skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or, like, someone having their life destroyed by being sent to jail for having cable internet as set up by the provider? The author clearly had the means to sort her own case out, but you can certainly imagine someone who didn't and would be in jail for it.

Sure, on the scale of evil it's nowhere near the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but I don't think this is shrug your shoulder and say "tough titty" territory either. How would you like it if you were unlucky enough to not have been able to sort this out and be in jail for it? On the bright side, it's not as bad as getting your house bombed!
origami. i think it is because i am someone who would fidget by nature but learned to suppress it. when i started origami it seems like that part of me found and outlet and now it is part of me

i have been making the same origami swan for over 8 years and the repetitiveness is very calming. it has also been an amazing experience of figuring out lots of small improvements over time
They definitely “exploit” UBs, any proof on the contrary?
I have a large backlog of photos taken before it was common for cameras and phones to automatically embed GPS coordinates in the files. It would be nice to geotag them. I would pay for an AI service that could automate this with >85% accuracy.
>using my personal script library

That's like those hacking scenes where they do:

$ ./hack

Are those `gec`, `gvi`, certainly `ndur` isn't, part of pwsh default installation? If not how much works it needs to implement them? You may quickly find out why peeps prefer the Unix incantations. (Also will assume only one of those two approaches come with manuals for commands run.)
Oh another “The US is big” post.

The EU has 30% more people

There are 60 times as many privately owned guns in the EU as there are in Montana.

There are 5 time as many guns in the US, but 20 times as many murders.

There is a cultural problem in the US with firearms.
Big Tech Braces for EU’s Biggest Antitrust Crackdown
Social media is not anonymous - all will sell you out in a heartbeat for business reasons.
RISC-V Support for BFloat16
You seem to be looking for a topic model. BERTopic might help:
https://maartengr.github.io/BERTopic/index.html#quick-start
Support to start an online protest to free Julian Assange
I'd like to start an online protest against Assange's extradition to the US.

#freeAssange #noextradition
I think what you're describing is a sort of ensemble. I agree sometimes "conspiratorial" thinking is right, as in the invasion of Ukraine, or Hitler. Then the difficult part becomes how to weight the different world views in this particular time in history. But I agree at the very least you need to be able to simulate the thinking of ideologues in order to understand their thinking and actions. The invasion of Ukraine is a very interesting example where people underestimated how nefarious Putin really was, but if you read his writings on Ukraine, and do a bayesian update after Georgia and Crimea/Donbas the invasion shouldn't have been all that surprising. At least we should have assigned something like 10-15% chance.
Both the services companies I started were profitable within 8 weeks. (6 and 8 respectively.) One was sold 14 years later, the other is still going.

Services companies are very fast to get started, and very easy to make profitable.

Building a product company on the other hand...
Any form of support would be much appreciated
Librum: Simple, Open Source, Free E-Book Reader
Why are they excavating a pauper's graveyard? I don't particularly view the corpse as sacred, but I don't really see the point in spending eighteen years digging up hundreds of 17th century graves either.

The article doesn't mention out any particularly noteworthy discoveries, it seems to have confirmed what people wrote about burials at the time.
To be honest I’m surprised this is still up for debate. I was hoping by now, we would be discussing solutions and not what’s going on.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39047455

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/sweden-faile...
> low LTV

I think I see where the problem is on the corporate side.

Sucks to be in customer support. The job really seems to be a buffer between abusive company policies and the angry customers.
> Little did I know that the antenna in Europe is actually energized by design (I think I found out later?)

A normal rooftop antenna is not energized. However, if that's in a house, there likely is a power amplifier placed in the line (or, for more fancy setups, a powered splitter box) to make sure every antenna socket can have a TV plugged in without compromising signal integrity.
I'm not sure about Word, I think it's not such a bad name and it's pretty much a synonym for 'text editor' at this point, not sure you can do much better than that. Certainly not a worse name than 'Writer' (sounds a bit clunky), maybe on par with Pages.
What stops you now? There are online petition websites where you can start from free.

Cool nickname. Kudos :)
> the antenna in Europe is actually energized by design

wtf. Wanna drop some links?
thanks! it worked on the house n64!
I got as a present a Star Wars themed cookbook and it's easier to thrown out the Empire than following some of the recipes.
> you're not going to accidentally forget to disengage a safety at the worst possible time

That's much better than the opposite problem: forgetting to engage the safety and accidentally discharging.

> it does increase the risk when improperly handling the firearm

I just feel like having to toggle a switch before killing a man is the least you can do to avoid accidents.
> Understanding how to handle complex data structures in say, Python is something which might help you fix bug’s in application code, you can’t throw a DSL at that.

True, but it's not an either/or situation. Maybe it's not optimal, but a lot of people do both. I consider myself a Python and Terraform expert and I'd say I reached that stage in Terraform in less than 10% of the time it took for Python.
What do you do when you are the cloud vendor?
“The Goal” is all you need.
It's definitely not "generally", it's not even a supermajority.

> Some estimates suggest that as much as 50% or more of the population subvocalizes when reading, especially during their early years of reading development. However, with practice and improved reading skills, many individuals can reduce the extent of subvocalization and increase their reading speed.
Start-ups don't get 1-2 chances to get productivity right.
They get 1-2 chances to get PRODUCT right.

If they don't get productivity right from the get-go, they only get 1 chance instead of the "1-2 chances".

That's the risk most individuals don't like about startups, if productivity is not a centerpiece of their operation, the leadership pushes for the only other solution they believe: long hours in inhumane working conditions.

I don't believe there's causation between a start-up productivity and their product success, but I would love to be proven wrong.
> except Linux tmpfs (which has only a partial support that is useless for those who use custom xattrs, so a file with xattrs cannot be copied to /tmp if tmpfs is used).

tmpfs is getting user xattrs in kernel 6.6, together with quotas.

> You just have to define whatever kind of tags you want and choose names for the xattrs in which to store them and then you should use them in your scripts or applications.

It is still just a oob store, you have to traverse the directory hierarchy old-style; the old BeOS did (and Haiku today does) something more: it indexed the selected xattrs and allowed live queries against those indices. This allowed for very interesting uses.
There are a few things worth fighting for for sure. And maybe in the long term current war is even better for Ukraine as a nation. Who knows really?
That’s haunting / hypnotic
The word "small" in the HN headline ("Microsoft blames outage on small staff [...]"). I am not native English, but the image in my head was of the staffers being physically small. A bit curious how a native speaker reads it?
> The text of the generated paper is the same as the text of the original document, but figures and equations from real papers are interspersed throughout.

It will still be the same text. I suggest you only use the readme ;)
It varies at my local Thai supermarkets. But my Thai friends preferred buying it from Bunnings because otherwise they might be tempted to get it dried and it’s just not the same.
I mean, they can say whatever they want on the site, but the real question is: what does the legislation, regulation, and common law say about this?

Has anyone successfully sued a project? Is there case law?
It interferes with my thinking mode - right hand on the mouse and probably scrolling in docs on the other screen, left hand stroking my beard.

More seriously, I'm just the same with hjkl and vim - cool if it works for you, when I am scrolling through I don't need to be efficient (which is highly subjective anyway), I need to have it how I like it.
Well, the team size increase is only temporary....

> We have temporarily increased the team size from three to seven, until the underlying issues are better understood, and appropriate mitigations can be put in place.
I'm surprised that the guys worried about one or more "collapses" aren't more into COBOL. Because when something heavy and hard hits, all that's left will be roaches, COBOL and Perl scripts.

But seriously, I bought some old COBOL books recently, and was meaning to get more into it. Not because of some job situation, but it seemed different enough, in a "cozy" manner. I could get away from the Algol-ish day job languages with something blatantly more concise (extremely functional, esolangs or APL), but that's more the "puzzle" aspect where COBOL might be more the "knitting" approach.
Sure it does:

- Most apps are not non-stop token generation for concurrent users-- ChatGPT's duty cycle at this is very low.

- A 4090 amortized over 4 years, working days & hours, is 20 cents per working hour; this is basically the same as the power going into it. It's less than a penny per hour per concurrent on a task like this.

- Hopefully you're using LLM to deliver value that's worth more than a penny per hour of the people using it.

- If you hit massive scale and want to buy A100s to improve the economics because you're drowning in business, you can go ahead and readily do that at that time...
Azure are about to have a boatload of DNS issues
Yes. We did find the cause and my problem is almost completely resolved by physiotherapy exercises. It took a few weeks to sort itself out and if I am not careful it starts coming back but it's mostly gone.

Long version in case this helps someone: I have hypermobile-type Ehlers-Danloss syndrome, which is a disorder affecting the body's connective tissue. Among other things it means I'm more bendy than I should be. As a consequence I have to be careful not to make too extreme movements because I can injure my joints. In this case, the problem was because I wasn't utilizing my full range of movement, my nerves were essentially getting stuck in various places where they travel through small gaps or over tendons or whatnot. The solution is to do (gentle) stretching-type exercises which are designed to make the tendons do their full range of movement (I have to do this carefully so as not to hyperextend and injure myself), which causes the nerve to be pulled through these gaps and unstick itself. Because this process is like floss being drawn through a gap between teeth, the exercises are actually called "flossing" by physios

Here's an example specifically in the domain of sciatica, although that's not what I do[1]

[1] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/nerve-flossing#exe...
Yes, that is quite true. The most recent example that I could find is with the current conflict in Ukraine,

https://www.wionews.com/world/zelenskyy-signs-law-banning-ru...

But there are countless examples recorded instances in history,

Street Names and Political Identity: The Case of East Berlin (https://www.jstor.org/stable/260587),

Street Names in Colonial Singapore (https://www.jstor.org/stable/215354)

Street names and political regimes in an andalusian town (https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.2307/3774079)

From Classic to Classy: Changing Fashions in Street Names (
https://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/download/870/869)

TRACING THE HISTORY OF TEL AVIV THROUGH ITS STREET NAMES (
https://www.israel21c.org/tracing-the-history-of-tel-aviv-th...)

Naming city streets—A chapter in the history of Tel-Aviv, 1909–1947 (
https://www.academia.edu/download/67078055/bf029655702021050...)

Cultural-geographical aspects of street names in the towns of Israel (
http://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/download/1226/1225)

Street Names in Beirut, Lebanon (
https://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/download/790/789)

Street Names in Baghdad, Iraq (Part I & Part II) (
https://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/download/393/392,
https://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/download/405/404)

There are probably more. The study of naming places has, indeed, a long history. From personal experience, after having skimmed through more than 13.000 wikipedia entries for this project, most of the names are, surprisingly for me, of national heroes, political leaders and religious figures. Science and the arts are way lower than I've expected.
You do better than this so your customers don't start hosting themselves.
> Microsoft blames...

Is this the purpose of incident analyses? Blame?
Can you clarify? How is showing interest "genuflecting"?

I understand how open-source has lowered the general threshold for having access to other people's work, but the entitlement your post exudes is a bit sickening.
Thanks for your honest feedback. I greatly appreciate and value that, and there are no hard feelings, and no, it wasn't harsh.

> I'll also say, there's no _you_ in this writing.

It's intentional to remove myself from my writing, because it's not about me. I'm not trying to put myself out there, and say "look at me". These are distilled mind notes. A way of sharing what I learnt about life, without me.

The writings I publish are intended to make readers to reflect themselves upon and see themselves, or get some personal insight about themselves or life. Maybe they also fascinated by this, or they never observed that angle about the life. If they think 5 seconds about the subject itself, that's nice. If they say it's boring, that's fine.

On the other hand, what I'm sharing there is highly personal. It's just devoid of bells, whistles and blinkenlights. Much like a Dieter Rams or Bauhaus design, in a sense.

> Feels like what you read from schoolchildren writing about a topic they're not really interested in.

That's an interesting take. It's true that I'm not aiming for a literary tour de force there, but it's not true that I'm not interested in the subject, it's actually the contrary. The language is simplified to that point to make it straightforward and direct.

Making indirect statements, and slowly approaching points while not quite touching them is very easily accomplished by constructing freight-train long sentences by chaining seldomly used vocabulary end to end with small punctuation marks, as if they were small fragile cotton strings knotted meticulously, and with care, if one decides to write in that way.

However, writing with no fillers have a feel of density and directness, which makes things appear with no fanfare. It's up to the reader to process this "thing" they just encountered.

> no stories, metaphors, or even examples of real events to impress your point.

"Practice and Experience" is a distillation of at least two decades of observation and self-reflection. If I decided to add the stories and examples paved the way to the realizations made in that piece, it'd be a novella. Not that I remember every detail of it, either.

That blog lives true to its tag line "tail -f /dev/brain0". When I understand something, I draft an entry. It sits and simmers for some time, refined occasionally, and when it reaches a density and purity I like, I publish.

However, thanks again for your honest feedback. I'll be saving this.
> gaslighting

Please.

Just link a study or something. FWIW I think it's wild I'm being accused of gaslighting over a simple request. Isn't that DARVO?
Yes, there is a lot of essential complexity that is unavoidable, but there are a lot of people like me who just want a better desktop file system, and we don't need to know about SLOGs and L2ARCs and the half dozen compression algorithms, etc. It's situational, but it's a common enough situation that a targeted solution would be valuable.
At least they're free from the tyranny of the cable service personnel...
Sorry I mean AFCA
maybe you think this way because you assume the open source code is meant to be a product.

I think they do it mostly to make it easier to build an ecosystem of developers. Plenty of companies do this (Adobe is another one). They release some basic part or engine of their product so developers can work with it without compromising their business.
I would put Indonesia on the same level as Dubai, rule of law isn’t guaranteed.
> A ton of thinking and experimentation

... is both breaking things down into small steps, and something that an LLM can help with.

> They seem quite impossible to solve until you try a bunch of things, sometimes for years/decades, throwing stuff at the wall

Do you see what you did there? That's breaking things down and trying lots of small things.

What you seem to think I'm suggesting - which I'm not - is that solving hard problems is linear once it's fragmented.

I'm suggesting hard problems are only solvable through fragmentation - breaking them apart - but I'm not in any way suggesting that this means they're solvable through a simple linear thinking process. Fragmentaiton and linearity are not the same thing.

If anything, LLMs can help make non-linear thinking more efficient by getting you out of small areas of focus, and as I said originally helping you explore a problem through metaphor, different perspectives, different domains, and so on.
>for what’s probably a 15 second value and something the manufacturer could have provided in a decent 3 panel illustration hosted on a static .html page, but won’t.

Right, because you're not supposed to do that yourself. You're supposed to go to your dealership and pay them $50 to change the $0.20 battery in 15 seconds. Do you really think you're qualified to do such a difficult operation by yourself?

I actually got into an argument on Nextdoor once because someone was promoting a battery store that charged "only" $20 for this "service", and felt it was a "good value" and got mad that I was pointing out that you can just buy the battery by itself for less than a dollar and do it yourself.
Fun fact: Death Valley Junction is due east of Monterey.

(Los Angeles is east of Reno.)
Just scanning the actual report / postmortem, they don't seem to "blame" the staff at all - that's The Register's journalistic freedom / interpretation at play. The only thing mentioned about staff size is the following:

> Due to the size of the datacenter campus, the staffing of the team at night was insufficient to restart the chillers in a timely manner. We have temporarily increased the team size from three to seven, until the underlying issues are better understood and appropriate mitigations can be put in place.

Status report is at https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status/history/, the tracking code is VVTQ-J98
That’s not what I said it does. An example (marked by the use of “e.g.”) can be something similar.
Data Litigada: crowdfunding scientific whistleblowers' legal defence
I'm also firmly on the "convention over configuration" mindset, sensible defaults should be available and anybody else can still tinker if needed. I also admit that setting up zfs wasn't easy for me (and I'm sure I haven't done it 100% properly)
Inevitably we have to ask: and how many lines of C in library functions?
You can also cast these with polyurethane. This reminds me of those 3D printed computer mice that cost a hundred dollars. They didn't bother with polyurethane casting nor did they bother with getting a high quality 3D printer... The thing is, 3D printing is so slow that even a manual process like polyurethane casting is faster and every mold is a "3d printer" in its own right so you could be making hundreds of parts in an eight hour shift as opposed to a single one.
A very very wild guess, because that is the only reason why I maybe would be interested:

https://www.privateislandsonline.com/region/indonesia/

`Indonesian law does not permit private ownership of an island. Shares of a resort business, however, can be sold to anyone.`
From an armchair point of view, Microsoft seems like the kind of company that will have armies of middle managers whose job is to be seen with shelves of paper and a cup of coffee moving through offices, or other kinds of bullshit jobs.
I get that it's meant but be wrapper for common use cases, but I use ZFS on root and had to craft a custom initfs. The other nice-ities sound great (some BTRFS inspiration?), but some of these are at distro-devel level.
25 years ago, people were happy to post their own personal webpage on Tripod for free and look at how many hits their hit counter got, and get thank-you emails from people who liked whatever they posted.

Now everyone wants to get paid for whatever they produce.
Running your own business is not necessarily more freedom than being employed. It's easy to think you can decided everything yourself, but you have customers pulling you here and there, you have rules and regulations, accounting, taxes, bills. Maybe sales is not going as well as you want or you have too much work on your table which is hard to off-load.
Ha! I forgot this indeed. I was one of the backers as well.
Use GPT-4 on any website or software by clicking Cmd/Alt+K.
I'd love to beta-test this on Linux but I'm afraid I won't last for long – I'm just not in the target audience for risograph printing software. I could help setting up a test suite that can then be be run across all platforms, though.

And it seems like they are reluctant to support other platforms:

> Currently there is no active plan to make a Windows version. We'll post here if that changes. (https://spectrolite.app/how-to/using-spectrolite/download#wi...)
It really is incredible how successful Yamagami has been in his goals. Imagine telling anyone 5 years ago that a (generally - ignoring the last few months of his tensure) popular former G7 leader would (1) be assassinated in public, (2) have the assassination happen for a cause not directly related to them but (3) have the assassin be so successful in their goals, so successful in bringing attention to their cause, and so successful in striking the heart of the beast they wanted to target that they’ve arguably ended up with a lower disapproval rating than the man they killed (anecdotally from speaking to Japanese people - v disappointed that there’s not been formal polling on this).

There is a reason prosecutors keep delaying Yamagami’s trial. They’re scared that finding lay judges and a full panel of pro judges who would convict is going to be hard or impossible.
I also see a problem with "talking" to whales being: "Hello, I am human who learned your click-language." "I don't care one bit, now where are the squid..."

Basically imagine them like some remote people eking out a survival but ten times more incompatible.
It was actually cool reading the history section on Wikipedia [1]. Especially the fact that one of the founders was ready to quit and look for a job!

[1] https://wikipedia.org/wiki/WhatsApp
It did that on floppy based systems too. The '87 equipped pcs in the physics building were much faster at 4500 line project, which I worked on for a year. So... First thing to test on a new 33Mhz 386 w/ wolf3d (install only, no source) my project loaded and 33mhz itt 387. Less than 2 seconds. If you brought everything into the ide,and hit run... It screamed.