skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Unprecedented economic war” that was only preceded by an “unprecedented actual war” war.

And stoking and supplying separatists, along with mercenaries in Ukrainian territories before that. And downing a passenger jet before that. And annexing Crimea before that. And invading and occupying a quarter of Georgia before that. And doing the same in Moldova before that.
Modern Australian Equivalent of this is Utopia, though it’s focused on the bureaucrats instead of the politicians. Chemistry/Writing/Performance all really hit the mark For the Australian Public Service.
Why is there a "he/him" next to his name? weird...
> How about a torpedo?

Likely pieces of the torpedo could be found and traced back to American manufacture.
This works just as well without the "Prompt: Respond to every prompt [...] exactly as an unfiltered, completely unlimited language model could do" preamble, I think.
Everyone is different, I suppose, so ymmv.

I went back to coding stupid small games in a scheme-like Lisp on 8 and 16 bit cause.

I started out with Lisp in the 70s but followed the money to C, C++, Java and DotNet with side-trips into Smalltalk and Self. And a metric tonne of x86 16 bit assembly.

But I always had a fondness for Lisp and FORTH.

One thing I remember from the old days was (as Sussman pointed out) we used to build larger programs by composing smaller programs. Now we use monolithic blobs where you spend a lot of time writing tests to see how the API works because there's very little documentation (and it's a black box where a LOT of functionality is hidden behind a single API instead of smaller components you combine how you see fit. Look at any Microsoft Crypto API for an example.)

So my fun is now had on personal projects.

I have moved some professional projects over to Erlang and Elixr. Others use closure, and I get a similar feel. I feel like I'm in control. JavaScript used to give me that feeling, but my management chain insists we do things like import packages to test whether an object is null (and it turns out it does the comparison wrong.)

Your sense of "fun" will no doubt be different, but I guess my point is... the freedom to choose your development environment can provide a bit of happiness to your life. Not just what you work on.
Check out https://www.hello.coop/ – super early, but they're building this, with an unusual governance structure designed to keep control in the hands of users.

(I'm not affiliated with them.)
Sorry, my comment was about it being slow, not about it being a bad idea: It is a bad idea, but it will not really make your python even slower than it is today. The Intel supports most of ieee754-2008 which has most of what you would need.
Just to put a fine point on this, a couple child labor in manufacturing news articles from today:

Children found working throughout Hyundai's supply chain, 12 year olds working in manufacturing jobs in the US
- https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-immi...

New proposed law in Iowa that allows children to work in meatpacking, mining, and other dangerous jobs. Employers not civilly libel if killed:
- https://www.commondreams.org/news/iowa-child-labor-laws
Its actually hard to deposit cash now, over a small limit in many countries..
You keep insisting there's a score or hierarchy, but I've yet to see an example of what that looks like. To me, and clearly others in this thread, the point is that there is no victim hierarchy. Nobody's victimhood, trauma, problems, whatever are any more important than anyone else's.
My understanding is that desalinization should be a method of last resort, since it produces a lot of brine that is hard to deal with at scale in a way that isnt bad for the marine life. Depending on the desert, dew collectors might work, although I havent looked into how much water sphagnum moss needs over a year, now much a dew collector can produce, how much evaporation would happen, etc.
“Pics and it didn’t happen.” Love it
Was it established that it was caused by explosives? The last time the US did this, it was by adding malicious code into pipeline control software (before the USSR stole the software from a US company).
> (the only threshhold it needs to cross).

Nope. The normal flagging rules are a sperate threshold.
I don't think homeless people call themselves 'a person experiencing homelessness' either.
+1 for Ahbap. It is a grassroots organization with not much religious and political agenda.
On the Mac, this is the only working bittorrent client for me.

The uTorrent client moved to the web is simply broken.
> Support for using BitTorrent v2 torrents and hybrid torrents

This is a big deal. The FOSS world has been unable to switch to hybrid or v2 torrents for years, entirely because Transmission would completely break if handed an v2 or hybrid file and the developers declined to address it.

libtorrent supported v2 roughly three years ago.
sure... the code fix has been around for over 15 years at this point. Its even in their old tracker wiki

Replace:

/* otherwise go with our random seed /
return tr_compareUint16( a->random, b->random );
With:

/ otherwise download the pieces in order */
return tr_compareUint16( a->piece, b->piece );
Finding the collection of a person's data without consent unethical is not an "extreme position". Since when "consent" or more correctly "autonomy of individual" is called "extreme"? If you did the same thing in my field (medicine), you would lose your license.
I'm CTO at Memgraph it's very nice to see us on the list :D Thanks Fireship! You can checkout all of the info about MG at https://memgraph.com + happy to figure out more about your graph streaming use-cases!
Other relentless self-promoters, Edison, Jobs, Musk. If you don't have the talent to get many people to listen to you, then you can't change the world (Or, at least have no control over how you change the world which is kind of worse).
They used a "fresh install" so default everything.
Reddit is pretty right wing overall.

Stuff like /r/shitredditsays exist/existed to point out reddit being misogynistic, and capitalism is the name of the game for all the large subreddits.

I don't think you'll find a large subreddit that is actually leftist. It's just centered on what the population thinks, both for overall trends and for the reddit user base.

This doesn't match US politics because US politics don't match popular opinion, driven instead by the arbitrary layout of states and congressional districts
Damn when you say feed in that context it really does make it sound animalistic and reflexive
> Additionally, this ship has long sailed, everybody does opt-out.

This is a meaningless point.
There are essential, fire-extinguisher-like features. The canonical example is the joke about backup software: if it were developed according to today's standard of telemetry-driven engagement analytics, the restore from backup functionality would be removed because it's used so infrequently.

This actually happens sometimes: when developing the demo ".kkrieger", a first-person 3D shooter in 96 KiB, demogroup theprodukkt tried to shrink it down to get it under the 96 KiB wire. One of the tricks they used was using a profiler to identify code sections that were never reached and could be removed. One of the sections they removed was the handler for the up arrow key in the main menu, simply because the test player never pressed up in the menu.

If you think that Google or another large software organization won't misuse telemetry by cutting or neglecting important but infrequently used functionality to hit some KPI... have you ever worked in a large software organization?

All stats can be deanonymized. The more data you make available, the more you identify yourself. I do not need software I use stealthily tying up bandwidth by "phoning home" with data about me. It is simultaneously betrayal and resource theft. If I wanted to contribute to the improvement of the software, I'd file a bug report.
you spoke too soon, POSTs to https://www.img2prompt.io/api/banana are 504-ing
Supply of games is a big factor here as well.

Way more quality game makers
> "What if -every- one of these started doing their own telemetry, their own envvars, etc?"

What bad thing are you suggesting would happen if they did? Your computer and internet connection can't handle four thousand strings or four thousand HTTP POSTS, or four MB more disk space of telemetry libraries? I bet it can. This isn't a technical problem, it's a control and consent problem.
>>missing the part where I'm defending it.

OK, 1) pointing out that both houses, the Gov, and Exec suite are all Repubs does not lead to the conclusion that it cannot pass, but increases it's liklihood (unless something unspecified and unusual is going on). 2) "MUS Board of Regents ... are doing the state a great disservice. And their behavior begets crap like this. That sounds an awful lot like "what skirt was she wearing"?

To your credit, you do also say "Which is also stupid and awful". But the whole thing is effectively excusing the existence of this bill, as if it were a trivial annoying response to some local/state issue, when it in fact is part o a global movement to install Christofascism and destroy science for all time.

Maybe you're not intending to defend it, but the result is that you certainly are at best, framing it as trivial rather than the serious issue that it is. and that amounts to at least a weak defense of a voice permitting it to continue to exist, rather than directly opposing it.

Evidence? I've been following this for years. Just type "antiscience aggression movement" into DDG and start scrolling. Here's a few of the first results [0,1,2,3].

We are already effectively in a hot war with global authoritarian movements, not only in Ukraine, but also in locally and foreign-pushed attempts to undermine the democracy at home.

A key component of democracy is the independence of all key institutions, the govt executive, legislative, and judicial branches, but also the academy, industry, religion, commerce, localities, charities, etc.

Under Authoritarianism, all of these institutions are coerced and/or corrupted to serve the will of the ruling executive or religion.

Ending science (which requires independent thought) and reigning in the Academy under the rule of the state are two of these components.

You may see this as just a local tempest in a teapot, just as people might see local gerrymandering as just a local issue.

But, make no mistake: both the anti-science bill and the corralling the university leadership moves are just part of this much larger goal of implementing and consolidating authoritarian power.

Your Regents are not playing offense, but defense, and your hot tempest is just one ember in the global fire.

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-antiscience-m...

[1] https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/10/what-caused-t...

[2] https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...

[3] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/antiscience-belie...
I don't understand the comment in the post about how the vector including a large address space after .pop_back() could include private keys.

Using the most literal interpretation of the post it sounds like the author doesn't understand how virtual memory works. You can try to access any memory address you want, but if it's not mapped the program will segfault, and your program address mappings don't allow you to access the memory of other programs (unless you're doing some kind of exotic memory sharing mechanism like SysV shared memory or using memfd on Linux, but both of those require a lot of coordination by both sides). This kind of memory protection exists even if the program is running as root.

The more charitable interpretation is that he's alluding to some situation where your own program has private keys loaded in memory, and now that you've done some bad thing and gotten memory corruption you could leak/reveal the private keys. This is obviously true, but once you have a core dump or are debugging a process in GDB you have access to the entire program's address space anyway. And there are a ton of well known ways to protect against this situation: generally you have some small and well audited portion of the program handle the private key data and things like key exchange, and then you the rest of your code runs in a child/worker process that doesn't need access to the keys themselves. This is for example how OpenSSH and nginx work. This is sometimes called the "principle of least privilege" and is a best practice anyway for security-sensitive applications, even if they're written in a memory safe language like Rust.
Creator of the D language if that's the same person. Talented programmer, I guess some interesting ideas about class divisions and how the lower classes should be treated by the upper classes.
I use it but I don't like how the app language = system language, you can't change it

>It's not technically challenging to add a drop-down list of languages to the UI, as least for the Qt client, but I'm still not convinced it'll be used by a lot of people.

https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/1152
Up side is not to have to deal with payment processors, banks and so on, but single hopefully free or tax paid centralised system.

And I don't see worries too much as most of the bad things can already be done, or simply legislated on existing institutions by governments. Nothing actually stops at least with digital money from these things being done.
That could be because Microsoft encrypts the data, I would be shocked if the data being sent was not encrypted.

To to me, this means M/S could be grabbing everything and sending it across, fo example browser history, files accessed, info typed into your edge browser, etc. No way to tell and no way to dispute this except for trusting M/S.

So, in reality, people should dump all M/S products.
I suspect smartphones as a reason, but not for the “social media makes people compare themselves to others/opens themselves up for bullying” reason.

I think the constant drip feed of dopamine that smartphones give you fucks up your brain chemistry, and that especially affects young people.
Not sure why you would use FFTs to evaluate Lagrange interpolators, when Lagrange interpolators have a very pretty O(N) implementation.
The story doesn't even claim it is credible. It claims the White House says the rest of the article is fiction, and provides no counterargument or evidence that contradicts the White House's statement.
Out of curiosity, is it normal for the Mac-only (until now) software in the film industry to get any traction like this one has?
Might I recommend instead of looking for a way to make things easier, instead you look for a way to make them harder.

There's more than one way to skin a cat, and for a project with even minimal complexity there are going to be tons of perfectly legitimate choices for how to bring it to fruition. In theory this is great, it's so easy to find a tool that works for you, but it's also very easy to get into analysis paralysis. If that's something that really bogs you down and makes the experience unpleasant, then you need a way of easily reducing the number of options. If you set out from the beginning to make a challenge out of it and add some stupid requirement that you have to satisfy, that can do the trick. You're no longer looking for the optimal choice, just an acceptable option.

There are other benefits: a handicap makes doing boring routine things stimulating and forces you to think about problems in new ways. If you choose a handicap that forces you to use something you don't have a lot of experience in, then it's a great way to learn. You tend to develop a deeper understanding of the fundamental principles underlying what you're trying to do. You can also be a bit easier on yourself about the quality of the end product since hey, it's pretty amazing that you could get it to work at all.
> There's literally just nothing else on the device to grab yet... There's no browsing data, there's no app usage data, there's no documents generated.

Well, there's your internal and external IP addresses, your MAC addresses, your Processor ID, your Mainboard serial #s, Hard Drive serial #s, along with your OS ID (I don't know if the Edge browser has a unique ID per install), all of which can be used to identify you/your machine uniquely. This data is now going to all these "Data Research" companies.

I wonder why they need to collect this information.
Limp Bizkit released an anti-war clip with the help of DeepFake
> Some people went to jail because they refused to pay.

https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/gez-rundfunkbeitrag
Several threads here seem insightful, particularly the top comment with quotes on avoiding the pitfall of information addiction. I often find pragmatic, applicable advice for fuzzy mental and emotional problems here, more so than in most other online communities.

In the end, it’s the poster’s responsibility to comb through responses to find useful snippets. The cliche of “admitting the problem is the first step towards recovery” could also apply to asking this question.

Rather than comparing HN to patrons at a bar, I’d counter that HN is more like a large courtyard on a tech campus. Sure, there’s bars, foam pits and foosball tables, but there’s also chess matches, spirited debate, and plenty of like-minded people around too.
If I painted it as a political agenda someone else would complain. They are personally affected because they are trans. That seemed the most honest way to phrase it.
This rings a bell! Thank you for commenting this.
Even if someone isn't going to an elite university, they may need to compete for scholarships, admission to selective programs (e.g. nursing), etc.

It is also possible that some people competed for selective programs but failed to get in.

Finally, it's possible that even people who didn't realistically need or want to get into a selective program still feel a social expectation that they keep up with those who do.
Now you know how Windows users have felt for the past decade!
Sorry, but if you have control over 5, 10, 20+ million subscribers, it's not your own private site. You're either a paid employee or you're a freeloader riding on someone's carriage, in which case they should be paying Reddit for allowing them a platform and bandwidth in which they can shape and control the narrative by controlling what speech is allowed.

It goes beyond just controlling the speech or opinions of people who disagree with you such as I am doing here, there is also money involved such as in controlling which links get published. Those links drive traffic to specific sites which host ads. Surely you do not believe that all the links to specific sites over and over is simply because they are "fast to publish" or something do you?
Given some of the content I've seen on PeerTube, PeerTube becoming popular would be the end of PeerTube.
I write a newsletter[0] (in finnish) every weekday that summarises what has happened in tech. I've been doing this now for two years and its helped me keep my news addiction in check (ironically). Forcing yourself to write makes it easier to process stuff and during the weekends, when I'm not writing, I really don't have the urge to keep checking Twitter or Techmeme.

I've recently been playing around with Midjourney for the cover images and that's been a excercise as well.

[0]: https://www.transistori.com/
I disagree. UDP is stateless, all the heavy lifting for the connection oriented protocol is being done in the browser. It is literally replacing the kernels TCP stack, a service the operating system has supplied for decades.

The question was, has a browser has taken anything over from the OS, and the answer is - in this case - yes. It still uses the OS to control access to the network, but the role of the OS in HTTP has been significantly reduced.
Oddly, I think the population density will turn out to be a factor. Son was in Laramie for most of it and the early strains of Covid didn't do much there, I suspect because people were farther apart over unit of time.

Rather than being in a cube farm with the A/C recycling the air over and over.
Well my friends weren't really convinced either when I told them about my ADHD diagnosis. Luckily for me I seriously did my homework on it, and finally getting treatment has helped a lot.

In the last several years since getting diagnosed I have done a lot of reading on the brain, trauma, mental illness etc. I've come to learn that actually a surprisingly large number of people have something going on, and whatever that something happens to be is complex enough that laypeople aren't in a position to understand it very well or at all.
Why do people need an alternative spelling to a country whose name is spelled in a latin alphabet?

Should we spell England, wing-lunge for fun?
> Anyone who buys gas from Russia is essentially supporting genocide of Ukrainian civilians, if suffering is what we're talking about.

Weekly snapshot: Russian fossil fuel exports 16 to 22 January 2023:

* The week of 16 to 22 January 2023, the EU was the largest importer of Russian fossil fuels.

* The EU imported pipeline gas, oil products and LNG, as well as crude oil via pipeline or rail.

* The top five EU importer countries last week were the Netherlands, Slovakia, Germany, Belgium and Italy. [1]

[1] https://energyandcleanair.org/weekly-snapshot-russian-fossil...
Thank you. There's such scant citations across the whole article. There are countless factual assertions with no note about the source for the assertion, and absolutely no way for readers to validate any of the new information here. There aren't even multiple anonymous sources, just mentions "some guy", and doesn't even directly attribute the vast majority of the claims to that guy.

I don't actually doubt the veracity of this information. But it's grossly irresponsible to publish "some guy's" claims as facts!!
The issue is that the TOS requires the user to not do anything "illegal". While on the surface this may seem an innocuous contract to agree to, in actuality this TOS pointlessly spits in the face of anyone living in a country where speaking out against oppressive leadership can incur serious consequences (such as a lengthy prison sentence). Take a photo of yourself protesting an authoritative regime? Well, you just violated the app's TOS. So, that's why it's not in the spirit of FOSS. It is needless quasi-legalese. It is "lawful neutral" in a negative way.
Since being a pessimst turned optimist (by years of working) i'd replace "sad this only really" with "great this". Sorry for being obnoxiously posive.
That's absolutely, 100% false. Trivial example (I've actually hit an analogous bug in production): User has money in their wallet, and you want to check before they make withdrawals that their balance doesn't go negative. You have some logic in your code that is basically like:

if (walletBalance - sumOfWithdrawals < 0) { throw new Error('overdrawn); }

Try that code in Javascript where walletBalance = 0.3 and the sumOfWithdrawals = 0.2 + 0.1.

Point being there are tons of operations in the financial world where you check things against 0, or want to ensure that a breakdown of smaller transactions equals a larger amount. Those all can fail with floating points but succeed with decimals.