skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And that's understandable. What John was saying and many of us here echo is that, for us, we'd like to want do the other things, but programming (outside of the commercial grind) is sweeter than all those things. To be consumed by (personal) work, working late into the night only to wake up and continue, uninterrupted and enjoying the bliss of focus, well, it can't be beaten. There's nothing like it.

> Programming is beginning again to be to the exclusion of all else in my life. (The table saw sits slowly rusting. The bike hangs on the wall in the garage.)

This in particular hits home. Programming, to the exclusion of all else in life.

> What am I trying to say? I have a programming addiction? (Maybe.)

There are times that I feel pulled in every direction by life, family, work, being alive, and it keeps me from this software ambrosia, even though I know that spending my life in front of a CRT/LCD/TFT/whatever they are these days is in a way wasted. I've spent 23 years doing it and I'm 33 now, and it feels like life has flown by in the glow of a terminal prompt.
In the olden days it was IRC. Already then it was about controlling yourself. Whether you would get distracted or not. If you want to get into the zone, it's up to you how to do that. If you have an IRC or Slack window on the side to let you get distracted is your call.
His SR-71 tales are a cornerstone of internet culture and aviation history, may he rest in peace and our sharing of his tales continue into eternity.
nVidia taking a side bet in case AI hype deflates and their consumer sales start sagging.
> (but of course named co_async and co_await, because C++ isn't the sort of language where you're allowed nice things, the beatings will continue until morale improves)

LMAO
>The TV boxes, reported to be T95 models with an h616, report to a command-and-control server that, just like the Guerrilla servers, can install any application the malware creators want. The default malware preinstalled on the boxes is known as a clickbot. It generates advertising revenue by surreptitiously tapping on ads in the background.
They got 5 months to fix the issues. So after 5 months they can collect a bigger fine ... and then 5 months later again, with three increasing charges within 12 months it's more notable.

Ok, realistically it's unlikely to happen exactly that way, ...
Volkswagen-backed Gotion unveils new EV battery with 1k km range
Some good names I’ve seen are descriptive, consistent, and follow PEP 8 conventions. Some bad names I’ve seen are vague, misleading, or too long or short.
I don't understand how you can in 2023 have any economic theory that has "market actors act rationally in their best interest" as an underlying assumption.
It depends on what is required from the reviewers.

If you have a pair with 1 person with good knowdledge of the code digging deep into what the PR/MR does, and another dev just checking for anything surprising, or even just validating that what you're doing makes sense at the surface, that will probably cover most bases.
Fined ~1% of their yearly revenue. Got it.
Same here. A lot of people I know don’t have twitter. Instagram on the other hand is widely popular in my age group. (30 somethings) Twitter has a bad reputation with a lot of people because of Elon Musk. Meta has that too, but Zuckerberg is just not such a hate figure for the average liberal here in Germany as Musk is. Political/activist Instagram is very much a thing (despite what people claim here) and that community will certainly try it, also for the mastodon integration. (there are big leftist mastodon instances in germany like chaos.social)
I'm honestly surprised. That was not my impression at university. Most people seemed to struggle with coding.
Yep, the biggest problem with all public forums tends to be the moderators. This includes HN.

Step 1: create a walled garden by taking over parts of the internet.

Step 2: algorithmically shadowban everyone you don't like.

This leaves most people with no voice. The only acceptable things to say are what the moderators of like 3 popular forums agree with.
27 club y'say?

Guessing that ship has probably sailed.
Hello artist, AI wont hold a candle to your genius. Breath easy
Honestly this seems a very "good", manageable business strategy. Cell phone number provides one method of 2FA that is easy (but not necessary secure) to use -- text messages, provides some level of guarantee that the account owner is not a bot, and means that the user is very likely to spend money in phone apps where PayPal is one of the allowed payment methods (e.g. Uber). Companies have little to lose by ignoring users who don't use cell phones.
I don't see how they can continue the service, even with huge localisation effort. The capital sin is to be a US company. That subjects them to US law, including CLOUD act, which the UE considers to be incompatible with privacy guarantees.

Even if cloud providers use local datacenters they are still in "violation". If the US makes a data request using CLOUD act, they will have to comply, no matter where these servers are sitting.

Ironically, the UE intelligence services are happy to take the anti-terrorist information that the US is extracting with the CLOUD act and sharing with them.
I made a site to generate and map itineraries for any city/country in the world
Reference counting on Objective-C was plan B, after the failure of implementing a safe tracing GC in a language with C's semantics.

So they went with plan B, having the compiler automate the retain/release messages used by the Cocoa framework.

Everywhere else in Objective-C, the memory is still manually managed, or via memory pools.
With how much LLMs hallucinate, I'd say this is a terrible use for chatbots.
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2lepog/til_t...
"AI threatens to deepen the dominance of a way of thinking that is white, male,"

I stopped reading there.

I'm white I'm male I have 0 advantages because of that. Always the same lies everywhere. I'm tired of it.
Exactly. We should go a step further:

Let’s make the biggest social networks Meta, TikTok, etc incur fines in the tens of billions for every investigation of significant privacy violations (like Meta’s existing case) of its users and pay back their users in compensation over that until the company either changes or exits the market the regulators reside in. This is far better than a ban and the regulators and users get free cash out of it.

Given that we have the regular ‘all social networks do this’ excuses on collecting data, the standard for large social networks in the 1B+ daily active users collecting user data should have much larger fines in the billions.
Obj-c is basically a dynamic language on top of C, whereas in Swift most things are statically determined at compile time.
A slap on the wrist. And the EU will be parading this around as a major win against "the evil tech conglomerates".
We actually support the full RGB spectrum.

You can include hex-colors in the URL:
https://badgers.space/badge/foo/bar/842a78?label_color=2a847...

We also support embedding icons like so:
https://badgers.space/badge/foo/Quintschaf/cyan?icon=https:/...

We don't have a fetch-based endpoint for now where it fetches a result, but we might add that later on.
Sounds like we had the same idea: https://github.com/hitchdev/hitchstory

Like you I also dont want to go back. Declarative tests are the future.
It can be explained by social anxiety issues, as these people typically prefer to sit in a corner coding and be left alone. Probably a self-reinforcing condition that's difficult to get out of. Just one example I can think of.
I agree. Strongest and most passionate devs I've seen by far in my career so far were almost all Scala developers.
Can’t wait for unstoppable plagues to affect not just banana plantations.
A US user can see EU information. It's the storage and processing that's restricted. So, I would guess that the US user's facebook app would have to get its data from an EU server and show it to the US user, without storing it elsewhere.
Capabilities-based security prevents these supply chain attacks! (Even though in this case most of the downloads were of packages including unwanted telemetry and not something more dangerous.)

“…And now if a [color theme] wants to read your data and send it to a server, it needs a filesystem capability and a network capability. It should be an obvious red flag if a [theming addon] were to ask for those dependencies. And this makes it hard to hide malware.” https://borretti.me/article/how-capabilities-work-austral

The original quote talks about a leftpad dependency but it’s a drop-in substitution to apply it here, too. It’s right there in the screenshot:

const https = require(‘http’)
const os = require(‘os’)

Both of those calls ought to error out with “Error: Network capability not provided” and “Error: filesystem capability not provided”, respectively.
C++ has now both async (built-in) and multiple flavors of stackful coroutines (as external libraries). You can run both on top of ASIO so that you can measure purely difference of the coroutine implementation as opposed to the runtime.
The magic of swap means you can leave those applications open and as long as they're idle they'll just quietly wait for you on disk until you've finished your LLM adventure.
> a fine from the EU so really only EU revenue should be counted

You can't really fully seperaten EU revenue. I as a European write very intelligent and relevant posts on Facebook, thus people from other regions go there to read them. (well, I don't post anything on Facebook these days, but the point stands)
5 years ago we were no where near that. The only people who claimed we were, were trying to sell scammy things with quantum in the name.

Quantum computing is making slow progress. It is a marathon not a sprint.
Well, companies are known for organising their affairs to avoid taxes. I suppose they can organise their affairs to avoid fines as well.
Can someone clarify what the legal point is here?

If Meta are relying on SCCs to safeguard against the transfer of cross-border data processes from EU to US, the same clauses which was recommended by the CJEU from the Schrems II case, what is the legal challenge?

Does anyone have any links to the actual decision so I can read the technical points of the judgment?
AI doesn't know anything past September 2021. Now who is static?
> I don't pay anything for my bank account, but there will absolutely always be a human at the bank I can talk to about problems. It's also not as if users aren't paying for Gmail, business users are paying for it with currency, regular users with data.

Not only this, but most banks have to be members of a consumer arbitration body, or need to be overseen by an ombudsman.

But this still wouldn't stop any bank from using their contractual rights to terminate a relationship if it may be unprofitable or risky to them.
But async does not help with that. As shown elsethread, in most languages you can block from async functions just fine.
This is par for the course. Critical voices get hired. It's a 'win win' in the sense that the critical voice gets to shut up and they get some money out of it. /s
Meta does $118B in revenue (2022 numbers). They claim 10% of ad revenue is generated by EU users. So this fine represents around 36 days of ad revenue generated by EU users. GDPR is in force since 5 years. So around 7 days of ad revenue per year lost to this fine (which will be appealed, obviously). I’d see this as cost of doing business with no real impact in Facebook/meta.
I agree with this. As you're working in a small startup why not ask if you can just change your title? Unless there is some obvious hierarchy it couldn't hurt to ask to change it to say 'Digital Project Manager'. If you show willingness (and not ask for an immediate pay rise) there's no harm in them 'promoting' you. I know from working at quite a few agencies they generally love to show off their 'X Manager' to their clients. And the fact they got you on the cheap makes them warm and fuzzy inside. Once you have had a fair crack at the whip you can ask for the salary commensurate with your experience. And if they so no. You can go elsewhere and start your new journey.
It doesn't even have to be this convoluted. They can just do what they did with email. Step one, wait until they have the vast majority of users, then due to spam/'problematic' content, algorithmically block the vast majority of other instances from interacting with theirs.
Granted I'm not coming from the python world, but I have tried many of these projects, and very few of them install out of the box. They usually end with some incompatibility, and files scattered all over the place, leading to future nightmares.

ERROR: pip's dependency resolver does not currently take into account all the packages that are installed. This behaviour is the source of the following dependency conflicts.
sentry-sdk 1.22.2 requires urllib3<2.0.0, but you have urllib3 2.0.2 which is incompatible

Just for fun, here's the result of python -m pip install -r ./requirements.txt for tortoise-tts;

…many many lines

raise ValueError("%r is not a directory" % (package_path,))
ValueError: 'build/py3k/scipy' is not a directory
Converting to Python3 via 2to3...

…

/tmp/pip-install-hkb_4lh7/scipy_088b20410aca4f0cbcddeac86ac7b7b1/build/py3k/scipy/signal/fir_filter_design.py
[end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is
likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed

I'm not asking for support, just saying if people really want to make something 'easy' they'd use docker. I gather there are better python package managers, but I gather that's a bit of a mess too.

Someone is thinking "this is part of learning the language," but I think it's just bad design.
FWIW, I use PGP daily and haven't touched a keyserver in a decade.
He has millions of reasons, really.
Why would a religion invented 1200 years before AI have any opinions about AI?
> After high school, Maher graduated from the Arabic Language Institute's Arabic Language Intensive Program of The American University in Cairo in 2003, which she recalled as a formative experience that instilled a deep love for the Middle East. Maher subsequently studied at the Institut français d’études arabes de Damas in Syria and spent time in Lebanon and Tunisia. In 2005, Maher received a bachelor's degree from New York University in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies.

I wonder how could she serve the Wikimedia Foundation and what background she had that helped her do so. ~600K USD in severance and much more of donors' money were spent to bankroll her salary.

What a waste!
Yeah, you guys all have phone right?
This is a nice post, but it feels a little weird because while HTTP/3 gets them 10ms on average, they could get 30ms on average by reducing Asia latencies (15% of traffic, 300ms) to North America latencies (100ms). I'm sure they have some internal constraint that makes that difficult, but just stuck out at me.
Clegg's credibility in the UK is pretty poor due to some well publicised policy u-turns during his tenure in political power, most notable being tuition fees. He went from hero to zero very quickly over there, becoming almost an archetype of the slimey, untrustworthy politician.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/12/nick-clegg-...
Good and bad names are a result of context.
20 days of income for this seems extremely low. Were it a person, they would have been jailed and indebted for life.
> the lab will need to follow the much stricter data protection policies of the EU

But will they still retain it indefinitely on a server somewhere? If yes, it will leak eventually. Or the government will lobby to get access to it to "protect the children".
I find the Stack Overflow Developer Survey (1) and the State of Javascript (2) the most helpful resources for finding the latest trends here.

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31836974
2 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34334887
The intelligence services are not advocates for privacy laws.
Where is the generative CAD design tool with constraints??
Parking rates simply needed to be higher, not dynamic.

Not saying dynamic pricing is not useful though.
I took the parent to be saying something like "even if medically assisted suicide were available as an option without restriction, there is no point at which you would decide to do it because the onset of dementia is so gradual." That is, it would be difficult to make the decision (for some/most people at least) while you were still having lucid moments where you could still have some quality of life. And by the point where you have completely lost it, you are no longer of sound mind to consent to a medically assisted suicide.
Cool. What's funny is that I read the 'partially' option as "getting along partially with two parents" as opposed to "getting along well with one out of two parents"
Money is often a compelling argument.
The decision PDF is lengthy but boils down to the following two instructions on page 73:

> 273. In light of the above, the EDPB instructs the IE SA to impose an administrative fine on Meta IE for the infringement of Article 46(1) GDPR that is in line with the principles of effectiveness, proportionality and dissuasiveness under Article 83(1).

> 279. In light of the above, the EDPB instructs the IE SA to include in its final decision an order for Meta IE to bring processing operations into compliance with Chapter V GDPR, by ceasing the unlawful processing, including storage, in the US of personal data of EEA users transferred in violation of the GDPR, within 6 months following the date of notification of the IE SA’s final decision to Meta IE.

I understand the financial incentive for Ireland to be an attractive host country for tech companies, but as the article points out, this took on truly ridiculous dimensions. Even more so after May 2018, when the GDPR was published, which -- by recognizing the protection of PII as a fundamental right -- dealt a massive blow to the "productize your customer" business model.

> Ten years, three court proceedings and millions in legal costs. The Irish DPC’s role in this procedure is exceptional, as it has consistently tried to block the case from going ahead, in 2013 it rejected the original complaint as “frivolous” – requiring Mr Schrems to go all the way to the CJEU. The DPC then took the view that it cannot take action, given that Meta made use of so-called “Standard Contractual Clauses”, which was again rejected by the CJEU, who told the DPC that it must take action. Finally, the DPC tried to shield Meta from a fine and the deletion of data that is already transferred, just to be overturned by the EDPB. Overall these procedures lead to costs of more than 10 million Euro - the fine, however, will go the Irish state.
The Case for Shame
> watch to parents-info,

Most of the (sane) parents that I know hate those WhatsApp groups with a passion, but they unfortunately have to be there "because there's where the future of our kids gets decided" or some such, meaning where everything related to the kids' school or kindergarten is now discussed.

I agree though about the cultural influence of WhatsApp outside of the US, as what you described about it matches my experience about its use here in Romania.
Well, one could say that that is a problem about how Amazon is allowed to use some shady accounting tricks to declare low net income, and therefore that problem is the one that should be addressed directly.
I've done pairing in the past, and as much as it was fun and felt productive, it was completely exhausting. I don't know how people do it day-in-day-out.

I always wonder if the pairing advocates and extroverts, and if that's why it hasn't really caught on in a field with a high percentage of introverts.
Yeah, but is this one of them? The press release is missing what the (theoretical) big-oh would be or any other discussion of what the expected performance gain would be, even in the best case.
At the time, Be often talked about it being clean, legacy-free, ground-up etc.

The main _inspiration_ was the Amiga, but not really AmigaOS.

BeOS was built in the still-new C++ but AIUI predates a lot of standardisation of C++ which subsequently happened -- as was Psion's EPOC32 and its later rebranding as Symbian.
~15,000 after being online since the '90s. A lot of them won't work anymore, that much I'm certain of. A lot of things have come and gone in that time.
PS: there's a paper in english on IEEE Xplore.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4814
In terms of number of things they're embedded in? None of those are within an order of magnitude of lua except maybe tcl.
What's the best model for 16GB GPU on my laptop?
Glypha! I used to play that as a kid, I'm excited to check it out again.
Shouldn’t we compare to net income? Its 5.6% of their 2022 net income.
Man, I've been fired by for-profit companies and felt lucky to get four weeks severance. It's upsetting that people working for a non-profit are getting 1.5x their salary, but I guess this is kind of what we get for believing that a non-profit is going to act better than an evil corporation.
> “It took us ten years of litigation against the Irish DPC to get to this result. We had to bring three procedures against the DPC and risked millions of procedural costs. The Irish regulator has done everything to avoid this decision, but was consistently overturned by the European Courts and institutions. It is kind of absurd that the record fine will go to Ireland - the EU Member State that did everything to ensure that this fine is not issued."

Kinda crazy how Irish regulators did everything in their power to avoid this outcome. But I guess that's why Meta and other big players are situated in Ireland, they rely on them not enforcing stuff and some meager taxes.
Ah yes, classic bugzilla.

"Hey could we do <thing> that would make <other thing> so much easier and solve <problem>?"

"Closed as wontfix."
> The easiest test I can think of given GPs description is to take your blood pressure, abstain from coffee for a week (?) and then take a new blood pressure.

That entirely depends on how strong the caffeine dependency of OP is. For someone like me it would be anything but "easy" for first 2-3 days at least due to withdrawal symptoms (headache, poor concentration, tiredness).
Yes indeed. If you do business in a country, adhere to the rules of this country. Simple.

True globalization (one global rulebook) is a probably not to achieve, considering all the different aspects of societies in this world (degree of capitalism, degree of privacy, degree of social class responsibility, degree of liberal society, degree of ...).

The G7 countries (aka US, EU, JP, Australia) are lucky to have a rough idea on what that should be. When you talk to China then you start banning stuff instead of playing court fines and regulatory alignment.
Weapons contractors hitting Department of Defense with inflated prices
Compressed to under 20 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuCn8ux2gbs
> The root of the issue are the FISA courts.

TIL that ACLU filed[1] a motion in the FISC to have its pre-2015 precedent-setting decisions released (post-2015 the USAFREEDOM Act makes such release mandatory); FISC denied jurisdiction (aka “go tell Congress to fix their stuff”, which I suppose is OK?), FISCR as well (same), the Supreme Court refused to review that (?!..).

[1] https://www.acludc.org/en/cases/re-opinions-and-orders-court...
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llama supports GPU by now:
https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/13gok03/llamacp...
Same here. Many Michael Page job offers with actually valid signatures and links to valid LinkedIn profiles, but fake link targets.

What made me suspicious was the frequency of those mails.
Then I checked the link targets and history was written;)
https://edpb.europa.eu/our-work-tools/our-documents/binding-...

Here is the official decision, it also summarises the dispute.
Privacy is a human right in the EU.