skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe we should just accept that malnutrition, starvation and potential death are natural elements that Africans need.

Problem solved and everyone can be happy now. If not, let's just wait for Africans to figure this out on their own as only they can.
It’s quite possible to avoid learning this. A trivial way is to do all of your coding in python, and then never do anything more advanced than a todo MVC app. Do this for 3 years then get promoted to management and stop coding.

When money was cheap, delivery didn’t matter for a while.
You probably have a mainstream system. I'm talking about:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-sy...
It seems fair to assign a lot of blame to the person that told you to do it and paid for you to do it as the owner of a good chunk of it.

You don't think that should have any blame at all?
They're enjoyable. It's a relaxing place to hang out and drink with friends, which makes them especially fun to have on vacation. I will definitely pay a little extra to stay at the hotel with a hot tub.

That said, I think they'd lose their magic if I had one available to me every day and had to take care of it, so I'm with you on having no desire to own one.
Ask HN: Unintended Consequences of Ambient Pressure Room Temp. Superconductor
In all the coverage I read of LK-99, one angle I didn’t see covered is what the potential unintended and negative consequences of an APRTSC might be. For example, could access to such a material destabilize the global economy and geopolitics? Would it enable more powerful and more widely available weapons of mass destruction? Could corresponding advances in computing amplify and accelerate the risks and impacts of AI without time to mitigate them? Perhaps thankfully this is all hypothetical now that LK-99 appears to be a bust. But still seems important (and interesting!) to think through and understand these and other non-obvious potential second and third order consequences if humanity were to acquire such a potentially disruptive technology in the future.
If we are talking about Microsoft as a whole, then there is no “about face” unless they change their mind implied by their planned obsolescence decision about Windows 11 not even running on Zen 1 or Skylake for no real reason.
Interesting. That's not the first time I get this suggestion. So what's the solution here? Should I just remove the filter?

Edit: I ended up removing the filter.
The artists were probably paid a one-off $50 to come into the studio and record, and the rentiers have profited off them ever since.
2. Typescript is the language they're using. Generally people don't change their entire codebase to a different language because they run across a bug that would have been hypothetically solved by a different language. Additionally, this is a validation / coercion issue. It is a risk at the boundary of any two systems, you have to translate network bytes into a type your type system understands. If you translate it wrong, the type system is helpless to save you.

1. A streaming database isn't necessarily what they need here, postgres is plenty fast for most use cases. I'd move to a specialized tool like materialize if they've squeezed all of the juice out of postgres.

3. Postgres doesn't have audit tables built in, though there are multiple tools and plugins for postgres that can hook into things and do it for you. They went with a custom trigger solution, maybe that was sufficient for their use case.
A nice small SaaS will also almost always die quick.

IMO, it is foolish to hinge the decision of taking VC money or not based on potential lifespan alone.

VC money could kill your startup quickly, but you could potentially make a lot of stable money in that short period of time, and end up better off than collecting smaller profit from your small SaaS that lives for a longer period of time.

And yea most of the time you are reinvesting profits but you should hopefully be paying yourself too along the way. Not to mention you are also paying a lot of other people as well and creating value for them.

Ultimately VC money isn’t destroyed, it’s just reabsorbed into a wider economy.
You are completely mistaken

That fee only covers general piracy. It does not give you the right to copy copyrighted works. In fact, european copyright is much stricter than US copyright. There is no fair use and european copyright (based on the napoleon code) forbids making a copy of copyrighted works except for a few exceptions specifically mentioned in the law (eg a browser displaying a webpage, etc...).
Apart from the fact that Scientific American has taken an unfortunate ideological bent the last years and as such is no longer the "unbiased scientific source" it once was reputed to be I don't think the claim of 'every major prediction to ever come out of it has been wrong' can be refuted by an article which claims that 'things are even worse than currently predicted'. It could be refuted by showing earlier predictions from climate science which did come true. This is probably what transcriptase was referring to when he made that claim as it is indeed hard to find historical climate predictions - made before the subject was politicised - which turned out to be true while the field is littered with predictions which turned out to be wrong. From Ehrlich's famine forecasts through the new ice scare of the 70's to acid rain there are plenty of examples where things did not turn out as predicted.

Maybe you have some examples where the predictions actually came true? If so, please share them. It is much harder to find out when things went as predicted than the opposite since the former does not nearly get as much attention as the latter.
Texas questions rights of a fetus after prison guard who had stillborn baby sues
AOSP contains a music player, a gallery, a camera app, a web browser, a calendar and some dev tools. Sure, they haven't been updated for a few years, but that doesn't mean they're not there. WiFi and LTE work just fine as long as your manufacturer uses hardware supported by normal drivers.

That said, office supplies don't make something an operating system. If all it had was a launcher, it would still be an operating system, because you can install the apps you want onto it.

I don't know why your device didn't have WiFi, ut it's not the norm. Standard AOSP images should use the vendor partition to load additional drivers if the ones built into the Android kernel don't suffice.
Hmm thank you for the feedback, but I'm not sure if I follow you. Which golang code are you referring to? We have two different Go libraries.

One is envkey-source (https://docs-v2.envkey.com/docs/envkey-source), which contains core client-side decryption and verification logic. It can be used standalone from the shell like this:

# some-command runs with EnvKey vars in its environment
$ envkey-source -- ./some-command

Or like this:

# EnvKey vars are set in current shell
$ eval $(envkey-source)
$ echo $SOME_ENVKEY_VAR

And second, envkey-source is also wrapped by our language-specific SDKs, including one for Go: https://github.com/envkey/envkey/tree/main/public/sdks/langu...

It allows you to integrate with a Go project like this:

// main.go
import (
"os"
_ "github.com/envkey/envkeygo/v2"
)

// assuming you have GITHUB_TOKEN set in EnvKey
token := os.Getenv("GITHUB_TOKEN") // this will stay in sync

We're planning to do a docs-improvement pass soon so I'm very interested in how we could clear up any confusing aspects of how the different pieces fit together.
Again, health officials don't make these decisions. They don't have the power.

> If 2020 taught me anything, it’s that technocracy is a horrible form of government. If “heath-care experts” were given the chance, I fully imagine us still playing covid theater to this day.

You may want to take a look at the mortality rates of the US vs those of other developed nations where the "technocrats", as you call them, were listened to closely. What I see in there is a complete failure of the US as a society, an example of people throwing the most vulnerable under the bus to avoid slight inconveniences like wearing a mask.

Regardless, the opposite of this "technocracy" is leaving specialized agencies in the hands of utterly unprepared people, career politicians, businesspeople and lawyers, instead of scientists and engineers. That is just madness.
>It was a common position among European and American communists

Sadly it wasn't. Some continued to deny Stalin's crimes well into perestroika. Especially in the academia.
Said another way, America is the sandbox for the rich to experiment on the poor, with technology that may or may not be good for the poor but ultimately doesn’t matter because the ultimate winner is always the one funding them.

It’s the test and staging servers for global capitalism
Practical ways to shift QA left
I'm not in the know. What's the kickbacks-and-favors game? I understand the words, but how does it work?
> Rust, C++, Go, Python, etc. are good, but they're not made for us.

I also don't see any technical reason you couldn't have the best of both worlds. E.g. a dynamic runtime environment that allows recompiling functions on the fly etc., but also have a separate batch compiler that can type check the program as a whole, do whole program optimizations, etc.

So you can do exploratory programming while developing, and the run the batch compiler before committing changes, when doing releases, etc.

I think the biggest challenge is simply the amount of effort required to design and implement it (and of course someone who's interested enough in it to do it).
Not sure about those two you mentioned but Ansible as a similar tool does not have state. It needs to run every command and check what changed. Nix, from my understanding, does have state so it can be more efficient.
None of the instructions likely to be emitted by that loop will be microcoded, and the instruction will always be fetched from L1 cache. That said, this won’t be an issue simply because CPUs are designed and tested to be able to handle hot loops.
Yeah, but Guix shows its age too (has learned lessons unimplemented) and it’s not as usable atm afaik.
Even one of the parents in the story didn't find the communication method helpful.
Geocities, Tripod, MySpace, GoDaddy, WordPress, Blogger, Blogspot, SquareSpace...

People just don't need or want this. Facebook has a network effect and shows you all your friends' posts. Having to visit fifty personal sites would be a pain.
Realtalk, one of the biggest problems with the United States is that there’s no mechanism to adjust or reboot states after statehood.

In some of these cases the state would simply go under and be reformed or reabsorbed into neighboring states, but thanks to the federal mechanism this cannot happen. The US taxpayer will always be injecting federal money into the state and that’s enough to stave off total collapse, it is unpossible for even a natural disaster to push even the shittiest corrupt state under or anything else. And in many casss that means these corrupt ineffective states continue to linger on far past their actual shelf life and after they would have been reformed into a more stable one under any other system.

This also has the effect of crippling the federal government with a lot of “pocket boroughs/rotten boroughs” that have constitutionally-allocated voting rights yet have almost no residents and potentially no economic activity. And there is no mechanism to reform this without the consent of the states, which will never be given for political reasons even if the states themselves wanted it (which they don’t).

It is also not a coincidence that when the Slave States left that the north got a bunch of regulatory stuff passed while they were gone. The marriage is really not a happy one and part of that is that these state governments continue to be set up in an undemocratic fashion which continues to promote and empower these same folks over and over - like the 1910s/1920s and 1950s/1960s flareups of the Klan. But again, we rebuilt the same antidemocratic (by design, to suppress threats to oligarchic slaveholder power) government structures after the war and expected a different outcome somehow. And there just is no mechanism for reform without another war and re-admission to the union as being a club to force reforms.

This lack of a reform mechanism for state allocation and structure is going to be the thing that kills the union for good, I very much feel this is the singular underlying issue that’s been rattling around the untied states for almost 250 years now. Fix the state allocation and the senate or presidency aren’t as undemocratic a structure.

And yes, I understand full well that the slave states would never have joined the compact if such provisions were included. They should have been, and the slave states would eventually have collapsed or initiated a fatal war and been assimilated into a more stable structure. The economic collapse of the south in the 1840s/1850s as they missed the industrialization wave due to the Resource Curse of slave labor would have pushed them under in the alt-history timeline too.

(and yes West Virginia was the loyalists who stayed with the union, but, culturally and economically they have weighed with the rest of Southern Appalachia more in the intervening era, and suffered similar resource-curse economic failure due to coal rather than cheap slave labor.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten_and_pocket_boroughs

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse
From 2020; but still applicable.

Where does one file a bug report for "trigonometry" to get these infelicities fixed, anyway? Has anyone done the full SBoM checks on it yet?

It hasn't been updated since when!?
> I don't give a shit if they mean it. If they are doing pro-consumer things I'm going to reward them and if they stop doing it, I'm going to stop rewarding them.

The issue is that you have to think two steps ahead.

Microsoft wants to sell hardware, so they sometimes make hardware customers actually want. Reward them, you might say -- buy one of those instead of a Chromebook or a Mac.

But then you get Windows with it. It pushes all of Microsoft's services on you, and if you're not paying attention your files end up on OneDrive and your documents end up in Microsoft-proprietary formats, and then you're stuck with that even if the next Surface goes back to being unrepairable.

Now, you could buy a Surface and put Linux on it, for example. But that's not going to save you if that's not what you actually do.
I'm using oto on a personal project and really enjoying it.

In my case, we generate a Typescript API client for a React app. Very nice companion to Golang.
Firefox is restoring access to more add-ons. Most were actually available to folks running Nightly or Fennec, yet with no guarantees all APIs had been ported.

Regardless, my point stands, Safari mobile lacked extensions for over a decade while Firefox was offering some on Android. Can iOS browsers even offer meaningful extensions so long as Apple forces them to be a skin on Webkit? (With Safari getting privileged access of course.)
What are the two commands for further reading? Not familiar with Nix.
https://archive.li/wbj97
Thank you very much! Glad that you liked it! :)
> The part I struggle with is, how do I let my kids program and be creative on the computer without being online when daddy can’t program without an internet connection?

Same way we did "back in my day"? Books are still a thing, and in my opinion, much better. When you have to work for something, you value it more, and in the case of information, are more likely to retain it (this is due to real-world connections being made).

> How will they develop “street smarts” about being on social media without a social media account?

Why do you care? Being the odd one out in a wrong world isn't a bad thing. I was the odd one out in a similar way when I was a kid, and it did me wonders.

> How do I let them have the same positive experiences I had playing games without having the deeply negative ones too

Presuming you mean negative generally, why would you want to? Ups and downs are what make games interesting, not just constant endorphin pushing ups.
The great library was lost by abandon not fire. That's a really strongly held belief that's hard to debunk unfortunately.
Have you tried / are you going to try devenv or devbox for development environments? I'm curious to know what other people think. As for me I'll try it as soon as I finish reinstalling my macos.
> Ackshually, plenty of policymakers have no clue about the topics they decide on, and that's a big issue.

Yes, sarcasm.

When I see someone complaining about technocrats, my eyes roll so hard it hurts.

These people would be happy with a TV host as head of NASA, and see no issues with it.
By shedding the constraints of the FHS [0] it's able to completely rethink how the different components of an operating system interact with each other. It's like going from assembly to a language with functions. Dependencies can be analysed, can be encapsulated. Your OS becomes the output of a build file, not some porcelain edifice of /etc/ files. 'Rollback' is nonsensical, you just run the old build.

I boot to a tmpfs root so all my changes are ephemeral unless I deliberately save them, it's a fresh install on every boot.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
My high water mark was the basics... and then the candidate drawing an analogy between char as primitive and char-array-based-strings as object oriented classes that offered additional functionality on top of chars.
If you're in a senior management position in a company which has any M&A activity, I'd expect you to have at least some understanding of VC basics.
The "S" in IoT stands for security. A bunch of file servers inadvertently connected to the Internet isn't the best idea. Leaked personal data and botnets will just be the start of the problems.
I would not trust anything written about China. They’ve become masterful at deception. They want to have this image that they are weak and limping as they slowly take over the West.
I said almost no new projects. It is highly discouraged.
Who are these “policy makers” and how did they come to power?
I believe the leadership in the major blocs(the U.S.A, EU, China) are not doing a great job running the planet.

In most of the western (so called) democracies, the “policy makers” primary skill is being put on a ballot for a political party, by the party leadership, frequently not the most qualified people to rule a country.

Crucially, popular referendums should be held, often and the more radical proposals the more important it is to have the popular support.
True enough; the binding tool handled this. The system of record was in the app server. The db was considered slaved to the app, and more-or-less tightly coupled to it (within reason). This provides a really solid mental model.

Side-note: the GP comment was actually doing pretty well (like +7) now it's (+2) so a cadre of anti-stored proc folks did a drive by down-voting. A bit sad, IMO.
We would have had a million deaths no matter what we did. Covid wasn’t going anywhere. The idea we could control or contain it was a fantasy.
Okay that type of 'target' i have never seen in pactice, it would mean that if you would write the same equation using 2 statements, the casting would be different because you then would have 2 targets. Anyway, there are endless ways of designing a language, all with pros and cons. Nice exercise of thought.
> Symbolics's in-house publishing system Concordia

What you describe regarding Concordia sounds very intriguing. I can search for information on Concordia, but do you have any goto references (books, papers, videos) on it that you'd recommend?
We've had networks composed of unreliable nodes before - indeed, this assumption is baked into some of our oldest protocols, like email and usenet. All that is required is for at least 2 equally unreliable peers to act as temporary caching servers to bring the effective uptime up from 95% to 99.99% (provided everyone's downtime is uncorrelated).
Port 80 / 443 privileges at the device's networking level, mostly. If you don't need those there are indeed plenty of options (e.g. hosting onion sites works fine).
I assume these storie-lets are true but the timeline is wrong, it was much more than 10 years ago. I went to an Adrian Cockroft talk in 2012: they had thousands of engineers and hundreds of services at that time, Asgard already existed and was in the process of being open-sourced, etc.
I like runpod, although I've found that I typically have to set NCCL_P2P_DISABLE=1
Good point, it would probably require some way to score the timestamps.
A de-Googled device doing very little will have great battery life. Once you load up a chat app or two, that battery life quickly starts degrading, because every app starts polling a server for updates.

Most people use some kind of app that receives push updates from the internet onto their smartphones, whether that's Facebook or WhatsApp. If you can live without those apps then you'll have a much better time, because the WiFi can actually turn itself off completely and the phone modem can fall back to a state as passive as possible.

You don't need to de-Google your phone for this effect. Just disable all internet access (WiFi off/disconnected, cellular data off) and your phone can last a day longer. Works great for devices repurposed as navigation systems!
"The bull is dead" is completely useless information. This story seems to be an example of poor parenting to me...

There is a time and place for conveying information quickly and concisely, and there is a time and a place for storytelling and human connection. Seems the latter has been lost on this child's upbringing.
I’ve seen roles like that as well, but much less than I used to. I see them more on entry level roles. I’ve never worked frontend and I’ve barely been full stack for several years now. Most of my experience is in .NET stuff, and usually C# is not the “ “x, y, or z”. Usually it’s something along the lines of “Java, Go, Python”. Not that I haven’t ever worked in those languages, but certainly not recently.
This will start a little off topic but I will get back to the main point.

I feel like there's a group of users who are very against anything that might bring MORE users into their service of choice. So for mastodon, it's things like fedibuzz, and recently on Lemmy (at least on android) it's the Sync App coming out.

The Lemmy situation was a very polished very good former reddit app, which is now a Lemmy app, seems to have upset a lot of people because its "Not Open Source". Which I can understand, but I get the feeling the pushback is basically the fear that MORE users will come to Lemmy now that the experience is nicer.

The third thing is that the more I use bluesky, and the more I see these same kinds of infighting or issues come up in Masto/Lemmy .. the more I realise that perhaps BSKY is just the better longterm choice for me.

Now back to the main point.

I kind of WANT some way to discover new users, or topics, or anything discovery related, and having your own Masto instance just seems to nerf those things. I'm happy that fedibuzz exists, and I'm happy that there's a kind of trending posts/news in Masto. But It needs to be better if it wants to survive. The average user will not put the kinds of effort in to FIND new people that exist elsewhere.

So users join larger instances, because theres discovery features there. But then the Local feed is just not great. The other side of this is single user instances, and those aren't great either.
We definitely have very different riding styles. I keep the regen cranked all the way up, and I can get fifteen miles across the city without touching either brake. I'll occasionally use the rear brake for trail braking.

The regen on my Energica is definitely a lot stronger than on my Zero, though—it's a lot more like an electric car where you can keep your foot over the accelerator almost all the time.

Between the two bikes, I've got roughly ten thousand miles and all four brake pads sit at ~85%.