skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HTTP/2 does mitigate this a bit, I think it's mostly just a limitation in the number of threads. Even with pools or green threads, a CPU can only do so many things in parallel.

Context switching is expensive.
this is paradoxical. A native speaker struggles to understand non-native one. Why do we expect AI to understand non-native speech?
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Is there an open source and self hosted version of this that isn't tightly coupled to Algolia's server and doesn't send keystrokes to Algolia?
If it has more parking space than restaurant/bar terrasses and pedestrian only streets, this is not a city. This is just drawing streets in square and putting building and parking between them.
Graphical mods are still mods. You don't need scripting for a mod to be a mod. It just has to modify the base game.
> undemocratic

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

The EU parliament is elected. The council of ministers is formed by representatives of each member states governments (which are themselves elected).

There are many imperfections (which is expected for an international organization), but most of EU's shortcomings are a consequence of it not being integrated enough.
To be fair, although definitely some corporations are doing this, others are adapting to market circumstances caused by a few actors.

For example, if you're a retailer selling pretty much anything now, your costs are up significantly across various different streams: your rent is up, your utilities bills are up, your logistics costs are up, the wholesale price of the products you stock is up... you have no choice but to increase your prices to stay afloat. That drives a spiral because now not only are your prices higher, you also have to raise your staff's wages because they can no longer afford to buy the products you sell, pushing you to increase your prices, and so on.

Now, you are a contributor to inflation through no fault of your own, despite the key increases in cost coming from, ultimately, rising fuel costs impacting across the whole supply chain.

I agree that record corporate profits are a key indicator (although probably this should be considered in context of inflation also, rather than just the raw dollar amounts).
I wonder if the pitch for this product was "Yeah I know it looks stupid, but trust me, we humans are not going to stop fucking up the planet, and when the alternative is choking on dust, no one will care if they look stupid wearing one of these."

Next, Dyson Stillsuit?

Hmm my cynic-o-meter reads 3.6. Not grear, but not terrible...
A lot of software does it gettext-style, where the code contains one language (typically English) and wrap it _() so it's picked up by the translation system. For example: https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Prepar...

You can add context this way, but programmers often forget, translators don't look for context, and seemingly no one reviews the final product in other languages.
This reminded me of the song "All that she wants" by Ace of Base. The mistranslation of the word "baby" makes the song sound like it's about a woman who wants more kids, rather than a woman who wants a lover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrwlFTqS_bg
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There is in fact a sidebar in Edge dedicated to Bing Chat with features exclusive to it. E.g. it takes the current website into account as context and is thus a good way to get for example a whole pdf into the context window. It's also a nice way to do jailbreaks since it seems to trust the content of whatever website you're looking at more than your own input.
It's good that we started building an insane number of said plants 20 years ago.

I'm a fan of nuclear but it just takes too long to deploy compared to wind/solar and that is an absolute killer for ROI (and the climate). We should be building out but only as a secondary/support not as the main source of energy.
Oh my god, just found out in a week there will be season 6!!!!!! Yes!!!!!! Missed this show.
They can’t really do anything because of the massive liabilities GPL v3 opens them up to.

My understanding; the license won’t allow them to settle if a third party seeks patent licensing from them over shipped GPL code - they have to ensure everyone using any derivative of the upstreamed code is also covered by that patent license.
Not so draconian to know if people are in the office or at home.
What an absolute garbage video. You could condense down its content into about 5 sentences. I'm annoyed I watched that. It was worse than any podcast I've listed to (and most of them are garbage)
If there's a remote wipe done (one click in MDM software) then there is no key left.
Pretty much every company does preboot auth nowadays for Windows laptops. And remote wipe is also possible, as the side comment says.

Letting the former employee keep the laptop is the default, IMO. Although, frankly, I am not sure I would want to keep mine... sitting on a pile of a dozen laptops accumulated over the years.

And everyone watches porn on their on own devices anyway.
The feature that mods are using is setting the subreddits to "private" (with no approved members). Disabling the ability to do this will break that function for people who use it, or look really petty.
2022 headcount was estimated at ~1850[0], so that would be 150 employees (allegedly).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HashiCorp
Yes. But it would be half empty all days or empty some days. So you either rotate teams between days (but everyone will want the mid week days most likely). Or you accept a half empty office. Or you downscale the office. It's really that simple. I mean there are tons of reasons to be in the office. Doing remote or not depends on whether those benefits outweigh the drawbacks. But obviously "keeping the office full" isn't really one of the benefits.
I recommend against it, especially if that's the cost.
Interesting. No, I haven't noticed that. Maybe if one particular unit's keyboard works well, you don't have to hit the keys so hard, so it doesn't push down on the hinge mechanism.

Psion's own hinge mech was far better, but PlanComp only licensed the keyboard, not the case. I proposed a fatter "pro" model with a bigger battery that was the same size, shape and form factor as the original, so it'd fit in original cases. I still have several.

I was shouted down by Americans whose internal airlines apparently have or had some stupid limit on the size of battery you can carry on board. In Europe any battery over a certain limit has to be carried in the cabin, so if it fails the crew can extinguish it.
If you don't need it to be clever and dynamic, and you're not too bothered about styling, then HTML's <input> tag has a typeahead option using <datalist>.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/da...
Yeah, but you won't learn to program from OCR.

(I credit typing in listings for about 80% of my initial learning).
Your comment is how I'm finding out that there were seasons after 3
> I'm one of those weirdos who hates going in to the office.

I feel like a weird one for the opposite of that. It is nice having the option of working from home, or from my parents in the next county and I need to bob off to look after them, and the cats certainly appreciate me being around more when I WFH, but I don't get on with it long term. I like home being home and work being work, and I generally prefer work to stay out of my home.

I also prefer working in the same room as the people I'm working with¹ and consider hybrid to be a lie. We are officially hybrid, but really I'm remote most of the time because even though I go to the office many of the people I'm working with usually do not. Not that I begrudge other people doing what works best for them, and we get the job done so I don't see a productivity problem, but my level of comfort or lack thereof might mean I go for a bigger career change if I decide to move on from here (because every tech company I know locally seems to be the same in those respects).

Having said that I have the advantage of being near the office, a 15 minute walk² through a relatively nice city (York, the real one in the UK), so I don't have to factor a long commute into my likes/dislikes.

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[1] I think I'm sometimes seen as difficult for avoiding phone and video calls as I really don't find them comfortable: unless it is a group thing or a situation that benefits from screen sharing either come talk to be _really_ in person or send IMs/emails.

[2] Or a 10 minute jog when running late, or much longer if I take a more scenic route
The actual interesting bit is at the end of the patch, in `static void init_non_native_support` where they dlopen a proprietary MetalD3D dylib.
My understanding is that a lightning rod can only protect a maximal radius of 60m (see https://what-if.xkcd.com/16/). This would mean a mximal distance of 120m between rods in the areas you want to protect completely. I can imagine this is difficult, in particular if the rods need to be so high that they need support cables to avoid falling at the first wind gust.

I would expect that modern airports already offer the maximal protection attainable with lightning rods. Any parts of the airport currently not protected probably does not make sense to protect with this technology.
3 days on site requires you to live close and will explode even more housing costs, driving lower wage people to leave. I just don’t get why companies and government don’t work out something that would benefit the country as a whole in the longer term.

2 days on site would eventually allow for a one night stay in a hotel in the area and focussed 2 days team work.

I can say that I will only start looking in my area in the future and evtl earn less, start to consume less as relocating is no option.
You're missing the more important vector for prompt injection: Indirect injection through the "search engine context". It's not just a matter of blocking bad user questions to fend off reputational harms. See also my work on https://kai-greshake.de/
> I can tell that remote is far less effective.

This is a mixed bag. Remote work can be less effective if you don't have the right people. Employees who can sustainably work remote and generally keep their shit together without being babysat via Teams every day are surprisingly difficult to find. I am starting to think the "10x unicorn" is more common than the employee that you can trust to autonomously get their work done while at home.

Certainly, everyone on HN (and during the interview) will spin the most elaborate tales about how they are an exemplar of Christ and enumerate all of the virtues of their home office/life separation. But, many of us know how these things really unfold in the following weeks and months. I am a human too. I fuck off periodically and am probably borderline disqualified from working remote per my own criteria. This is really hard to do right over long timeframes.

I've been at it for a decade now and I still don't have any perfect answers, aside from sending 100% of the team back to the office 5 days a week. For whatever reason, both extremes are the only suitable option for my brain. The hybrid shit in the middle with all the context switching drives me absolutely bananas. Get into the pool, or get out of the pool. You cannot exist in a superposition of org chart and hope to survive long term.
The difference here is that on Apple you can do the research figure out it's OK to use.

On Android with pre-loaded software you can to the research up front, figure out everything is OK and BOOM a year later you're getting ads from a non-removable application.
> prefer to assume that person is genuinely uninformed

You are way too charitable. I found out most people that start a conversation about the EU with accusations of it being "undemocratic" to be simply acting in bad faith.

There are many valid criticisms to the EU, and many things that should be improved, typically with more integration, not less. But keep in mind that eurosceptics are not interested in any improvements, they just want it gone.
>Not sure what you earn

Nowhere close to 500k
Related cargo airplane factoid (and I would be glad to hear about this and more from others too):

One thing I learned through listening to stories about Fedex and UPS is that their fleets are (or maybe were at the time of my learning this) surprisingly old. Or that is to say, sometimes it is surprising to learn that these leading freight companies fly planes that are several generations old, like MD-11s, or old 767s.

The reason for this is that these operations generally fly planes for just a few hours each night, being focused on overnight delivery, and hub-spoke swapping of packages from and to destinations.

And when an asset is in use for only a few hours each day, it is less important how fuel efficient or modern it is. It just has to get the job done in a basic way, and not break that often. A clunker is ok to be relatively inefficient because you only need to use it infrequently (compared to a passenger airplane, which by comparison is in nearly constant use to get as much revenue $ out of it and you want it to be economical in cost for that operation).

So these fleets have planes that are 20+ years old and feel little pressure to modernize from that point of view.

I remember realizing this fact when I heard that Avalon (Catalina Island) freight / mail is (or was) served by an old DC-3 every day. Doesn't matter how old the plane is if it really only has to operate for 30 minutes each day. I think that one retired though.
Is anyone willing to make a noncommercial accessibility Reddit API that others can use?
You’re aware that this is absolutely standard right?
(depending on whether the search engine context is connected to untrusted inputs or only your curated database ofc)
What is meant by "the first"?

FOSDEM has been around for more than 20 years:

https://fosdem.org/2023/about/

FOSDEM 2023 happened in February. The recorded talks and slides are available:

https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/events/

Previous years recorded talks and slides are also available:

https://archive.fosdem.org/2022/schedule/events/

https://archive.fosdem.org/2021/schedule/events/

Nevertheless, it is good to have more FOSS conferences.

Since FOSDEM usually happens in Europe, having a conference in North America is good.

Best of luck to FOSSY. I hope they post recorded videos and slides of the talks so that those who cannot attend in person can also participate.
The title is very misleading. The latest season wrapped before chatgpt was released. Charlie Brooker typed "generate a black mirror episode" into chatgpt out of curiosity and said the output was s**. See: https://twitter.com/charltonbrooker/status/16664940234254827...
Can we add this to forest fire watchtowers ? Could it be done with a solar+battery system ?

One notes that for the rangers stationed in them it would be a hair-raising experience.
This is plainly not true at all.

Cheap sensors aren't as good as expensive ones.

This is like saying a DHT11 has the same accuracy as a SHT31.
It's not "her" version of the song, it's just a version that she sung (some) of the lyrics on. She didn't compose the song, she isn't performing it a capella (there's a band including some famous musicians like Stan Getz or Tom Jobim), she didn't compose or translate the lyrics, she didn't compose the sung part. She certainly isn't singing the saxophone solo. It's absurd to attribute the success of the song solely to her. Should she have gotten more? Absolutely! But she's ultimately just a minor part of the song.
Which part costs $30M?
Again very American thing. I (probably) couldn't afford that kind of rent.
It's not really population pressure causing that though, at least not exclusively. It's a relatively small number of people that think they want a particular sort of lifestyle. Net migration patterns more or less have people moving out of low population counties and into high population counties.
I love that HackerNews headline is

"Charlie Brooker Got ChatGPT To Write A Black Mirror Episode"

but the full title of the article is

"Charlie Brooker Got ChatGPT To Write A Black Mirror Episode, But It Was ‘Shit’"
also:

C:

Nanochess online:
https://nanochess.org/chess3.html

Micro-Max:
https://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/max-src2.html

assembly:

Atomchess Game

The world's smallest chess program in x86 machine code, only 326 bytes!

https://nanochess.org/chess6.html
This summer over the course of 9 weeks, my daughters will spend 5 weeks abroads. 3 weeks at my parents place in one country, 2 weeks at their other grandfather house in another country. The 2 remaining weeks we will have family visit and can spare taking a few days between me and their mother.

With a bit of organization it is not that challenging to have kids. Also there are a number of possible summer activities with school like schedules for those who have less family around + possibility to hire a student to take care of kids while you are working during summer.
Flagging for the absolutely misleading click bait title
Are you CTO of DeviantART Chris Bolt? If so, dAmn! :)
https://youtube.com/shorts/mdDr1bX7NFo?feature=share
You have to take into account that a digital scale, especially one with an app, is going to be collecting endless amounts of data about you and selling it to anyone willing to pay. Your digital scale will end up costing you again and again for the rest of your life, every time someone uses that data against you. You'll just never be told when it's happening.
>users now routinely consent

This is a weakness of the regulation, not an issue with the concept of regulation.

There should be a much clearer ban on applying these dark patterns to trick people into consenting.
The wholesale is easier IF they can find someone interested and IF they don't end up driving their user base away.

> Small customers churn unpredictably. Large customers give you guaranteed and reliable cash-flow.

Not if the user base is in hundreds of millions. There'd be ebb and flow, but nothing sudden.

> Look at the problems Twitter is having selling a $8/mo service

Their subscription offers no benefits, zero. It's basically a form of goodwill donation on users' part.

> Do you want to deal with ranty customer complaints? Or do you want a direct client relationship between professional companies?

It doesn't matter what I'd want, it's a question of if it makes sense from the business perspective and the retail business is very much worth it. The structure is different, but it works just fine even if there are chargebacks, complaints and what not. Look at WhatsApp before their acquisition - they charged $1/mo and they were awash in money.
I've worked in a lot of open offices in Europe, but they're not the hellish places that American open offices seem to be from what I keep hearing about them.

Well, one was: at Adyen, way too many people in a single room, on tiny desks, with nothing to separate different teams. That looked like a terrible place to work.
I dno; people used to say that about Dropbox in the early days. Clearly people like what Tailscale is doing, and find it interesting. The upvotes are about what’s interesting to the community, so seems fine and not cult-like to me.
If it all results in an odd sort of political passiveness and subconscious self-censorship, then it's Hey! Mission Accomplished!
I don't want to be nit-picky and it might seem like a minor nuisance, but developers will need the ability to display a small banner/prompt to educate user's about the possibility of installing the website like a regular app, otherwise it will be lost on casuals. I really hope that Apple implements this fully and doesn't use strategic loopholes to sabotage Web Apps in small but clever ways.
A newer update than one you linked: https://kaleidawave.github.io/posts/ezno-23/
They will be vagrants.
note that the full title is 1 character too long, probably should be edited to be

Charlie Brooker Got ChatGPT To Write Black Mirror Episode, But It Was ‘Shit’

although not sure how much people appreciate Shit on the front page?
the first instance of this conference, which they intend to run yearly.
Again, that's an incredible amount of testing and cost to identify poop in a public sewer system rather than identifying literally anything else. How do you have someone's DNA and identity but not their location? Who is this person that leaves no trace (financial, digital, social) except for feces? Like hypothetically yes, it's possible. But what real scenario could possibly make it even remotely feasible?
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You’ve had warm winters every year since 2017 in Ireland? What about El Nina and the usual trends?
> Getting in and out of a "regular" sized car routinely injures me. The injuries are painful, immobilize me for weeks at a time, and occur several times per year.

How does it injure you?
Availability is a major part of security (confidentiality-integrity-availability etc), so a process that has significant risks to availability can not be considered secure.
It depends (Thanks senior developer!). On the type of work, on the organization. On one extreme you have me: I do 7.5h of focused "alone work" a day. And if I went to my office, none of the people I work with would be there, as they'd be in offices in other countries. We aren't a fast paced startup and our office has individual closed-door offices for each employee. So basically IF I went to the office I'd be sitting in a room by myself doing 7.5h of programming and 30 minutes of video calls to other countries. It's not going to be more productive there. Scientific studies, as always, will be hard to find.

On the other extreme you have other people with other tasks and in other kinds of organizations.

In reality though the biggest productivity boost for me is the lack of commute. Because let's face it, I'm not going to commute an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening AND be eight hours ass-in-seat. 10-11 hours away from home. It didn't happen when I did work in an office and it certainly won't happen now. The solution most did I guess was being creative and doing emails or calls while commuting. I had to pick up kids at school or kindergarten at say 3-4PM regardless of whether or not that school was an hour away or two minutes. That meant I often left the office at 2-3pm if commuting. Now I can do kid pickups, do 8h of ass-in-seat all in 8h per day (which is basically the total time of one day that I'm willing to allocate to my employer).
Releases

Bookworm - testing - The next generation release.

Buster - oldstable - The previous stable release.

Bullseye - stable - The current stable release.

Sid - unstable - The unstable development release.
Halide-Haskell: Haskell interface for the Halide image/array processing language
When you "see yourself" in an Apple ad, it usually looks like some kind of deserted Ikea showroom. Who doesn't want to live like that ?!
This seems suspicious. Converting land to be used for crops doesn't reduce the utility of that land as a carbon sink. It's generally the opposite. Most wilderness does not steadily accumulate carbon biomass, but stays at a steady mass in a cycle of plant growth and decay into the atmosphere. Crop land, on the other hand, has lots of the carbon removed each year to be used as fuel.

It seems that there's a clear anti-biofuel agenda when a few comments apart we get "biofuel is replacing food crops causing people to starve" and "biofuels should have land use change carbon emissions counted against them".
Exactly.

If I really feel I need a space following rules I control, I host it.