skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're mostly being downvoted for tone but I agree with you to some extent.

To be clear, sites like Twitter actively went out of their way NOT to ban people for espousing far right talking points. Infamously there's the story about how auto-moderation would have resulted in the ban of a number of major profiles including GOP politicians and they had to give special treatment to Donald Trump while he was in office because he blatantly violated the terms of service all the time. Arguably more leftist accounts were banned than right-wing (if you exclude bans for active harassment like calling people slurs) but this is because leftists are generally outside the political spectrum so far right accounts tend to not be compared to leftists but to liberals, who of course tend to be more within the bounds of the terms of service.

The Nazi Bar is easily observable in real time with Elon Musk's Xitter. Elon Musk unbanned a number of far right accounts while actively engaging with a number of far right influencers. Additionally bans for slurs and targeted harassment have gone down. In Germany the only way to report an account is via a special flow that tries to implement the requirements of the NetzDG law (with malicious compliance in my opinion) and it's an open secret that ever since the layoffs any NetzDG reports sent via this system now get rejected by default whereas any sent by physical mail get approved by default. A German research project has also demonstrated that German-speaking left-leaning and far left "bubbles" have dwindled since the takeover whereas far right bubbles have gone into overdrive.

All German-speaking tweets (xeets?) I've seen from leftist or moderately popular left-leaning accounts are now flooded with replies from right-wing trolls (or worse) with blue checkmarks, often posting things that are clearly illegal speech under German law (e.g. glorifying criminal violence or directly insulting people to a criminal degree) but are not taken down even when reported. To be clear: this is illegal behavior on the part of X and will eventually result in them being fined. Musk just doesn't seem to care as presumably the fine won't be any more ruinous than what the company already owes.

You can however leave Twitter without consequence. Major influences, brands and others have already done so any many "normies" have stopped going because they experience the same toxicity and look elsewhere. Twitter hasn't been that large to begin with, certainly not on par with Facebook. Twitter's success came from it being the place where celebrities and journalists and influencers can be interacted with directly and you'd get a glimpse into the mind of your favorite famous person or be able to see witness reports of major tragedies first-hand (which of course became increasingly attractive for people trying to spread misinformation for fun or profit).
> these lunatics

quite possibly only a single lunatic
Agreed, it's a no-brainer to add some cheap hardware rather than spend two orders of magnitude more to fix the inefficient code.
> The subject seems to be completely non linear

Is this not the nature of learning in general? Why is it supposed that learning things in the linear A-B-C-D fashion is even possible for most humans, rather than supposing that most people would need to revisit certain topics before learning new topics, e.g. A-B-A-D-C instead of A-B-C-D?
This is why you'd use the single "what do you want to be called?" value (e.g. preferred_name). Then it's not an issue because it's the exact text they provided.
Good thing you mentioned Japan. It was a huge competitor to the US in 80s and 90s in industrial products, yet nobody considered restricting the trade with it.
WordPress migration add-on flaw could lead to data breaches
Maybe not intentionally, but a basically-dormant company like Apple Records could very well provide a really attractive attack vector. Their security is probably going to be orders of magnitudes worse than Apple Music, so why not just hack Apple Records instead?
Yet copyright magically materializes for 75 years after the author has turned to dust
What I imagine is that the engineers assigned to it started off from an EDID from some other display they have, made changes to it, tested on Mac and Windows, never tested on Linux.
That's one thing I never understood how it didn't pick up in mainstream OS's. And Datatypes did not only cover images - audio, video, hypertext (Who can forget AmigaGuide) - you name it, there was a datatype for it. An idea so ahead of its time.

I was really surprised when I drank the koolaid and switched to windows that every app had its own set of favorite formats.
I mean you can absolutely work behind a desk in certain setups where you dont have that many distractions. Also tech jobs are becoming increasingly less desirable and i also encourage people to consider alternatives.
If you're running VMs on Mac for a development environment what you want is OrbStack: https://orbstack.dev/
Here's one way to get to the "it's never going to happen" outcome:

The grand-parent comment argues that we need AI that works in a much broader set of circumstances to "solve" self driving. In particular it would need to understand how other humans would react to its actions in novel situations. That is approximately a description of having a Theory of Mind. Some argue that you can't have a Theory of Mind without being conscious. We might ban captive conciousnesses for ethical reasons.

I think you could invent lots of other scenarios that yield the "never going to happen" outcome. They probably all sound ludicrous, because having an AI that understands the workings of human minds sounds ludicrous (and frightening).
I assume from the snarky response that the answer is “no”? In that case, what exactly needs to be changed to not count as the original work?
Theseus OS (https://www.theseus-os.com/) is also an OS written in Rust. It's a safe-language OS and I believe it's the future of the OSes due to its unique features.
You can absolutely run Windows for ARM on UTM, which uses virtualization.framework. I imagine this’ll work fine too, but haven’t tested.

The mention of x86 on that page is about running x86-64 compiled Linux binaries inside an Linux ARM virtual machine.
> It's 4 potential memory corruption issues in a 300kloc C/C++ code base, only one "may be critical" (without a working exploit being provided that's hard to tell). That's actually not too bad for an "unsafe" language.

It's about normal.

It's also why Rust is struggling to eat into C and C++ marketshare - the class bugs it prevents has such a tiny footprint compared to all the bugs present in any given C and C++ system that it doesn't motivate the developers to spend the time Rust requires to ramp up to speed on a new language, and then use it in production.
While being a plumber may not pay much, owning a plumbing company could.
Sure, but that was a direct response to someone who said "just have a single field and run it through a regex to figure things outs".
If you're specifically interested in reverse engineering for ARM-based systems (32 and 64 bit), this book is a pretty good introduction:

"Blue Fox: Arm Assembly Internals and Reverse Engineering" by Maria Markstedter

https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Blue+Fox%3A+Arm+Assembly+Interna...
You are being downvoted, but I wonder if people really appreciate the politeness on automated communication. If no person interacted with me, why would I want to be addressed respectfully? I think this mainly serves corporations which can humanize automated communication to make customers feel more cared about (by simulating interaction like a real human would initiate)
> 6 bookings per second at $200 per booking is $103M processed per day.

I don't doubt that they don't prcess a lot of money - that's besides the point.

They're a cookie cutter CRUD app (that happens to process a lot of money) that takes _hundreds_ of requests and 12 seconds to load on a 32 core workstation with a gigabit fibre internet connection. They have no business writing a blog on performance engineering.
Blame the mouse for that.
While it's been tough to see the loss of material for further Discworld books, it's probably for the best.

Sir Terry's disease started to show in his last few books already. I'm perfectly fine being left with an incomplete series of books that are all masterpieces, rather than seeing this genius slowly disolve into Alzheimer's dementia. The alternative would be something like what happened to Dune after Herbert's death.
> But if you used +foo stuff then you might not be able to remember what email address you used.

That's exactly what password managers are for.
Look forward to checking this out, I currently run UTM to have K3s running on my Mac mini Server (m2), I’m torn between moving to Asahi Linux (Fedora) and continuing to use VMs.
Cool Science Tricks (2005)
There's an app Stereogram Lab: https://hidden-3d.com/index.php?id=software
oh, so you are stealing as well.. who would have thought.
And how is that a problem?
Or he could have moved to a device which is encrypted at rest, such as any modern Mac.
There is no list.

Either you live in China and fill in your name in Chinese.

Or you don’t live in China and you write your name in English.
In December 2007, Pratchett announced that he had been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease.

This was eight years before his death in 2015. I have no doubt that he continued writing from habit and I also have little doubt that what he wrote increasingly looked like word salad.

He was very likely all too aware that his unfinished works needed a strong overhaul from an editor in close partnership to tease out portions that were utterly at odds with what he had intended to say or thought he had written.

In the event of death apply steamroller seems like a wise choice.
I use this to run pi-hole on Debian on my old Mac mini which also hosts our network Time Machine.
The software on mainframes only shines in reliability and the fact that the machines have been build for money transaction from the start. For example doing "decimal" math (if you think python) is as inexpensive as doing float math due to hardware support.

The machines themselves are impressive (hardware wise) and reliability wise, for example you can swap mainboards one by one in a full frame without ever taking down the machine (think raid on a mainboard level, RAIMB ?).

But the high start-up cost makes most startups going the other road. I am not convinced that the vertically scaling is cheaper than horizontally, if you need the ACID guarantees... but it is hard to say.

The reason why us old dogs say it is hard (not impossible) is due to the single-image and acid requirements. There is no good way to do that distributed (look up the CAP theorem).

So having a massive computer (with double digit terabytes of memory AND cache, and truly massive i/o pipes.. just makes building the need-to-work stuff simpler.

As an example, a few years ago I was (on my own money) on a mainframe conference (not doing mainframe work in my work day).. at that time the machine had more bandwidth to the roughly 200 PCIe adapters that a top-of-the-line intel CPU had between the L1 cache and the computing cores) - and that meant that given enough ssd's you could move more data into the system from disk that you could move into an intel cpu from cache...

Also mainframes can run two mainframes lockstep (as long as they are less than 50km apart), that means if one of them dies during a transaction (which in itself is extremely rare), the other can complete it without the application being any the wiser.. Try that in the cloud :)
Like most modern UI, it's a compromise where function must always give way to form.
What does “Hated the name Harry and got it removed” meant then? Sounds like the poster got the name removed.

Also it was his grandfather that gave him the name “Harry”, not his parents.
I wanted, but when I press ENTER, it asks to register... I click cancel and notice PRICING page. I click on it and again it asks for login. That is NOT how one onboards users.
It's pretty hard simplification for the matter.

There is only 2 airports where this sort of things happen. If your teambuilding event scheduled to be in some god forbidden area of Colombia for example, and if this doesn't bring any suspicion to you - well...
I would definitetly recommend the Dexcom G7. As I come from the libre3 I have to say that the G7 overall feels more sophisticated, yet alone the overpatch they send with each sensor will help keeping the sensor on my arm. In the past the libre3 often just fell of during my swim training.

Further, libre3 is often just not supported by third party apps or pumps or other. They do not provide an official API, that might be helpful for tracking your clucose. Back in the days I used and contributed to https://github.com/timoschlueter/nightscout-librelink-up to periodically fetched my sensor data from librelink and stored it my nightscout, that runs on my server at my home. That helped a lot, but it was more than a hack.
> It's interesting how in Germany there is so much accent on titles.

Seeing all the title drop down when subscribing to the economist (UK) made it clear to me it is a thing there too, at least in some circles.
Same thing in Hungary.
I've been looking forward to watching this film, but it's frustratingly not been available in the UK. Looks like it might be reaching cinemas in October though. I don't usually look into new movies, so don't know how things usually work, but this regional specific delay feels really quite outdated.
You could get a standing desk.
yes that was it, now I feel several sorts of awkward as I specifically looked it up because I could not remember the designation and yet, still somewhere between the list of x-planes and the comment entry the X-37(reusable baby space shuttle thing) became the X-47(stealth unmanned aircraft). Thanks for the catch.
For those interested, there are several videos of Dr Irving Finkel from the British Museum talking about the Library of Asshurbanipal on Youtube.

Dr Finkel is a brilliant speaker and fluent in Sumerian, Akkadian and Assyrian writing systems.
My ebike gets better than 20wh/mi. Really puts into perspective how inefficient these super heavy electric cars are.
> If your goal wasn't "use s-expr" and it isn't a lisp interpreter, the tagline probably shouldn't be "Produce HTML from S-Expressions" and the project shouldn't be named "lisp-to-html"; it should be "Write HTML with parentheses".

You're right maybe it shouldn't be called "Lisp-ish".

But, the sources really are s-expressions with an additional ':' marker for attributes, just not Lisp s-expressions with the ':' marker.

So "Write HTML with parenthesis" would be less accurate than "Emit HTML from S-expressions".
How about the movie about the Avro Arrow fighter jet?

I'm not canadian but the ending was pretty sad knowing how other canadian tech companies would have similar fates in the future (like Nortel)
In Hungary it's also last name first, both officially and informally - not sure if it's some Asian influence or something else...
Sword swallowing and its side effects (2006) [pdf]
Neil Gaiman, who had previously collaborated with Pratchett, was trying to save them and presumably would have cleaned up and finished the stories. He wouldn't have wanted works that would diminish his friend's legacy.
In a world with more than one single dimension. Have you considered there are other factors in addition to CO2 per mile?

A trivial example is total number of miles driven. If we end up driving twice as much then that's your CO2 gains gone right there. Considering that's exactly what's happened since 1983 does that seem unlikely?

Do EVs do anything to reverse this trend? Do they do anything for pedestrian safety? Do they do anything about the need for parking and huge roads? Do they do anything about noise and particulate pollution of tyres? Do they do anything about road rage? I could go on and on.

Focussing solely on one single metric is extremely foolish, but of course it's exactly what the car manufacturers want because they've found a solution for that one metric.
> Microsoft Middle Manager 2.0

I think we've found the common thread between AI and crypto: the dumping of externalities and increase in energy usage.

Do people really want to work for Microsoft Middle Manager? Have we not seen enough horror stories about metric-slavery in Amazon warehouses and the gig economy? It might be cheaper, but it's also worse, for a class of people who don't get any input in the decision. Similarly self-driving unleashes a new class of poorly behaved "learner" drivers on the road, who may be less aggressive but are also capable of causing problems from that very timidity and lack of general competence.
> You can buy vast tracts land for pennies and...

That sounds remarkably like the just-revealed "Flannery Associates plan" - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/business/land-purchases-s... .

And still, even with ~50,000 acres and a bunch of billionaires behind them, the media coverage seems to agree that they'll be fighting against regulations and red tape and NIMBYs for years, to actually build anything useful. With success far from assured.
Don’t people acclimatise to them? Biggest reason I don’t take Vyanse is because I’m worried it’ll stop working (like modafinil did) but leave me addicted to it
Yeah many things like that were so backward when you had to move to other operating systems from AmigaOS
It reminds me of Bref shorthand and autohotkey:
https://www.reddit.com/r/shorthand/comments/esjhdk/bref_shor...
Do you have a handy link, btw? I did some searching and all I can find is their new "self-determination" law reported by AP[1], and their report doesn't mention deadnaming. The only places I can find saying that deadnaming will be fined are your standard right-wing transphobic nutjobs.

[2] (with an NSFW header image) explains that it only covers "[deadnaming] with the aim of harming the person" which is completely different from "deadnaming [is] a crime", right?

[1] https://apnews.com/article/germany-transgender-legal-registr...

[2] https://euro.dayfr.com/trends/756176.html
> what should the 44th month of a year be named?

Second half of the year's months are Latin and off-by-two, so…

Quadragintaduober?
Vyvanse is so safe there's no need to give people "options" instead of it. Especially since non-medical "options" barely work on people with ADHD unless they spend almost all their effort 24/7 on coping.
it'll happen but the car won't really be self driving, I think a literal ai robot cheaufer is more likely. AGI will be able to do everything a human can do, including driving. We're IMHO less than a decade, if not less than half a decade from that.

If you don't believe me name a scatter chart showing ai papers since 2017. Notice how this year dwarfs all previous years and last year blew the water out of the previous ones but the ones before generative art models were a bit slower and more regular.

If we can perfect ai agents and automated LLMs, we could create personified agents of varying backgrounds in a virtual computer lab tasked with doing ai research 24/7. We could put 60 ai scientists in the lab and just watch them work.

Maybe the lab is vr such that human scientists could enter and collaborate with ai counter parts. imagine applying this to cancer research, etc.

When an LLM can train itself, program children(next version), and submit orders or plans for new hardware fabs to a factory to breach current limitations, then we basically have von Neumann probes that multiply, grow, learn, and don't need human intervention.
Sans.style
> It's the Chinese doing this, which the UN page doesn't mention.

I was expecting that in that incoherent and ignorant flow eventually will be some nationality blamed, and I wasnt disappointed.
Owning a plumber company does not translate into work on the foot. Probably it will be sitting job
https://xkcd.com/2822/ -> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2822

Any other fun easter eggs in the XKCD counter?

- https://xkcd.com/404/ 404s (obviously)
- https://xkcd.com/1337/ is about hacking
Indeed - the final few novels lacked the finesse of the earlier works. I believe Pterry, in common with many authors, would produce a basically complete manuscript, and then relentlessly iterate on it - removing inconsistencies, adding detail, etc, until the final result was a truly excellent reading experience.

In his last years I believe Pterry was not actually physically writing himself, but working through an amanuensis. I can easily imagine that this massively complicated the revision process and the novels, probably from Unseen Academicals onwards read to me more like earlier drafts than finished productions.
Deploying Open-Source LLMs for Rag
define: obey order like Japan
Um excuse me there is always http://zombo.com
> were having a convo on a internet board, not having an academic debate

I come to this website because it provides an opportunity for a level of discussion which is closer to an "academic debate" than a "convo on an internet board". If you find that obnoxious, maybe there is some other "internet board" out there which is more suitable for you.

> People say “skin color” colloquially when they mean the general concept of race/ethnicity. Is it not used like this in Australia?

You speak as if the "general concept of race/ethnicity" was identical in every country – it isn't. There are significant differences between how "race/ethnicity" is understood in Australia, and how it is understood in the US-to speak of just two countries. Do you understand those differences?

> The hostile attitude is because you decided to focus on a hyper-specific nuance that nobody cares about

Just because you don't care about a nuance doesn't mean nobody else does. Indeed, the comment you are complaining about was upvoted. And, I've posted many other comments just like the one you are complaining about in the 8+ years I've been here, and many of them have been upvoted as well.

> Its like if I were to focus in solely on you purposely misspelling “color” using non-American

There is a big difference between spelling differences between different Anglophone countries – which are trivial – and differences in how "race/ethnicity" is conceptualised in different countries – which are far from trivial.
Indeed, being able to type quickly is invaluable in minimizing the time your mind is blocked from continuing onwards.

Or, in general, being able to use keyboard quickly. I've seen a lot of people who, when troubleshooting some issue in a SSH session, are v e r y s l o w in shell (quick sequence of little tasks like: type a command, find a particular command in your recent shell history, bring it back up, change something in it, navigate to a different directory, grep some log output).

If even the simplest of those tasks takes you a few seconds, you risk losing the train of thought.
Modafinil is not known to develop tolerance. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01650...)

Vyvanse does, but it's not a problem, just take a magnesium supplement if it happens.
Theseus OS has no context switches, while being even more secure than conventional OSes, all without any reliance on hardware-provided isolation.

Theseus is a safe-language OS, in which everything runs in a single address space (SAS) and single privilege level (SPL). This includes everything from low-level kernel components to higher-level OS services, drivers, libraries, and more, all the way up to user applications. Protection and isolation are provided by means of compiler and language-ensured type safety and memory safety.

https://www.theseus-os.com/Theseus/book/design/design.html
Not only in literature: many things published as Op. posth. in music are also unauthorized—e.g. Chopin’s Fantasie-Impromptu was posthumously released against the explicit wishes of the author. (Contemporary French copyright law prohibits that for unpublished works—in perpetuity, IIRC.)