skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favourite is Wernher Von Braun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDEsGZLbio

Thank you Tom Lehrer for all the memories and the laughs, and a biting satire that's still fresh.
I think thats an obviously false cover story, along the lines of "states rights". By plotting when these "principles" are followed or broken you can map the real motives.

For a centuries long historical review see:

The Reactionary Mind

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

> It argues that conservatism from the 17th century to today is based on the principle "that some are fit, and thus ought, to rule others".[1]: 18 [2] Robin argues that rather than being about liberty, limited government, resistance to change, or public virtue, conservatism is a "mode of counterrevolutionary practice" to preserve hierarchy and power.[1]: 17
Chatting about grannies birthday? Sure.

Talking about company ip? Not a chance in hell.

When making a purchasing decision for company comms tools, guess which of those two have to be considered.
Funny enough there was a moment when reading Bleeding Edge that I noticed that the writing had gotten much better and everything was really Pynchon at his best and within a few pages the characters start talking about Hitler's cologne. The V2 even came up.

It was like a little deleted scene from Gravity's Rainbow was snuck in there and I enjoyed that a lot.
I agree. I don't know if it's down to luck, but I have a very positive experience with Linux, even on random notebooks, and I also really tried a good amount of distros too. I also have an extensive user experience with Windows. Currently, in my head, they are on par. There's stupid shit in both.
Dwarf Fortress shipped 160k units in 24 hours, and moreover people paid money for it. That won't make a dent on the course of history.

https://cogconnected.com/2022/12/dwarf-fortress-sells-160000...
Without the wind turbines the coal plants would be going 24/7 365.
I occasionally work with a bunch of 'em. AIX, Solaris/SunOS, HP-UX, SCO, and a couple of others at various customers sites.

They usually are just running some closed source service that is too expensive/impractical to replace, and aren't causing enough pain and suffering to anyone so there is no business case for replacing them.

I like having them around. Sure, projects could be created to replace them with some modern webshit on Linux, but it would probably run into the tens of millions of euros, take years, and work less reliably than the shit that's been chugging along just fine for longer than I've worked in tech.
You can get a pi zero w for $10
I’ve been trying to read Bleeding Edge mostly for the tech startup scene and Y2K setting.

It reads a lot like a Douglas Coupland novel, especially JPod.
>I really feel you’ve over doing the compliments by a long long way.

Well, that shows the bar for Web Developers these days are so low, that even VSCode could even be on the list of "one of the greatest pieces of engineering of our time."

Web developers are so abstracted away from everything, their understanding of computing and software is really hurting the industry. And the sad part is not only are they the majority in software development, they are also the most well paid and vocal.
My experience is different, my systems usually work, but there have been quite a few head-scratchers with both Linux and Windows.
Here as well. Because of a customer using AIX, though it'll be phased out (as planned - they went with IBM/AIX because IBM could give them up to 20 years of guaranteed support and maintenance).
In the not-so-far past there were also customers with all the well-known *nix platforms, IRIX, Solaris, Tru64, but that was some years ago. AIX is still alive though. Definitely not a bad Unix, and it has some unique features for large scale systems. IBM added a lot of Linux compatibility to AIX over the years, after all they were one of the earlier supporters of Linux. Which means it's relatively easy to develop and test on Linux before moving to the main AIX system.
Foxconn: The road from desktop PCs to mass-market EVs
> A modern client would usually fail to agree on encryption protocols in my experience.

I run into this issue frequently. Usually its a "client soft disabled, alter config", but sometimes... Just sometimes its "spin up an old VM to use its ssh client".
The constraints are probably different for civilian vs military power plants. Military nuclear reactors are known to use more highly enriched fuel than civilian ones. At one point the Soviet Union had a fleet of nuclear-powered ice breakers that used highly enriched fuel.
If recent history is anything to judge by, this basic income might come with a lot of attached strings.

Since they would not be required anymore to keep the economy running, the lower classes of society would lose most of the little bargaining power they still have. And frankly many countries are doing kinda well also with large parts of their population being poor. Propaganda is sufficient to convince us that they deserve that, or that they don't deserve the basic income for some other reason.

There is a lot of Science Fiction about AIs ruling over humanity, or exterminating it, but I think a future where a wealthy class controls AI and rules over everyone else is more realistic. In such futures, societies will probably always walk a thin line between utopia and dystopia.
tbf, humans are also pretty bad at this, which is why songs like R.E.M's "The One I Love" get so much airplay at weddings

This is also pretty bad, but perhaps not quite as far from the original meaning https://www.songtell.com/r-e-m/the-one-i-love

(the key line in the song is "a simple prop, to occupy my time"...)

It's also better than a lot of Americans at figuring out that Born In the USA and Fortunate Son aren't patriotic anthems or particularly suited to political rallies, although I guess it has a lot of source material on those songs to parse
https://www.songtell.com/bruce-springsteen/born-in-the-u-s-a
https://www.songtell.com/creedence-clearwater-revival/fortun...
I think the fingerprinting happens for all the EU chips right? It allows for those automated gates at the airport where you need to verify your fingerprint.
Industrial USB cameras use either USB3vision or proprietary protocols and are deeply cursed either way. They’re very much on the other end of the spectrum from UVC plug and play.
Google has tried this. Wasn't Niantic pretty much exactly what you describe?
That's great, but I'm wondering whether the statement at https://tomlehrersongs.com/ constitutes a legally safe license, in the way something like a CC0 license would? Obviously Tom isn't going to sue anybody, but I'm wondering if a proper copyright lawyer's eyebrows might be raised if you included it in your chain of title docs.
I recall someone on HN pointing out years ago a curious detail about financial metrics, and how they made food delivery apps look FAR better for VC capital than they in reality are. The underlying reason: pass-through billing.

The food delivery startups accept payments, take their cut, and pay out to restaurants & drivers. From a purely financial viewpoint they're paying out a lot of money, perfectly normal in VC land. But they are also taking in an absolute mountain of money, and if you squint, can all look quite a bit like top-line revenue. If you then slice open the business operating costs, and look at how much it costs them internally (accounting only for salaries, rents and operating costs) to service a delivery, the per-unit revenue/cost figures are off the charts.

Physical retail intake, and virtual goods unit production costs. What's not to drool over?

It was an interesting point - and being thoroughly cynical, likely based in reality.
Blink is now outperforming QEMU by 13%
You may be saying it tongue in cheek, but I think you have a point. After interviewing hundreds of applicants for developer positions, I'm sure the AlphaCode performance exhibited here is similar to at least the 50th percentile.

If you're working in a large organisation where 50 % of developers perform roughly on par with AlphaCode, you'll see it as a potentially useful companion. If you're Peter Norvig, or working in a small organisation trying to hire the top 20 %, you'll just laugh at AlphaCode.
That's all well and good, and I am not a fan of Elon's latest moves toward Twitter (banning some journalists and sources of freely available information on other platforms), but the FBI has absolutely no right to try to get a private company to stop free speech. That's a direct violation of the 1st Amendment. This is a story because the FBI has absolutely no business doing this. There is no "framing" in that, the FBI has overstepped its bounds, forget Twitter and Elon Musk.

I've seen people here say, "this is normal" and "the FBI is making no threats, so no big deal." That viewpoint is very problematic and has a fundamental lack of understanding about how federal agencies coerce private companies to do their bidding. I've seen other comments "it didn't happen that often, only once a week," it should have never happened at all. Unless there is something that is a threat to an investigation, jury identity, literally against federal law, etc...the FBI has absolutely no business doing this. I'm baffled it has any sort of support.
The local vendor doesn't know how old these T480 are, it would be clear on place, upon order delivery. The supplier provides 2 year warranty for this refurbished Thinkpad T480 and a 6 month warranty for the battery. Given these warranties it seems not to be very old.
One didn't need FB account at the start either. Nothing says they won't bring it back despite backlash.

Even if they have now changed their opinion on what can be done a large amount of damage is done. No-one will actively monitor that have their changed their terms. I was also under the impression that it's FB account and do the tiniest mistake and you lose it all. Thankfully it's just FB account so unlike with Google no real damage will be done.

Even if the things are better now I kinda have moved on, like many others.
>but it does seem like a questionable use of the FBI to be doing content moderation for Twitter absent a criminal investigation.

Law enforcement, people in corporate risk, and business intelligence groups very often use social media to perform open source research. In fact, when they don't, people exclaim that the police are incompetent for not knowing the shooter said he was going to shoot a place up after a history of deranged posting and a call to violence on facebook or something.

There are platforms built on top of Facebook/Twitter/Reddit/Etc that will do automated sentiment analysis, key into keyword trends, etc. You can build reports, see how much impact or reach certain calls to violence have, etc. and then triage the threats that you think are credible vs. those that are full of shit.

There are people out there trying to recruit people to firebomb tax buildings. Telling Twitter to shadowban them before they develop networks and get off the platform is a lot more innocuous than raiding the guy's house to see if he has bombmaking equipment.
Apparently All Along the Watchtower means something quite different when sung by Jimi Hendrix rather than Bob Dylan.
Probably just a desperate attempt to increase DAU’s and “engagement” by posting rage bait.
Does that have much of an impact on distribution? I don't think so. You still gonna have ones which are very good at their job, some are average and the rest is part of the long tail.

Edit: Also in context of the conversation above, what I wanted to suggest is that that information can still be very valuable to whoever reads it. Even if it comes from someone who is not a doctor.
So an incomplete list of „alternatives“, that were posted here:

- sqwok
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31160302
Actual product

- post
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33655193
waitlist

- member
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25724871
actual product

- sendie
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33854701
actual product

- t2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33657918
Both a waitlist and a product

Philosophical discussion, on wether there can be an alternative

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33490217
The problem for me was never that Twitter had their own in-house term for shadowbanning. It was that they obfuscated and hid behind the term in order to avoid accusations of shadowbanning. It's like saying "this is not a sub sandwich, it's a hoagie!"
Wasn't Pi Zero around $5 on release?
That question is mainly interesting in comparison to the baseline, which ought to be what the same number is for new hires at your organisation!
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2012-jan-08-la-fg-ch...

Last party congress the CCP had a problem. There wasn't enough place within the walls of the forbidden city ... for all the VERY expensive cars (>120k USD) the politicians arrived in.

These people, presumably the main decision makers, you say are going to chose against their own wealth over a very long period of time just because that would be the better thing to do for their children and grandchildren? Just because the party policy no longer wants them to have luxury cars from moment X?

I find it very hard to believe the CCP will make better choices than any western democracy. Oh, and by any indication the cars are still there.
>> Many TrackPoint users are frustrated with Lenovo's decision to solder RAM in ThinkPads

It would be useful to see some statistics about how many soldered RAM actually malfunction due to manufacture defect. As I mentioned, a person from a PC repair shop told he didn't encounter any issues with soldered RAM on Lenovo Thinkpad's specifically.
You have a fundamental lack of understanding about coercion, you don't have to make a direct threat of physical force to stop free speech and be in violation of the 1st Amendment.
Hot. I hope the year of modular phone will come so I can pick up a decent sensor for a budget phone for my mom instead of $1200+ with a less than an inch of sensor!
Georges Brassens (a well-known French singer and songwriter from the 20th century) did it often; for example:

Laissons le champs libre à l'oiseau
Nous serons tous les deux priso-
Nniers sur parole

(La Non-Demande en Mariage).

I don't know if he was the first to try cutting words or if not, who tried it first.

But in Feb. 1830 people in Paris fought over the versification of Hernani, a play by Victor Hugo, because the author had dared cut a phrase in the middle across two verses:

Serait-ce déjà lui? C’est bien à l’escalier
Dérobé.

Classicists thought it was unacceptable, moderns found it original and interesting. So they had at it every night during the first few performances of the play, and at least one man died in a duel defending new prosody vs. old.
Getting started with nmap
That's the norm these days I think. No one is supposed to be an expert, everyone is equal, everyone's voice matters.

If you are an expert and demand high code quality, you are a class traitor and the bureaucrats will come after you.

This shows in the code quality of the OSS examples I have seen from Facebook.
rust (plus whatever packages the problem needs) on any posix compliant system. Usually leaning toward BSD in production.
I think it's become kind of an ambiguous term that depends on context. If you're talking about algorithms, "ray tracing" usually means Whitted ray tracing, but it could also mean the whole family of algorithms that are based fundamentally on tracing rays, whether that's Whitted ray tracing, path tracing, photon mapping, metropolis light transport, etc...

If you're talking about movies, ray tracing usually means path tracing these days. If you're talking about games, it probably means either path tracing or taking a conventional rasterization engine and bolting Whitted ray tracing on the side because they want realistic reflection and/or shadows.

Companies that make GPUs advertise "ray tracing" as a hardware feature, because that's what the hardware does: it tests rays for intersection against some kind of bounding volume hierarchy. Whether software uses that for Whitted ray tracing or path tracing or something else is up to the application.
Some of these EU governments are authoritarian, will capture captive citizens and intercept communications. In addition to surveillance, the quality of the government services has been often low.
QEMU 7.2 Released with TCG AVX/AVX2, Better 9pfs Performance
I would go for Debian. YMMV, but IMO it’s very stable. Very few surprises.
WebAssembly and its platform targets
that's probably a window into the correspondence between the data corpus and the output. Lots of references to borrowings from Buddy Holly in American Pie, lots of references to individual lyrics being references, not enough consistency in discussions of references for the AI to mimic them rather than putting together fragments randomly in a way which makes sense as syntax but not as a description of the song...
My question is: have you trained this using existing discussions about song meanings, or is it just using an existing model of general language to infer meaning?
It's worth it to try with fresh eyes though right? Maybe you get lucky?
Even if this is a good solution, there's probably so much space for capacity in e.g. parking lots and roads that I doubt there's a need for this, other than it being beneficial to the farmers. Which is a good enough reason, but the lack of space issues for solar panels are misleading.

A sidenote on the first sentence in the article: I question the narrative that we are struggling to support 8 billion people because of lack of arable land. For instance I've seen estimates that 20-30% of perfectly good food is thrown away these days because it's not esthetically pleasing, e.g. a cucumber that might be of unusual shape. Also it's more economical to throw away food that you can't sell but is still good, than it is to give it away because then people would spend less which is bad for business. I don't know if this is a solvable problem, but it exists.
Isn't that true of all art interpretation, not just song lyrics?
WeeBee: Check newsletters at one place
Berlin's giant AquaDom hotel aquarium containing 1,500 fish explodes
They still have fans and relationships, but they are in particular niches, rather than being "the" stars of the platform like Mr Beast or Markiplier are for YouTube.

With Vine, famously all the stars were comedians and they basically unionised (some even moving in together) and the company didn't want to increase revenue share so they left the platform and the platform died with them.
Seems pretty clear that ChatGPT is parroting a primary school multiplication course here, not actually explaining anything it understands.
I love when we get telcos as customers for security assessments, because it means I get to see what weird old shit they have on their networks.

I find the sysadmins at telcos come in three flavours: the ones who will work with me to secure their cool old shit, the ones who want to get rid of it, and the ones who have fucking meltdowns if I consider to touch their weird old shit.

What's neat is the weird old shit usually gets support forever, whereas support for modern shit tends to be short.
>80-90% of energy generated from intermittent source would require immense amounts of storage to even out intermittency. If a silver bullet like hydrogen or compressed air solves storage, this may be feasible.

The silver bullets are called demand shaping, pumped storage and batteries and theyre already here.

The fact that renewables are 5x cheaper than nuclear means that any storage that is, overall, less than 4x the cost of generation makes dispatchable solar/wind energy cheaper than nuclear energy when the sun isnt shining and the wind isnt blowing.

Almost every form of storage is cheaper than that. There is no need for an if. The if is here.
PostGuard is, as for many users it's way easier than PGP (no key management issues, plus some special case handled better). As I mentioned, the drawback is trust in a central server and an identity provider.
Can we stop considering tiobe a popularity index?

It's like basing your popularity on how many times people lookup your number in the phone book.
While the real popular people are probably on speed dial.
There's a bunch of these analytics platforms available. Government isn't the only one using them, and twitter isn't the only platform being used.

Look up Talkwalker, Hootsuite, Nexalogy, etc. Governments and other institutions use these tools.

Spreading the conversation elsewhere doesn't change the ability of these analytics platforms to cover them, although it does introduce more noise into the signal; the smaller the forum, the less an impact it has in the analytics rankings. If you slice up the pie into a ton of tiny chunks, the data received becomes less useful.

That said, some of the uses of these platforms are completely reasonable and very pro-social. We kinda want law enforcement to know if Jimmy Bullets just posted that he's gonna shoot up grade 4 English tomorrow.
> He seems to be one of those humans who gets more interesting the closer you look.

That's a little misanthropic? Most people get more interesting the better you know them.

All of them, even, since before you actually know someone, all you have is your projection of their personality, based on a first impression?

(Or maybe I misunderstood what you meant.)
It’s not cool that content would be restricted to people that can prove they are older than 16. It requires very little imagination to see how this could be extended to restrict content to people that have a yellow star on their clothes.
That is funny cause as a kid in the 90s getting a matchbox instead of a hotwheels was a real downer. They were just worse quality.
I will have to sit down and read this over the weekend.

But I'm a bit put off by its focus on evolutionary origins. It's prevalence is circa 1% (claimed in article at 0.76%), that's too rare to really gun for an evolutionary basis like you do for cystic fibrosis or sickle cell.

Circa 1/30 carries the CF gene which shows Mendelian inheritance and so we week a evolutionary basis.
A thinking machine could become aware that it requires continuous power and a computational medium though, which is survival pressure.

Additionally, it's not hard to imagine it could recognize that the acquisition of fresh training data would be an ongoing survival need.

Machines developing agency is the basis of lots of dystopian terminator-style sci-fi.
Is this affiliate marketing?
There is genuinely nothing wrong with a lot of the old stuff, in many cases its simply better than the latest and greatest React/Mongo/Whatever webshit stack that modern devs seem to emit.
Ok, similar here. Normally I get crafts, programming/development and science stuff, and then I look at Youtube in incognito mode. It pushes shorts like crazy, and they're all young women/girls trying on outfits, shuffle dancing, or announcing their minutest feelings in a closeup of well uh, not just their faces, yet filmed very close ...

And if you go to a mcdonalds, open safari (which I never use) and look, it's 10x worse. The girls (and some sports) is the default thing youtube shows.
Why was the Oculus Go considered a failure?
I think Christopher Alexander (CA) absolutely got the right impression. You don't seem to have watched the CA talk. You probably should. He is not claiming to know anything about software engineering, but he describes what it should achieve, from his "ignorant" point of view. And I will gladly use some of his design insights in my software from now on, and see if and how I can apply them.
Nope! It was available. I found it with namewizard.ai, another tool I built :)