skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think, as with the questionable quality of the Catalyst-created macOS apps that preceded the new System Preferences, it was a desire to show off a new framework while it is still in a semi-beta unfinished state, let alone before the best practices for these new technologies have been devised yet.
Well, let this be a lesson to anyone who tries competing with a GPL product. Permissive licenses are cool up until the moment a FAANG company embraces your project, extends it and extinguishes it.
>Two hours a week between 11 and 16?

That pretty much describes my foreign language education (learning French in England, 1970s/1980s).
In continental Europe it is practically impossible to evict a tenant without arrears, yet the rental market is larger and there is less homelessness (and, yes, there is plenty of public data on homelessness).

Real world outcomes aside, that is less homelessness and a better functioning private rental market, evicting families with children is just uncivilised and should be allowed just because of that.
I haven’t worked in graphics so I’m not sure what percentage of GPU usage is good. Should it be lower or higher?
Extremely naive to think that genuine victims are actually becoming the overloads of this new regime.
They tried earlier on before they realized this approach made way, way more sense. Even the native linux versions of games that have them often run worse than the windows version wrapped in Proton. Developers just aren't going to commit to making native linux versions for the most part and that isn't going to change. This is reality.

The magical thing is that they've done so much work with Proton that a device like the Steam Deck is more than a curiosity. It is a viable product. It is viable to play games on Linux in a way it has never been before. Even better, they aren't keeping it to themselves.

A purist ideology about linux isn't going to change reality. But Proton is. The Deck is a wildly popular device and the knock-on effect is going to be more systems running linux for regular people. The games may not be native but if they're indistinguishable from native games, then who cares? Meanwhile adoption of linux as a viable platform still goes up. Maybe on a long enough timeline things swing around, though I still very much doubt that.

The Year of Linux on the Desktop is still a fantasy, but reading the steam hardware survey, it is more true than it has ever been before, thanks to the Deck and Proton.
Have a look at https://www.amazon.com/Diffusion-Innovations-5th-Everett-Rog...
It is not history, but I remember having read it from cover to cover and gaining a historic insight in the process
There's a protocol called ESP MESH, with which multiple ESP32 (and ESP8266) can talk to each other.

> ESP-WIFI-MESH is a wireless communication network with nodes organized in a mesh topology using the simultaneous AP-STA feature on Espressif SoCs. It provides a self-forming and self-healing network, with ease of deployment. The network topology of ESP-WIFI-MESH can scale up to 1000 nodes in large areas.

https://www.espressif.com/en/products/sdks/esp-wifi-mesh/ove...

https://randomnerdtutorials.com/esp-mesh-esp32-esp8266-painl...

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I didn't know that home WiFi routers have difficulty with more than a dozen connections, but I imagine ESP MESH could be a way around it, where a few devices connect to your router and act as access points for the rest of them.
Fake myGov profiles are being used to hack ATO accounts
The languages that have immutable types have toons of tricks how to optimize their execution, the immutability is only exposed at semantic level.
If POWER LPARs are the same as Z LPARs then a lot of it comes down to the difference in licensing between hard and soft partitioned VMs. On a typical VM Oracle will charge for the entire cost of the machine, even if the DB is only running on a VM with a fraction of the resources, due to it being considered a soft partition.

At least on Z series mainframes, LPARs are considered hard partitions (handled by PR/SM, not the OS like a KVM situation) and are actually treated as different machines.

I am not sure if this is the case with POWER.

I've never heard of this website and don't know if they are a decent resource, but they seem to cover the issue the way I remember it. Looks like they are offering a license management product that tries to warn Oracle customers about this consideration. I'm sure Oracle slaps people pretty hard over this during their first audits, maybe even hard enough to get a company to shell out for IBM hardware :).

https://bluemedora.com/the-hard-and-the-soft-of-oracle-licen...
I wonder how many "killed" would an excess deaths analysis produce for Britain itself during that time
Yes of course I'm doing the same. I'm not saying CEO should be put to death… I'm saying that people have to understand their natural allies are people in their same situation.
Maybe Niven?
It already is a tidal wave just with people.
I thought Signal has reproducible builds in Google Play too? It was one of the first apps to do so.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/main/reprod...
>This staggering figure does not include the tens of millions more Indians who died in human-made famines that were caused by the British empire.

Does it not? The figures are based on excess deaths. Unless there were human made famines before the British empire, so there wouldn't be excess deaths?

I'm struggling to work out how excess deaths is a meaningful figure over such a long time frame. Am I misunderstanding, or is this essentially reflecting a rising population. If someone dies a year 'early' is that booked as an excess death for the period? Is it reasonable to say the British empire killed them?
I just tried dragging a purchased book to Finder, and it only gives me a .webloc pointing to the book's store URL. On the other hand, if I manually locate the book in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/Books, it appears to just be an (unzipped) ePub without any encryption.
Yikes that doesn't sound very promising. I've seen the i.MX 8 used in several different products, so clearly someone has made them work, or at least kinda work... but I can imagine that might be despite the "support".
Oh my bad, I'm realizing some folks don't have the context I do and also maybe kink is a better descriptor?

This isn't the kind of thing you can plug into a search engine, you have to actually have been on the roof during that liminal period between Cablegate and Edward Snowden dropping his dox...

Let me break it down for you:

While the "Panopticon" was originally described by utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham in the late 1700s[0], it was later repopularized when discussed by Michel Foucault's 1975 book "Discipline and Punish"[1]:

>In the mid-1970s, the panopticon was brought to the wider attention by the French psychoanalyst Jacques-Alain Miller and the French philosopher Michel Foucault.[30] In 1975, Foucault used the panopticon as metaphor for the modern disciplinary society in Discipline and Punish. He argued that the disciplinary society had emerged in the 18th century and that discipline are techniques for assuring the ordering of human complexities, with the ultimate aim of docility and utility in the system.[31] Foucault first came across the panopticon architecture when he studied the origins of clinical medicine and hospital architecture in the second half of the 18th century. He argued that discipline had replaced the pre-modern society of kings, and that the panopticon should not be understood as a building, but as a mechanism of power and a diagram of political technology.

Foucault would go on to die of AIDS, since when he wasn't writing philosophy he was having a whole lot of unprotected sex... apparently in addition to disliking capitalism, he also disliked condoms.

On my end, I found this all out when one of their staffers kept trying to get me drunk on the roof of their then new office at 815 Eddy. Apparently it was offensive to the guy I said that as much as I love to hang out on roofs being told I look like Abbie Hoffman, I wish just once it would be a woman doing that since I'd finished all my experiments during pride and then tried to swing the convo back to censorship circumvention, my at the time PhD thesis topic.

(I've since dropped out of my PhD, and civil society in general -- I ended up having a drink thrown in my face for the above, then spending the rest of the evening looking at the linux project one of their less shitty staffers had done, and the guy who was an asshole left the org around when the Media Lab decided to stop taking money from Jeffrey Epstein.)

Anyways, sorry for the wall of text, but hope the above helps you understand -- or at least... paints a picture.

PS: Don't please don't use Google around me :-)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon#Conceptual_history

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discipline_and_Punish
> Is it more of a research language as opposed to a "making applications" developer language?

You will never get any OCaml fans to admit it, but yes.
> worries me... the appetite seems to be for sweeping measures.

Yes that is concerning. Desperate voters will follow any crazy with
bold promises.

> I think there is a lot of room for incremental improvement in the UK

Way I see it, I've lived through about 30-40 years of decremental
decline, so if we started "incremental improvement" tomorrow, we'd be
back where I started in the 1970s just by the time I die. I suppose
that's better than watching ones country decline through all your
life, like for Russians. Or disintegrate, as for ex-Yugoslavians for
example.

However, in the era of climate crisis, and myriad other threats, a
sense of urgency is in the air which we cannot ignore. Unless rational
and courageous minds take the lead someone else will.

> the dull work of growing in competence.

Knowing where to even start... how to counter the conditions that are
causing us to lose competence... we need to plug the holes in the ship
before charting a new course.
For anyone wondering, this is a pretty interesting story about San Francisco.

If you hit a paywall on NYT, here is a non-paywalled version:

https://archive.vn/MMfXk

or syndicated here (but the NYT version has more photos):

https://dnyuz.com/2022/12/17/what-comes-next-for-the-most-em...
Destructive interference?
It often seems like the only reason many companies constantly update design is because they have design departments that need to do something.
If anything it's much easier.
Well hopefully it’s money you don’t need and can afford to lose. If so, ride it out and hope the Chinese government is propping up Bihance
Check apkpure.
Amazon to settle Euro antitrust probes by Christmas
> Which disclosure was that, specifically?

The Twitter internal discussions we are talking about.

> I haven’t seen any evidence of “anti-Christian bias”. If you’re referring to my comment, note that my position is that all radicals should be treated with concern

The anti-Christian bias is in creating a false equivalency between Christian “extremists” and Islamic radicals. You responded to my comment by bringing up “anti-gay anti-Black” statements from “Christian extremists.” That’s an absurd comparison. What you’re talking about is the average person in my Muslim home country: https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2.... The FBI shouldn’t be investigating those people. What I’m talking about is a different level entirely: https://time.com/4365890/bangladesh-arrests-5000-crackdown-r...

The bias reflected in your comment is exactly the sort of biases through which Twitter moderation decisions are filtered. Your average Twitter moderator is the kind of sheltered person who thinks his racist uncle back home in Indiana bears mention in the same breath as Islamic radicalism. These are the same people who flipped out when the FBI was investigating Islamic fundamentalism, but now cheers in the FBI now that the target is white Christians.
YouTube bans Pornhub’s channel over ‘multiple’ rule violations
Well it has lost about one quarter of it's value VS Bitcoin in the past 3 weeks. Whether or not that fits the definition of cratering is up to the individual.

27 Nov: 1 BNB = 0.0188 Bitcoin;
17 Dec: 1 BNB = 0.0142 Bitcoin
Is Germany attractive enough for qualified workers?
cf Burke's Connections
Bear in mind that "redaction" just means any effort to protect sensitive information by obscuring text. I don't think I've seen pixelation used to redact text in any corporate/governmental context, but I've definitely seen people use it on sites like Reddit or Twitter to try to hide their name or other info.

I've also seen people try to redact sensitive information by poorly scribbling it out using the pencil tool on their phone, leaving enough parts of letters visible to guess what was originally there, or try to "black out" text using a brush that wasn't fully opaque, allowing it to be revealed by adjusting the contrast. Basically, a lot of people don't know how to safely redact stuff.

I don't think pixelation is commonly used because most people probably don't know how to use it, but my Samsung phone's built-in image editor also has a pixelation feature, so I honestly expect to see it pop up more often in the future.
You can verify in Google Pay. Just download the app from API and calculate checksum.

Signal has reproducible builds

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/main/reprod...
It's intended for their fork of Android (FireOS).
If you specify an operating temperature range for your gadget, some testing at the extremes of that range is called for.
https://www.w3.org/People has a list of 57 people and what their role is - it's not clear to me if they are all full time paid staff but I think most of them are.
Oh hey, you're right, I went and found the issue but didn't scroll down after seeing it was still open. That's great! I might try and revive my previous project. I had tried an older nightly but that's where I think I was seeing bad codegen.
Ok I agree that software is not the primary enabler. But let's just pause on these tools. For you :

- On the one hand, mainstream collaborative tools are "low-bar", and Big Tech is responsible for its "Glacial pace".

- On the other hand, "new generations" are growing too wildly, and "are not very useful", and "academic chattering" is responsible for it.

The second point is supposed the be the "market" solution to the first. You seem to think this is not the case, because of misguided academics, curators and theorists. Would you care to cite some (of the worst) examples ?
Someone clearly has to pay to keep to SEPA infrastructure going, be it the banks crosssubsizing from profit on lending or taxes funding organisations in EU level.

Crypto fees are just much more straightforward. You pay a small amount to use the network and there are no strings attached, no hidden subsidy. In theory at least that is because most networks are still funded by inflationary payouts. But no one is forcing you to hold anything more than you need to pay for fees in the crypto currency at any moment in time.

Just like with most things crypto has been widely oversold and 99% of coins are basically scammy penny stocks. No one disputes this. But as someone who has moved internationally quite a bit I would LOVE for all my ETFs and bank accounts to live on an open Blockchain so I don't have to worry about migrating everything when I move to a new country. Even if I don't fully custody them, moving USDC through Ethereum or Solana is just 100x better than any international wire transfer. Stocks are basically stuck in whatever country you bought them in, I don't even want to know how difficult it would be to move my depot from one country to another. You'd have to sell everything.
The Innovators by Walter Issacson

A History of Modern Computing 2ed by Paul Ceruzzi

The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen

Connections by James Burke (also a PBS series)
I once lost about a month to a USB issue reported in the field on some custom hardware. Spent several weeks failing to reproduce it (setting up multiple machines to automatically hammer through typical usage). It eventually transpired that the issue correlated with cold temperatures and the recent outsourcing of assembly had resulted in some poor soldering.
O'Reilly like mentioned below. Lots of great content besides books.

And Pluralsight: https://www.pluralsight.com/ - Get the Premium plan if you have the money for it
That's true, but most users aren't going to understand or care about that distinction. And for the concern of targeted ads creepily following them everywhere, it doesn't matter.
The large exchanges were shown to have a signal chat group to coordinate activities. Total illegal collusion in any other financial institution but hey crypto is the Wild West. Not that outlandish to think they collaborate when necessary.
While I certainly wish we in the west would do more for Ukraine, "not one brigade" is a silly thing to say. We'd have to be all in if we went in with ground troops. Personally I'd like to see us go all in with aircraft and destroy every last bit of Russian hardware in Ukraine territory, but I've no idea if that's realistic or possible.
University of Washington (the other UW lol) has similar tunnels - but we were all explicitly told it was instant expulsion to go there during orientation. IDK how true that threat really was.
Lawson Criterion for Fusion Energy
That happened to me too, super strange because it looked like the native Safari video player and a plain old embedded mp4 so I don’t know what was going on there.
Latch bio: “we work six days a week”
True, but the first out that manage to sell them for fiat through some other way even at a substantial discount are going to be off substantially better than the last.
Lame. Where’s the innovation.
How crazy is it that getting root on your own device is an accomplishment?

Edit: I didn't realize this post is about a privilege escalation exploit, not about getting root on your own device necessarily. My point still stands though.
> I think that most passionate programmers want to build something by themselves

Most programmers are working in business-focused jobs. I don't think many of us, in grade school, said "I sure hope I can program business logic all day when I grow up." So I think the passion for 90% of people writing code is really about getting a paycheck. Then they use that paycheck to do what they're really passionate about in their personal life.

So I completely agree that people passionate about coding might want to write that code by hand, I just don't think that group accounts for most people writing code professionally.
ML is backed by solid science from the 80's and we've always known it would have uses, we just didn't have the computing power for it.
"Oh it's the Meek...blessed are the Meek! That's nice, I'm glad
they're getting something, 'cause they have a hell of a time."
ChatGPT shows off its coding skills in a Node.js interview
A self-updating list of the most current useragents
Hi Hacker News!

I made a site which displays the most common useragents found on the web.

The site updates weekly with data sourced from the server access logs of another site I run in order to give an accurate picture of the devices and browsers being used on the web.

I do a lot of web scraping in my work and it's this group of people who I had in mind when creating the site.

The data is presented as useragent, browser, os, and relative percentage of occurence. It can be viewed as a table on the site or via json in the API.

Please let me know your thoughts or feedback and I hope you find it useful!

Thanks!
I pushed ChatGPT to it’s coding limits in a javascript (Node.js) interview flow, and learned how it reasons about the various challenges it’s presented with.

I was blown away by what this magnificent AI can do - it seems ChatGPT can make the cut for a junior Node.js developer role :)
It may seem trivial, but I assure you it's valid criticism. FWIW, I've stopped using the Books app on my Ipad in favor of emailing my ebooks to my Kindle account and reading it through the Kindle app.

Why couldn't they have an option to keep the old animation? In 2022, it should be that simple, but of course...

It's not that I loved the old animation, but rather that I can't stand the current one. It's like I'm rotating a deck of cards, taking one off the top of the pile and putting it underneath. Not very pleasant to me, and also not an animation style I've seen used in any other book apps to my knowledge. I wonder why that is?
You are still deflecting.
That’s partly because twitter is just about the worst possible place to have a detailed conversation on an issue, really just about any issue.

I have no idea why anyone of any level of technical sophistication or containing halfway decent communication skills makes the attempt. Choose a free blog, write something more substantive, and write a succinct Twitter post to get people aware of it. Or at least do that at the same time you post a balkanized “thread” like the author here and link to the more substantive post in the process.
Combines Tetris and exploration genres.
Underrated submission.
There's been a lot of studies done on racism in the UK.

Basically a victim is less likely to be punched in the face as compared to the past, but racism shows up in school grading, job finding success, hospital treatment, justice system etc...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/01/more-than-1200...

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/dec/15/job-discrimina...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/aug/28/facing-the-u...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jun/12/racism-north...
>I believe Brexit was such a complex issue that most normal voters could not be expected to be able to be informed enough to actually weigh up the decision.

I agree with that and a lot else you say. But the crazy promises being made by 'leave' (£350 million per week for the NHS, being only one of many) were just obvious lies (a con) from day 1.
Are you the original author?

This is a really fun exploration of an old premise, thanks! Great little easter eggs with color zone and the wedding.

(But I'm completely stuck in the hard rain, after 'Emergency - connect to snake', sometimes i survive the stream, sometimes i can't, i haven't figured out the state that makes the stream traversable.)
Though, have to tried to open up your tools for ActivityPub and offer your software as an interface to the Fediverse?

That's always been the intention, yes. Still a lot of work to do there. We don't have any ActivityPub support yet, but there is a lot of use of RSS/Atom and some limited support for ActivityStea.ms. ActivityPub is on the list, but I've had too many other things to focus on lately to put much energy into that. :-(
When I have multiple screens I run 95% of my applications in fullscreen mode. There is not much heavy lifting that a DE needs to do. Occasionally I use split windows.

Honestly, I think the latest version of gnome-screenshot that has been directly integrated into the DE is amazing.
So really anything on an AVR8 that isn't either an 8- or 16-bit int, unsigned or signed, is going to be complete and utter monster to deal with.

Natively the CPU deals with 8-bit values. Obviously that's a little cramped so you can just about get away with using a few more instructions to do 16-bit. If you absolutely must, 32-bit ints aren't horrible to cope with, but then you start to get into a lot of unnecessary code when you want to change size.

Even a very high level language like C is a bad idea on something so constrained, because C assumes that everything is a massive approximately VAX-like architecture with mappable memory all over the place, and limitless amounts of it, possibly as much as one or two megabytes.
My IRA and 401K aren't quite enough to sustain me, yet, but I'm getting there.
An Atari van would be pretty sweet.

+We're going on vacation.

-Flying?

+No, we're taking the Atari.
Putin’s War in Ukraine Became a Catastrophe for Russia
I'm currently enrolled in a reinforcement learning course. It's worth every penny!

https://joindeltaacademy.com/