skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This public vs. private split goes back a ways. When the eastern regions split off in 2014, many Ukrainian political figures took the public stance of recovering those regions at all cost, while privately admitting they were glad to see them go.

From a British political scientist who interviewed them: So...We can imagine that the Ukrainian leadership will continue to voice support for regaining the occupied territories, but not try very hard to actually bring it about. In interviews conducted in Kyiv in the summer of 2018, several elites asserted that while Ukraine cannot declare a policy of surrendering the territory, recent changes in law and in practice indicate a de facto policy of stabilizing the status quo rather than trying to reverse it. (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/08883254187910...)
One violence advantage pastoral peoples have over settled is that they are accustomed to herding, and driving said herds to slaughter; we have several thousands of years of history that tell us it is relatively common for h sapiens to take a skill once learned for dealing with 4 legged animals and apply it to 2 legged.

(another example: cartoon feudalism is the notion that dominance relations in a herd are also the proper organising metaphor for human society)
That's all of finance, translating from one to the other. At the consumer level, Klarna seems to offer to go from lump sum to subscription. Or just using a credit card, really.
"Simple made easy" [0] by Rich Hickey is a must-watch (even if you never touch Clojure)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4
If you want to know why, in the US, we call someone an "X-American", whether that is a German-American, Latin-American, Hispanic-American, African-American, then you need to know where these terms come from. Words always have a historical, rather than a logical, explanation.
I recently created a tiny tool to run code blocks from org files: https://github.com/eyeinsky/org_script

Essentially, you just mark the code blocks with `:script name`, and then can list or execute the block from a terminal. This also keeps the script in context within whatever other notes you had on the topic, when you were figuring it out etc. And if something turns out to be a useful snippet, you move it out to an actually separate script. :)
Does Mastodon have any plans for a global index of users as a distributed database, similar in concept to DNS?
It's not the point, having cheaper energy is not going to magically reverse priorities. Focus on what's important. Anyway, you work it out. I'm not gonna waste my time having a discussion here.
Nobody needs that much acceleration, but it helps drive home the fact that EVs have real advantages over combustion cars beyond not destroying the environment. And while you’re not going to stomp the pedal to the floor at every green light, instant torque is very nice.
Try doing a big bang and starting the
universe!
> I don't think so, considering how Twitter is somehow running better with 80 percent of personnel removed
reply

I believe you are getting downvoted (and now flagged and removed from the thread) for not substantiating your comment. HN does not seem to like single-line comments that do not provide info.

But I have to ask. Do you have any info or stats that shows that Twitter is really running better? By what metrics is it running better? Honest question.
By these days, what is worth "owning"? What do assure yourself that you "own" instead of having a subscription of?
Honestly I think this is all over thinking it:

> "In general, "

That's all you need to know. Those two words imply "but for -specific cases- there are other criteria".

Looking at the positive side: Now you get to police yourself and/or get to know yourself: will you bend your will to yet another digital tyrant and self-police your self-expression? Will every time you are ready to press that "send" button on a post with links give you pause, thinking "I think, "in general", I am toeing the line, o Supreme Leader, please please let me stay. Monetize me, do with me as you will, but please, just let me tweet!"

We're making a society of digital sheep, "are you in?"

p.s. all these efforts by various tech giants, including those who hold your 'email address' hostage such as Alphabet, are infringing on your digital identity, which they believe they own and control.

And without a durable independent identity, who are you in digital "society"? How could there ever be "democracy" in a "digital society" when people can be erased just like that?
> Twitter has always been an embarrassment in terms of targeted ads.

I now seem to be getting lots of ads from Saudi Aramco, and I have no clue what part of my Twitter activity would indicate interest in them. Running out of ad inventory seems like the most plausible explanation.
Honestly, I'm not even sure if this is a parody or not.
You Probably Shouldn’t Work at a Startup (2021)
I saw a mountain lion once at the edges of my farm. I was up there rather early..but it was darker than usual. I was going to be hanging around by the outer fence until the sun came out stronger.

And suddenly, I was face to face with a mountain lion. I have never seen anything so gorgeous up close and I was terrified. I didn’t know if I should maintain eye contact or back off. I literally couldn’t form a thought at that moment. The eyes were mesmerizing and I wasn’t sure if I couldn’t break off eye contact because he was pinning me down with his eyes.

And just like that, he(or she?) abruptly broke the gaze and walked away. To this day, I wonder if it was real. I don’t think I can actually explain how I felt but I can ‘replay’ the feeling when I remember that chilly foggy morning.

I have seen wildlife upclose before. My other favourite memory was when I was a young chef and I had a very short stint at a (very famous) restaurant in London near Hyde Park. It was my double shift and I was dead tired that I ran across the empty road to the bus stop. And just like that..a red fox emerged from nowhere..we had a moment and he dashed off.

I remember that moment. It brings forth delight in me everytime I think about that early morning hello. I see lynxes and bobcats and coyotes in my outdoor cam all the time. But I still cannot…simply.can.not..articulate that feeling of gazing into that mountain lion’s eyes. What a gorgeous magnificent creature!

I wonder what it thought of me and if I made a favourable impression.

I would like human beings to share this planet with the others who have the rightful ownership and deserve to thrive.
Still, it will also be a lot harder for Ukraine to get support from their western allies when it comes to Crimea.

First, it's considered vital by Russian strategists so the likelihood of Russia using a nuclear weapon if Crimea is at stake is higher than for anything else in the conflict.

Secondly, historically, the claim of Ukraine to Crimea is far more tenuous than for the other area at stake. Crimea has been at odd with the Ukrainian federation regarding its independence for as long as it has existed as an entity independent of the USSR. It was rattached to Ukraine in the act acting its existence as a political entity and one of its first move was declaring independence in 1992 which Ukraine rejected. They were de facto independent and very pro-Russia until 1995 when Ukraine sent its army and forced their government into exile. It makes Crimea pretty unique in the conflict as there is a legitimate claim that it actually wants to be a part of Russia rather than Ukraine which is why the western reaction following the 2014 invasion was so muted.
With regards to NIF being a military facility, I'd very much think that energy production (cheap, safe, limitless?) is very much a military needs as much as a civilian need.
Even if said energy goes further to power laser weapons or other exotic power hungry systems; energy is energy, and something has to produce it.
Example EDID: https://edid.tv/edid/752/ (one can also go through a github link at the bottom)

Most EDIDs are 256 bytes in that repo. At 500bps it may take seconds to transmit, but 115.2kbps (14kbytes/s) is enough to do it in an instant.

As usual, the issue is probably not a bus speed or a chip cost itself, but a crappy legacy timeout-based negotiation process which nobody touched or restandardized since it was slapped together. You can’t just autoupdate all compatible hardware in the world and move on.

My blind economical guess is that one couldn’t even find controllers today which are slow enough to DDC back and forth in seconds, because the package/assembly probably takes 95% of the cost anyway. Please correct me on that, I’m curious.
Mastodon is much nicer than twitter ;)
This proved that Twitter is bleeding out a lot of users and specifically named the concurrents he's scared of, and he just gave them free advertising.
> Can no EDID negotiation be faster?

No, at this point removing EDID will simply get the display not detected at all. It used to be optional in the times of VGA, where you could just drive out 640x480 "blind", but there's too much stuff in there these days.
No, but it doesn't need one. Or looking at it in at other way - as long as it is better than Slashdot and Reddit people will keep coming anyway - and that bar is freaking low.
Shuffle is very broken as it does nit perform a shuffle. Instead it performs random selection with replacement. It is much worse but the devs do not care and insist their way is "right".
>* Oh, you want to install a package, here are two very distant versions in snap and apt. Select one!

Well, Canonical has your back on that with apt installing snap packages.
Is posting links to other platforms not considered free speech Mr. Musk?
You might be able to do that with a master computer running OBS in studio mode, an HDMI capture car for each source you want to connect, projecting the scene to your Monitor all the time and some hardware device with buttons to switch scene.

But this is kind of a hack and you would possibly have undesired latency, especially noticeable when typing fast and moving the mouse.
One of the key points he makes is that this is now an entrenched problem. SoC designers looked to Linux and asked "hey, can you drive the power management stuff?" and got no real help and so instead just built it out of the purview of the AP clusters altogether. Hardware is essentially implementing an abstract interface that is convenient for Linux to use and hiding everything else that's too difficult to add.

The solution, and one that he specifically calls out, is that operating systems people need to work with hardware people to build better hardware and software together to build new computers. We got into this situation because everyone was just solving problems with the tools they readily had available to them. This is obviously easier said than done, but it does make now a very interesting time to work at one of those handful of large companies which produces their own custom SoCs and operating systems (I believe it's Apple, Google, and Microsoft) since you really have to take both operating systems and hardware forward simultaneously to solve the underlying issue.
Or perhaps cancer is better treated in California.

Or perhaps palliative care is better in California.

I’m not Californian, and I seriously doubt what I just wrote. But there most certainly are more factors that need to be considered here.
I think if we follow Hacker News Guidelines here:

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

We can reasonably take the comment along the lines of "even Murdoch didn't step in in this potentially harmful scenario." It doesn't necessarily hold him up as a paragon of impartiality overall.
I have been using less and less of Twitter for the past few years, then the recent massive move of the infosec community to infosec.exchange / ioc.exchange made the switch easy enough.
The internet was a military need from what I remember.

The military said something like: "Telephone routing is point to point and inflexible, if the enemy cuts out 1-2 lines of communication, an entire section is completely cut off. We need something better." That something better turned out to be packed switching where you just throw stuff along a network and the network ensures that the packet reaches the destination, but you could theoretically have two packets going from Bucharest to Johannesburg, one through India and the second one through Canada.
Thanks for your answer.

How does CI work in practice? how do you avoid rebuilding and retesting the whole repo at every change? That would be an insane waste of resource and time.
The situation is very simple.

1. PG broke one of Twitter's rules:

> At both the Tweet level and the account level, we will remove any free promotion of prohibited 3rd-party social media platforms, such as linking out (i.e. using URLs) to any of the below platforms on Twitter, or providing your handle without a URL:

2. Twitter suspended PG's account

3. Twitter got rid of the rule.

4. PG had his account reinstated.
Transnistria was created by a pro-Soviet rebellion, at a point where the Russian government was on the verge of collapse. It has a significantly higher living standard than Moldova, one of the worst nations in Europe, which its citizens do not want to join.

It wasn't formed by massive arms deals and covert invasion followed by actual invasion like Ukraine's separatists. The Russian 'volunteers' were defectors with ethnic ties to the nation, who became fugitives until the Russian legal system collapsed completely, and illegal paramilitaries.
And shorter supply chains. It doesn’t help that indoor ag is mostly used to grow lettuce and other low value produce. The only profitable crop is marijuana. And even that doesn’t boast of a great profit margin since legalization.

These guys are talking CEA. Strawberries may be the best crop, but not without automating harvest too. The entire supply chain has to be captured. Right now, they are just capturing data. What use is it if it doesn’t translate to actual profit?

I do not know even one indoor ag outfit that has made a single red cent of profit.
Honestly, I love snap because it's the main reason why I've switched to Arch after a decade of Ubuntu, and I couldn't be happier about it.
same here, I've been using arch for years both at home and for work, I love rolling release!

I'm using bspwm no DE, but I'm considering trying Arch+GNOME now that I've been forced to move to Ubuntu for work with my new job.
He considers LFP in his more recent work and you still run into mineral constraints. Even if you take his 4 week buffer to 48 hours.

> 1kg of lithium gets you 1kW of diurnal storage for a decade or two, whereas 1kg of Uranium gets you 1kW of power production for at most 8 years

That is an absolutely cursed comparison. What forms of these elements are you talking about? Why are you comparing energy storage to energy generation? It doesn't matter. We have enough U and Th to power humanity for millennia. We only use 0.7% of the U we mine for fucks sake. We're not even trying.

> There were multiple news items about...

Oh please, the news is saying we've solved nuclear fusion. The report was constrained to tech that was commercially available in volume. Come back to me when we're pumping out gigawatt hours of storage. Pumped hydro is great, there's not enough suited geography for it. No we can't just dig the reservoirs anywhere because then the energy payback goes negative.
Please don’t use subtle parody or satire. Poe’s Law is in action and people can’t tell if it’s real or not.
Well, you would only need to compromise a dns zone once and sneak in your DNS record. If the actual owner of the domain/zone does not carefully watch their records and if they use a different verification method for their certificates, then you'll have a continously operating backdoor. Maybe this is somewhat fabricated, but if you require a fresh challenge everytime, then that means the attacker has to maintain a compromised channel to the dns zone, which one could argue raises the bar significantly.
I enjoyed the sneak-peak into people lives, I didn't feel like following highly filtered technical blogs that tend methodologies the authors. Now I can see into people lives, pets, opinions, etc..

If you're not into that I get it. Otherwise for grifters, they're a real problem, but a highly curated, chronological timeline gets rid of them almost entirely.
A lot of people are surprised that Logan Paul is seen as trustworthy and that believing him is an extreme lapse in judgement.

To be clear, it is an extreme lapse in judgement. However, there are a lot of "little things" that make him accessible to a demographic of people. He talks in a way familiar to younger audiences. He participates in meme culture. He didn't get his fame from a "dad" job (the suicide forest bid and boxing I think? And just doing YouTube "stuff"). These are terrible reasons to trust someone but the critical thing is that they ARE reasons people choose to trust someone. Because in some cases, familiarity is the best yardstick for reliability some people have.
They reimplemented GitHub Codespaces without GitHub
Nuclear fusion is stuck into an "early MASER/LASER phase".

Laser was cool, but nobody knew what to do with it. These days we're at the stage where we're thinking: what can't we do with it??? But for about 3 decades (before CDs, basically) laser was a pop science laughing stock, more or less.

And fusion is much harder plus has been talked about and hyped for at least as long.
Archaeology is a subfield of anthropology in the US.
Nice. How is it better/worse/different to Ngrok?
Those are neat! Are there any EVs you can tow behind another vehicle and have that charge it's battery?
That could be a fun exercise, I'd imagine you might end up with something like "I Am Sitting In A Room" [0][1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Sitting_in_a_Room
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAxHlLK3Oyk
I am against both subsidizing and setting hugher standards. However, what you say is true.

But why not let the market show what there is demand for? Is it so bad that we always have to call for coercitive intervention?
I agree on the user experience challenges - although I don't think they are more insurmountable than several of the technical decisions taken by Twitter.

On the technical and scalability side, what challenges do you see? I personally see a distributed system of instances as something much more scalable than a centralized platform.
The author does acknowledge that COBOL and FORTRAN are still around in the ALGOL section:

> Of the four mother languages, ALGOL is the most “dead”; Everybody still knows about LISP,2 COBOL still powers tons of legacy systems, and most scientific packages still have some FORTRAN.

Which is kinda true. COBOL and Fortran are not "dead", but they're heavily "deprecated"; I don't think there are too many systems created today in COBOL vs just maintenance and support.

Maybe it's not the same for Fortran: it still powers a big chunk of Python's scientific stack (in the scipy package).
I've also been quite surprised watching that one, it's completely novel approach to fusion and it may be the best way to mass adoption.

If they can make it work that is.

What most surprised me about NIF's ignition announcement was that this was even news. I'd assumed for years that most if not all tokamaks and stellerators could already achieve at least some brief fusion, just not to a useful degree. Turns out they're all just elaborate plasma heaters...
I think you made a mistake when you read the quotation.

PG broke the rule when he promoted a prohibited 3rd-party social media platform.
I think the titular question is more rhetorical than actually attempting to give you a count. Lots of people do really think that there is one "computer" in their laptop when in fact the question of what a computer even is poses a way more difficult question. I loved the note on the MMU because it, aside from being a hilarious conference talk, poses the question of where we can even draw the line because clearly if the MMU can implement full programs than surely it's wrong to draw the line at the borders of a core on a SoC. Modern hardware is really funky and cool, and this article provides a good introduction to the chaos.
Tesla MedBed Generators: 2 MedBed Generators $19,999 [scam]
With no content, it's a dead platform walking. Screenshots of Twitter don't qualify as real community engagement.
A drop of 75%-80% in revenue doesn't seem like its anyone's definition of "running better".
I am so surprised this is not the case in all developed countries. Every house in the EU that is sold or rented, needs an energy label, ranging from G (>380 kWh /m2/year) to A++++ (0 kWh/m2/year). If you sell your house, it needs to be rated by an independent and certified party.

New houses need to have an energy label A+++ or A++++ ( eg energy usage of at most 50 kWh/ m2/per year, which in practice means all new houses come with good isolation, a heat pump and solar panels. Restrictions are also coming in 2030 that forbid renting out a house with a poor energy label, and subsidies are provided to home owners for measures that improve the energy label of your house.
"Got it!"
Or, perhaps, weird regulatory/big customer energy saving reasons - “TCO” stickers and whatnot imply some kind of standard measurement, can imagine a “wake from sleep on source change” benchmark driving odd behaviours.
It's very confusing that a company by that name [1] seems to exist already, in an adjacent/near area ("Keen Technologies Pvt Ltd. is a comprehensive repository for online courses offering high quality state-of-the-art IT and Business related e-learning and training related courses.").

Didn't he check first, or what?

[1]: https://www.keentechnologies.com/
The way this describes two treefolk seeing each other both aging slower is the first time I've really understood how two parties relativistic effects are both able to see each other aging slower than themselves: the points at which they are seeing each other are not simultaneous.
I wanted to check if it is due to stacking (security) patches instead of just extracting whole tarballs and the first result I got from Google was:
https://www.quora.com/Why-are-updates-in-Linux-much-faster-t...

Quora always had reputation for being shit but I am impressed by how terrible that page is. I mean there are only two 2 types of answers there: "Window$ is BAD" and stuff that looks like generated by GPT-3( or straight up from those infamous "recipe sites" a.k.a. SEO farms).
That said while the intent the current internet is pretty centralized at least in some senses.
Stagit: Static Git Page Generator
I got mid 90s (80s?) Steve Ballmer vibes
When patients carry out clinical trials
I feel bad for you.
Thank you for pointing out the possibility of loading it via other instances, that is interesting.

Is this always possible or is there a certain requirement, for example that this other instance has pre-fetched the posts beforehand?
Wow, that's a lot of nice data. Would be great if a third party would conduct independent comparisons with help from AVIF and JPEG XL devs, but comparisons not to be driven by either camp.
I'm a former nmap core developer and even though I no longer actively contribute the project still is very close to my heart. It wasn't "revolutionary" at first, in that port scanning was already a thing, there were multiple available scanners out there. Most of these tools had their own syntax though, and they usually offered one specific type of scan. So nmap came and aggregated everything into a relatively simple tool. It then became incredibly successful and from that popularity nmap got its greatest strengths IMHO : portability, versatility (these crazy options implemented to satisfy super-specific needs) and the OS and service version signatures captured as a collaborative effort over more than a decade!

Thanks Fyodor & team!