skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's experts, and then there's "experts". One will have the sort of innate distrust for everything not entirely under their control which you're alluding to, while the other is an "expert" due to having received memorisation-based certification and basically does nothing more than parrot industry propaganda---or as they like to call it "best practices". It shouldn't be a surprise that far more of the latter exist.
What do you think about Kushner's personal enrichments during the Trump administration? His dealings with the Saudis?

I hear about Hunter Biden 100 times more than Kushner.

I'm all for equal applications justice. I see lots of pure-evil privilege, modern indulgences for the gentry.

I think all finances of a President, justice, and Congressperson and their family should be public and in a blind trust. And severe criminal liability for any attempts to enrich themselves.

If you don't like it, don't run.
budget, probably
I read it. (Although I wish that I didn't. Reddit exodus is taking its toll on other sites, it seems.)
All US CPUs are backdoored by Silicon Valley. Any data or computation can be changed, deleted or stolen. It uses radio, works even without Net access, including for BR voting machines.

There will be no computing freedom until the silicon trojans embedded in all US designed CPUs are removed.

If you want freedom, you will have to ensure that no unseen radiation is enabling remote control of your devices.

Ask me anything about BadBIOS and hardware trojans.
Guns are legal in USA. So the people in USA can (and often do) shoot at cops when they start busting down doors.
The user base is largely techy (I think many came from a post from HN). There are a ton of bugs, and most were unnoticed until the users grew from 20k and now is 2M. Lemmy&kbin&mastadon and its associated FOSS android apps (other than browsers) have a lot of growing pains right now. Thankfully, growing pains do not include all 57M of reddit right now, but the users who did come are heavy hitters and power users (moderators).

I expect that Lemmy will grow and some of the frictions (bugs, unclear accounts, insane instance sysadmins, moderation tools at the community/magazine/subreddit level, moderation tools at the instance/server level, etc.) will decrease in time. The two biggest threats are
1) too many consuming-only users and
2) big-tech (im looking at you Facebook) deciding that they need to directly compete.
Quicklisp, ironically, only updates once a month. It's managed like a Linux distro. That means the client has a full index of every library in the registry, and knows the hash of every file it may download.

I am pretty sure quicklisp checks the hashes it downloads. Hence, the only security issue with using HTTP seems to be that middleman can see what you've downloaded... if they try to change it in any way, the quicklisp client will reject the download as far as I know (though I haven't checked the code).

Do you believe this is not sufficient, and why?
> We might never make a repository of human made content with no Ai postings in it ever again.

Wow, never thought of it that way before. Kinda hit me hard for some reason.
I feel like under all these CSS hacks there lies the kernel of something where you can write javascript, transpile it into a bunch of CSS and html, and effectively run it. Javascript-less javascript.
How on earth could a random evil asshole orchestrate violence against an innocent person via a SWAT team though?

Oh, yeah, SWAT teams are violent toward and kill innocent people.

That would seem to be a key issue that warrents some degree of blame.
Show HN: Look Ma, I have solved some sh.t
That's one community I don't miss.
"As that work began, contaminated soil was discovered in a wider area beneath the building, where it was not expected. DOE paused work in April, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the DOE national laboratory in Richland, was called upon to help Hanford officials understand the extent of the underground contamination. PNNL confirmed the findings of the Hanford contractors that the spill was both broader and deeper than thought when the plan to excavate it from within the hot cell was developed."

Eh, no? They basically said "oh shit this is a bigger problem let's re-evaluate" not "oh man we goofed but have a new plan".

"However, DOE said the building currently is in a safe and stable configuration. The contaminated soils at it have remained stable for decades, it said."

Except, they just learnt they were wrong about the contamination extent. I'm not sure how much I trust this evaluation to be correct. I would HOPE they are doing something like, using geiger counters with a groundwater well in a different location to check radiation levels. Another comment mentioned cesium and strontium, which at least cesium has a half life of 30 years, meaning if this spill happened 30-40 years ago a majority of the radiation may already have dissipated.

Shouldn't we be able to determine the age of the spill using the cesium half life?
Yes! I would love to see the list even if it’s rough around the edges.
Happy to notice the "Locate the logo on top left corner and click" works in this case! I'm immediately forward to a page that provides exactly what I need.
1 scaled point is 5.36 nm, nano, not micro

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=1+inch+%2F+72+%2F+2%5E1...
So it is like owning bitcoins. If you have the data (keys) to be able to spend the bitcoins you “own” them.
"There is nothing more temporary than a permanent solution and nothing more permanent than a temporary solution" needs to be designated as a rule or law akin to Hofstadter's law or the Ninety-ninety rule. As a placeholder until a better name is chosen, I propose we call it Foundart's Rule.
Presumably they will put some protections in place.
The article did indicate that there was work being done in the 80’s during which the floor of a “hot cell” was damaged and allowed the radioactive material to leak out into the soil.
Just innovate one thing: show a counter how many new replies you have since last visit.
It’s great, but imho activitypub is kinda of a flawed protocol it won’t THE ever changing thing but actually the first step, creating an account anywhere from one different host defeats the purpose why social media is very unique and why hardly are there duplicates of the same kind of niche, secondly activitypub is a heirloom of confusion I do wonder how get information faster or at an equal speed of r/technology, third whose gonna take responsibility? Is it jack?, or the server, when something become part of the lifestyle they’ll always be someone to blame trust me even tho I do not like musk or mark I still use Facebook and Twitter, Reddit is here to stay no matter how we hate Steve people will still use it
What makes you think all of those employees were useful? An employee does not have inherent value. It’s not as though Twitter never had problems before the acquisition.
Maybe you just haven't found the right country to house your foundation for tax purposes? Charitable foundations in Canada seem to be a pretty decent deal. You end up having to use 5% of the assets each year for charity but that can include an awful lot of management expense and the charitable giving doesn't have to be to other charities. You end up paying a lot less than you would have had you exposed yourself to more taxation owning the assets in your name, plus you avoid inheritance taxation while still being able to stream income to your offspring through cushy foundation jobs pretty much perpetually.
Dropped my Model Y off for a warranty repair a few weeks ago. Asked the service desk if they needed the key, they said no. Apparently they can access the car whenever they like.
I think the way this is going to play out is that a lot of that distro-specific code is going to have to be re-written. I’m lucky that my CentOS/Rocky exposure is not huge (maybe a dozen virtual machines) so it’s not a big deal for me to change.

Of course, having had licensed RHEL machines and VMs in the past, this whole thing makes me much less likely to ever pay RedHat/IBM for them again… Definitely already time to look for alternatives. It is really quite a shame though, given the amount of Linux and related open source development RedHat developers did.
This isn't a review of a FTC show. It's not really my genre.

It's a review of that classic 90s sub-genre of FCC, Net Neutrality. This is Net Neutrality 2015: Nettier and Neutrier, with Michael O'Rielly.

Esteemed Chair O'Rielly's performance was fantastic as always. After the entirely authentic acting in the fake-out heist classic between President Obama and Tom Wheeler in the 2014 installment, O'Rielly really steals the show here with his honest portrayal of concern for free speech.

Four stars. A slamming success as always.

I really can't wait for the upcoming FTC show of "Automated Robo-caller Deleters from Outer Space". It will be dealt with in a balanced and classy manner as the posters claim. An honest reflection on space PBX robots and what they experienced.

Do you want a sarcastic parody world? Anyways, this gets us closer to authenticated users everywhere, so that's actually a good thing. Many lives will be saved that day.
Could drugs be trafficked against their will and forced into modern life slavery?

(Hint: you’re comparing people to objects)
Devs that happen to compile their work with GCC, mostly sponsored by Red-Hat?
End of Apollo means end of Reddit for me.

In same time I bought premium of Octal for HN.
At any point in building your entire business' infrastructure so it was dependent on RHEL, or more likely an ersatz clone, did you ever consider you might have to buy a license at some point?

It's like building a diet exclusively based on eating the free samples at Costco then going "oh those evil bastards, I'll starve to death" when they take them away.

Maybe use platform-agnostic architecture next time or don't build your house of cards on proprietary-adjacent distros.
CORBA is used in the chemical industry (CAPE-OPEN standard) https://www.colan.org/
https://xkcd.com/2730/
> a ready device with some physical interface (and no "cloud"-related garbage) allowing readings would do.

https://omronhealthcare.com/blood-pressure/
The Second Biggest Disaster at Mount Vesuvius
Guns are legal in many countries, so that argument doesn't really hole much water.

But at the same time, I don't have a good reason why (but then again it's never been my field of study).
Much like current historians learned a lot about ancient civilization by inspecting their waste, so will the ones in the future.
It's already public information. The point isn't to extract rents, it's to remove the incentive for server-melting mass scraping.
This guys have serious lack of taste in typesetting
No thanks, I'm happy that HN doesn't contribute to notification hell...
You can watch Chris Remo of the Daily Solve do this crossword.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi1uQcshSbQ

I often watch his channel as I find his voice relaxing to listen to.
I worry that at some point, Google will start monetising GMail and "Sign in with Google". This might be a calamity of a much larger scale.
Tbh, beehaw should better defederate from all other instances to spare us the pain of interacting with its users. They can live in their high horse-land themselves (until a subgroup declares themselves to be higher horses and kick out the others)
Why do we have passwords? Or VPN? What are you hiding from us?
Could you explain what Alma Linux's business model is?
Yes that's the one. Thanks!
I know this point was already made but it really is just email but with your email provider also offering public mailing lists. It kept feeling super complicated until I realized that's all it is.

Don't overthink which instance to choose. Just sign up for Lemmy.world or any of the other "general purpose" instance. It's not terribly important.

The one caveat to that is that you may want to choose beehaw instead if you strongly value a more heavily moderated experience. As I understand it, Beehaw intends to refederate once there are better moderation tools available on Lemmy but for now they are separated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GQ
So, are we saying it's unethical for Google and other search engines who make money off of ad revenue to scrape sites like Twitter? Or are they paying a large sum to Twitter to do this?
I’m not disagreeing with your comment but

> great public value

Having been to twitter mostly through the most recent prominent war, man the signal to noise ratio is really low even when being careful about who to follow and who to block. There is so much disinformation, bad takes, uninformed opinions presented as facts, pure evil, etc.

So I guess it could be used for training very specific things or cataloging the underbelly of humanity but for general human knowledge it’s a frigging cesspool.
Honestly I think that's why reddit is closing itself up too. Everyone sitting on a website like this might be sitting on a Ai training goldmine that can never be replicated.
Hanford housed the first plutonium reactor in the world, that created the plutonium for the first atomic bomb at Trinity and the "Fat Man" bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki. It expanded to 9 nuclear reactors and 5 plutonium processing facilities during the Cold War and produced most of the plutonium for the 60,000 weapons in the US nuclear arsenal. Because of poor safety procedures and waste disposal practices the site is a $500B dollar cleanup disaster (and costs might continue to increase well beyond that).
What? Discourse is free software, they aren't "hosting millions of users" at all, nevemind for free.
What's the federal interest rate? Minimum wage? Cost of living? Nothing drops panties like desperation!
> Aerial photography was used again in the 1966 by-census and the next decennial census in 1971. In addition to the astonishing visual impact of surviving photographs,

Of course, the article does not actually include any of these astonishing photographs, and I can't find them online either. But this (2017) NYT story has some.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/23/world/asia/china-tanka-ri...
David Holz is the CEO of Midjourney
Thank you for the answer, how successful at converting casual users into paying members?

One of the biggest problems Tech companies face is sustainable scaling, I hope you can scale at a manner that allows you to stay relevant without teetering at the cliff's edge.
Your argument is circular.

And “mostly sponsored” is just another way of saying sponsored. Just because you sponsor something does not mean you own it. It does not really give you many rights as I understand. Because you are a sponsor, not an investor.

You make the argument for GCC but that is a piece of GNU which I feel furthers my point. Cool, RHEL put some money into an already free and open piece of software… that makes them exempt from violating the GPL?

edit: Stallman, any thoughts?
Sounds to me like the Internet is, in fact, fine. It's only those "open" discussion sites which are having trouble.

Those sites never fit my definition of open anyway (free, permissively licensed technology and content). The ones that do are smaller, aren't a monoculture and seem to be pretty untroubled so far. No one wants to scrape the little Mastodon or Lemmy instances or other small community sites I pay attention to.

Big deal if something is a threat to the social media business. The social media business is a cancer which should be destroyed anyway. Go outside and engage in real socializing instead of the depression-spawning, teen-girl-murdering version peddled by Zuckerberg and Musk. It's much better and once you change your habits you'll never look back. Maybe it has something to do with all the vitamin D you get from being outside.
This is just the middle man product for a bigger projects. Heyhey is the medium for our platforms to come. I understand the lack of information in our landing page might give you the idea that we distribute unsolicited digital items, but we review each item for cleaner marketplace. We really didn’t have the time to fix certain stuff like the lp for we are both studying, working and trying to build a whole brand and a company. HEYHEY is a digital business card that you gather all your socials without any feeds to distract you. We kept it simple for creators to distribute from their socials and sell & get commission “without any cuts” packaged all in a clean design. So no, with all the backend security & encryption, precise design UI and UX , I don’t think you can call it a lazy product just bcs it’s simple. We’ll strive for better, thank you for the upvote!
I graduated in 2018 and it was only mentioned off hand in a systems programming class in a discussion of RPC frameworks. That was basically all I knew about it until I became a maintainer of a CORBA implementation as part of my job. It's not the main part of my job and honestly I still don't know a lot about actually using CORBA. The only part I know a lot about is the interface description language (IDL) used for code generation, which we use a ton of in another framework that I'm actually paid to maintain.
You described two features that are in the works:

- There are some ideas of "grouping" communities/subreddits to better dedup but still allow crossposting and discussion.

- There are some ideas of introducing moderation tools (currently the only tool is "defederation").

Most of this has not been developed as the 2 developers behind Lemmy were working on a "get paid to introduce milestone features" basis before the Reddit refugees came over. I expect this friction to iron out over time.
Synthetic data fed into training isn't necessarily a bad thing. It can produce great results in many cases.
Also and importantly the police gets lots of hands-me-down from the military, grants for high power devices, bills themselves warriors (with seminars like Grossman’s Killology), and trains in fearing everything and considering the civilian population their enemy. US cops are basically trained in thinking they work in occupied territory, but not in trigger discipline.

Every podunk town has set up a “SWAT” team armed to the teeth moving around in mrap, chomping at the bit to use their toys (as long as there’s no obvious danger on the scene, flashbanging a crib at dawn is A-ok, rushing a mass shooter in a school in broad daylight is, you know, maybe later).
There's an explosion of module types.

Node has cjs and esm, Browser has legacy (create sub-objects in the global or window object) and esm.

I tried to write a polyglot, but was not successful. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48396968/72314371 proposes a clever polyglot exploiting that await is parsed differently at the top level when in esm or not. However this doesn't help, because import and export keywords always fail hard (not catchable by try-catch) and eval (yuck!) doesn't help because inside eval your are legacy.

So you have to bundle if you want to provide for everybody... (shrugs)
> They sent me back for an MRI for reasons I'm really not sure about.

MRI can much better visualize soft tissue (tendons and ligaments) than x-ray imaging.
This is probably important in the shoulder.
Preact takes the King Bumi approach to API compatibility - by sometimes doing nothing.

The syntax may be compatible, but the semantics are not. For example, it doesn’t support react's concurrency features; transitions are just empty wrappers.
Any harm in just making it default browser behavior to first try the link as clicked, then try https if it fails? Possibly could lead to unexpected behavior for resources loaded in the background, but I can’t think of unwanted behavior l.
Wasn’t in a non profit back then? Do they actually have shares? I thought part of the point is they don’t turn a profit to pay out to investors.
Why is this a thing in America to begin with? Sex markets do exist no matter what and have been forever.

In Order to really get a handle on some bad side effects and improve everyone’s life, the first step is accepting reality and decriminalize it. Then introduce protection laws for sex workers and make them pay taxes, like everyone else. With regulations and getting real data every action can be tremendously more effective than criminalized (= uncontrolled) black markets.

Even Al Capone was ultimately arrested for tax issues, everything else was not provable in court
> In my 25+ year career I haven't seen it in use anywhere. I only ever encountered it while getting my CS degree.

Too bad you didn't join the company I left in the 90s. It was used in production.

I learned about it in my CS degree too, and (because I was a fulltime dev at the time as well as a part time student) I went ahead and used it at work[1].

From what I remember of using it in production, the only difficulty I had was in sourcing a free ORB (server software) that supported inter-ORB routing so that I could load-balance.[2]

My employer eventually shelled out a small fortune (it was the 90s, we were drowning in VC money) for something from, IIRC, IBM[3] that ran on Sun Enterprise Servers (another small fortune).

My experience with CORBA was GREAT! I mean, compared to the way we do it now with browser tech:

1. I could use any language to write the client software, not limited to only Javascript.

2. Making a server call from the client was transparent. It looked like any other function call, unlike how it has to be done now using promises/futures or callbacks.

3. The tech supported exceptions which were also transparent to the programmer. In C++ you could do the following and it would work as expected.

try { myObj->foo() } catch { /* ... */ }

4. It was all strongly typed; if you used an argument with the wrong type you'd get either (in compiled languages) a compilation error or (in Interpreted languages) a runtime exception before the call is made.

5. Developer velocity was great. I wrote my object specification, the tools generated both the server-side and the client-side wrappers, and all I had to do was call them.

[1] I was young, still in the phase of resume-driven-development.

[2] I used a free ORB written in C++ called either Mico or Micro; I don't remember the specifics.

[3] Maybe Sun, I'm not sure.
Hanford is the result of decades of "John Smiths" doing inadequate nuclear waste disposal. The event that happened was that we were in a nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union and nobody really knew or cared about the externalities of what they were doing.
There’s another scary statin side effect: unexplained anger. There are many cases of seniors becoming unusually cruel on statins.
There was also this crossword affair that some suspected was too clever for its own good:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Day_Daily_Telegraph_crosswor...
It's quite common I've gradually come to realise. Even within my friendship group, two people had these experiences.
"You wouldn't download a car."

The only reason these websites and platforms aggregate any content at all is because they're effectively giant public squares.
That is no different than buying a house with a loan, where the loan is backed by the same house.
Do you have a link to lovdata.no about this by any chance? I didn’t manage to find the law.
All those features significantly increase repair costs because of the parts and calibration required. Should I have to incur those costs so the manufacturer can extract value from a second owner?

I promise the car will be harder to resell once the warranty runs out. No one wants an old car that’s super expensive to repair, especially if they’re paying to repair things related to features they can’t even use.
Because busy box and musl suck
This doesn't make intuitive sense. Are you sure you're not seeing the results of survivorship bias? Or is there a mechanism in place that kills top players?
Why no type checking? Generate an Open API client for target languages. Done.

Assuming you need an API. I'll never build an app that way again, it's not worth my hands. I'd rather use Hotwire, or LiveViews, or Django's Unicorn for the web part. Zod looks nice too.
> Expensive, college educated cops are outside the budgets of many of these tiny police departments

Also literally over-qualified.