skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"... it's constantly under siege by metasearch engines."

How does one know it's metasearch engines. Which ones are they. Have there been any discussions with them.

If a web search engine is truly noncommercial and one wants as may folks to to use it as possible, is it feasible to let others copy the crawler, the index and front end. It's like a fisherman who gives way his catch. As word spreads, he will be overwhelmed. Unless he teaches others how to do what he does, how to fish.

The problem with Google and all the Google wannabes is that they want all traffic to pass through their servers, for commercial reasons. In the beginning Google claimed their search engine would be in the academic realm. Presumably others could copy it. This turned out to be a lie. Now people cannot not seem to separate the idea of web search engine from potential money printing machine. The fisherman does not want to help anyone else to learn how to fish.

We need a noncommercial web search engine that can be replicated. It does not have to be a Google clone. A great way to stop anyone from working on web search engines is to suggest any new search engine must be as good as or better than Google, i.e., it must be huge, it must be commercial, and it must be a black box. On the contrary, a new noncommercial search engine can have humble beginnings and does not have to be anywhere near Google quality. IMO, there should be noncommercial web search engines with low traffic. They could all be instances of the same crawler, same index and same front end, they could be variations, they could be totally different. But IMO there should not be one set of servers controlled by one entity hoarding 90% of noncommercial search traffic.
A large project done in 1990-1996 in Japan is exactly studying the influences of climate and other environmental factors on human and earth history.

Results are printed as a 15 books series accumulating ~2000pages. This is by far the most interesting series I have ever read. And it answers many questions unknown to traditional historians. For example why the hell old empires never stop invade/ get invaded? Because god damn it the invaders were actually climate refugees. If they don't move, they all die.

And it is amazing to see that arts and humanities is synonym to ignorant because they always focus on humans or political issues and ignore the truely dominant big picture. Like you see that there is force but never thought about that force is caused by gravity. And you insist that gravity do not exist/ unimportant to analysis force or natural phenomenon.

https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/ja/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-02351014/

https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/ja/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-03230111/

https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/ja/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-04212114/
They arrested people for the former. The latter are illegal in any case
The UK has been watching Canada. Our Prime Minister had people's bank accounts frozen and their vehicles impounded and hundreds charged with mischief for attending a peaceful, albeit 3 week long protest in our capital. There was NO violence, no vandalism, no injuries and certainly no deaths and yet our PM chose to use the strongest law in the land, the one reserved for emergency situations like invasion or nuclear attack, to lock down protesters. Their primary crime was being too loud and too long.

Democracy is dying by a thousand cuts.

Utterly unacceptable!
You get different translations depending on the name. Some variations I see "Screw you", "Get over it", "Brace yourself"
That’s not how that works. Governments can’t just pay money for things and consider it free so long as they’re employing their own people. Those people could have been employed more productively doing anything else and the entire system is poorer by the amount that the government has spent (to a first approximation).
> Users need to turn off location history.

But I want this data, and it's a dilemma for me. I want to look back in my past 20 years from now and see where I was at every moment, it's super cool information to have and would help me inform my history.

This is probably a good question for all you guys. Is there an open source alternative location data logger that I could use instead for something like this?
Do you have sources that dispute, or just disparagements of theirs?
No it should not ask at all during setup. You should have to manually go into settings and enable it there. That’s what real opt-in is. Not overwhelming the user with a bunch of questions during account setup.
I don't know about you, but the stuff I self-manage usually has worse uptime than SaaS products
The use of the term "currency" in the bills is probably ill-advised for just that reason, but states can, under certain circumstances, issue bank notes that act essentially as currency or bills of credit; Briscoe v. Bank of Commonwealth of Kentucky, 36 U.S. 257 (1837) found such bank notes constitutional so long as they aren't issued under color state sovereignty -- that is, they must trade on "no pledge of the faith of the state, in any form." (The federal government eventually killed off state bank notes, not by attempting to outlaw them directly -- AFAIK! -- but by taxing them aggressively, though I don't believe those laws are on the books any more.)

Having said that, the fact that these bills direct the state to establish the program, fixes in law the redemption of the "currency," and directs the state to hold gold reserves for the currency all suggest that this is Constitutionally questionable, because the bill is trading on "the faith of the state." Consider that, if Texas establishes a gold-backed stablecoin then executes a rug-pull, your legal options as an aggrieved party are limited due to state sovereignty, which is precisely the issue that the Constitution seeks to prevent (though at the time the question of sovereign immunity was somewhat less settled in the absence of the Eleventh Amendment).
Any reason why? Seems like DNS would be a simple thing to move to a modern platform.
It's definitely one of Google's dark(ish) patterns when setting up a new phone.

The path of least resistance is the path of maximal data suck.
Request a GPU allocation, and use it, request again, etc.

Unfortunately it has been like this since around 2020/2021. It's sensible on AWS' side I guess.

If you really need them, you won't get credits but there are GPU-specific clouds.
Well, if you have strong evidence of abrupt climate change at around the same time that a large social change happened, you should indeed ask yourself quite intensely if it isn't the large change in climate that caused the social one. That's basic intellectual honesty.

And no, none of the rest of your comment is implied. It's just a bunch of non-sequiturs.
I'm pretty sure that legal requirement is not only quite old but was put in place to stop literal, actual fascists from holding marches a few years before World War II.
Also consider that this question, or a close variant of it, gets asked about once every 2-3 weeks or so. Using the search feature and searching for "math book" or "math study" or something similar should turn up loads of previous discussion on this topic.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
The Byte era was very much "extremely wealthy values of anyone."

The original 16K Apple II cost the equivalent of more than $5k. If you wanted 48k - and you did for any kind of non-trivial programming - the equivalent price would be $11k.

Computing isn't dead, it's just entirely commoditised. Most people who drive cars don't care about what's under the hood. They don't care they could build themselves a custom engine which is four times as powerful. They just want a transport appliance that works reliably and doesn't cost too much to run.

Modern phone-based computing is actually an insane success. Go to a restaurant and you'll get a QR code link to today's menu, which can be changed daily or even hourly. Sometimes you can even order from the table.

Go to a show, book a flight, or maybe just use some public transport, and there's a good chance you'll be able to use a digital ticket. Or at least use your phone for payment.

You can book medical appointments, fill prescriptions, track your fitness, and so on - all with one device.

Never mind basics like location and navigation, which aren't even surprising any more. If you ever use a paper street atlas you'll see how convenient they are.

The fact that you can't write your own code is of zero interest to most users. They don't want to write their own code. They just want something that makes life simpler. And mobile computing does.

The real problem are the social media monopolies and ad tech. But those are a political problem, not a technical one - specifically regulatory capture which neutered the anti-trust laws and allowed most commodity computing to be owned by a handful of monopolies.
Exactly. I use the example of different tones when saying “really.” It can have very different connotations depending on the tone from questioning to sarcastic.
It's a problem for anyone trying to give a presentation in an educational or office environment - local sound solutions on projectors in small offices and small classrooms are often (probably 70% of the time in my experience) non functional.
Window movement is implemented in the current production release (CheerpJ 2.x), but not yet as part of the CheerpJ 3.0 rework.
And alarms only go so far.

I understand that for revenue-producing production workloads, stop spending money vs. burn everything down isn't always an obvious decision. But, for for many personal workload cases, I absolutely want to stop spending money above a certain level no questions asked.
https://dspinellis.github.io/oral-history-of-unix/index.html
> but they could give priority to app users by making a collection only lane

Not sure if you've seen it, but the Taco Bell concept restaurant is designed for that.

https://www.today.com/food/restaurants/taco-bell-futuristic-...
I'd imagine any social network keeps tracks of what categories its user's prefer.
Written like Linux and the web don't even exist.
This whole mess reminds me of the Catholic church trying to keep heresy from spreading by burning books when the printing press was invented.

Every company I know which cares about llms is training their own version minus the political correctness because when you're asking for revenue maximisation feeding uranium to babies is surprisingly profitable.
At the ridiculous price they are charging for it, it might as well not exist.
Is it any different than when a low wage employee asking "would you like to make it a large coke for 25 cents more?"
Yeah, this is a good argument for licking them instead.
Decentralizated computing is inherently "slower" than centralized computing, for example.

You're buying flexibility and freedom in exchange for complexity and service degradation.

If you think that stuff is worth it, you have to conclude it's like vegetables: they're healthier, but no one will want to eat them, even the people who realize they're heathier. :p
'With grave joy we, the cosmical explorers, who were already gathered up into the communal mind of our own galaxy, now found ourselves in intimate union with a score of other galactic minds, We, or rather I, now experienced the slow drift of the galaxies much as a man feels the swing of his own limbs. From my score of viewpoints I observed the great snow-storm of many millions of galaxies, streaming and circling, and ever withdrawing farther apart from one another with the relentless "expansion" of space. But though the vastness of space was increasing in relation to the size of galaxies and stars and worlds, to me, with my composite, scattered body, space seemed no bigger than a great vaulted hall.'

- Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker

Not much inspires a sense of meaning in me these days like the sheer scope and scale and depth of creation.

Beautiful work.
Neat....although sad that it's via a subscription model, rather than buying the program outright.

That said, what's the point of this? Everyone works off laptops already, even people new to A/V production. Especially in the audio world, laptops are just so much more convenient because you can host 3rd party plugins and other stuff like sample libraries. Can't do that on an iPad, can you?
I guess I should expand why not a laptop, but it boils down to removing lots of little friction points that make ephemeral ideas harder to put down.

1. Touch first is important because your instruments are touch as well. Being able to record my live instruments and not have to switch to a trackpad to move between UI elements seems small, but it really keeps me in the zone.

2. Same point above, but basically being able to switch between my live instrument and an on screen virtual one is a big deal to layer up an idea. Can’t do that easily with a trackpad or mouse.

3. There’s something to be said for the mobile platforms single app as a focus model. I know you can full screen a Mac app, or split screen on an iPad, but having a singular focus helps reduce distractions.

4. Weight/portability are quite different. Maybe a MacBook Air would be better, but I take my iPad Pro to more places with me than I take my much heavier MacBook Pro . I’m already taking it to draw on the go, so this is just one more thing I can do without needing to buy a new device or take a heavier one.

Edit: oh and number 5 is a big one. I can put my iPad Pro in my existing music stand that works for me at multiple heigh levels. There are laptop stands that might work too, but I already use my iPad for sheet music, so it’s already a convenient setup.
The internal speakers on my iPad Pro blow away any small sized Bluetooth speaker I have laying around.

What is the use case for an iPad Pro? To be used by professionals as a _portable laptop_. Presentations are probably one of the top use cases and Apple can’t even get it right.

If the iPad Pro is yet another consumption device then remove the bullshit pro moniker and just sell iPads.
I bet he also advocates for open office plans as well - after all, you need to maximize the team's communication and collaboration in order to maintain your level of creativity. Of course we all know this is rubbish.

We also know there's a need for teams to be able to come together. We've discovered it's best to have set times and of course ad-hoc times to collaborate - to essentially come together the way we did back when we were in the office. And yes, today's tools allow us to do that. Being remote and never coming together save maybe for a daily standup is just as bad as working in a cubicle all day and never interacting with your team.

Either way, remote teams work and work well - even in startups. In fact, prior to the pandemic the environment in which I saw the most remote teams was in startups. It's strange people are now saying that's the worst environment for remote teams. Makes me think they have another agenda.
I was hoping to see an AOT - but they say that currently it is just interpreter + JIT. This is beneficial for compatibility but counterproductive for speed. Nevertheless, an interesting project.
And 199$ is already an insanely good deal for what you get.
Huh, where does it say "location history that excludes abortion clinics"? Please show a screenshot from Google settings
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It depends. Thing is, there's plenty to take pictures of out there that is big and dim. A camera with a decent camera lens (or even a not decent camera lens, at a push) on a tripod will get you good results, as long as you can collect light for long enough.

By far the greatest thing that improves astrophotography is the ability to collect light for a long time, and this implies tracking the movement of the stars across the sky. I'd say that this is more important than having a telescope. Without it, you're limited to taking pictures short enough that the stars don't move more than a pixel or two in that time, which is typically between a tenth of a second and ten seconds, depending on the zoom level of your lens. However, you can take multiple pictures and combine them. With a tracker, you can easily take exposures that are minutes long.

Lucky imaging is useful for things that are very bright, and it allows you to sharpen up the image. It works for the moon, and the brightest parts of some galaxies or nebulae. But the normal things that make spectacular astrophotography images aren't really helped by it. Mostly, the best thing to make images better is just to collect more light. Lucky imaging is great, but it's a niche.
I'm incredibly disappointed in some of the comments here, we are all hackers and makers. We will all have made mistakes at some point, I certainly have - dropped a production DB, taken down an e-commerce site in the middle of Black Friday with a bad push, accidentally DDOSed a massive SAAS accounting package I use and crashed it globally for a couple of hours...

I posted this because it's a good war story, we can all learn from it, and enjoying it at the same time. Laugh along with the OP.

Point is, don't jump to conclusions that someone has made a choice for ulterior purposes, given them the benefit of the doubt. Don't tare someone down because you think they made a silly mistake, we are better than that!

Screen Studio is a solo founder, making an awesome product and releasing updates to it almost daily!

Adam has fixed the bug and changed the interval to 3 hours - Chrome for context has an interval or 5 hours for update checking: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6350036?hl=en#zip...

> Google Update checks for the latest update approximately every 5 hours
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In the case of CheerpJ the virtual machine itself is pure C++ compiled to WASM, but the JIT-ted code and the objects are pure JS. Garbage collection is natively handled by the browser.

As WASM GC stabilizes we will consider supporting it as well.
Old English (or Anglo Saxon) is really a different language from modern English, which was hugely changed by the Norman Conquest. Nobody speaks in Anglo Saxon/Old English, so yes: arguably it's a dead language.
Is it that simple though? 99% of businesses do not share full context of the use of personal data in a way where user could understand all the unintended consequences of their choice. Does Google explicitly tell users when they opt-in to some feature that it may result in sensitive data eventually exposed?
The 11-inch iPad (Pro) is much more compact, imo. You can also just mount it flat against some hardware in a rack, or against a wall in a small studio booth.
A bit meta (sorry): Why do Americans keep calling it abortion clinics? Isn't maternity care center or maternity clinic a bit more suitable. Abortions is just a small fraction of what they do, at least at my corner of the world.
There is TeaVM though which is AOT

https://github.com/konsoletyper/teavm
I'd rather be able to say what I want than spending 5 minutes navigating the menu on McDonald's screens (which also try to upsell).

I think having both would be the best option.
Given the status of "certified drivers" in Wayland due to their closed-source nature, either RedHat is giving up their graphic workstation business, or removing xorg won't happen any release soon.
The clickbait is even a bit more sneaky than usual.

Reparations are about a national crime. They are meant to bill everyone for slavery, a crime that the entire nation committed, and for which the descendants are still suffering.

But this being the WSJ editorial page, their goal is to take the focus off of a serious discussion of the current impact of historical problems. They want to jump straight to the defensive. "It's not an 'us' problem. It's certainly not 'me', so I'm going to opt out of it."

I don't particularly support California doing this on its own -- not because California didn't benefit from slavery, but because it confuses the issue of a national problem. California happens to be where a lot of wealth ended up -- wealth that took place in a post-slavery era that was heavily structured by centuries of slavery.

That applies to the whole nation. We delayed compensation for the crime the nation committed, and now the Wall Street Journal would like to pretend that just evaporated. But the people didn't evaporate, especially since we continued explicit, legal oppression for over a century.

This is a hard question, and it's not made better by WSJ jumping straight to paranoia.
I don't really see the iPad as a laptop replacement. My laptop (MBA) is a mobile workstation. I have a Mac Mini as a work computer, and I view my laptop as the mobile equivalent. But if I only need to consume content or do tasks like writing, drawing, or quick editing in this case, it's a suitable device. The reduced multitasking is a plus in this case, and I wish that Space and Stage Manager on the laptop were not that clunky.

N.B. I have the iPad Air 4, and it's quite light compared to the MBA. And I can use a smaller bag when going out.
> In response, several international Reading Recovery affiliated institutions released a statement listing Clay's various awards as proof of the efficacy of her theory

Did they seriously do an appeal to authority when dealing with childrens education?
House calls are still a thing if your willing to pay a lot more.
If you like the idea of swiping left on meetings to cancel them then you're going to have to either pray someone makes a privacy respecting version of this that meets your standards (or make it yourself) or give up some level of privacy to use someone else's app and take the good with the bad.
I'd argue a coronation is just another show. Royalty are a pest, they don't have any important social function; interfering with them should be fine.

Same with presidents and whatnot. They can do their jobs without all that theatre.