skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I essentially agree with what you say, similarly bweing's comment above but despite that committing scientific fraud is just such a risky business. If one falsifies results and the subject matter turns out to be irrelevant in the grand scheme of things one might get away with it because it is irrelevant. — no one would care anyway. If it's high profile and contentious then one's likely to get caught out either sooner or later.

Let's take two cases. The Piltdown man fraud took place in 1912 and it wasn't until over 40 years later in the '50s that it was conclusively determined as a fraud, it then took about another 60 years to determine who the fraudster was. Right, the fraudster got away with the deception in his lifetime but he goes down in history with his reputation in tatters. Whether he considered this or not or perhaps he was hoping to be discovered and wanted to get himself in the history books when his name would otherwise be lost to history is a moot point.

Now to the infamous Jan Hendrik Schön https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6n_scandal. He was caught out quickly. My background is electronics so I understand what he did and I can say his chances of getting caught were damned high and he was caught. He must have known the risk he was taking, how could he not when the fraud was intrinsically recognizable by its nature? Then he makes his situation worse by virtue of repeating the fraud many times, so he was left without a 'plausible deniability' defense on grounds of a mistake/error/mix-up etc.

He's obviously not completely stupid or he wouldn't have been in that job. I'll rephrase that, he's not so stupid that he wouldn't recognize the risks. So why did he ruin his reputation? He deliberately shot himself in the foot without good reason—unless his reason was to become notorious.

People may think they can get away with faking data but if it's in a high profile field with others hanging off their results things will go pear-shaped very quickly. Remember, we've had excellent tools like Benford's Law for years and that's damned good at detecting forged data: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law.

Knowing what I know there's no way I'd risk my reputation faking data, I'd forever be living fear of being caught out. Moreover, I wouldn't do it for ethical reasons, as in the end I'd be not only cheating others but also myself.
Can someone share some insight what “Pin” means? I get what block, lower, raise means but pin is a bit confusing to me
People in this very thread have used non-ASCII characters? If people are going to mention local issues like the name of a certain politician (or even something like mathematics, with its special characters), non-ASCII characters are going to pop up. It's really not that hard to find non-ASCII comments on this website. Should such comments just not be rendered or what's your suggestion?
Most topics are sufficiently boring (or presented in a boring way) that it won't cause any issues.

The problem arises, when journalists publish some bad interpretation or oversimplification. That's where the review is needed.
I worked on a team that used it heavily, the lifecycle went like this. I joined the team and found it hard to read and understand, I learned it deeply, it became really easy to understand and made sense and I kind of liked it, the old people on the team who chose it left, I had new hires join my team, I found my self in the position of having to see how it affected their experience onboarding, I realized it was just kind of more trouble than its worth, we removed it later when we had the opportunity.
Reading it now, it really is bringing me back to the excitement of computing and gaming in the 20th century. The classic id games made a huge, huge impact on my life, and I was active in the 90’s Doom scene.

I appreciate that although he defends his thought process, he does express that he (and his colleagues) could have maybe approached some problems differently given more wisdom and experience. I can’t imagine having had the success and the pressure they faced in my 20’s.
Over time, I've come to find these types of announcements strange. We've just had Fitch downgrade the debt and the market threw a fit. But now, seemingly 48 hours later, we're past that? It just doesn't square up in my mind.
Erm, diversity is a lot more than just geolocation
This kind of thing really bothers me since it's just not that difficult to make extreme heat survivable if you've got access to water, even easier for water and power.

But parking yourself in a trailer is not a good approach. They're so poorly insulated it's basically a solar oven until the sun goes down, like being trapped in a hot car. Even with working AC, that's just going to cost you quite a lot in power since the heat keeps coming in too easily.

If I were stuck living in such a trailer park without funds, I'd likely spend my summers outside in swim trunks, under an umbrella, with a water-mister+fan aimed at me. They even sell such things integrated for the purpose, but you can trivially improvise something.

A Moab bar+cafe I visited in July had an industrial mister+fan the size of a refrigerator that cooled the entire bar despite having one whole wall of roll-top doors open to the >100F outside.

If you've crossed the wet-bulb temperature due to extreme humidity though, that's a different ball game. TFA didn't mention if that was a factor here, I don't think Texas had it that bad humidity-wise in the recent heat waves, did they?
The last 20 years witnessed the most rapid rate of economic growth in human history, amidst mass-extinction, huge reductions of natural habitats and the collapse of numerous ecosystems.

Your analysis underestimates the adaptability and technological capabilities of human civilization. We can continue to expand even as the natural ecosystem is destroyed.

So a better way to protect natural environments, than pushing for reductions and caps on consumption, is to provide an alternative path for development that protects the environment while allowing even more economic growth.
It can be both inevitable and DOA.
Wow, so I could write an MacOs app just with Lua + your bindings ?
I’ve experienced the non-English thing in a few different contexts and while I love the diversity of languages and speak a few myself, I think not mandating an official language to be used in the office is a mistake.

Your case is the obvious one: if most people speak Finnish but you only require English of your hires, sooner or later you will have people unfairly excluded from the social part of the office. Even if you’re in Helsinki, you need to either require that work conversations be in English, or make obtaining Finnish fluency an official part of the job. The latter being the much harder route.

However, in real life this requires a more enlightened C-suite than you probably have (cf. butts-in-seats order), so you might consider carving out an hour a day to quietly learn whatever language is being spoken by the rest of the team. It’s probably easier than Finnish and it could help your career!
GPL only provides you rights and freedoms as a customer/end user. Companies are free to choose who their customers/end users are.

IBM can make sure Alma and Rocky aren't their customers, don't legitimately receive the binaries, and therefore under GPL don't have the rights to the source code.
because incentives are the same
So how should that work? Every person who uses a computer has to manually configure what kinds of characters they want rendered?
Not an expert (no pun intended), but MoE where each expert is actually just a LoRA adaptor on top of the base model gets me pretty excited. Since LoRA adaptors can be swapped in and out at runtime, it might be possible to get decent performance without a lot of extra memory pressure.
Powdered citric acid or liquid lemon juice is a common and harmless preservative.
That's only on paper. In reality its much less than that in output.
Agreed. I was put off at first because it feels very of-its-time, being a running commentary on TV 50+ years ago, but once you get past all the ephemeral pop culture mentions, it feels pretty timeless.
> I think you mean cocó (Portuguese/Brazilian for shit, mostly used by little kids; adults use a different word)

No, the word does have a circumflex, not an acute accent, and it's also used by adults (mostly in the expression "fazer cocô", which means to defecate). But, of course, that might be something regional to where I live (a large metropolitan area on the southeast region of Brazil).
That's a great technique I would say!

I stumbled on it by chance when I failed to make it to a client meeting with one junior dev I was leading. He was counting on my presence to support him, we had already discussed it before. But I got caught up last minute and he decided to go alone. And I know it was hard for him, but everything went fine. And from then on he was a lot more confident in his day to day.
Jose you're also kinder than most in the sector of consultancy.

I'm not saying that these libraries are deliberately designed to be malicious. I'm saying the incentives don't always align. And some of that has to creep into the mindset of some of the design.

Also I wouldn't level the "crept into the mindset" accusation at Phoenix core or ecto or absinthe even, because for the most part they conform to expected terminologies.
You've pretty well debunked this, but I took a stroll through the git repos; the commit logs tell the truth.

Python: the latest commit was from a Microsoft employee. Not to mention the creator of Python works for Microsoft now.

GCC: The commit log is overwhelmingly from: RedHat, Suse, Intel, Arm, Oracle (!), IBM and a few indie developers scattered about. I saw maybe one GNU person in the logs at the most.

Sounds like Free Software has gone corporate.... RMS might want to get his suit dry cleaned.
Searched for a Brother comment to reply to - found it, thanks! :-)

I don't do a lot of printing, but when I do it's for a real need and I just want it to work. So I got another HL-L2375DW (mono full duplex laser) last year to replace my first which I gave to my ex after separation/divorce - a perfect little unit, not a trace of HP-level BS anywhere to be found. It goes to sleep with minimal power use, and wakes up when needed, even weeks or months between each use - can print straight from my Samsung phone with no extra driver install needed, as well as from PC naturally. I've just set it up on the Wifi, but it also has a network port + USB. Perfect.

It was only around 200 AUD; mind you the included toner wasn't the biggest but I only need it for occasional use so it's still going strong. I'll probably get their big drum when it eventually runs out (that's what I did with my 1st, ex printed a lot more than I) and whilst I could go 3rd party I'll just buy theirs anyway to support them in a small way.

https://www.brother.com.au/en/products/all-printers/printers...
In India, they might not be pathetic basement dwellers, because the normalization of the thing leads to less competition from people who find their partners without resorting to misogynistic institutions. I would stand by them being loathsome, though.

What problem with dating apps do you suggest matchmaking solves?
Mandatory opt-in.
There tends to be the most variation in the country where a language originated—-the “center of diversity”. Taiwan is the CoD for the Polynesian languages including Indonesian and native languages of Madagascar. (As per Guns Germs and Steel)
DuckDuckGo's App Tracking Protection on Twitter, Mastodon and Bluesky
I haven't been to Boston in 15 years, but I remember it having two very distinct accents when I was there.

There was the very Bostonian Irish accent with rolling R and very soft H. My mother always said Kennedy had it, but I can't pick that up in recordings apart from the use of lots of adverbs and a general flair for speaking.

The other is distinctly WASPish. It's the New England received pronunciation style. It's more Yankee.
Too bad the treadmill I bought at costco was crippled unless you hooked it to the internet.

you can do:

- start setup
- continue without wifi
- manual start

then you can manually press all the buttons (speed, incline, etc)

but no treadmill programs.
Incidentally, Kagi has a URL rewrite feature that integrates this natively!
ISP doesn't provide much in terms of support. They had a IPv6 page for some years announcing it was available for the eager ones, which has been since been taken down. Searching for IPv6 in their documentation comes up empty.

Software isn't ready or was written back in the early days before they figured out how IPv6 would actually be deployed. I had an Asus router back in the days, it had primitive and unstable IPv6 support, which just grabbed a single /64 and that was it.

I then ran pfSense for some years and it was unusable for IPv6 due to everything being geared around fixed prefix. Even if my ISP had given me a fixed prefix it would have been a pain, because I got two new cable modems in that period (one due to the previous being too old, other one due to a move), so would have gotten a new prefixes anyway and would have had to rewrite all my firewall rules. Would have been major PITA each time. No such need with IPv4.

I switched to OpenWRT some years ago and it's mostly worked since. Mostly.

Android phones in the homes don't respect my DHCPv6 settings, and it took me some time to figure out it ignored my DNS settings because I had only IPv4 configured as my local DNS server. Other boxes were fine with that, but not Android, which silently used Googles DNS instead.

Running dual stack isn't ideal either, since it can lead to inconsistencies. When some things work and some things don't, and it can be difficult to figure out why because of the non-trivial interaction between IPv4 and IPv6.

It's also painful because just about everything is different. So very little of what I know of how to configure my IPv4 network carries over. It's very much not just IPv4 with more bits. I'm old enough now that I'm not terribly excited about digging around in the IPv6 technical weeds, and I haven't found a good guide or reference I can fall back on.
It's its superiority to modern GUIs that make it appear so
I would love to see some merging of OLED and e-ink. Such that you could watch videos or browse the web in traditional video screen, then switch to e-ink for reading an ebook or a long article, on the same screen. Coding in e-ink could be quite pleasant too given quick enough refresh rates.
I have a decent memory but my attention span has been decimated. I find myself tuning out on calls and looking at anything else. Then I come back to reality and realize I have missed something important. Recently I have started closing my eyes while on zoom (camera off). It has really helped me focus and pay attention. this breaks down of course when someone is sharing their screen. I find that a solution to this is to turn my camera on as it forces me to pay attention or people will see me with my head turned to the side.
Incidentally it also forces me to shower and shave most days, something that has really fallen off since going remote and covid. I almost never leave the house so my presentation suffered. Only time I cleaned up is if I was going to the gym. So I was somehow in the best shape of my life while also looking like a homeless person when forced on camera.

Both have helped, still not perfect but its better.
I've got Utopia 10Gig at my house, and its honestly the best, most consistent internet I've ever had. Bountiful's new fiber will be an expansion of Utopia, which is awesome.

Fun bit of information: Utopia (Utah's fiber+wireless broadband network) is 100% Ethernet. Which leads to some really interesting circumstances. During a period there was construction somewhere upstream of me, my internet got cut a couple of times. It would always fairly quickly come back, but sometimes my IP would change, as would my promised speeds. Investigating why it was slow once, I discovered that I had a Comcast IP address. Called up the support and asked what was going on, and we eventually tracked it down: Someone had bridged a Comcast business network and Utopia connected network somewhere, and when my router couldn't get DHCP from the ISP, it grabbed one from this Comcast network, and happily sent my traffic through their network. Got that fixed pretty quickly.
My boss doesn't allow me.
Savings lost $1.1 trillion in purchasing power in 2022
Impact of record high inflation and near zero interest rates on savings at JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo.
i have a brother toner cartridge and got low toner messages. I have not even printed 250 pages.

I was thinking maybe I moved the printer and it is not level?
The author of that comic did not invent prediction markets.
It's only English people who find "ä" confusing. The provincialism in this thread...
Enshit-in
Thank you! I knew it couldn't mean "Merger of Equals"... but then again, if those experts are equals, then maybe that acronym also works ;-)
1. Thanks (but paywalled)
2. Hmm idk I call it a “circle”.
I forced them to agree to not apply the sticker to the car I ordered for delivery to the dealer. I got in in writing from the sales rep.
When I went to pick up the car and it had their stupid sticker on it. They had to remove it and redo the clear coat at their expense.
Does “at least 20 users” imply the list of blocked domains is all blocked domains with at least 20 users?

If so, I would have expected a much longer tail.
Not mine, thankfully. I detailed that in a sibling reply.
I believe most carnivorous plants evolved while living in areas with depleted soil resources. Presumably, during that time, there was some sort of selection for plant mutants that were slightly more likely to survive because they could absorb nutrients from decaying insects, but without any sort of physical trap mechanism. Then, over time, some small physical mutations showed up (and provided a survival and reproduction benefit)... and ... well, to be honest, speculating about evolution like this is remarkably iffy. But we can speculate they probably happened through modifications of existing plant primitives, like leaf structures.

Dawkins made an attempt at it in The Blind Watchmaker. See also https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-carnivorou... and https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2017.21425
That's actually great information because it has been driving me crazy. I put in a brand new cartridge and it still complains. I assumed it was non-OEM BS.
This would sound like questionable advice except that the best code I wrote in college resulted from an accident…

I’d sat down all night and written some C for a graphics class. Everything was great, yay, victory. Proceeded to tar it up per class guidelines and did something like this:

tar cvf assignment.c assignment.h data.txt readme whatever.cuz

And as many of you no doubt recognize, I’d forgotten to supply a destination name before listing the source files.

So the code was gone. My brain was gone, too, so I explained what happened and sent what I had, including a working executable, to the TA. He gave me an extra day to finish.

So the next day I sat down and wrote it all again and as mentioned above, it was some of the best code I’d written. Doing it again from the top saved all sorts of dead ends and mistaken approaches.
Yes, they had it for a few years a decade ago.

If you think through the feature, it's not at all obvious that it's a good idea for an established search engine targeting the general public [0]. But even then it might be a great idea for a search engine that's trying to establish an initial niche. It doesn't even matter whether the idea actually works well in practice: if 100k people think that manual curation of search result domains is a high value feature and are willing to pay for it, the feature has done its job.

[0] I wrote a more detailed comment on why a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34294800
Isn't instagram the same?
Utopia fiber is owned by a combination of Utopia and the cities/counties the physical layer is installed in.

Different ISPs peer into it, and they're responsible for connecting it to the larger internet. One of the nice things about it being an open network is that you can have multiple ISP accounts simultaneously, and only one physical connection to your property.
but in other languages you might be doomed

$ aspell --lang=pl dump master | cut -d / -f 1 | fgrep jk | wc -l
981
If you insist on being so pedantic, what makes you so sure the breakpoint isn't an error?
The famous comedian John Cleese speaks about this where he loses a script and has to rewrite it from memory before a deadline. Then he finds the old one and finds out his new one is much better despite thinking it was the same. So he started using it as a technique for better script writing. It is referenced here but I can’t find the video https://www.ideaconnection.com/right-brain-workouts/00186-jo...
Check out the papers and talks from Papers We Love, a "repository of academic computer science papers and a community who loves reading them":

https://paperswelove.org/
I bought a NAS a fee years back. Was a fully functional computer complete with 4x usb, hdmi, and Ethernet. Only the ethernet was exposed until you cut the case away.
Cut the case, installed truenas, never looked back.
it's the recursive clause, that applies gplv2 to derivative works. the prescriptive part is "must cause … to be licensed", and nothing else. what is says is that paraphrasing "the work based on program must be licensed at no additional fee under similar terms as the original program". this part is self-contained and doesn't say anything about e.g. copy and distribution.

the copy and distribution clause is only part 3, where you "may" copy and distribute the program (or its derivative work, as per part 2) provided that you either "accompany it with complete … source code" or some means to get the source code from you on demand.

I can't claim this just from reading the license, because I'm not a lawyer, but in rms's reading and in Lessing's reading, the combination of part 1 and part 2 mean, paraphrasing, "if you make derivative work, compile it, and distributed it, you must also provide source code".
w3schools used to be one of the best resources ~15 years ago. Today I intuitively avoid it because

1. The ads make the fan on my laptop spin (I prefer to avoid ad-heavy websites over using adblock)

2. The 'Try it yourself' button is fake. It doesn't actually run the code and doesn't let you edit it.

3. It is not a good reference. To give an example, the last time I visited w3schools was upon searching "react ul li", which landed me on the page https://www.w3schools.com/react/react_lists.asp . Ironically, the reason why I was searching the term, was to find advice on setting the "key" prop in on list items. The w3schools example doesn't even mention the prop and produces errors. Compare that to the official reference which ranks much lower in Google search: https://react.dev/learn/rendering-lists#where-to-get-your-ke... .
Hardware function implementations deal with multidimensional design space metrics: performance (speed), power and area.
These should be taken into account in any work intended for more than just digital design basics.

This paper provides a modern take on these issues:

https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2022/EECS-2022-...
There's already fixed point wireless, WISP services, that are fairly easy for any town to set up and install. The issue isn't so much getting the physical layer down (although that is always going to be a big stopping point) but keeping it running
I usually just read the abstract and synthesize that with the comments on HN to get the gist (and legit-ness) of the research.