skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> pfsync is a computer protocol used to synchronise firewall states between machines running Packet Filter (PF) for high availability. It is used along with CARP to make sure a backup firewall has the same information as the main firewall. When the main machine in the firewall cluster dies, the backup machine is able to accept current connections without loss.

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

Looks pretty cool. Had no idea this existed, but glad to hear about it.
Yes, I mentioned this type of examples in the second half of my post. Thankfully these are becoming more common.
Oh, a planted Louisiana judge
Fire Fire Fire!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDap-K6GmL0
I've been burned by 3rd party formats - never again - plain text for me.
For anyone clicking on this for the title; please note that this blog post is pushing hard for the author coaching service.

Some may even call this a disguised ad...
Yes, trying to have a "secular state" just means that traditional religions are going to be replaced by something that doesn't read as such, like "human rights", "liberal democracy" which we are happy to spread by the sword with disastrous consequences (afghanistan, iraq etc), DEI, ESG...
I'm definitely not trying to be snarky, but don't all RSS readers do this when you "Sort by time descending?"

If I'm misunderstanding your question, please provide more details.

I use elfeed on emacs (https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed) with the time descending sort, and it does exactly what you state in the question. The newest feeds float to the top and the older ones sort to the bottom.

If I let too many build up, I simply mark them as read and they disappear from the list. They aren't deleted, and I can search for them at a later date.

In your case above on not wanting to "Mark as read", elfeed has an filter ex. @6-months-ago that when a feed reaches that age, it disappears from the list. A smaller time scale like @2-weeks-ago might be closer to what you are looking for.

Of course, all of this text is irrelevant if you aren't using the emacsOS tools and don't want to mess with setting them up. But since the RSS spec was invented, I've not worked with any of the readers that fit my personal approach as well as elfeed.

Good luck.
TLDR: random Joel Spolsky wannabe blog, from a consulting firm that sells agile, TDD and other snake oil employee training programs.
Threads may not even get 10% of twitter's users to switch platforms.

But if they can get 50% of Twitter's (remaining) BRANDS to switch where they spend ad dollars, that's a win for FB!
That just goes to show that people will complain about anything instead of applying their brain.

There are plenty of valid objections to hydrogen as a fuel, but water use is a total non issue. Not only does it use so little, but when you get energy back out of the hydrogen, the waste product is water again. It’s literally a renewable cycle.
I'd beg to disagree. The track record of secularism from the French revolution, to empire and idealogy had quite a lot of blood on it's hands. The body count is most certainly not skewed to religion by any stretch.
It may or may not be OK to record without having a notice if your intention is a specific private use, like your own legal defense. It would certainly not be OK to publish a video clip of a specific person you encountered that may be embarrassing.

For example, you can be fined for publishing footage of an accident where someone was hurt and may feel embarrassed that other see them in that condition, but it may be OK to give it to police or legal council of people involved.
Nice to see the influence of Borland noted.
you care enough to click on the link and then comment on it
Donald Trump, former, and possibly future, president
> I don't understand how Missouri and Louisiana have any standing here.

Did you read their legal complaint? It doesn't feel like your statements here are responding to their claims about standing in the complaint.
The Hunter Biden laptop story was actively suppressed on Twitter and Facebook specifically because the FBI told them it was Russian information, despite the fact that the FBI had verified it was legit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Files
Ever since Trump tariffs on China followed by then COVID shortage mania (everyone and their mom suddenly renovating out of boredom), the base price of basic fridges in the US is around $700 these days and it only goes up.
hi! You have a "Senior Frontend Engineer, Javascript" role on LinkedIn, is this position still open?
Unreal has everything in 3D game development. On the downside, Unreal has everything in 3D game development. Godot can definitely make 3D games, but if you need Unreal level tooling, there is only one choice. 3D games are definitely possible in Godot.

I see the 2D comparison much stronger for Godot. The biggest draws for Unity are if you already know it, you are already excellent with C#, or if you need to deploy to consoles.

Godot has everything I've wanted in 2D development (as a serious hobbyist). I can get straight into the source code and modify the engine as needed. I really, really like the composition model of building out nodes, Godot and it leads to excellent code reuse. No licensing issues at all.

Asset stores are definitely better for Unreal and Unity.

As a hobbyist I'm incredibly happy with Godot. I could definitely see it for 2D PC development. If I had consoles in mind Unity.

Anything 3D I would invest my time in Unreal. Godot might be able to handle a current 3D project, but as I move on from that project I would be looking at Unreal with envy.
lol @ zapier publishing this garbage
And the winner is...

"A flaw was found in the handling of stack expansion in the Linux kernel 6.1 through 6.4, aka "Stack Rot". The maple tree, responsible for managing virtual memory areas, can undergo node replacement without properly acquiring the MM write lock, leading to use-after-free issues. An unprivileged local user could use this flaw to compromise the kernel and escalate their privileges."
Most of the tutorials I have seen still exist for Godot 3.X as opposed to 4.X, so it will just take some time is my prediction.
In what way was that unconstitutional? It was democrats who changed the rules so they could block judges with a simple majority, not republicans. They did so assuming they’d be the ones in power.
Social networks wouldn't have any users if they didn't solve a problem and/or fulfill a need that people have. What problem is it that they solve? IMO they solve exactly two problems.

1) People with no technical skills or knowledge (can't setup their own web site) want to be able to publish text, photo, and video content to the public, to a community, and/or to their direct contacts. They do not want to have to use any technology other than their phone, and they refuse to pay for this with any amount of money.

2) Since there are texts, photos, and videos being published, people want to be able to gather all the published content that interests them in one place for convenient reading.

As long as people have these needs, someone will make software that fulfills them, regardless of how they measure success.

Because people can't be serving the content directly from their phone, we have no way to do this today without some form of cloud hosting. Non-technical people can't set that up themselves. And even if they could, it would cost them money. The only solution we have right now is for some organization to create and manage a centralized-ish platform.

Even if that organization were a benevolent non-profit, it needs to pay the bills for hosting and labor. You could maybe ride on donations, but good luck with that. Therefore, the organization needs to somehow extract some value from the non-paying users. This inevitably leads to advertising, selling user data, locking users into a walled garden, and all the other mechanisms we have seen that harm the platform in order to get the resources to keep it alive.

And this is the key to making a successful social network that will last. How can you meet those two needs, and pay the bandwidth and storage bills, without doing any of the things that make the platform suck? Nobody's figured it out yet!
Sure! and sorry, this is entirely meta and more critique than criticism, so feel free to ignore.

Your comments are, I have noticed, often terse but always very exacting. It is different to most other comments I read on this site, where the meaning is usually clearer than the language. With yours I find it is often the reverse. It seems that you mean only what you say, rather than saying only approximately what you mean, I guess (to butcher the phrase).

Anyway, this comment in particular was, I think, a good example and maybe worth drawing attention to.. as I often I find myself, (and others) 'reading in' a point of view not actually contained within your comment (perhaps implied, perhaps not). And I think maybe, the reason the comment is difficult to parse (conceptually) is it doesn't inscribe a morality or even ownership (which I believe the other commenter was responding to), even later where you make the point of view more explicit. And I can read literally the same words as implying a neutral, pro or anti stance, and the comment also still makes sense. It is unusual, and I often am left (on second read) with the sense maybe I really don't know your point of view at the end, but that also perhaps this doesn't always matter as once I discard the need for understanding any intended or implied meaning, I see what you definitely are saying is very clear.

Anyway, yes, way overthinking it, but I do enjoy reading your takes for this precise reason, though I just have to remind myself to read them carefully.
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How many scrutineers would be able to verify that paper? Let alone normal voters.

(Scrutineer might be a poll-watcher in the US?)
Can anyone spell out exactly what it means to ‘sign up’ to Threads? Are these users who heard about Threads (from a friend or the news) and actively sought it out, or are they users who just tapped “OK” on a dialog that popped up when they opened Instagram, or what exactly? The answer to this is important because it would give an indication of how likely these users are to stick, which is everything.

Google once introduced a social network called Google+, and guess what, billions of users were ‘signed up’ overnight by virtue of already having Google accounts. And it meant nothing. That’s the extreme end of the scale, where the user doesn’t even know they signed up. I’m guessing Meta’s 10m figure is not that meaningless (otherwise it would be “2.35bn users in 1 ms”) but what is it exactly?
Thank you, this is really helpful input. It does seem likely Godot will be our engine of choice.
Godot may not be able to take on Unreal, but I certainly am cheering for it to take over Unity.

Excellent engine, and more and more developers are rightfully recognizing its potential.
Is it possible to keep this place a secret or now does that mean humans will somehow intervene and ruin things? I feel like when these sensitive things such as this are discovered it's almost better to keep it a secret - though we (general public) would be robbed of the marvel of these creatures. I understand its deep but I can't help thinking this will get exploited in some way. Hope not
I’d say originally Instagram was a mobile camera app when fzz as rebook had a horrendous mobile experience.

“It just worked” and it was stripped down and simple. Take a photo, post it.

Now Instagram is feature bloated, so it’s time to launch a primitive stripped down platform again to see what direction this one grows in, instead of trying to redesign the old one. It’s a soft reboot.
How about using iCloud for sync?
Looks like there's still a few blogs with RSS feeds that are missing that tag in the list.
I dunno, I believe in zero cost abstractions. Call it a white whale, but I am still chasing it.

I am not disagreeing with your assessment, I am saying a better world is possible where these hurdles are not so insurmountable.
> They don't, they just choose to do so. It's the same way pundits, authors, and broadcasters often get labeled "right-wing" or "conservative" while similarly left-wing ones don't get labeled.

Which is even weirder when we consider that being "right wing" is considered bad but "left wing" is not. When in reality during the 20th century, far left wing political organizations have been responsible for the deaths of 10's of millions more than far right parties. Being a Nazi is bad but being a Communist is far worse if history is any indicator. But you'd never know it by how much of the media frames things.
Lemmy has enough users.

performance should be their primary goal
I am able to view links to Threads from a web browser without being logged in: https://www.threads.net/t/CuVaOg1PgU4/
My impression is that those kinds of preference terms have been unusual over the past decade in SV.
how is that information is useful even if it's true. it's not like you can walk away.
Who is upvoting this and why?
People buying companies just to get their hands on some more Nvidia GPUs.
Court dates are what will make Tesla be sure to pay their lawyers on time.

A few million to a law firm now that could save paying tens of millions to laid-off employees later? That's a no-brainer for for the kind of company that considers non-payment to be an acceptable business practice to bully vendors into giving them better terms.
Yet these escalation CVEs are getting rarer and rarer, while production systems are generally hardened with SELinux and AppArmor out of the box, making practically exploiting them much harder.

The gist, is it requires a local user to be able to run processes, and not to be bound by SELinux or AppArmor to succeed.

It should be patched, but it's not Heartbleed.

P.S.: I didn't want to open the box of performance issues of microkernels, yet somebody did, and yes, performance matters.
In NYC, companies have to prove their AI hiring software isn't sexist or racist
I don't know anything about what you're talking about. Where do I start to learn some of the AI terminology, models, benefits and drawbacks of each, etc?
the page hangs for me with a bunch of CORS errors in the console - am I the only one?
> His rally crowds have no power to act

Jan 6 would like a word. (There's every indication Trump was internally pressuring as President, too, not just via rallies as candidate. https://apnews.com/article/060ca2399a744b4a9554dbd2ec276a90)

> Who did TFG send his demands to?

TFG definitely sent in the same sort of requests. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-tru...

> When the White House called up Twitter in the early morning hours of September 9, 2019, officials had what they believed was a serious issue to report: Famous model Chrissy Teigen had just called President Donald Trump “a pussy ass bitch” on Twitter — and the White House wanted the tweet to come down.

> That exchange — revealed during Wednesday’s House Oversight Committee hearing on Twitter by Rep. Gerry Connolly — and others like it are nowhere to be found in Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files” releases, which have focused almost exclusively on requests from Democrats and the feds to the social media company.

> “It was strange to me when all of these investigations were announced because it was all about the exact same stuff that we had done [when Donald Trump was in office],” one former top aide to a senior Trump administration official tells Rolling Stone. “It was normal.”
Neither you or are the Bar Association have any right to tell the president who is most qualified for a role he appoints. Maybe you don’t like it or it’s “wrong,” but the Bar Association is a bunch bureaucrats not an arbiter of platonic truth or good.
And whoever runs the API will be laughing all the way to the bank.
Surely those two things go hand in hand? Brands direct their spend according to reach.
Yes, but during that debate ages ago Linus won on points and as a result we now have an OS focused on throughput rather than on security.
What do you think the FBI's goal was with that behavior?
It's not illegal to yell "fire", but you can bet you're getting charged for manslaughter if someone dies as a result.

This isn't far fetched, many people have gotten crushed or trampled in a panic and died as a result.
How about dialing down the hero-worship that we seem so inclined to heap upon successful artists, for starters?

And when it turns out that yet another A-list artist's evil side was fairly well-known - to a bunch of editors, managers, etc., who were keeping that under quiet for "reasons"? Then make sure that Evil Artist's cover-up crew spend a few decades in jail.
I got a Series X via Best Buy through some Citizens Bank deal in early 2022. Took me an age to get a PS5 tho. Finally got one a few months ago.
> Surprisingly, they do not appear censored in any particularly "Chinese" political direction, but they share sensibilities of ChatGPT and Claude.

Perhaps they used GPT4 responses for the instruct finetuning, as many LLaMA finetunes do?

The paper doesn't say where they got the data from, other than "The pre-trained language model is further fine-tuned, following the mainstream procedure as in
InstructGPT."

(Also, I don't like how they use raw LLaMA 65b as a benchmark rather than an instruct tuned derivative)
But Flaherty specifically didn’t get what he wanted (that’s why he was mad!) so I think it’s misleading to say the power only goes from government to Facebook. If anything this example shows the exact opposite with Flaherty sending indignant anger in the other direction.
Social media has far more free speech protection. So it’s a good place to be.
Thanks for the input. Given my background, I think I can figure out the syntax just fine if necessary. I am just sceptical of languages where typing is not strictly static (and I give a hard pass on pure dynamic typing).
godot is less "full featured" than UE. It can compete with unity in terms of features, but i think the ecosystem for unity is much bigger.

Godot is much easier to learn and use imho. And being open source means you have access (unlike unity).
This is Meta's Twitter clone, seeded with Instagram accounts.
The “fire in a crowded theater” metaphor, in addition to being more a legal myth than a legal principle, is not quite the right perspective to understand this ruling. That said, if we try to use that metaphor to understand this ruling, it is sort of like “a judge has ruled that the federal firefighting organization is no longer allowed to pressure movie theaters to bar entry to moviegoers whom the firefighters suspect will shout fire in the theater”. In this metaphor, the bulk of the ruling is an extensive documentation of the many instances of firefighters and government organizations with names like “Conflagration Interdiction Committee” sending names of specific people to major theaters with comments like “this person regularly posts charts of the flammability of upholstery, do something about it” and then that person gets barred from that theater days later.
Most universities do not have "quals culling" and most universities that have "quals" (not that common anymore) do not use them for culling. There are a few notorious exceptions though.
I was amazed it hadn't been posted here before this. Also amazed I hadn't run across it until yesterday, when I was rabbit-holing a graphic design meme. I lean prog, post, math and psychedelic, so I guess this was always just off the edge of my radar.
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Do you think AI are unable to provide benefits while also being a risk, like coal and nuclear power? Conversely, what's the benefit of cocaine or cigarettes?

Even if it is only trying to kill us all and not provide any benefits — let's say it's been made by a literal death cult like Jonestown or Aum Shinrikyo — what's the smallest such AI that can do it, what's the hardware that needs, what's the energy cost? If it's an H100, that's priced in the realm of a cult, and sufficiently low power consumption you may not be able to find which lightly modified electric car it's hiding in.

Nobody knows what any of the risks or mitigations will be, because we haven't done any of it before. All we do know is that optimising systems are effective at manipulating humans, that they can be capable enough to find ways to beat all humans in toy environments like chess, poker, and Diplomacy (the game), and that humans are already using AI (GOFAI, LLMs, SD) without checking the output even when advised that the models aren't very good.
Because if your moat can be crossed with nothing but a short hackernews post, you need a better moat
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The has() selector definitely enhances what you can do with CSS. You can style elements differently based on what they contain.
Let's remember that Bret Victor is famous for presentations, a bit like Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown). So it shouldn't come as a surprise that he has a pleasant voice and handwriting, and a charismatic way of expressing himself. I'm not particularly a Bret Victor cynic, but let's be clear what he is celebrated for: it is presentation.
UpNote – synchronized desktop notetaking app
Good game! Nice design and interesting idea.
There are many use cases where scaling a traditional centralized SQL database is problematic, that can be addressed by something like this.

We have one: we run thousands of VMs at a time, all accessing the same "database". Since we already have a good amount of horizontally-scaled compute, having to maintain a separate database cluster, or large vertically-scaled database instance, to match our peak load requirements is problematic in terms of one or more of cost, complexity, and performance. In particular, horizontally-scaled distributed databases tend not to scale up and down efficiently, because of the complexity and time involved in joining the cluster, so the cost benefits of horizontal scaling of compute are lost.

An approach like this can fit well in cases like these.
congrats, dude.
Not the smartest move unless you want to spend some time in jail for assault.
The other poster is correct that this an incorrect secular talking point. “Secular” regimes have murdered tens of millions of people in this past century alone
Yes, the "money talks, bullshit walks" perspective is what is kicking atheism out the door. The existence of life is absolutely overwhelming proof of the existence of a creative God.

I suggest you read the book "The Stairway To Life: An Origin-Of-Life Reality Check" by Tan and Stadler. I'm well aware that you'll be able to try and snow the discussion with two dozen "citations" that will all be dead-end rabbit holes, but you can go ahead and provide them if you'd like.