skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Proxy war is not a hollow Russian talking point, it is a literal description of what happens. This article on Proxy War fits what is going on and it happened all throughout the cold war the same way, leaving many countries ravaged: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_war

Calling the war in Ukraine a "proxy war" doesn't match the provided definition on Wikipedia. Ukraine is not fighting at the instigation or on behalf of others. Ukraine is fighting for itself and struggled hard to get any considerable military support in the first months of the war.

>> What you call “the USSR crumbling” is in fact what I described — a federation whose constitution allowed for its members to get together (originally in a secret meeting in Beloverzhakaya Puscha, much like the creation of the Fed on Jekyll island) and sign an agreement to secede.

Latvia did not sign any seccesion agreements. Can't secede from something you never joined. The constitution of invaders has no bearing on Latvia, it's null and void.

>> How do you always manage to ignore everything about genociding the native population, ethnic cleansing, conquest of huge swaths of territory from a neighboring country — when your own country does it

My country has never done it. I am the native population. Perhaps you should assume less about other people before trying to smear them with white guilt.
They offer a docker you can run locally as well.
Amusingly I take sites that look like this more seriously now, I assume it's a guy who really cares about electronics instead of a marketing guy dropshipping and spending his budget on a 17mb wordpress page and theme.
Would this be a breach of GDPR for us EU residents?

I'm getting seriously disillusioned with all this surveillance stuff. At first I thought, you know, these were isolated incidents falling through the cracks, but in truth it's become pervasive and global. The scariest aspect is how individual actors have the ability these days to gather, interpret and isolate individuals from massive datasets, anonymising the data seems pie in the sky.

I don't see much stopping it either, in society it seems to be the extremes, some wrongly think GDPR applies to everything and others are so sophisticated they can bypass it completely. Have we gotten too advanced, whereby only experts understand the impacts of our actions? Sorry I'm getting all philosophical.
ICFP Contest 2023
The 2023 ICFP Contest is about to begin!

The annual contest is marathon-style, a 72 hour challenge to demonstrate that your preferred language / tech-stack is ... THE MOST AWESOME. Good luck!

Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICFP_Programming_Contest for historical information. The contest started in 1998!
Quality of life is extremely strongly correlated with per capita GDP. They already led the world in standard of living in 1967, at the end of their free-market/high-growth era.
You will later be able to delete your Threads account with o losing Instagram
The funnier part is he thinks his website isn't full of "cringe ass shit" now.
> Every person on the planet should have their own website, on their own domain name, and blog about whatever they want.

Let's keep in mind that most people don't have access to basic hygiene and food safety.

> Everyone should be writing in public.

I never understood why this kind of injonctions for us to do things keep on coming up to the front page of HN. I understand that they make good titles, though.

> “Hey, I have a crazy story. I found this website today. There used to be this person who did this and that. And he’s our grand-grand-grand-father!”

I vaguely know that my grand-grand-grand-father was a farrier in one of the Napoleons' army and was a kind man, my children will vaguely know it as well. We'll all die and be forgotten, I think that's OK.

There is also no guarantee that archive.org will survive a couple decades. But a notebook in the attic definitely will.
In Musk’s defense, I think there is something to the idea that most tech companies were a little too bloated. Especially with the hiring during the pandemic based on unrealistic valuations and future expectations.

But this is another area where Zuck beat Musk because Meta addressed this issue in a much more sensible way which involved considered changes in workforce as opposed to Musk’s impetuous unthought through slash and burn style.
After days of destruction, Macron blames a familiar bogeyman: video games
My parents do not speak fluent English, they have zero grasp of the sciences or even basic math (they still have trouble grasping percentages and fractions), and are very susceptible to scams by cult leaders from their country of origin. Same for almost all of my aunts and uncles, who lives hundreds or thousands of miles away.

I would have been doomed without an external setting where I got to interact with much more qualified people.
Similar experience, I nearly bought a ps1 but they were sold out everywhere. Then I went to a friend's house and played goldeneye. It was on a completely different level to anything I'd ever played before. Bought an n64 instead. Wave race and 1080 still haven't been matched by anything. Those and GoldenEye are my 3 fav games.
If i had an eink display for writing code i would be so happy.
These were all books that were quite recently published and I have seen all of them in bookshops.

In the past, I have received n>1 books which were sold by marketplace sellers but fulfilled by Amazon. Same inscription "Printed by Amazon", but these clearly had things wrong with them, like font issues.
> I wish they didn't use the name "telemetry" for this; it's going to produce a lot of instinctive reactions from people that don't lend themselves to a productive conversation.
A sci-fi short story exploring themes of equality, written by me
Is there a link to a page that shows subscription pricing?
Doesn't Qubes require like 32GB of RAM just to run?

I would love to use it, but most of the use cases I would like to try it for are much more in the realm of SBCs with 2-8GB of RAM for running services locally.
It would be great to have that extra security, but the cost is really really high.
While you're technically correct that they aren't running vanilla PHP, the main takeaway here is that if you want to ultimately want to scale to billions of users then you should probably use vanilla PHP, or maybe Python.
If I unroll the 64-bit SWAR version by 8x instead of 4x, the runtime is reduced by another 10% over the 4x-unrolled SWAR version. Diminishing returns...
The most common sentence I keep hearing over the years is "I have nothing to hide". This is sad but that's the reality we live in. Whether people can trust the institutions, having an "official" backdoors to your devices makes it obviously easier to others individuals with actual bad intentions to exploit them.
It’s not just the tech industry and this article is spot on.

Every support call without exception I hear the excuse “due to higher than normal/expected call volume your wait time….”
Japanese Moonshot R&D Programs (Japan Science and Technology Agency)
The obvious long term goal for society is not to have any human drivers anymore. We won't get the full benefits until that point.
Nah, you did not answer the question.
I will never even consider using threads, because I will never use Instagram/Facebook. Even Twitter I only reluctantly had an account to follow specific individuals for information. I have a mastodon account but I don’t like it very much.

I will wait to try Bluesky. If it dies before I get the chance, then I won’t be using anything at all. Threads is not an option.
> Every person on the planet should have their own website

Hm.

> I’ve had my own website since I was 13. I will not tell you the domain name

So what's the point.
You’re right that Pokémon on consoles would have been great, but you’re conflating some stuff that easily explains why it didn’t happen. First is the idea that Pokémon is a Nintendo franchise. It’s convoluted, but let’s say Nintendo has a stake that allows them some control but they cannot control Game Freak, the developer of Pokémon, directly.

Second is Game Freak proper. They have always valued a small headcount. This has been a problem consistently. They never had the staff to make a console game. They always had the same difficulty with building new ideas. And when they were forced to move to consoles with the Switch, they released their worst games yet, absolutely dispiriting games that probably soured millions of kids on the franchise.
> Every person should have a unique, publicly visible identifier. Also nobody would lie on the internet.

Yeah, can't see how that could possibly go wrong or be misused or anything.
I wasn't particularly overweight before but I attribute about ~10lbs of weight loss this year to realizing that:

- When at a dinner with family or friends, I never _have_ to finish something. Most of the time the host will be happy to package my leftovers to take back home when asked. That last part makes it clear that I like and appreciate the food even through I didn't finish it in the moment.

- If I buy food at a restaurant, I don't have an obligation to finish it to get my moneys worth. And again, I can just save it for another meal if I want.

- I don't have to eat snacks just because the host put them on a table at a party.

For some reason our brains think that just because food is _there_ we need to eat it, but that's generally not true.
I've tried it and it sucked. Scrolling will require a full refresh and it takes too long.
Thank you. I think their product page is pushing cloud subscription too hard, they call subscription the same way they call display itself, and subscription is paid and cloud based. Product page says: "Place & Play devices work on a subscription basis. Select a plan here.", and "A license is needed for every device." while describing software suite.

I'm still confused about the way it presented, but documentation and suite itself look quite decent.
Replying to my own post: The off by 1 error was incorrect. It's because I was calling the function wrong. I had been giving it the size of the buffer, not the size of the string.

Also, someone else figured out that we can just use an and instruction instead of cmp. That gives us this version:

#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdint.h>

int run_switches(const char *s, const size_t n) {
int res = 0;
uint8_t tmp = 0;
for (int i = n & 127; i--; ++s)
tmp += 1 & *s;
res += tmp;

for (int i = n >> 7; i--;) {
tmp = 0;
for (int j = 128; j--; ++s)
tmp += 1 & *s;
res += tmp;
}

return 2 * res - n;
}

This is 111GB/s, up from 4.5GB/s in the blog. I'm going to try really hard to put this problem down now and work on something more productive.
Companies Are Drowning in Too Much AI
> with no restrictions, and task it to endlessly spew pro-carbon propaganda and anti-green FUD.

So what we have ongoing for half a century?

I honestly don’t see what changes here — super-human intelligence has limited benefits as it scales. Would you suddenly have more power in life, were you twice as smart? If so, we would have math professors as world leaders.

Life can’t be “won” by intelligence, that is only one factor, luck being a very significant other one. Also, if we want to predict the future with AIs we probably shouldn’t be looking at “one-on-one” interactions, as there is not much difference there compared to the status quo — a smart person with whatever motivation could easily do any of your mentioned scenarios. Hell, you couldn’t even tell the difference in theory if it happens through a text-only interface.

Also, it is naive to assume that many scientific breakthroughs are “blocked” by raw intelligence. Especially biology is massively data-limited, which won’t be any more available to an AI than to the researchers at hand, let alone that teenager.

The new dimension such a construct could open up is the complete loss of trust on the internet (which is again pretty close to where we stand today), which can have very profound effects indeed I’m not trying to diminish. But these sci-fi outcomes are just.. naive. It will be more of a newfound chaos with countless intelligent agents taking over the internet with different agendas - but their cumulative impact might very well move us back to closed forums/to the physical world. Which will definitely turn certain long-standing companies on its head. We will see, as this is basically already happening, we don’t need human-level intelligence, GPT’s output is more than enough.
Just use Truth Social. Problem solved.
I get a 403 page.
Also the fact that it can be anything that fits the aesthetics. I have been drawn to this E-ink concept for many year and other than waiting for a drop in price, I would love it to be available in color and use it to dynamically change between vintage movie poster, hell maybe even pull the one for the movie that I'm watching in my media server.
Social status chasing person that maintains a personal brand thinks that everyone else should be chasing social status and maintain a personal brand.

How about i sit in my garden instead, smoking a pipe, and not give a ** about whether others know and see me.
They don't seem to be arguing everyone should necessarily have a website known to be linked to them.

The argument seems to be "leave a record".

And secondarily, "for your descendants" (they write "ancestors", but that's obviously wrong).

You can do the second part without sharing with the world that it was yours. Ensure someone in your family knows, or leave notes in safe locations.

I guess we can infer a third assumption: that there's a reasonably high chance that archive.org will outlive your personal papers or data, making it potentially a valuable alternative to a journal on paper or your own systems. That part is an interesting discussion. I'd worry if everyone opted for relying on archive.org over their own copies, but at the same time, I know how vulnerable personal records can be.
Jony Ive's arc in life is like one of those movies that get too many sequels, so they keep getting more and more weird, with insanely big budgets.

The man started life designing toilets. Not special artsy toilets. Normal toilets. Then he was lost in an Apple basement, working on something that'd never see the light of day, until he and Jobs met, and it was a duo made in heaven. But without Jobs, all of Ive's worst tendencies are unchecked and he keeps making the most pretentious things I've seen and putting insane price tags on them.

Jobs said "Real artists ship." Which implies also making products for the people, not one-off art pieces that will sit in a museum and never even be used for their purpose.

I want to see more of 90s-00s Jony Ive.
That's a weak snipe against someone who's only enforcing posted guidelines, and in doing so gives us this great outlet to have discussion about topics like these.

dang != "The Man"
I want a social network with domains as useraccounts. A little CMS interface UX/Ui more like twitter. Self hosted or by a hosting provider. There is one Mainsite that aggregates and caches the posts via RSS. Does the moderation against RSS Feeds and combines all RSS Feeds to one timeline. Private Messaging goes over email and useraccount links are just links to your own domain.
For me, I quite often use sudo to run scripts that install or reconfigure something, and they obviously do need to execute other commands.
The thing is, I wouldn't be asking for support if I was able to find a fix for my issue in the first place. ChatBots are unable to fix the initial problem because the system used to fix said issue doesn't already exist in the account tools. Human intervention is required to fix the problem, so therefore chatbots are completely useless in this context.
I for one keep thinking: "Ah good, that that shit is not here yet." The longer it takes, the better. If they do not enter the EU at all, that would be perfect. But I probably am kidding myself, if I think, that they will never enter the EU. They will wriggle their way around the law somehow and if not, they will calculate and break the law, like they did many times before, in the name of profit.
Reminds me of the first episode of Devs ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8134186/ ) where an artificial intelligence engineer does a demo about syncing, and then predicting the future movements of a nematode worm.
Great show by the way!
A family member just paid $500 for someone to come replace a $35 capacitor on their central AC compressor, after I explained how they could do it themselves in 5 minutes.
There are many things I tell family which I will not tell random strangers on the internet.
IF you can I think it's absolutely imperative that you own your name in a domain. I was very lucky in that my father purchased the com/net/org for my name when I was still in elementary school. It has been very helpful to me.
nice try google AI trining employe
Cringe ass shit is in the eye of the beholder.
Ask HN: Mastodoners: is there anywhere \[reliably\] reporting on the schism?
So basically things seemed great there about two months ago, I was posting about my arduino shit and my garden shit and my animals, but in the last week I got in two useless arguments with people who were fresh from Twitter so I fled cause basically, I want the small federation that doesn't have, you know, "reach". I just want a reasonably-sized cast of familiar personas that tell tell the same kind of jokes and complain about the same things I do in a mutually-relatable way. I am 100% HOA material.

So basically I was on the main instance and I just saved my data and shut it down and I've been doing a few googles and stuff to try to get some optics into whether the federation I want to participate in is even going to exist, but I'm not learning much that is of any use.

One thing I have observed is that if you look at the "explore" on most instances right now it seems to be the same. Or maybe that's a glitch with how it caches stuff, I dunno.

There is so much we haven't figured out yet in this thing...
Cute, the former Ubuntu ZFS developer now works for Intel on QATlib, among other things I imagine.
Problem is that there are so many questions companies (and government) do not want to give answers to, or they want it split per market, or geographically, or only to citizens, or only to their own employees.

Online you find a lot of information you're just not going to find in chatbots.

This is why Google had such extreme value. Organizations, certainly governments, generally had search functionality, but it was purposefully sabotaged according to each organisation's capricious needs and therefore sucked. The problem is that the information available and searchable was definitely NOT accidentally sabotaged, they actively want to prevent people finding out.

Chatbots are going to suck like company search fields suck. Not because the technology behind them sucks, but because their purpose is to change what you want, not give you what you want. And when this fails, and fails, and fails some more it becomes and endless horror of frustration.

For example:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36624294

This is what companies want. They want to use frustration and sabotage as a way to get what they want. Chatbots will rarely be anything but a new weapon to do so.
Wasn't Bill Gates who patented something like this idea many years ago?
> 2500 bucks

Other commenter [1] mentioned that there's a subscription required. I found no pricing link, but saw a subscription on the parent page [2] listed at 60 per year. So if we're talking 10 years, then it's closer to 3000.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36629864

[2]: https://www.visionect.com/software/
Enhance is not the word I would choose. Having fuzzy, non-deterministic responses to unambiguous questions is more frustrating for the user. 'AI' LLMs, at this point, only excel as BS artists.
How Susceptible Are You to Misinformation? There’s a Test You Can Take
The actual proposal:

https://lwn.net/ml/fedora-devel/CAJqbrbeOZrHvYjvMCc=qGZD_VXB...

=== What data might we collect? ===

We are not proposing to collect any [...] particular metrics
just yet, because a process for Fedora community approval of
metrics to be collected does not yet exist. That said, in the
interests of maximum transparency, we wish to give you an idea
of what sorts of metrics we might propose to collect in the
future.

One of the main goals of metrics collection is to analyze
whether Red Hat is achieving its goal to make Fedora Workstation
the premier developer platform for cloud software development.
Accordingly, we want to know things like which IDEs are most
popular among our users, and which runtimes are used to create
containers using Toolbx.

Metrics can also be used to inform user interface design
decisions. For example, we want to collect the clickthrough
rate of the recommended software banners in GNOME Software to
assess which banners are actually useful to users. We also want
to know how frequently panels in gnome-control-center are
visited to determine which panels could be consolidated or
removed, because there are other settings we want to add, but
our usability research indicates that the current high quantity
of settings panels already makes it difficult for users
to find commonly-used settings.

Metrics can help us understand the hardware we should be
optimizing Fedora for. For example, our boot performance on hard
drives dropped drastically when systemd-readahead was removed.
Ubuntu has maintained its own readahead implementation, but
Fedora does not because we assume that not many users use Fedora
on hard drives. It would be nice to collect a metric that
indicates whether primary storage is a solid state drive or a
hard disk, so we can see actual hard drive usage instead of
guessing. We would also want to collect hardware information
that would be useful for collaboration with hardware vendors
(such as Lenovo), such as laptop model ID.

Other Fedora teams may have other metrics they wish to collect.
For example, Fedora localization wishes to count users of
particular locales to evaluate which locales are in poorer shape
relative to their usage.

This is only a small sample of what we might want to know; no
doubt other community members can think of many more interesting
data points to collect.

That last piece "no doubt other community members can think of many more interesting data points
to collect" sounds pretty bad for telemetry that's enabled by default, with people having to opt out of it. :(
Sorry. i will fixed it.
A good chatbot could probably address it just as well as a human going through the motions trying to achieve target.
Its unfortunate that there is no sensible approach on DNS to facilitate everyone getting their own name. Having everyone attempting to register unique 2nd level domain from handful of TLDs is not really scalable approach, good memorable identifiers are going to run out fast. Based on quick search, currently there are <400M registered domain names across all TLDs. Growing that to order of ~10B will have challenges.

What would be needed is either some kind of sensible hierarchy, or solve the problem like we did it with phones and just skip the name part completely and allocate a number to everyone instead. The discovery of everyones "internet number" could be delegated to social networking, both the old fashioned way (printed business cards) and more modern way ("facebook").

Interesting question is could we allocate IPv6 block to everyone and have it be somehow part of the solution. Maybe not directly, but it would be still something to ponder.
Is Shopify becoming more flexible than WooCommerce?
Just challenging the prevailing wisdom that WooCommerce is the most flexible ecommerce platform out there. Sure, you can dig deeper into the code with Woo, but it often leads to issues down the line. Moving parts, and whatnot.

But in terms of the marketplace, there are 60k+ WordPress plugins available on wordpress.org and of those ~1k contain the keyword Woo or are marked as being built for Woo.

By comparison, Shopify has 8k+ apps now, and counting.

Begs the question: is Shopify becoming more flexible than Woo?