
Microsoft Says Managers Shouldn’t Spy on Staff to Ensure They’re Working
(Fix) bugs is more important than adding (new) features.
https://archive.ph/G82ai
I think they are extracting terms. Some of the messages generated ads that were related to a term but not really about the conversation.
The peakers are still needed for the last few percent that batteries can't economically cover. The price of power at those times will rise to the point that the peakers can still cover their costs, but it will be cheaper than having enough batteries to handle it. What's needed is to expose those prices to the end users so demand dispatch can handle some of it.

Very low capacity factor peakers could be run with hydrogen (or other e-fuels) without greatly affecting their costs, since they'd use so little of it.
Had never heard of Cassowary until I played Far Cry 3.

My experience, albeit in a video game, established the extreme danger these animals present.
But doesn’t Gboard send your typing data to Google?
I have a similar story -- our Swedish language teacher congratulated a classmate of his excellent Norwegian essay. I have no recollection any longer what and how actually caused his mixup, but he would've definitely been caught in any case as the output was far above his skill level.
If we want to be truly honest, childhood is when we are primed by our parents, school, culture, etc to become servants to the beast system. As children, we accept all that as normal - our world, our desires, expectations etc are formed then. By time we are adults, having accepted the provided framework, we no longer have the inclination to learn or adapt - we think we know how things are. We then dutifully feed our kids into the same system, and call it right, good.

But some part of us, call it spirit if you like, still recognises and observes what is going on. Perhaps it tries to nudge us back towards authenticity and away from the entrained, domesticated behaviour, that will have us coding our own future dystopia.
Most users activate WhatsApp's suggested "backup" feature which uploads all chats and those are most likely not E2E encrypted. And of course Meta could just directly read and upload stuff from the app, they probably buried a vague clause for that somewhere in their agreement.
https://archive.ph/ACtMy
"the left"? You have to be joking! Even US cold war-era anti-communist propaganda wasn't lying this blatantly. Mass incarceration, execution, etc. are a "skill" of all totalitarian regimes, no matter what social/economic policy they happen to support. The church in the middle ages, kings in the era of absolutism, the Axis powers during WWII, regimes of warlords past and present, the various religious states that are doing the bulk of it today... all of these regimes censored, imprisoned and executed their opponents and few could be considered "left".
We have a nice system in the UK.

The UK standard is 25. But it is variable to let you meet the affordability criteria. I had to get a 36 year one because the lender decided I could not afford it. It's sort of irrelevant though, you can usually pay off 10% of the outstanding amount EXTRA per year. So I just worked out the rough payment for a 20y equivalent and make that every month and I should be done on time.

Does the US let you overpay?
While that's possible, the more plausible explanation is Meta reading your messages imo.
Glad to hear it. I’ve been using Vivaldi as my main browser for a while now and I’d hate to give it up, but if it’s a choice between Vivaldi and a fully functioning ad blocker I’m probably choosing the latter.
Facebook has an extensive history of grabbing people's data, lying about it, being caught and fined, apologising, then doing it again. So it's absolutely in character.
We are seeing the same thing. More so, my wife sent me a picture of my daughter working on a puzzle. Less than 24 hours later, her Instagram was showing ads for a store that was selling the same type of puzzle as the one my daughter was playing with. So it's not just terms but images too.
Any book that confuses a kid on gender, what moral monster would do that
There are already places where humans live that crops won't grow, so humans will likely endure more than our crops will. At least for the crops we currently grow. But it's more nuanced than just temperature. With increasingly extreme weather events that last longer, even in places where crops can grow, they will get wiped out more frequently. Think of increased instances of drought, flooding, wildfire etc. Even just too high winds, heavier rains, hail and increased instances of icing/wind chill will be impactful for food supply.

We already see this too, depending on whether or not we choose to blame climate change there have been a number of weather events impacting the supply and price of various farmed goods. Lettuce became somewhat of a luxury commodity in Australia due to recent flooding, for just one example. That sort of thing will become more frequent.
But this is Instagram and WhatsApp. Are they sharing data about our conversations openly?
So instead we give government more power to control the narrative? Im sure the religious right would love to control the narrative.

Would you also want the government to control RedState? FoxNews? Truth Socisl?
More so, my wife sent me a picture of my daughter working on a puzzle. Less than 24 hours later, her Instagram was showing ads for a store that was selling the same type of puzzle as the one my daughter was playing with. So it's not just terms but images too.
"Obvious assumption"

"Of course it is"

"Of course it is" is not science. It might pass muster in CS, but in engineering with heavy objects "of course it <>" is the mother of all f-ups.
One of my hobbies is writing conspiracy theories that nobody wants to believe but that have just enough resonance with reality to be hard to ignore. I'm currently working on one that posits a rogue group of white supremacists within America's three letter agencies planning their own 'colour revolution' for America, with white being the colour of choice. Currently they'd be just using public propaganda to stoke resentment, but next economic downturn, who knows...
The solution to fixing side channels is no raw multithreading or shared memory.
Solutions like Nix are better for parallel computation.
> What makes solar panels expensive is all the exotic materials,

What exotic material is needed for crystalline silicon PV (95% of the market)? Silicon itself is extremely mundane; it's the second most common element in the Earth's crust.
Can someone working on WhatsApp weigh in on this or are there very restrictive NDA's? I would expect it's an interpretation of the TOS, so WhatsApp should be able to communicate if this is a possibility or not.
IMO the author could very much submit this to a demoparty in the "demo" category (assuming they'd substitute the music with a fitting original work).

These days, the only notable difference between demos and intros is file size. If it's bigger than 64kb, it's a demo. You can totally have a short, single-effect demo like this one, and there's plenty such demos out there.

Ergo, I disagree, I think this counts as "full-blown" for any reasonable current definition.
Rust is comfortable with immutable statics. The existence of a global readable Doodad is no problem. For mutable access static Doodad Rust requires unsafe, because you will probably shoot yourself in the foot.

Imagine there's a static NetworkIF nic which is immutable. Maybe we can call predicates like nic.up() to find out if this interface is up, or nic.packet_counts() to get some statistics about packets. But it's immutable, so we can't call nic.change_addr() or nic.disable_packet_filters() as those require mutation. If it was mutable we'd need unsafe Rust to try to call those, because doing so means being very careful about who does what and when they do it or we'll get in a mess.

Because of "interior mutability" we can have a Rust static which is immutable from a Rust point of view, and thus safe, but where we can get at mutable internals. For example static Mutex<NetworkIF> nic. Now it's protected by a mutex. We can lock the mutex, and thus get mutable access to the NetworkIF, until we release that lock. If somebody else has the lock then we'd block waiting for them to release it.

With just mutable globals everywhere and a larger team it's easy to end up with clashes where two subsystems both think they "own" a shared mutable object and treat it accordingly then are surprised that this doesn't consistently do what they expected.
That market, while large, is difficult to monetize effectively.
cdak (https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=55758 / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCh3Q08HMfs)
Not sure why you were downvoted, seems like a very valid concern. If we turned off oil and coal tomorrow the world would fall apart.

The OddLots podcast has been covering this issue on various episodes but the world of energy is a super complex system of competing interests. Ultimately we need energy to power our transition away to clean energy but the old energy industries have suffered from chronic underinvestment. There was some stat where a university course for oil (or coal?) had dropped to 1 student.

But as we're seeing, without supply prices start to shoot up so unless the world is prepared to undergo huge reduction of consumption, the transition will need to be gradual.
End-to-End Tracing with OpenTelemetry
The big difference here is that horses were nearly exclusively used for transportation. Fossil fuels currently provide something like 80% of all the energy used. So if you want your analogy to be accurate then you'd have to be back in 1890 saying "Ok, we're going to get rid of horses AND fossil fuels".

Personally, I do think that burning oil derivatives is a waste and I would like to see it replaced where possible with a superior energy source but the only source that fits the bill for me is nuclear and the only responsible way to do it is to build the new power plants first and then phase out the old fossil fuel plants.
Most of article was written in 1989, including the headline. Which includes the date it was written. It also was written by the design lead of The Secret of Monkey Island I and II. It was made public in 2004, and the author included this statement in the article:

> Some people will tell you that Adventure Games aren't really dead, they have just morphed into other forms, or that other genres have absorbed Adventure Games. If this is true, they've done a pretty bad job of it.

So I don't think it's blindsighted so much as old-man-yells-at-cloud disagreeing with you on what a Real Adventure Game is. Although in Ron Gilbert's defense, he also writes:

> As I read this some 15 years later, I'm not sure I agree with everything in here anymore. I learned a lot from Monkey Island 1 and 2, plus countless kids Adventure Games at Humongous Entertainment. At some point in the near future, I will do an annotated version of this article, talking about things that have changed, or were just plains wrong. But in the meantime, there is something interesting on TV right now.

So still not so much blindsighted as "never elaborated upon what he really thinks of the 1989 article these days".
Some options:

1. Nobody is reading your WA messages, the same topics can be learned from your browsing activity or other msgs, eg. by reading your sms texts.

2. Meta is reading your messages directly in-transit, server-side.

3. Meta is not reading your messages server-side, but the Meta apps extract keywords from your conversations and request relevant ads from the ad servers.

4. Another non-Meta app is doing the above.

5...
Sorry I only created the account to post that, so I am creating a new one:

Source is me, kind of :) - check the news of that time about Google CEO visit some months after Snowden revealings. The Google rhetoric slowed down after that. Very likely, some kind of deal was made to pay for the "anonymized" data. Someone else is now confirming that obvious suspicion. The "anonymized" data are for sale if you are the right customer and the government is another right customer.

For the data to have value, not have much noise, it should be easy to de-anonymize those. All the dark UI / settings patterns from the industry and government laws to verify age, etc, point to one common goal, to make it easy to massively collect quality clean data, to co-use.

I have no motivation to make an essay for you with references on this, but hope you get the idea.

E.g.: The government can find your phone number and can find / buy the internet traffic from that, as well as things you typed in applications, location, etc - all kind of "anonymized" but grouped. If all these are collected (by separate parties) and obtained (all by one party), then it is easy to correlate and get clean non-anonymized data. A global played with lots of budget can do that.
Some people have been doing it for a long time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI
Show HN: An AI image generator for blog posts
Hi there,

I see many bloggers use stock images for their blog posts (as featured images or as in-post images). I thought of something and started trying to use AI to replace those images. I built a small tool for this so others can also test it out.

It takes text content (ideally, the blog post intro in case of a featured image or the text content about whatever you want the image about) and gives you an image.

It works for me but I am still testing this. How about you guys?
What is this? MySpace?
webm is matroska (with limits on what you can use) so it actually has seen quite a bit of commercial use.
Of course the law should dictate who you sleep with. In the 13 colonies adultery was rightly a capital crime.
Sure...we don't know things that haven't happened yet. When a biology paper is published that leads to actual advantages for real life patients or for new technologies to be built that actually solve real world problems, then the hype will begin to be justified. Being "used in research" is not justification for hype. Adding lines to researchers' CVs doesn't actually improve the human condition in any way.
Why does the wiring of PV panels have to be copper? The wiring (aside from the contact wires actually on the cells themselves) is not volume constrained, so I'd expect aluminum to be used, not copper.
> Here is the data: https://cse.buffalo.edu/~regan/chess/fidelity/data/Niemann/

Yes, that's what I mean by his presentation of results. That's a dozen text files with undocumented schemas, and no interpretation of the results or contextualizing them.

> Here is some reasoning and links to articles: https://cse.buffalo.edu/~regan/chess/fidelity/

Yes, I've also seen that page, and tried reading the papers. You know what the outcome is? That the links to the research description, overview, papers, and talks are all dead.
this is so so cool!
thank you for sharing this.

I have been wondering something - wiring different components together and building "up" something.

versus

take Spring Boot and create a DSL/Lombok-like layer on top which abstracts out the "too much code" and unpleasantness. Like a Nextjs that builds on top of Reactjs.

Why the first and not the second ?
RX6400 is a lot better than 1030, and is available as low profile single slot cards.
If you'll excuse my frankness, at the point of screening it's much more an idea of a child, than an actual he/she.
Still, I think Russia is capable of arming and training several hundred thousand of its troops in less than half a year. Russia still has a very large potential.
Nope, I meant what I wrote.
You don't need an MMU, because you have no need for virtual memory or similar.
Checking an integer is within some bounds is a much simpler problem, and in some cases the check can be elided through analysis on the code.
Funny to see the BBC complaining about "letting the market forces" build the internet. The said market forces didn't do too bad.
Hmm don't Microsoft also have Viva insights that essentially provides spying metrics on staff?
It's very common in the startups I've come across, on the contrary, in very large companies, everyone performs their own duties and arranges them clearly.
You mention it in your response, but this whole paradigm looks like an extension of what we have with Google Search.

And Google Search is so utterly weak. Not just because of the neutering of search options or the weird priority conflict inside Google, but just because even with litteraly all the data in the world about a specific user it doesn't seems like it can wrangle what a request actually means.

It can tell me the time in Chicago, but not what computer would actually be the best for my work. That search will only be spam, irrelevant popular results and paid reviews.

Same if I asked for a _good_ pizza recipe, it would probably not understand what that actually means for me.

The whole model of "throwing a request in the box and expecting a result" seems broken to me, I mean even between humans it doesn't work that way, why would it work with an advanced AI ?

PS: even with more back and forth, I'm imagining what we have now with customer support over chat, and while more efficient than by phone, it's definitely not the interface I want by default
https://ibb.co/S3JN0ZY

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