skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In school in Belgium, we learned that Oceania is the continent and not Australia. So for us, would Australia then be the largest island after all?

How weird. (So it's not only Chilean schools that are idiosyncratic in this regard.) To the rest of us, the actual continent -- you know, the biggest contiguous landmass in the region -- is called Australia. Maybe you're just translating Erdteil (Ger; whatever the corresponding concept is in French or Flemish) to the English "continent", and mistranslating too literally? In English "continent" is the land mass, which is definitely Australia. Oceania, as a whole "Erdteil", is more than a continent; it's the sum of the continent of Australia and a whole bunch of islands. (Possibly most of them situated on the same continental shelf? Or not, Idunno.)

French:

> On retrouve ainsi certains systèmes de continents qui considèrent l'Europe et l'Asie comme deux continents, alors que l'Eurasie ne forme qu'une étendue de terre. -- https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent

If stuff that is just one actual literal continent can be called two "Erdteile" since forever, another "Erdteil" can consist of a continent plus some other stuff.

West Flemish:

> De meiste eiland'n in de Stiln Oceoan vormn t'hope mè 't continent Australië e weirelddeil die Oceanië wordt genoemd. -- https://vls.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent

Not the same thing.
Panopticon!?

Why do Americans routinely still believe the UK is an exceptional, universal surveillance state?

There were two studies done (in Kings Lynn in Norfolk and in a section of Putney) that are full of mistakes, that US media has picked up as some kind of indication that the UK is down some dark path the same as China.

People believe every residential street has police cameras (not even close to true) or that the _government_ operates "millions" of cameras (not true), or that there's nowhere you can go in the UK where you can't be immediately followed on camera.

Most of the "millions" of cameras in the studies are, like most of the millions of cameras in the USA, pointing from the back of shop out through the glass at the front. If the police want those they have to ask, on foot, to the manager of the store, and the store manager may require them to have a warrant.

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_Unite...

And then ask yourself: how different is it in the USA?

(Throwaway because I am really done with commenting here, but this CCTV misunderstanding always makes me laugh. Here's a tip: the USA is not really very different. (Except that our police aren't armed to the teeth, you don't get nearly shot to death for going to the wrong house while black, and our politicians don't plan to put prisons next to theme parks to score points)
In my opinion this is largely a UI/UX issue. For some reason, applications with rich tagging systems have only the most raw basic interface for manipulating and searching using tags.
Show HN: Quadipy, a Python package to transform structured data into RDF format
Edit: https://github.com/codr7/cl-slog
I love Ruff and I'm glad that Charlie and the rest of the team are able to work on such tools full-time. I'm also happy to see that the author of Maturin (Rust+Python interop) is involved, as Maturin is a fantastic project with great ease-of-use.

For those who aren't familiar, Ruff is a very fast Python linter that supersedes a variety of tools like isort, flake8, and perhaps eventually Black [1]. My understanding is that since Ruff is an all-in-one tool, it can parse the underlying Python files just once -- and since this is the most expensive phase of these kinds of tools, adding any extra functionality on top (such as linting, formatting, ...) is very cheap. And that's to say nothing of the fact that Ruff is built on Rust, with the usual performance wins that Rust projects tend to have.

I'm a little apprehensive of how development will look given a VC raise with the expectation of VC returns. But for now, I'm delighted and can't wait to see what the team comes up with.

[1]: https://github.com/charliermarsh/ruff/issues/1904
Everytime my BT headphones connect, Apple Music opens up.

Own and iPhone and you are reminded quite often of the benefits of an iCloud subscription.

Try setting up an iPhone w/o an apple account for that matter, or using an Android phone (that hasn't been de-googled) without a Google account.

Not to mention, users expect their files to be with them everywhere. IMHO Microsoft should make OneDrive free with some obscene high file limit and default My Documents to it, and they should have done this back in the Windows XP days.
Flatpaks support this through XDG Portals, and Flatpaks are cross-distribution. They aren't the native build artifact of most applications though, and are packaged by the community.
Of course they have an utility but the question is if it is that big of an utility to warrant the current or their peak valuations. Also, bulldozing over the local laws and regulations is not that big of an abstraction to act as a moat, nor is the routing algo or anything else. There were/are so many companies doing it, it's just that they didn't have the deep pockets to compete against companies who sell a dollar for pennies.
NPPs could use so called 'dry cooling towers'. They are just less efficient, so you'd need more of them, which takes more space, is more expensive to build, and so on.
Some low-hanging fruit:

- Regulate away the ability for utilities to implement policies that discourage solar. Legislate maximum PTO approvals.

- Standardize the payback for Solar so that net credits at the end of the year are compensated in a manner that is predictable. Predictability will bring way more investment.
Microsoft reportedly working on its own AI chips
And soon, it'll be smeared out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity - Neal Stephenson
I installed Windows on my Steam Deck to run some games a couple weeks ago. It came pre-loaded with tons of apps I didn’t request, and basic functionality that required me to sign in with an account. What a joke of an OS. I gave up, no game was worth the hassle.
Better video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4WvWIJCFJc
Do a reverse image search on Google and buy the closest matching piece of furniture. Doesn't have to be precisely the same
Its not as bad as windows, but it will constantly give you a badge on the settings app to notify you that you didn't finish setting up siri.
It's really hard to evaluate everything by yourself. If you wanted to listen to some good music, you'd find something you like much faster by scrolling through the top 1000 most listened songs than a random shuffle of the maybe billions of songs that have ever existed. "A lot of other people like this" is a pretty good filter for things you'll probably like given how similar we all are (especially when we're stewing in the same culture).
I was a systems engineer supporting Windows and software running on Windows at a large corporation for a decade. My only complaint at the time was that the CLI was so inferior to Unix/Linux.

MS' increasingly poor UI/UX decisions starting with Windows 8/Server 2012 have caused me to relegate Windows to a "legacy support" role in a VM on any new hardware I buy. They really had to work to overcome all of that good will, but they've been relentless.
>then send their friend a
text using an unbreakable post- quantum encryption algorithm.

You're wrong there. They won't because governments will move to ban them so that they can carry on snooping. It's more likely that the texts will be simutaneously uploaded onto a publicly accessible database, which will be encouraged because "only criminals have something they want to hide".
Better link with better video: https://today.duke.edu/2023/04/brain-images-just-got-64-mill...
This comment reminds me of a time, many years ago, when someone wanted an the internal design team to make a big poster out of a low res image.

The design team explained that they couldn't blow the image up to the size of a poster because it would look too grainy as it was extremely low resolution.

The individual demanding the poster replied with a 'brilliant' solution: "Why don't you just take a picture of the low-res image, and then use that hi-resolution picture to blow up the image!"

The same applies here. You need more information to learn the signal better, by definition there is no new information in the model.
Well written and animated!!

Anyone knows what technology was used for the animation?
> "No, I hate saving money."

Funny thing -- in my head, that sounds exactly like "No, I hate manipulative assholes."
okay then who else?

when i last interviewed at apple, the office i interviewed in was so far from the spaceship, it was almost in another city. apple seems to be occupying just about every office park built since the 1970s in cupertino.

also - those non-spaceship offices are awful, unreachable by transit, no access to food without driving, basically an Office Space type environment. gross.
Just so. It's almost as forceful as "I wonder if you've considered not doing that," and if that's not clear I don't know what clarity is :)
EU takes on United States, Asia with chip subsidy plan
This seemed promising, but this is also kinda scary:

> Compiled from Linux 4.14.0 headers.

We're in the 6.x's now!
It’s Goodbye to the Daily Swig
And Marcus is dying as a brand. Seems like Apple is holding GS over a barrel but it's not clear how.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/business/goldman-sachs-1q...
Maybe they also have a 'technology issue' in their recruiting process and they think nobody is applying.
Every now and then, QI-stories I learned 10+ years ago pops up. I don't think this fact (...) is that old, but I love it.
To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe, as they say
Exactly this. This is also how gun control in the UK works.

In the UK, possessing a firearm is already a greater offense than most of the crimes you could commit with that firearm, shy of actually shooting/killing someone.

This is also why I laugh when people say cryptocurrencies can't be banned. Of course they can be. It's an order of magnitude easier to prove someone has access to or owns cryptocurrencies than it is to prove they used that crypto to commit a crime.

(Back to cryptoGRAPHY) - this is probably what they're going for - it's very difficult to prove you used encryption software to exchange information on criminal activities, so instead they just make the act of encrypting stuff illegal. The problem is; cryptography is everywhere, and is a fundamental part of how the modern world works. Trying to ban it isn't possible without breaking things like corporate VPNs, etc. - things that every day normal people will MISS. Ban strong encryption apps? You can literally just set up a VPS, SSH into it and use the "write" Unix command on the server locally. If the government can crack that you've lost all security on the internet.
I believe the book introducing his theory of introversion/extraversion was Psychological Types based on his own clinical research. It's a theory, not a law.. :-)
It supports kubernetes and stuff nowadays too.
It's still "totally acceptable" to drink and drive pretty much anywhere in small town USA. The cops won't even pull you over. Unless you are poor.
Having written a bunch of Flake8 plugins, including custom plugins for internal use at a company, and using 5-10 popular plugins on every Python project I work on... rewriting the entire linting ecosystem in one monolithic Rust tool doesn't feel like the best solution. There's no good story for building an ecosystem around this yet, and I think that's a big hurdle to overcome.

Ruff is fast, sure, but the benchmarking seems a little disingenuous, as I believe their number includes caching, but doesn't necessarily include caching for other tools. In fairness, not all the other tools have caching, but it is common to run them through pre-commit and therefore only on the current git diff, which speeds them up by orders of magnitude.
Yeah, they kind of blow past light sheet microscopy, but I'm optimistic that this can still be quite useful. There are brain banks with already donated brains that we could use to learn about diseases, and I imagine many organ donors would be happy to have their brains sliced up for science.
> What is the point of making every half decent Developer tool a whole startup?

I mean, paying people who work on it, for one?
Relatedly, if you distrust the used EV market statistics and they are still very weird compared to used ICE sales (because among other things the "average span of time under the first owner" of an EV is still crazy high with respect to previous ICE norms) or at least just generally like further evidence: Did you know that many early Leaf owners leased their batteries from Nissan? Nissan has plenty of reason to under-report exact statistics, of course, of how those leases went, but if battery "degradation" were a real problem, certainly Nissan would have felt it on their bottom line (which they didn't).

Relatedly, did you know that Nissan has a division like Tesla's PowerWall? Do you know why you haven't heard or seen from that division? Unlike PowerWall, Nissan's division promised to source entirely from "second use" batteries. (Most PowerWalls are built with new batteries straight from the factory.) Nissan keeps the division on the books, but so far has sourced so few "second use" batteries in the real world that they've not actually built much or delivered much or done any consumer marketing for that battery wall division.
Sounds really cool. Best of luck moving forward and scaling out.
> tokmon uses the mitmproxy library to intercept HTTP requests and responses between your program and the OpenAI API.

somewhat implied given the cli usage, passing your command to it rather than running your command.

is the output provided really worth the mitm? are the inputs so regular that this is strictly a dev tool?

self-mitm is interesting, just not understanding the value of this over implementing some light auditing in a script.

other than not having to do it, but the user of such a tool could just ask chatgpt to convert code from one language to another. or even scan this code and build a library. if not write the script with cost monitoring baked in.

slippery slope being what it is.
It's not quite clear to me whether fTPMs really protect against hardware attacks.

According to

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/189950/how-does...

most CPUs can be controlled via JTAG, and apparently that includes many of their deep internals.
>The space is generally so tainted that it's not unreasonable to assume the people in it aren't exactly good until proven otherwise.

I could say the exact same about the finance, defence, and health insurance sectors.

For over 40 years, I've only ever heard bad news about those industries. Still, it would be wrong to assume every single individual actor in those spaces is a bad actor; I know that bad news is widely reported in the media, and good news rarely is.
"No, they have to report the location of the transaction, for which there are legal rules, which specify that the location of the transaction for sales tax is “where the merchandise is physically located at the time the sale takes place.”"

And if the merchandise is located in China at the time the sale takes place? What city do they pick then?
Thanks for mentioning that, I loved that game but totally forgot about it.
I really really wish Affinity Photo (and publisher and designer) worked ok in Wine. I think maybe they'll work better in a year, but right now you need a patched wine, a chunk of a Windows machine and you still have to out up with crashing.
> That Cupertino offered the best deal for them is a quirk of the law, not a shady deal by Apple

These two things aren't incompatible with each other.

> So $4m a year?

A $2tn company shouldn't be concerned with losing out on $4m.

No need to defend a $2tn company. It's okay to right-size this error.
I wonder if all this advertising is some way to help justify the costs of continued development of Windows?

From what I've heard, it's not a cash cow anymore.

Anyone have any insight?
... which would require ditching all of their customers and establishing a brokerage. We're talking about a fundamentally different business that is not distinguishable from any existing business. Coinbase as we know it would be dead.
Not always. I read Accident Investigation reports for the transport industries in my countries. The vast majority of the time, management are a factor, for example the management of a bulk freighter haven't allowed enough crew for it to be operated safely, or the management of a airport haven't spent money on the improved hardware that would have prevented a dangerous incident. These reports inevitably have recommendations, many of which are directed to management.

But once in a while it really isn't. My "favourite" was a fishing vessel which capsized killing everybody aboard. Why did it get into trouble? Because the entire crew were using heroin. That report has zero recommendations because there's nothing to recommend. It's already both illegal and obviously a bad idea to operate vessels at sea under the influence of drugs or alcohol, so there's nothing to recommend, those guys had only themselves to blame for their deaths.
This is what a pure meritocracy looks like. There's no more tricks, there's no more hacks, it's just a tight few metrics that you're either really really good at, or you aren't. It's the same with the rest of the country. Turns out a pure meritocracy leaves a lot of losers because there can only be so many winners.
This article mainly summarises a video if you'd rather watch:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=R87Qlq_wSY8&
> For seventy years, Doyle's contributions to the war effort were largely unheralded, but she was finally given her due in 2014 when she was awarded France's highest honor, the Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.

Funny enough it's been publicly known for about that long.
Exactly, people forget that economics describes human systems. It’s only true if someone is out there doing it!
https://react-etc.net/entry/microsoft-office-rewrite-to-reac...

> Microsoft Office rewrite in React.js nears completion

Seems like even Microsoft is hedging their bets when it comes to Windows.
Reading and proving a spec can though. LLMs are in principle capable of doing that. (If your objection is that the spec might have bugs then "bug free" is subjective and nothing at all can ever lead to definitive conclusions about it)
Ahh yes the classic "prove a negative".
Bingo. Windows looks like a trashy billboard for Microsoft's other services because that's exactly what it is, because that's where the fresh money is.
No, coinbase is trying to trade unregulated securities and asking the SEC to give them the OK before hand so they don't end up in court. Predictably, the SEC's not going to do that.
Anime Confronts a New Apocalypse
I mean it might be. It does feel a bit like "port out, starboard home" or "gentlemen only, ladies forbidden". Wikipedia uses it, but without citation.
A Ponzi scheme works because it gives the illusion of being real. Life isn't that. Life is real. The only real thing in many ways.
Just for fun I uploaded a screenshot from Cyberpunk 2077 because I was trying out the new path tracing update.

https://imgur.com/a/UpD9kHs

It’s fun to see how it deals with UI elements.
Unfortunately, there are many reasons to write horrible code.

I work in-house for a non-tech related company. I'm often the sole developer, sometimes I have help. I'm also the defacto DBA and systems administrator for the machines the software runs on. As the defacto DBA, I'm also roped into data analysis as well.

There are also certain events that are non-compromisable. These events take place whether we are ready or not. Having nothing is not really an option. That means shelving the project until next year. Because the next event must be prepared for.

So, at the end of the day, "done is best". If I have the time, I can go back and refactor everything into something better. But often, there's "the next thing".
The only thing I need windows for now is to sign contracts, that come in PDF form. I have a laptop with windows 11 for that kind of stuff.

Is there any software in linux that can insert my signature in a PDF, like adobes "fill & sign"?
macOS' Rapid Security Response: Designed into a Corner
Probably not anymore. Rates are up, CPI is down. 4.25% is probably close to break even now or will be very soon. Vanguard treasury money markets are paying a bit higher without FDIC backing but they are pretty risk free.
It would be handy if they had a requirement of transparency. Having your job threatened for saying that a driver that hit you looked "young" is too obscure.

Make it clear what you won't accept, have a whole web page with every single thing that you have decided on as corporate taboo.
"- I have a bootmod3 WiFi adapter plugged into my street/track car with a combo 5G/Linux unit in the car connected to my Tailscale that streams continuous telemetry about the car whenever its turned on. I could in theory re-flash the ECU via this."

Do you have a writeup or more details you can share around this? This sounds interesting.
Is this some flavour of groupoids symmetry?
How well-supported is it? Looks like the last release was almost a year ago.

Replacing the Windows shell, especially in Windows 10/11, with their constant updates, isn't something I'd recommend for non-experts, but I don't even do it myself anymore because it seems like none of the replacements are ever consistently supported in the long term.
I’m not against folks getting paid. My question is how does one build an entire company selling a slightly better version of a widely used open source tool? Ruff is not strong enough to build a company from.
The one concern I'd have with such pressure is that there would be other essential corners cut in order to not end up being fined. Bad service on a dirty aircraft is one thing but if they end up skimping on something safety related, disaster is waiting to happen. While I'm sure there are lots of other penalties involved in cutting corners in those areas, including the prospect of losing an aircraft and many lives, people at the lowest levels often are receiving pressure for immediate concerns and the consequences of the larger event isn't something that's immediately real to them.
Webb Captures the Galactic Merger
That's just a foot in the door.

Like sentry made a good logging library, then pivoted to an observability service.

And today I use sentry because I have a great history with their product.

It's smart and a positive way to make money.

I dig it.

PS: ruff is not replacing black (although it will probably in the end), but compete with flake8 and pylint.
This is crazy. Each day i find new tools and apps. Thanks for sharing owncloud.
I guess that's what makes it really Quite Interesting. :)
So, in the tax system, the terms describe percentages of income/assets taken from the taxes. Progressive taxes charge a higher percentage from richer people than poorer people. Flat taxes aim to take the same percentage from everyone. Regressive taxes charge poorer people a higher percentage of their income.

People say sales taxes are regressive because the cost of things that people buy usually increases slower than the income to support it. Very poor people spend (over) 100% of their income. Richer people do not - they save for retirement and other things. And if they want to buy toys, they might be very expensive toys (eg a yacht). It is worth going to a place without the sales tax to make a large purchase.
Unless you live in Oregon, in multnomah county (Portland), in which case the city and county will tax your income too.
It runs PC games better than anything else.