skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's their country. You don't get to feel "bullied" for them not wanting foreigners there.

Why shouldn't I? You don't get to dictate how I "get" to feel. The very idea of racism and xenophobia is fundamentally offensive to me. As with the Amazon native population, I would not approve if they didn't let me in by virtue of some immutable attribute of mine such as my appearance.

So long as you make an effort to learn someone's culture, I don't think there's any justifictaion to exclude someone on the basis of the brute facts of their body or upbringing. Actions ought to matter far more.

I'm not aware of any moral theory that has been justified in academia or elsewhere which prescribes that such discrimination is permissible. This also is evidenced by the fact that many Japanese people claim to abhor racism while simultaneously practicing it against sections of their own population and other populations.
The untangling worms – scientific paper illustrated by comic
I’m a “real scientist”. Notebooks are a widely used to run analysis in my field (bioinformatics) where you explore data interactively.

I personally prefer when people share code as notebooks because you have code alongside the results. It’s really a good practice to use Jupyter.
Oh yeah, know that feel too :-)

I don't think we'll have a proper document management system, just a bunch of cool templates. Well, not in the MVP, anyway – maybe in some future version though!
A good example on C and C++ code, is the UB that isn't there in first place, but gets triggered due to the way code is inlined, and suddenly the optimizer becomes aware of optimization opportunities that wouldn't be taken, if it wasn't for the code being inlined.
For a more technical explanation, because we had the same problem in our city, and fixed it in a similar way:

> One of the main problems has been the 19th-Century "single system" drainage infrastructure, which unites household waste water from kitchens and toilets with run-off from rain on the street.

Big cities came up with their canalization in the 18th century in two ways: open or closed canals.
A closed canal system (with proper tubes) would be safe, no dirt (street dirt, mostly dog shit) could overspill on heavy summer rains into the canals and river, but this would require about 10x larger tubes, just for the few summer days (about 10 days a year). And a normal river with normal oxygen levels can easily fixup itself after such a spill. I.e. a flowing river, no dams near cities. And no industrial sewage directly into the river (which does not happen in civilized countries since the 80ies).

Almost every european city uses an open canal system, where in those few heavy rain days during the summer (and this can likely happen during summer olympics), the canal gates need to be opened so that the street water can overspill into the river, and it mixes with the dirt water from the open canal. So you do have heavy shit pollution in the river for about 3 days. No swimming, bad smell, E.Coli poisoning, rat bacteria (black plague).

So what a few richer cities, or the stupid ones which destroyed the natural cleaning abilities of the river by building dams near their cities for electricity (such as my city Graz, Austria), had to do, was to build such huge overspill cylinders or side canals to keep it from flowing directly into the river, but into their water treatment plant instead.

With more southern cities this would be impossible, as the rainfall is too heavy. E.g. in Houston you'll get a downpoor for 20minutes, with streets and canals flooded, cars need to stop, but then it goes on. In such subtropical cities you cannot think of building closed canal systems or such side spill reservoirs. The peek volume is way too high to be able to control it. And their rivers do contain poisonous snakes and alligators anyway.
> That being said, any question that requires extensive discussion is likely not a very good fit for SO because it's probably ambiguous, unclear or otherwise hard to answer exactly.

So basically SO isn't a tool to improve your skills but one to turn you into a copy/paste monkey?
How to Effectively Prompt for AI Art
I'd say it's actually pretty typical of corporations operated by global investment groups.
Out or curiosity, why should drivers expect privacy at the wheel? It's definitely not a thing in the EU as police should be able to see who's driving and in what condition through the window. Also window tinting lowers your visibility as a driver putting others at risk, meaning it's much easier to not see a toddler or a cyclist.
This is also true. Except that "figuring out the story for themselves" from primary sources is more challenging than the average reader is capable of ;)

And yes, I believe the future will be self-publishing, but it's a hard road for journos compared to being paid to be in a newsroom. And yes, ultimately it's up to us as readers to resolve this, probably by paying for our news.

The only problem with this solution is that people tend to pay for "news" that agrees with their opinions. There's an obvious financial incentive to pander to people's prejudices here.
Ask HN: Is Slack having some trouble?
I was having some problems with Slack that you can send message but you do not get a confirmation (so the text message gets greyed out) but it is actually sent. This is confusing because you can't delete the pending message and can't delete the duplicated messages after restarting the Slack client either.
issues in Europe
That's interesting. Yet encyclopedias record billions of achievements, but almost never "having children"
I've always considered this to be a pretty accurate scene: https://youtu.be/watch?v=mYAahN1G8Y8
Which mean what? You should've picked ~2000, the 90s saw significant decline (of course you're only looking at GDP which not something we have reliable figures for from the 80s).
My workspace in Europe is also in some kind of (unannounced) Read-Only mode.
Yes, on Ubuntu 22.04, pretty stable.
That aliens (specifically the "greys") are future versions of humanity who have traveled back in time for some reason (usually specified to be the recovery of "native" genetic material to re-engineer their ecosystem) is a well-worn narrative within UFO mythology.

No one on HN "throws it out" because this is ostensibly a rational community and time travel is an even more absurd, less scientifically plausible solution than FTL or interdimensional travel. At that point we're just discussing comic book plots. If you believe we live in a universe that runs by comic book rules that's fine - it seems a depressing number of people here do, but there isn't much viable, intellectually grounded discussion to be had about that. You either agree with it or you don't.

I mean hell, let's throw Jacques Valee onto the pile and say maybe UFOs/aliens are fae taking on a modern form in order to feed upon humanity's collective fear of the other. Makes about as much sense as time travel.
Because files and directories make up the core organization and architecture of any project.

Obviously when I'm working with 1-5 files then Neovim is great, but it's awful when I'm working on a real project with dozens of directories and hundreds of files. I can't hold that much contextual information in my head to simply remember the correct file name (or function name) and hit some keyboard shortcuts to jump to it. I need to actually see it all together.

VS Code's project tree and tabs system works great for me to always understand where I am working, and I don't have to remember any keyboard shortcuts to navigate.
Lots of people work to make their dreams a reality. Some of them succeed.
Using t-SNE, the 12th closest point to Data Scientist is Astrologer. Sounds about right to me.
> their median user is a junior dev who really just needs to serialize a Java object and isn’t going to pay or put up with any LLM-generated nonsense.

(Un?)Ironically, one of my main uses of ChatGPT is to replace StackOverflow (it's great at turning vague guesses about what I want into fast ideas, and when it's wrong it's still less wrong than the combination of SO content and the search engines connected to it); and also for turning undocumented and badly documented examples of JSON into a collection of (swift) `Codable` structs.
Just encountered an issue deleting a message. Error.

"Message deletion failed"

"Sorry, something went wrong with deleting your message."

Edit: Seems like messages are just straight up not sending and receiving.
One killed as ship carrying 3k cars catches fire off Dutch coast
That entirely depends on how the mechanism is implemented.

For example you could have the website never knowing your actual ID but simply passing an encrypted string to the national server, which would return a 200 response if the document is valid. You could also have additional requests like "is the user 18+".

The website will just know the request is coming from something which has a valid ID available. The state will also not know which pages you browsed, only the domain of the request, just like with HTTPs your ISP does not know exactly the pages you browse but just the websites themselves.

And before someone talks about the state knowing your browser history: they already can by calling up your ISP, and they would get a lot more information than this mechanism would provide.
Slack has problems to send and receive messages
It seems that Slack has some problems in sending and receiving messages. Even though the status page doesn't show any problems.
Also i believe that the country is first and foremost, a landmass - with geological, hydrological etc features defining their resource base and transportation abilities and thus what they can do and what they can't, and what's optimal for them, plus a political system that is built to make the optimal use for the former. Gradual replacement of people with another can still keep all of it in place and maintain qualities of a nation from the standpoint of average consumer as more or less the same.
Plus, if you invite immigrants, you get to pick the best of them, so probably you won't harm your overall population quality.
A fraction of a fraction of a fraction of all tickets/venues available. So hard to boycott.
How do I join the party where do I sign?
> This is quite laughable. It depends on your salary and where you are from, but clearly there are cheaper countries in the world than Japan. If you are rich or nearly so, many countries are "affordable".

I lived in Japan for a year until June 2023 and I agree with OP. It obviously depends on your salary -- Japanese people's is pretty low compared to expats -- but Tokyo is still pretty cheap compared to even Geneva or Paris. Restaurants are cheap (compared to anywhere in Europe), groceries is not that expensive and cinemas are nothing compared to where I live. What offset this are accommodation and fruits (yeah, they're very expensive).

Outside of big cities? Don't even get me started, you get all this plus cheap rent and could even have local-grown fruits and vegetables. I actually plan to retire to Japan if I ever live this long.

> Freedom is relative [...]

I agree with your on that point. Police is at worst corrupt and at best useless in this country. I'm actually of the firm belief that if they were better trained, crime in Japan would "rise" (as in "statistically there would be more crime") because more of it would be discovered or reported.
What does that have to do with religion?
Why are you benchmarking models to human intuition? If you apply the same reasoning to quantum mechanics you'll have a bad time.

I'm sure models can accurately compute how much of the wing lift comes from the suction effect on the top of the wing versus the push on the bottom of the wing.
Coffee really became common beverage in Islamic world about 3 centuries after the "golden age" finished
Exactly. I refuse to take part in what currently is trending towards a global concentration camp, nobody excluded, and I refuse to throw more bodies into it. If anything, I'd adopt a child that already exists. I pride myself more in the things I don't do than the things I do. You may say that doesn't have an impact, but it makes a universe of difference for myself.
Internet providers usually offer a free email associated with the internet plan (at least in Italy) which is the closest thing to a government provided email.
Issues in Europe, I feel.
Wikipedia is not particularly well run. Just look at their infrastructure expenses. On the other hand, they bring in tons of money from companies and user donations.

Maybe its time for a leaner alternative?
Slightly off-topic, but does JupyterLab still run on zeromq?
Looks like the high quality audio version has gone.
Given they were bought by an investment firm for quite a frothy amount of money I'd assume it was at least partially debt leveraged and they're suffering from interest payments.
Yes, though they haven't acknowledged anything.
Seems like there's some issues. https://downdetector.com/status/slack/

No feedback yet on the Slack system status dashboard https://status.slack.com/
You mean the Dock/Dash or the Minimize button?

The Minimize button is still accessible on some windows if you right click the title bar and select "Hide". So the function is still there, just more annoying to access.

And the Dock/Dash problem is actually linked to the minimize feature. Because when user click Minimize, the window then needs a place to be "minimized to" (and an animation is also need to show how it happened). Maybe the lack of Taskbar could be one of the reasons why Minimize button was removed? Just me guessing.

I do respect your use case, but as a desktop environment, I don't think GNOME should implement it as default. But on the other hand, if GNOME is really committed to be a tiling-first desktop environment, then removing the Minimize button could be a reasonable plot on the roadmap.
With QAM you're more thinking about the error vector magnitude (EVM), rather then the signal-to-noise ratio. From the EVM you get a bit error rate, which determines maximum sensible data speeds. How high QAM will go is also a strong function of what frequency band: at low frequency, I've seen 512-QAM and higher, while at >100GHz they're struggeling for 32-QAM
At my previous job, I decided to make a Slack channel named after one of the C preprocessor directives (#define I think, or maybe #endif). A handful of people found it and appreciated the joke.

But then, a few months later, one of the admins contacted me to ask if it would be okay to delete the channel. You see, in large organisations, Slack knows which channels are not meant to be visible to other parts of the org, and it was causing mentions of the C preprocessor directive to be censored for people outside my group ^^;
On a serious note, it concerns me a little how easy new generations accept that everything is a magical black box and not even question how their smartphones work.
... yeah, nothing is moving your windows, it's literally just a preview. This is like saying that the Windows menu bar preview is duplicating your windows.
You are also fighting what has become a tradition and cultural norms. There is a huge struggle to stop companies from committing wage theft (through unpaid extra work hours) or straight out overworking their employees (sometimes to the point of suicide).
There are parallels between the speculative art world and VC capital approaches to tech companies. In some ways, the art and ideas don't matter when it comes to potential value. Because of that, art dealers and VC funds don't seek quality. They invest in notability and novelty, in many directions at the same time. An interesting book about the history of art dealers is Rogues' Gallery by Philip Hook. When I read about the financial angles of the 1875-1935 modern art world, I saw many similarities to 2005-2015 Silicon Valley VC culture.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32489013-rogues-gallery
As I understand it since the Obama first administration DOJs stance has been to not pursue cannabis crimes in any state that has legalized it (“Cole memo”) which was rescinded by Sessions, but with no follow through by prosecutors. Barr again deprioritized cannabis and Garland has gone even further.

The issue for banks and financial firms is they sit at both an interstate commerce point of view, which is firmly federal, but they also exist in a highly regulated and scrutinized world. Until the law changes DOJ deprioritizing cannabis enforcement helps them not at all - they’re still facilitating a crime, and can be held to account by a later administration on the whims of the electorate and they would be clearly in violation of the law.
We should only listen to western propaganda. It's more true.
You mean like making the Year of Linux Desktop a reality, by shipping Linux VMs running on mainstream OSes?
emacs org mode can do this but is not tied to just python. Anyway, something like this works:

#+BEGIN_SRC python :results file
import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('Agg')
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
fn = 'my_fig.png'
plt.plot([1, 2, 3, 2.5, 2.8])
plt.savefig('my_fig.png', dpi=50)
return fn
#+END_SRC

#+RESULTS:
[[file:my_fig.png]]
I'm not sure what your problem with the statement is. If there is other life (as well in, through the whole lifespan of the universe life starts somewhere aside from earth) it is incredibly unlikely we are the first. If there is no other life, we are the first. What is weird about it?
As usual with status pages, the status page is not corrected yet: https://status.slack.com/ but it is down according to downdetector
Hey, CEO of e2b here (the ones currently pushing the protocol). Congrats to the launch of Chidori! Great work!

> I do feel that long term there might be a common interface for agent <-> agent or user <-> agent communication.
Definitely! We're just starting really small so we don't build the wrong thing and abstraction.

We'd would love to hear your thoughts and feedback on the direction of the protocol. And how the protocol could help Chidori and your users. Essentially, how we can get it to more agent devs and make it useful for them.

Would you be up for a chat? I'm @mlejva on Twitter
They should strike to be paid twice when stunt or likeness (for 'clone' type scenes) doubles are in use too.

I don't think it's at all obvious a significant number of the rest would care never mind want to strike on their behalf. We're not even talking just about properly famous 'made it' actors, we're talking about anyone with a speaking part, or just more of an obvious or interactive role... It'd be like software engineers (from nobody in particular like me, to big recognisable names) striking over office cleaners' fear they're being replaced with Roombas.
You as an individual would have the same impact as your individual children would?

But yes, keeping a population going that will continue to work and support society is important, but don't forget that you are having a positive impact there as well.
Sounds pretty efficient to me! Super cacheable, do effort on each write instead of each read, etc etc. Also I bet it reduced your time-to-shipping tremendously vs first learning databases. That reward cycle might matter more than following “best practices”!

Remember, if it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing half-assed.
If Apple was compelled to support a first-class iOS development experience on Windows, all this would do is immovably stunt the continued improvement of iOS development on macOS. There is a material degree of OS integration / cooperation in IOS development with Xcode. If Apple released a second-class development experience I’ve no doubt that you’d spare no time in making similar insinuations that it’s some sort of artificial constraint.
https://kanbanzone.com/resources/lean/toyota-production-syst...

Everyone needs to really learn what the Toyota Production system has taught manufacturing for decades.
Meta, Microsoft and Amazon release open map dataset to rival Google / Apple Maps
Would love to see Ben Krasnow from Applied Science try to replicate this!
"The freedom problem is this: you will not be able to roll your own keys"

I'd expect threshold cryptography to solve that issue in the near future.
> This line of thinking is common but highly flawed. If it were true, everyone would be super religious just because their ancestors were.

Most people of the world did not have access to super effective birth control until recent decades. And most women did not have complete agency until recent decades.
I hope I never have to live in a world where I have to convince a united healthcare chat bot that I need pain medicine.
Linux could be 3% of global desktops
> less for watches, phones, tablets, monitors, set top boxes, etc without having to support legacy crap.

That's pretty easy when you have no qualms whatsoever about breaking support for software which is older than 2-3 years and offer very limited support for third party software on all of your platforms except one.
How can simple black on white text with a lisible font be hard to read?
I have 0 followers and 0 followed and I make my own private lists.
You can manage your signing identity entirely using Apple's website and just not use automatic provisioning. (I do that anyway even though I build on macOS as I just don't want our build system tied to Xcode just so we can use the automatic provisioning.)
> Are you suggesting that numerous high-ranking former military officials are lying under oath?

Yes? It's not like that hasn't happened before, and there's no real way to contradict them. And if they did they wouldn't be prosecuted. And if they were prosecuted they would be pardoned.

We can't see the footage, so that's not admissible as evidence in the court of public opinion.
All android and ios phones sold in the last couple of years comes with ARM trustzone or secure enclave or something similar. It's already here.

The vast majority of Indian internet users are from mobile. It's a market lead by Xiaomi and other Chinese OEMs who sell phones that dies after a year or two with horrible ota updates. Some people downgrade, some use custom roms. But the majority just buys a new phone every 2-3 years. Or even 1 year. The poorest of people here buys iPhones with financing. Besides you don't need to buy expensive devices. Every GMS certified phone made in the last couple of years has it.

Now for actual computers, most are either prebuilts or laptops. They all come with secure boot since 2013?. The last Windows release without a mandatory TPM is going to be discontinued in 2025, microsoft will scare people into upgrading.

These are old machines. Any laptop made in the last 4 years will be able to access the new closed web so it won't be hard to replace of them.

I'm just hoping this "end of internet" happens really quickly. So that people would notice. One day people should wake up locked out of the web on their expensive devices. If it's a slow boil, we'll be too late to stop it. Again.
Phones are much easier to solve problems with, but your kid doesn’t need you to call. He can ask the workers for directions.
The app is obviously incredibly popular, but if it wasn’t back by the Chinese government I imagine apple would have enforced their App Store rules.

I imagine some kind of deal along the lines of “no WeChat no iPhone in China” was done.
I'm using UTM (nice frontend to Qemu) and the performance is okay-ish on a base mbp m1. The desktop is fluid enough for basic usage. I use it mainly for remote access client apps that I don't want running on my OS, like Citrix.
I sometimes am concerned that what random reactions and thoughts I have are not indications of some universal deep unconscious insight but rather just the inane weirdness of my brain that could like things for temperamental, nostalgic, or pointless reasons. I like to imagine I'm veering on something profound but I can't always be so sure.
Oh it doesn’t seem stupid, it totally is.

I still remember the surprise when I got my first salary raise and it bumped me from the 20% bracket to the 27.5% bracket and realized I was making less money.

It took me another raise to break even.