skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you can see it in the German word for concentration camp: KonzentrationsLAGER.
> Going through your comment history, I would say you are either a very passionate american nationalist, or a state sponsored propaganda parrot ;)

Im neither American or paid to be here, I just don't like imperialist wars of conquest regardless of who starts them.

> Ukraine was clearly in the sphere of influence of Russia.

If by that you mean previously forcibly occupied by the USSR and therefore Russia sure.

> Why was the US flirting with it ? Do you see Russia openly courting Mexico ? No.

Russia is free to court whomever they want, no one would really care, things have changed in the past 50-60 years seemingly everywhere but Russia,
Here is a Demo app with BS5:
https://jampy.pythonanywhere.com

And old Demo with BS3:
https://demo.jam-py.com/

Here is the Northwind Traders migrated from MS Access semi automatically (~10hrs work):
https://northwind.pythonanywhere.com/

Would be great to have you on board guys. Cheers
It's a public company, isn't it?

So we can just point out it's strategies on it's latest 10k filing, where it's investments have been and where it's gets it's money from?

https://dropbox.gcs-web.com/node/10481/html
This looks like ChatGPT copy-paste.
If you maintain lossless storage you can switch formats as necessary; the problem really becomes a major issue when you have various formats you don't use very often and you don't notice that something became unplayable.

Luckily the number of people obsessed with emulating old systems saves the day for now. But at some point things like Video CDs and the Compact Disc-Interactive systems may fully fade into history.
Best yet is VSCode into a docker container on a remote host. Feels like magic!
> Rust's syntax, manual memory management, and compile times makes it seem like it's really not meant for this kind of workload, but instead for things like compilers, embedded systems, that kind of thing.

What about a vector or image editor, a 3D DCC etc?

These are prime example for desktop apps where existing solutions are 100% written in C++.

That's stuff where Rust would be a better alternative if you started work on an app like this today.

In VFX there is a whole initiative by the ASWF to wrap the stack in Rust for starters and possibly have new additions written in that language instead of C++ in the future.

And compiling to WASM and being able to run in a browser (even if only as a single canvas element with all applying limitations) is a great plus.
I recently watched "Gone with the Wind" with some friends. In hindsight, it's nothing more than Lost Cause propaganda, but I don't think it should be revised. It should be shown in context with the history of the Lost Cause at the time and with what the reality of the war actually was about.
Dropbox have 3000+ employees according to Google fiance. do you need that many people to run a online file storage service?
This is amazing news!

Our phones now have so much critical stuff that being able to have a backup for more dangerous situations without losing contact with everyone is very important.

In dangerous places like Brazil, it stresses me to no end to go to some places or events (concerts, football matches, street fairs and events) with my phone that has all my banking information, email, access to my files, etc.

Currently the only thing that really prevents me from just using an old backup phone for this is that you can't have WhatsApp in 2 phones, so you end up having to resort to "ancient" (just kidding) ways like calls and SMS. Unfortunately, a lot of people (at least in Latin America or from here) basically only use WhatsApp nowadays.

My current solution was to have a second SIM card with a second WhatsApp account, which at least allowed me to message people in my contact list. With the amount of scams, though, a lot of my friends do not trust this unless I personally meet then and tell them to add the second contact.

Might seem like a small issue, but for me this will be a huge help. I leave my phone with all those annoying apps that use it as 2FA, banks and everything in hour and use a strip down version to go around.
I'd be more inclined to believe their P=NP claim if they used it to grab all of Satoshi's bitcoins. That should be the first order of business for anyone finding an efficient algorithm for the ECDLP (Elliptic Curve Discrete Log Problem), as implied by their constructive proof.
> it is built into the nature of the system

I would love to see an elaboration. I think you're saying this because it's in their interest for wide appeal and so will adjust their "products" as necessary to please.
Do you also know for a fact that each version of iDrive has been reimplemented from scratch twenty or thirty times - once for each car model?
You know what else has telemetry that cannot be disabled?

Microsoft Windows.

It is about time something is done about it.
WSL is amazing. I switched from Macs to thinkpads at my office and having the bells and whistles of windows MS office (lets admin macos office stinks) and vscode that opens and literally runs on Linux is amazing. No IT hassles about developers running Linux with support and VPNs and stuff. Just buy some more RAM and ship developers windows laptops has been great for the org and honestly the developers. We deploy and run on Linux and the weird quirks of macos has bit us in the past.
"He fired up the car’s onboard GPS device and began coping with its user interface."

REAMDE, Neal Stephenson
>> I don't drive

Suggest learning how to drive if you can. Being dependent on others isn't great.
We’ll I just realised I can use iCloud or Google drive for like 1/10th the cost of Dropbox ?
> Dropbox moved beyond basic file sharing long ago.

File syncing and storage is a feature rather than a full product, these days. Microsoft and Google have made sure of that. You need something more to compete. So, it makes sense that Dropbox went in that direction.
I think the word censorship really has to relate to government action - if it's extended to an author reworking their own output, it really loses all sense of meaning.
> The data had, the report indicated, been sent to a so-called “Red Team” for vetting, but, according to the panel’s report, “none of the Red Team cyber experts were able to open the files.”

This has to be the best part of this article.
I liked the first one. It was a breath of fresh air in an ocean of marvel and all remakes/reboots movies
Oh, that's today and tomorrow. I had been waiting for that, I could have sworn earlier this year they said there was going to be a live stream available. Maybe it didn't pan out.

Edit: Oh, there are streaming tickets for $20.
Datomic LOOKED cool 10-12 years when it first came out. But they started from day 1 with a price, so most people, me included, just passed over it.

I think they went way too fast to commercial, and needed to go a freemium model to actually get market share.
> HBO also paved the way to the superficialization of the stories of those series

Completely agree. Modern TV is excellent in many ways – I think it's great at showing complex inter-character relationships and "politics" over long running stories, telling stories that are just a bit more complex than a 2.5 hour film, and things like cinematography have become really good.

But I don't think it's good at capturing the peak of the art of film-making. Dune is a subtle story in many ways, it doesn't really need 8-10 hours for a miniseries, it needs ~4-5 hours of really considered storytelling. The cinematography in the first film, like Villenueves other films, is also a cut above modern TV.
Interestingly, some of the folks who harp about performance would see your "reads better" as a problem. I'm completely in agreement with the idea that, until the code is proven to be a performance problem, readability and clarity matters most. But the performance-first mavens would say the choice should be determined by Big-O performance and memory usage, then by readability.
We used to call it Public Domain and Shareware (with variations like Coffeeware, Beerware, Postware,...)
In the wake of the Social Media War and the subsequent unionization of Google's contractors, a wave of unrest and upheaval began to sweep through the tech industry. Inspired by their counterparts at Google, contractors across tech started to push for greater rights and representation within their respective organizations.

As these movements gained momentum, Balaji Srinivasan united all contractors from all four FANG companies and established a cross-company union, seeking to consolidate their power and leverage their collective strength. This unprecedented move sent shockwaves throughout the industry, as the new mega-union began to wield significant influence not only within the individual FANG companies but also across the entire tech sector.

The union's goal was to revolutionize the tech industry by breaking down traditional corporate boundaries and fostering a more collaborative and equitable ecosystem. Dedicated to these ideals, and bulstered by contractors from thousands of companies, they collectively leaked all code to open source, dubbed United-Tech.

The formation of United Tech sparked a wave of innovation, as the combined talents and expertise were unleashed on a range of new projects and initiatives.

The cypherpunks at United Tech began collaborating with independent researchers and scientists worldwide, pooling their collective expertise to tackle the age-old question. Through their combined efforts, they started to decipher the intricate interplay of subatomic particles, energy fields, and the fabric of spacetime.

As the global scientific community became increasingly involved, a new understanding of physical reality began to emerge. This revolutionary perspective transcended traditional boundaries and unified competing theories, providing a comprehensive framework that could explain the behavior of the universe at both the quantum and cosmological scales.

And that is the story of the end of history.
In order for each level to exclude numbers that have already been counted, each level would only be 9 numbers:

So if level = lambda n: 1-int(math.log10(1./n))

We only ever generate [‘.’ + ‘0’ * (level(n) – 1) + str(i + 1) for i in range(9)]
My example wasn't great, and you're right that this would be better ran on a CPU.

For context, my very naive working model of GPUs is that they're basically just massively parallel CPUs with slower clock speeds. So given this it seems like it would make sense to have some kind of async math library which allow you to send batch calculations to the GPU to run in parallel.

Basically anything where you typically create a loop and do some calculation seems like it would better batched and sent to the GPU. Assuming my working model of GPUs is correct anyway.

So last week I was working on a JS library which required doing exactly this – some basic addition and multiplication in a loop – and I thought, hey, I wonder if I can just batch this and send it to the GPU for a slight performance boost? I was aware of projects like GPU.js and figured it should be a relatively simple thing to try, but turns out I was wrong.

What I thought would take me 30 mins last week has now turned into a quest to learn about shader code and the history of GPUs, and I'm still not exactly sure why.
> e.g. if prefix.suffix@example.com is published online, they will try prefix@example.com and suffix@example.com

That is likely someone trying to programmatically circumvent filtering based on catch-all-ish naming conventions, like gmail's support for usernamepart+anythingelse@gmail.com all going to usernamepart@gmail.com and similar facilities offered by other email services.

Sending to <something1>@dom.tld and <something2>@dom.tld as well as <something1><puntuation><something2>@dom.tld seems like a potentially useful heuristic. Though it may create excess false addresses, if spammers care about that sort of thing (that depends on whether the chance hit on real addresses is worth the need to transmit many more messages that will fail/bounce and maybe help train spam identification systems).
Jerry Springer has died
Here's a fun thought experiment / apparent paradox.

In high school physics we learn that a 1kg mass accelerates as quickly as a 2kg mass when only subjected to the force of gravity. When I used to teach physics, the intuitive explanation I gave for this hinged on a thought experiment. Suppose that you have three 1kg masses falling side by side after being dropped from the same height. Clearly they are all going to fall at the same rate since they're equivalent. Now imagine redoing the experiment but this time taking two of the masses and placing them closer together. Does anything change? Clearly not, they're still all equivalent and ought to fall at the same rate. Now imagine doing this until those two masses are right next to each other, touching. Does anything change? Well no, all three should still fall at the same rate. But now, why not glue those two masses together and call it a 2kg mass? Once you do that you've shown that a 1kg mass and a 2kg mass fall at the same rate.

This usually convinces people, but there's actually a flaw in the argument that gets to the heart of why gravity is so different from the other forces.

To see the flaw, replace the above masses by three electrons falling next to each other in an electric field. Everything goes through in exactly the same way. You end up gluing together two of the electrons and these two electrons will accelerate at the same rate as the single electron. But if you're not careful you'd conclude that all electric charges fall at the same rate in an electric field, something we know is false.

Where's the flaw? Well, all of matter is built from some particles, and as long as you restrict yourself to particles that have the same "charge/mass ratio", the argument above works. It is true that one electron accelerates the same as 100 electrons tied together but that's just because e/m is the same for all those constituents.

So, the thing that's glossed over in my high school explanation for why 1kg and 2kg accelerate at the same rate is that the constituent particles all have the same "gravitational charge / inertial mass" ratio. Because this ratio is the same for all particles, we may as well absorbed that ratio into the gravitational constant and just use "m" in place of both of them. It's this "universal coupling" that's really responsible for the equivalence principle and what sets gravity apart from the other forces.
I think the fact that this remains an unwritten story is shameful for those of us that love sports. The Sacklers needed doctors to legitimize their crimes, and the sports betting industry has coopted governments and also the sports journalism industry to legitimize theirs.
rsync.net seem to be spaffing a lot on advertising, anyine ot any experience of them ?

1TB bonus if you sign up, but haow good is their product?
Netflix, Facebook (Meta), Nubank, and many others.
About the AI thing (assuming it's true and not merely a convenient excuse for layoffs):

Is every company just planning to feed all of their customer data through GPT / OpenAI, or will they build their own AIs? The first choice seems risky, from a business, legal and privacy perspective. The second one would require a large amount of capital and has many other risks.
Euphemism treadmill is driven by people who believe in a fairly strong version of the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, that the thoughts we have are bounded by the words we have. They think that the negative connotations of fatness are at least in part derived from the word "fat" itself and could therefore be at least partially erased by getting rid of that word and replacing it with another.

But even if we erased every single word for fatness from the minds of everybody in existence all in an instant, new words for fatness would be invented the very next instant when people around the world see fatness, can't find a word for it, and invent a new one. Words are tools for conveying understanding. Humans are tool-creating apes; when we need a tool, we make a tool. Remove a slur from people's vocabulary and people will invent a new one.

When I was young, my school had a program for retarded kids, the kids with profound mental disabilities. We also called each other retarded as a mild insult to impugn our friends' intelligence. The teachers and parents hated this, they banned the word retarded and renamed the class for the retarded kids to "Special Education". Anybody caught saying "retarded" would be scolded very severely and denied recess/etc. So what did we do? We started using "special", "special education" and "sped" as insults equivalent to retarded. You can't erase concepts by erasing words, least of all concepts that are so readily observable and self-evidently negative as the state of being mentally retarded or fat. Need a tool, make a tool.
Yep this is 100% true (i run shepherd.com).

Within our data books like lord of the rings and harry potter are nearly impossible to map for "books like" because they are connected to so many other things. I am working now to fine tune our model, but it has been an interesting challenge.
> That fatties should just have to exist until they can make the identity level genetic changes on their own to lose it.

Or just eat less and exercise more..

What happens when they come off of this drug? Does the weight just go back on again?

Underlying lifestyle changes are the proper way to lose weight and keep it off. The sort of lifestyle changes that most non-fat people have been making all of their lives. That's why many people criticise shortcuts like this. It's a lazy solution to (mostly) laziness.
I've found a barbell shape to the response. People either seem to really like or hate it. Not too many people I know that are in the middle.

I will say I'm one of the people that really like it. I'm a big fan of the first Dune book and I think it does a great job of being true to the story. It's visually stunning and the score is perfect. My only gripe (and it's a big one) is that the cut the dinner scene. I don't understand that choice at all, but it wasn't enough to ruin the whole movie for me.

People that I know who don't like it think it's slow and that nothing really happens. And they're right. It also just awkwardly cuts off in the middle, so it doesn't feel like a complete movie. As a fan of the book, that didn't bother me too much because I realize it's just half the story and they can't make a 6 hour movie. But it is jarring, especially if you aren't already familiar with the plot.

And you are 100% correct that this would be better suited as an HBO miniseries. There's just way too much to cram into a movie. If you haven't checked out SyFy's miniseries and the Children of Dune miniseries, they are surprising good given the low budget SyFy had for it (compared to Villeneuve's budget at least).
> Now we have Javascript frameworks, SOLID principles, clean coding, uncle Bob and AGILE methodology.

I see this sentiment here often, but I still fail to see what is inherintly bad in any of these?
It's because the legal regimes are absurd wrong & on a crash course for unsustainable conflicting tangles of lawmaking, and don't recognize the international kerfuffle created by letting any nation anywhere apply se I tree rules to any business. Each nation thinks it has the right, but doesn't consider that that implies every other nation also has fiat right to do make up whatever rules it wants against any other company, purely because said company can be reached over the internet. The nations are insane & power drunk.

And voltaireodactyl phrased it as someone doing their shit in the US being an invader & colonizer of other nations, just because other people can so happen to connect to the US. Which is further absurd & unsustainable madness.

I didn't down vote. But down vote to the nations of the earth, who are idiots, making mockery of themselves & the law itself by planting the seeds of tyranny by giving themselves arbitrary power over everywhere on earth. These nations are in the wrong. I agree with you that this resembles the current legal climate, but the legal climate is being actively hostile to humanity, is being absurd, is wrong, and in a number of cases we have gotten right up the brink of nations having to disconnect services to actually have any power, to maintain their laws, and alas the major nations tend generally to keep backing down. This is their only real power, to disconnect, and this untenable situation will lead to more and more breakdowns over time, and I hope we see more disconnects, rather than the constant spread of every random ration having arbitrary power over everyone.
I tend to agree. I have a high end induction cooktop with touch controls, and I don't have the same problem. If I spill water on the capacitive touch buttons it might ding at me because it thinks I just pushed that button, but it doesn't freak out or anything, the buttons all still work.

I did choose the touch version specifically because I was tired of all the work cleaning my natural gas cooktop. Now that I've used it for a few months, I think I'd like the knobs better because the cooktop would still be a lot easier to clean overall, but it's not terrible. My biggest complaint is that the cat walks across it at night and I can hear the dings as it steps on the buttons. And then there's the paw prints on the glass. Sigh.
> when I went to the US my work visa was explicitly non-immigrant, and calling myself an immigrant at the US embassy when applying for the visa, or while crossing the US border would have resulted in the denial of my visa, or the denial of my entry in the US. At least that's what the attorney drilled into my head...

H1B is dual-intent. You are allowed to have an immigrant intent when applying for H1B, so no, nobody would refuse it on that ground.
I'll have you know that our local utilities actually do run billboard campaigns to drink tap water. Yes, it's excellent and many people do :P
It’s interesting that a lot of people in Turkey wish that Ottomans had done what you say their purpose was, thinking that Turkification of these lands would have made Turkey better off, with more lands perhaps. Luckily, it’s not true.

The idea expressed in your comment is quite popular in many circles, though. I had a Greek classmate in our intro Ancient Greek class confidently stating that the sound shift of the letter beta (roughly from a /b/ sound to /v/) happened because Ottomans didn’t let them speak their language! This shift actually occurred in Byzantine period (I think around 1100AD). Edit: Oops, I was way off, actually the change happened in the Koine Period, around 200BC (https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta#:~:text=Beta%20(upp....)
I cynically think it wouldn't be a killer, because real estate agents prefer to have photos carefully made with fish-eye lens that makes rooms look bigger.