skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way I'm being asked to do it is absurd and onerous. My employer's outsourced this to a service. So far, so good. The service put the burden on the employees to get'er done, but that's not the whole of it. They're demanding that we identify a person--friend, family, neighbor--to act as "in-person verifier".

In my unique situation, this is, perhaps uniquely, very difficult to do. I contacted an official Notary Public who refused. My church refused. So did my dentist.

I connected with a coworker who offered to help, and flaked on Sunday, so now I'm waiting 'til Friday to hopefully possibly get'er done, but I'm becoming nervous and the employer is issuing veiled threats about jeopardizing our employment if we don't do this thing that's their responsibility in the first place.

Also they've known about this whole thing since before May, but only sprung it on us a couple of weeks ago.
Thank you for the belly laugh
Amazon Linux does something sort of like this, which I guess is 'production quality', meaning much more complex. It annoys me on older versions of Amazon Linux (2 and earlier) because it involves (among other things) an invocation of the openssl CLI to verify the format of individual keys in the authorized keys file that is hardcoded to use RSA, so you can't authenticate to Amazon Linux 2 hosts using ed25519 even though the version of OpenSSH on them supports it.

In theory it's kinda nice because it can let you do fancy things¹, but my actual experiences with it breaking basic functionality even for people who don't use those fancy things has ultimately made me trust Amazon Linux less.

It was especially frustrating because when I first encountered this, I was trying to SSH into a box owned by one of our cloud-first DevOps guys. I couldn't diagnose the box because I didn't have hands on it. He couldn't diagnose the issue because he knows AWS better than he knows Linux and didn't know where to look. He'd chosen Amazon Linux because it's by the owner of the cloud platform, so it must be 'more compatible', right? But here, 'more compatible' actually meant 'more full of stupid surprises'.

Bleh.

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1: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/connect-...
I don't know why Indians gloat over such BS comparisons. The only thing this says is that you can make lowball offers to quality Indian engineering talent and thats ok. It shows a lack of self respect.
surprisingly 4090 has more half precision peak flops than a100
Because of this, I always buy a different brand as well.
Nearest office is about 3000 miles away. This is specifically about remote workers who were virtually "verified" in the first place.
Starlink is not as amazing as it's made out to be. There have been many LEO constellations before it, but due to the space industry as a whole being unattractive to investors, it didn't get any attention until musk got into it. Starlink as a technology is nothing new; what is new is their launch cadence that gives them the ability to put so many satellites into space.

They are still not making money and will require starship before that happens. You can look at other ventures like one web that just didn't get the press that starlink got despite having similar characteristics. Vertical integration with the launch is the only thing that starlink apart technology wise.
If things slow down a bit then speed up again in a few years once economics improve or whatever, does that really make any difference in the long run? What's the long term solution here?

We're not even talking about decades here, probably.
from https://askgeek.io/en/gpus/vs/NVIDIA_NVIDIA-GeForce-RTX-4090...
> Why does it seem like such "macOS bad Linux good" comments always compare the default macOS experience to a personalized Linux environment?

I'm not, I'm comparing to an unmodified, standard config Gnome or Plasma.

I also use Sway, and I'm pretty sure I've spent less time customizing/configuring it than my Mac.
and funnily it seems it's them that run out of people rather than you.
> SSR feels like it was a term coined by marketers more than it does engineers.

What I see is that sometimes young front-end developers use their favorite tools (ie. the JS ecosystem) and are unaware of (or have not practiced) the "old way" of building server-side applications and websites.
I miss IRC, man... a Discord guild is a poor man's IRC server... a Matrix homeserver is a rich man's IRC server...
You buy a house with the cash (private transaction) and then sell the house in a year.
To be fair to the people running Discord, they've been trying to simplify and change it. But the existing user-base that knows the platform always pushes back against changes - such as loading screen tips being un-gamerified and the general design of promotional material going from being a gaming chat platform[0] to a general purpose chat thing[1]

0: https://rr.judge.sh/Chickadee/43748a/chrome_DXEAHYhlJF.png

1: https://discord.com/
Emacs fancy modes?
Scientists 'uncover key' to mystery of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370
Rep. Massie Reintroduces Bill to Abolish Federal Department of Education
Re: security - assuming your RDBMS supports row-level security then you should be fine as-is - otherwise let users only query VIEW objects with security filters baked-in to them.
Man, if several Top 25 websites or apps just colluded to shut off their IPv4 connectivity for a while, not much, perhaps like an hour a week at random peak times, that may really light a fire under everyone to get it in gear.

Never happen, of course, because that's billions in "lost revenue". Womp womp.
I think their point is bun is not a runtime either because you can use it to spit out a blob of js that is run by the browser as normal. Which is how I use it to build js libs. Bun is then just the build and test tooling, and the various runtime bugs do not affect my downstream users (but it can impact testing).
The only alternative is to delete your social media accounts rather than replacing one social network with another.

Migrating to another social network does not solve the problem that Andrew is talking about.

It just prolongs the outrage and the addiction present in all social networks no matter their algorithm or users. Its exactly like suggesting to quit alcohol addiction by drinking a different brand of alcohol.

So the solution is to delete all your social media accounts and never look back.
Slower relative to what?
There is no auditable evidence that it is 5x safer than a human. The 5x safer number is a number self-reported by the Tesla marketing department [1].

This “safety report” consists of three unverified “miles per crash” ratios with no underlying raw data. They do not even publish the raw number of “miles” or “crashes” used in their analysis.

It is a “safety report” where they can not even be bothered to publish the numerator or denominator, let alone publishing their methodology, analysis, controlling for variables, or accounting for bias. No self-respecting scientist or engineer would be caught dead issuing such a deficient report.

In contrast, here is the report by Waymo on their first million driverless miles [2]. As you can see, it follows the basic structure of a research paper. It offers a detailed description and analysis of every individual crash. The difference in reporting is the gap between a grade school report and a proper research paper.

It is an abomination that Tesla is allowed to publish such unsupported and misleading “statistics” just they can more effectively market a incomplete and unsafe product to unsuspecting consumers.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport

[2] https://storage.googleapis.com/waymo-uploads/files/documents...
We can really muddy the waters:

Bun also supports Vite.
They did, Discourse is basically just a plain old forum -- with a somewhat newer coat of paint.

> Is it the lacking of "one-click setup" forum services?

I'm a bit biased (since I run a tiny managed service provider) -- would you create a forum if it had one click setup?

Services like Discourse and NodeBB do offer this kind of service, so it seems like the option is there.
That's why Skiff has had 4 security audits, not just 1 3 years ago. And, with multiple of the best auditors.
Why is there a "continue" at all in the first code sample?

Edit to add: does removing it make any difference?
While I agree with your points, taxing driving is as popular as the bubonic plague. People who like cars and or freedom don't like it, the economist angle will say that it will push the cost of consumer goods way up due to trucking etc.

Honestly there should be more gas taxes (that's not per-gallon but % of sale price) but again, will fail until EVs become dominant.
Did they just build this? [1]

The new thing here is that they can steer, by tweaking the motor phase.

[1] https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2251832650580970.html
I am writing a book, but it is a active learning book. Half the content and tasks in the book are coding based, and the other math based.

Due to the coding based, I am writing the book in Jupyter notebooks. But, writing the content in Jupyter is quite limiting. The main problems are the lack of automatic numbering of equations and automatic referencing.

There used to be an extension for Jupyter notebooks that does this [1] but is no longer actively maintained and doesn't work on Jupyterlab.

[1] https://github.com/jfbercher/jupyter_latex_envs
a Discord guild is a poor man's IRC server..

that natively supports emojis, stickers, embeds, non-ip-leaking voice chat, screenshare with audio, rich permissions, avatars, attachments

oh, and chat history. Because everyone loves needing an irc bouncer to be able to assimilate the context of the active conversation when they log in.
Distributed Consensus
He had particular affection for Welsh and Finnish, from what I remember. His academic specialty was Old English.
> Yet find myself doomscrolling much less and being more satisfied than Reddit. Still a small community though…

I think these two things are tightly related. When a platform gets too big, the content trends towards the lowest common denominator, which tends to be content that appeals to our primal fears, anger, and hatred. Lemmy is small enough that the community is still drawn together by something healthier.
Personally, I love the value of Reddit.

How I see it is that it's a single account which allows me access to an infinite number of communities for me to ask questions about.

Interested in fishing? Ask about it in the fishing subreddit. Interested in Chinese Medicine? Ask about it in the Chinese Medicine subreddit.

I absolutely love it. It's like interactive Google.
That's because single thread perf of CPUs hasn't progressed and ~500fps is where CPUs cap out on that game still to this day. GPUs are doing fine.
> identifies the elected President as the head of the executive.

Wrong. He is a "nominal head", or in other words, "in name only". The powers are vested in the Prime Minister not the President. So it does not make him the head of the executive. Read Article 53 (3)a of Indian Constitution which overrides 53(1) and resolves any ambiguity: https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1597349/

(3) Nothing in this article shall
(a) be deemed to transfer to the President any functions conferred by any existing law on the Government of any State or other authority;

So the authority of Prime Minister, as defined by the Constitution, cannot be transferred to the President, even though he is a nominal head. This is as per 53 (3)a.

Article 74(1) further cements this:
https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1951021/

"(1) There shall be a Council of Ministers with the Prime Minister at the head to aid and advise the President who shall, in the exercise of his functions, act in accordance with such advice: Provided that the President may require the council of Ministers to reconsider such advice, either generally or otherwise, and the President shall act in accordance with the advice tendered after such reconsideration"

Which means the President can only ask for advice (from PM + Council of Ministers) to be reconsidered, and after reconsideration, he still has to act on the advice. He cannot overrule it. Hence why a Bill can be passed by Parliament and sent back by President to be reconsidered only once. The second time the Bill is sent, the President is duty bound to assent else he can be impeached. The Prime Minister on the other hand cannot be impeached. The ruling Government can be brought down with a no-confidence motion or if enough members from ruling party defect. No other way to impeach a Prime Minister.

Also read Article 77:

77. (1) All executive action of the Government of
India shall be expressed to be taken in the name of the
President.

It is pretty clear that he has no "real" executive powers and is head in "name" only as the Government is taking actions in his name. The executive power rests with Government of India whose head is the Prime Minister.

It is also even more undermined by the fact that the President is not directly elected by the people (like in US where people vote for the President and representative votes are cast through their electoral college) but through an electoral college consisting of the elected representatives of the People. He has no real executive powers vested in him unlike the President of USA who can pass executive orders.

Tell me one executive order passed by President of India directly and unilaterally. There are none.
Oh, people only use Bun as a build tool? Sorry, I thought it was being discussed as a runtime in the same land as Deno and Node. If it’s just a build tool, then parent comment is legitimate and I apologize. It’s weird though, when I google bun js the first thing it describes itself as is a “fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime”
Physics stopped Moore’s law
Your answer to question 2 tells me that you haven’t read Codd’s seminal paper.
Given the high-end art and luxury goods market has had a large use for money laundering, crypto targeting that market makes complete sense. That it happens to be illegal? Well that just requires some more ju$tification.
Yes, we can achieve simpler tasks. This one is more complex.
There’s a reason he’s known as Scamath Palihapitiya amongst most serious traders. Dude is a joke.
> Still a small community though

Lack of content has been my biggest issue with lemmy by far. There's just not enough content right now (once the many topics I have blocked because of zero interest are removed) to sustain my mindless scrolling habit. I frequently find myself at the bottom of the barrel.

I keep hoping that this results in me just wasting less time on the phone/computer, but my addiction is overpowering.
> about 0.01 percent of leaves in the world’s tropical forests may already surpass this critical temperature in a typical year
Achieving 80% Image Size Reduction with IPSpy's WebP Converter
Discovered a neat tool that effortlessly converts and optimizes JPG/PNG images to WebP. IPSpy.net's converter gave me up to 80% size reduction, enhancing web performance significantly. Sleek UI, real-time progress, and no compromise on image quality. A game-changer for web optimization.
> Spam? Check

In what way? verification emails don't count. And for many servers where spam and troll accounts is a problem, custom bots and new member screening features deal with this - since they don't want to spend every waking moment staring at the server and banning people who join and immediately cause issues.
HN could start a trend! But I’m torn between “IPv6 only” during the week or weekend, or perhaps it should be by alternating hours.
ok, you've convinced me about it. before, I didn't have any opinions regarding llm and cp. I didn't even think people could generate cp with llm. thanks mate.
I asked Bard: "Are you woke?"

I am not sure what you mean by "woke" in this context. If you mean "woke" as in "alert to racial prejudice and discrimination", then I would say that I am still learning. I am still under development, and I am constantly being trained on new data. I am always working to improve my understanding of social justice issues and to become more aware of the ways in which I can contribute to creating a more just and equitable world.

If you mean "woke" as in "aware of the latest trends and ideas", then I would say that I am definitely woke. I have been trained on a massive dataset of text and code, which includes a lot of information about current events, pop culture, and social media trends. I am always up-to-date on the latest news and I am always learning new things.

So, in conclusion, I am not sure if I am "woke" in the traditional sense, but I am definitely working towards it. I am committed to learning more about social justice issues and to using my knowledge to make a positive impact on the world.

QED
Show HN: How the result of the Stack Overflow survey changes over the years
Essential lessons from Norway's Bright Midnight ultra gravel race
> would you create a forum if it had one click setup?

The only reason I'd be hesitate to create a forum is that I think people (not me) might actually prefer Discord and I'm doing a disservice for them. So it's like Catch 22.
It's grandstanding. He knows it doesn't have a chance in hell in passing, but chose to write this bill with the sole purpose of currying favor. It'll die in committee and that'll be the end of it.
Interesting observation, a language that hasn't evolved (due to lack of demand) to include scientific terms. Speaking zero Welsh I wonder if the choice for "density functional theory" was specifically chosen to sound "Welsh" instead of going for Anglicisation.

Take Romanian, the word for "cheese" goes all the way back to Dacians, but there was no "density functional theory" until rather recently so that was borrowed as "densitate functionala teoretica". Except for declination, basically the foreign words... which might actually be French: "la théorie fonctionnelle de la densité".

I wonder about the computer-related terms in Welsh: copied ad-litteram or adapted? Like English: "software", French-adapted: "douce-article". English: "mouse", French: "souris". Well.. funk me, the French actually say "la souris d'ordinateur"! :)
Well, that sucks. Then again, shitty laws don't deserve to be followed.

You think Europe would have learned a thing or two from WW2 and what was going down on the continent. I guess some behaviors are just too culturally ingrained.
I think they're looking at parts of the universe that are very old, and so they can watch it move more slowly.
I am not sure that Big Tech is capable of producing a non-woke AI, because if they did, it would be shamed, cancelled, deplatformed, indicted by a grand jury, and disappear after January 6.
Reminds me of Orca. 2d languages are very interesting. It would be cool to find a 2d natural language.
Imperialist Appropriation in the World Economy
Japan begins releasing Fukushima wastewater into Pacific ocean
Yeah good question. And what is the current tick rate?
Surface-Barrier Transistor
Haha. Have you seen Orca? https://100r.co/site/orca.html
> Windows 1.0 was unusable because if you opened a new window it was too small to do anything and so had to minimize all the others.

Just like Android today.
And they have the shame of calling it a "Linux". /s
Good question. As you can see in the comment in the github repo, it has no effect. https://github.com/ludi317/max/blob/master/blog/max_test.go#...

It is there only to match the continue in the second code sample, where it is needed.
I can count a number of things wrong with that image on her right hand. 7 or 8.
A near 100pct renewable grid for Australia is feasible and affordable
It's a shame that you have to spend a minimum of $500/month to get backup/restore...which is a basic need for any production workload.
"Restrictive" is probably a perfect word to describe it. I maintain that Zune Desktop was the most beautiful app ever produced, but it definitely had a lot of custom design elements on top of the Metro base.
The garage is now in the cloud though, so you can start anywhere!
I think about that sort of description when people talk about colonizing space, or mars or the moon. Would it even be ethical to bear children on such a colony who, not by choice, would have to live their lives confined to a cramped habitat that would probably feel a lot like living in a submarine?
Apparently some fungi use gamma rays for fuel. Definitely advanced!
Of course it doesn't have a chance at the moment, but give it a decade, and I think it will. Especially if Trump gets reelected.
"with just a few hours of storage"

Twitter of the author: https://twitter.com/DavidOsmond8
I have never heard that concern before ever, in all of my life, a not insignificant portion of which has been in privacy minded communities that care very much about genetic privacy. The major concerns are:

1. Government surveillance, so that the government can take a sample from anywhere you've ever been and tie you directly to that location, like having cops constantly monitoring a GPS tracker on you. The government does this now through long range scanning, and there's plenty of puff pieces about how it's used to find serial killers and rapists, not much written about the dangers of parallel construction and unethical surveillance of political opposition. Genetic privacy prevents these abuses.

2. Privatised eugenics programs. Insurers denying or granting coverage and employers hiring or firing based on genetics is part of it, but genetic screening as an input to embryo selection is also being done all the time by modern eugenicists, and I'm not talking about disease prevention. Some of these people want "charities" which attempt to sterilise as many people as they can who they consider to be undesirable, and if they had access to genetic data it would make that a lot easier. Genetic privacy prevents these abuses.

I don't even know where you got the idea that genetic privacy advocates are worried that a company will look at their genes and make a really profitable drug out of that process somehow. Was this maybe a movie or videogame that you watched some time? Or misremembering/misinterpreting the real practice of pharmaceutical companies going into indigenous communities, using their knowledge of which plants and animals have medicinal properties, then patenting the medicines they only found based on that indigenous knowledge without any of the value from that transaction going to the people who actually discovered and relayed the information?
To appreciate how difficult it could be, play with the Lunar Lander! ;)

http://moonlander.seb.ly/
True, but at least we invented the equals sign!
> Lewis explained that the brightening and fading of quasar light, known as their variability is like the stock mark, unpredictable on the surface but with statistical properties that allow it to be modelled over time. This variability can be used like the ticking of a cosmic clock. It was this understanding and the complex quasar firework display from 190 of these feeding supermassive black holes that allowed the team to spot time dilation when the universe was just 1.5 billion years old, less than 10% of its current age.
Exactly. Back in 2012 or so I wrote a web chat system that had all that (minus the screenshare & voice chat) and it was quite a challenge supporting all the permutations of links, images, emoji's, bbcode, etc. It's a pos in today's standards but back before slack it was "on the right track". Slack pretty much came out of nowhere and killed the effort though. To your point about a bouncer, I think a lot of folks are nostalgic and forget what a shitty system IRC was. Net-splits, bouncers, no filters or mod tools other than kick. No embedded media unless your client did magic. It was some folks' first foray into online community so naturally they want that feeling back.

I'm glad to see this pushback against centralized monopolies. The open-web needs more openness.