skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No change for me, I never really gave much opinion other than enjoying seeing the success of SpaceX.

I will say there is a definite pandemic of “Elon Musk derangement syndrome” going around now that I find entertaining as hell, as I watch normally sensible and smart people check their brain at the door as soon as his name is mentioned. That condition has prompted me to defend him a few times.
IANAP ("I am not a physicist"), but any two objects in orbit around their common center of gravity are slowly radiating energy into space in the form of gravity waves. This is why LIGO reports its chirps. Of course, this isn't very much energy, but given enough time all should orbits collapse.
I remember as a little kid getting some dude in Australia to somehow call us ( I believe over some type of IP phone or something) and he put the phone up next to the australian motoGP FM radio announcement. This was by far the best way to get the most up to date announcing on races. Now its so easy !
If not him, then who? Ultimately he is the one who makes the decisions; that's why he has the title of CEO and not "Puppet Of The Board."

I suppose we could simply blame the entire customer base of Apple, but that seems less than productive.
Safe programming wasn't even on the radar back then.

I never even heard of it getting onto the radar until some time after Aleph One's outstanding whitepaper, "Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit."

https://www.eecs.umich.edu/courses/eecs588/static/stack_smas...

Edit: Yes, buffer overflows were a thing before, but I think the paper drove much more awareness.
The Creator of the Oculus Rift Built a VR Headset That Can Kill You for Real
I use LiteDB for a game state store and am able to store the database as a gzipped blob. LiteDB allows using memory streams for usage and doesn’t require a file stream so you should be able to use any data store to store your database blobs.
You're still generating a lot less trash than replacing the whole laptop, but I have a hard time imagining how you can get the level of consumer-upgradeability you seem to want in a laptop form factor. You have to compromise somewhere.
> why not just call it “aerial view”?

Some of the pictures were from satellites, not airplanes.
I mean I am only 31 so I can't speak to 20 years ago, but I moved out of home at 16 and I always fucking hated unannounced doorbell rings, depending on who it was it could lead to a pretty massive disruption to what I had planned for the day
> First, we censored cohort participants at the time of receiving the first dose of any COVID-19 vaccine. Second, we adjusted for vaccination as a time-varying covariate.

What does this mean, specifically?
To be fair, 170 lbs 5'4" in terms of BMI is right at the top of 'overweight' and only 5 lbs (or 1 inch) short of 'obese' [1] (although it is well short of 'severely obese')

Of course, it wouldn't be good for your dating life if you described ~50% of women as 'obese' so it's good you've got more sensitive language.

[1] https://bmicalculator.mes.fm/bmi-chart
so many people I've gotten to switch to signal have asked me about them discontinuing SMS support. my family members aren't going to keep using signal just to message a few others, when the majority still use text.

still unsure how this decision made it through.
That is how most APIs nowadays work across Apple, Google and Microsoft platforms.

XPC, drivers, Android/Fuchsia/ChromeOS IDL, COM, WinRT
Not if you deny the sites access to your location data, the permission for which is denied-by-default and is never, ever actually necessary for anything.
I'm no expert (but I do work with this stuff regularly) and I realize this is gcc documentation vs llvm docs. Regardless, arm32/64 has a lot of optional instruction sets that may or may not be supported on a given processor as improvements have been made over time.

For example, check out the feature modifiers at the bottom of the page here for aarch64:
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-12.2.0/gcc/AArch64-Option...

Versus RISC-V:
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-12.2.0/gcc/RISC-V-Options...

Arm32 is even more complex:
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-12.2.0/gcc/ARM-Options.ht...
Artists most certainly do care once they have the finances and value to fight/protect it. Not all of them of course, but there's a difference between heavy inspiration and plagiarism, as per the music industry.

I'd say the key difference with AI is its scale, which can widely out-produce any genuine artist by a massive amount x by many, many multiples of 'AI artist' personas used.
It's the moral equivalent of making major headway against P!=NP; or, proving that there are no global hidden variables in QM; or, that there's a clear path ("just engineering") to room-temperature semiconductors.
There are many, many, many consequences for prime numbers--which to me are concrete enough to be interesting (and are way more concrete than what 99% of mathematicians work on!).

On the other hand, I doubt this proof will help you to build a faster gizmo or something in the real world.. especially since it's proving something we really think is true (a consequence of the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis), and for real-world applications you can just assume the thing that we think is true is actually true (even if we haven't been able to prove it for a century). (E.g., you don't need to prove that factoring is hard to use cryptography for practical purposes..)
This will be used the same way existing aid programs are. If poor countries violate the will of rich countries, funding is cut off.
I agree how today's parents slow innovation in their children or in some cases stop it directly \s
I'd like to see the Ada guys, and especially the SPARK guys, talk about Rust the way Rust people talk about C. That said, I'm just gonna add ACL2 to my Common Lisp toolbox and then I too will have the power of theorem proving.
I've heard this before. So now you've got two anecdata.
> it risks somebody else using the data sold by Meta to outcompete them on ad targeting

Bingo. They're unlikely to be selling the data because those data are their secret sauce. They are as economically incentivized to build sociopathic models on you as they are to keep your data out of anyone else's hands.
What’s the value? Sunlight is free for daytime, and soft white bulbs are cheaper than smart bulbs for nighttime. Traditional timers, switches, and the clapper can add ‘automation’ if necessary.
I've considered just using a smart watch, since it'd let me keep in contact with my wife or coordinate when out meeting up with friends. But I guess no, I haven't considered just getting rid of a phone/communication device altogether. I haven't lived with a TV for 20 years, so maybe I just go back some decades altogether and give up the phone for a while to see how it feels.
A new SE was released just this year with an A15 chip so that’s not it
Thanks for the extra details here! I've largely forgotten everything except the intense feelings of frustration.
TSLA is a car company does that count as a "tech" company? the only growth in the car market is from canabilizing other companies market share, which of course happens, but all electric cars are essentially the same like cell phones, and the differences are marketing differnces. TSLA may or may not expect "growth" multiples fighting for low double digit market share in a shrinking market.
note, native Windows support is not planned:

https://github.com/SerenityOS/ladybird/issues/113
Actually how would it work with lets say, using a D compiler in HP-UX, trying to link against binaries produced by aCC?
My concern isn't about Framework's claim, but about their behavior. It seems like they are abandoning the 11th gen mainboards, which were still being sold until just a few months ago. This points to a business strategy of planned obsolescence for mainboards. My concern is that this isn't so different, from a price or environmental perspective, from the more common strategy of making the whole laptop obsolete.
No, this is specifically a cloud feature and you are warned and asked for permissions when you access it for the first time.
If powerful forces control prices, why do they go down?

I don't believe in the gouging rhetoric because interested parties benefit from not only high prices, but stable prices, which we haven't seen.

Unstable, skyrocketing prices encourage competition from alternative energy sources, right?

I don't think we have to imagine an alternative to the situation in recent years, but can look to history for context.

If you look at any really long term chart of oil prices, there is a dramatic change in the early 00s, from a regime of fairly stable prices to one where they skyrocket and crash.

I think statisticians have a term for this: heteroscedasticity.

It kind of looks as though energy prices were stabilized deliberately, and then those forces lost control. Maybe it was related to fracking, or the invasion of Iraq. Or maybe it was a reaction to newly perceived fragility of the Saudi monarchy. Or maybe it was because Russia became a bigger player not under the control of OPEC. Or the US, similarly.
Moreover, let's go outside your paradigm of costs, and do a thought experiment that assumes that it is solved. Even then, this would be a bad solution, because it takes too much time for either side.

If you are a genuine inventor, and have a truly novel, original, valuable invention, you want the patent to deployed and fully enforceable as rapidly and fully as possible. Waiting years for multiple cases to sift their way through the courts only allows others to infringe for those years. Even if you rightly collect judgements in the end, those are unlikely to make up for the market leadership opportunity cost you lost to the infringers.

If, OTOH, you are a small-medium business being sued for a bad patent, you also want it clearly defined that the patent is invalid, so you can move on. Waiting for multiple courts to decide only costs you more money, distraction, and market opportunity.

What is really good for everyone is a very serious, fully funded, fully staffed and highly competent National Patent Office, which can effectively and reliably determine patent-ability, and is widely respected for its expertise. That is best for everyone because there are clear boundaries. It would also mean far fewer patents because there are a LOT of junk patents out there.
That's very interesting because my boss is Indian and he hired only one other Indian person out of like ten new hires over the years. Then again, my company does have a lot of diversity and inclusion folks looking over the hiring process, so either D&I in my company is unusually effective or your anecdote is just an anecdote.

Maybe we shouldn't be painting millions of people with the same brush because of some patterns our brains happened to notice
>I can't resist saying one last thing

Please, keep going. This is good reading.
Man, it's so weird and pathetic

All of these guys are probably a hundred times smarter than me or most of the other code monkeys working for the FANGMAN, but they're all squabbling over little 5-figure scraps of grant money.
Anybody have any modern recommendations for file sharing on usenet? I have heard there are a lot of obscure stuff still there that you will not find anywhere else (not even specifically talking about pirating here - legal stuff as well)
There is a documentary, but I can't attest to its quality (I haven't watched it yet): http://www.zalafilms.com/films/countingabout.html.
I'd download Spread Sheets.
Yet another reason to keep off this mess! First, crypto, now, WhatsApp features I don't care about!
Pressure for (perceived) innovation is one of the things that drives bad patents. Removing this pressure has positive consequences (in addition to the negative consequence of potentially novel IP not being protected in time--but is that actually a bad thing? I don't know).

There's a parallel also in the world of academic paper publishing--the pressure for constantly innovating and publishing is a major reason for bad publications.

I am speaking anecdotally, from my experience as a past PhD student and a current young professional in the research industry.
How is it a false dichotomy?

Price gouging would show up on the P&L it's very easy to demonstrate. Citing unnamed newspapers and 'common knowlege' doesn't demonstrate anything, or inspire confidence.

Petrol stations tend not to be very profitable. Not knowing where you are I can't say whether you're the exception. But as petrol is fungible, unless you're accusing them of collusion or something I don't see how they could price gouge.

Same with refineries.

So that just leaves the oil drillers. You have got OPEC and stuff, but the average non opec oil drillers have the choice of selling at the market rate or not at all. And I'm not sure how selling at the market rate, be that for massive profits, or a loss is price gouging. Unless you want to devalue the term.
I imagine it's a lot of hassle to maintain and outside of the US SMS is basically as dead as landline phones. They probably consulted their usage statistics when they made that decision.
He’s claiming the votes are valid, but the votes do not translate to outcomes like they do in a democracy like the US because governmental power is still controlled by upper castes.
2. I took a "learn as you go as needed" approach.

After learning the basics of how to use desktop PC on a Commodore 64 I moved to a Mac Plus and then bought my 1st new computer, a Mac PowerPC 6100. I used the "Apple Media Tool" to create a CD-ROM running in an "Interactive Kiosk" I put in hotels that had ads for local businesses. Mostly restaurants and tourist attractions.

The Apple Media Tool had a GUI to do most of the work, but it also had a feature that let you edit the code it produced and not long after the internet took off and I started making websites for businesses. I started off using Adobe Pagemill and that too let you view and edit the html code. From there I started hacking Perl CGI scripts and then writing my own using CGI.pm mostly.

I avoided Javascript for the first few years after it came on the scene but started using "Prototype.js" shortly after it came out. Not long after that I rewrote most of the server side code for an app I made with Javascript and jQuery and that's still what I use most.

I still use Perl on the server side but for the most part my apps run in the web browser. I use CouchDB or the web browser's IndexedDB for the back end. Never did really like SQL for web apps but CouchDB/PouchDB.js has been easy for me to work with.

So for the most part I have depended on the kindness of others for the code I use most, and have only written code on an as needed basis, or just to play around and experiment.

I really like the tools I use to make web apps. I've been able to hand off the hard parts to them and focus on the features I want to create. And if something comes out that's better it's generally easy to implement it. The move from Prototype to jQuery is an example.

I spent some time going over frameworks at https://todomvc.com/ and when I'd went over those I was interested in I decided to keep doing things my way.
> This applies very much to C as the universal ABI. It's common to see programs written in a combination of languages who interface with each other using a C ABI even though none of those languages is itself C. And, for better worse, it's really hard to change this because while components are easily swapped out, moving an interface is hard because you have to simultaneously fix every component that uses that interface.

I'd go with the glass half full point of view. This has to do with fixing stuff that ain't broken. This has everything to do with developers not wanting to go the Java route and reinvent the wheel and have to reimplements all basic functionalities under the sun. They just target C in particular or in some cases POSIX and they are up and running in no time, reusing everything under the sun with minimal work.
Wouldn’t it make more sense to start trying to take away power from the government then?
Was doing this with HomeKit and Philips hue years ago.
Since there continues to be "crypto-related frauds, crimes, and hacks" then they need skilled group of crypto investigators. Think of this case as practice.
> When we use the term technical debt, lots of non-technical people hear, ‘This is a technical problem, with technical solutions.’ This thinking couldn’t be further from the truth. If the organisation is responsible for the creation of the debt (as established above), it’s also responsible for the elimination of it. Debt belongs to the entire organisation.

This is a strawman.
That is the whole point, you are not supposed to code COM like in the old OLE 2.0 days, although the tooling could have been much better by now.
Homebrew just released v12 today! Yay!
Musk's Kobayashi Maru
Do I still need to give them my phone number though?
How out of touch am I that I don't know what a splog is, nor what Technorati was?
No. I’m not the one arguing for the system to change. It’s up to you to explain how my hypothetical scenario wouldn’t exist in a copyright-free world.
I agree. The way I see it, a document DB (I have used Firebase) has features that make it nicer to work with documents. For example Firebase let's you query and index based on the data within the "JSON" (in quotes because it is not really represented in Firebase as JSON, but is close in structure).

Another thing is you might want the lack of features. I.e. you want it so people don't do joins etc. Because you want the team to use the same paradigm with local data as with server hosted. I can think of reasons why.
And how many are bots?
There is a fork called "Molly" that has been around for a long time.

I haven't used but it is supposed to be a hardened version of signal.

Not that it supports SMS, but it _is_ a fork that uses Signal's servers.
The world is missing its lofty climate targets. Time for some realism
You used to work for a climate agitprop outlet? And you believe anthropogenic climate change is real? No shit.
I'm sure I'm missing some important nuance or something, but it sounds like what they're saying is, "You can understand spoken words because your brain processes the sounds in the order you hear them."

This sounds like the most obvious thing in the world to me. Everything about me experiences time sequentially. If I remember things, I can cast my mind back in time, but I still remember things from beginning to end, not in some other order.

I'd have assumed my brain processes my visual inputs sequentially too. I can't even think what other option there might be. Somehow everything I've seen or heard over some set period of time hits me all at once?

What am I missing here?
An object on a suborbital trajectory is by definition not a satellite.

As a practical matter, there's a differing relationship with atmosphere. Planes depend on air to produce lift and sustain flight, but satellites are either inconvenienced by air, or entirely unaffected by it.
My android phone's apps must ask for permission to use some of this data (location, microphone, filesystem, etc.), and android provides the options "always", "only when using the app", "this time only", and "never"; which seems to help with this problem, though I'm sure it's nowhere near a silver bullet. When I leave my home I only feel (mostly) untracked if I do so without my phone and only buy things with cash, which is almost non-existent behavior for myself and the people I know.
Microsoft is showing ads in the Windows 11 sign-out menu
I respect where you're coming from, but here's an opinion, that if adopted, may influence where you choose to stop or continue your thought process.

I see this "comparison" form of objection quite a bit, where someone points out relative injustice without taking a stand on which way to go. Once you notice it, you start seeing it everywhere.

In terms of conversation, it almost always seems to have a muting effect, of freezing the momentum towards figuring out what should be done. Desiring consistency is honorable, but these sorts of scenarios further ask us which way we want to apply that consistency. While each individual case probably wouldn't make a difference, I think when we refuse to answer those questions as a society, it makes it more likely for these imbalances to occur. So I think it's worthwhile to try and think it through, take a stand, and voice a stand.
It would take a long path to understand it.. and the path would need to be filled with good resources.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_blog
"There's always money in the banana stand!"
I was so annoyed when I saw this. Luckily you can deactivate it. I've done so, moving on with my life. Can't believe how much I hate modern design pet-peeves and features... mozilla VPN app recently switched to having a menu bar at the bottom for 'home' (default view), 'messages' (update notifications and crap) and 'settings'... because this is how to do it now... of course it has fancy rounded corners... sigh...

For all the people still complaining about the SMS thing: I get it, at the same time, I don't. When I first installed Signal I was surprised and annoyed it wanted to be my default SMS app. What does SMS have to do with encrypted messaging? I immediately saw people would use Signal, send SMS, and assume they were securely messaging. Now Google is pushing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services which Signal can't implement.

The official announcement back then did not provide enough context, this here does https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-blog-removing-sms...

Are they supposed to 'keep' people esp non-techies from using RCS 'by default' and make them use SMS? The app that cares so deeply about encrypted communication?

My thinking: integrating SMS into Signal was a dubious move to aid adoption. I could make the reasonable argument it should've never been done. With the arrival of RCS and SMS falling by the wayside more and more, it just can't be justified any further.

Sucks for adoption? Maybe. But honestly, Signal can't want people to use SMS, right?
Yes you can, that is what compiler intrisics are for.

https://chrisseaton.com/truffleruby/jokerconf17/
SVT Play is a gold mine of high quality content. The music documentaries they did with BBC were amazing.

Happy to fund it with my tax money, independent public service is important, and honestly I'm using it more than Netflix and HBO and the rest.
Fantastic! Thank you very much!!
>Been doing that forever

^H^H^H^H^for the last 42 years
This revelation just shows that doing the right thing depends on the accidental and rare "good guy" to hold their foot down. It's not something we can rely on.

The Elon Musk burn in that sense is distracting. He hasn't done anything in this direction yet. He very well may, but he hasn't. So it's a false accusation/speculation.

Counter to that, there is the fact that Twitter's legal and sales departments (pre-Musk) were totally cool with sending fine-grained location data to whoever pays for it.

Controversy should focus on actual events, not imaginary ones. As such, old Twitter has some explaining to do and it's worrying that no actual Telco is named. Finally, a quote like "other tech companies give us far more" should launch a swarm of journalists to dig as deep as possible.
I think a significant factor in this is that C++ simply has better abstractions for building large codebases than C does. Any big enough C project is gonna turn out a bit funky.
My companies IT department shut off confluence on short notice and told our teams that they had migrated all the content to sharepont and we could use that going forward.

Five years of organized docs easily searchable turned into a pile of office documents and half functioning “pages”.