skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And the XEPs. Millions of them.

482 of them. A XEP is how someone proposes a feature, and how the community collaborates around the protocol's development. Many XEPs never gain enough traction to be marked as "stable", and they get automatically deferred after a year.

This means out of the 482 XEPs, a much smaller number are actually required to implement working stuff in XMPP.

Hopefully this solves the common misconception, which you seem to have, that you have to implement every XEP. Some aren't even dealing with protocol changes, some are only informational, and some only pertain to client or server features.

> There is no version of protocol to target by client or server, there is not even "level of features" (lets say "text only", "text + voice", "text + video conferencing"), no, pick and choose, and on both server and client site.

False. We publish annual "compliance suites" which contains an array of features and two compliance levels for each ("core" and "advanced").

You can browse XMPP software by compliance levels here: https://xmpp.org/software/

You can find the 2022 compliance suite here: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0459.html and the 2023 edition is due to be finalized soon.

> XMPP is absolute mess and mountain of design by committee

This is your subjective opinion. You're welcome to it, of course. But accept that I (and many others) do not necessarily share this opinion.
Rhythm is the flow of music. It's not just the order of the notes played, but the length they're held and the space in between them.

A-B-C is very different than A~~~------B-C~, for example, even if it's still the same three notes in the same order.
You could work around this by having the Lighthouses run from a container pool.
Someone tell Elon this is the perfect place to put some refueling refineries for Starship ..
My grandfather got a heart surgery and a pace maker and lived 20 more years gardening, going to the cabin, helping raise his grandkids, and playing cards daily with his wife. Those 20 years were arguably many of the best of his life considering he grew up in the Great Depression and then went to world war 2.

Getting ripped on opium is no different than getting ripped on morphine. Modern medice has that too. The difference is that modern medicine has far more tools in the bag before something becomes a terminal illness.
Just because they aren't copyrightable doesn't mean that we can use them as prior art if we publish them all, does it?
Everyone who talks about China’s “horrible” emissions always avoids referencing cumulative, per capita, or, even worse, cumulative per capita numbers because they really interfere with the desired narrative.
I don't think people have become smarter or programming easier in the last few years, so why should code reviews become less useful?

Automation tools generally facilitate and accelerate going from a mistake to a mistake in production: even if automation also helps with undoing mistakes, reducing friction increases the need for deliberate and preemptive verification, including code reviews.
> Whether it is a buch of small skirmishes or a full on civil war again, sececession can only be accomplished by a lot of blood spilled.

There have been peaceful secessions in the past - the split of Czechia and Slovakia back in 1993 was one example. And I believe that both Scotland and Catalonia can achieve a peaceful secession, assuming that their respective central governments decide to actually listen to the will of the people.
Okay but why are people being arrested for the crime of "soon will be holding a sign"?
I learned DNS by configuring BIND in text zone files when I was 18, having no idea it was supposed to be something intimidating to learn. As with many things I assumed everyone in tech understood it already and if I didn’t I wouldn’t be legit. I do remember thinking at the time “geeze this sure is complicated”.
> why does everyone keep using it only to find out much later that they need to call out to C to do the heavy lifting only to eventually find out again that even that is not fast enough

Because most people/companies cannot plan a program from start to finish, without actually building it. Python is fast to program significantly faster than C/C++. If you are making a prototype, then you need to be fast to allow rapid change.

For most situations, that is good enough. For the 1% where it isn't, you bust out to C. for the 0.1% where that's not good enough, you write that again from scratch using something C-like. (yes, yes, rust exists, hello rustaceans, yes, yes I have heard about your lord and saviour. No, I'm not going to re-write everything in it, not just yet. Yes please do leave a leaflet. )

Having said that, python isn't perfect. I miss static typing, or at least a strict mode.
China’s Crackdown Widens as Police Raid Another Firm with Foreign Ties
For satellites doing high-res earth observation of astronomical observation, detecting noteworthy frames on-satellite to prioritize for downlink can save a lot of bandwidth. Downlink is often only possible during certain parts of orbit (unless geostationary), with long blackout periods. Being able to run a moderately big CNN le transformer to spot ships, troop movements, methane leaks etc on satellite would be worth a some extra power and weight.
You broke the law and got away with it. That doesn't mean millions of people weren't having a thoroughly miserable time of it observing the law, and for a lot longer than "a couple of months in 2020".
It’s not the marketing.

I worked in the business for 15+ years and was involved in a lot of campaigns for artists and music you’ve heard a lot.

Everyone says this but once you get in the actual music business you end up seeing the vast amount of stuff that gets the exact same amount of marketing, checks all the boxes, has all the right people and money behind it, and goes absolutely fucking nowhere.

You realize very quickly it’s not really about the marketing. People get to decide what music they like, and do.

That doesn’t mean bad music doesn’t get popular. It does. You just don’t like the taste of the massive number of people that enjoy it.

I get it I can’t fucking explain Pitbull either. I want it to be a conspiracy.
Judging from some of the other comments here, that's up for debate when it comes to cryptocurrency.
Read the thread. This is about a fantasy world that didn’t exist where natives lived off the land and didn’t have any suffering.
The desired narrative to me, is to avoid cooking this planet.

If you want to cook it because it's otherwise unfair to China, fine, it's your funeral too.
Thanksgiving comes a day closer every day, my turkey friend.
How much of those emissions come from the Darvaza gas crater?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darvaza_gas_crater
On the other hand, there are countless recordings of the same songs by covers bands, different recordings of the same classical pieces, etc. https://forgotify.com/ should give a good idea of what the long tail on Spotify is.
Linux 6.4-Rc1
Well, he could mean that some notes are connected (where I think we all mean the 8 notes are of equal measure). So between every two consecutive notes you can add a line, multiplying the space by 2^7
Emacs-jyutping Chinese input method
but only if you have "as-a-service" attached to the end of it.

or something with chatgpt
I doubt the police would express regret for enforcing the law, however bad a particular law may be. I'm pretty sure they are expressing regret knowing they acted unlawfully even under the new law.
Surely 100 yards would be more appropriate
I don't think it's that simple.

Pre-Socratic Greeks, like Xenophanes, lived on the coast and went to sea, but thought the world was flat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophanes

Until 1600s or so, Chinese people thought the world was flat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth#East_Asia , even though many Chinese people lived on the coast and sailed the seas.
Considering the Met have officially apologised and announced "regret" for the specific arrests that were allegedly for that reason, it's hard to care about that excuse any more.

The protestors arrested say a) they were reversible plastic straps (i.e. no use for human locking on at all), and b) they had discussed their plans with the official police liaison team who approved it all before the event, then the police on the ground refused to care about that nor tried to discuss with the liaison team while making the arrests.

There's also various clips going round, for example this police officer saying they "might" arrest people just for chanting "not my king". Which is just blatantly wrong, albeit possibly down to incompetent officers as much as bad policy (though bad policy seems likely). https://twitter.com/francesleach_/status/1654789805685854208...
To me, it's clear this was not "because you used Firefox", albeit that was the written pretext given by the company. It's also not because they changed their mind about the React rewrite. It's far more likely they thought you were going to be a bad culture fit.

I could be wrong, as I have very limited context, so here's my justification for making that claim. You're giving a very one-sided view in the intro, and then other important details crop up below. You didn't know Angular, for example, but the company was willing to give you the time to learn it. You sounded hostile about being asked to work more in the office. Reading between the lines, it seems you were also critical about what work you were given. I'm sure you were trying to help, and you were just being honest. But that kind of feedback costs you capital that you didn't have, since you were so new and lacking in experience where they needed it.

As a manager, I can imagine thinking that you don't have much expertise in our tech stack, and you're not the most easy-going of people to work with. You mentioned that you thought you were a good fit given their technical goals. But tech skills are a small part of "fit".

I think the manager made a decision that they thought was the best for both of you, and they were probably right.

And it seems like you need to learn from that, rather than come here looking for validation that none of this was your fault.
Hacktoberfest ?
Cities are responsible for directing the flow of traffic. Traffic sucks and cars suck. I really don't see the problem with dissuading their use.

Again, manufactured outrage.

Having everything around you is great, it's why people live in cities. There's no dystopian undertone to having a grocery store and other amenities around the corner and easily accessible, lol. Why would you intentionally want things further away from you?

There's plenty of real things to be angry about.
While your point is extremely valid, I think it's interesting how different the reaction would have been to a fun tool like this 15 years ago. I doubt this would be the top comment, which makes me wonder how many startups that grew from fly-by-night experiments into giant companies then would no longer be possible now due to everyone's hyper-sensitivity and risk aversion around anything tech-related (which again, is certainly valid).

Makes me wonder if this cycle of internet innovation is over, and whether we're now going to be subject to 50+ years of stagnation and increasing regulation while the more risk-averse personality types start dominating. Similar to what happened in the automative industry -- think of the insanity and lack of concern for safety that went on at auto companies in 1920s Detroit that also simultaneously allowed for the core innovation and fast iteration in automotive to happen.
Can you give an example of a law being deemed unlawful on common law basis?

My understanding is that typically precedent is used in the absence of statute law and for the interpretation of statute law, so a new law will typically override older precedents.

Perhaps it's up to a judge to decide which takes precedence if two statutes contradict each other, but really that shouldn't happen (Parliament employs lawyers to check for that sort of thing) and if a statute states explicitly that it overrides an earlier one then it does so, as I understand it.

(I'm not a lawyer, not even a competent amateur, just interested in this stuff and hoping someone will correct my misunderstandings.)
”They’d rather have” has nothing to do with though. They do it because they can and want to. Obviously those cooking burgers or working in retail would deserve to earn more but if even ”new”, ”revolutionary” companies won’t do it, there’s really no hope.
The pot and how to use it
> Goodman and Clay believed that letters were the least reliable of the three cues, and that as people became better readers, they no longer needed to pay attention to all the letters in words.

Yes, as you become a better reading, the individual letters don't really matter anymore, as it starts being parsed without effort. It is NOT, however, viable for new readers. Who TF thought that would justify it for beginners?
No. They couldn't if they wanted to. There is no legal or constitutional basis for a state to secede. How would that even work? It's not like they can force people to leave the US and strip them of their citizenship. Are they just going to kick out over half the people in Texas? Besides Texas' economy would collapse immediately. There would be a mass exodus of businesses. Texas would be completely cut off from the national banking system. It's an absurd idea.
I found this quote by Henry Spencer amusing:

> It is important to distinguish "streams" (Dennis Ritchie's term for his
revised non-block-device i/o system) from "STREAMS" (what AT&T put into
System V). Dennis's streams cleaned up a lot of mess, and improved
performance to boot. But as Dennis is rumored to have said, "`streams'
means something different when shouted".
https://archive.is/kO8UU
I’ve bought two used and one new car in NH and sold two used cars there; none of the bills of sale were notarized. I also brought 3 other used cars from out of state into NH, no notary there either.
My pet peeve: I have only one profile on play.hbomax.com, but every time I open the page I get the screen that asks "Who Is Watching?" with a single option.

I'm thinking of writing a web browser extension just to click that automatically.
> Junior programmer's bookshelf: 90% APIs and programming languages; Senior programmer's bookshelf: 80% applied psychology.

https://twitter.com/jbrains/status/616228270841962496
Labour have been captured by the fringe outside of its own party

I hear this a lot from a lot of people in and around the Labour Party, but no one seems to agree on who is 'inside' and who is 'outside'. Which fringe are you referring to? The "Blairite" fringe or the "Corbynista" fringe.
see also this question asked a couple hours before you asked yours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35854717
Is there any country in Europe not passing authoritarian laws?

In Sweden the current government is on its way to defund the largest opposition party.

The swedish riksdag recebtly (with broad support) changed the constitution to limit the freedom of speech.

Poland and Hungary are shitfests, with almost complete political control of the justice system.

Spain has increased the ability to give large civil fines, seemingly disconnected from the regular juridical process (please correct me on this one. My Spanish is sub-par).

Edit: my poland name-calling was apparently uncalled for. There are other bad things going on, with Kaczyński at the rudder.
see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35866068 - asked a couple hours after you asked this
Hmm, interesting, but it is from 2019 with barely any news about hex since, there is not a single link to download/try the actual thing, and the index page of https://ivanish.ca/ is terribly slow on Firefox ( please try your fancy animated sites on Firefox and various browsers before publishing them, this one is extremely slow on really powerful hardware)
idk the more chinese i learn, the more im convinced that the very concept of individual words is blurred and not quite the same because of the way the writing system works

中国共产党, is that one word? should you break it up as 中国 共产党? what about 中国 共产 党? i dont think its nearly as clear which of these is correct as it is in english
Thank you. I don't intend to stay for long.
Many people have a cavalier attitude about someone "being arrested" but it's actually the violent and comprehensive denial of all basic human rights, often done on a whim. We should be reserving such an extreme measure for people who represent a real and urgent threat of violence, and almost never otherwise.
Our tolerance towards arrest as a routine procedure is, to me, baffling and unjustifiable.
A prominent example of: nothing more permanent than a temporary solution.
> Some students still struggle to learn reading in a phonics-based reading environment.

That is to be expected. But as it turns out, the alternative is holding most people back, instead of helping the ones who struggle.
Yup. I did this about a year ago. They had actual humans, who can read and understand, but they didn't seem to necessarily have all the pieces of the puzzle and Minecraft is very old, so there was some amount of (fake examples but similar):

Them: You should have a sixteen digit Game Token from your purchase

Me: I don't have a Game Token, I think those were introduced six months after I bought Minecraft, I have an eight letter Login Code, it's FKLEMOKN

Them: I'm afraid we can't trace Login Codes to a game purchase, do you have a Receipt Number?

Me: My PayMeNow Receipt Code was 1234-5678-LD-23

Them: I'm afraid we only have FastPayment Receipt Numbers, not PayMeNow Receipt Codes, do you remember your PayMeNow email address ?

Me: I used a lot of email addresses back then, maybe minecraftgame@throwaway.codes.example ?

Them: Maybe we can start with what was your Minecraft Foozle Weeble DingDong. That was a six digit code used for eight hours one Tuesday morning in 2016 ?

Me: That's the only Tuesday in 2016 that I didn't play Minecraft, but I do have a Wongle Dongle BingBong if that helps?

Eventually I just basically flooded them with stuff and they were like "Good enough, you're in" and so I'm not sure which of the random facts I had were enough or whether they just decided this guy seems really into Minecraft, and he is named tialaramex, the same name as the account so, I guess it's probably him.
Weren't all the CCTV's based on frequent bombings? We've seen in US, that based on 'a problem of the moment' there are new laws passed, like Homeland Security. Then years go by, it looks authoritarian, then everybody is calling it 1984, when really the people asked for it. It seems less like a grand government plan and more humans just Forest Gump'n themselves along into this situation.
Yeah - that sounds ideal honestly. And I think their success bears it out. A company driven by the passions and creativity of some of the most talented programmers and artists in the industry. They gate for self motivated people through their hiring process, and it works well for them. The idea that organisational structures should be authoritarian in order to be productive is fundamentally flawed IMHO, and Valve (as well as companies like SEMCO, and educational organisations like Sudbury Valley) ably bear that out.
Well yes, I was talking about the present today we live in, since I don't have a time machine to go back to pre-pandemic 2020 and buy a new 30 series GPU for cheap MSRP, I only speak of what the market looks like today if I want to buy something now. Otherwise I would also like to go back and buy a house when real estate was still affordable.

The current price hikes are due to greed-flation complacency from AMD and Nvidia, not due to unsatiable market demand like during Covid, as they both report poor sales of 40 series and 7000 series GPUs and yet they refuse to lower prices even though judging by die sizes, they have enough room to do so without loosing money.

They're not lowering the prices and taking a sales hit on this generation to make the new higher prices "sticky" and the new norm in the industry, betting that consumers will ultimately have to accept this new pricing going forward as they can't use their aging GPUs for much longer into the future and will eventually need to upgrade at some point.
I’m no longer moved by the linguistic arms race to describe the outputs of unproven computer models in ever more extreme terms. Are you educated on Chinese policy in this area?
A full LLM is too expensive for individuals to train, but LoRAs aren't.

There are multiple open source LLMs out there that can be extended.

We can already see it in AI art scene. People are training their own checkpoints and LoRAs of celebrities, art styles and other stuff that aren't included in base models.

Some artists demand to be excluded from base model training datasets, but there's nothing they can do against individuals who want to copy their style - other than not posting their art publicly at all.

I see the same thing here. If your source code is public - someone will find a way to train an AI on it.
That's not how nationality/citizenship works, is it?
> No more lists

Good point from the point of view of the hiring manager. But there are people involved in the process often before the hiring manager sees a CV.

Speaking to a recruiter, they like lists of keywords. Helps them sort through large amounts of CVs. And this behaviour will result on the hiring manager getting similar lists on each CV.
I'm pretty sure there is nothing in HN rules of engagement about bears, and even so, I'm very happy this comment made it in here. Thank you.
However D4 also explicitly says "This license does not grant GitHub the right to sell Your Content". One could argue that because Copilot is a commerical product it is in fact selling (a derivative of) user code, and thus the grant in D4 does not apply.
Since 1845!
> Poland and Hungary are shitfests, with almost complete political control of the justice system.

That's not exactly true, Poland is a country where most of the judges are basically in open rebellion against the current government, and the government can't do shit about it.
What was the final straw? Did you go full Apple instead?
> UN Human Rights Chief Urges UK to Reverse ‘Deeply Troubling’ Public Order Bill

I'm sure it is a mistake. He surely meant China. /s
Absolutely, the idea of having everything within 15 minutes walking distance is great. But actively restricting people's movements in this way is not, at least to me.

Public highways are really the people's property. In a democratic society if the majority of the public dislike the roadblocks, the local government should remove them.

I think it's valid for the public to get upset about attempts by the government to micromanage their lives in this way. Such micromanagement may sound trivial, but the underlying motivation for doing so is not. As it is an attempt to exercise power and control over the population. Often it starts with very trivial matters, and later expands to greater ones, as we have seen over the years.

And it's not just this particular issue, it's many other things which are restricting our freedoms in general, all together. Which are increasing the level of outrage against the state.

That's good because at least the public is pushing back against it. There may be a point where people can't take it anymore and might start protesting en masse.

I'm really waiting for that to happen, we might find ourselves getting our civil liberties back eventually.
This is a fun code golf challenge. 42 lines of JS with DriftDB[1]: https://codesandbox.io/s/distracted-wildflower-3jhtjq?file=/...

Each time it opens generates a new room, but you can copy/paste the URL of that room to access the same room (for up to 24 hours)

[1] https://github.com/drifting-in-space/driftdb
It might also help if Mayor Adams stops trying to cut library funding: https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/1/12/23552947/fiscal-discipline... (Public outcry stopped him...for now.)

He wouldn't have to if he redirected money from the grossly-bloated police budget.
Russians take language test to avoid expulsion from Latvia