skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am jaded and probably being a little uncharitable. However, I don't know Russ personally so I have no reason to place a high level of confidence that a Google employee isn't going to make decisions that align more with Google's interests vs privacy interests.

If the nature of this data were different, I would be suspicious too. But it's really hard for me to see how a set of counters (whose names have various protections to ensure they can't contain private information) being sent approximately once a year is going to help with Google's advertising interests (which is what I assume you meant by "Google's interests"; I think they also have an interest in making Go better and the telemetry proposal aligns with that). This is literally the first time I've been OK with telemetry.

> Regardless, there are plenty of ways to upgrade the Go tool chain (snaps, distro packages, fetching latest via curl, etc) that won't result in the changes being immediately visible. Given that, I think you are painting an overly optimistic picture of a world though where everyone that cares about this is going to be immediately aware that opt-out telemetry has been added vs a lot of installs being silently swept up into this by sheer ignorance.

I agree there will be people who won't notice the disclosure (which will also be in the release notes), but again I tend to think that the people sniffing network traffic after installing a program would also scrutinize release notes instead of just blindly installing upgrades, which is why I find it pretty improbable that Russ' explanation was a pretext.

> Also, this is going to require me to go and set environment variables in about a dozen environments to disable the collection and while I can pretty easily manage that task via ansible I'm not happy about having to jump through hoops to turn off telemetry for a freaking compiler tool chain.

I think the best suggestion I've seen is that there should be a single environment variable (e.g. $TELEMETRY) that all programs should respect, to avoid the need to do work for every application.
Transmission on Ubuntu has been so hopelessly booked for so long... maybe in a couple years when they upgrade to thr 4.0 code base, it'll be okay.

Happy to hear people are working on this.
Also, Supreme Allied Commander Europe is General Cavoli. Stoltenberg is Secretary General of NATO. The former is what most people would call the "supreme commander" since has military operational command. He is American so immediately suspect. In between there is Chair of the NATO Military Committee, who is Dutch admiral.
good call. A triangle and square in the middle of each circle would eliminate the need for color all together.
It is for people who find binary gendered terms in language offensive.
Was it denazification, demilitarization, or de-satanization? I've lost track of the many stated goals. Or was it to help those poor souls in the DPR shoot down more civilian jets? Can't quite remember. Or was it to protect German speakers in the Sudetenland?

And anyway, it's not a war. It's a Special Military Operation. How more plain can you get?
i find myself having to do this:

"query" -quora -news -post -times -herald -sun -daily

but the old "reddit.com:query" trick is the best way i've found
Your link seems like the opposite of this story?
I agree that opt-out is a Bad Thing, but I disagree with this stance. And I think lots of people in the pro-telemetry camp see that there's an ethical issue to be discussed, but they reach a different conclusion. They shouldn't be dismissed so glibly.
My wife is a native Spanish speaker and an ardent feminist to her core.

It has always really bothered her about Spanish that (for example) you refer to one million women as “ellas” but one million men OR one million women and one man as “ellos.”

Despite this, she just cannot get behind -x endings in Spanish.
Exactly, everything (outside some probability (which is still a discrete decision point) comes to 0 and 1. I am a big believer of the core assumptions in any system having outsized effects in practice
ahhh just double checked and it is hidden behind a macro for libstdc++... see: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/e7Wj163PM
Oh, I know it's crazy impressive, just thought it was so funny that it keeps apologizing, telling me, ok, here's the same story in 100 words:... 67 words emitted
The scary link between ambition and infamy.Bernie Madoff Explains Himself (2016)
Speculation: There may be more news articles, TV segments, and online comments complaining about "Latinx" than there are people who have ever used the term to refer to themselves or others. It's never been a popular term among any group, not even among people who want Spanish to be more gender-neutral ("Latine" and the -e suffix seems to be more popular among them, probably on account of it being pronounceable.)

Plus, it's worth pointing out that there are some Latin Americans who prefer the term "Latinx" and use it to describe themselves. Not many, of course, but not zero. So accusations that it's only used by Anglophones are wrong.
Just by peaking over the Quora article it is enough to say it is a Russian propaganda piece, things like some UA nazis (Russians also have some nazi admirers), the "referendums" and so on. Even if these referendums were legit, does it really trump a nations sovereignty (I am talking from my own experience as a lot of Russians were imported and locals deported in my country during the Soviet occupation and these people never integrated and probably even today there are regions where the population is mainly these Russian imports who would gladly be part of Russia). The main issue is that Russia has the view of "either you are with us or against us" so if you don't play ball we will going to "fuck you". Personally, i think that nobody understand Russia better than Eastern Europeans and the West is pretty much failing (at least the EU West who thought that playing ball with Russia will get them to back off) - https://www.businessinsider.com/countries-that-warned-about-...
The Baltics have pretty much lived all their freedom years under Russian propaganda, let it be claims that we are nazis, russophobes and any other type of oppressors of the Russian people or even a threat of Russia itself. So seeing how many in the West are falling for Russian bullshit is just sad.
You should definitely try Meilisearch again. We have optimized a lot of the consumption and indexation performance. Even with all the improvements, we think it's essential to continue focusing on it during 2023.

And indeed, Meilisearch uses memory-mapping, which means that everything is on disk, and it will try to take as much memory as possible. For your information, we successfully ran a 115M documents dataset on a 1Gb RAM machine.
I would argue that the reason this is becoming a bigger problem across the world is because the US is exporting its ideas of free speech through the internet, tech companies, and social media in a way that wasn't done in prior generations of mass media.

I think we need to change the way we think about free speech. We already have laws that restrict free speech when that speech it defrauds or defames an individual. We need more general laws when it is society at large that is defrauded or defamed.
Weird how Windows XP managed to be a perfectly usable operating system without doing any of those things...
That's not something that would worry me as a negative if I was a union member on $15 an hour.

Also they've been raising cost of goods for the last five years without any pressure from the unions. While wages of Apple store staff have been falling in relative terms. So I do not believe anything would change.
Media company Ozy is attempting a comeback
It's already happening with fascist propaganda: https://joinpeertube.org/news/isd-study
> community is not the same as commenters because most readers don't comment

Do you have stats on what percent of regular HN readers have ever commented on any story? Or are stats more like, for every 100 readers of a story, 1 will comment on that story? To put another way: if I read 100 stories and comment on 1, would I be counted as lurking 99 times and posting 1?

Basically, I'm curious if engagement is lopsided toward lurking because some users never comment, or because most users never comment on every story they read.
I use both transmission and deluge.

Personally - I happen to like deluge more, but they both work fine.

https://deluge-torrent.org/
I used to follow Van Wong[1] because he is an engineer turned artist. But haven't seen much from him in last few years. And I follow various tags related to photography, lately underwater photography has my interest.

[1]: https://www.vonwong.com/
Presuming people who aren’t stressed about college admissions aren’t instead stressed about not going to college and having extremely stunted career prospects.
I don't think it's all telemetry. I suppose telemetry could be designed in a way that preserves the users privacy to an extent that is compatible with their native assumption. I suppose that design also depends on what you're building.

If you're building a website, I think it's fairly reasonable for you to store my IP. That's inside my expected privacy loss when dealing with a remote party. I have to connect to your computer, much like i have to physically walk into a store. I don't mind you remembering that I was there. Running a compiler on the other hand feels more "private" to me somehow. My expectation when using a compiler is that it won't send anything to anyone, because why would it?

In general I think our industry is starved for relevant and foundational ethics research, outside of the FSF at least.
The upcoming election(on May 14th if it doesn't get postponed due to the earthquake) will be unique across other elections Erdogan participated in over the last 20 years. This was the first election he might actually lose(by a margin of 5-10%) according to election polls before the earthquake.

So he did care about his popularity as he was the most popular one so far. Voters and the system were surely manipulated by the ruling party in the decade but opposing a decisive election result is a new line they haven't crossed yet.
That’s pretty neat. I didn’t even think of finite fields when I made my other comment. Another example where mathematical curiosities prove useful in cryptography.
When the EU and UK had that recent spat about sausages [1], my immediate reaction was "But ... this was an episode of Yes, Minister ..." [2].

[1] https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2021/0614/1227938-sausages-bre...

[2] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0751812/plotsummary/?ref_=tt_ov...
Just imagine the debriefing questions: Why did you guys blow up the wrong pipeline, and two hours before schedule????
> Does anybody else feel that way?

oh yeah, sure!

2 actionable things that changed my view on this things completely:

1) Huberman lab podcast on dopamine: https://hubermanlab.com/how-to-increase-motivation-and-drive.... It's not some self help BS, all based on science, backed by publications.

TL; DR, you might be riding too high on dopamine / layering too many dopaminergic activities. You might need to lower your base dopamine level.

2) for dealing with youtube specifically, block youtube recommended. Like youtube becomes only search bar, no recommended, no follow up videos etc. Complete game-changer for me.

https://pawelurbanek.com/youtube-addiction-selfcontrol
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29485064
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pawurb

@pawurb, thank you for changing my life by unlocking youtube for me, without the addiction. I am very grateful.
the news has said that March went "out like a lion" a lot lately. This may be the 6th year out of the last 7. I like having notice this early though.
He is right that sonar buoy detonation thing sounds like absolute bullshit. Incredibly risky and 17 hours.. I mean you want to do this, send a submarine, it fires few torpedoes. No more pipeline. Fast, simple, reliable.

Let's say I am a Ukranian patriot, with few million in the bank. I bet given few month I could put together a team of divers to plant some C4 with a simple timer and blow this thing to hell. Or Polish patriot, or Polish government or any of the Baltic states. It is an existential struggle for all of them, and russkie understand one thing and one thing only, this was a very clear communication straight to Putin.
My ONLY question: where's imagen?
The accents were a brilliant move: instead of making them speak English with a Slavic accent, they use only heavy English accents as to demarcate and indicate the provenance of the speaker in the same manner as if they spoke actual Russian, Georgian, Ukrainian, and so forth.

'Director Iannucci explained the decision to Metro: “I felt Russian accents would just kill the comedy dead,” he said. “It makes the whole thing artificial. It makes you feel like you’re not there. And I want people to feel like they’re there.”' [1]

[1] https://slate.com/culture/2018/03/in-praise-of-the-accents-i...
Thank you! With the hint of IEEE 854 I was able to find https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal64_floating-point_forma...
I am Danish. Half the country was making fart jokes about the leak. Nobody is missing the Nord Stream pipelines.
Would HIGNFY be considered a political comedy?
What is the conclusion we should reach then -> engineers are unnecessarily noble and should not allow themselves to be exploited?
Why do you assume that? I only use transmission to download my Linux ISOs.
Tesla’s Master Plan 3 is coming March 1st
What you don't see are the kids that weren't invited to the park or mall. The ones those kids are possibly making fun of. Or those same kids you did see, but later at night as they stress about what to wear tomorrow, why Jake didn't like their post earlier today even though he liked Jasmine's post and Mia's post.

Many characters in "Nosedive" (Black Mirror episode) looked really happy as well.
You are not alone. I've been on Deck as desktop for over 6 months, no complains.

I won't streaming much tho as most 4K DRM is limited to Mac and Windows at the moment.
>This article is remarkable for how different it is from Hersh's Syrian gas claims.

It really isn't:

>What became clear to participants, according to the source with direct knowledge of the process, is that Sullivan intended for the group to come up with a plan for the destruction of the two Nord Stream pipelines …

>… Everyone involved understood the stakes. “This is not kiddie stuff,” the source said. If the attack were traceable to the United States, “It’s an act of war.”

>… Burns quickly authorized an Agency working group whose ad hoc members included—by chance—someone who was familiar with the capabilities of the Navy’s deep-sea divers in Panama City."

That's exactly the sorts of things from his other recent articles that people who know how things actually work would immediately know is BS.
Ultimately we probably won’t switch but our game runs on a 20 year old engine that has had no updates in all that time. Directx9, no pixel shaders, poor performance, custom formats, windows only and no interoperability with modern formats. We don’t have any graphics or engine specialists on the team so upgrades on that front are challenging. However all of these can be overcome the biggest enticement is the editor platform. Our current tooling system is dire and making good tooling is such a time sink. Being able to build tools within another platform is inticing while also getting other advantages such as cross platform deploy, asset imports, UI framework, etc. is tempting. The grass is always greener!
I would prefer to find it as I left it. And in 45 years of using computers this has always been the case. But then againg, I haven't used windows in more than two decades now, other than a single box here that talks to an older mixer and that machine doesn't even have an internet connection, I treat it as part of the mixer.
No; it merely indicates that someone who holds such views may not be the most impartial judge of the impartiality of another party.
I started a very simple simulator in Godot and I don't want to reimplement everything in GDscript or use a library. So I put it on hold for Godot 4 because of the navigation improvements.
> It's the web's destiny anyway.

I hope that you're wrong! Google already has a tremendous amount of influence, and a Blink monoculture would give them near complete control of the future of the web. (And I think Google have been poor stewards of the web. But that's an entirely different conversation.)

Blink being open source is better than the alternative. Internet Explorer achieving total dominance would have been even worse. But it doesn't buy you that much. Under a monoculture, your fork of Blink could never deviate from the original meaningfully because sites wouldn't be built to standards, they would be built to work on Blink.

Google not being able to unilaterally dictate web standards is a good thing. For example, I'm glad we have WASM and not Google Native Client.
How many Windows games can you run on it?
Then of course you'll have to work back to compute an APR for that by a crazy iterative formula outlined by the US gov. Which would you use for that process?
Parks & rec funding has also cratered so the "little league" that you think of as a way of putting together local kids of all abilities to play a sport is less common that it used to be. The privatized equivalents are usually more competitive or religiously focused or both
Example please?
Yes, indeed, it's crucial to have an SSD. With it, loading will be instant (a few ms).
I was watching a Disney+ show (aimed at young teens) with a Latina main character and she used the term. Took me immediately out of the show, because it made me think there must not have been any Latinos on the writing staff.
SBF's Latest Modified Bail Conditions [pdf]
Android? Chromebook?
I think his argument is that the explanation offered by the author is implausible. When someone comes forward with such claims, the main means of determining it's veracity is to verify the details provided. Typically fabrications will contain small inconsistencies that don't match facts known only to investigators, verified witnesses, or experts in the subject matter.

I think their implication is that none of us really know what happened, much less the author of this article.
Not sure MBS is actually any better, when we ignore the bigger, geopolitical angle for a second and just look at the people leading certain countries.
how does this differ from qbittorrent?
Windows 11 really isn't that bad, mostly because it's not really a significant change from Windows 10. The default menu layouts changed a little bit, but not in any way you couldn't recreate in Windows 10, nor did they really remove anything such that you can't make Windows 11 feel like Windows 10.

I suspect the driving reason for the version number increase was to make a clear indicator of the OS's support for scheduling the new wave of hybrid core CPUs, and they simply took the opportunity to clean up some miscellaneous small things that wouldn't have been appropriate to include in a minor version release, but wouldn't have warranted a major version release in of themselves, such as changes to adding things to the file-right-click menu.
Your childish spamming [1] backfired so you went and edited it into an even more irrelevant nonsense? Impressive.

[1] https://github.com/deckerst/aves/issues/517#issuecomment-142...
In the Aves GitHub issue the author said "thanks for being sane" to IzzySoft and later down the thread IzzySoft disagreed with him. Surprised the issue still isn't locked. Usually things like this turn into a popcorn fest.
seems circular
That’s kind of distorted. Government has the monopoly on violence, true, but only to the extent as the law grants it. A prime focus of constitutional law is to set strict limits to and legal recourse against acts of government.
It doesn't make sense that Russia would blow up their own pipeline. They can't blackmail Europe with gas if there's no pipeline to supply the gas.

And force majeure? That's pretty far-fetched. Why would Russia care about financial penalties? This is the country that effectively stole over 400 airliners by refusing to return them when the leases were terminated.
Reaching a different conclusion is one thing, but not seeing a dilemma is another. One can always argue that invading a person's autonomy might be necessary given the benefits but seeing no issue is just turning a blind eye.
How i love these quirky side project! Do you have a link to a repo? Would like to see his setup!
Steam Deck's UI is personal preference.

There is an annoying bug that if you play a game using a bluetooth controller, put the steamdeck to sleep, then resume later, controller support is dropped in-game. This basically makes the sleep feature useless.

My wish as a user is that it behaves at least as well as last-gen consoles do. I had no problem putting my PS4 / Switch games to sleep and pick them back up later.

The true magic (imho) is the compatibility layer allowing the hardware to run a large swath of PC/Windows games.
Is stoicism a religion? The Concept of Stoicism in the 21st Century
"...a brushstroke of code on a palette of pixels"
The most efficient implementation of Lagrange Interpolators is O(N).

Calculate the left Product(0..i-1) of each term in left-to-right order, and the Product(i+1..N-1) of each term in right-to-left order. Your mileage may vary on a GPU.
So what's your theory on why a fresh Windows PC needs to connect to all these 3rd parties at all?
A lot of people looking at their phones are just watching TikToks of people dancing to 80s songs with their dog and weird shit like that. They aren't all doomscrolling the news.
At which point they ask you where you got the money in the first place, prove where you got it from, and then make you pay taxes on that money.
I would expect stateliness/statefulness to work in both directions. Instruct it to broaden its interpretation.

If you provide stateful search with keywords it will return the list you want. Then just dont follow up. Im probably ok with a couple extra instruction words when looking for traditional looking search results. "list sites re [keywords]"

It'll be interesting to see how the product changes over time when it retains some state about your preferences. Maybe you can teach it a bang abbreviation to always give you the type of result you are looking for. (!lw)

(You already see limited state on google when you search something, then search something unrelated and some results for the former keywords show up highlighted. Google sometimes thinks a new search is a folloup search to the previous one.)
The value of its atoms and the electrons orbiting those atoms (give or take labour costs for transforming those atoms) in joules or watts.
From the article: "The U.S. made a big deal about the rights of ethnic minorities there known as the Tatars, which account for around 10% of the population. Of the 4% total that said they did not endorse Russia's annexation..."

It's unclear whether they're saying 96% of Tatar's supported Russia, or "only" 60%. I'd assume the latter for balance, but the writing sure does suggest the former. In either case it's the same story. The reason for the absurdly high poll numbers overall is that ethnic Ukrainians boycotted the referendum.
And The Hollowmen, which is set in the Prime Minister's Office and is made by the same team.
>Why would anyone care about any of this? Just torrent working warez apps and be done with it.
I use NextDNS with liberal blocking policies enabled. Things like Reddit and HN get blocked. The work to get around that is just tedious enough that much of the time I won't bother. I find also that for many of these things, the longer I go without, the easier it is to stay away. Definitely true for anything like HN that is interactive.

My work computer has DNS out of my control. So here I am. Whoops!
US NIST unveils winning encryption algorithm for IoT data protection