skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Desperately looking for an out now that I've recommended this to friends and then they go and drop the sms and start slotting in useless features. I figured the open source structure would lend itself to preventing enshittification, but I guess the real driver of that is the profit-driven company that sits atop. A real shame, it was such a functional app for so long, one of the few times in my life I could really say I had everything in one place
Not all jobs are as intellectually demanding as software engineering.
Meanwhile WhatsApp likely still coaxes people into enabling cloud backup, e.g. to Google Drive

- which completely bypasses end-to-end encryption by putting plaintext chat history into the hands of Google et al.

(Not a WhatsApp user myself anymore, don't know, sorry, if someone can confirm this in the comments would be nice.

But it had been nagging to enable cloud backup long after they have been advertising "encryption" already.)
It definitely depends on the maturity of the project and the country you live in.

I was selected to be part of this first cohort with Mockoon. I'm from Luxembourg, so 20k is surely not a life changing amount of money.
However, I quit my job two years ago to focus full-time on it. I think that I can make a living (probably a mix of paid services and sponsoring) while keeping the app open-source. But it's a long hard road and I am freelancing on the side which gave me the right balance but not complete peace of mind, financially speaking.
So, while it's not a life changing amount, it will buy me some precious time. I also feel really motivated by this awesome recognition (after 5 years of work on this project) and I am looking forward the 10 weeks of coaching. So, all in all, it's a bit of a life changing event for me :)

(Edited a bit for clarity)
When I lived in Oxford, UK (as a broke student) one of the cheapest places to get dinner on my street was a restaurant with a few very long tables with benches on each side. It was usually pretty full, so you’d always meet interesting people if you were the kind of person to walk in there in the first place.

They didn’t pay you to do so though.

I haven’t found many places like this later in my life, which is too bad. I’m currently on the island of Réunion, which I understand used to have very similar setups, but not many are left. For all I know the one in Oxford doesn’t exist anymore; I last went there almost 2 decades ago.
But that is a insane endavour. Like, new hardware appears every day, to reverse engineer all of it, thats the ultimate futile endavour i can think of. Why not get a more usefull stone if one wants to be sisyphos?
Regulating prices produces situations that are rife with unintended consequences. Choose a different brand instead (unless that brand has a monopoly, which is only the case in a few industries.)
Interesting, but if I'm understanding this correctly, this can only do straight remaps. I'll stick with Karabiner Elements for its ability to make a key do one thing when tapped (e.g., send a keystroke like ESC) and a different thing when held (e.g., act as a modifier like CTRL).
Yeah, I won't pay that. The value just isn't there in terms of what content I do consume from YT, which is very little.
Based on what?

It's murder rate is well below the median among cities larger than 200k.
People who developed for Stadia mainly did so because Google paid them outrageous amounts of money for ports, not because users they were making a lot of money buying games.

If there were no users buying games, shutting it down would not have had any meaningful impact on the developers.

How do you think they should have done it instead? What would have changed for those developers when done your way?
That is certainly part of it. Consider another angle...once a structure like that comes into existence, people will weaponize it. Any slight can be reported to campus authorities and the perpetrator gets to deal with months of severely worded paperwork.
As was reported last summer, which set heat records in some countries in the northern hemisphere: welcome to the coolest summer of your lives. From now on.
> So they agree that 1080p and UHD are only names for whatever they want to give you.

Bitrate is everything, you can have 8k that look worse than DVD
I’ll never understand why people are so quick to provide such personal data for trivial reasons.
It's also associated with thyroid tumors so I'd consider it a life shortener for that alone.
My whole point is that historically they are in the same bin, and doubly so for any Leninists and Maoists.
Right, that makes sense. You can't very well have a system where the AI instructions produce a different underlying program each time lol.
I maintain one of the selected projects. $20k means that I can focus on the project without taking any freelance work on the side for a while. Hopefully making the project more attractive to sponsors, hopefully snowballing into more OSS and less freelance.
There are already lightweight models that are in the ballpark of GPT3.5 that run on (admittedly high end) consumer level hardware. This is with only a few months of development too.
Ah, yes, the tendency of the rate of profit to fall
I enjoyed this presentation. Thank you.
BOM?
Not sure why this is down voted.

Here's a chart from the NY Times showing what it looks like in practice: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2021/11/10/opinion/10coy-new...

-- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/10/opinion/benefits-cliff-we...

For low wage people with children, they really are often better off in a low wage job than a middle wage job. In the example given, going from 25K a year to 50K would mean a lower standard of living.

The war on poverty has been a miserable failure.
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So if we backup our DNA at 20, we can use CRISPR at 50 to restore it and return young?
Not "no limits"...but "reasonable", "prudent", and "need to know" seem to be missing from their de facto rules & reg's.

Years ago, I heard a detailed and all-too-credible account of some serious US secrets being regularly leaked - to an Average Guy, whose (reasonable and innocent) domain name was the ".com" version of an important ".mil" domain. Supposedly, he tried to report the problem to the US govt - and got some pretty nasty push-back, from officers whose only priorities seemed to be denial and butt-coverage. After that, he just deleted the ongoing emails.
Precisely. The future is not bright at all.
The exception is not the rule.
Even in most (all?) Mediterranean countries, 2000/week is pretty good pay, would work out to 8000/month, which is on the upper-end when it comes to writing code for the usual web stuff. Pair it with that you get to work on FOSS, I'm having a hard time imagining a similar position with similar pay.
Your primary key vouches for that secondary key. Therefore, the “keys have changed” dialog don’t pop up because the new key’s legitimacy is verified.
Hardware support imo is pretty good on Linux, if not better than on OS X/Windows. Especially legacy hardware.

In themselves, each desktop is OK, the problem is that the UI experience is fragmented across several different toolkits (i.e. gtk, qt, etc) so it doesn't look consistent.

Windows and Mac do not have this problem.

The other problem is that a client-server architecture is inefficient for a locally rendered UI.
Turns out many democratic systems actually like politically neutral media that inform the public in the way they need to be informed in order to function in a democratic system. Healthy democratic governments abhor propaganda.
Shit, I wish I hadn't read those. I didn't need that today.
C4 at scale: make it efficient, then make it ambient
I echo with your take. There's a lot of uncertainty, and in the meantime there's change that can be painful for some groups of professionals.
No idea, but it seems like it's intentionally made so that no matter the orientation of the deck (face up or face down), the first card you see (not counting jokers and ad cards) will always de an ace. The two suits of those aces are just the two most liked suits (ace and hearths).

The curious part is that this order doesn't mean anything for card players, in fact it would probably be better for most games if the decks where printed in random order, but for magicians this order is really important for many effects. For example, if you perfectly shuffle the deck 8 times it will go back to it's original order.
The number of high profile tech bros on Twitter using the death to further their own views was disgraceful. SF may have big issues but using someone’s murder to further your political beliefs is horrible. I’m sure we won’t hear any retraction though.
Yeah that's not a lot of runway. But it could be reasonable for a student or for someone living in a low cost of living location. Or if you have savings from your job and just need a little boost to get started. Or if you're okay with living frugally, which seems to be how people like Andreas Kling or Andrew Kelley get by. But yeah it's not really a sustainable model.
Did you miss the fact that we had two entire elections to install a new reactionary pro-cop DA, specifically so that people who use this excuse to make things up about SF crime could can it?
I think such system are the real future of digital medical systems instead these toy gadgets on your phone where people only try to heal their mid-life crisis.

As a test I asked "what is a stent?" and the answer was really good.

Perhaps this is the complete wrong approach because it would supercharge hypochondriacs, but it would be nice if I could search for symptoms and indications and be provided with a list of possible diagnoses as a support system not only for people seeking health care, but also for doctors that need to identify more exotic conditions.

Especially in non-urban regions where specialists might not be available, it could help with logistical problems of healthcare significantly.

Otherwise good job so far, looks really promising (I am not a doctor).
During the invasion Crimea Obama refused to send military support because it would just help create a long war of attrition, which Russia has more than enough the ressource to sustain, with the same outcome.
"Sign up to learn more"

Translation: this product line doesn't even exist yet. We used GPT-4 to generate our Titan/Bedrock intro pages.
Right, but what do you think about the point ch4s3 made below, namely that AI is non-deterministic? Isn't that a core difference? The COBOL compiler produces the same output for the same input, i.e. the compiler acts as a pure function.
Messy edge cases doesn't mean let's just throw everything away.
This is the "dry season" in Florida (or at least in the Tampa Bay area). Normally we don't get any rain this time of year, which is why I think they can call this is a "1-in-1000" year event: not because the scale of flooding is so unheard of, but because extreme flooding in mid April is really bizzare.

I don't mean to undermine the severity of the situation, but I think the headline is misleading, as most probably think of south Florida as a big swamp with rain all year round.
When you live in a violent area - you usually don't "feel" it until the night you get whacked.

Source: been there, got whacked.
FYI: MJ is in the process of introducing a smarter word filter that recognizes the difference between 'Wang Jian' vs. 'suck my fat wang'
Very peculiar to link to a comment that criticizes TFA as blogspam, though, right? Unless perhaps the comment wasn't so critical at time of linking and was later edited...
20 years from now I would wager very few people will still use desktop workstations
Not saying it's the case here but for these kind of investigations it's a classic technique of law enforcement to play dumb. These people might very well be monitored 24/7 to collect further evidence while they think they're safe
People see homelessness and open drug use and petty property crime, filter it through their ideological lens, and amplify that into feeling that they are themselves somehow less safe. You can assert that that is rational, but it's as connected to reality as someone feeling afraid when e.g. a black person is walking behind them.

Saying stuff like "a lot of [violent] crime goes unreported" is straight up fanciful thinking, and leads one to make claims that aren't falsifiable. People aren't reporting assaults? Sounds completely absurd.
You don't even really need technical means if you have sufficient financial resources, cf. Thiel v. Gawker.
This means that 1) you need to guard against privilege escalation exploits and 2) you need to make sure that your logout/login screen actually happens on the OS's login screen and not malware that opens a fullscreen window mimicking it (Windows has the Secure Attention Key/sequence for this, I don't think Linux has any of that).

It's not just about whether doing the secure thing is difficult, it's whether doing the other things needed to defend against that risk is difficult - if you don't do those too, then it's still worthless and you're merely inconveniencing yourself for no reason because any attacks would use the methods of the first paragraph to work around your use of multiple accounts.
I can hear all the way to the top of that tone generator, 20,154 Hz. There are a couple spots in the 14-16K range that seem to drop out though. IDK what to say? lol
> have been caught multiple times slowing phones down

Both Apple and Google found themselves in a situation where phones would suddenly go dead when the device was under high load despite the battery reporting that it had a charge, although with the Nexus 6P it was happening to devices that were only a year old.

> your phone will randomly shut down and completely die, even though your battery indicator might have said you had plenty of juice left. It's not a simple system crash, because your phone will stay dead until you connect it to a charger. We've seen reports of the battery dying from a charge as high as 67% to as low as 15% on both Android Marshmallow and Android Nougat.

https://android.gadgethacks.com/news/nexus-6p-battery-random...

Google's solution to the problem was to tell users they were out of warranty and to buy a new phone.

A class action lawsuit eventually forced them to issue refunds.

> Google, Huawei Agree to Pay Nexus 6P Owners Up to $400 for Faulty Devices

https://www.droid-life.com/2019/04/11/google-huawei-nexus-6p...
This is extremely unhelpful speculation, Bob Lee had not been a part of Square/Block for many years before the incident, if this was truly connected to the facilitation of money laundering and fraud, why target an ex-CTO of all people?
The Internet is not dying. It's just on pause mode.

The people that built the Internet are not the people that will keep building the Internet. Their hunger was fed long ago by the yields harvested by their contributions to technology.

The Internet will remain on pause mode until someone disrupts it with new technology that cannot be contained by social solutions. Something that outpaces laws, outpaces cease and desists. Technology that is unaffected the current rules but uses the Internet as its substrate.

It sounds like anarchy but it's just what the Internet was one full human generation earlier. (Arguably pushing on two generations now).

If we invented the Internet today, we'd consider it an insidious invention designed to pry control away and redistribute it to institutions that shouldn't own it. Could we do it a second time?
ChaosGPT: Empowering GPT with Internet and Memory to Destroy Humanity [video]
And also, wasn't Apple supposed to be working on a Project Titan?
Haven’t we solved aging by having children ?
Fuck me, I hadn't heard about these. Those are some scary side effects.
> Polestar presents very well here, right now they have a better rep than Tesla which I find quite impressive, given that they are manufactured in China and sold by a relatively new sales organization. What is interesting is that somehow they've managed to sidestep the Chinese reputation issue completely and people perceive them as European, which they really are not.

I believe it's because Polestar attached itself to the Volvo brand, which is owned by Geely but is still run mostly independently in Sweden. The confusion is probably on purpose, and Polestar cars seem to be pretty good (from the reports of the few I know that own one).
Agreed.

To those of us with mental models constructed from data, this case is proceeding as expected. If Momeni is guilty I hope he admits his guilt.
> Poof I made my free-time disappear

- Ellis Kenyő, on being called an "elisp mage"

Haha, this is exactly what I fear if I tried to switch from Neovim to Emacs. I have a pretty bare-bones Emacs config that I started a while back, but haven't spent the time to really get it going.
Really timely! I was about to start building the Apple sign-in flow for my RN app (already built the Google Sign-in). Supabase makes auth incredibly easy, thank you for that.

If you mind me giving some feedback: it took me a while to figure out how to properly build the auth flow with Expo/RN. In the end, I went with Expo AuthSession. IMO, you're missing an easy win with a template/getting-started guide for RN. The only one that exists uses email/password, and the OAuth flow is more convoluted than that :)
It's quite high for overall crime though.

Crime Rate(per 1,000 residents):

https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/fl/jacksonville/crime - 33.76

https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/in/indianapolis/crime - 42.52

https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/san-francisco/crime - 54.33

as a reference point:

https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/mi/detroit/crime - 59.01
Of course. I'm not saying that all drivers are the same everywhere. There certainly is a place that has the worst drivers in the world.

What I'm saying is that the vast majority of people think that place is where they live.
So sorting by Violent Crime (Total), we see San Francisco is 37th out of the 100 listed.
Yes, let's jump straight to other conclusions now.
I don't consider ChromiumOS to be GNU/Linux. The kernel itself doesn't count -- obviously the kernel has little to do with the user experience. Android is much different than the experience of an X11/Gnome or KDE desktop. The graphics stack is entirely different.
Appatently[0] it doesn't affect arithmetic with standard numerals negatively, since their math scores went way up.

[0] That was a typo, but I'm keeping it.
I wouldn’t mind moving to Japan but it seems quite difficult.
Config being saved in firmware I think is probably the most underrated boon of enthusiast keyboards. No shaky hacks or badly written background daemons, just plug it in anywhere there’s USB and the board acts as expected.
"On the street except for murder cops won’t even take your report anymore."

Completely false and you only have to look at the police crime dashboard to know that. I'm a resident and can say that the numbers track pretty closely with my experience here anyway.
Sad because they had the best technology and UX of any game streaming service out there. But also the least business acumen, marketing skills, and perseverance.
"Ageing seems to affect cellular processes in the same way across five very different kinds of life — humans, fruit flies, rats, mice and worms — according to a study published in Nature on 12 April. The findings could help to explain what drives ageing and offer suggestions for how to reverse it..."

Well, given that ageing seems to affect cellular process across five very different kinds of life, the most obvious conclusion is that defeating the process has some unavoidable, bad tradeoffs. I mean, I'm 55 years old and not looking forward to dying, but let's be realistic here: we're not going to "reverse" ageing. Evolution has had billions of years to do it, and for whatever reason the conclusion is that either it's not possible, or the cost is not worth it. I don't think we are smarter than evolution, in this regard.
At many (most?) companies in US, it's easier to get approval for an additional employee costing $90k/year forever, than to spend a one-off $50k on a consulting project.
Showing that building EVs at scale is possible probably has some influence on government regulation timelines.

Without Tesla we might still have low volume "compliance" EVs and manufacturers would be lobbying that such regulations would be impossible to meet or detrimental to the auto industry and its part in the economy.
Fair enough, I can agree that communism has a bad track record. Though if I were to go back to my original point there's certainly an inherent violence in white nationalism that is unacceptable and being tolerant of this is paradoxical.

There are countries that while not communist, successfully enact a blend of socialism and capitalism without any significant violence. I don't think white nationalism has any sort of validly applicable aspects that can be stretched to that effect.
RMSbolt – supercharged implementation of the godbolt compiler-explorer for Emacs
Autometrics: Developer-first observability framework that writes queries for you
Police work stoppages should be fireable offenses.
I never read articles on NPR or PBS defending the second amendment of the constitution. And if state-backed media is actively trying to disarm me, that’s a huge concern.

Now, outlets like Fox media should also have labels due to their Dominion voting conspiracies, and until the completely unbiased Musk adds that, he’s just making an editorial decision.
> While Lee is one of a dozen homicide victims in San Francisco this year, his is the only killing that has garnered national coverage — or, in most cases, even cursory local coverage.

> San Francisco’s other homicide victims in 2023 are Gavin Boston, 40; Irving Sanchez-Morales, 28; Carlos Romero Flores, 29; Maxwell Maltzman, 18; Demario Lockett, 44; Maxwell Mason, 29; Humberto Avila, 46; Gregory McFarland Jr, 36; Kareem Sims, 43; Debra Lynn Hord, 57; and Jermaine Reeves, 52.
That's the source we're discussing here. If you have some evidence that they're lying about this then please post it, I would genuinely be interested to see it.
I mean you had friends so you probably wouldn’t fall into this category.
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It’s been many years since I rooted (or even owned) an android phone but is there really no interaction from the user required beyond plugging it in? On iOS there’s a pop up asking if you want to trust the computer, and that’s after you’ve unlocked the screen
Another thing we ignore in big-O analyses: as a hashtable grows arbitrarily large, the physical media in which it’s data is stored must also take up more and more physical space. Since we live in three-dimensional space, the retrieval time for a hashtable containing n entries must be bounded by the fact that the entries are located a distance of at least O(n^1/3) away.

(Not actually purely an academic concern - this physical constraint is what drives the difference in performance between using data in L1cache, RAM, disk, or on remote networked nodes.)

So yeah, O(1) hashmap reads are a convenient lie we tell ourselves, which are really only true for ‘small hashmaps’.
I think EV batteries don't use cobalt anymore? Tesla's doesn't.
I watch PBS Newshour, Frontline documentaries, other documentaries, catch up on the weather and local news, and informative content on trains, urban design/planning, and transportation.

Yeah, reading this stuff would probably be better, and I do also read a lot. But sometimes I just want to sit back and relax while someone presents their information to me.
Current resident. I walked 1 mile home late last night, through two neighborhoods that people call sketchy. The only thing that felt unsafe was the cars.