skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would have expected them to at least be on archive.net's software area. Given that they are now cultural heritage we should do better to preserve them, especially the videos that could inspire the next generation of hackers.
This. Macron knows perfectly what he is doing, and why, and for what objective and for whom benefit.

The guy was dancing in an Elton John concert when the cities were burning.
JS is in a state where it is so flooded with frameworks that they have to compete heavily in marketing and hype generation. Unfortunately that incentivizes shady and misleading practices like this.
17 years old driving recklessly a sport car with foreign license plates, running away from the police. The situation strongly points he is linked to drug dealing, financial scam, car thievery, or all of them. What measures are expected in such situation, what was he expecting to happen?
I've been using an imported FP4 in Canada for a while now. It's an alright phone. The software is slow to update, and there are known bugs with the fingerprint reader that haven't been fixed yet.

What's annoying to me now is a glitch where the screen will randomly start tapping all over. I assume it's a hardware thing as it just started out of the blue.

I love the idea of FP4 and swapping the battery out this year for a fresh one was awesome. The big thing for me is that if they really want to fulfill the promise of a long-term phone that lives forever, they better get a handle on software quality.
Community Notes?
This comment takes quite a journey.

Evidence: the car had Polish license plates.

Conclusion: The 17 years old was likely linked to drug dealing and to financial scam, driving recklessly and running away from police.

It's like Sherlock Holmes deducing an entire life story from a missing shirt button. Unfortunately that isn't possible in real life and this chain of logic is absurd.
OK, let's take this in some more context:

> To the Labs computing community as a whole, the problem was the increasing obviousness of the failure of Multics to deliver promptly any sort of usable system, let alone the panacea envisioned earlier.

What was Multics? One core animating idea of Multics was the "Computer Utility" concept, or centralized mainframe-based computing as a utility as reliable and available as water and power:

https://multicians.org/fjcc1.html

> One of the overall design goals is to create a computing system which is capable of meeting almost all of the present and near-future requirements of a large computer utility. Such systems must run continuously and reliably 7 days a week, 24 hours a day in a way similar to telephone or power systems, and must be capable of meeting wide service demands: from multiple man-machine interaction to the sequential processing of absentee-user jobs; from the use of the system with dedicated languages and subsystems to the programming of the system itself; and from centralized bulk card, tape, and printer facilities to remotely located terminals. Such information processing and communication systems are believed to be essential for the future growth of computer use in business, in industry, in government and in scientific laboratories as well as stimulating applications which would be otherwise undone.

-- "Introduction and Overview of the Multics System", F. J. Corbató (MIT) and V. A. Vyssotsky (Bell Labs)

This was an ambitious project and it took some time to achieve. Work on Multics started in 1965 and Multics was first used for paying customers in October of 1969, six months after Bell Labs dropped out and work on Unix began.

https://multicians.org/chrono.html

So did Multics deliver "promptly"? Probably not, but four years for an ambitious project isn't so bad, and it took Unix six years (until 1975) to get to Sixth Edition, the first version of Research Unix used much outside of Bell Labs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Version_6_Unix

My point is that Multics is given short shrift by this history, which is understandable because it's about a completely different OS, but it's painted as a failure that was stalled in development for an inordinate amount of time. It wasn't a failure, as it was used commercially until 2000, and whether it was inordinately slow in coming is impossible to fairly judge because it was, in most respects, the first of its kind, in that it was the first "complete" OS with what we'd now consider the full complement of functionality.
Europe has similar bills with chat control. There was no serious expert that did not warn about the severe negative repercussions. Representatives still didn't seem to be interested and the EU isn't particular democratic so anyone could be held to account.

I think technology must provide ways to ensure free and secure communication without a possibility of surveillance. The political class cannot be entrusted to shield essential freedoms, so technology has to provide it. Large tech companies are a single point of failure and we already have seen political influence there. While much of it is now challenged at least, I think we can all be glad the the internet provided some resilience against surveillance and propaganda attempts.

In that regard the panic about disinformation is also mostly manufactured in my opinion and the voice of experts will be disregarded anyway.
This freedom you all tout as a counterargument is a lie.
You’re all repeating it as if it’s a commonly held piece of common sense, but have you stopped for one second if it actually makes sense?
What is the alternative this freedom enables, if you have a skillset for which you need to be employed to make a living?
For there to be a freedom, there would need to exist an alternative.
As Mark Fisher already brilliantly pointed out before that devoured him to the core, the alternative is not even thinkable.
The value in shipping a v0 is the learnings, not the revenue. It will probably cost apple more to bring this to market than they will make, even if you consider everything up until now a sunk cost.

But once you get a product in market, you start to understand things about the future of that market.
Some people have a hard time understanding the concept of efficiency.
open source simply means you can read the source. It doesn't have to be free.
I highly agree. The main web frameworks I use are Svelte and Sveltekit. No comparison charts to other projects, easy to use, simple, created by a seemingly normal guy with sane opinions out of need for something like it for himself.
It's not the end all be all, but works well for me.
The JS world is pretty weird though. It's not only JS frameworks popping up in rapid succession but also browser features and proposals developing quickly. And what's really weird is how some new features rely on JavaScript, such as the newer <dialog> HTML element.
Usually if you don't track the news you don't have opinions on the news. If somehow you develop an opinion it's pretty easy not to express it.
Just like 7 months ago, Twitter's network effect was constantly tested and many alternatives have tried to challenge it, but instead its users will still run back to using Twitter again, especially accounts with lots of followers.

This alleged 'exodus' will be no different.

Even if Twitter goes down, it's users would rather wait for it to get back up than to 'leave' Twitter for something worse. The same is also true with Instagram.

Centralized platforms are much stickier with user retention. Significantly smaller sized or federated networks? Not so much. Which is why you always see an initial spike but retention always drops sharply.
Another approach is to accept news as it is: entertainment.

The same way we're not looking at documentaries on Amazon frogs and arguing if watching them led to any improvements in our daily life, we shouldn't expect random news to be actionable or useful.

Sure there is local and national info that is beneficial, but those can be earned in way more efficient ways on other media (for instance offical accounts on Twitter were my go-to for my local council's announcements and govs policy updates, and they also posted it on their respective PR pages).

Actually I really wish we 100% stopped alluding as news and journalists as a primary source of information: press conferences and somewhat official interviews should always have a directly accessible feed of the whole thing, uncut, and distributed by the entity opening the event. Having to go through second hand reporting and selected tidbits to understand what was happening there is just nonsense.
This must be the reason dogs feel earthquakes minutes before humans do. A couple weeks back I read an article here (HN) regarding earthquakes being linked to MF changes and solar storms. This aligns to that finding as well. Interesting!
They senza email to people in their cms (if you have other contracts) or browsing your web site... sending to the wrong people of course especially if your web sito is not in English.

Received a mail for VirtualBox 10 days ago.
If gpt writes it and I don’t understand some parts I just paste it into a regex testing site and examine the groups and try it out with different snippets of text. Is that so hard? Is it any different from using something you found on SO?
These articles always miss the difference between “the news” as a concept and “the organizations providing the news.”

If you keep eating at bad restaurants, does that mean food in general is bad? No. It means you need to find better restaurants or cook at home.
You can use Graal Enterprise for free, since a few months ago.
That's immediately inaccurate in a way that distorts the whole article.

The author was trying to produce a single banana on a grey background.

The monkey was a later attempt at prompt engineering.

That AI summary is completely misleading.
Beating DeepMind’s Game: Alchemy
For some reason I found the font really hard to read. My brain has the impression that the text is vertically compressed, squished even. Just that no amount of resizing the window changed the strange effect. Is that only me?
Looks like a display error, right? Your query was 50+123/1000000, so the answer is correct. For some reason, the calculator is not displaying the "+".

Are you intentionally obfuscating this? If you enter it as you have displayed, (with spaces in the denominator), you don't even get the calculator:
https://www.google.com/search?q=50+123%2F1+000+000
is not the same as
https://www.google.com/search?q=50+123%2F1000000
The "rental" thing is a scam advertised to the Polish victim, on the French side it's likely organized crime all along.
Whatever idea of free speech that you have in your head, Twitter is not helping, as the site still regularly engages in "censorship" in every sense that the old ownership did.
None of these alleged offenses justify punishment without a trial. None of them justify death.
Might you know of any Press Releases they've issued in conjunction with this open letter, or similar media-friendly materials?

At least where I live, the middle-aged owner of a small-town ice cream parlor is 99% likely to know how to do an effective press release. The "news" can be a new ice cream flavor, with the colors of the local HS sports teams...but you carefully write that press release in such a way that any over-worked bottom-rung reporter can spend 30 seconds adjusting the pronouns & such, then publish it in their paper.
OK so (a) this is a very different event to what we typically think of as a tsunami.

And (b) holy crap that's terrifying.
I really like your comment. I plan on using it next time product asks me "how long will it take" when we haven't gotten anywhere close to deciding what "it" is.

We don't know where we're going, we don't know how we're getting there, I can't possibly tell you how long it'll take to get there.
One of my high school professors touched on this when talking about heatsink design and I thought I remembered it wrong, glad to see it come up here.
Question is really whether news has ever been good for you. I think it probably has — and you can basically recreate that environment by checking a major newspaper of your choice between once a day and once a week.

There’s a balance between being completely uninformed about what’s happening in the world vs. refreshing twitter every 30 seconds.
> If you design a system architecture today, you cannot build the cloud infrastructure, get it to a working state, and then make an immutable snapshot of how the system works, and restore it later if the system changes or becomes unstable

You can. Here's what you'd need:

- a snapshot of the code (eg: git commit SHA)

- a snapshot of the DB schema that correlates to the code (eg: database using linear migrations checked into the code)

- a snapshot of the DB state when upgrades or downgrades take place

- immutable (remove & replace) infrastructure checked into the same git SHA

This requires writing infrastructure, DB schema, and some features a certain way. The problem isn't a technical limitation, it's that you'd have to know a good amount in at least three different domains to set this up, much less run and operate this system. It raises the bar for knowledge well beyond treating each of these systems as isolated systems. That's why most teams don't do it. It's far easier and more realistic for most teams to say" let's fail forward".
“Bureaucrats” and “coordinating” are nice wiggle words because they make your description 100% uninterpretable. It’s convenient because if you put meaningful words there instead, it’d be obvious how weak the complaint is.

The case is about government officials requesting content moderation and about private companies utilizing their First Amendment rights, at times to deny with government requests and at times to comply with government requests.

The government’s right to request content moderation is extremely, extremely well-established in the US. Private companies’ right — in almost all cases — to decline those requests is well established. Companies’ right not to be harassed by excessive requests or coerced by threat (implicit or explicit) is also well established.

This case is just making the argument that if a government requests action or brings a platform’s attention to some content, if the platform agrees with their request, acting on that request or notice would violate First Amendment rights of the people who posted the content.
Are you suggesting that protests in e.g. Iraq against a book burning in Sweden are useful actions? That violent rioting in e.g. Marseille is a useful action against police misconduct in Paris? I don't see many links between awareness of the details of something that happens far away from me and the usefulness of my actions.
Sounds a lot like the tech programs when I grew up being MS exclusive with active efforts to undermine non-MS products....
I believe everything in Graal is now free to use, as of a month ago or so
If you think you’re gonna organize that many bits and not lose them for centuries at a time, you’re seriously underestimating the need for data replication and error correction algorithms, first of all.
> Neither the student interns nor OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush and its employees have commented regarding this report.
https://joelx.com
4,447 posts since I started it in 2006.
> The news will come and knock at your door

I would argue that for the vast amount of things that happen in the world, this is a good thing. Just about the right level of care and concern.
Very good points.
In fact the reality is the lack of alternative. But this is really what I don’t understand about thousand and thousand of talented people working for Meta, for example.
How? They clearly have no launch pad system that can survive the back-blast. Unless they just trash another launch pad risking another rocket to debris damage.
This article is from 2013 and I can say, 10 years after the article was originally launched situation got even worse...
Bayes.
Diving, electronics, photography, CAD, milling, welding, shooting and bbq.
> One of the main difficulties is that if it is cloudy outside the amount of heat the panels can reject or absorb is greatly diminished

The paint reflects radiation from the sun, but heat can get into the building by Conduction (air touching the paint) and Convection (air getting into the building) which stays more or less the same clouds or not. Is there another reason for the reduced efficiency when it's cloudy?
Not being murder.
If that's a question then no, the Romans did not use the word pagan to refer to Christians.

The early usage (according to the OED) was

[ad. L. pāgān-us, orig. ‘villager, rustic; civilian, non-militant’, opposed to mīlēs ‘soldier, one of the army’, in Christian L. (Tertullian, Augustine) ‘heathen’ as opposed to Christian or Jewish. The Christians called themselves mīlitēs ‘enrolled soldiers’ of Christ, members of his militant church, and applied to non-Christians the term applied by soldiers to all who were ‘not enrolled in the army’. Cf. Tertullian De Corona Militis xi, ‘Apud hunc [Christum] tam miles est paganus fidelis quam paganus est miles infidelis’. See also Gibbon xxi.

Cf. payen.

The explanation of L. pāgānus in the sense ‘non-Christian, heathen’, as arising out of that of ‘villager, rustic’, (supposedly indicating the fact that the ancient idolatry lingered on in the rural villages and hamlets after Christianity had been generally accepted in the towns and cities of the Roman Empire: see Trench Study of Words 102, and cf. Orosius i Præf. ‘Ex locorum agrestium compitis et pagis pagani vocantur’) has been shown to be chronologically and historically untenable, for this use of the word goes back to Tertullian c 202, when paganism was still the public and dominant religion, and even appears, according to Lanciani, in an epitaph of the 2nd cent.]

1. One of a nation or community which does not hold the true religion, or does not worship the true God; a heathen. (†In earlier use practically = non-Christian, and so including Muslims and, sometimes, Jews.)

2. fig. or allusively. A person of heathenish character or habits, or one who holds a position analogous to that of a heathen in relation to Christian society.

etc.
> It doesn't sound like it. It just harvests the charge off the water particles.

That’s what I thought as well, but they do talk about selection of materials to avoid wetting.
I know that. But it doesn't solve the problem of people needing to continue buying ipv4 to serve new customers.
> What measures are expected in such situation

Catch him and run a due process.
Right, but I didn't mean humans would be extinct necessarily, just that longevity tech would be mostly irrelevant to population counts. In a lot of those scenarios, the main causes of death are likely to be things like starvation, disease, or accidents, rather than old age.

Admittedly this isn't true of all possible scenarios. And in some, longevity would be really helpful.
So if I work hard to make a program really easy to debug, then I’m making it harder to debug?
First thing I did was search for Denthor in the comments. I'll always remember going online the first time in 1996 and stumbling on Denthor's tutorials, Fravia's site. Both of those were hugely influential for me. I never ended up getting involved in the demoscene, just played around but it was a lot of fun.
(I did however use fravia's tutorials to crack some game I didn't want to pay for, I remember spending a week figuring it out and maybe 30 minutes playing it once I cracked it :))
I dunno, why the general trending up over a longer time period?
Further, it's literally in support of "well, it's okay to kill him, he was probably a bad egg". Which...is certainly something you can believe, but it makes you pretty awful to do so.
Not sure if you are sarcastic... Gear ratios are needed by ICE because ICEs have a much smaller RPM range, and can't go down to 0 without stalling. There are some EVs that have gearboxes, the cost/benefit of that is still unclear.
> The situation strongly points he is linked to drug dealing, financial scam, car thievery

How does it point to that? And does that justify murder?
The biggest lie the political circus has managed to spread is that if the system is broken, it's because the voters should do more. It's never because of corruption, lobbyism, populism, billionaires funding political campaigns, corporations pushing their interests.

No, always blame the voter. But please don't complain too loudly, say the protest laws. And so we keep the farçe alive for another 4 years.

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The carbon tax would be a swell idea, but no politician will ever table it, because none of the major players that put money in their pocket want it.
The amount of corporations and government agencies that scrape/pull/share our public data is greater than just OpenAI and M$; so get them all involved as defendants. In the US, the absent of strong data protections is a result of that dependency being influenced by business interests and will not allow such lawsuits to have a leg to stand on.
http://live.julik.nl Been there for nearly 20 years, but haven't been posting much the last few years. Mostly because most of the things I find important are the "people ops" and teamwork-related, and this can escalate quickly
https://manypossibilities.net

I write about affordable access to internet with a focus on Africa. Some recent-ish posts I am proud of:

* A Game of Stones - https://manypossibilities.net/2023/01/a-game-of-stones/ - rethinking telecom regulation

* A Penny Black Broadband Strategy - https://manypossibilities.net/2021/03/a-penny-black-broadban... - democratising access to backhaul

* The 5G Fugazi - https://manypossibilities.net/2020/05/the-5g-fugazi/ - dismantling 5G hype

* Annual review of African telecom infrastructure development - https://manypossibilities.net/series/africa-telecom-infrastr...
Additionally, the news does not present fact-centered, honest information about your government.

It’s sensationalized, biased, partisan, and framed in an inflammatory manner to make you angry or ignite passion to make you vote a certain way.

It shapes people’s votes because, just like a politician’s own advertisement, that’s the goal.

Regardless of what your choice of news source is or your political party of choice, likely half of the outrageous issues being shouted by the news right now are irrelevant or blown out of proportion.

I’m also increasingly finding that the most important piece of any democracy, isn’t who you vote in, but your willingness to stand by your fellow citizens (including those who voted the other way) in holding the person that you voted in accountable for their results or lack thereof.

And that requires a certain amount of empathy, intellectual honesty, and willingness to reject confirmation bias, that the news, as it exists, simply will not give you.
Peace doesn't get you very far unless you have some other type of leverage to apply. My country is quite proud and eager to bring up one of its founding events in which a coordinated group of thugs dawned disguises and destroyed a few million in 2023 dollars worth of property (tea).

If you want changes you need to break some shit and bash a few redcoats. Same thing happened in the 60s, Congress passed civil rights legislation because shit was burning and was going to continue burning if they didn't.