skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because germany is on a very slippery slope. Our politicians are occupied with idiotic things like tearing down nuclear power plants before the coal ones and the economy is going downhill.

If nothing changes and the job market stays as bad as it is, I'll seriously consider moving to a different country.
Wax is great, but it isn’t as likely to stick to smooth surfaces for long periods, or if things get hot or abrasive. It’s good on cloth, covering a dish you put in the fridge — but not sure how it would work with burger wrappers or cups of hot coffee, that are where most PFAS are used. I’d love to check if, in a straw, it would be perceptible. Metal straws remain the simplest solution.
The browser extension called "SingleFile" is good at reliabily saving most (not all) webpages into a single self-contained HTML file, in my opinion.
https://nand2tetris.org

and my implementation of the projects: https://github.com/porridgewithraisins/nand2tetris
could anyone tell me that what if (actually is) i dont have tpm on my pc? would it be risky for these attacks? i configured bitlocker without tpm.
Depends on how long you will want to last and how much performance you want. Personally I would likely go with external HDDs. Least risk of bit rot.
Serde is no longer shipping precompiled blobs
Is a business loan syndicated to 50 institutional investors that different from a bond offering?
I would only say why couldn't an AI do the same? I dont think they can atm, its just a problem that needs more work.
I am responding to what I perceive as incorrect subjective statements, welcome to internet and its forums :)

It may shock you but not everybody strives to be buddhist or adhere to their core values (not everything in that religion is a-OK as per modern moral standards). I don't even care about some enlightenment, its some concept of one specific religion not particularly close to my heart. I like buddhists in their original countries a lot, shiny glowing people regardless of their often hard lives, westerns lost wannabes eternally looking for salvation usually not so much.

Some of us, 'enlightened' by spiritual aspects of psychedelics (just to be clear, I talk about psylocibin, it gave me all I ever needed from it and much more, no need for me to go into MDMA or further) realized that spirituality tells us a lot how humans are wired internally and what happens when you mess with brain's receptors, but absolutely nothing about existence of actual higher power(s).

And I don't need the existence of those powers, since I don't believe in them any more than in Santa claus. I am content with my own death (as extreme sports bring you close to it often), life so far figured out, I know exactly what my purpose in this life is, how to make myself long term content and happy, caring for my wife and kids, have cca good creative work, living in amazing place in Switzerland, taking care of my body. I really don't need anything else, and for none of that any kind of religion or ancient philosophy is necessary.
That's not true anymore (from September on).
Prioritising how good the screenshots look on lists of "top 10 examples of minimalistic design" over usefulness to the user.
Technical references, definitely, though they are often available as HTML rather than needing a reader for ebook formats.

I have an old Windows tablet that I use for reading occasionally – it is bigger than my phone (lower pixel density considerably, but fine enough), can be carried around more easily than a laptop, and at this point in its life is expendable – that counts as desktop with regard to running apps. Windows 8.1 though so now EOL, I'll have to see how well Linux likes its hardware as I don't fancy Win10+ on that spec!

Also: you don't need to be reading entire books for the app to be useful, especially as it runs on other devices, so you have the same reader elsewhere.
I am, but why do you say this?
This seems fine during the good times, but I can imagine a big problem of having a no-hierarchy worker-owned operation is what happens when the market shrinks and you can't afford to pay everyone the promised minimum salary. Do you all just collectively agree to take less money?

What about the one person who actually can't afford to do that because they'd already budgeted assuming that money was coming in?

What about if you need to reduce headcount? Do you just all vote on who should be fired in effectively a popularity contest that will cause build up of resentment later on? Draw the shortest straw? In this case, an "owner" is probably best because they can all collectively "hate" the owner and bond together as staff.

What about if someone is secretly planning to leave in the next few months and wants their money now as salary rather than investing in long term projects for the company, etc... They might destabilise the long-term success of the company if they vote not to invest, but be unmotivated and work poorly if they know some of "their money" was invested and they're never going to see it.

There seem to be so many edge cases where the traditional hierarchy structure seems like the best viable solution. There are some examples of co-operatives in the UK, the most famous is John Lewis. I think they work around it by just running mostly like a normal business, paying fairly normal salaries for different roles, but then bonuses for profit sharing.
I think about this constantly. For me, it’s less about content I enjoy but more about things that really made an impact on the way that I think and therefore have changed my life in some way.

When we die, most of what we have will undoubtedly be considered detritus, our “junk”. However, our reflections on that material may be much more valuable, elucidating how we thought and how we were able to make some difference in the world; I know I personally enjoy reading my late grandfather’s writing about books and articles he read.

I think Tumblr was probably the closest we came to having some kind of media journal, but scribbling marginalia on printed Medium posts is a close second (joking mostly).
Same here. So far so good, and their Hide my Email feature is very useful.
Visualization of Common Algorithms (2011)
This reminds me of -- I think -- Arthur Whitney, who prefers to program in C in four windows of notepad.exe. If it works for them, why not?
Factor in that the carbon is only captured so long as the forest survives. If the forest burns or the trees fall and rot, the carbon is returned to the atmosphere unless and until new trees grow.
If protected from fishing, sunken ships will create an ecotone that will fill all the nearby areas with fishes and shellfishes. Fisheries are money. Do we want money?. Then we need to fight against pirate fishing. Is very simple.
> That's how it is in the rest of the world.

Not true; tipping is everywhere, however it's more that it's appreciated instead of expected elsewhere, see https://www.johnlewisfinance.com/currency/tipping-culture-ti...
I have the opposite question: why not write everything in java?
A.K.A. all the buttons are hidden so half the functions are impossible to discover.
Who would buy a new phone after their old one was turned into a dud?
I love foliate, such a shame that it's linux only...
When talking about the model itself, success could be defined as the proportion of business operating under that model. If the model is successful for all parties involved, it would be logical that more and more restaurant move to a co-op system.
In your opinion, is it an either or scenario? Or would fine-tuning on docs + RAG be even more powerful?
I see this comment all the time. In fact practically every protest ever, there's a load of people who show up and go "Don't know why you're even bothering, it's not going to achieve anything".

There's two things to say in response: Firstly, there is a long established history of non-violent protest achieving change. Secondly, what is your actual proposal to people to get the change they want instead of these protests - and are you confident that these people aren't already pursuing those avenues.
“I believe it's Copy-on-Write semantics, right? What happens when the parent process changes the array?”

Yes and you just answered your question.
money quote :

'''
The combined effect of better architecture and Elixir saved Pinterest over $2 million per year in server costs.
'''
Since archive.org is now getting into a court battle that doesn't look good for them, it would be prudent to make local copies of anything you want to save on there, in case the whole site disappears.
the author has been a respected Linux developer for decades, so he is probably familiar with that option.
> artificially made suitable

Don’t know what you mean by that but the Soviet having made worse does not mean other countries approach is water-friendly. See https://ris.utwente.nl/ws/files/6843583/water_footprint_of_c...
Isn't this. this? https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html
> It’s a crutch

problem is most of the code chatgpt spouts is wrong, in so many subtle ways, that sometimes you just have to run it to prove it.

so basically you have to be better than chatgpt at that particular task to spot its mistakes.

using it blindly it's similar to the Gell-Mann amnesia effect

https://theportal.wiki/wiki/The_Gell-Mann_Amnesia_Effect

said by someone who uses chatgpt extensively, it is good for the structure, to get an idea, but as a code generator it kinda sucks.
Last year, I tried several epub readers on a linux amd64 laptop. None was satisfying. All those that just wrapped chromium crashed with some epub files: that was the case for "Foliate", which was the inspiration for this "Alexandria" project. The Calibre reader was slow and unresponsive. Mupdf was fast and stable, but it lacked important features, like a table of contents. A Firefox plugin was okay, but its workflow was impractical.

I've since bought a e-ink device, so I don't read much on my laptop. When I do, I use Koreader. It's perfect for my Kobo device, and quite alright for a computer.
The focus on straws comes from two angles:

* the original environmental motivation was that they are strong, non-bio-degradable structures that pose threats to wildlife, similar to how the old 'can rings' got phased out.

* anything that involves government regulation, especially government regulation of stuff that involves the fossil petrochemical industry has an immensely well funded push back against it. It's a slippery slope, once you ban straws the next thing you know you might actually deal with the main cause of climate change and we wouldn't want that now would we.

> Their prohibition would, it was thought, reduce plastic waste getting into the environment. But to the degree that these bans led people to substitute paper for plastic, all they've done is swap out some minimal amount of plastic consumption for increased PFAS pollution.

Hmm "minimal amount of plastic consumption" vs "increased PFAS pollution"? Why is one pollution and one consumption? Why is one "a minimal amount" and the other an "increase"?

It's because this is effectively a PR outlet for fossil fuel corporations.
Also I thing that MS / OpenAI cannot and will not indemnify you. I think that their CEO and CFO have a duty not to...
Unfortunately such a guarantee might me worth less than a vendor just keeping to push updates.
I personally have been a bit disappointed how HMD Global(Nokia phones) handled their update promise.
You're wrong. Trans people don't have unbalanced hormones, they have normal amounts of the wrong hormones, both as teens and adults. Puberty causes irreversible physical effects with lifelong psychological harms, and forcing more of the wrong hormones is even more harmful. And in the vast majority of cases, people during and after puberty who are harmed by natal hormones, continue to be harmed by them throughout their adulthood, and regret going through natal puberty (not hormone replacement therapy). You don't know better than trans people what their needs are, and you demonstrably don't even know what trans people are (given that you think they need extra hormones to be fertile), so stop trying to convince people to poison them by overdosing them on hormones which will cause bodily changes (skeletal changes, voice dysphoria, hair loss) that traumatize them for the rest of their life.

As for whether preserving fertility (banking sperm or eggs) before starting hormones (as teens or adults) is a worthwhile tradeoff on an individual level, that's a choice for an individual to make. In no circumstances is it not abuse to force more of natal hormones into a trans person already harmed by them.
> What is actually stopping them? Most companies won't have the fire power to go against microsoft backed openai.

Microsoft/Amazon/Google already have competitor's data in their cloud. They could even fake encryption to get all the customer's disk access. Also most employees use google workspace or office 365 cloud to store and share confidential files. How is different with OpenAI that makes it any more worrying?
Doesn't matter, I was just using it as an example to disprove the silly point that "threat=blackmail=illegal",

> If it's a threat, then that's literally blackmail.
The ‘best’ is probably some sort of heterogenous RAID/ZFS mirror setup which can survive the death of disks and potentially evolve over decades. Then you want at least two versions in different sites that are kept in sync in case of a disaster or a RAID controller going bonkers.
>people don't have any alternative ways of contacting them.

This reminds me of a coworker I wanted to keep in contact with, but who only used Discord.
Very interesting thank you! Is there some way for us to connect??
Thanks for the detailed response! I see the point, although the pure license / contract is still a weird distinction IMO.

> The courts seem less interested in this distinction, could potentially interpret it as a contract

But why isn't AGPL explicitly structured as a contract then? They could then grant you the same rights (including ones not covered by copyright law), but on the condition that you follow the copyleft part of the agreement.
Ah I don't remember the exact words but one of my favourite images he painted was something along the lines of

"Managing an organisation by quarterly reports is like driving a car by looking at the centre line in the rear view mirror."
I agree with every word of the post, but it doesn’t consider the elephant in the room which is the VC incentive. Their business model rapid scale and increased ownership.
The main reason for wanting OS upgrades as a consumer is that app developer tend to only support the last N versions. So at some point you’ll find that you can no longer use the apps you want to use if you’re stuck on an older version.
Unraveling the Inner Workings of Gearboxes: Powering Efficiency and Performance
Exploring the Basics:
Gearboxes, also known as gear reducers or transmissions, are mechanical devices that transmit power from a prime mover (such as an engine or motor) to the driven load. They consist of a set of gears arranged in specific configurations to achieve desired speed and torque outputs. Let's delve into the inner workings of these intricate mechanisms.

How Does It Work?
At its core, a gearbox functions by meshing two or more gears together, each having different sizes or numbers of teeth. The gears are mounted on shafts and rotate at different speeds, allowing for the desired power transformation.
Relevant to the topic: if anyone can help me find the song “No Guidance” by Claudio Souza Mattos. I heard it last summer in an Amsterdam shop and was hooked for months. Then suddenly, the whole album “Classics Revisited” was yanked from all streaming services and is impossible to find. Desperate for help here.
Oof. My Firefox browser on Ubuntu crashed and all my open VSCodium's went along with it. Happened when loading for a second time. First time worked.
My extra advice, make a note of who made what you downloaded and where you downloaded it from to help yourself and others in the future.

I recently built a new PC and, while I didn't migrate everything I saved, I made sure to keep my old system around for a few weeks just in case I needed anything.

Someone in a community I was in asked if someone had a link to some old Call of Duty shitpost from a decade ago, and I immediately recognised what they were on about. But a good hour spent scouring my early YouTube likes revealed nothing, so I dragged the old rig back in, powered it on, lo and behold within a minute I'd found the exact video I must've saved eons back.

No idea who created the said video, but I'm sure that if I noted a name or channel URL, there'd be a lot more missing media out there which others would be looking for.

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On one hand, I respect the fact that YouTube facilitates a level of privacy when you delete or hide things, obfuscating any trace of the video from playlists, etc. But on the other hand, the amount of times I've known I've added a video to a playlist only for it to be deleted with no trace... Yeah, it can suck. Recently turning a lot of unlisted videos into private ones hasn't helped in that respect either.
A bit of a long read, but the co-operative sector does have some ideas about how to offer "founder incentives" in workers cooperatives.

https://jrwiener.com/cooperatives-and-founder-incentives/

The idea is that cooperatives don't have to treat everyone exactly the same. You can have different "classes" of members. You can have ordinary worker members, but also "founder" members. For example, for an agreed number of years "founder" members can get to elect a certain amount of board seats and get a higher share of profits.

Sure, it moves away from "one-person one-vote" democracy and full equality, but only for a temporary period, and it still gives ordinary workers a much greater say in their workplace than they get in standard companies.
It's like a broken bot wrote this and posted this.
I think there’s the definition of acquihire.
But nothing forces Disney to continue to fund this studio, or for other companies to give them VFX work to do. The reason for poor conditions in the VFX industry is always identified as the fact that, put bluntly, they are willing to take it to work on movies. No different to video games or other artistic endeavours. Until the field stops being fashionable enough for people to compete so aggressively, conditions won't improve and unions can't fix that.
Work involves supporting Windows

It's his first sentence. What does your (understandable) personal stance, have to do with his work environment??

Or the rest of his first sentence:

there's a lot of specialised hardware design software that's only supported under Windows, so this isn't really avoidable

Your statement feels unhelpful.
By the title alone, this means nothing. How much would it cost otherwise? What is the percentage savings?

In TFA, it gets better though: "Steve: That’s pretty easy. When I started on the spam team, we had close to 1,400 servers running. When we converted several parts to Elixir, we reduced that by around 95%. One of the systems that ran on 200 Python servers now runs on four Elixir servers (it can actually run on two servers, but we felt that four provided more fault tolerance). The combined effect of better architecture and Elixir saved Pinterest over $2 million per year in server costs. In addition, the performance and reliability of the systems went up despite running on drastically less hardware. When our notifications system was running on Java, it was on 30 c32.xl instances. When we switched over to Elixir, we could run on 15. Despite running on less hardware, the response times dropped significantly, as did errors."
I think that this was what Alan Kay was saying when he said that web pages should be objects (where he had previously said that objects are virtual machines all the way down)
I have seen this movie before, it always ends the same way.

Look to go parallel for speed increase, burn a bunch of time and decide its way too hard and just wait the extra few minutes instead.
There is a _significant_ difference in the damage done in a manned aircraft and unmanned aircraft. To even imply that the same laws would apply is absurd.
> So why do we care from where LLMs learn?

Because humans aren't computers and the similarities between the two, other than the overuse of the word "learning" in the computer's case, are nonexistant?
> Surely nobody is ...

That's your mistake right there. If some workflow or usage pattern is possible, you can bet that somebody, somewhere is doing it, and relying on it. No matter how silly it might look to you.
Many OLED screens consume less power when displaying mostly black, so it is not uncommon for phones to be used that way.

If you are used to dark mode from other uses¹ you might prefer it for everything else on *LED screens too even though it would likely feel unnatural for “real” reading on paper³.

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[1] not caught the bug myself yet, but most of the devs around me use it for coding, I've used it for terminal work for as long as I can remember, and have my phone in dark mode² so apps & web stuff that respect that are light-on-dark

[2] apparently this saves battery life on OLED screens, though not as much as some saying that seem to think, and it is also nicer for low-light situations like when I'm shutting down in the evening (but have messages to respond to before I do).

[3] or on an e-ink device
You can try to ignore that and insist on applying emission regulations on import, which is what the EU currently is preparing.

However, the scenario this will lead to is: Industry will still leave high-energy-price areas. If low-energy-price regions can be found within the EU, industry might go there. Otherwise industry will be off to wherever in the world is cheap and happily charge the EU carbon import duties to EU customers. The rest of the world will enjoy low-priced not-carbon-neutral products that the EU will never be able to compete with because of economies of scale.

The only viable ways out of this isn't import duties but import restrictions, i.e. outright preventing goods that are not up to EU CO_2 standards from being imported. That will lead to local CO_2-neutral industries that have to be continuously walled off, because if they are exposed to the rest of the world they will be too small and expensive. The other way is a global agreement on CO_2 standards, such that those kinds of import regulations are unnecessary.
The way I see it is that with AI you have really painted your own Caravaggio, but instead of an electrochemical circuit of a human brain you've employed a virtual network.
Yes, that is a perfect example of how right-wing populism works, thank you for the demonstration: I say "right-wing populism went into overdrive and this hurt the election results of these parties" and you respond by saying I want to censor people with right-wing views and "silence" them.

Attack ads are a fairly recent phenomenon in German politics which is why we don't see the overt kind you're used to seeing in US politics ("Congressman so-and-so wants to ban children from eating food. Vote NO on proposition 123 to save America") but we do get a ton of the same "post-truth" astroturfing on social media. The reason the pandemic is relevant is that there is a significant overlap between these movements at this time and the various conspiracies surrounding COVID, just as in the US where "horse paste" and "Fauchi ouchy" have somehow become words you'd hear mentioned in political conversations now.

Note that I'm not talking about right-wing politics in general. There are still plenty of good old boring right-wing politicians in Germany. But in the proximity of the AfD (which can factually be described as including far-right extremist movements, just as Die Linke can factually be described that way for the left, though how those two things translate into actual threats of violence is a different conversation) we've seen a lot more emotion-focussed activism (e.g. Great Replacement references, "free speech", "traditional family values", etc) whereas on the left the closest example would be vegan activists (unless you think man-made climate change is a big lie).