skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for your comment, very interesting and great links.

Broadcasts are always done via the Cloud, not P2P. We plan to use a hybrid clock, should have mentioned that.
Not sure I'd call it "wishful", but it seems inevitable.

Although we are making progress, that progress does not appear to be fast enough to avoid the "wet bulb events" that others have described (and linked to sources).

So that is going to happen. And once it happens, the governments where this happened will have a choice: protect their citizens or let them die.

What do you think will happen?
Google is abusing trusted computing. While I can understand that some banks prefer the payment processing code to be run on devices which are locked down, currently such Android devices contain Google adware and spyware, which is definitelly not necessary for a trusted device to be used for payments.

Google should be split so that the interests of Google'd not taint Android and Chrome.
My understanding was that manifest v3 implementation was delayed so I'd be surprised if it broken anything yet. It looked to me like the standard blow back management move where they see opposite boiling up so they announce a "delay" and try to sneak it in later when the heat has died down.
It's human judgement. Definitely not perfect, but something has to be done to prevent SO from being overrun.

There are some subjective signs that a post is LLM generated, like being overly verbose and making unrelated assumptions, or mix of horrible and perfect grammar. Those bans are hard to justify because the false positive rate is high.

But other signs are pretty obvious. My favorite is the use of APIs that should exist but don't. Passing parameters that neatly solve the problem but have never been accepted, or importing non existent libraries. I'm happy to flag those.
These changes reduce the amount of instructions you need in the first place - less stack shuffling with more registers and push2/pop2, less register shuffling with nondestructive operations
AFAIU Vector clocks are hybrid clocks and we plan to use a hybrid one, should've mentioned that from the start.
Is Microsoft's trademark for "X" or for their specific 'design' of "X"?
What would you think if you clicked on a Wikipedia article about Mozart and instead of the current introduction which says:

> Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart[a][b] (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works of virtually every genre of his time.

it opened with:

> Hello everyone, I studied classical music in college but have been out of the scene for a while and now I'm getting back in, I was wondering about the history of Mozart and I remember that his middle name was Allen or Almond or something? Can anyone help? Thanks for any information. || Hi, I learned about him in middle school and we all joked that his middle name was Armadillo but I think that's wrong, haha. || Greets all, it's in Olivier Hallengrunsch's Classical Composers as 'Amadeus', and that's well regarded. It also says he lived (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791). I think we can all agree he was prolific, right? Thanks and regards, Jason [xxKiller; AMD Ryzen2 32GB RAM 2TB Western Digital SSD; BMW 330 2l aircooled] || Why's nobody mentioning how short that life was, smh || Good evening all and sundry, m'lady (tips hat), forsooth would anyone speak to how many works he is believed to have composed, all considered? Methinks such knowledge would be a most hearty addition to this esteemed gentleman's biography - Martin, [Fort Lauderdale TX Ren. Faire organiser 1997-1997] || etc.

StackOverflow isn't a forum, it's a collaborative reference work. Meta-chat would be edited out of a wikipedia page and goes on a separate 'talk' page (equivalent: meta stackexchanges or the stackexchange chat). What if you then went to the Wikipedia talk page and said "Is overzealous moderation of questions ruining Wikipedia? I want to be able to edit questions and greetings into pages but there are hoards of awful literal-minded jobsworths cruising the site just looking for the slightest reason to edit a spelling or grammar mistake or revert my changes. It just leaves me feeling unwelcome"?

Why would you expect to feel welcome when you're spoiling what others are trying to build up and insulting them for caring??
Not yet. Was thinking of it several times. But with a special monitor setup and the knowledge of the x cmd tools I am a bit afraid that it would be a waste of time. Maybe dropping systemd would be more important to me. By the way, does displaylink work with wayland properly?
You had me at "Crypto VCs & ”builders” making a hard left into AI"
Our World of Pixels
> This is striking. If true, why not try to ignore whitespace and puctuation?

It is initially, but thinking about it some more, there's a lot of information packed in whitespace and punctuation choice.

Scripto continua may have worked because the few readers who lived back then expected it to encode some form of legal or religious prose, but even then they could learn things from the overall shape of the document. LLMs are working in a much richer domain of document types, but the only thing they can "see" is a stream of tokens. There's no spatial or geometric data attached there. So whitespace and punctuation are the only thing an LLM has to make inferences about otherwise textually identical inputs. Such as:

(see: other) -- vs -- {see: other}

One being likely a text fragment, the other likely a piece of code.

Or how spacing may imply Markdown or YAML being used. Or how it may imply a list. Or a poem. Or a song. Or specific writing style, such as "lol im a casual who not care bout comms" vs. "I am a distinguished professor, about to retire. Elites like us put two spaces after full stop."
He wasn't forced to buy Twitter. He was forced to complete the sale he insisted he be allowed to start.

But the changes in the market were not entirely against him. It's not that interest rates are high so that he cannot refinance. He had semi-floating rate (floats up to a maximum), so refinancing would never be necessary. It is currently pegged to the highest level. But it is still locked in at a much lower rate than the market rate.

And a billion is less of an estimate than a rounding. The amount of the loan, the interest rate, etc. are all public knowledge because he had to file the terms and contracts with the SEC.

Meanwhile, I'm not convinced it's "not an insignificant amount of money" is the appropriate phrasing. It's a lot of money to him, but certainly something he can afford. Jeff Bezos famously put that much each quarter (so 4x the rate) into Blue Origin.
Probably tasted better back then. Never been a fan of the present sugary liquid.
The mongols where shockingly good at defeating fortifications see the 13 day siege of Baghdad etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_(1258)
On my laptop yes because I don't need wine there. It does prevent me from using Barrier to have remote control from my desktop. It is fine but gets little use so I can't say much about it.
"And that, my boy, is how we killed the market for hardware startups. We raised the barriers to entry to the point that no one was willing to compete with the giants."
There are many forums for specific communities: specific car brands, sometimes even specific car models, watches, keyboards even (!), etc.

I'm on forums like these and they're doing totally fine. And if anything with the recent Reddit SNAFU the last thing users there want is for some central authority in SV to decide what they're allowed to talk about.
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And the two big reasons to move to Reddit were (a) single interface and login and (b) threaded conversations. Which is to say, Reddit (well, Slashdot really) reinvented the things that Usenet had had but which had been lost in the migration to traditional web-based forums.
Geddit v1.6 – Material Design Ported to Web
> Likely, climate change will cause 1-2B people to flee to temperate areas

Rationally, that is the thing to do.

All predictive models agree that temperatures are not going to decrease during the following decades. We should be organizing the largest human migration in history, and instead we are wasting time on comfort solutions that give people the illusion to do something while accomplishing exactly nothing.
VR is very popular in sim-racing and other cockpit games but outside of that it's just a gimmick IMO. Games like Beatsaber is where it shines but it's a lot of money for such casual games.
>If I could get one twice as tall pixel and physical dimension wise I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

I can recommend using a 8k 55" TV as a monitor. They can sometimes be found for around 1000 USD and I am quite happy with mine after several years of use.
Ahh, yes. Kids and their chances of survival...
Actually not true, we have fully automated trains for some years now. I've ridden fully automated trains in many different cities around the world.

I've actually though about this for a while, not just replace cars with light rail and have small "pods" that you can call to come to your nearest station and hop on it, kind of like on demand rail. IMO this is kind of what has been built.
SQLite Package Manager
Well it is a horribly stupid logo. But I guess that's the point...
It's less than is required for high end PC VR that was suggested as the reason in my the comment I responded to. That was my only point.
The letter X, brought to you today by Mr X (Elon Musk).
That reminds me of a story from a guy I worked with.

I'm not sure where he worked but it involved a queue of people. He said someone asked him if they could be given priority for their problem to be looked at before others in the queue. In other words jump to the head of the queue.

He said "Sure!" to the surprise of the person asking "But you do realize I will do that for anyone else who asks the same thing?"

So they person chose to remain in their place in line.
> spammers realised they could flood it with their tripe for almost no cost

Usenet readers supported plonkfiles; spam management on usenet was easier on Usenet than with email. A GUI Usenet reader let you plonk someone with a single click. Granted, in those days, spammers were less resourceful...
Yes, that's obviously not true here, since both companies have money and lawyers, but one side has to lose if they go to court.
Signal is widely used in government.
Ask HN: Do karma points get deducted too? Why?
It's my first week actively using Hacker News. Trying to learn more about how it works.

I think I noticed a point reduction - is this common? Why does it happen?
> So yeah, I'm pessimistic about how climate change will unfold.

It's probably not even a black and white thing honestly. For the person dealing with unlivable temperatures in India it might feel one way. For the person living in Siberia that just got a couple of hectares of farmland it might feel differently.

I'd wager a bet that in the future, more people will be impacted by war caused by climate change than the actual climate change effects, if we cannot solve the issue technologically.
This is the second such anomalous thread I've seen today; something weird's going on.
To the train driver, the only directions are forwards and backwards, not left and right.

Therefore, a simple rotation registers no change in the train driver's brain.
Well, I must be the only one left to think Stack Overflow is great then.

Sure, you may encounter the occasional rough moderator but having to correspond with random people on the internet in writing as my daily job, I can't blame them. If you don't have a rep, it's up to you to gain some by crafting the best question, linking to the relevant docs, transcribing screenshots, correcting typos etc.

The only issue with SO imho is that it's getting too big and there should be a lot to gain from further splitting to other StackExchanges like computer science, computer graphics, databases, infosec, Vim etc.

It would be great if there was a way to transfer a SO question over the more relevant community I guess
Although I dont have a link to the studies, there have been some that both showed an inverse relationship and correlation between income and driver care. Not super definitive. Notably, "nicer" meaning newer is not a static state. Higher income drivers can more easily absorb the costs of minor damage, meaning theres some downward pressure on the reporting stats from both sides.

Despite the bigger risks/penalties involved with being unlicensed (driver and/or vehicle) and uninsured, it does seem that these at-risk drivers are less safe. Uninsured driver premiums are explicitly bundled. Accidents lead to worse physical outcomes for at-risk drivers (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259019822...)

This would correlate with your outlook.
We don’t need to deindustrialise. Hell, we don’t even need to make our lives that much worse.

Did you know half of all human emissions since 1750% were released in the last 30 years?

Even going back to 60s levels would do us well.

Moving back to simple foods instead of ultra processing. Embracing nuclear power. Driving less and flying less. All better options than sticking our heads in the sand and hoping some country geo engineers the earth in the future.

Because climate change is an existential human challenge, we all need to pitch in.
Ok, I wasn't making an argument for the Quest. I was making an argument against the idea that you need a $1500+ PC for VR, that's it. I don't have or want a Quest.
I've used Spotify for three years, and am currently on the Student plan. I don't really mind the bump to $5.99 (from $4.99) especially since it includes a Hulu subscription, however I have recently subscribed to Apple One which offers Apple Music and Apple TV+ among other things, and so I've found myself paying for redundant services.

Although I would be open to the idea of switching to Apple Music, I have a number of playlists on Spotify that I would be very reluctant to let go of, and porting them by hand to Apple Music would take hours. Additionally, a lot of my friends are Spotify subscribers (even the ones with Apple devices) and I enjoy following them on Spotify to listen to their playlists as well. It's a mixture of platform lock-in and a social connection.
> moderation on SO has gotten progressively more horrible.

Can't agree more. So many relevant questions shot down by an anal retentive mod you end up having to find the answer on another site.
In my field (tech consulting) I try to ask the people which are better than me, more senior and experienced. If you are already better than all others it's harder. In other fields pick someone who has something you want or want to become
yeah, exactly. instruction fusing can turn mov+op2 into 3-reg operation, or push+push into push2. but adding new instructions allows to increase the frontend throughput too.
Signal is great, easily one of the best apps I've ever used. As someone who's privacy conscious, I've been trying forever to get my network of friends, family and colleagues to use signal with literally no success. Here in the UK, WhatsApp is ubiquitous, and to even _think_ of using a different app is, by most laypeople's standards, absolutely weird. Most people I've convinced have downloaded Signal, gave it a go with a few messages, and them promptly went back to WhatsApp because that's where the majority of their communication happens.

I'm convinced that it doesn't matter how good the product is, what matters is the network effect. Nobody cares about privacy, what they care about is whether everyone else is using the same app. Until there's some doomsday scenario of everyones messages getting leaked or something (the closest was the WhatsApp privacy policy changes that triggered worldwide scrutiny and was a general PR nightmare), nobody will be moving en masse to a plucky small app that their network isn't on.

Also doesn't help that Signal are implementing features like crypto transactions that most people don't care about.
Super wholesome. Congrats!
Is thst still the case? I've actually noticed much less Safari bashing over the last year or two, around the time the team seemed to really focus on shipping new specs and features again.

The main complaints I still see are related to the (likely illegal) lack of support for third party browsers, and missing web APIs for things like push notifications. Those are still valid complaints today though, for anyone who cares about them.
> The hour long video on a thing that covered most of the bases and edge cases gets cut down

... and you've already forgotten about the book with actual in depth info.
I have 4 banking apps and about 8 government apps in my phone. All of them require device attestation. I have no doubt they will use the Web Integrity API as well.
Oh really now lol
What does hardware build quality (which varies between chromebook models, the expensive ones are very sturdy) have to do with software support lifecycle?
They should add in Matrix, Mastodon, and Lemmy support for good measure :P
I built a React hack that creates image galleries from directory listings to make it as easy to share albums on your own site as using cloud drives.
> If most users of a service agrees to, for example, run an attestable environment to access a service

With Chrome's near monopoly in browsers, most users will run an attestable environment when chrome ships it without ever knowing and agreeing to doing so.

Even if Google manages to "collect" consent, this has so much potential to adversely impact everyone(including businesses) except Google in the long term that it should not be allowed.
There are far more public extensions than I realised¹, many of which look really interesting… and some of which I've made crappy versions of myself.

¹ https://sqlpkg.org/all/
Just don't have conservative viewpoints and you'll be fine.
> Google is really failing hard in this regard,

Failing at what though? Is it anything they care about, that they want to do?

If not, then it's not so much failure as it is a change of plans on their part. They don't want to do that anymore, and there's no one else to pick up the slack.
>> SO2 seeding

> That's not solving the situation, that's temporarily mitigating some effects

Yep, I clearly identified this is a temporary mitigating measure to buy us time for the real solution, which is the following:

>> And then we'll have to get crackin' building those nuclear power plants (as well as building out solar and wind and geothermal and tidal and storage).

But it is a mitigating measure that will work and will allow us to get to the actual solution, which is rapidly building out nuclear power (and others).

And of course, if you know that this scenario is possible, then you probably also start to understand why governments aren't as panicky about the whole situation as you seem to be.

And yes, the mitigation is for the most immediate short-term effect, the rise in temperature. We will still have to get the Carbon out of the atmosphere, for example to avoid Ocean acidification. But we have more time for that. And it will likely need quite a bit of energy (see the nukes).

And no, not going to listen to 30 minutes of someone ranting about the collapse of civilisation. We had the club of Rome with the same message in the 70s, and they were comically wrong. If there is something of actual substance, please make the point yourself here. So far you haven't.

In particular, I am still waiting for even a hint of shadow of an argument how building out nuclear power and other non-fossil energy sources, while at the same time mitigating the worst effects of global warming, will get us to a pre-industrial society.
> I have tried to change as many habits as I can to lower my footprint

That may be good to your conscience, but you realise that you have not tackled the problem at all, do you?

If you really want to have an impact, try and achieve a concrete result: for example, help someone relocate from India to Canada!
Tbf, although I pretty much disagree with everything about Musk's approach to life, I kinda buy this. However, I think that should go hand-in-hand with the twitter trademark being released and usable by a service that approximates the original. Maybe Jack Dorsey would snap it up and save us from the appallingly bad name that is "Bluesky".
Later in the day a crow was outside. It "cawed" and was quite I could hear another crow far away doing the same. So the crow near me "cawed" again and then stopped and listened again. It was obvious it was communicating.

This crow Broken Wing as I call it due to a drooping wing is a local crow. A family of five lives in a nearby tree it's a parent.
Where's the source (or the subset of the source) available? Supposedly, vscode.dev is "a lightweight version of VS Code running fully in the browser", so probably a fork? I'd like to deploy this same webapp but behind our VPN.
... except driverless trains have been around for decades is is relatively common for e.g. metros, and even trains that are decades old with drivers have been prepared for driverless operation from day one - usually just requiring a signalling upgrade.

Trivial to do self-driving when the tracks are real.
This. Stack overflow contains many diamonds. We just can't find them anymore because Google randomly decided to stop being a proper search engine at some point.
Is a “better” world a world where their lives are less comfortable than they are now?

Seems over the course of human history humans have firmly marched in the direction of making life more comfortable. You are going to have a hard time convincing humanity to go against their nature.
Nah, I think I'll just stick with my free Trading Posts and roads to all new cities...
Try out Kagi Search. You can manually increase website's weight and completely block others. E.g. I have increased Stack Overflow's weight and blocked those stupid content farms. Works great.
phind.com, good interface, doesn't constantly log you out
Is anyone else tired of the euphamisms SaaS companies and cloud providers use when they have an incident like this?

Whether it's, "experiencing technical difficulties", "Degraded performance", "Increased error rates", "Access will be delayed" or whatever - they all mean the same thing...

The service is down.

So why not just be straight with your customers?

Not a fan of the corp b.s. My 2p anyway.

(Context, for what it's worth: Paying Protonmail customer, on the 'visionary plan'.)
Generally this doesn't feel like a problem with Python, due to its massive user base advantage. Meta, Google, Microsoft, and many others contribute tens of billions of dollars annually to Python-ecosystem projects (PyTorch, Tensorflow, faster-cpython). Unless that funding differential changes I can't see Julia competing.
Now not only downvoted, but also censored.

Despite the issue being covered in The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/01/the-tw...
Wow. I did not see this coming.
In the early days of virtualization on PCs (things like OS/2's dos box) the VM was 100% a weird special case VM that wasn't even running the same mode (virtual 8086 vs 286 / 386 mode), and that second-class functionality continued through the earlier iterations of "modern" systems (vmware / kvm / xen).

"PC" virtualization's getting closer to big iron virtualization, but likely will never quite get there.

Also -- I was running virtual machines on a 5150 PC when it was a big fast machine -- the UCSD P System ran a p-code virtual machine to run p-code binaries which would run equally well on an apple 2. In theory.
A quick and dirty invoice generator is great for people who usually do point of sale or cash transactions and once in a while need to produce an invoice so a business can pay (vs it being expensed).
Came here to reminisce about the same trick :)

After a while we decided that adding one second per login was too subtle...

echo "echo sleep 1 >> ~/.login" >> ~/.login
except that it doesn't support full AVX-512, making the whole idea of backward compatibility between these levels meaningless. "It's Intel!!!"