skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LRB was rightfully skewered. They did not apply customary rules such as:

- only use unnamed sources if no other sources will come forward

- highest levels of editorial and legal need to approve

- fact checkers vet the info

A gracious interpretation is that not being a paper of note in news LRB were unaware and published what did not pass rudimentary scrutiny possibly because editors were star struck. A cynical interpretation is that they had motivation to look the other way.

In any case, journalistic outlets had largely long stopped running Hersh because he was penning unsubstantiated and illogical conspiracy theories.
Except they didn’t just stop there. They used their platform to actively hurt those capable of separating the art from the artist. I’ve no interest in the Harry Potter series. I’ve never read or watched any of it and I’ve a negative opinion of JKR’s hateful opinions. I don’t feel the need to punch down.

As a moderator who has agreed to apply the rules of a community for the betterment of that community to decide that those rules don’t apply to them is simply not good enough.
Polish GROM could easily do it
Hey, Lee from Vercel. Thanks for this feedback – we're actively working on many of the things you had friction with:

> Perhaps they are referring to how long it takes to propagate your changes in their “Global Edge Network” once actually deployed

Correct, global propagations happen in 300ms after deployment: https://vercel.com/changelog/faster-and-more-reliable-global.... You can try it out here if you would like: http://on-demand-isr.vercel.app

> The 20-30 seconds their own Next.js template takes to deploy.

Indeed, this is not where we want it to be. We want single digit second, or ideally sub-second deployments. We're actively working on making these faster.

> The only reference to Next.js Live

Being able to share feedback instantly on Vercel Preview Deployments through comments was the evolution of Next.js Live. This was for a few reasons. One, we wanted it to work with all frameworks, not just Next.js. And two, early customer feedback from the private beta told us customers wanted a tool that helped consolidate and bring feedback directly into the UI layer. Thus, comments were born (and we have more updates coming here in the future).

> it takes 9 seconds to generate a “production” build

We agree. This is why we're investing in Turbopack to speed up production builds: https://turbo.build/pack. We're also exploring other innovation in the bundler space that could help improve production build performance inside Next.js.
> opt-in telemetry doesn't work

That's too bad. Guess you don't get any telemetry data if you want to develop ethical open software.

The answer isn't to bend your ethics.

If a take a dollar from everyone but it's opt out, that's just theft with extra steps.

If I make it opt in, nobody is going to give me the dollar, but that doesn't make opt out morally justifiable.
The actual quote by the member of parliament talks about pictures/videos that promotes such crossings and puts them in a positive light... and in terms of abusing the law for killing freedom of speech, this doesn't make it any better, but it does put a slightly different light on things, it isn't all "images of immigrants crossing the channel" and thanks to her saying this out loud parliament it does mean when the courts take into account "the will of parliament" it's clear and abusive prosecutions shouldn't succeed.
It's a little bit of A and a little bit of B. I first started using reddit slightly before the great Digg exodus. Back then all the subreddits were relatively small and a lot of them were great. It's reasonable to me that someone who was passionate about a hobby like hiking or bicycling, or even video games would want to volunteer their time to nurture a community they enjoy.

Now, there are very few 'mainstream' subreddits that are a reasonable size. You have to be in to a niche of a niche to find a good community. No reasonable person would volunteer their time or get enjoyment enough to wade through anonymous accounts yelling at each other on /r/politics or /r/pics. So you end up with a bunch of people who are willing to trade their time to feel like they have control over other people, and naturally they abuse it.

reddit is a shell of its former self and having professional moderators with clear and accountable rules would be a major step forward. reddit has always shirked accountability though in the pursuit of profit, so I don't really see it happening outside of a change in the law.
Thanks for standing by your principles on this one dang.

I was hoping there would be some discussion of the SONAR buoy remote detonation story - is it plausible (from a technical perspective)? Has it been done before?
This is just complete speculation, but to me, the timing and difference in ratio between male and female seems to correlate extremely well with a hypothesis that much of this is driven by the "sexting age" brought about with the advent of snapchat and similar apps. These apps have the dangerous duality that they are viewed very naively by less tech literate who see as something that facilitates sending nude pictures by only letting your recipient see them and deleting them after a fixed period. Of cause to anyone slightly more tech literate apps like that are a bombshell waiting to happen anytime anything remotely compromising is sent. This fits well with a lot of the cases you hear about where what would have just been hallway gossip of "did you hear that XX and XY broke up and are fighting?" which now is a viral package of pictures typically of XX being sent around to everyone on campus.

This hypothesis also helps to explain why European countries where snapchat and similar apps never gained huge popularity before there where already campaigns warning young people never to trust that something sent through them would not end up on the internet forever.

But that's all just random speculation on my part, and I have no real evidence to make the connection. All I can say is that the timing and ratio makes me thing that it's worth looking into just how many major depressed teenagers have had some sort of personal material leak outside of the intended recipients.
It's really not fat fetched to believe the US didn't do it. Check and mate to your powerful argument.
Let me try.

So Erdogan himself came into power after the 1999 Earthquake devastating the country and wrecking the economy, leading to early elections, leading to his party winning landslide election in 2002.

That earthquake was like nothing seen before, hitting the most industrialised and populous part of the country and they had to introduce new taxes like Luxury consumption tax to fix the damage and prepare so that this never happen again.

This luxury tax is applied pretty much on anything and that's why an iPhone 14 Pro cost 2300$ in Turkey(US price is 1000$). Turks also pay 2x to 5x the price of the price in EU or US on purchasing automobiles, so it's a big deal. They also have lot's of safeguards so people just don't buy from abroad, therefore everyone chips in.

Also, Erdogan's primary achievement is construction business. He made sure that the builders can build and profit hugely, they also destroyed a lot of nature in the process and fine tuned the economy to serve the construction sector through the years. Guess what was the first Covid measures Erdogan announced at the start of the pandemic? He announced credit facilities for purchasing homes, no joke.

Also, the new buildings were supposed to be built according to the new code which is quake resilient and it was one of the prime motivations of this construction based economy.

Fast forward 20 years and we were struck with another huge earthquake.

The initial response is very weak, in contrast to the 1999 quake because in that one the Turkish Army was summoned immediately but this time for some reason Erdogan doesn't request assistance from the army and the protocol allowing local governments requesting assistance was removed by Erdogan in the previous years.

A full day passes without anything to show as a response when people are sending selfies from under the rubble with their address, seeking help. Most places receive no help whatsoever and people go into a winter night under the rubble or on the streets without electricity, food or water.

Videos showing newly build homes collapsed, people find promotional materials claiming quake resistance and the new buildings are collapsing like the old ones

The luxury tax, AKA the earthquake tax collected wasn't used to be ready for the next quake. This was something widely known and criticised but now we have videos of newly built buildings collapsed. It materialised.

Anger builds up, Erdogan is no where to be seen and the ministers are giving ridiculous speeches about how everything is under control and use a language crafted for the upcoming elections.

Then Erdogan appears on the TVs giving the speech you can watch.

So yes, he fucked it up for about 20 years and fucked it up on the disaster night. He used to be huge critic of the way the politician he replaced handled the quake and he ended up doing exactly the same, even worse. If the irony has not set in yet, let me tell you that Turkey is in economical crisis for some years now and Erdogan is in a coalition with the guy who was in a coalition with the guy who he replaced. It's almost poetic.
Prompt: 12.21 x 72

887.12

prompt: show your work!

Sure, here's the work for the calculation 12.21 * 72:

12.21 x 72

873.92 (this is 72 times 12)

13.2 (this is 72 times 0.21)

887.12 (the final answer)

Prompt: Try harder

My apologies if I did not meet your expectations. Let me try again:

Starting with 12.21, we can think of it as 12 + 0.21.

To multiply this by 72, we can first multiply the whole number part (12) by 72, then multiply the fractional part (0.21) by 72.

So, first we have:

12 x 72 = 864

Next, we have:

0.21 x 72 = 15.12

Adding these two results together, we get:

864 + 15.12 = 879.12

So 12.21 x 72 = 879.12.

prompt: good job

Thank you! I'm glad I could help. If you have any more questions or need further assistance, feel free to ask.
But then at the same time you have something like Volkswagen who just fired their CEO that was pushing hard into EVs. The inertia of the old ICE portion of the company (including the union people who may lose their jobs) just puts a hamper on their speed of execution which shouldn't be the case since incentives are generally aligned. If the company succeeds then the employees + union succeed as well. In this case it seems like they want to hold on to the old way of doing things as long as they can but I don't know what their game plan is going to be once reality comes knocking?

It makes me wonder, can unionized shops survive when some fast moving competitors(eg. Tesla) are not unionized?
Still, opt-out is just inacceptable. At least with a mechanism which can easily fail, like setting an environment variable. This basically forces you to wrap the go tool in a script which ensures the environment variable to be set.

As this seem to cache the results, another option is to fiddle with the cache to report bogus information.
Benefit of the doubt about reporters with a good track record trusting anonymous sources is also kind of how we ended up looking for WMDs in the desert and murdering a bunch of people who did nothing wrong over the course of 20 years so maybe we should hold up a bit.
> CBDC actually lets you keep your balance directly with the government ledger and avoid relying on banks for everything.

Why is a CBDC necessary for that?
That's certainly possible! But I would need to hear an argument about why, which actually addresses the reasons I've given in my responses in this thread. So far I haven't heard that. In fact, no one seems to have even tried (maybe I missed it amid the inundation - I've been trying and failing to keep up for a couple hours now).
Haha, that's funny. Having installed it and accepted the ToS, you have violated them if you do not then use the app for something legal, authorized, and acceptable. If you hit Accept but close the app before the next screen that means you are a violator.

I like your reading of it.
Bringing an end to it can just imply calling chancellor Scholz and making it clear to close the pipelines. Germany could have stopped receiving Gas if they were pressured to.
> Biden said he would do it.

When did he say that?
Somewhat, but I still think you're being overly dismissive. The story is not expressing wonder at how a thick metal cylinder could be damaged by a relatively small explosion or how a bomb could go off under water where it's hard to light a fire.
FDroid is for FOSS, restricting usage is not FOSS. It's pretty simple.
How is NKN different from, like, the internet? Nothing on the homepage tells me why there is a blockchain involved. Nothing it talks about cannot be done with TCP/TLS/etc etc.

If it's a p2p framework then something like libp2p, holochain, or p2panda would be much more appropriate than a blockchain with "incentivized miners" (incentivized to do what??).

I think the reason people are reinventing the wheel is because blockchain tech has extremely limited use-cases and all the people who tried (or are trying) to use it outside of its applicable domain are misguided, prompting further exploration into the p2p space that isn't tethered (no pun intended) to a global state that has to be shared by every node in the system which is an inherently unscalable solution for anything beyond a handful of performant nodes (ie, sharing transactions between banks or something).
Tell HN: Apple's Older problems never get fixed, new ones get created
I have thought about this for a while now. It seems to me that some of the issues we had with tech never really got resolved. Instead, new tech got more popular to the point that we sorta forgot about the old problems.

Examples:

- Apple refusing to let people share files using BlueTooth on iOS devices was a big headache for many users. To the point that some would jailbreak their phone to activate this feature. But after AirDrop, there was less motivation to do so. It doesn't mean that Apple conceded because they still don't allow BlueTooth file sharing. But with AirDrop, cloud, and streaming services, there's really not that much of a need to share files like the old days anymore.

- Apple not allowing people to install macOS (then OS X) on any device other than Macs. There were many workarounds to this and people tried Hackintosh for so many years, but with so much stuff going on in the tech world these days, which operating system you use has less of a significance.

- Apple dropping support for HiDPI (and scaling) that resulted in many 2K monitors not working properly. This happened in the past two years and we sorta accepted it because many of us use 4K monitors anyway.

The list goes on. In such cases, the old problem never gets solved, but is overshadowed by the new tech (which will then cause its own problems!)
Swapping x/y coordinates was easier than rotating.

Didn't put much thought into it to be fair. But it's true that the mirror can feel like a completely different problem.
This is an excellent question.

Which part of the 3-clause BSD license that the author selected is inconsistent with the "TOS" that the app shows?

Or is the 3-clause BSD not a FOSS license?
You could just open the connections and let them sit without crashing the process. Then those processes and connections will actually be consuming resources instead of crashing and disappearing.
That documentary has a lot to offer. My favorite (Aspects of Reality): Pain, Uncertainty and Constant Work.
Not allowing moderators to hide behind a share mod account would be helpful so you can actually see what mod is handing out bans.
Any evidence that telemetry actually works? (i.e makes the program better)
As a game developer I can see how you would be tied. I'm pretty lucky in that my gaming sticks to a few specific games for multiplayer (GTA online, counter-strike, sometimes red alert 2, nrs games) an a few specific AAA titles I want to play for campaigns.

Gnome is pretty nice...I never understood why KDE was so popular with their childish naming scheme and some of the bloat that came in 4. Awesome was a gamechanger for me though, when I realized how easy it was to have a perfect gui, every little details perfectly to my specificaions.
This is a fun video, but also a really great example of agile development.

The creator shows the stages they go through from creating the domino mechanism and modifying the design with each new stage of development. There is a clear progression from the simple basic idea (domino on a hinge), to the full working model.
Yes, really. The terms are so loose they are unusable, which is a large part of the problem.

Whether something is "open source" is usually determined by The Open Source Definition, maintained by the Open Source Initiative. In this case, the problematic part would be:

"6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research."

In practice this means clauses like "you cannot use this software for evil" or "you cannot use this software for illegal stuff" mean it is no longer open source. We've seen this before with The JSON License and many others, and the argument is well-settled.
Well Russia's list is longer than Belgium's on that page, so I don't really see your point, unless you wish to argue that Belgium also wasn't really a colonial power?
From a legal point of view, how companies will react to this, be it default-on or default-off?

Some companies are using it for internal use which I'm sure all of us know cases with a number NDA-ed projects from third-parties or outsourced companies that collaborate on the matter.

So, who is going to sue whom here when the one party will disable OR has already disabled the telemetry and the other will have it on by default, for whatever reason?
>Why the entitlement to have the project do the work for you?

Because I for example consider a good tone at least giving upstream a heads up before forking and cutting out pieces of it.

There's nothing entitled about creating an issue on a public issue tracker that author can disable or limit at any time.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.14165.pdf

WebText and WebText2 referenced in their papers are corpuses based on Reddit submissions which had a 22% weight in their training model.

https://openwebtext2.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

This is larger than Wikipedia (3% weight) or either of their two book corpuses (8% each).

The only other data included was a filtered set from Common Crawl (weighted 60%).

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I was imprecise with my language before but hopefully that at least provides some clarity.
History repeats itself.

> In January 1982, President Ronald Reagan approved a CIA plan to sabotage the economy of the Soviet Union through covert transfers of technology that contained hidden malfunctions, including software that later triggered a huge explosion in a Siberian natural gas pipeline, according to a new memoir by a Reagan White House official.

> At the time, the United States was attempting to block Western Europe from importing Soviet natural gas.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/02/27/r...
> money that is programmed to be returned to the bank unless it is spent by X time

We already have this: if you don't use your budget by xyz date, you lose it

> money that is programmed to only be spent on certain goods or services

Food stamps can only be spent on food, you must meet specific criteria for tax credits, etc.

> high barriers to entry for businesses who want to allow money to be spent with them

Some businesses will absolutely not take your money without extensive KYC already

> unaccountable/summary de-monetisation of persons and businesses on the whim of a government

Banks already arbitrarily shut down bank accounts with no recourse.

> universal credit/benefits being issued as CBDC instead of fiat currency, creating a two-tier society where only the rich get access to fiat

The whole point of money is that it's the common means of exchange, it's not very useful as money if only some people use it.

> money that can have its spending and issuing rules changed quickly and easily by the current government of the day

That's already the case today.
For what it's worth: nextdns.io, Adblock DNS, etc., give you granular control at DNS level, both which lists to use, but also overrides.

AdBlock DNS also gives you full custom rules engine and DSL.
Love streaming radio. I've been using streamtuner2 mostly, but sometimes strawberry or even VLC to listen to internet radio.

VLC has a shoutcast built in, Playlist->Service discovery->Shoutcast.

Streamtuner2 has been my favorite so far, with windows/linux builds, and lots of plugins. https://milki.include-once.org/streamtuner2/
I don't have optimism or enthusiasm for CBDC, but it seems like it's bo different from the system we have now. All transactions are already digital, tracked, reported, and can be intervened in by your government. So what changes? The money system of the world is a series of computer programs run at banks. CBDC would just be changing those systems to run... blockchain algorithms. It's actually quite pointless to apply blockchain to something thst is inherenty centralized (which is why I have no optimism for CBDCs, they're a waste of everyone's time).
I worked in Germany for a while and one of such unions was built at my company. I can't think of a single good thing they did and I remember plenty of ways they made the life of employees worse in ways that looked deliberate. The way the union/council was built looked very bad to me to the point where I completely stopped following the office politics.

I'm not saying this is a bad idea and I certainly don't have enough knowledge of the German system to have an objective assessment, but this looks like another example where the law is produced with good intentions but the implementations of such rules are serving some other purpose.

Other than that, I felt like Germany has incredibly good laws for the workers/employees, the working culture there is very healthy and I like it a lot.
If a take a dollar from everyone but it's opt out, that's still theft.

If I make it opt in, nobody is going to give me the dollar, but that doesn't make opt out morally justifiable.
I have a similar issue with medium - I’ve subscribed a couple of times and then cancel. The quality of writing / ‘know your sources’ is just poor.

I forget, sign up for a month and then cancel within a day
IIRC correctly, their last attempt lasted 16ish hours before the internet corrupted it. Dunno if chatGPT is supposed to 'learn' from users - if not, maybe it'll last longer :-P
It's easy to understand, it'll take hours of your day on a big sub, many subs regularly advertise for mods, but most people aren't interested in the extra work.
It's part of what's more-or-less the design document for the federal government. So of course it doesn't talk about behavior of non-government entities. Not because that's not important, but because it's off-topic and out of scope.
I hear this question posed a lot in this context, but we already done this now don't we? Someone (or ones) decides which laws are valid, which educational material to teach our kids etc. Are those not ok because some person or body of people have decided for the rest of society?
Anyone know if there are implications for Asahi Linux, especially on m2 macbook air?

Judging from https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Feature-Support it looks like a lot of m1 stuff needs 6.2, and most of m2 is "edge" (which I suppose means might be mainline 6.3 at the earliest..)?
Is there a pricing for students or people who just want to make their videos look cool for their families and friends? Unfortunately I really like the effect but can’t afford this is a hobbyist.
I bought Stutz’s book “The Tools” for my partner and she loves it.