skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>that really puts in perspective how small Europe can be at times

Well, Europe is not exactly small. Luxemburg is just a small country.

Europe is 3.93 million sq mi. The contiguous US is 3.1 million square miles (3.6 if we include Alaska) [1]. So Europe is quite bigger. The European Union countries alone are over 50% of the contiguous US.

So that would be like judging the US as small by considering how small Rhode Island is (which is roughly the size of Luxemburg).

>I guess that shouldn't be surprising as that's similar to the distance between Berlin and Moscow.

Well, Berlin is almost centered in Europe, and Moscow is in the very east of Russia, so that's not very surprising. On the other hand, "the European route E45 (...) with a length of about 3,225 mi is the longest north–south European route (some east–west routes are longer)".

For comparison NY to LA is 2,790 miles (so shorter than that), and even Portland, Maine to San Diego is 3,090 miles (again shorter).

[1] With an area of 10.2 million km² (3,938,000 sq mi), Europe is 20% larger than the contiguous United States. The European Union has an area (without the UK) of over 4.23 million km² (1.6 million sq mi). How many countries are there in Europe? Europe is shared by 50 countries.
"Cosmetic filtering" sounds unimportant, but it's what most people expect from ad blockers. It's a bizarre term.
1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium is a fairly simple molecule and already used in industry.
@doganugurlu Looks like Deno team implemented a fix https://denostatus.com/cllm0jzq219036bjottk03k2ac Are you still experiencing the issue?

We used to cache the modules locally, I will need to check if we made any configuration change. Can you kindly open an issue for Supabase CLI - https://github.com/supabase/cli/issues
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And I got "Thank you, please check your email!"
You mean 19-20th centuries for 1.0, surely, there wasn't much industrial revolution in the 1700s.
What's wrong with realizing that a business is charging money in exchange for product features, and then evaluate whether the features are worth the price?

It's one thing when they raise donations, and they leave you a custom window to put your price. But when you say "these features will cost 10 bucks for you" then it's not about whether you have the money or not, but whether the exchange of goods holds an equal worth for both parties.

And also, in the bizarre world where Discord monthly was 5 bucks but people wanted to pay 10 because it's that good (value is subjective, I get it), and they really want to show their admiration then nothing stops them from paying for 2+ accounts!

I've seen a similar argument for a game that came out that had no battle pass. "Oh I would love to have battle pass in the game, the company deserves the money for the good product", well buy 2+ copies and gift them to your friends or family then. No reason to burden the average player with added micro-transactions on a fully priced product to express gratitude.
Java is one of the most successful programming languages ever created. So yep.
Also not oc, but…

Without advertising, “content marketing”, and paid placements/reviews people would buy things when they desire or need them.

They’d ask friends, compare specs, and read/watch reviews before determining what to buy.

That is: without ads, people would gravitate towards buying what fits their needs best. They would make generally rational choices given the information available.

Advertising’s job is to subvert those rational choices and make people buy something, whether it’s the best option or not. In fact, even when they don’t actually want or need anything at all.

It causes people exposed to it to spend money unnecessarily, and on the wrong products and downright bad products. Some are more susceptible than others, but in the end it’s an illegitimate tax levied every time you buy something. Even if you didn’t respond to advertising when making a purchase, advertising is so ubiquitous and necessary in most markets that the price you paid probably contributed to the advertising the manufacturer had to deploy to keep up with the arms race.

There’s nothing ethical or necessary about any of this.

Ideally there would be legislation that would force business models to change, but while there is not, ad blocking is absolutely an imperative.
I see you used QGis. Last time I tried it there was no easy way of plugging a router. I switched to QMapShack. It's a bit more complicated to use the IGN service for the maps (whereas it works out of the box with QGis) but there are several options for routers. The offline one (Routino) requires downloading data but it works well. I use it all the time to plan 2-5 days treks in the French Alps. Having the actual elevation profile for a given segment is really useful.

Just thought you might want to try this setup for your next trek!
It was more a data point for compare & contrast, to be fair. I'm a Porkbun user but not blinkered to other registrars.
No: the atmospheric CO2 is at the bottom of the energy hill. In order to turn it in to fuel you need to pump in all the energy originally extracted from the fuel, then some more.

After you've re-expended the entire 20th century's worth of fossil fuels energy equivalent in sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere, not burned it, and stored it in a country-sized propane tank, then maybe we're back to 19th-century temperatures.
Well thank goodness for RoHS!
> The inhabitants of some instances are more political than others.

Which ones are less political? I went to a supposedly global and tech focused instance only to find US political slogans in the "About" page itself.

> If you actually create an account you will be able to pick and choose whose posts you want to see.

That didn't work on Twitter and I doubt it'll work on Mastodon. Neither of them have a way of categorising posts into topics. There's no way to follow someone to get updates about their work without being subjected to whatever political digressions they chose to share.
That's a dynamic range and auto leveling problem.
Tell that to these people: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53984239 (Romanian tourists swamp village loved by Prince Charles).
They're not hobbyist friendly - 16x16 'tiny' BGA packages, so there's no real benefit over other ARM SBCs, they're massively slower than almost everything else atm. The advantage of STM32 was always that you could prototype on a SBC, but the chips were accessible enough to use in hobbyist projects.
Heat pumps do not create heat, they simply move heat from one place to another, which is an entirely different beast.

Using a traditional resistive heater, you're roughly creating 1 kWh of heat by spending 1 kWh of electricity (there is some loss), but with a heat pump you're moving heat, which is also why heat pumps become much less efficient the colder the temperature as there is less heat to move, and many residential heat pumps include a regular resistive heating element as a backup.

There's a great explanatory video on how heat pumps work here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J52mDjZzto&pp=ygUgdGVjaG5vb...
There is a popular coast-to-coast walk in the UK that runs across the top of England that is approx 100 miles in a straight line. No-one in Britain is more than about 70 miles from the sea.
Sadly the UK has a long history of sending its own tech industry abroad...

It begun with the invention of the computer as we know it...
- Charles Babbage,"Father of the computer", British
- Alan Turing, "Father of modern computer science", British

Then there was Margret Thatcher who decided the internet was a fad and wasn't worth investing in internet infrastructure in the country.

Where did the multi billion (if not trillion by now) industry end up? Silicon Valley and elsewhere....

Bravo UK... Bravo </sarcasm>
The Snap client is hard-coded to use Canonical's Snap Store server, so not only would the developer have to reimplement the server, they would also need to fork the Snap client to support alternative servers. Anyone who wants to use an alternative server would have to install the fork instead of using the Snap client bundled with Ubuntu.

Considering this additional obstacle, it would be much easier to stop using Snap and switch to a package manager that supports multiple servers or repos in the first place.
The ego has a million-and-one (and, always one more) ways to subtly cling to anyone trying to rid themselves of it.

As far as I can tell, from observations in myself, and of others, the ego is only something you can manage. You can experience moments of freedom (most reliably through psychedelics in my experience) that give you a taste of something beautiful and relieving. But the ego is just sleeping.

The tentacles of the ego are attached to the very nature of your life itself - to very basic metabolic processes. It’ll always be with you - your existence and your ego’s existence are hopelessly intertwined.
Terminals are a central idea affecting Unix process control and hierarchy, and signal delivery. Emulating them was the easier decision that didn't require any changes to the rest of the system. You introduce a virtual terminal device and the rest stays the same. We are still trapped in those basic abstractions of the 1970s without even noticing them, building shiny stuff on top.
+1 to no. git-lfs is also no.
Started in Hachiōji and ended at the start of Chiba prefecture. The heat made it tough. I was thinking about doing a walk from Tamagawa station to Yokohama this weekend. I love seeing what's between all the stations and building up a new mental map of the area.
This looks great, thanks for sharing.
Being able to delete your previous messages in bulk is a very good reason for example,

it's borderline (or completely ?) illegal to threaten users to ban them if they choose to use their right to mass-delete their previous messages.
It's 50mb on Nitro Basic, and like 5mb on free tier. This has bit me a few times when sharing screenshots (4K ultrawide), but I still wouldn't pay for a service Imgur & co provides for free.
https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/125920#issuecom...
Mostly due to the plague killing some massive fraction of the population in the 1300s?
That’s good info. Thanks!
true, the ammount of data, energy, attention and time safed by adblockers cannot be understated
It's a perception thing isn't it? Like you could imagine things for (human, machine) being (easy, easy), (easy, hard), (hard, easy) or (hard, hard). The first category will be taken for granted, and with the last category no one will fault the machine for not being able to do it. That leaves just the two middle ones as being remarkable.
git?? why not Resilio Sync. or Funkwhale.audio
> Bit of a downer for the UK to see them list in the US

I wonder to what extent the overarching business culture of the UK (which I'd categorise as being generally apathetical, if not hostile, to the engineering profession) might have anything to do with it.

(...speaking as a former UK eng myself)
Francesca Gino sues Harvard and accusers for $25M
I don't know about "voice servers" but if you use something like coturn, there is no way to finely tune this, because it is just a generic "gateway" that is relaying packets to bypass NAT. You could try to connect to the stream and then check the stream quality after the fact but if there are false positives you are mistreating paying customers, which you certainly don't want to do.
From a legal perspective you could argue that he is cracking a software, and sharing the crack, and the result is potential revenue loss for Discord
I switched to Ubuntu for my gaming PC over a year ago and from my Steam library of hundreds of games so far I only found maybe 1 or 2 that did not work on Linux, but worked on Windows. All the others work flawlessly*

* there is one caveat to that though - if you have a VR headset, then there are many people reporting performance issues on Linux with those headsets. And personally I also find VR performance subpar on Linux (although it still improved in the last year).
Theres the problem

"The water will be released at a maximum rate of 500,000 litres a day. A Japanese official said the first results of tests on discharged seawater could be available at the start of next month. Japan will also test fish in the waters near the plant, and make the results available on the agriculture ministry’s website."

Fish.

Why not bacteria?

They evolve much more quickly, even pseudomonas aeruginosa found in every human and other mammals, can grow a second flagella in a matter of hours in response to changing iron state conditions to speed up its motility.

As this radioactive substance will be persistent for decades to come, I'm left wondering how much this will reduce lower life forms in the seas around the planet because this will dissipate around the planet, and might even reshape or starve food pyramids.

When looking at the bacteria of Chernobyl and how its evolved to thrive in the area, I cant help but think nuclear waste is being used as a bactericide, something that wont necessarily be harmful to higher lifeforms, much like polonium -210 that killed Russian Alexander Litvinenko [1] is found in vegetables[2], fruit, cannabis[3], and tobacco [4], but still a bactericide none the less.

And with a growing global population, keeping the bacteria in check requires novel methods whilst chemical resistance continues unabated, despite the ever increasing diversity of man made chemical compounds, so when knowing about such things as the earthquake bomb[5], like covid has forced working from home, the dispersal of people to less populated parts of the internet connected planet, is this another conspiracy to safe guard food supplies as the global demand for food rises?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko#Poisoning...

[2] http://www.gammaexplorer.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/05-D...

[3] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02659...

[4] https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_bomb
I'd argue that we should ruin people's lives over it. Why stop driving drunk if there are no serious consequences?
> That's what ultimately depresses me about AI. It's still just a parlor trick. We haven't actually taught computers to think, to reason, to be innovative.

If you think about it we've gone the other way. We're teaching/conditioning humans to think less and react more. This has only gotten worse the last few years and I don't see any shift coming soon. Humanity unfortunately seems just as simple as the algorithm, use the right inputs, in the right context and you can make most of us act just like you want.
Is there any benefit to ublock origin full fat Vs lite? I've been using it for years on Firefox and android but it sounds like I should switch?
not entirely sure if that was a question because it is formed like a statement, but, yes.
Armv7 is fine if you're just running some command-and-control type stuff.

In most of the target applications of these chips, you'll typically have a couple of real-time tasks. This will run on a dedicated core, or in kernel space, or with Xenomai. The rest will be firmware update services, telemetry, and maybe Bluetooth or a web GUI. Stuff where the execution speed doesn't really matter, as long as it's "fast enough". Armv7 is more than sufficient for that kind of thing.

The STM32MP2 family will probably replace the MP1 once it's in full production, but that doesn't mean the MP1 is a bad chip to use in new designs today.

The chip's competition is NXP's i.MX line of parts. If I got a good price from ST on it (and a production guarantee), I'd consider using it in a number of new products, even though the main CPUs are 32-bit Armv7 cores.
And if rendering contents as client users want is unethical, that authority section won't ever need to exist.
not only that, but it also protects you from law enforcement or any state actor.

This mainly protects journalists and human right lawyers. I think this is the idea here after NGO shitstorm.
at least you got healthcare or something
This is weird!
I just checked it on multiple browser it works,
Can you try again?
Wouldn't notepad++ be better because of the auto save ?

I think auto saving of unsaved documents is one of it's best features
I'm having trouble understanding what he's criticising in that Mastodon post

If he's saying he doesn't have sufficient OS access rights to his files, surely the existence of a "Files App" (aka a file explorer, hardly new) disproves his claim. Android also has multiple-choice file associations just like a desktop OS

If he's complaining that the formats are opaque, or that we keep reinventing very similar CRUD apps, then isn't the Unix model of "a file is just a bag of bytes in a hierarchical namespace" the cause of his problem? It explicitly rejects having standard formats and the result is every application having to bring its own, with all the resultant opaqueness and reinvented wheels
> For those to lazy to run base64 --decode, here's the result:

Or just strip the eval and use JS's native base64 decoder:

atob(base64)
for those who don't know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_federal_gov...
> Someone who has money as the primary criterion for where they work.

So, a plain old business.
No one actually wants to work at Meta anymore. There are too many dicks and morale is too low. The only people who want to come to the office are those who sit around the office and socialize because they're non-engineers with non-jobs. There's no other reason to because the microkitchens declined, the good food went away, and assigned desks became shared desks. The goal now is brinkmanship of misery to encourage people to leave so they don't have to feel as guilty when they do yet another round of layoffs.
Some people must think that it's impossible to reach iphone levels of stability, design, etc. but the truth is that google is simply incompetent in the same way microsoft was with windows phone.
> but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try to improve them

Nobody suggests you shouldn’t. Stroustrup has spent most of his career working on improving C++.

You are reading way more into his comment than I think was intended or implied.

C++ is one of the most successful programming languages in history. There is a reason why.
I'm with you. That's why, as a house builder, I'll never get into an aeroplane. I mean bricks are way too heavy to fly, the concrete will crack at the first sign of turbulence and how far can they really go before the mains power cables get cut? It makes no sense. At least, unless they're doing things differently.
Rebuttal to what? You accused them of being a tech cultist and then started talking nonsense about terrorist attacks that are already performed with cars and trucks and would probably be harder to do in a self-driving world, as well as fear-mongering about "hacking" when all modern cars can be hacked by ATPs anyway, and they're the only ones who'd be capable of pulling off something like what you're talking about. Nonsense doesn't require a rebuttal and neither do insults.
From the title I was expecting something more interesting, but this is more an article about the economics of organising Magic: The Gathering tournaments from the point of view of someone who wants to profit and doesn't actually like Magic that much.

Like, this bit has a pretty strong implicit opinion on the value of a tournament:

The opportunity cost of not being able to spend that money elsewhere is significant, so it's not enough for a large event to break even; the TO has to profit at least as much as they could have by investing that money into something else.

Only towards the end there appears an admission that most people involved are there because they think it is fun to play Magic, but there's never any serious discussion about the value of this enjoyment, which is what I really was hoping the title was implying.
During the height of the covid tech bubble, Nvidia offered to buy ARM for $40b. Right now, Softbank wants a $60b - $70b valuation when many tech stocks have lost 90%+ and some large caps have lost 30% - 50%.

What justifies such crazy increase in value? Also, I believe Nvidia overpaid for the company regardless. Nvidia was willing to pay $40b because they want a world-class CPU design team to integrate their GeForce IP into SoCs and service chips.

But a standalone ARM is not very valuable. The reason is that ARM's business model (licensing core designs and ISA) makes peanuts compared to Qualcomm, Apple, Intel, AMD, etc. In addition, ARM's biggest customers are also their biggest competitors. For example, Apple competes with stock ARM designs with Apple Silicon. Qualcomm will be competing with ARM designs via Nuvia chips. Ampere Computing just designed a custom ARM core of their own.

When ARM only license the ISA (Apple Silicon, Nuvia, and Ampere One), they make peanuts. When they license ARM core designs, they make slightly more than peanuts.

It's generally not a good business to invest in. I find it hard to justify the $60b - $70b valuation. No doubt Softbank will try to sell ARM as an AI company. It's not.
Same. I think this is the correct answer.
And it might be that issues related to legal/copyright will be way much harder to handle then to implement the feature itself..
I explained how to do it, and yet you didn't follow instructions, have done something irrelevant, and are now complaining that it doesn't work... well sucks being you, I guess.
With your example of "Turing Complete", we know what cannot be done and in this way, we have enumerated the things that can be done, if you like. You appreciate the humour required for the up-arrow notation - a very human quality.

You example of the Busy Beaver numbers, which was a recent interesting read, is a good example of what I was trying to point out. We have a definition and even if we cannot enumerate each number, we discuss and think about these in a rational way. At the moment, I am quite interested in Computer Algebra Systems (of which there are a variety) and I find it interesting just how limited these systems are and just how difficult it is to program into them the capabilities that humans use to solves various problems. The various discussions have been quite enlightening.

Mathematics is an interesting subject and I think shows up the intractability of ever getting that highly feared singularity.

All artificial computing systems are limited in ways we are not. Your "Turing Machine" example is one such case. The Halting Problem being a class example.

I think that far too often, we fail to recognise that what we create is not that great. We often stand in awe of the things we make without comprehending that these things are a very poor reflection of what is around us and what we ourselves are.

Every time some hype comes about these artificial stupidity systems, I look at my youngest granddaughter and see in her, capabilities that far exceed anything that we have created. Even my old buck of a goat demonstrates capabilities far, far in excess of anything we have created in all of our computational systems.

As I have said elsewhere here, we have to be careful that we do not cede control of our lives to systems that we think are more than they really are - systems that are limited, fragile and prone to failure.