skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently 32 billion km is about 29.65 light hours, so to catch up we'd need a magical massless spacecraft to travel at the speed of light for a bit over a day to reach it. Hopefully that demonstrates how utterly infeasible it would be to reach it.

It's also near the end of its usable life so it wouldn't be worth it anyway.

And actually, according to https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/ it's actually 19,936,472,690 km from Earth so I think like 20ish light hours or so.
Animated webp is commonly supported at least on he web these days.

Of course, it too is a horrible video format, which is impressive considering it is based on a not nearly as horrible video format. If only browsers would support silent looping video in <img> and CSS image contexts...
Well I was tired of complaining about it again and again. If Windows refuses to respect me as a user, I refuse to use Windows. Very happy to be on ZorinOS and other Linux distros now.

They're free and they don't waste my time.
If I wasn't dependent on using the internet for income I would just try to find other ways of using my free time than the internet at this point if the worst case outcome in the article came to pass.
I think the key is “anonymous” from which perspective.

It's likely a safe assumption that you are anonymous from the other users, which was the original intended functionality.

You're talking about being anonymous from any and all people and agencies, and it could be argued that you probably haven't gone far enough in your description of how to be truly anonymous from even the most motivated person/agency.
Thank you for the context - I thought that sounded off.
I agree that it's mildly infuriating.
Don't act like markets and government are independent entities.
The markets influenced the government in their favor long before Lehmann brothers and they did the same afterwards.

The markets you think of are as possible as working communism.
I use this for retrocomputing, in a way, to be very silly! tenox7's WRP [Web Rendering Proxy] basically runs headless Chrome and renders pages to gif/png/jpg and shoves them back at a client browser.

https://github.com/tenox7/wrp
You are mistaken. That is only a proposal to change the standard.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/faq/#allstds

https://www.rfc-editor.org/standards
This assumes robots would want to be friend with each other, because robots. They'd probably wipe each other out very efficiently too and they would probably be able to do it without the use of weapons, it would just be cyber warfare.
I lost that ability at some point during Covid.
Can we enforce it on all OS to allow changing default apps? Thinking of Safari on iOS…
Got it, that makes sense. With monitors now in 60-120Hz being common, that might be doable.
Well, congressman, I might be curious what the actual commands were, why they were issued, how it led to the unfavourable outcome, how they detected and measured the degree of misalignment, what a corrected command sequence might’ve been, and then cross-referenced to a hopefully existing article on how the spacecraft will eventually re-align itself, and perhaps some further reading on other commands that are routinely or not-so-routinely issued and how they are received, decoded, and executed on board the spacecraft. Basic stuff, y’know; after all, this isn’t rocket science.

If there is such an archive, or some approximation thereof, it would surely be fascinating to pore over it.
Spent the last week looking at Python resources for my high school ‘Introduction to Programming’ class. Ordered Python Crash Course last night. Then I wake up this morning to see this – excellent work (and timing).

Initial feedback:
The writing, formatting, and overall presentation are very clear and the mini-quizzes are great for checking understanding.

I second the suggestions on the 'complete' button text. Also agree with cfiggers in that I was initially confused when I got to the end of an early lesson and then couldn't figure out how to go to the 'next lesson.' The 'back' button going back to the flowchart is what I wanted, but the combination of the color and text made it feel like that was the wrong direction.

Overall, this looks a lot like something I've been looking for, thanks!
i have a much simpler theory: we kind of forgot how to manage both sides of an argument. we take sides because it's much easier than deeply understanding the issue and fixing it at it's core.
> It doesn't work well with mobile, high packet loss & high latency connections.

This is an absolutely false, baseless statement, mostly amounting to FUD. Messages work well on mobile, and they sync between devices just fine.

> Also, overload of XEPs doesn't help the ecosystem.

On the contrary, XEPs create the ecosystem. As I often say, Matrix is not a protocol, it's a product with an API created by a single organization.
I usually make a venv in ~/.venv and then activate it at the top of any python project. Makes it much easier to deal with dependencies when they're all in one place.
I have seen similar claims that computer science is wrong about complexity theory.

What field did you move to?
> Macros and #ifdef do not solve the problems that _Generic is used for.

No, but they solve the specific "big bug" described in the article very well. Use _Generic for what it's good for. Use macros to fill in the gaps (in this case build/preprocessor configuration differences that change the syntax used in the RHS of the generic expansion).

Again, this is C. You want fancy type systems, you know where to find them. Don't ask for them here, we don't want them.
Wannabe posers and conformists listening to Sunny Day Realestate.
The Revenge of X-Windows.

https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-x-windows-disaster-128d398...
I definitely think the future of some things is streaming. Despite the failing of stadia, et. al., competitive multiplayer gaming is still #1 on my list of things to stream. This is the one place I would be entirely happy to participate in draconian DRM, assuming it is packaged in a reasonable manner (aka not a hacky kernel driver).

A fair multiplayer game is much more valuable to me than some notion of control over the underlying software/hardware ecosystem. I am happy to surrender control in favor of correctness/fairness in some contexts - i.e. those that allow you to impact the ability of others to enjoy their experience.

Now, if you are sitting by yourself watching movies or reading e-books or the news, I agree - this stuff is not much more than senseless oppression and antagonization.
Pump Six really nails that feeling of "this thing we don't really understand keeps filling the log with warnings we don't know what to do about, let's ignore them and pray it just keeps working."

Any similarities with the real world are surely coincidental.
Maybe complain about the browser separately from complaining about the marketing techniques.

Edge has gotten better.

And

When they incorporated GPT, it was pretty cool. It already seems old now, just a few weeks later, but at the time, remember people were freaking out how great ChatGPT was, it seemed incredible. We've had a few weeks to cool off and start critiquing it. But when GPT was incorporated into Edge, edge adoption shot up, I think I saw stat that it was 100 million users. I even showed wife (non-tech) how to put in a few prompts and it would generate some letter she needed to write. It did seem incredible.

So just stepping back, Edge has incrementally improved, then they incorporated a big new feature "GPT", and adoption took off. ---> So the increased users was not just by marketing, and anti-trust practices, and splash screens.
This is how you kill entrepreneurship. Tell everyone to incorporate and get liability insurance before they even get started... due to fears around a law from a foreign government that has no jurisdiction where the founder lives.

Obviously, if this gets traction, it will be worth incorporating, getting insurance, accounting and legal services, etc, but if you do all of that before putting anything on the market, you're not going to get anywhere unless you're already wealthier than most people.
"The accused shall enjoy the right … to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him …"
Similar. I was working on some ETL work with SQLite, and now PyPy is my regular tool for getting better performance at similar jobs.
The inescapable rise of moral superiority
I've used ORG along with Babel to write that post: https://github.com/dorneanu/roam/blob/main/org/blog/2023-07-...
Internet Explorer 5 also had a few UNIX releases.
https://planetwild.com/blog/how-were-reviving-a-poisoned-riv...
> So in this case if it were American, unless the aggrieved party can demonstrate monetary damages, under American law there is no libel as we do not consider "hurt feelings" or "damaged reputation" to be libel.

Based on my poor understanding of US law, I think you are mistaken. Defamation per se recognizes that certain statements are so damaging to one's reputation that proving damages is not required. From [1],

> In an Alaska Supreme Court case, a woman accused a man of assault, battery, and false imprisonment, and he brought a claim against her for defamation. The court explained that because the statements imputed a serious crime, the man was not required to prove the damage to his reputation and emotional distress.

The case discussed in the article includes accusations that the plaintiff films women without their consent, allegedly in a sexual context (although that's redacted so I could be wrong). That could totally fall under category 1 of Defamation Per Se.

[1] https://www.findlaw.com/injury/torts-and-personal-injuries/w...
Never heard about the book, but I am truly thankful it was mentioned. I always dreamt about re-creating LHX Attack Chopper.
In short: restore tributaries to create pockets of biodiversity, even if the main river is subjected to toxic event.

They create suitable breeding grounds by undoing previous canalization work, and restore the riverbed by adding gravel.

Of course, the video contains more details and images.
I think it supports up to 3.10, as there are official docker images for this version, I saw them this morning.

Maybe the site is not up to date ?
Not sure, but you might be confusing anonymity with privacy. I'm all in favor of privacy, but keeping your identity secret while doing stuff in public (or on some internet forum) is not really a matter of privacy. There may be a few cases where anonymity is warranted, but often it just enables bad behavior.
Throwing this out there, perhaps you've tried already, but maybe it'd help. Installing TLP?
So what was wrong about "40 times the speed of sound"?

Also, I don't particularly like the speed of sound for this comparison. Most people think of speed of sound as speed of sound at about sea level pressure, in gas composed of around 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen and at roughly 25C temperatures. But the speed of sound is highly dependant on the medium and its temperature and pressure. There actually can be sound waves in space (pressure waves in interstellar gas resulting from various astronomic phenomena) and they propagate at very wide range of speeds, typically somewhere between 10 and 100km/s.

The main reason to use "speed of sound" is because important things change when objects travel at little below or above speed of sound in the medium they are in. But this is only useful in relation to the actual medium the object travels through.

One place where it trips people up is when they are talking high altitude airplanes or rocketry. They are talking about something traveling at "X Mach", or "X times the speed of sound" and then I try to figure out if they mean X in relation to the speed of sound up there or the speed of sound at sea level. Just a nightmare trying to use it to convey speeds even within confines of our atmosphere.
This is indeed awesome! Thanks for letting us know.
Some countris have mandated >30 meters of green area on each border of rivers. That also helps a lot from what I've seen. Before that, especially with plantations, the crops would go up to the border and that killed the rivers (plus all the agrotoxics would feed more easily into the water).
And maybe Strongtalk
I just tried your tests on Debian. For some reason the threads one was failing at about 3000 (probably my config), so I bumped it down for both. Here are the results:

$ gcc threads.c
$ time ./a.out

real 0m10.097s
user 0m0.035s
sys 0m0.239s

$ gcc process.c
$ time ./a.out
real 0m10.168s
user 0m0.579s
sys 0m0.347s

Were you running on something besides linux, or not natively? Is this something that degrades with the large numbers?

Also, spawning is not context switching. That's the overhead that matters. But according to your own test, spawning in reasonable numbers will be about the same.
>Even that SBF hagiography that one of the VC firms commissioned

That was this VC firm.
That is a great idea! I use rdflib frequently and never thought to try it with PyPy. Now I will.
It's odd how their Linux support documentation is so lackluster. I have an RX 6800 that runs stable diffusion fine with recent PyTorch on Linux, but looking at their Linux support info you wouldn't think this was possible.

The situation (afaik) until a day or so ago was that Linux had official support for datacenter and "pro" cards and unofficially for consumer cards while Windows had nothing.

Considering the dev hours that must go into this it seems odd they don't have better release info, frankly.
> I don't know about that. CPUs handle always-taken and never-taken branches very well.

and dynamic patching is also an option.
Nice! Since I went to the trouble of finding screenshots over 20 years old online, here's a way to find some for those who might want to see:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080213013852/http://www.secund...
> I would also welcome you to Australia

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2018/12/04/why-aus...

as i've written in other threads, the direction of travel re. internet policy is pretty clear around the world. and it's not just politicians. it's universities, policy centers, NGOs, you name it.
A 70 metre antenna with enough control to point in the right direction. As voyagers batteries are meant to die in a couple of years, there’s probably more interesting things to do with your money.

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/news/details.php?article_id=118
I have found that hiring engineers often is done with strict objective criteria: do they know the language and tools well and can demonstrate that live in front of a bunch of peers. Also they are measured on subjective "does everyone on the team like then enough to go out for a beer with them?" I've seen Sr. engineer positions stay open for years with 50+ candidates interviewed.

Hiring managers tends to be done with subjective criteria like "did the CTO get a good vibe from them in a 15min call?" I've seen engineering managers hired by just being the first friendly person through the door.

That said, I've met so many former engineering managers who just can't find work and now haven't written code in years. There's a lot of competition for a few jobs, and no real way to distinguish yourself. They are a very sad lot, and the biggest reason I left the management track to become an IC again. After talking with the 30th sad former manager who can't write an if statement I saw the writing on the wall and got back into engineering.
It seems very close to resurrecting ancient diseases and protein strands 'just because we can'.
The bets were never the issue. The leverage in the banking system was. The bad bets were just the spark that lit it. The prediction markets are not leveraged
I'll be honest. I use bing. Found myself going to google less and less since ChatGPT filled most of the void.
calendar store -- one of the pop-ups in the mall during the holiday season.

literally just an empty storefront they were able to rent on the cheap. few shoddy racks of calendars.

we had to keep walking and chatting to the customers when they came in. In December. For calendars. No chairs, no cell phones. Couple of the HS kids no called/no showed so I was often the only person there for 8 hours. Exhausting.
> that's what the world needs now

It's not the only thing, of course, but it is definitely one of the things that the world needs now.
What Isaac Asimov’s Robbie Teaches About AI and How Minds 'Work'
I am surprised that anyone still thinks this thing is legit. I mean, I wish it was true, but the publication, the approach and the infights in the team do not instill confidence.

To me, it seems they can not recreate the "effect" themselves. Otherwise they would be shipping their samples around the world by now.
> I echo your concerns, and add that I find it slightly humorous Edge is also being offered on Linux. I've spent hours working to remove it from Windows; why would I willingly install it?

because you have a choice :)
I installed it on Fedora from flathub iirc
> I believe $100k to Meta is like $3 to me. If there is additional punishment beyond "a maximum fine of $100k", the article does not mention it.

Meta doesn't like judgements against Meta that would open them up to more scrutiny from legal institutions.

This isn't about money.

Meta has absolutely nothing to win in not complying with the legal request in that _specific case_. Meta never claimed to be the champion of anonymity, quite the contrary...
dist packages are a must for software written in Python that is part of the distribution itself.
That makes the courts the sole deciders of truth, which is extremely bad in all ways.

The press can for example discover and publish evidence of corrupt dealings of a politician, while there is a minimal chance any prosecutor or court would be interested in the case.
Show HN: ParrotsCage – Effective Journaling with feedback from A.I
Hi all, this is Carlos and I’m the founder of ParrotsCage (www.parrotscage.com), a system I’ve been developing to help me overcome depression and anxiety. ParrotsCage has a few strategies to help with that:

- It allows you to track your mood variations and then display it in a 30-days chart (or 90-days, depending on the screen resolution). This is important as usually when a psychiatrist or the health professional you are seeing asks you about how you are feeling, it’s hard to give an accurate answer as the last happenings or the mood of the day gets more importance than what really happened since the last time you talked to them (usually, 30 days ago at minimum).

- Tick boxes (also named “Cards”) allows you to check in on medication intakes as well as any kind of events that you engage to, such as workouts, meditation, detox, and so on. These checkins also display in charts that overlaps with the mood variation chart, allowing one to find correlations and/or get insights on what might be helping and what frequency works best (excellent for habits development).

- Insights generated by ChatGPT3. All the data you recorded is fed into ChatGPT and then we generate a summary of what happened on a monthly basis together with insights and actionable items. It is a faster way to get access to good moments you had, as well as not so good moments. Regardless, sharing monthly insights with the health professionals I visit allows for much more efficient communication and treatment.

I’d love to get feedback from you and in case you want to give it a try, please reach out. I’m still working on pricing and I’m open to suggestions.

Thanks so much, I hope you have great days ahead.
and yet everybody seems fine with advertisements in the address bar on Firefox, Chrome, Edge and other browsers.

Brave is the only mainstream browser right now that is not serving ads in the address bar. So before anybody has a problem with a bug that was fixed a couple of years back, they should be talking about their favorite bug-free browser.
No.

The security in fraud protection (or any detective control) is in the thresholds and triggers being activated and protecting the system.

Protecting the values of those controls is common sense. This is on a need-to-know basis. Users don't need to know.

If you advertise that your system will permit 9,999 transactions per minute, then every client will calibrate to max out at 9,999, malicious or not. Then, you adjust that up or down, and not everyone follows suit. Whoops!
Nah, I would go even further with HDCP[0] /s

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Conte...
The expense seems to have gone down enough in recent years that there are too many sketchy biolabs mixing a lot of base pairs together. Or doing other kinds of things to cross breed these bugs.
There are still plenty of contexts where you can embed images but not videos (or at least not with automatic looping playback) - forums, github README.md, other markdown-based comment/post systems.

Gif compression limitations also encourage you to cut down to the essential parts - too many videos waste the viewers time with delays and irrelevant bits.
There's no noted causation between poor software and patient death.

There is a high correlation against "move fast, break things" and patient death.
In all fairness it's a little of both. you may not be able to guarantee things but you can improve the odds.
> A kort geding is a civil court with the specific aim of solving cases that don't require a full blown legal investigation (which can take months).

FWIW (probably not much; legal terms rarely match 1:1 between jurisdictions), Wikipedia thinks a “kort geding” is a preliminary injunction.

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kort_geding disagrees with the “don't require a full blown legal investigation” claim, saying that the primary reason is urgency:

“Interlocutory proceedings (in Belgium often interim relief or référé) is a short-term civil procedure for urgent cases that by their nature must be decided quickly.
[…]

Matters that by their nature are urgent are, for example, the request to ban a strike or the request to prohibit a publication, because it is incorrect and harms the interests of a directly involved person.”

I think that’s more likely to be true.

(iOS Translation)
That occurred to me as I was posting - what can I say, the SBF thing was better that… whatever this was.
The interesting part there is the seamless transition from seller/people to scammer. I believe the policy will eventually have to change to accommodate innocence until proven guilty.

There are some pretty dramatic stories out there with people getting unusual amounts of orders forcing them to buy unusual amounts of materials and do unusual amounts of work which creates an unusually full agenda and may drain finances to the edge... and then they don't get their money or the orders are refunded after delivery and they don't get proper assistance resolving the issue. "We wont tell you what you've done wrong because of reasons" is really the stuff you want to hear at that moment.

Not sure what the solution should be but I wouldn't want a role in that movie.

What is the problem usually? We don't know? How do you fix an unknown problem? If it is that someone is selling an unusually large amount it seems doable to limit the number of widgets they may sell in stead of platforms taking more orders they know cant be resolved.
There is a Google Edu talk from 2006 from the founders of Second Life where they mention how SL wouldn't have existed if it wasn't for cable modems.

Why?

Because SL did all physics rendering server side and then streamed the view to the client's PC. This wouldn't have worked with dial up.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrSCjSRMY64
My understanding is "ML" came into existence after the term "AI" became an untouchable and disrespectful dirty word in academia after a previous hype cycle went bust. Statisticians wouldn't be caught dead working on "AI". See also xkcd purity scale (435).