skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If regulating foreign companies is an undeclared trade war, could the US government please give Volkswagen its billions of dollars back?
>Honestly CSS is just confusing as hell. There are so many weird rules which you'll need to learn. It just takes time to absorb everything mentally.

True. Any way to pass through this phase?
I get the math and the explanations and all that but what I don't get is how do you express a complex sound signal as a function of f? Is it a long array with t and the amplitude?
Everything in Tech Seems to Be Collapsing at Once
> ill gotten gains

That's an interesting mindset making you immediately assume that about billionaires.

> Ewww
> hypocrite

Again, your mindset. How is it working for you? Are you happy with your life so far?

> I'm very confused why you think there's a connection

If you don't see the connection, it's you who should think deeper and broader.
I work in an old school bank. Can confirm. You're lucky if people even know what the data they themselves use actually means. Usually there's all sorts of edge cases that make them go "ohh no, it can't do that, that would make it completely wrong", but it does do that and it is indeed wrong.
Probably nothing happens. I doubt they're going to spend time investigating a company that doesn't do any business in Europe, when there's a very long list of bigger companies that do operate here and break our privacy and sell our data.
I don't think so. Strangely, to me it seems like Windows is both the closest to the best and also the furthest from, due to the fact that many of the issues with MacOS and Linux are kind of by design (first that comes to mind is fragmentation on linux, and the walled garden of MacOS). Many of the issues with Windows are indeed intentional, like the fact it forces updates on you, but they're not core to what Windows is.
An entire generation of dreamers trying to brute force P=NP. Non-AGI AI tech can get 80-95% of the way there but it can never get to 100% (or even reasonably close) because the nature of the problem is unsolvable.

Everyone working on self driving cars is just patching infinity.
This won't work since you also need to track the maximum number of stack frames (e.g recursive calls) which is undecidable.
Most editors let you use an input prefix, so typing `y gets you ↑ for example.
Makes it a lot easier
Man, I echo the same sentiments. Even I too have this compulsion for neatness and tidiness and find it near impossible to work on completely messed up code.

>But realistically even if I didn't do that, I'd probably still be 20 years into my career and working as a senior dev, so what's the difference?

Similar thoughts. Looking back I think about all the time I had sacrificed to make myself better but for what? There is no value for this as I have seen totally incompetent people still standing and moving much ahead. The corporate juggernaut does not give a damn about workmanship or quality, something I learnt later in my life as I took a pause to catch my breath.
A whole lot of typical corporate waffle. Here is Mick Gordon's post https://medium.com/@mickgordon/my-full-statement-regarding-d... providing clear evidence. What a shame. Mick Gordon's Doom Eternal OST is what I use to get through some tough workouts.
Imagine trying to debug a issue in the middle of the night and you go to the logs to find "Unhandled exception handled." dozens of times.

I'd probably just quit.
This means that most European banks, big companies and government departments will soon be fined by the EU... The following could be said of almost all large corporations and institutions, including the year long project that failed to catalog data sources effectively:

"When ordered to produce information about what 149 different data systems within Meta do, and what parts of Meta’s business use them, the company was unable to respond. This was despite having conducted a year-long investigation of those systems."

There is no point having a law which essentially no company can be compliant with. It means that the law will almost certainly be applied only by exception and hence capriciously. The likes of Facebook may be able to use that as a defense despite their breaches being egregious.

As a side-note, the idea that Meta only has 149 in-scope data systems sounds ridiculous.
I am not going to bash one distro or another, but I have been using Linux since (literally) 1992, so I have some history with slackware, gentoo, redhat (since the early TSX-11 archive days), ubuntu, mint, MXlinux, SuSE, Debian, and Fedora. I was a real RedHat user for many years, and some of those I listed I was intimately familiar with.

I echo some other comments... I think perhaps 10-12 years ago, I would strongly recommend Ubuntu to new users. I find now I actively try to get people to stop using it. Here at the uni professors blindly ask for it since it is so popular, but it causes more trouble than it is worth. I used to be a very large Mint proponent, but even now I find it harder to recommend that distro.

In an odd twist, my most stable builds are gentoo boxes, which are by no means built for any kind of novice, or heck, even some real linux users have issues with it. I installed and used MX a few times, and perhaps will migrate most to that distro.

Other than moving to Debian, I wonder what is a truly stable desktop distro these days, which someone could recommend for a new user? Might have to break down and start trying some cherry picked ones from the distrowatch list again...
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Tallinn?displayCurr...
Oh boy, let me tell you the story of the GNOME file picker thumbnails.
xmodmap in Unix/X11 also.

But I'd really like a language that comes with its own keyboard :)

I mean, other people should be able to edit my code.
So says The Atlantic, a newspaper widely understood to be left-leaning. However, what they do not say in the article, is guess who Sam Bankman-Fried was? He was the second largest Democratic donor according to MarketWatch. SBF helped the Democratic Party immensely, financially, in winning the 2022 Election with his "effective altruism," which this article from a left-wing outlet conveniently quietly ignores when advocating for it. The "charitable giving" they are talking about actually refers to massive political party donations. It's obvious why they'd advocate it and are scared that the SBF incident threatens a growing cash cow - and the fact they do not even acknowledge that he was a Democratic Party donor (let alone massive) shows The Atlantic is far from honest with their motives here.
> Alt+F4 does close the application (no more process)

Alt+F4 never closed the application. Alt+F4 closes the window. That said, _some_ applications do close when their primary window is closed.
Safety wheels do seem like a good feature that should be standard on these. There's a speed over which they can no longer accelerate fast enough to self-balance, and braking to override the user's questionable decision to go faster would cause a nosedive.

What I'm seeing from a quick search is that there's an audible warning upon exceeding the speed that's safe for self-balancing. Ignoring that is rider error.
This is not 4chan.
Isn't the way it keeps the nose up by speeding up though?
Need to be careful about the difference between the discrete Fourier transform and the Fourier series here.

It sounds like you're talking about the discrete Fourier transform, but making some statements which apply to Fourier series.

For the DFT, your N orthogonal "functions" are really just orthogonal vectors in C^N. In this case, if they're normalized appropriately, they certainly provide an orthonormal basis for C^N. But this is just linear algebra. The same is true of other orthogonal matrices which are discretized versions of systems of orthogonal functions. Like the discrete Wavelet transform, for example.

On the other hand, with the Fourier series, to represent any 2pi-periodic square integrable function, you need an expansion over an infinite sequence of orthogonal basis functions. In this case, the complex exponentials with integer frequency.

But you can't just take N arbitrary orthogonal functions and expect them to be meaningful when it comes to analyzing 2pi-periodic square integrable functions. Generating a system of orthogonal functions which truly spans L^2 for some set is more involved than what you do in linear algebra. You can read about Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue problems for one way. If you want a system of orthogonal polynomials, it's possible to use Gram-Schmidt, but notice that this doesn't make any sense for a periodic interval (and simply running Gram-Schmidt doesn't actually prove that the resulting sequence of polynomials actually spans L^2...). Also, note that the construction of the continuous wavelets is very different.
And so does heating swimming pools, baking bread and enjoying one's night at the movie theater, none of which excuses or justifies wasting energy for whatever real or imagined purpose.
There's also library genesis
https://libgen.rs
Ubuntu has some serious issues.
I have moved to Fedora, tried Debian for awhile but the rpm based Fedora makes a great workstation.
My recommendation.
It's already happening. You cannot get better than 720p on most services on linux, while pirated content is available in 4k
Sad day. I always talked about Z-library with reverence. Z-library was the only way I could access textbooks I was interested in when I was growing up in a developing country. I owe it to Z-library for becoming the software developer I am today.
He leaves his home because he's resentful at being a child, and wants to be in control. When he gets to the Land of the Wild Things, he copies his mom's behavior, acting like the parent. And then he realizes that he doesn't want to be the parent, he wants to be the child, and be loved like a child, so he returns home.
Sorry but the points are totally valid. If you delete your account your messages are still available with a userid that if someone has it can be traced back to you. They also don't delete files or pictures you uploaded alone for this they should get fined.
Fair enough that it's not robotic, but the idea of an unmanned sponge-bullet turret in my neighborhood that would fire without notice is pretty sensational anyway.

For whoever it's shooting at, it has the same psychological effect as a robot shooting.
For any "flat" tax to be workable, I think there has to be a generous per-person exemption. If you had a flat tax on all income over say $30K per adult and $15K per child, I think that would alleviate a lot of your (quite valid) pie-chart concern.

The enormous advantage to a flat tax rate is that everyone is in it together. If we have a discussion about whether government should tax more or less, it's hitting or saving all of us (or all of us that earn over the exemption amount anyway). Sure, it hits someone who earns 100x as much 100x harder, but it still hits everyone at least a little bit.

All of this "my plan doesn't raise taxes on anyone earning under $250K or $400K or $1M" is, to me, offensive and divisive. If you want to raise an extra $100K in taxes from someone earning $1.06M, you need to raise an extra $10K in taxes from someone earning $160K (assuming a $60K/yr exemption for a 2 adult household).
"it should have enough reserve power to gracefully slow you down if the machine is in trouble."

You're 100% right. It's an avoidable problem. But they choose not to for bragging-rights and top speeds and engineering resources.

Chaotic innovation in the personal-transport space is better for us in the long term.
In Windows 1.0 there was no X button.
Because there is no "just" move.

Ontario Disability Support is only $1,228 a month. The "shelter allowance" out of that is a whole $522 towards housing. Province-wide.

Disabled people don't have equitable access to transportation, let alone a roof under their head. Moving isn't the answer.

People on CERB (that is - the Canada Emergency Response Benefit) received CA$2000 a month as a baseline during the pandemic. ODSP recipients didn't receive any additional benefits.

We need to raise the amount of money that disabled Canadians receive monthly. Nobody can live on what is essentially just a smidge over $900 US a month anywhere in Canada.
At first I was confused about the complete lack of examples... until I enabled JavaScript and saw some code blocks appear that had not existed before.

I think this website is in dire need of a <noscript> warning somewhere.
But their twitter post said they have all the evidence and you can't lie on the internet.
Judge not lest ye...
One launch. Then packed it up and left.
If the US choses to interpret the GDPR that way, despite the fact that some significant receivers of fines are European itself (like H&M, Vodafone, two Italian energy and telecoms, Marriott and British Airways) then that would just show that American tech is an extended arm of the American government and in that case we should prioritize our sovereignty in the EU.
And yet we can and should evaluate the moral implications of past actions.
Whenever I ride downhill I’ll carve and powerslide to keep my speed within the range of how fast I can bail into a run essentially.

The few times I’ve spilled going faster than I could run have been ugly! Feet just couldn’t keep up and gone into a barely controlled roll.

I don’t know if I could ever feel comfortable consistently riding that fast

One time was caused by my dog chasing another dog while I was holding the leash standing on my board, that was hilariously painful
> You’re shifting your goal posts. You said “social justice is an objective of US as a whole” and hence “not a political view.” That’s false.

If you're saying that US usually says one thing, and does another thing entirely, you're right.

When someone signs an official document in representation of their Country, they are actually saying that the Country's objective align with the things written in the document.

They signed a document that stated that social justice is not political, it's a human right.

You're now saying that's false in the US.

So either you or the US are lying.

> Which shows the difference. Ratification, in America, is not performative

like the ratification of

International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

in 1994?

Are we there yet?

> Those treaties can become the basis for lawsuits against the U.S. in U.S. courts

Lawsuits, like the first of a long list a guy named Donald Trump had to face for his act of racism, in 1973, for refusing to rent houses to black people?

That totally blocked him from becoming President of United States and from running again at the next elections.

Because in USA nothing is performative.

Trump BTW was at least honest in treating things the rest of the World consider global as internal political arguments; when he felt that climate change wasn't important to his administration, he withdrawn from the Paris climate accord.

Seriously, you're talking like the US is the only country with the rule of law, where the ratification of an International treaty has actual legal consequences.

How come that Countries like Italy, France, Germany, even MONGOLIA, ratified all of them or more than 90% of them and US did not?

Are you saying that in Finland they have no justice system or engage in "performative treaty signing" as a cultural tribal tradition?

> If you’re arguing women have a better time in Iran, or civic and political rights are better protected in Russia, because they ratified those chapters, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.

I've simply argued that they committed to the cause and failed.

US hasn't even tried.

If, as you say, they didn't out of fear of "lawsuits against the U.S. in U.S. courts" does that mean that you think US know that they do not meet the requirements?
They have a company in the EU which makes it quite easy to enforce given that EU companies must follow EU law.
New Release of Box86/Box64, with Better Compatibility of x86 x86_64 Games on ARM
Agreed, the platform is not as good as Visual Basic was 30 years ago. No-code and low-code platforms do most of what you want. Unfortunately most are hosted.
“Aboard my ship, excellent performance is standard, standard performance is sub-standard, and sub-standard performance is not permitted to exist - that, I warn you.”

- Captain Queeg (The Caine Mutiny)
Delete all your tweets using rtweet
yeah, I have a Kobo for EPUB and use my Remarkable for PDFs
> Why be productive then?

I think the answer is partly embedded in your last sentence (“neither is productive for the society at large”).

Let me ask you: if you had all the basics taken care of, what do you think you would do every day for the rest of your life?
Except for Jerry, those are random stuff done WITH the money they earned. Not something they did to get the money in the first place. So you're just off topic.
Yes, GUI has a bug, news at 11.

I do not know what 'powerprofilesctl' is (I am on Slackware), but if I
want to change scaling I just echo to file:

/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor

That is the thing, having a fancy GUI when a menu that executes a script to do the same thing seems a bit over kill for me.

People should really look at xmessage(1), poping up an xmessage with a selection for this setting makes for a very simple script. I have many such scripts that use xmessage(1).
Idk, sounds like normal day to day life to me.
It's not just that the application keeps running, but the active voice call you're in stays connected and everyone can still hear you. That is definitely counterintuitive, I would at least expect a popup saying "did you mean to close the call, this is just minimizing it to the background" or something.

Also, that's 1 of 5 issues.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33629496
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BetterWorldBooks.com is excellent. I have bought from them for years. I recommend you try it.

Also, you wrote: <<None of these options pay the original author>> Libraries buy millions of books per year in the US -- expensive hardbacks. They must be the single largest buying group. That money pays authors. Also, I never once saw an author upset that a library was lending their book. The same is true for second hand book selling.
If you don't mind me asking - how do you witness these low level memory allocations? Specific program, plugin to vs code?
Your position is wise. I'll do the same, but with one difference. I'll stop using Tasks. I love it, but tasks are not exportable by tools like Yarle. So, to avoid the lock in I will switch to Microsoft ToDo for tasks and I will continue to use Evernote for the rest.
oh man, i'm in my 30s and this is exactly how my daily life is. I grew up in a culture that didn't have much of an inclination of understanding what ADHD is and stuff, so I never bothered. I really need to get myself checked.
It's a seemingly ridiculous bug that can impact usability on the most popular Linux distro.
> the idea of an unmanned sponge-bullet turret in my neighborhood that would fire without notice is pretty sensational anyway

Isn’t it objectively better than lethally-armed soldiers?
Meetings Are Miserable
It’s a slur that is rooted in puritanical values and I have an aversion to close mindedness.
I live in NB and access to healthcare in New Brunswick (Fredericton included) is not better than in Toronto, far from it. In rural areas it's even worse, and we're constantly seeing hospital shutdowns due to lack of staffing. We (and NS as well) have had a massive influx of people from Ontario since the start of covid and the explosion of real estate pricing, but we don't have the infrastructure to support it.
This was me. I wish I could apologise to my parents for for what I put them through. Though, to be fair, I did spend a few years in therapy fixing what they put me through too. Families are difficult.
"Does anyone know if Z-library provided torrent dumps? "

They didn't, but pilimi.org does (have to access via Tor to get the torrents). That said, there have been 0 seeders since the original ZLib bust. https://twitter.com/AnnaArchivist/status/1592654308516179970 (pilimi author) says there should be an http mirror now, and I'm probably stupid but I can't find it anywhere. Seems to me it's the end of Z-Library. The end of an era, really.
Do you agree that the 'consumer grade' devices that claim mind-control, and seem to work, actually respond to (facial) muscle movements - rendering them useless in (locked) in patients?
What does suspending deposits mean? You can’t send them these coins? That seems…fine?
Using big words to sound fancy doesn't actually make what you say logical.

Helping more people > helping fewer people.

Helping some people > killing some people.

This is not hard philosophy. It's like straight out of the Kalama Sutta. You know what is blameful. You know what is blameless.
I've not been disappointed to move my email to fastmail.

On the office apps though, I feel that despite the occasional burst of crazy (Why does the text colour button look like superscript in sheets if you have white selected?), google office apps tend to work relatively speedily and do collaboration really well, in constrast to the other behemoth you'd be likely to choose. I'd love to find an alternative with a similar level of polish, but I haven't yet.
How Ukraine Blew Up a Key Russian Bridge
FTX Collapse Hits the Winklevoss Brothers
HN is not a monolith, many of us have become extremely sceptical of the tech world and “culture” in recent years despite being part of it.
So, if I understand correctly, your APL code translates to the following Mathematica code:

Inner[Min, A, B, Plus]

where B = Transpose[A] ?
This is the reason why GDPR is something good.

Developers are not above the law. Companies are definitely not above the law, considering that the law is an impediment to their functioning and not something they will fight for.

The reign of super-large companies is a threat to democracy, because a democracy is made for its citizens; a company is a tool and should remain under control of society. Why can companies decide how much taxes they pay ? Why can they decide where they pay them ? How can they be so powerful as to decide that breaking society's will is merely a fine, and is taken into account in the budget ? This is ridiculous. The companies are not citizens, they do not need to be cajoled.
Art Isn't Dead, It's Just Machine-Generated
I wonder if this will have any impact to the other arms of the DriveTime conglomerate (yes, as much as Carvana is a spinoff, they still rely on Bridgecrest for a lot of loan underwriting and DriveTime processing facilities).
Given that EU companies are also getting fines, not only foreign ones, this interpretation would be silly.
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity appears to be a psychogenic illness.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_chemical_sensitivit...

This is not to say the symptoms are not real and debilitating, but it would be difficult to provide housing which is suitable if the symptoms are not actually correlated with specific chemicals in the environment.
No individual needs to know all of it. But any team owning a system that reads data should know what they're using it for. Likewise anyone providing data to other teams should at least know which other systems are reading that data; even if they don't know for certain what the data is used for they know who to ask about it. So the process of understanding can easily be sharded, and the results merged in a fairly mechanical manner.

The timeline here seems to be that they were asked for this in December and required to produce it in January. It probably is unreasonable to get this done from scratch in that time. But if they haven't started a project to do it by now, then it does feel a bit like they prefer being able to say "we don't know".