skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FAR more concerning is https://www.senat.fr/leg/tas22-148.pdf page 43, second half, article 2212 first, second and fifth paragraph, a complete rewrite of a national defense law who add the possibility INSTEAD of just ordering domestic enterprises to prioritize war-related productions adding the power to requisition ANYTHING, private citizens properties AND their own bodies, just on a decree by Council of Ministers bypassing ANY other law.

Curiously so far only few extreme left and extreme right sites have pointed that out loud.

Meanwhile at the Parliament a nice intervention to "limit surveillance power" for connected sex toys https://twitter.com/Ugobernalicis/status/1676639024184786958

Welcome to the Summer 2023.
oh, the long forgotten search prompt engineering. good to see it.
Cone is much nicer than stickers.
There's ongoing work to update the regulations to remove a lot of the loopholes. For example, some airlines like to try to claim that pretty much any delay/cancellation is caused by "extraordinary circumstances", even though court decisions have limited when that excuse can be used.

The efforts to clearly define some of the vague parts of EU261 have been held up by intense lobbying from the airline industry.

One important addition that has been suggested would be to force airlines to publish the cause of disruptions, so that they can't lie about it later when passengers are trying to claim compensation.
My money is still on character actress Margo Martindale.
In principle is perfectly possible to speculatively execute cmov (and viceversa to change jump-over-one-instruction into conditional execution).

But Intel historically didn't do it as programs tend to use cmov when the condition is unpredictable , so there was little reason to optimize it.

After Spectre, I believe intel has given an architectural guarantee that cmov is never speculated so it can be used as part of speculation attack prevention.
Communication systems determine human alignment
naïve q2: does that mean most comparisons are no match 3 times? could one do a bitwise operation and fuzzy test for all 3 in one go?
try it and see. there is a reason for the proverb.
Main reason for the lack of excitement is probably that it is fairly easy to self host Wisper, so people interested in it would have been doing that all along.
> they're not hourly workers, they can choose or refuse which orders they want to take. Workers are not on the clock, obligated to work certain hours, they don't even have hours

it seems they ARE hourly workers for the purposes of this law, which makes sense: they're allegedly contractors because they can choose their hours.

if a driver wants to work the 8:00 to 9:00 hour, the delivery app can either:

1. pay them at least the minimum wage for that hour, and assign enough work to fill it, or

2. pay them at least the minimum wage for that hour, and NOT assign enough work to fill it, or

3. don't pay them for that hour, meaning you aren't letting them work that hour, meaning you're determining their hours, meaning they're employees, not contractors

whether [app X] has enough orders to keep occupied all the willing drivers with open [app X] is [app X]'s problem: [app X] choose the business model of unrestricted driver growth
News like this further make the case that the GPRD is mainly protectionist legislation that mainly benefits EU corporations. The EU doesn’t really care about the privacy of their citizens regardless of the virtue signaling.
I bet NVidia is quite happy with the Switch deal.

Secondly, the anti-CUDA alternatives all suck, as they keep heads down on their C first approach instead of being a polyglot ecosystem.

SPIR, HIP and whatever else, lack the tooling, had a very cold embrace of C++ features, and little else, and the drivers, oh boy.
What happens when there is no where left to move, or the cost of moving is too high?

Solidarity, not freedom, is the opposite of tyranny.

Neutrality and running away implicitly supports the injustice you are running away from. Flight-ing instead of fighting leaves those left behind to the wolves.

Political change only happens once people are willing to put themselves at risk.
when i see ted chiang i think of his blurry jpeg LLM take in the new yorker. i'm not a fan of that take. i think it was one of the worst LLM takes, competing with the stochastic parrot take. i heard he wrote some amazing science fiction stories though i should read them some time.
Essentially lack of denial. Weird mix of 'Utkin was undercover among Nazis' and 'to fight Nazism one needs to try it himself'. By the way, Bellingcat claims that Utkin has a minor position in Wagner.
Homebrew's analytics have moved to the EU and away from Google
> Homebrew's analytics have entirely moved to our InfluxDB instance in the EU.

> We gather less data than before and have destroyed all Google Analytics data:

> https://docs.brew.sh/Analytics

just noticed this morning, running some updates

$ brew analytics
InfluxDB analytics are disabled.
Google Analytics were destroyed.
> If you're having to pay to have people listen to you then that means you typically don't have something worth saying.

This basically invalidates all of advertising in one stroke.
No, I think that's it. Unless a court strikes it down. Or maybe the state legislature will also get creative and come up with a new, more mutation-resilient bill or something :-)

Wisconsin's Governor has a weird "partial veto" power. This AP article has more details: https://apnews.com/article/evers-veto-400-years-wisconsin-sc...
The load time will be slower as I have to fill out another hCAPTCHA and go through more DDoS hoops.
> As soon as it becomes a cost/benefit exercise the original ideal behind education is lost and subjects such as Philosophy, Literature and History appear to be a waste of time and money.

It is a cost/benefit exercise. It always has been. If the pro-higher-education crowd wants to pretend otherwise, then not only are they deluded but their political influence is disastrous and we need to find a way to blunt it.

Not only can we not afford it (the cost has gone up at some absurdly fast rate that makes inflation look cuddly), but the very trends in higher education that cause the cost to spiral out of control are themselves on an upwards trajectory.

You're not doing anyone any favors peddling this nonsense. The later starts to adult life affect people negatively. The student debt is more than any ordinary burden, it is a boat anchor chained to everyone's neck. And it doesn't even guarantee most of these people a career. None of them sit in their cardboard box underneath the overpass in between their 5 part-time jobs thinking "gee, I can't file bankruptcy for my $170,000 in student debt, but at least I got a B+ in my undergrad philsophy class, that's what's really important".

> Ironically, when higher education in the UK was fully-funded by the state the resulting degrees,

When its population was what fraction of its current population? When it was fully-funded for those who could make the cut, and all the other chavs were tossed out to try to make some sort of life in the working class? And don't think I'm picking on the UK here, it's the same all over.

> regardless of the subject(s) studied, were far more valuable in the job market

When 5% of the population gets a university degree, that's a useful filter to decide who you want managing the other 95%. When 45% (or 75%, or 100% like you like to daydream about) have a university degree, it's not useful at all. You can no longer determine who should be in the managerial class by who has a degree and who doesn't. You need to use a different metric.

And they do. They use different metrics now. And oh, that managerial class thing... that's about the only one still around. Not much left in the way of working class jobs.

> A society which doesn't value education as an investment is a society in decline.

If it's an investment, why would you waste that on a bunch of people who will never pay off?
I thought the underlying reason behind the laws and lack of StreetView in Germany was the general higher sensitivity to privacy, not just “laws”. Laws, after all, are created by elected people who should interpret the spirit of the population.

Of course people change over time to live with a technology, but I would not take it for granted that it _has_ to happen always, and not without reshaping the tech to make it more palatable to people’s concerns and values.
Bluesky is going down the VC path, and we all know how this ends ups for social media companies. Sure, they'll try to monetize without ads. But it's unclear to me what kind of revenue stream would generate enough cash. Sure as hell it won't be this Namecheap thing.

In my opinion, the only way to go for a social media company is to be a non-profit.
It's the best Android TV/Gaming device around, even by todays standards. It's stable and does what it was designed to do. With zero marketing from Google or Nvidia, the mass market obviously didn't care for this type of product and category but the device itself is great and works flawlessly. The Nvidia Game app also bundled and pushed the Nvidia game streaming concept around GeForce Now. Overall, Nvidia gave put their best foot forward with this device, providing standout support for both HW and SW.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/shield/support/shield-tv/introd...
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now/
It's not free, it's about $6 USD per user per month for the basic edition, and as high as $22 USD per user per month for all the bells and whistles. [0]

Many bulk license discounts usually apply, but the narrative of "free and good enough" isn't really useful as it's not the case at all on either account. And you cannot mix and match lower tiers; the highest tier someone needs in your org defines what you pay. Yes, office licenses are bundled with Teams licenses, but you're paying quite a bit for it as a business regardless of how useful it is for most of your day to day work.

While Teams might seem nice in that it has connectors for power bi or bots or other loose integrations with other services, this ecosystem is not very mature or populated and at least from my experience, it's mostly in the hands of the System Admins who manage Teams/Azure for a company; you need to run resources on Azure or self-host most of the integrations (excepting the prebuilt apps like Polly (poll tool for polls in Teams)), you need to manage resources on Sharepoint/OneDrive as the data lives there, etc.

It starts to really add up after awhile. I don't think the main selling point of Teams is as a chat app, but instead as a monitoring app. Microsoft Viva will give you little reports on your work usage which is presented as a healthy work-life-balance helper, but ultimately it's just an employee monitoring tool. [1],[2] It was sold and pushed as the single business analytics tool from Microsoft with complete visibility into your employee time/work; from what I've seen on the Admin Center, it's quite deep in what it analyzes, despite a lot of the functionality it uses for monitoring being quite buggy (e.g., Status tracking is a non-trivial amount of reporting, but the actual Teams app status gets stuck all the time)

Teams is not a chat application, it is a monitoring application that can also do chat/video and monitor said chat/video. It is questionable in most orgs I've seen whether this feature is really useful/necessary once it's actually deployed, as the takeaway that managers have from the same reports is usually pretty vastly different and there are a wide range of interpretations applied. (this last part doesn't just apply to teams but all employee monitoring apps, but that is another discussion entirely)

0 - https://www.microsoft.com/en-ww/microsoft-teams/compare-micr...

1 - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-analy...

2 - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/activi...
Yeah, the usual overnight success, 7 years in the making, kind of luck.
By that definition, when my kid goes to the beach and digs a hole in the sand and fills it with water they are "changing the environment". Do we need a proper environmental impact statement to determine the negative aspects of these changes?

Come on. They are literally moving salt a few meters.
OpenGL has received continuous development. Also, I find it easier to work with than Vulkan.
Sometimes you do want higher abstraction.
That's a really bad map but the 8 dashed line looks more like Japan and the Philippines to me. The "handle" on the bottom right of "Asia" is then Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua in one blob to the north west of Australia
The chronological feed is coming soon at which point that will not be an issue.

And as mentioned you can simply Mute/Block them.

But there is going to be a year or more of Threads being ad-free whilst Twitter is not. That's a game changer.
I remember reviewing this paper with my lab when it was published! Very interesting work
Lambda is a web scale
A less uncharitable interpretation of the parent comment is that decentralized platforms are the only way to guarantee personal freedom, save a saintly BDFL or government regulation. Not likely to happen.

The “even if it’s the centralized version” is an acknowledgement that some users may prefer centralization, or the platform is still too young to usefully decentralize. As long as there is a way out, or a credible plan, freedom is preserved.

The third Matrix succeeded due to choice—even at the subconscious level.
Ah, no, I had the atom feed set up already, just insufficient karma on HN... Oh well!
He's a professor in the economics department at George Mason University. ("...founded in principles that stress the value of free markets in promoting peace and prosperity.") GMU is partially funded and controlled by the Koch foundations.[1] He is a research fellow at the Mercatus Center. ("Mercatus research focuses on how markets solve problems.") Mercatus is funded by the Koch family and Charles Koch is on the board. He is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute ("The vision of the Cato Institute is to create free, open, and civil societies founded on libertarian principles.") Cato was founded by Charles Koch, as the Koch Foundation.

So expect to hear the Koch Industries position from this source.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/us/koch-donors-george-mas...
HN is such a utopic place. I wonder when the inevitable enshitification will happen, and how?
They are better off just ignoring it and hoping it fades. If they fight it, people will escalate to stickers.
OP managed to get a decent amount of money after a bit of hassle, which is a lot better than how it works for US domestic flights.
Because it has more sensors, 360° view and a 1000x faster reaction time, over time - if not already - cars with AI are safer. The perception of an AI going rogue is much more impactful than a drunken driver on the highway though, as people can't relate to an AI (yet?).
The Code That Makes Mario Move
I use the iOS shortcut for pasting into Joplin and it works great other than not brining in the title.

Wanted to thank you for the great app! I left Evernote a year ago and it’s helped me get my journaling back on track. I use Dropbox sync and it wonderfully. I don’t remember the last time I had issues with it.

Only thing I hope for one day is the ability to see the article tags on each note in the list view so I can see which notes have which tags in common without having to click on the tag.

Keep up the great work!
Raytracing using GPU compute is pretty much the norm for offline rendering, for example Blenders Cycles renderer has support for all major GPUs: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/cycles/gpu_...

It is telling of the GPU compute landscape that there is separate implementation for each vendor
It does, yes, I think you can just log in with existing Insta without problems. But not all of those wanting an escape from Twitter at this stage have Instagram accounts, or at least not in the same ID.
Indeed.

The cost of bound checking is second order effects like making vectorization harder, slightly higher instruction (and possibly data) cache pressure, or requiring higher decode bandwidth. For the vast majority of programs these bottlenecks do not really matter.
North IS a well-defined concept. From the most ancient times, people knew where north was: it's 90 degrees left of east, and east is where the Sun rises. Go back in time 5000 years and ask anyone where North is, and they'll point you to it, long before any modern maps of the world were ever made.

Wikipedia having one poorly-written line about it doesn't change tens of thousands of years of human history and knowledge about where north is. Wikipedia isn't even an authoritative reference on anything.
Do we know who made the map for the movie and have they had anything to say about what the dashed line is?
There is XSL-FO, less famous cousin of CSS, that formats documents for printing. It has no formatting classes; each element has to have the appropriate attributes. To make it manageable there are, of course, default values and inheritance, so you can set the main font once on the root element and then only use 'font' when you need another. And since these are XML documents and are mostly created via XSL, they can also use an alternative generic mechanism of setting attributes: XSL attribute sets.

I’ve worked with XSL-FO (not as much as I would like to), and I would say that this is a pretty viable approach. First I tried to turn attribute sets into formatting classes (it is totally possible, plus these classes can also form a hierarchy with clear priority rules). This mapped very well to what I knew about CSS and to my experience in desktop publishing. But over time I became perfectly content with just setting attributes on an element directly and only resort to attribute sets when they came naturally as a time-saving technique.

In old times people who wrote about UI emphasised “direct control”: users must feel they are in control of things that are happening on the computer, that they not just convince the computer to do something but can, for example, directly move a file from one place to another. This is an illusion, of course, but the one that gives the interface a very empowering quality. (Which becames more and more scarce nowadays.) As far as I understand Tailwind it gives the same feeling of direct control.
Blockchain does not by itself solve identity. You can build identity solutions atop a blockchain, sure. But “built as a blockchain” does not at all hint towards your blueprint to solving this problem.
New Zealand teachers shocked at leaked curriculumn – 'Where's the science?' (nzherald.co.nz)

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/teachers-shocked-at-leaked-dra...

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36607731

Arguably better source: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/493178/teachers-shocked-...

It's a leak of a rough concept draft for primary schools being beaten up by culture warriors projecting pearl clutching concerns over issues the final form likely won't have.
> had a flight cancelled and got a free hotel, rebooking and meal voucher automatically without talking to customer service.

That's often the minimum the EU airlines will do, in order to distract their passenger from the €250-600 compensation to which they are entitled.
That's correct. I think this is how most people see advertising.
Exactly! If god wanted humans to fly they would have given us wings.
Several years ago, inspired by Laudato Si', I decided to switch over to using cloth dish towels in the kitchen, as well as dinner napkins. And then I could just toss them in the laundry and rotate stock.

This was working pretty well. But I still found that I wanted paper towels. So I do keep a few rolls in stock, but they go very, very slowly now. The only times I use paper towels are if I have some grody mess that'll ruin the towels and/or needs to be immediately thrown into the garbage, and so paper towels are a logical substrate for that.

I think it's been at least 5 months since I opened a new roll.
Websites are very modern interfaces to the Sabre system that was originally developed in the 1950s. The way it was described to me at the time I was working in the travel industry (20 years ago, yikes!): Sabre is essentially a command-line system, which means the API-like interfaces that have been grafted onto it over the decades are not nearly as stable and robust as we'd like them to be. I'm sure they've improved tremendously since I first used them, but the entire system is still based on very old technology that just wasn't meant to do what we're doing with it. Connect to it with an airline agent's terminal, though, and it's quick and reliable, just as COBOL-based banking systems are.
> However, the outlet said, Vietnam and the Philippines aren't negligible markets, where a Hollywood hit "can earn anywhere from $5 million to over $10 million in each country."

I'm wondering if the firms already calculated that appeasing China brings in more than $10 million.
The UK has a separate data protection law (UK GDPR[1]) which is the more or less same as the EU. The current government held a consultation on possible changes[2], but I would doubt they could actually carry through on making a significant change given their current weak and divided state and the likelihood they will lose in the next general election.

[1] https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/w-026-8528?contex...

[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/data-a-new-direc...
there is also https://github.com/openglonmetal/MGL

disclaimer: have not used or tested
It can be made simple, especially if it’s a DNS record that’s unique to a platform. For example, if you set up an MS365 account and are using Cloudflare for DNS, there’s an OAuth like flow where MS will auto-magically update your DNS.
I'm confused. The article that you linked says San Francisco is the most expensive rental market. However, you speak about UC Santa Cruz. The campus is about 120 km south. It's a totally different rental market. Do I misunderstand?
The stories are good.
It's not really solving the problem though, is it? The bad neighborhoods and bad schools are still there. And the idea that if you can't equalize it to rich neighborhods (when they can and will never be equal anyway even with this bussig) then there's no point, is exactly the kind of thing I find absurd about it.

I don't deny that it might help some kids some amount. Although now I'm curious -- what kind of improvement does the evidence actually show? Anything close to "equalized"?
It's a dup of course. We even had the Wikipedia link to "Frankenstein Veto".
Fear not, dang is Hodor.
What happened is that Khronos Group banked on third parties writing OpenGL-esque "middleware libraries" that bridged the gap between the hopelessly complex Vulkan API and people who want to write simple 3D graphics. Unfortunately, Khronos learnt the hard way that you can't just expect people to do work for you without a sufficient incentive, since after all, OpenGL still exists for anyone who wishes to have an easy API for graphics programming, and anyone who doesn't want to do that just uses an engine or high-level graphics API.

Of course I'm not saying that these libraries don't exist, but they haven't taken off in the way they expected
No. Nuclear is expensive and complex. There will be no come back.
No one cares about OpenCL and its C only programming model.
reddit once offered users who were the first to send a postcard from a country a month of gold. I wonder if they still have that wall of postcards.
> Make sure HN recognize that as a correct href and your blog has alternative link to rss/atom.

Any details on how to do this? My blog (https://blog.nawaz.org/) has an RSS feed here (https://blog.nawaz.org/feeds/all.atom.xml) but I don't know how to set it up the way you'd need it.