skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect that it's not that they really believe Kim has never pooped, but that doesn't mean that North Koreans don't tell each other these stories. I think it might be closer to "Chuck Norris Facts" that we tell ourselves. Obviously nobody believes any of those things about Chuck Norris, but we continue to do so, and in so doing confer to Norris some degree of reverence.

Or maybe even more mundanely, it's like Santa Claus. Adults don't believe that he lives at the north pole with flying reindeer. But we continue to teach children that he does - not because it's literally true, but because we seem to feel that having children believe this somehow makes our culture better.

I imagine that similarly, Kim is getting this reverence - but since it's channeled into a framework of him being their supreme leader, it reinforces his hold on the nation.
"Hallucinations" seems to be the modern term.

/s, but only slightly.
My last employer was/is very much this, with the VP layer imported from Google. They don't even know the area the (tech) company operates in, but in meetings it's a drinking game to count their (almost always inappropriate) mentions of the Ol' Goog.
Funny enough, I just posted on Mastodon looking for recommendations of other browsers to try.

While I love the flexibility and openness that Firefox brings, there is a resource issue for me on my macbook pro. I have to spend a lot of time in Google Meets for work, and video conferencing via Firefox seems to redline the computer... It sounds like a jet engine and I wind up thermal throttling to the point that my machine becomes completely unresponsive.

I'd love to stay with Firefox - especially for the cross-device tab sharing and search - but the need for something stable is superseding my want to use a non-Google browser.
Re: [Git Pull] Bcachefs
China's time zone is interesting, mostly a reflection of the fact that like 80% of the population lives in a north-south strip along the coast, largely within one "natural" time zone. The further you are from the east coast, the weirder it is. It may be 7 am in both Beijing and Urumqi, but everyone in Urumqi is still asleep because the sun won't be up for a couple more hours.
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If you're reading this, please upgrade your `lemmy-ui` instance to `0.18.2-rc.1` to patch the emoji injection vulnerability.
We can leave the Solar System, but arriving anywhere is not happening soon
Typescript is one of the few additional layers of complexity that I truly feel is usually worth it. The exceptions being: a) if you have a complete or near-complete system that functions as intended with no major changes planned for the foreseeable future. And b) the system you’re writing is small, fairly self-contained, and the team isn’t already familiar with Typescript.

In any other situation I firmly believe the benefits Typescript brings very quickly outweigh the small amount of added complexity.
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Red Hat 5.0 (Hurricane) was my first-ever open source operating system. If you'd told me, 25 years ago, that one day Red Hat would withhold source from the Linux community, and that Oracle would be the champion of contributing back, I never would have believed you.

This feels a little bit like when Ahmadinejad called out Putin for being a tyrannical narcissist.
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bgb/__310.html

>(1) § 305 Absatz 2 und 3, § 308 Nummer 1, 2 bis 9 und § 309 finden keine Anwendung auf Allgemeine Geschäftsbedingungen, die gegenüber einem Unternehmer, einer juristischen Person des öffentlichen Rechts oder einem öffentlich-rechtlichen Sondervermögen verwendet werden.

§ 308 and § 309 are "catalogues" of various conditions that nullify an AGB clause. Also, contract clauses in individual contracts can still be considered as part of the AGB even if the company gives you a separate AGB document.
science implies a rigor which does not exist in those studies. Quite a few cities, NGOs, non-profits and other organizations make decisions on quick and dirty studies by university students involving 30 or 40 subjects because the results "feel good". The evening news will also trumpet these studies "A new study out of the University of X reveals that..." Politicians, "Well, there is a new study from the University of X that says if we..."
Im aware of that, but was rather thinking about ECCs like hamming-code, that are able to correct single sequences of info based on surplus info in that same string.
That’s been my theory for a long time now.

They don’t care what devs do as long as nobody else can hire them
at the core seems ill described because black holes are regions of space not objects. even with that, assigning an entropy to some system doesn't make it alive.

living things consume energy to replicate. black holes dont do that.
This thread feels almost like a fever dream.

"Hey, I have some doubts that the DPRK isn't Satan incarnate."

"You do realize that's the same as not believing in gravity right!?"

Alright, let me setup a experiment in my room to divine their mathematical _evil_ constant.
Not really. Uber etc decide the price, not the driver, or the restaurant or food buyer for that matter.

It is not a marketplace from the drivers perspective.
I think grumpy old man knows about the drawbacks with VMs, but grumpy old man also knows that for his particular service k8s has drawbacks. Grumpy old man is thinking that if his particular service goes down, some users just tell him it's not working and it's not a huge problem like people are losing $10 million per hour because of it. And in the event that happens sometime in the next 23 months (if it happens at all) he'll just do that little manual process for a couple more VMs, and that's all the time he'll spend on it. Contrast that with the time it would take to get it ready for k8s and keep someone around who understands k8s well enough to take care of it, even though their need for it might be so low.
I was about to say. Never before have I agreeed with Oracle.
Cue "tasteless porn in bitcoin blockchain forever".
A Cybersecurity Wish List Ahead of NATO Summit
Excellent choice of term.

I've been a full-stack web developer for over a decade across multiple companies and this is the first time I've seen the phrase "discriminated unions".

And the wikipedia article is horrendous. It starts with the following sentence and gets worse from there.

> In computer science, a tagged union, also called a variant, variant record, choice type, discriminated union, disjoint union, sum type or coproduct, is a data structure used to hold a value that could take on several different, but fixed, types.

It uses lots and lots of words to explain something that's very simple. If you don't already know what it is, you can't figure out which words are important.

Then after all of the theory, it dives into a binary tree example which has to be the worst possible way to explain it. If you haven't implemented a binary tree before, you don't know any idea what you're looking at. It didn't help that I implemented a linked list in college.

Also, the choice of language ensures you have no idea what the types are. I completely missed the first example was self-referential.

It's like parody of a function programmer writing an explanation for anyone who isn't a functional programmer.
Oh I’m sorry. Honestly. I do want to have a conversation. Is it possible you might have misinterpreted my “tone”? I was just trying to be encouraging and break the downward spiral of ad-hominem snark here, to get back to having a discussion about the issue rather than complaining about style. There is a valid argument to be made, and you’re failing to make it. It’s abundantly clear now that you are either unable or unwilling to respond to any of my argument at all (you have completely ignored every single direct point and question about what science is, what the definition of science is, and what social science is, and so far you’ve refused to even define the terms you’re making claims about - this isn’t helping your case). You did give me 3 opinion rants, but you haven’t provided any particularly relevant or compelling evidence of your claim that social science is not a science. And the fact of the matter is that social science is currently categorized as a branch of science, regardless of your opinion. I’m curious what your expertise is, and I’m curious where you got this opinion and why you keep it in the face of contrary evidence like the dictionary. I would have loved to come to a conclusion that recognizes there’s actually some nuance here, because there is, but I’m happy to call it here if you want since I have evidence that you don’t actually seem to want to discuss the issue you brought up.
OS/2 for '286 came out in 1987. Then it took them 5 more years to get the '386 version out the door.

Vs. tiny SCO was able to get the '386 version of their (Unix-based) Xenix OS out the door in 1987.
would a fork be so bad? maybe I'm off but I feel like most people have no real need for GILless and would leave it off if they were even aware it existed. Those who would need it the most are the most equipped to handle the cost of adoption.
You're the one talking about the job/boss, not me. You can be productive at things at home too!
You don’t think the EU has a self-interest in trading with the biggest economy in the world?

Do you think that I, as a European, want to be cut off from using ChatGPT or Google Docs?
At Japan’s first winery, the country’s oldest grape lives on
True, iff the error persists correction cycles which are present, how exactly they work / if theyre comparable with eccs I dont know.
You don't strike me as a very serious participant in this conversation. "Wayland is not improving"? Spare me. If you have anything serious to say on that topic, you'll have to describe what differentiates a well-engineered solution and a crutch in your mind, and then explain why things like the proposed color management protocol or whatever else falls in the "crutch" category.

I'm happy for you that you get a tear-free X11 desktop. A quick Google search should make it obvious that I'm not the only person who experiences tearing with X though.

I don't know the details of your system, but the screen locker issue seems to definitely affect xfce4-screensaver; this issue is still open: https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-screensaver/-/issues/75. And just for fun, here's the same bug for Ubuntu (just for a different screen locker): https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screensaver/..., still open. Maybe try to follow the reproduction steps listed in those two issues and see if you're affected or if your system is magically immune. Maybe inform those projects that the issue is fixed?

Finally:

> The only thing that works in all use-cases is Xorg.

Xorg doesn't work for my use case. I have multiple monitors of different refresh rates and different DPI settings and I demand a tear-free desktop, Wayland is the only option which works for that use case.
PoC Exploit Published for Recent Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Vulnerability
Btw if you also use DuckDuckGo, you can start your search with "!hn" and "!r" bangs: https://duckduckgo.com/bangs
Yeah, right, I agree with ... err... Oracle. No, wait, something's wrong...
> You are stigmatising helping poor people.

I suspect there is a wide variety of opinions on if increased police presence is "helping".
First U.S. ban on sale of cellphone location data might be coming
The thing with writing code, is that often time, engineers are moving away from working with other engineers.

The more scope you get at your work, the more you work with non coding people: an architect that might not code in your language, a PM who might not code at all, a team lead who is not a programmer, a potential client.
Logical fallacy is appeal to authority
The article did an ok job of explaining the firecracker limitations they ran into but it was extremely skimpy when it came to qemu and just rushed to the conclusion “we did a lot of work so try our product.”
Left on Identity politics, right on economics.

In USA it's all neoliberalism. There is really no Left.
Oh yes, Eastern and Central Europe had famous colonies....
Actual interviews of people being told about this fraud:

"Oh no! Anyways."

When most people are stuck in a rat race to get rich and "become successful", there's not much energy or reason to care about some drama, unless it's entertaining or political, perhaps. If my employer follows the newest workplace fads based on some studies, I might care. Otherwise, why should I spend mental energy (at the very least) trying to get the messes of scientific research cleaned up?
Hah, just linked to the Minneapolis counterpart study above. Yes, this is an elegant natural data experiment, thanks for sharing this version that touches a larger dataset.
>Do the demographic changes also explain plummeting sperm count?

About that... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34830936

tl;dr the data does show a vague decline, but it's also very noisy so it's hard to know whether it's really happening. Also, it's not clear that "plummeting" sperm count would lead to "plummeting" fertility. A 50% drop in sperm count doesn't equate to a 50% drop in fertility, as long as there's "enough" sperm. So far even with the drop it looks like there's "enough".

> Of course it can possibly, and almost certainly is at least in part, caused by demographic changes.

From the GP:

>With all the inconclusive studies it compels me to believe that even if it's harmful, it's no so harmful.

The claim that isn't that there's zero harm from PFAS, it's that the harm is negligible. However, the article you linked seems to suggest that PFAS is single handledly cutting the world fertility rate by half.
Sure, it could be a slippery slope, but the problem is that no one can strictly define what “criminal-looking” means. That term is often used synonymously with “urban style,” which means “black people, and others who dress like black people.”

If stop and frisk were started in the rural south and had this loose “criminal-looking” definition applied to it, all those MFers would get stopped every day for being skinny, having shitty teeth, etc.

The point being that criminals look exactly like normal, non-criminal people.
Police are also demonstrably co-creators of crime.

We know very well that police injure and kill people—disproportionately people of color—at a much higher rate than the general population.

We also know that they (technically legally, but c'mon, it's theft) steal large amounts of money and other property from people through civil asset forfeiture.
You should study some philosophy of science. This stuff isn’t made up. Either you believe inductive reasoning works or you don’t. Philosophically it’s no more likely that the sun will rise tomorrow than it is that the trend of LLMs improving with parameter size continues. We are just prideful humans and tend to believe we are really sure about things.
> Would America tolerate cops randomly pulling over cars that looked "criminal"?

Sadly, it already does. The pretext stop is a core element of highway patrol, and policing in general.
Commoditize your... what was it? https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
https://archive.is/nKH8O
On a side note - has anyone applied to Canonical for a software job? Their first step is a written interview which requires as much, if not more, effort as a graduate college application.
Yeah, I figured. Are there any good options with 7940HS?
I have to agree. It suggested 13 exercises for me, most of which I've never heard of and have no desire to learn.

I'll stick with squat/deadlift/weighted pullups every day - no need to complicate shit.
Pretty straightforward for disk blocks. Many VM disks are already de-duped, either through snapshopping or through copy on write host filesystems.

The host block cache will end up deduplicating it automatically because all the 'copies' lead back to the same block on disk.
You can write ublock rules to block domains from search engine results. Several public lists already exist for this purpose. The pattern is simple should you want to add your own.
Just make the text uncopiable and the input box unpasteable.
Attacking Microcontroller Readout Protections with Fault Attacks – Emproof
Absolutely, no shortage of things atop. Helm is probably the most well used composition tool.

It seems unideal to me to forever bunt on this topic, leaving it out of core forever. Especially when we are slowly adding im very specialized composition orchestration tools in core.
If you already know so much about your application(s), are you sure you need virtualization?
> Is this odd?

It's odd to me that you want to do all that on a screen and keyboard smaller than a laptop screen and keyboard!
No -- from the paper: "we report racial and socioeconomic disparities without attempting to control for other covariates."
[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3593013.3594020
If the EU wants to be able to not have to rely on US data they need to have a substantially more business friendly environment for nascent EU startups and heavily subsidize them. Right now the European software market is tiny and almost entirely legacy software.
Not sure I agree. At a point in my youth I ran 3000 miles in a year based on motivation (college competition, I was really motivated to keep the number one spot in the leaderboard).
The only way to do this is to admit fewer PhD students, which probably should happen. There's only so many professorships, and some will always be more coveted than others, leading to those stakes.
> old hardware is typically much easier to understand.

The old hardware is also more trustworthy -- perhaps as a corollary to said easier comprehensibility, or simply thanks to unwitting limitations-as-a-feature. There weren't computers all the way down, each with its own bugs, security issues, modes of surveillance/exfiltration, and ability to poke memory with impunity.
It's only left in the sense of left of the New York Post or the Republican Party.

In short, NYT is only "left of" hard right wing.
If you're trading it in then it's going to see more life, refurbished.
> The agreement ends years of legal limbo and revives free transatlantic digital exchanges.

I will believe this when it is challenged in court and it stands. As the article noted, this has been tried before.
It's legal (under US law), but it's still a hostile act. It shouldn't be a surprise that it harms trade and international relations.

To use an extreme example to drive the point home, going to war with someone is (or can be made) legal too...
It's always a good sign when an exec comes in and lists things that are working well at the moment.
https://archive.ph/CNbav
yeah I was reading so I could find out what they did.

I understand that they need to sell their product but jeez. don't leave us hanging like that
I was quoted around 22k, which is on the high side, you can get whole home ro units starting around $2-3k mark, but storage tank + install puts you around 5k minimum, some higher efficiency units can’t also be had for around $10k.

I am willing to spend so much because of the high efficiency, live TDS monitoring and the $20 per month full maintenance plan.

Some of the higher end systems require a lot of fiddling and knowledge to run properly, and most plumbers where I live know next to nothing about whole home RO, so having the maintenance plan which covers, parts, labor and replacement filters is priceless in my book.
My point is the highlight that harm, concentration, risk, and damage or not binary but magnitudes. One molecule for glass is negligible and a Pure Glass would be suicide.
Every time I read something like this I think that there has to be a tipping point were a well-written (i.e. compiled, not interpreted) solution running on a beefy server has to more cost efficient than running the same thing spread over several containers.

Definitely not an expert, but I get the impression that this point is a lot higher that most people assume it is.
TearFree has been working with the amdgpu DDX for ages btw. Zero tearing and with FreeSync the latency hit is negligible.
I mean stuff like bugs with boot screen leaking data not being fixed with X and so on.
I agree. This should be an indication to all current users that they should no longer trust InfluxData with their business.

The CTO seems to have been checked out for a long time (just look at how little developer engagement there is on here) and the CEO seems to have no idea how to run a DBaaS. The fact that nobody else from the company has stepped in to try and defuse this should terrify anyone who has data on InfluxData's cloud.

This is the beginning of the end. It seems like all of the good people have left the company, and being willing to destroy credibility to cut costs is a clear sign that the company is running on fumes.

So, now is the time - find your alternative, whether it's Timescale, QuestDB, VictoriaMetrics, ClickHouse, or just self-hosting.
I never thought of that! I’ve had this problem a lot, and this is a perfect use case for generative fill.
The problem is really that if you want to be free and open source software then you can't have an anti AWS or anti big cloud clause.

And that's what the issue with SSPL and others was. If they had said "open source didn't work for us, we try something different", I think they wouldn't have gotten all the flak. But they tried hard to obfuscate that and be like "we're kinda-sorta-open-source (not really, but we want you to believe it)".
Come on, this is clickbait.

Want to discuss particular failings in the governance models of Ubuntu or Fedora? Fine. Let's talk about it. We can even discuss if that specific feature of the governance model is similar to an action Microsoft is/has taken.

Vague statements about two different governance models "turning into" a monopoly OS? There's no cogent baseline here to talk about. It's just clickbait and belly aching.
I’m not pretending anything is a black box. The sun is going to run out of fuel. We have no idea when that will happen. There is a philosophical treatment for what I’m arguing, we just like to ignore it and let our egos convince us we’re a lot more certain about the world than we are.
Agreed. I'd also emphasize that "center" is not synonymous with "neutral." Which is fine, politics cannot be neutral, but sometimes I see people clinging to the idea of the center as something virtuous or good in and of itself. The center is relative because it sits between whatever the left and right is, and those two points vary. Like to your point, I would say the politics of the USA has shifted to the right over the last several decades.
Note that you can use RSS too - just append `/rss` to the url…
Sounds to me like they aren't paying enough for talent if they can afford to leave it unused. Very similar to landlords being able to afford leaving a property empty rather than lowering the rent.
I decided not to because of the essay and not really wanting to fill it out
Sorry, who is saying those two are the same?
And to most Europeans, liberals are center-right. Center-left is socdem and part of the green (the bicycle part), then you have socialists/radical greens (both part of the 'radical left' but still like or at least tolerate representative democracy, they mostly want technical solutions for 'better vote'), then you have the far left/revolutionary left, two branches, one based on trotskism, one on anarchism, mostly Jaques Decoeur, Emma Goldman as an ideological pivot from 'regular' Marxism