skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unsurprising, but as with twitter, the idea of a corporation running these kinds of sites always eventually fails.

People "don't want to deal with" the messy world of open standards, of different web forums for different things, federation... I mean, I get it, but that just ends up meaning they fall for the same twitter/myspace/facebook/walmart.com trick again, over and over and over.

Somebody else posted the enshittification link — that's what is happening here. Like it always does.

The AI thing is an obvious red herring anyway. Plenty of ways they could address that without harming third party clients for human readers, but they want to strangle those clients. As twitter did before them, as they all do eventually.

They tend to do it as soon as they feel they've tricked enough people to investing enough of their attention in them that the users won't just leave. Which in reddit's case they probably have, considering how often search engines propose adding "reddit" to whatever my search string is.
I joined a startup incubator via Who's Hiring and stayed for 6 years. Great learning experience!
Crowd sourced city overview maps
> and potentially restricted access to birth control

i assumed that vasectomy counts as birth control. i guess you would disagree?
500 comments 2 days ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36136819
The UTF-32 equivalent is just the original UCS-4 — simply not enforcing any restrictions on the 32-bit value. Probably most code using UTF-32 does this, at least internally. (I can understand using high bits for metadata or non-Unicode points and have done so, but I don't see any reason for testing for surrogates outside of encoding/decoding UTF-16; they are indeed an abomination.)
Context: I'm the CEO of Pimoroni who make this product.

I feel like something is missing here but I don't know what.

Our examples show large JPEGs being loaded in MicroPython no problem. For example this one from our examples is 100kB: https://github.com/pimoroni/pimoroni-pico/blob/main/micropyt...

During testing I worked with many images that were larger than that and never ran into issues either. I think the examples provided are pretty clear and demonstrate how to use the product reasonably.

We focus on MicroPython because the C++ SDK for connectivity is pretty gnarly for most people to work with - it is our intention you should never have to leave MicroPython to use this product.

No idea what the battery issue could be but I've never heard of any problem like that before and we've shipped thousands of this product over the past year. We'd be happy to get the unit back and test it for you if you want - or just replace it!

Please drop me a line if you want to discuss these issues further and I'll do my best to help!
PostgreSQL's documented position indicates the standard does matter. Conformance to the standard is described as a "target" rather than PosrtgreSQL's feature set as being "defining". This stands to reason: you can't conform to a target without the target pre-existing and you'd already be conformant if you were setting the standard.

PostgreSQL's current documentation states:

"PostgreSQL development aims for conformance with the latest official version of the standard where such conformance does not contradict traditional features or common sense." -- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/features.html

This basic stance is documented at least as far back as PostgreSQL 7.3:

"PostgreSQL development tends to aim for conformance with the latest official version of the standard where such conformance does not contradict traditional features or common sense. At the time of this writing, ballotting is under way for a new revision of the standard, which, if approved, will eventually become the conformance target for future PostgreSQL development." -- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/features.html

I can only assume that the person you're responding to is advocating a personal opinion on what should count as the standard setting process for SQL (be that formal or informal). That person's opinion does not appear to be shared by the PostgreSQL team as if they believed that... they'd be conformant by definition and there would be no need to accommodate the standard. If they didn't care about the standard, presumably it wouldn't be listed as an "aim" in any capacity.
As a compromise reddit could require that 3rd party apps to show ads from reddit (so they get the money from clicks)
There's also teddit.net
We're going through a similar situation with my grandpa. He's a great guy and has driven so much through his life, but he's almost 90 and his body just can't handle the reaction times anymore. Still, he insists on driving, and gets irrationally angry if you even come close to questioning his ability. Like, he is a sweet man and is normally very nice, but the second you mention his driving it's like a switch flips and he is suddenly a child with a tantrum.

It's gotten bad enough that we have to tactically lie to him to keep him from any unnecessary rides, but he will not stop if he doesn't have a wake-up call. Luckily he only drives very short distances which are all slow roads, but still, it's frightening to just be waiting for the day something bad happens.

I wish I knew how to bring the topic up in a way we can really talk about it. I have tried being extremely empathetic and non-pushy and careful, which has helped with other topics, but just not on this one. If anyone has tips or ideas I'd love to hear them!
Artifact news app now uses AI to rewrite headline of a clickbait article
2 years ago, a brand new Audi (rental) tryed tro chrash me several times into tunnel walls. The car suddenly tryed always a hard right turn.
Would taping a minor radiation source to the camera body be enough to scramble the noise fingerprint?
I don't think lisp machines as such will come back, since experience showed many of their features were unnecessary. Instead, it will be interesting to see if there are any specific things that hardware assist could help with. The tagged pointers referred to in a sibling comment here could be an example.

On the flip side, it would be interesting to see if a "modern" lisp-like language could fit better with modern hardware realities. Today's efficient data structures are more array oriented, for example.
Unclear why this is in the bmj. Might be of use to students learning how to structure a paper?
Scan iPhone backups for traces of compromise by “Operation Triangulation”
True, but then BW's map pool rotation is also way slower / more conservative than SC2's. We're used to 7 new 1v1 maps every other season by now (personally I preferred the old system where the 2-3 oldest and/or most problematic maps would get phased out every season).

Meanwhile: Fighting Spirit
That's why I believe this is a made up article for selling their security product.
This sounds exactly like what is happening now that you mention it.
I think artists are compelled to produce "artist statements" about their work, and in tune with current intellectual fashions too. This is a little like complaining that Ariana Grande wears stupid clothes.
For anyone wondering what Go does, it looks like Python2's way[1]; strings are byte sequences with no guarantees of UTF{anything} correctness. Go's source code is specified to be UTF8 so string literals in source code will become valid UTF8 encoded strings, but any string from any library call or code you didn't write might contain invalid Unicode text, or mixed encodings, or anything.

That feels a bit "pit of despair" design[2], the default thing is unhelpful and doing more than that requires the programmer to climb up out of it.

[1] https://go.dev/blog/strings

[2] https://blog.codinghorror.com/falling-into-the-pit-of-succes...
> I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily past it’s expiration date. It’s ranked 6th most trafficked sites in the US.

I don't think traffic is indicative of whether a site has outstayed its cultural relevance (or efficacy).

I imagine HN readers can list off any number of sites that were in the top 10 traffic-wise and then suddenly were gone.
I totally agree.

I just wanted to highlight the Rtx memory issue.
Most Bitcoin miners have been using ASIC chips that compute nothing but Bitcoin format SHA256 since long ago so it’s not increasing demand for GPUs. Ethereum is but it has already switched to PoS.
Ana by TextQL: ChatGPT for Data Science
Yes. Reddit's only goal is to make money. If you think they care about the users you are a fool. The only really question is will they aim to make long-term sustainable money by creating a great product or will they try to cash out now by wringing every cent they can from users? It looks like they are going full-tilt towards option 2.
Aim for the center.
I used HN to find an internship that helped launch my career eight years ago. In my most recent round of job searching, I've used it to find a few great companies as well.

The quality and response rate of the postings on here tends to be quite high, which is a refreshing deviation from the norm.
The Old Reddit Redirect browser extension is good because old links to new a lot.
Not all of us, thankfully.

I have a job to do and can't afford to create the computing world from scratch just to be cheappy.

Likewise I want the folks that provide the tools I enjoy using, to also afford the same lifestyle I can enjoy having.
I'm not sure why those things are necessarily a problem, particularly when with IDEs or at least editors that can parse a language's symbols. We're not programming the dark ages. Do you have a specific example of why these are an issue?
Yes it surprises me too.

And it even makes it weirder to me that I never felt seeing or hearing much about those headsets. Are they all sleeping in some boxes put away?
Cool that he's still writing code. Not sure I would if I became a billionaire.
Wait till you discover teddit.
It’s not the only path it’s just the easiest in the short term.

One concept that tech companies seem to have completely forgotten is brand equity. They will squander long-term reputation for short term gains due to, as you said, downward pressure from investors - which in itself isn’t a bad thing, but they’re sacrificing long term gains for short term ones.

The solution here would be to have mature/smarter/more savvy CXOs/founders who know how to manage expectations for growth. There’s plenty of organizations who are capable of setting multi-year growth plans in place and getting their investors in line.

This is probably nigh on impossible if you’re venture-backed because most of these guys are looking for sugar, not complex carbs.
The usenet model also is much better for reading because it tracks what you have already read. If I come to this article tomorrow I'll see all the comments from today that I already read, and someplace mixed in there are new comments that came after I finished reading. Some of those comments are very insightful, but no web forum I've seen has any concept of "you already read this so we will make it easy to skip that by default".

Technically USENET doesn't have that concept either, but all the software I have ever used to read it does, and that is what counts. (unfortunately all the software is local only so I can't switch between my phone and my desktop for reading - then again I haven't looked at USENET in 25 years so I don't know what is current)
What app do you use?
My wife owns a Nissan Qashqai.
One day she complained that car started to brake on doing zip merge and this is dangerous on highways.
The root of problem was combined back light with stop signal and blinker. Wires to stop signal and blinker suddenly soldered together and there was some current on stop signal wire on turning blinker on. Car's computer decided that brake switch near braking pedal is broken and started to brake.
Fixed by cutting one of wires and using new wire around spoiled point.
Yeah, now do the math how much it costs to keep a company in business, and how much it must land in the bank every single month to pay everyone's salaries and infrastructure.
Read the emails: Valve helped Nintendo kick the Dolphin Emulator off Steam
Or you live in Russia and you thought you had a deal that NATO wouldn't encroach further on your border...

It was a trick question, none of them are good.
I think this is where the misunderstanding comes in. Python doesn't treat strings as char[] but as essentially unicode_codepoint[].

Whether this is a good idea on the whole is debatable, there's even a full PEP talking about the security concerns around doing it this way[1].

However, given this is how it works, the behaviour displayed makes complete sense to me and is the best of the bad choices presented by needing multi-byte strings.

[1]: https://peps.python.org/pep-0672/
Scala API of Spark-Connect Server
I don't know what to say. You are reading this wrong.

He writes "free and open source" in this sentence. "source" is there right after "open". And it's not his words, he is giving the meaning of the acronym he is arguing against here... because he finds it sloppy!

Software is not mentioned after "free" because it's not there in the FOSS acronym. Actually, I'm sure he would not object if it was actually repeated there as in "Free software and open source software". He does not like that software is factorized in "Free and open source software", making it look like free and open source go together. He objects precisely because "free" alone is not a thing. "Free software" is the phrase he is pushing for. He does not want people to understand the phrase as "[free and open source] software" because it misses one of the two words. The sad part is that I'm actually paraphrasing RMS, he says it better than me, he is already exceptionally clear.

You can ask him, he answers mails quite consistently. Just make sure you are very clear in your questions. He will be prompt to dismiss anything sloppy.

And yes, "free software" and "open source" are two different things, that's what he is pointing out and I mentioned this.

> "Open" source code

You are entirely ignoring my comment on how "open" and "source" cannot be separated if you are referring to the concept which the rest of the world is familiar with.

Just try to find a precise definition of "open" applied to software or to source code from a recognized source. The open source definition does not count, because it has "source" right after "open". It must be "open" alone, without "source" next to it. I don't want to spoil anything but you probably won't be able to.

I think I'll stop there because I will likely fail any further attempt to express myself in such a way you understand me as precisely as I would like to, and probably nobody else is reading this thread anymore anyway.
"It is widely distributed in space in cosmic dusts, planetoids, and planets as various forms of silicon dioxide (silica) or silicates. More than 90% of the Earth's crust is composed of silicate minerals, making silicon the second most abundant element in the Earth's crust (about 28% by mass), after oxygen. "

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

"Quartz is the second most abundant mineral in Earth's continental crust, behind feldspar."

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

For some reason I don't think we're running out of sand. However like everything else how you aquire it has consequences.
I figured it was retail from the capital letters. ;)

And not diminishing the other components, but my understanding of retail at scale from working corporate for a moment shifted to "Supply Chain is where profit is made or lost: everything else is follow-through."
I never really got in to USENET, being a child trapped in the Prodigy and AOL and CompuServe Internet a little too long, but as an adult who is planning for Reddit to hit the fan, I am unsure of the best way of discovering newsgroups that would interest me. I have a handful of subs that I follow, but I wouldn't know how to find the equivalent of r/homelab.

I would add quickly that I am aware of the ability one would have to discover other kinds of content on USENET, but rule one forbids talking about it. So barring that, what is the best way to discover interesting newsgroups and participate in them?
Could you apply this to Discord currently? As in they are in the beginning phase of the enshittifcation metamorphism?

With the new soundboards, change of usernames and the likes, it's feels like it's starting the cycle.
Russia’s Pollster, Levada Center, Indicates 76% Support for Invasion of Ukraine
Migrate away from data URLs in SVG <use> element
From the article:

> In an update provided to Aerospace, Hamilton explained that he “misspoke” when telling the story, saying that the ‘rogue AI drone simulation’ was a hypothetical “thought experiment” from outside the military, based on plausible scenarios and likely outcomes rather than an actual USAF real-world simulation.

Thought experiment.

> He said: “We’ve never run that experiment, nor would we need to in order to realize that this is a plausible outcome … Despite this being a hypothetical example, this illustrates the real-world challenges posed by AI-powered capability and is why the Air Force is committed to the ethical development of AI.”

Never did the simulation.
When you are at a computer yes. But sometimes I am on my phone and neither the old UI or the new UI are acceptable. I slightly prefer the new UI on mobile but it definitely sucks.
The title should read -

How (Not) to Signal “Stop” (2008)
Poll: Apple VR is coming, Poll to understand market
With VR coming Monday and many people equating it to the Apple Watch in terms of potential success, I wanted to see how people felt about a few products that arguably also followed a 'slow start.'

My curiosity wants to explore if Watch-lovers are distinctly separated from Other-lovers, if Watch customers have a strong overlap with any specific cohort, and most importantly, if this decision is hard for any of us to make.

Which product is more valuable to you:
Apple Watch
Watch
You draw the first bit to be 0/1 with equal probability, and then the second bit must equal the previous one with probability 1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35343748

This HN thread a few months ago about the removal of i.reddit feels prophetic.
Nuview Plans to Map the Earth Using Lidar Satellites
Financial engineering as a discipline is insane. Literally the definition of insane: seriously mentally ill and unable to live in normal society [0] -- so detached from the "normal" reality most people live in, and taken hold like a schizophrenic about things that only exist in one's own head.

Shareholders are rent-seeking parasites. They have put down an initial investment to purchase some asset, and now consider themselves given the right to lord over those who labor for that asset, while providing little in value (no different than absentee/"hands-off" landlords).

It would be one thing to actually loan a set amount of money, with a set payback period that ends sometime in the future. It is another to declare oneself a relative God Emperor, and shackle others for entirely one's own benefit, in perpetuity.

To continue the metaphor, the wild can no longer feed itself, because of a set of people taken hold by delusions have irreparably destroyed the wild's ability to. No different than someone buying a cat, and keeping it locked up in a house all day. Yes, food and shelter is provided -- but a cat would be able to achieve those for itself, were it not for a chain of man-made events that landed it in such a predicament. The cat would've either not been born and never landed itself at the mercy of others, or would've been born in the wild, and lived without a sovereign ruling over it.

[0] https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/ame...
Flying squirrels show an intermediate stage of such an evolution process. Evolution always involves intermediate stages. Even if a large discrete change could occur, fine tuning it is an extended incremental process.

If you go to the Cornell Ornithology Lab feeder cam and scan through the feed at night, you will find flying squirrels at the feeder. They show signs of nocturnal adaptation, another connection to bats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N609loYkFJo
There’s lots of software already written in C that needs to be updated and maintained
I tend to wear jeans with skinny legs that don't seem conducive to taking across-the-stairs (I'm thinking 3 to 5 meters in the horizontal direction) jumps.

Why do I wear impractical clothing? I never even thought of it as impractical.
Note for the casual hockey fan: The NHL overtime system is different in the playoffs, since the playoffs requires clear winners and losers.

(Game 1 of the 2023 Eastern Conference Finals featured four overtime periods; and the tie-breaking/game-winning goal was scored after 139 minutes and 47 seconds of total game time, at 1:54 am EDT.)
For a car it'd be kind of overkill. The failure mode of the system is usually something like "throttle position sensor value out of range" due to bad wiring or a bad sensor. So multiple cores doesn't do anything, because you still wind up pulling over to the side of road. Some aircraft do something like what you're thinking but it's actually separate computer architectures running the same code.

Now if you go back in time far enough to pre-WWII designed vehicles it was common to have two ignition systems with a massive mechanical lever to switch between "magneto" and "coil" based ignition for gas engines in military engines. Coil driven spark plug systems had advantages but the magneto system was much more reliable by virtue of having no moving parts. Diesels had a slight advantage here in that there was no ignition system as such to fail.
But don't you love knowing that you are paying for the best healthcare in the world?
I would challenge the common sense aspect of wearing a helmet makes you feel safer. Like if kevlar pants were mandatory on motorcycles would the same author claim it would increase accidents?

It narrows your visibility and the main feeling of danger (imo) was all the cars that act as if you aren't there (ideally because they didn't/can't see you).
Maybe AMD should start supporting their older cards in ROCm...
Not sure I care to be honest. With an open license the community can now take this and roll with it.

What PR noise they make is secondary to that in my mind.
Compact mode still exists! Add the suffix `/.i` to any reddit URL and you'll get it back. They removed i.reddit.com and the `/i` suffix but I think the PMs forget to mention `/.i` in their "kill compact reddit" JIRA ticket.
I used the official app for a while but got tired of being advertised literal scams, and found the app just a bit slow. Switching to Apollo was transformational in my usage and engagement, a far better product, and would be great even with ads.

As for the site, the new redesign seems to have improved a little in the last few months, but for years it has been nearly unusable. On an Intel Mac JS was just far too slow and my fans would spin up on any Reddit page. It was like this for years.

The Reddit UX might be good enough on mobile, and might have gotten better on web, but users have been burnt hard. I know so many regular users who use alternative apps or the old site.