skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with Tozen's sibling comment. He's not the one who starts these pointless flamewars.

It's the people bringing up these 4 year old debunked "V is scam/vaporware" points in each submission about a V release.
Dear Greenpeace
Canadian media is not that polarized. Please stop comparing everything with Fox News, it became the new Hitler term.
No, just @gmail.com ones, and maybe a few others - not all email providers ignore dots.

But if you do this you better do it everywhere you use email. Otherwise you can get some pretty nasty bugs where two emails aren't considered the same sometimes, are are considered the same other times.
Will Gmail prevent you from entering such an address elsewhere, thinking either that it is yours, or that it is the email of some intended recipient other than the actual Gmail accountholder?

Alternatively: will third-party systems consolidate such addresses under a single account, or treat them as different?
They should have built renewables and they would have cheaper energy than ever. You can't remove energy sources without replacement.
I consider myself very much an ecologist, and also struggle to understand anti-nuclear ecologists. However there is one anti argument that I think is worth sharing, one friend exposed to me and that I think it is very pertinent: "One should be against nuclear energy because their lobbies encourage a society where energy is not limited. Having clean and (relatively) cheap energy is not the best way to go toward sobriety. And it is easy to confuse having a carbon-free energy source with having a new way to produce more cars, planes, phones, content, etc... which will only help capitalism to grow stronger"

I think there is a big part of truth here, and we (the pro-nuclear ecologist) must address an answer to this worry. My opinion is that we should separate this in two fights: (i) we must go for a more sustainable society by reducing our needs in energy and our general consumption; but it is irrational to think we will ever reduce our energy consumption level to a level sufficiently low that nuclear would not be the best option, hence (ii) we must keep learning how to build and maintain nuclear plants.
Rust changes Cargo package guidance
Well you had to ... you know because of the implication
I know of another Never Ending Eternal September 1993. All Sierra games Mac ports stopped working precisely on September 18 1993!

move.l Time, d0 ; seconds since January 1 1904
divu.w #$a8c0, d0 ; divide by 12 hours

https://www.benshoof.org/blog/sierras-macintosh-timebomb
I agree the stance is old-fashioned, but nuclear is not the solution in 2023. We correctly attempted it in the 2000s, it did not deliver, lets learn from that experience. Who would finance another Flamanville [1] or Vogtle [2] today?

The research is clear, every cent invested in nuclear power prolongs the climate crisis. [3]

> On both costs and speed, renewable energy sources beat nuclear. Every euro invested in new nuclear plants thus delays decarbonization compared to investments in renewable power. In a decarbonizing world, delays increase CO2 emissions.

The recently nationalized debt laden French nuclear behemoth EDF can not even finance new nuclear plants without direct state aid. [4]

> (Montel) French utility EDF is unable to self-finance the construction of new nuclear reactors due to its EUR 65bn debt and so needs state funding, CEO Luc Remont told a hearing of France’s lower house on Wednesday.

Meanwhile Germany are raking in tens of billions by simply selling the right to build off-shore wind. [5]

> Germany’s first dynamic bidding process, covering four offshore wind zones with a combined capacity of 7 GW, has generated EUR 12.6 billion in proceeds, according to the Federal Network Agency.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogtle_Electric_Generating_Pla...

[3]:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S254243512...

[4]: https://www.montelnews.com/news/1511372/french-state-must-fu...

[5]: https://www.offshorewind.biz/2023/07/12/breaking-germany-rak...
When that happens I happily do a password reset, log in to the account and delete it.
$100k/yr probably still puts you in the top 1% by personal salary per year, globaly. And about 3x above the median in the US.

I'm not arguing that it makes you rich, but you're definitely NOT "poor" if you have such an income.

Anyway, comparing to the CEO on a linear scale is kind of absurd. Anyone making less than half of what the CEO does is closer to the janitor than the CEO. Still, if you make exactly half as much as the CEO of these companies, you're still objectively rich.

And why do you think you should be closer to the CEO than the janitor in the first place? Do you think your job is that much more important than making sure the power is on and the toilets are not stuck?

If someone is gunuine about protecting the "poor", they should first ensure that the janitors and cafeteria workers are not poor, before they demand raises that would take them even further away from those that really ARE poor.

It appears to be quite typical for those claiming to be poor (while having an above-median income and wealth) to have just the attitude towards those below them that they blame the "rich" for.
The problem is engagement-driven algorithmic feeds. Without them, none of that would happen. Enshittification doesn’t happen with traditional web forums. It’s entirely a function of how the platforms are set up.
I've been using WhatsApp groups for sharing with my friends and some Telegram groups too. Everybody has WhatsApp and actively uses it here anyway, so there is no extra app to install. No need to use Instagram, Discord, TikTok or whatever. It crosses all age groups.
2022-2023 YOY decrease in china shipping volume

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/reality-of-ocean-container...
You still haven't listed any impossible claims, only something about autofree and GC copied from the website. What's impossible about that?
It might not be for everyone, but I'm posting more on social media than ever and seeing more engagement than ever... it's on the fediverse where smaller and safer communities are leading to much higher valuable engagement.

I'm also finding it a lot more common for people to have multiple profiles / personas... the social one, the work one, the furry one, whatever is how you want to present yourself and to whom, without needing to try and contort yourself to be everything to everyone.
Yeah, I used to call enshittification "Black and Deckering".
Thats not the point.

The point is people who are proponents of self driving have a blind spot. Its construed as a code problem, ignoring entirely the massive social aspect of human behavior.

Driving isn't locomotion. You can't assume that the people around you are going to be reasonable, sane or predictable. More data doesn't fix that, unless you start building a "civilzed behavior" model and then add that to your movement model.

I really want to see how honest people are when they build a fair representation of human civilization, warts and all.

Self driving as has been defined assumes some absurd things about the world in which humans live.
No one is going to buy a car which wont know to run when they are about to get robbed.

To be blunt, the blind spot assumes you live in America (and probably california), not that you live in Brazil or India or Egypt.
Because it's the only way to buy new property in my location.
Also some stack exchanges I frequent were absolutely bombarded with ChatGPT for a few weeks.
I am not going to shed a tear for those VCs with dumb money who back the truck up and dump their cash into a "startup" that pivoted from blockchain to AI last week.
I've realized a lot of people don't understand how the gmail dot feature works and blame it for all their problems.

If you own foo@gmail.com, you also own every combination of it using dots left of the @. for example:

f.oo@gmail.com

fo.o@gmail.com

Nobody else can register these addresses because they're all owned by foo@gmail.com automatically.
I will be working remotely in my current position. But I would like to transition as soon as I get a good opportunity.
The other common thread is it’s all the same grifters. The same people who hyped up the worlds slowest coal powered linked list as the future of money are now hyping up AI. I do think AI is somewhat different as we will be left with more to show for it than “PayPal for Cambodian human traffickers running pig butchering scams.”

My banal take is: notwithstanding above, all the risk premium is gone for investors and employees. Everything in the AI space is priced assuming flawless execution over a 20 year time frame. As a potential employee - or investor - that equity is just not interesting to me.
"Real-world applications include environmental monitoring or disaster response."

And killing John Connor. Mostly killing John Connor.
He went full Brian LeFevre
A font is processed by software, one part of the font rendering stack is converting a string into glyphs and their positions, other part is rasterizing glyphs into bitmap. In this case one library from the stack, HarfBuzz [1], got the support for, I assume, an extension to OpenType format, that allows to embed an extra section into the file [2]. So HarfBuzz can open these special OpenType files and make run wasm embedded into them. Which means software based on it, like Chrome browser or Android, will also be open these font files, but Windows likely not.

- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarfBuzz
- [2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/HarfBuzz-8.0
Alberta's oil industry hasn't been "destroyed" -- it just has a product nobody needs.

When your chief export market for your product (the US) is also now the world's top oil exporter, sitting on its own reserves of oil, and the oil you're exporting requires heavy processing and is of generally lower quality... You're gonna have a bad time. New pipelines won't save you.

So then their party-of-choice wasted a decade fighting to build infrastructure to export to China... who also doesn't need our product.

It's froth-at-the-mouth rabid partisan bullshit, and Canadians need to learn to see through this crap. (Narrator: "they, didn't though")

Alberta's government was captured long ago by oil industry shills who are increasingly angry at their own failures and looking for someone to blame and balkanizing the country in the process, and the National Post plays along, every year becoming more and more shrill.
Companies want the benefits of open source (massive community contributions, lower development costs, better security, community exposure, marketshare) but don't like the downsides (from their perspective: forks, lack of control, freeloaders etc).

TOS changes like this are fine, it's their garden, but ultimately all they'll do is put even more power behind forks and alternatives. Because the people that were motivated to use OpenTF are now also going to offer an alternative registry, which results in further loss of control and community contact and shifts attention away from HashiCorp's offering. It's very difficult to pull off this sort of dual stance without each move that you make impacting some aspect of your operation in a negative way. You need to think this through very well from day one because any change later on could easily be perceived as the beginnings of an attempt to squeeze the installed base and once that is the impression you will lose users rapidly.
The possibility to use dprint plugins (Dockerfile, TOML, Markdown, custom ones) would be awesome.
Why not remove these persons you don’t feel close to from your friends list ? When I was using facebook, after I moved in life, say going from highschool to university and my list grew with my new university acquaintances there, I pruned it from the acquaintances of the past life, high school people I knew didn’t matter so much to me once they were not part of my life anymore.

So my friend list organically went through cycles of growth and shrink and probably stayed roughly constant, with the only long term growth being people that "sticked around" in my life.
In my opinion, a lot of "software bloat" we see these days for apps running on user machines comes from a mismatch between the developer machine and the user machine. The developer is often equipped with a high-end workstation as they simply need those resources to do their job, but they end up using the same machine to do basic testing.

Incidentally, I think the reason they need those specs is the same: the people building the dev tools all have top end hardware, and what’s fast enough for them is good enough to ship. I don’t think the people building the dev tools at meta, or apple, or google are seriously considering the use case of a developer working on an old dual core 8 gb machine, but that’s the reality in large parts of the world.
Sounds like an invitation to find a PC accidentally left unlocked and sending a joke reply.

(Don't do this in real life, please.)
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/did-a-chinese-hack-kill-canada-s...

> Nortel’s giddy, gilded growth also made it a target. Starting in the late 1990s, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the country’s version of the CIA, became aware of “unusual traffic,” suggesting that hackers in China were stealing data and documents from Ottawa. “We went to Nortel in Ottawa, and we told the executives, ‘They’re sucking your intellectual property out,’ ” says Michel Juneau-Katsuya, who headed the agency’s Asia-Pacific unit at the time. “They didn’t do anything.”
So a crying baby is the parents fault? A crying toddler is the parents fault. Before having kids I might have agreed with you. Since having kids, I know it's not always the parents fault. Read any book on raising kids you'll see parents don't have some magic remote control over the children.
> Folks, if every single instance of communism has ended up being a shit-show, maybe it's not that people are doing it wrong

If a system X says to do Y but everyone who says they are doing X is actually not doing Y I don't see how the conclusion is Hahaha the problem is not that people are doing it wrong.

Maybe actually doing X is unachievable or doesn't work in practice, but you can't conclude that just from people doing something else and calling it X.

Same with scrum, obviously, except that lots of people do work in Scrum teams that work. And in my experience, the teams that think they're doing Scrum actually work quite well when they do Scrum properly and experience a lot of pain when they do something else but call it Scrum.
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I had Hashicorp in my mind as a cool and respectful company. These recent events have made to reconsider and throw them into the same bag as Oracle. I find this pretty sad.
> Renewables are far more expensive than nuclear when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining.

Which fortunately doesn't happen too often in Europe.
Our Fetish with Failover and Redundancy
With version 117, Firefox finally speaks Chrome's translation language
I don’t have a citizenship unfortunately. I am assuming that’s going to be a blocker.
> A 1 billion $ valuation for a company that made 18 mil in sales?

That was 18M Euro (around $20M) and in a quarter. If that revenue was all recurring, that implies an $80M/yr run rate, or a 12.5x multiple on revenue to get to a billion dollar valuation. That's only 5x the current S&P500 price-to-sales ratio (and I'd surely expect startups with any sales traction to have a much higher ratio than US large caps, due to the much higher potential for growth).

It doesn't seem that crazy to me, which might mean that I'm the crazy one.
> creative thinking…

The death of creative thinking is management and processes. Assembly line work doesnt permit creativity. Google is heading the same route as IBM and other once great corporations made by creative people. When the discussion shifts from ideas to processes and triviliaities it's game over. Long live whatever replaces google. It's over.
This Week in Rust 510
Integrating a large Tokio-based Rust library with Haskell
I don’t see why a cause of increased incidence of wildfires should be ignored. Using your logic, we can ignore any cause of wildfires as long as there is more than one potential cause. For instance, why not say: wildfires are a threat regardless of land management practices. Poor land management practices may lead to an increased number of forest fires, but we’ve known for decades the number of forest fires was going to increase due to climate change.
> This is a great reminder that Gmail ignores dots on the left side of the @ symbol, which means I am constantly getting e-mail for other people.

That is not how it works, you own every combination of your email address with dots left of @ automatically.

if you own foo@gmail.com, then nobody else can own f.oo@gmail.com because you own it, it's an alias of your email address esentially.
Great timing! I just watched this last night with my friends. We all were surprised that this movie didn't get more traction!

> But Glenn Howerton’s Portrayal of Jim Balsillie’s explosive rage is one of the great performances. Ever. it’s one of those instant legendary meme performances.

Totally agree. Even if you're not into the story of blackberry, the character performances and rarely onscreen story of "engineer becoming corporate" is worth the watch.
I wouldn't say polarized, but there is certainly a sliding scale. And the National Post is as right wing as it gets in Canada. Certainly some of their opinion pieces can get pretty extreme - see example above.
Jodhpur, Pune, and Agra (Red Fortress, Taj Mahal. I also went to Ellora Caves, which was amazing! India is great :)
The difficult bit is how you sort them.

I have this problem that some software which doesn't readily discern what should be first name and what should be last name gives me a list of all Johns followed by all Lisas and then Peters, which is less than helpful. Other software thinks it got it right but then for Hungarian names, it gives me all Istváns followed by all Józsefs, which, again, is less than optimal.

Having a "sort key for bloody sorting" field may be a way to go, I personally would use it, but making it user friendly is a bitch, and heuristics will get it wrong more often than not. Sorry but I've run out of nice words for this problem.

(A bibliographer enters the chat, I cower in fear)
With western wages? How should this work? The prices china gave us, is because china is a euphemism for "slavery"..
The article takes a long time to wind around to the point.

It seems at first to be making simple point 'logging bad'.

But then makes point that logging pre-1990 was 'carbon neutral', and post-1990 the forest has dramatically switched to producing carbon.

It doesn't make a clear point on how logging from 1990's to present changed to cause more of a problem, or how logging can change to compensate.

So is it the logging?

Then finally makes point that the changing climate has caused forest to not grow back, and/or to be dryer. So hotter dryer climate has impacted forest, not some recent change in how logging is done.

It is a feedback problem.

So it is really the combined cycle, climate change is impacting the forest, so forest is not rebounding from logging like it did in the 90s.

From Article:

"You can see how back in the 1990s, logging extracted about the same amount (brown) as the forest grew back (green). Maybe that could be considered carbon-neutral, depending on the conditions.

But during the 2000s, logging extracted twice as much carbon as grew back. And since then, we’ve been logging a forest that isn’t growing back at all. That isn’t carbon-neutral."
Will Google introduce a special error message in reference to this xkcd in the future for the fun?

After all, the Python project has "import antigravity".
> France needs to maintain boots on the ground in Africa to protect their uranium mines

It seems rather coincidental to me that one of the countries where France has military presence happens to be a minor uranium producer (we're talking about Niger here I assume).

France has military presence in many more countries, and Niger is (or was, since there was a coup there recently) only a supplier for 1/5th of France's supply, and easy replaced with other sources. None of the other suppliers have French military bases.

Uranium is also very easy to stockpile since it takes little space, which makes it much easier to switch suppliers if needed.
It should be pretty clear for anyone that any opposition is tolerated as long as it is not seen as a threat. Moreover, the idea that you should be able to say lots of stuff without getting locked up is rapidly going out of fashion.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/23/technology/germany-intern...
There is a special place in hell for these people. Especially ones who let their kids play video games on a phone with the sound on on a flight.
And 1 year later in June 2021 the author stated that V should die.
Probably directed at Saudi Arabia. Surefire way to send even more business to Huawei.
Long build times are more of a Western thing.

China has reactors started in for example 2010 and 2015 that were finished in 5 or 6 years (and some others that took 10 years). India and Japan has reactors started in 2000 finished in 5-6 years. Pakistan has reactors stared in 2011 and 2016 finished in 6 years. Korea has reactors started in 2000, 2005, 2006, finished in 5 years.
I think what people sometimes miss is that circles was a good feature for users, but a bad feature for the platform. They interrupt vitality and outrage, since all messages are potentially more contained.
I was only a child in that era but it seems to me that Sun is venerated with hindsight today, people tend to speak of their work very highly. If that's true, is it just a hindsight thing, or maybe a favourable comparison to today's giants?
I'm sure there will be many parts of the world who will relish in the challenge. In Australia, at least, there is a very strong history of using derived words with the listener expected to do live backwards derivation in their head to unpack what is being spoken about. This means you won't readily be able to train for context.

I actually look forward to these antics because the march of importing US speech and identity has been relentless here, with some of the Australian vernacular being lost in the most recent generation, being directly replaced by US equivalent words.

Overall I think the move towards AI referred moderation is a good initiative.
Unpopular opinion around here, but strong hallucinogenic drugs can have negative externalities.
> I know people who use hacker news are on-average much less tech savvy than the average discord user

Sarcasm? Serious question. I used Discord exactly once, many years ago, and it appeared to be mostly children playing video games. I hear things have changed, but it’s hard to imagine a more tech savvy group than HN.
2024 Apple Security Research Device Program Now Accepting Applications
reminds me of the hilarious story from the first page of top /r/TalesFromTechSupport

https://old.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/420oa...
You may be stunned and astounded to discover that This Actually Happens.

(Examples include both Gmail and other systems.)

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12025091>

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12027598>

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17284211>

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36756201>
Apple plans biggest iPad Pro update since 2018
My one data point: I used to be an IT consultant in St Louis. St Louis is roughly half white and half black. The IT departments I worked with were roughly half white and half H1B Indian. The only black employees I saw were the security guards, or were from Africa or the Caribbean.

I’m convinced that H1B provide a barrier to entry for Black Americans into the IT sector.
Will any e-mail service prevent you from entering an address that's not yours to another site?
Compile-time and short-circuit evaluation
Would this be like gentrification?
Having to scroll through a list with the arrow keys sounds slower and more flow-breaking than just typing the word.