skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since you likely have it plugged in while it’s at home. Perpetually.
At my school (bsc. applied computer science at fi.muni.cz about 13 years ago), we had a special course[1] where you learned that you need to cite anything important which you haven't come up with yourself and at the same time it's not trivial knowledge. Otherwise, you are basically deceiving readers (people will assume that you come up with something which you actually didn't) and you lower value/impact you make with your work (people can't follow through the sources). We were even asked to cite help menu or manual of an application as an exercise. Using google one can find similar guidelines about blogs in particular[2].

I understand it would look bad if your publication is citing only few blogs, but in such case the actual problem is that you need find existing publications or books in your area as well. Deciding that you won't cite a blog while you are using it for your work is not a solution to that.

I haven't used google scholar, but is the problem with limited knowledge of the tool that one don't know how to do it? Or is the tool itself limited? This makes me wonder whether the tools which doesn't easily allow one to track citations properly are part of the problem. This was definitely not a problem with bibtex[3]. Either way, that is not an excuse to basically commit an academic fraud.

[1] https://is.muni.cz/predmet/fi/VB000?lang=en
[2] https://www.research-integrity.admin.cam.ac.uk/research-inte...
[3] https://jonas-moennig.de/how-to-cite-a-website-with-bibtex/
I can only guess that your vehicle has an electric cabin heater that works if the motor is not on?

If i "ran the heater without the engine on" in any of my vehicles it would just blow cold air, and for sure one uses engine waste heat for cabin heat.
It optimizes for what makes companies more money, once all of their costs are factored in. That's all. We - customers - are merely consumers to them, and our only role is to buy what they sell; to give them as much money as we can bear to give for whatever they're selling.

Externalities are equally ignored, and government fines are simply another cost (which is, ironically, why significant fines drive changes).
Reverse-engineering Japanese ebook DRM is much more fun than English. You run into all sorts of mistaken cryptography assumptions, fun exploits, obfuscation etc. Hint for bookwalker: check out the app
cosmic ray induced mutation
Adding support for collision detection to nix, involves a one or two line change to libstore. You should implement such an assert statementt and contribute it to Nix. Nix is open-source and would likely gladly accept it.

You are way overstating the importance of this. This is not a fundamental design flaw in the nix ecosystem. If there's actually no check it's because most people realize this is not a problem worth spending a lot of time on. But the time required here is a few minutes at most.
Ask HN: Favorite Holiday Gift This Year?
What was your most special, useful, or otherwise favorite gift you received this year?

Mine: smart outlets compatible with Home Assistant and a boot dryer for my White’s.
> almost all the undergrad students at elite schools are elite students.

Based on my own experience at an elite school (as a graduate student, teaching undergrads), this is definitely false.

> Why are people so willing to accept that from childhood leagues to professional, in basketball, football, soccer, etc. society scours and finds all the best players, and nobody is out to prove that it's not true, but that somehow we as a society are incapable doing it in intellectual fields?

Because athletic performance can be objectively and reasonably easily measured along many (not all) dimensions. Intellectual performance is (1) much harder to measure objectively and (2) much less socially acceptable to use such measurements. Good grades can indicate high intellectual performance, or they can indicate grade inflation. A high SAT score can indicate high intellectual ability, or it can indicate that your parents paid $4000 for SAT prep courses and 1-on-1 tutoring. Basing college acceptance on a battery of psychological tests might be somewhat better than current methods at selecting elite students, but (1) those tests would immediately become the subjects of a new test-prep industry and (2) it's not socially acceptable to do that.
This is a common post on Reddit along with them still falsely claiming he “went across state lines with a gun”.

These people did not watch the trial, and have no idea what they are talking about. But are certain that they do… ChatGPT levels of certainty… hmm, might be on to something there.
"We want it to look like MacOS, but without any consistency and keeping some system components that were written for Windows XP, but we haven't bothered to update yet."

"It will require the lastest processors and 32 GB of RAM because OEMs need to sell computers and all of the windows components are using Electron (or similar memory-hungry web UIs)."

"Teams and Loop will be fully integrated to enable maximum synergy for organizations and pro-sumers."

"MSN and News will also be fully integrated to help keep users informed about current events, their favorite celebrities, and great deals that are availble when they shop with Edge and search with Bing."
Strange article trying to extrapolate a very biased subpopulation and grasping at other aspects to claim this year was "the year of Linux on the desktop". Unix was already dominating anything non-personal and non-mobile. Personal use outside enthusiasts and devs is still a blip on the radar.

If anyone thinks otherwise, ask yourself how Windows continues to get away with such consumer-unfriendly practices.
But you did say ng would be replaced by synthetics. Synthetic what? Again I will ask, but I don't know why at this point, who do you think you are impressing?
I would like the FBI to stop school shooters, would-be terrorists, and foreign influence campaigns.

If Elon Musk’s Twitter refuses to help and as a result people die, I want Elon Musk held responsible.
If you look at most mass shootings you'll find articles saying the suspect was "known to the FBI."
For some reason they rarely stop them ahead of time. The Whitmer kidnapping is a recent example. Well, I guess they started AND stopped it in that case.
> The two people Kyle Rittenhouse shot, both had extensive criminal records. That's kind of amazing, that criminals would be such dedicated civil rights protestors. Simpler explanation is that FBI sent informants, or agent provocateurs.

“People protesting against the government were criminals as defined by the government they were protesting against. It unbelievable that anyone who is a criminal could be involved in something positive whether out of an actual belief or just being angry at the government that had punished them previously, therefor it’s obvious that there must be a government conspiracy involved”

Does that capture the gist of your argument?
I wonder if you’d have an issue with it if these organisations leaned mostly republican.

When this last happened in the 1960s and 70s, when it was the left that was anti establishment, and didn’t want the Vietnam war, or didn’t want Christian orthodoxy imposed on society, the left was obsessed with free speech and being anti government organisations.

Suddenly no one can think beyond their own party and as long as these organizations interfering with speech are on their side, it’s fine.

People really need to think longer term. It only takes one very determined president or one sided congress and senate to completely change these organisations.
This is an example of the FBI pushing a specific narrative, is it not?
amazing, the entire premise is false.
Is there any Linux distribution with MacOS levels of reliability, simplicity, and productivity, that can reliably be updated without the boot partition getting full, random things like thunderbolt docks not working, or sleep states being faulty (or the machine not working properly after waking from sleep), or external monitor resolutions being wrong, and monitor scaling working properly when you have two monitors with different resolutions?

Most of my colleagues at work picked Linux over a MacBook, and they waste countless hours fixing their various Linux bugs.
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> It's only cheaper if you're looking at a single purchase, not over time.

It's not entirely true, if you don't buy a new phone and simply live with a battery not holding power for more than a day, you get both cheaper price of the phone and a technically working phone.

Of course someone with higher expectations for battery time will have to buy a new phone sooner, but if you can't afford it, it's valuable to you personally regardless.
That was a hasty edit on my way out the door this morning. Reusing a password doesn't make it easier to decrypt here, it just helps with some secondary tasks, like validating decryption output (since ECB isn't authenticated). This is rather indirect, though -- not a great example. A better example would've been the password fitting in a single block (<= 16 characters).

The reason I suspect even non-random passwords might be mostly fine[1] is because there's no oracle and passwords are generally short. There's not much there for someone to hang their hat on. It's only a hunch, though; if tptacek for example says something different, I'd believe him.

1. Meaning: No need to cancel Christmas. You can deal with it later. Not meaning: ECB is as strong as CBC or whatever.
I have recently started wondering about the nature of a very specific bullshit enabler these days, which is attention commoditization. It almost looks like in the pre-AI days, there was a surge of online marketers trying trying to learn about people and behavior, occasionally employing dark patterns to get you to click. Later, with the surge of social media use, AI models were used to recommend content incongruent with the user's best interest. And it worked as it becomes increasingly difficult to go out in the internet to get a particular job done, but the sheer amount of rabbit-holes ventured to must me astounding. And now the trend seems to be shorts/stories/tiktok, which only looks to me as means to groom human attention for even easier override with clickbaits and ads.
I wonder how many people daily fail to focus on what matters because of the attention problems induced by the modern tech and is there any research about it?
I am looking forward to it. People will finally stop up each other in the name of meritocracy, and the society will equalize, because we will collectively recognize no one is really better and more deserving.

The industrial revolution did this with physical strength and fitness, and the recognition that muscle doesn't really matter anymore lead to general decrease in violence. In a similar way, we will stop mythologizing intelligence or creativity.
> proclaim [their] opponents a danger to democracy

Hmm, now where have I heard that recently?
This has been my observation as well. When I meet a boomer that went to an elite school I often find them impressive. Anyone that is a millennial that went to an elite school, rarely is more impressive than the folks I’ve met from second tier schools. For Gen-Z it’s a mixed bag.

All those schools have going for them these days is a reputation that’s no longer deserved, social connections, wealth and a sense of entitlement that scores them freebies from time to time.
Under the above theory, Federal agents shouldnt.
Local/state police have that power (the general police power) Not the federal government.
Nearly, except when using fish shell on non MacOS devices
I have a box I've been updating Mint on for the last 10 years with no real issues for the last 6 or 7.
That’s against the rules.

I’ve been doing this 20 years.

You can only say next year is the year of the Linux desktop.

No hindsight stuff allowed.
Rant: last weekend I finished building my teenager dream PC - 12 cores cpu, 64GB RAM, RTX 3060 12GB VRAM... GNOME on Ubuntu still managed to crash / hang on a fresh install.

Will try Mint / others, but it's a shame the "gateway distro for new users" is in such sorry state.
It's not an abuse of power unless the FBI threatens repercussions.

It seems like Twitter was more or less happy to oblige.

I don't see what the hubbub is about.
Always take Business Insider with a huge grain of salt. In addition, their articles can be very politically biased, if you know what I mean. Always consider the other side of the argument when reading from lower tier sources like Business Insider.
I think dang kinda just looks the other way because he knows people want to talk politics, but it's literally the first thing in the "off topic" section of the guidelines.

> What to Submit

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

The exception clause is "unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon, but according to all the top comments on the twitter files threads, "this is nothing new".

So yeah, you are misinterpreting my comment. I've just realized what HN is meant to be, or at least what dang wants it to be. I think he's an excellent mod, and I respect the guidelines. I want to come here and see cool nerd stuff like "can you play minecraft inside doom inside minecraft" and as soon as I see something political it puts me in a bad mood. And yes, if you scroll my comment history, you will see that I post mostly in political threads. But I have learned my lesson - this place isn't for that. There's no revolution to be started here, given the userbase is mostly financially well-off tech bros who benefit from the status quo. Just like me!
“This isn’t happening.” => “It’s happening and it’s actually good.” Also seems popular lately.
> The process by which Trump was pushed off is concerning.

Trump tried to destroy our democracy. I’m not being hyperbolic. The evidence is all there and all from Trump’s mouth.
What does this even have to do with elon?
Can 2nd this one, I tried Mint and Slackware this year, just because of the Win11 app checker thing kept popping and reminding me that i don't want another few years worth of BS like that.
Nah, not enough shipping to move the needle
"low quality" means "CCP doesn't like it?"

Let's suppose, hypothetically, that you wanted to demonstrate that you're not a CCP troll. What opinions do you have that contradict the CCP's position?

(I don't mean nuanced but safe ones like "they should have dropped the zero-COVID policy sooner" either.)
Same here. Beside phones that simply become outdated (slow, small storage, RAM fills up) or accidentally damaged, I had a Samsung Galaxy phone which wouldn't read SIM cards anymore, and then a Motorola phone which stopped being able to get a GPS fix. Both shortly after the 1 year warranty expires.

The result is I only buy cheap phones now (~200$), with the expectation that they'll last about a year. I have no idea how people can justify spending the price of iPhones and other flagships when they are apparently so expendable.
I'm not going to claim to be an american law expert, but when the agencies can just say "nope" to evidence against them in said court of law, it becomes hard to claim strong legal protections. I may be wrong and misunderstanding the law, but it does seem like that. And as a shot in the dark here I doubt it got any better after the patriot act.

"Joseph P. Nacchio (born June 22, 1949 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American executive... Nacchio was convicted of insider trading during his time heading Qwest. He claimed in court, with documentation, that his was the only company to demand legal authority for surreptitious mass surveillance demanded by the NSA which began prior to the 11 September 2001 attacks.[1]

He was convicted of 19 counts of insider trading in Qwest stock on April 19, 2007[2] – charges his defense team claimed were U.S. government retaliation for his refusal to give customer data to the National Security Agency in February, 2001.[3] This defense was not admissible in court because the U.S. Department of Justice filed an in limine motion,[4] which is often used in national security cases, to exclude information which may reveal state secrets. Information from the Classified Information Procedures Act hearings in Nacchio's case was likewise ruled inadmissible.[5] " [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio
> For every subject I create a subdirectory for downloaded resources and an emacs org mode file for my notes.

This is an interesting approach. I was tempted to learn Emacs just because of the org mode, but then I figured for my particular purpose (reading and taking notes of pdf textbooks) the org mode is not fast/good enough. But for other topics this is definitely a very good approach.

> I don't try to take lots of notes or copy everything in the resources I read.

Just curious, how do you reference the source material in the notes? I figured that's the most difficult thing for electronics resources, so one either 1) Simply copies down the source material referenced in the notes, or 2) Somehow electronically write the notes in the source material. Neither is quite satisfactory to me, thus the thought of adding blank pages in pdf files.

Thanks again for the reply, and happy holiday!
Pragmatically, what are good use cases of a twintree data structure?
They're going to be giddy when they learn about Chromebooks!
>I don't waste my time arguing with someone who might be arguing in bad faith. I don't waste my time arguing with someone who is lying, or who doesn't believe in anything they themselves say, or who is simply trying to manipulate me, or who is simply trying to insult me, or whose idea of veritable fact is utterly different from my own.

THANK YOU! Seriously, the whole "assume good faith" thing that you find on the tech sites (like here, like wikipedia) drives me completely up a wall.

Why on EARTH would I 'assume good faith'? Am I a moron? Have I not read the comment sections of youtube, yahoo news, assorted disqus and news forums and trolltalk? Am I completely unaware of 4chan?

I mean, I can understand that ideal back in the days of kuro5hin when Rusty was naively asking his trolls to tell him if they felt the need to attack k5 (and then nights in white satin happened...)...but that was almost a fucking quarter of a century ago!

To hold out that kind of naivete in 2010 -much less 2023, is idiotic to be quite honest. Obviously I don't advocate for some thunderdome style noise factory -more to the point I think it's on us to be aware that we're dealing with adversarys, keep our emotions in check (don't be baited) and do our own part to keep the conversation from descending into chan style flamage.

But assume good faith? Hell to the fucking naw -gtfo with that noise!
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Scale enables all sorts of things in technology that require new rules.

In theory, you could have 1000 people watching cameras with a list of people to watch for in 1980, but in practice it was too expensive and not a consideration. Now you can cheaply record tens of thousands of hours of video indefinitely and run analyses on everyone in them. This has huge implications on freedom and society and calls for new rules.

Just because technology is doing the "same thing" that was done before at scale does not make it the same thing.

AI is the same.
Story checks out, much to my dismay.
I do get bored of the evidently weak character and hypocrisy.
> It is simply a fact that ISIS did successfully radicalize and recruit western teenagers via the internet.

At no meaningful scale. If some dumbass wants to throw their life away in a foreign country we obviously should use all legal means to discourage that but part of being a liberal democracy means you do in fact have to give people enough freedom (rope) to hang themselves.
Ubuntu keeps getting better and better for me. This year I bought an Asus laptop with all the bells and whistles, and allegedly the only supported Linux was Fedora. I tried to get everything setup and failed multiple times, and then I went back to Ubuntu, installed a much newer kernel since Ubuntu distros are conservative there, and that was pretty much it.
Article says that doesn't include WSL / Docker
It's called Moral Panic.
The Royal Family makes a profit for the British government. Removing them would be a long-term loss. A better solution is for the British government to actually give a shit about the poor, but they don't.
Less waterproof? Oh no, how will we all be able to continue diving with our iPhones? This is such a common trans-European tradition, I fail to see how we will ever adapt to this change.
If it was only a regret on the deathbed, I'd agree. But if these regrets are held for many decades, and thus the pain from them may well outweigh a sacrifice in the presence - if the regretfullness is high enough.
Wiping My GitHub
ONLY a sith deals in absolutes!
Not affirming or disproving anything you wrote, it just reminded me that my mother once told that in one of the last conversations she had with my grandmother, she told her she never really loved her as much as she loved my uncle (or maybe that she didn't really love her much at all, I don't remember exactly). She was eventually senile enough to be unable to talk towards the end of her life.

I also found it interesting that my grandmother was extremely loving and caring to me. And my grandfather (who was ever less kind to my mother than my grandmother was) was very affectionate to his great-grandchildren (but not his grandchildren). Maybe they both regretted it near the end of their lives and tried to handle things differently with the younger generations?

But yes, I agree- I would guess most people had more tact and empathy than my grandmother apparently had towards her daughter, and wouldn't say something like that even if it was true. And if they did many their kids wouldn't be too quick to recount the experience publicly?
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