skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Has any book-burning movement in history actually succeeded in getting ride of the books?

> Because I don't know of any

Of course you haven't, by definition. We find out about the things that survive destruction, not the ones that don't.

edit:

As for the instinct to preserve knowledge, that's not all we have. We also have a profit-maximizing infection that spread to every organ, so to speak. Books printed today don't last very long. Heck, not even newspapers and tech companies give a crap about link rot! Archive.org is a team of volunteers. Wikipedia is very hit or miss, and the ego of some seems to override whatever "instinct" we might have real quick.

So, frankly, I'm not seeing it. Even computing is rotting from under our hands. The Amiga came with schematics of the machine as part of the manual, while nowadays repair shops have to hunt for info. If companies were allowed, they'd each have their own incompatible charger cable, you bet. And let's not even talk about about 100MB applications that do 100KB things, because it's easier for the developer to never care about anything close to the machine and just use the bloated tool chain they already know. Recently I asked for a good (as in, other than "Microsoft wants you to") reason to use Win 11, and just got downvoted. Ever since Win 11 was announced I haven't gotten one answer to that question, ever. There's people who turn their nose up at it, and people who use it who don't want to talk about why. I could go on.

> No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress. Men who think and have correct judgment, and people who treat their subject earnestly, are all exceptions only. Vermin is the rule everywhere in the world: it is always at hand and busily engaged in trying to improve in its own way upon the mature deliberations of the thinkers. [..] An old and excellent book is frequently shelved for new and bad ones; which, written for the sake of money, wear a pretentious air and are much eulogised by the authors’ friends. In science, a man who wishes to distinguish himself brings something new to market; this frequently consists in his denouncing some principle that has been previously held as correct, so that he may establish a wrong one of his own. Sometimes his attempt is successful for a short time, when a return is made to the old and correct doctrine. These innovators are serious about nothing else in the world than their own priceless person, and it is this that they wish to make its mark.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer
The Internet Archive absolutely should be engaged in activism to expand fair use, protect archivist work, reduce copyright term, etc. What they shouldn't be doing is risking their existence by doing things with shaky legal standing.
Yeah, but they also make money on the office subscriptions. So you also want current working data scientists who would not touch excel to give it a chance because they can use their existing python back-end. Eventually, there would be a service that is Microsoft exclusive, but they have to compete on services.

Idk, it's really up to Microsoft's business units. Office could be the loss leader to get cloud business, but it could be the other way too. Either way, I would hazard that they want people to actually use this integration feature.
Thanks for the offer. I spoke with my shopping coordinator and she wasn't as excited about it as I was, so I should probably pass.
> That kind of unbounded massive privacy violation would result in million € fines (if not dozen or hundreds of millions) under GDPR law

No they wouldn't. GDPR enforcement is severely lacking and the regulators tasked with enforcing it are either incompetent or corrupt.
Mixed hosting sounds better - Team instances run from the cloud, but can be locally installed

I deeply resent that my computer must be connected to the internet if I want to do work
In which sector are the top performers stupidest?
I think it is based on caffeine tolerance. I have cut down to only one cup of green tea in the morning and it does the poop magic just fine.
Define "true reconciliation".

Who are these "international entities"?

>It would also require people within the country building a profound sense of national and communal trust

Good point. But it hasn't happened this far, no one seems to be suggesting it.

Do you think south Africa would be better off it it broke up into its constituent tribal areas?

>out a fear that connects directly to the internalized lies of Apartheid and colonialism

That's a very big stretch
The jhanas were describes in the suttas. You can verify it yourself. Leigh Brasington has a lot of resources making them more accessible, https://www.lionsroar.com/entering-the-jhanas/.

I would agree that the jhanas are hallucinations and initially not subtle whatsoever. By repeated exploration of the jhanas you learn that the states are wholly dependent on many things not under your control. Application of these states in real life is a whole different animal compared to simply being able to access them as well.

* Edit: If you do decide to dive in, the first jhana can be very disorienting. It's definitely a good idea seek help in integrating the experience. Feel free to message me, and I can help or at least point you in the right direction!
How else are credit bureaus going to make money other than selling this data?
Rama Docs Are Live
Yup. On paper you'd almost have to be an idiot to pick something other than a tesla however the reality of its performance doesn't match what they claim.

I'm in the market for another car and I periodically compare something to a tesla and it's "Better", but after owning a tesla I know what "Better" actually means.
Assuming OP hasn't found an answer on YouTube or any social media, I'd suggest start making YouTube or other social media content on how to make 3k/month or on how to be debtless, the situation he is in right now.

Why would you need 3k a month if you're debt less though. If I were you I'd watch some yt on how to get by on a lot less, and then rephrase your query with a lower value.
Yet somehow, many here underestimated Meta’s position in AI and proclaimed that Meta was dying and was not important and far behind in the AI race.

How things change dramatically in one year with such exaggeration of Meta’s collapse in 2022.

Not only they are in the lead in $0 free AI models, they are also at the finish line in the AI race to zero.
This was the most interesting thing I read today.
I remember the checksum thing from reading about it a while ago, but didn't know that vendors exploited collisions in order to display their own logo.

What I do remember though from childhood days is that the Nintendo logo could gradually become a pixelated mess when the cartridge was dirty/dusted and that it failed (or maybe refused, as I just learned) to boot when the logo was corrupted.

In that case, blowing the dust out of the cartridge usually solved the issue :)
> One thing I really dislike about powershell development is default aliasing such as using curl to actually call Invoke-WebRequest.

Hasn't been a thing for a while now.
Very true. Arguably the only hallucination here is on the part of the output's credulous reader.
Debugging Speculation Rules
You can play games and use gui applications on the new M1 devices using Asahi Linux. Which means running Linux instead of MacOS.

The only caveat is that most applications won't be compiled for ARM yet, so emulation will still be needed.

This is in contrast of Apple dropping support for OpenGL on their devices, and using their own API layer: Metal.
Is that a measurement problem? Is that a boosted story issue? Propaganda is delivered via an equalizer that boosts and suppresses different dimensions of reality.
So if you want free labor, you just create harsh penalties for minor crimes.
I understand your point, but it's unlikely that there's going to be new constructors added to Boolean :)

EDIT: Oh, actually, nevermind. After reading more closely, I do agree that it might be reduced a bit too much!
This is definitely true. I remember being able to quickly press and release the hangup button on a single phone and if I was quick enough the other person would remain on the line. I don't recall exactly where the threshold was, but I believe it was around a half a second or so.
I've never taken on any debt in my life, would I still need to do this or an I fine since I've never initialized anything in the first place?
They should have maybe gone with a name that pays tribute but differentiates. PrettiMapp? French derived: JoliesCarte? BellesCartes? JollyCart? BellCart?

edit: those sound like ecommerce spots. What about CharMApp?
Jews don't have an assimilation problem. Jews have a problem with nutso orthodocs claiming a monopoly on the Jewish faith, which equate evolution of tradition with genocide. (They call the "assimilation problem" "the silent holocaust")

Oh, and if we're talking about the Holocaust , I find the Mormon obsession with Jews very disturbing especially after I learned they baptised holocaust victims into the Mormon church posthumously. (https://apnews.com/article/992dd887f7b948d0a08055dff0363aa4)

- A jew
I had the original Apple Watch on pre-order and have worn Apple Watches ever since. I have found them to be completely life-changing when it comes to managing notifications without being forced to just turn all of them off.

Beforehand I found that by the time I’d taken my phone out of my pocket in response to a sound or vibration, the battle was already lost and I was distracted. The urge to unlock and investigate a notification when it’s already right there in your hand is difficult to resist, not to mention that it’s super easy to start just flicking through other things or diving into other apps just because they are there.

On the other hand, the watch is far more subtle, it’s more glanceable, it doesn’t require me to stop what I’m doing to look at it, I can decide in an instant whether I want or need to take action on something and I spend considerably less time with my phone in my hand as a result.
The FBI is also global. https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/international-offices
From the Reddit thread by a user named isharing:

"I had got the same stalkerware policy. The problem was not the app itself but the description. In my case 'friend' and 'monitor' keyword can’t be used together."

"If your app description includes 'monitor' or 'track', don’t include any person related keywords such as 'friend', 'people', 'human'. If not, google considers your app can monitor the somebody’s activity."*
What is Multimodal Search: “LLMs with vision” change businesses
What if large language models (LLMs) had "vision", the ability to understand the meaning of images? Just like we have seen the innovation with LLMs with chatbots and text data, the ability would make another huge impact on businesses by letting LLMs look at and organize millions of images in enterprise IT systems. In this post, we will learn how a large vision language model (VLM) works and changes the business in the next couple of years.
>China does limit what US companies can do there

But the narrative is "we are not like them", "we are about freedom, free trade, respecting private property and rights". But the moment "national security" gets even tangentially involved a lot of of this goes out of the window I guess.

>the EU absolutely does have the power

As I said their regulation of US companies is not as extensive, and if judged by how ineffectual the cookie law is in the presence of omnipresent browser fingerprinting and actual GDPR practices by the US companies that I know of the compliance is perfunctory at best.

>Like, do you not want countries to have spies or try to defend themselves from foreign spies?

The position where a cross border internet company automatically a spy questions the legitimacy of internet as a communication medium. From that point of view the Chinese have been doing the right thing isolating their citizens from the foreign internet.
> The pay is quite good, they just can't sign people up.

Quite good does not sound good enough.
Hockey Coaches seem to have a negative IQ correlation with success.
Nvidia H100: Are 550k GPUs Enough for This Year?
> The real problem is again the culture.

The culture lead to fake tests instead of adding tests that were legitimately lacking.

Is that so different from saying they weren't acting like adults?

The phrasing could be called dismissive but I give that a pass because it was mimicking the phrasing from the post it replied to. The underlying sentiment doesn't seem wrong to me.
My favourite is Mindfulness, Bliss and Beyond by Ajahn Brahm.
> Many languages that are considered "precision" languages have some form of suffix to denote large/long/arbitrary-sized literals. (C# there's a big useful difference if a literal ends with `m` or `l`.)

The failure mode is significantly different when comparing JS to other mainstream languages. Most languages have a "checked" mode (either opt-in or mandatory) so that expressions like `4611686018427387904 + 4611686018427387904` can raise an error, whereas JS will just give you the wrong answer. Python is the most ergonomic for beginners or non-developers because the runtime will convert an integral type to an arbitrary precision integer on overflow.

Yes, there are alternative primitives that can be used, but you need to know they exist. We're talking about a tool that is explicitly designed for people who are not professional programmers, and JS's behavior here is surprising unless you understand the underlying data model. I would personally much rather give beginners a tool incorporating as few footguns as possible.

> JS is a language with the tools today to do precision arithmetic (whether you like it or not)

Arbitrary precision arithmetic has been possible in JS since the language was invented, but it has always been a pain. The bignum NPM package[0] predates the BigInt numeric primitive by 9 years. The addition of `BigInt` to ES2020 was important for performance (since implementing an arithmetic primitive in JS makes calculations dog slow), but it didn't add any fundamental affordances to the language.

[0]: https://github.com/justmoon/node-bignum
Ask HN: Standard for webhook source IP declaration?
Is there a standard way to tell customers where your webhooks will be coming from just in case they want to whitelist those IPs?

If there isn't a standard what is the most common way? Docs? Some random URL with IP CIDRs in JSON?
Most managers I encountered sooner or later would get an MBA, particularly as they made it further up the corporate ladder. Yes, it makes sense to get the specialized training being management needs, but an MBA almost never is that training.

And re ex-engineer H1Bs: just because you used to be an individual contributor before becoming management does not imply you retain your individual contributor skills nor that you'll be a good manager.

Most people across my career that became managers did so because the pay was better, workload was lower and promotion ladder more straightforward. Worst managers were usually the type that expected and demanded to be management after X years as an individual contributor; this is particularly true of people from some countries, where it is culturally expected that you'll be a manager within at most 10 years of starting.

Most companies do treat moving to the management ladder as a promotion, which create all sorts of perverse incentives for many to become managers. Reminds me of a blog from a few years back:

https://charity.wtf/2020/09/06/if-management-isnt-a-promotio...
You have described my company's progression to a T. As soon as management empires got built, we lost focus and the entire job was just playing management games. Managers wanted better ratings than perf managers, so they ran their engineers to the ground.

Scoping was whatever manager decided the right scope and timeline was.

It's almost embarrassing to see it in action. I am embarrassed that I am being asked to toil and grind for such stupidity.
The new competition to this market have gained market share by making workbooks not stand alone, it's a whole growing product segment. So they either have to evolve or die.

It's not a red flag, it's evolution
The font rendering problem is very interesting to me because I have always found Firefox to use the same font rendering as the rest of my system, meanwhile Chrome has this universally thin and conspicuous font rendering across all systems I have attempted using it on.

I currently use Mac OS and I see no difference between text rendered on Firefox and text rendered in other Mac OS applications, but there is a world of difference between Chrome and anything else.

So if I had to make a bold claim without evidence, I would guess Firefox uses the OS default font rendering (i.e. it will be as bad the rest of your OS), meanwhile Chrome's font rendering is universally bad (i.e. it does not follow what your OS uses, on any platform, and if you don't like it, then there's not much you can do).
I think there is a perception that if problems like that are first solved in a proprietary service rather than in core tools, it may in extension tie the ecosystem to that service, while at the same time lessen the need to solve problems in the foundation. Even if this perception is wrong, I think it exists and why you see concerns raised in this thread.
Sad, that shoe phone never got any mainstream attention.
And then the lender sent a statement to a the credit agencies stating that you'd taken money from them (libel), and those agencies believed the libel and re-published it (more libel), causing financial damage to you (inability to borrow money).

You are the victim of libel by the banks & credit agencies. They're the victims of fraud by the person(s) they lent the money to. There's no need (other than to protect the banks & credit agencies) to bundle both crimes together, call them "identity theft", and blame it on the individual victim!
Yes (some people would say the photon has a "mass equivalence" but that's really just conceptual)! One of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_pressure

"""Johannes Kepler put forward the concept of radiation pressure in 1619 to explain the observation that a tail of a comet always points away from the Sun.[9]

The assertion that light, as electromagnetic radiation, has the property of momentum and thus exerts a pressure upon any surface that is exposed to it was published by James Clerk Maxwell in 1862, and proven experimentally by Russian physicist Pyotr Lebedev in 1900[10] and by Ernest Fox Nichols and Gordon Ferrie Hull in 1901."""
This isn’t a free speech debate. This isn’t a Chinese newspaper being banned. This isn’t a US citizen being blocked from expressing themselves. This is a software product. The US also regulates products like arms and drug shipments without being labeled hypocritical. Free trade doesn’t mean all or nothing.

As a member of this community, you should already know that mobile apps generate certain types of data that distinguish them from “all cross border internet companies,” and whether or not you’re willing to acknowledge the unique geopolitical context of this particular app, neither of the above can be ignored in any productive, nuanced discussion about TikTok.
"Backed by Sequoia" == No thanks.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/11/04/samsara/
> motte/bailey argument

If you say so. The point was that the transhumanism is just a fact: technology changes us. The people attacking transhumanism are generally more pro status quo than they are anti-technology, whether they realize it or not.
Review of Trajectory Design and Optimization for Jovian System Exploration
And does it matter what other people think?

+1 on "stop doing things that aren't working, work for someone else for a while, get some money, recover, learn why you are not being successful building your businesses, and maybe try again...? "

We're rooting for you!
Effects of melatonin on phosphorylation of memory-related proteins
Where have my X (a.k.a. Twitter) images gone?
I'd recommend getting a VoIP landline-like phone. I have an "ooma", and it works great, and is very cheap.
I use the Headspace guided meditation (30 mins) 2-3 times every day. Did that not work for you? It's amazing how hard they make it just to find the basic guided meditation. Not pushing anything spiritual or ways of thinking the guide prefers. Just experiencing the present.
Yep, I worked at a place that was focused on everyone completing 100% of their jira tickets each sprint, just to get the metrics up. You didn't have to actually finish, it just had to look like you did to the bean counters.

If end of sprint came and you weren't done, the manager would close out the ticket, then reopen another similar one named "Module phase 2" or something similar for next sprint. One guy was an expert at gaming the system, and his ticket got closed and opened anew for about 3 or 4 sprints.
> A programming language needs to be installed first to be of any use.

I have that taken care of already
I mean trans creators that are talking about their transition, their struggles, and anything else they want to talk about.

I know I am getting exactly what I am interested in/engaging in... I was simply pointing out that the OP's choice of words stating that TikTok is trying to manipulate users with their FYP seems off-base.

I don't want them to get out of my face. I am not complaining about the content and the selection, I am ecstatic, but its a far cry from media that is meant to make me angry.
Error handling != exceptions.

Step one would bee sum types, so only valid value space can be represented (return value or error, but not both or neither).
You can get a mortgage without a credit score. It is called manual underwriting.
Appropriate username
This would seem to be important news for programmers. who are always short of memory
Yeah, debit cards interchange is much lower as I understand it, so there's no room to give big rewards. I think purchase protection is, in theory, equivalent or close, but debit cards presume the transaction is good and hold your money, whereas credit cards are more of a review your bill and decide if you're going to pay.

But if you don't want to have a credit profile, then you can't use credit.
Aren't there network effects to using Figma, that a self-hosted version of Penpot will never benefit from?

Just like Github vs open source Gitea alternative.
They already announced that in ~1 year dev mode will become a paid feature - 25 bucks a month per dev, or 35 if you’re on the “enterprise” plan.
Professor Suggests Replacing Elections in US with Lottery System