skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if I agree with that.

> Describe the events up to WWII

For me that sounds like you would include WWII, just like if you counted up to 20.

> Describe the events leading up to WWII

Then I would agree, that would be "explain the set of events on which WWII depended" so that would include all prior events which are relevant to WWII, without including WWII itself, but also missing out any events not relevant to WWII, so not e.g. "OK so the ice age was before WWII, so let's start there".

(Native English speaker, from UK).
> I suspect that injecting cash and attempting to achieve an unnatural growth is probably not good for both the quality of the product and the long term stability of it.

The people getting rich with these methods don't care about quality or stability.
If it’s based on models, it’s only as good as the model
Nobody is saying everything needs to be serverless. I'm addressing the point that going the traditional route doesn't negate the work required to implement a custom error page and handle rewrites on error.
It is very strange that this PDF omits pages 2-4. The full list of prohibited activities, plus additional context, was given on the Reason article posted here in Tuesday:

https://reason.com/volokh/2023/07/04/july-4-injunction-bars-...
In fairness, corporations can still be fraudulent.
Even if the US had the will and inclination, it would take massive wars of conquest to impose that will on the rest of the world. Such wars would probably do more damage to the planet than they could ever hope to prevent. Forget using superpowers to solve this.
No we would not. El Nino makes things warmer overall, but it's never been this hot before, despite El Ninos always being a thing. Acting like this is all due to natural variability is delusional at this point.
I don't think I have ever heard of this, have any more details?
Good reminder that modern social networks being hivemind groupthink breeding grounds is hardly a new thing, and basically how all these message boards operate as people have always sought out like minded individuals for validation.
Yet Another Transformer Explainer: Pocket Edition
That’s for the person who is actively calling 911 though, not a random persons phone.
I hadn't seen the unstructured python library before. Seems handy to parse personal text, like the author is doing.
I wonder what % of milk or dairy in general is contaminated…
Does this mean the whole easter seaboard, should consider bottled water instead of tap?
If you miss revenue targets, you will have to lay off staff. Maybe it is too early yet for your company, but as you go to different funding rounds this will happen. A spreadsheet will decide if you retain me or lay me off.
> Agile, for example, suggests that decreasing the cost of change at the expense of certainty of cost will increase the total chances of delivery within cost and date

Yes, that's the promise. I've seen it tried as earnestly as possible over the past 20 or so years since the term became popular, but I've never seen it deliver on its promises either. I suspect that a lot of that is psychological - risk-averse management hears "on time and on budget" and consciously or unconsciously starts steering the development process back to a more predictable seeming waterfall style that negates the supposed benefits of "agile" development.

I assert, however, based on 30 years of observation, that no matter how carefully you follow an agile delivery framework, whatever that may be, actual delivery and cost will have no relationship whatsoever on your estimated cost and date.

But I also predict that you and I will continue to smile and nod when they insist that it must be finished by such and such date.
No, the argument is that if you slapped Bob, why are you always talking about Jim?
I believe it's somewhat unrelated to the rioting.

If you look at France it's not all of France rioting (through all of France was protesting).

Instead its a specific group of people defined by at what kind of place they live in: Banlieues. This is a form of ghetto which is historically mostly populated by people which grand parents had a migration background and which due to an economical shift had en-mass lost their jobs (the grand or grand grand parents).

This people grew up as French where told all the social norms and expectations of French society etc. At the same time they are often not treated as French have close very little chances to get any job at all. Just having a address at the border of a Banlieues is enough for you not even be considered for a job.

Over the last decades this has gotten so bad that by often police isn't really present in the Ghettos at all, and if only in larger groups. At the same time this distress is frequently abused by extremists, e.g. religious ones.

But that also means that most people in Banlieues probably do not care too much about this law as it is unlikely to ever affect them anyway. At the same time it's also true the other way around, the police cares too little about the Banlieues to abuse it to target the huge majority of people there. Similar if they move against people there they know very well that this people do not have good ways to properly legally defend themself.

But who will be targeted by this are e.g. environmental activists. For example France has in the past already (many times) declared some environmental activists as domestic terrorists and used anti-terrorist laws to spy on them in various ways.

I probably are wrong in some points at least somewhat, but I think it might be still worth to consider some of the arguments.
That doesn't seem to be true from a durability perspective:

https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000278242

Read the section on "slots". They keep two copies in New Jersey, and one in Seattle.

However, based on the post mortem, it sounds like they're not willing to invoke failover at the drop of a hat. They allude to needing complex routing to keep their old good-reputation IP addresses alive. That might have something to do with it. (They were "only" 3-5% down during the outage, which is bad for them, but not unusual by industry standards.)
The 4 games on this page were all made in Godot:

https://gareb3ar.itch.io/
Experts in J say something like, "If you think through the problem, you've solved the problem in J"

I definitely agree that "can outsiders, or even less experienced coders, understand it?" is orthogonal to "expressiveness." I went a little harder than I intended listing that as a drawback to expressiveness, although it's certainly a complementary feature: given two languages of equal expressiveness, the one that encapsulates that range in more comprehensible terms is "better" (there are many other factors to consider, hence the mitigation quotes).

I love the fact that in J:

mean =: +/%#

Meaning that you can express, from primitives, calculating the mean average with just four characters. And even with my very weak J, that's clear. But then I look at something I wrote over ten years ago:

candidates =:,/((_4]\4#"3 (_1 + 2 * #:i.2^9) (* &. |:)" 1 _ list) * (>rowSigns))

and I have zero clue how to interpret that. It's almost certainly not idiomatic J, so it's possible (likely) that it looks like garbage to a J expert as well. Certainly J's terseness doesn't lend itself to commentation. :-)
I'm totally the opposite. That sound is grating to me. But I'm sensitive to other sounds too, so it's not just LEGO.
Yes. It offers only OS code and the Linux kernel updates.
When the app basically amounts to a new tab for an existing dominant social network, I don’t think this is too interesting. It’s almost like reporting “30M people opened the Facebook Marketplace tab” or something. I signed in, took one look at a Mr Beast tweet on my homepage, wondered “why would I want to look at this?” and then closed the app. But I count as a signup!
China releases its first open-source computer operating system
> The only exception might be a mortgage of 25-33% of a house value, I'd put 75-66% in cash.

Can you explain your rationality for this? You're still allowing the bank to have senior ownership of your house except... for less money.

If you default, they keep your house, no matter what the debt-to-value is.

Like, I understand saying "I couldn't make my mortgage payments so the bank took the house, but I guess they did pay for 90% of it".

But this seems like all the insecurity of a mortgage for a lot less money?
You're contradicting yourself. Taking notes is a feature for many, but a product for people whose working style involves taking lots and lots of notes.

Call them "process cyclists" if you want, there is a bimodal distribution for how much people use notes apps, and the people near the high mode are prepared to pay monthly for something good, and tend to be extremely loyal.
This is one of those games where I have to wonder why I never knew about it at the time. It looks like the sort of thing I'd just have lost weeks at a time to.
tl;dr: Anecdotally, the attention span of the person is now three seconds. If you can't grab that three seconds; next.

> Operating a forum is a lot of thankless maintenance.

If you are to run any sort of site, you just kind of got to expect it. Who here thanks HN for their service?

Their favorite IRC server SysOP, Discord server owner?

Forum's were slow on delivering content.

The world is now driven by media and that was a PITA to host. If the webmaster didn't allow image uploads and even when so, you couldn't normally link elsewhere; were forced to register an account. Wait for a verification email, wait for an administrator to approve your account and then gain 10 posts. Text is time consuming to read and too write, like this comment.

They were more a leisure activity rather than what the internet has become now. Adaptability never happened and with the failure of evolving with real-time with the next generation who were starting out with internet enabled phones and gadgets caused their downfall.

They may of suited the generation, however they were not a fit for the upcoming younger generations. And if you can't
target and gain their attention; expect to go extinct.

Code bases were too lumpy and such a mess; to make any modifications, to adapt it to anything else took a fair chunk of time and skill.

Proboards, Zetaboards, Invasion tried. Services where you could spawn an instantaneous forum for you and communities. It had momentum and than fell apart as did the death of AngelFire, GeoCities.

My two-cents.
India on the whole currently has a Monsoon rain deficit of ~20%. This is expected in El Niño years.
As a backup option. Not their entire service. I tend to think heavily encrypted files could be safe there.
In the US the only function of two party consent laws is to allow people to lie about what they said. Even in two party consent states you can still report what someone said to you. And they can lie and say no I never said that. Without recordings it's just one person's word against the other's.
I opened the article after I read you comment, and agree - something about that style is off-putting.
Plenty of people say that, unfortunately.
we're just two bootstrapped cofounders and my cofounder has been doing a lot of user interviews to understand our potential customers' needs and improve our product [1]

we soon realized these interviews had a lot of gold nuggets which we had to share with the world, so we started publishing these on youtube [2]

since then it's naturally evolved into a podcast series and we think this initiative actually made a big difference for us. ymmv

[1]: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7077280...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/@algora-io
Weapons firms, donors tied to industry-friendly Atlantic Council report
An ancestral mount Shasta in California collapsed sending a debris flow 28 miles covering something like 675sq km
I'm calling bullshit.

Hasn't answered yet.
Do you know the guy? You're not even the GP and this is a crazily hostile thing to just speculate about?
Hey, I'm not the one who coined "Pax Britanica." People can read for themselves why this period of history is called that, and why it compares favorably to Pax Americana and Pax Romana as opposed to the rest of history on the continent, instead of relying on what you or I say. :)
Binary thinking is when you refuse to complain about other people doing the same thing that you are currently doing.
> It's already common to see criminals and dissidents get busted because they think that turning a phone off stops it from reporting location data.

That’s an incredible claim to make with no source. It seems unreasonable to suspect Apple and google would allow some chips they don’t access to battery even when powered off.
I set up Obsidian+Syncthing on my desktop+mobile devices a couple years ago and have had zero technical issues, while Obsidian has significantly improved their product since, IME. It just works AND I own my data.

It's a real gem among mountains of SaaS/VC nonsense.
I'm not addicted to twitter at all, my last tweet was a decade ago, but yeah a lot of people link interesting stuff there, doesn't mean I'm addicted to it
Threads: 30M join Meta's Twitter rival, Zuckerberg says
I wonder if the microwave tip works.
Probably the most important part:

"Scrolling through social media does not count as rest—you need to take a break from devices."

I think most people understand breaks are important, but that break is spent on the news/Instagram/reddit/Hacker news
Short story about Lotus Notes: Back in high school, a friend of mine started writing "code" for Lotus Notes; can't remember what the "code" was called, though - templates, plugins, something like that. Anyway, he started selling his stuff; first to accountants and small businesses (his dad was an accountant), then he started selling to local banks (in Modesto). His dad used to do all the sales, and my friend would go along to meetings and just sit there. Then, he sold the "code" through magazine ads. Finally, he somehow got connected to corporations in San Francisco and started making a ton of money (for a high school kid). Last I heard, just after we all graduated high school, he moved to San Francisco to start a full-time company. I have no idea what happened after that. Steve, I hope you did well. ... His situation taught me two things: (1) you could use computers for more than games. And (2) a "little guy" could start a company and actually make money with software.
https://www.oxygen.com/crime-news/cell-phone-data-from-lori-...
Good point, most people however don't expect their phone calls to be private for this very reason.

> does the French government have a bad track record of abusing the capability of eavesdropping any phone communication?

I'd rather look into possible future scenarios, I don't know about past cases, but I don't really follow french politics. I know discussing politics is HN is not encouraged, so I'd just rather suggest to look up what's coming for France (and EU) if the current government fails and major powers switch. Sorry if you already know this.

> has this capability been useful for law enforcement?

In Hungary, Pegasus was used to eavesdrop on many citizens who were simply in an opposing position. Law enforcement is a good cover for data collection and of course can be effective, but we need transparency and safety to see if these tools are abused or not. There are no good answers I'm afraid.
> the freshwater plume of the Amazon River extends more than 60km into the ocean.

It really doesn't, or perhaps only in the most pedantic sense.

That "ocean" is still the mouth of the Amazon itself, and most of it's less than 10 meters deep. It's really the estuary of the river itself. See:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2017.0002...
If netgear has you worried, search for "white box switches". Most big iron runs off those these days.
You could use it in coordination with Litestream as a failover or read replica. It would be a lot slower, but maybe that would be an OK tradeoff for certain use cases.
non-geoblocked content, for people in EU: https://archive.is/TAIyP
Probably not - according to the city of Chicago - which is one of the giant circles - the levels in the drinking water are safe: https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/7/30/22589222/forever-chem...
Biden Administration Weighs Further Curbs on Sales of A.I. Chips to China
It’s true that there are a couple different models of a social networking application - Facebook, Twitter, Wechat, and Telegram all of meaningfully distinctions. But basically, there’s a lot more similarity than difference, and probably no good reason for more than a handful of these things to exist. The idea of a custom network for your community is silly - your community probably doesn’t have any unique needs.
FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool (2006)
Okay but your comment is just your opinion with very little or zero basis in reality.
Renting is also a better deal for a lot of people (no building maintenance, no special assessments, flexibility to move around more, etc). The idea that home ownership is a good investment is a crapshoot at best and a myth at worst. It works out well for some people, but they may have done even better renting and investing in equities. I say this as a homeowner who (perhaps irrationally) likes the idea of owning a home.
If the salary can't compete then could it be possible to waive the Bachelor's degree requirement in lieu of experience?
As long as you turn the microwave on, yes that will be effective.
There was 100%, clear, and explicit threat of legal action:

https://twitter.com/AGAndrewBailey/status/167664657087005491...

You should read the order before you comment on something like this.
> yet again shows that C should just die as a language

It's a logic error. Nothing to do with the language.

"now that the vma layout uses the maple tree code, we *really* don't just change vm_start and vm_end any more, and the locking really is broken" - https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
> why not skip that and use libraries that implement the functionality you do need.

I was just asking specifically about the ORM part. The subject of "use an opinionated framework vs. tie specialized libraries together" is a complete different debate.

But about this matter: I quite like to assemble libraries when I'm solo on a personal project. But that's definitely not something I want in a team. That's pretty much why we go with Django and not Flask or any of the "lightweight", "micro" framework things that are everywhere. "Just bring whatever ORM you want", "Use whatever template engine you like", etc. But that's a lot of decision making and integration with no added value for us. The fact that Go has such a comprehensive standard library is a good thing, but probably not enough because, like you wrote:

> you'd need to add quite a bit of scaffolding

(Which obviously contradicts the idea that Django brings just a glorified POST form app to the table)

As to why I'm interested in Go: faster execution, less memory, easier deployment... but as a small shop, team productivity still comes first.
Flatfab – a tool to design models for 2d cutting
I think "Either" is what makes an OR a XOR. "You can go with either red or green"
Threads is blocked in the EU?
Oh good. Yet another one of these posts.
Any article that features art in the style of that header image? Why exactly? That seems like an unnecessarily uncompromising attitude, no? I get that we all have our own heuristics and signals we rely on, but maybe the author here just didn't think through what image to use very deeply at all and just threw something on there last second before clicking to publish? Dismissing the entire post out of hand just based on that seems a bit rash.
Depending on what you value in Evernote, Notion may not be the best replacement.
That's great. I've seen closed loop cargo cultists in action and it's not pretty.
Pleased to hear of your efforts. Can you help me understand the contrast between your product and Synopsys Virtualizer [1], mbeddr [2], Dymola [3], or dSPACE VEOS [4]?

[1]: https://www.synopsys.com/verification/virtual-prototyping/vi...

[2]: http://mbeddr.com/

[3]: https://www.3ds.com/products-services/catia/products/dymola/...

[4]: https://www.dspace.com/en/inc/home/products/sw/simulation_so...
It's high time for a big awareness campaign for things like this: cleaning up our water should be an immediately funded government project. Needs a interactive map with historical data, sort of like https://app.electricitymaps.com/map does for historic grid energy cleanliness.

Surely, clean water—something we all need—should be an apolitical bipartisan issue, right? ...right?
Exactly. These things are literally designed to be spying devices with little or no user access. That was the goal.
Is this meant to be a directory of people who are looking for work? If so, that's fine, I guess. If not, be aware that it feels like one.

If I made one of these for myself, it would be completely out of date in a year. It's almost like setups, gear, software, and configs are ephemeral and don't describe a person very well.
> Acting like this is all due to natural variability is delusional at this point.

You do realise that the headline corresponds to a computer model, right? There hasn't actually been a record high measurement.
The Gnome 3 adversity is ancient history at this point and in my opinion very much a fabricated feud to drive up news article engagement. Publishing an article with a few open bugs or a disagreeing opinion doesn't say much about the quality of the software in general.
I find the latest versions of Fedora with Gnome very usable, also in comparison with Windows/macOS. I don't have a need for very specific customisations and I think the Gnome people know it's but a tiny percentage of their users that use the very exotic features.
Here in New England I can pick up one in an hour from Best Buy.
The source for the article is the Climate Change Institute at University of Maine [0].

The Institute's Climate Reanalyzer also has some visual data of historical daily sea surface temps that is referenced quite a bit these days.

Data only stretches back to the late 70s/early 80s, but many of the hottest trending years are within the last decade.

[0] https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/

[1] https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/
Nobody is ignoring injustice, they’re just arguing that future solutions should not be anti-white. Or are you implying the only solution to supporting black people is to treat them differently based on the color of their skin?
A tiny piece can be integral. But I would disagree with the idea that it's the central thesis. The rest can operate without it just fine. I would even go as far as to quote you on your interpretation about the article being stop dreaming of a universal network: "Incredibly reductionist interpretation of the article."
I really want the old pre-musk, before blue checkmarks, Twitter back so I've been trying to give it a real go. Something's gotta fill that void I have now. It can't be Twitter, it is so terrible now. Bluesky and Mastadon just haven't done it for me either.
I have noticed lately that weather apps _predict_ your current weather. We no longer care about weather it's raining as a fact, it's just predicting rain or not. I've had days where it was raining, thunderstorm in fact, and google told me it was Sunny.
This article is about France tho.
Dreamcast famously had great games but nobody bought it. Most people think N64 had better games than PS1, but it was outsold 3 to 1.
Shocked no one has suggested the XNOR life yet. What could be more expressive of the hell-yes-or-no mentality?
The way I've seen it defined is:

If your wealth derives primarily from your labor, you are in the working class.

If your wealth derives primarily from your wealth, you are in the ownership class.

Do you have an alternative definition?
yes, they have to address EU compliance requirements before they can release it there
The ATM machine is blinking "feed me a stray cat" none of this makes sense.

You are not crazy. Comments like this are a lifeline to sanity thank you.