skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> literally in the same class as homeopathy and anti-vaxxing.

Not exactly. Medical personell is (in general) not the research branch of science, but practitioners. They follow clinical guidelines and treatment procedures, and there's a delay to be expected before new results are evaluated and established. In contrast to homeopathy and anti-vaxxing, the system is designed to be able to catch up eventually (though usually not as fast as one could wish for).
Happily running FreeBSD 13 on Hetzner CAX11 since April [1] [2]

Great to see OpenBSD is now available as well!

[1] https://twitter.com/pandrewhk/status/1649020655558336514

[2] https://gist.github.com/pandrewhk/2d62664bfb74a504b7f4a894fc...
Not sure about printers but 20+ year old games run surprisingly fine on Windows 11
From my experience, Google is better for "I''m in a big western city and need to find a supermarket and check its up-to-date opening hours".

OSM-based apps are much better for "I'm in a middle of nowhere and want to understand the detailed topography of the place, and see what's available in the village".
I suspect you didn't read the rest of what I wrote.

Subsistence housing and food is by definition not luxury. No one who receives social housing is getting the penthouse suite. Luxury is still pay to play. The government would just provide modest housing and food. Maybe the food is Soylent. Maybe the housing is a studio apartment or a tiny home.

I agree that these are limited resources, but in theory there should be enough housing and food for everyone to survive, and if there isn't, making it a social responsibility can hopefully catalyze action to change that. The government has a lot more sway in getting more housing built (and in fact, are often responsible for policies that prevent enough housing being built) than someone who can't afford market rent for an unglamorous studio.
The abstract is a summary of the figures (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-38461-y#Fig2) in words. It can be a bit hard to parse, but you can't use graphics in a paper abstract. So imagine yourself trying to convey the information in Figures 2, 3 in words only (say over a phone conversation, or a plain text message)
A Guide to Java Dynamic Proxies and It in Coding
Java dynamic proxies is a design pattern used to extend the pre-made methods without making any changes in them.
web client only. I hate desktop mail clients
Windows 11 uses the NT 10.0 kernel that originally released with Windows 10 in 2015. NT 10.0 will be supported for well over a decade at this point, maybe even two.

NT6.1 (Windows 7) was also supported from 2009 to 2020 (11 years!), and NT 5.1 (Windows XP) was supported from 2001 through either 2014 (13 years!) or 2019 (18 years!) depending on support channel.

Microsoft will support a product for a decade if not more, assuming you're keeping up with security updates which they absolutely will backport, sometimes even beyond EOL if the fix is that important. Linux with 2 years is a bad joke, by comparison.
Like others are saying, Leetcode is enough to get into a FAANG.

The only place where having a CS degree would be important is if you want to move to a different country and the company would have to sponsor your visa.

That said, FAANG seems to be pretty tight with headcount these days, hopefully it’s better in a year or two.
To some extent I agree with you, in that all software engineers have to think about refactoring and time complexity, involving a logical or mathematical style of thinking. However, there's definitely a spectrum of how distinctly mathematical the work of a software engineer is.

A lot of front-end development for example does not require familiarity with any algorithms, formulae or mathematical structures. You might need to reason about large systems and have a rough idea of when hashmaps are useful, but the bulk of the work is constructing an interface according to functional business requirements. I frequently see comments here along the lines of "why am I being interviewed about algorithms when I'll never use them in my job".

A more mathematically oriented developer may be in the business of modelling and predictions. They may be confronted with a novel real world problem involving traffic, or trading, or electricity networks, that potentially no one has tried to solve before. They may be required to find a mathematical structure that closely approximates real world behaviour, implement that structure via code, and deploy a continuous model which allows their client to analyse and project.

Of course, you also have academic mathematicians using software like Maple or SageMath to assist with their research. This is another level more mathematical. Perhaps what you're getting at is that people can ask ChatGPT questions like "write me some Sage code to get the Delaunay triangulation of this set of points". I totally agree that it can probably do well at these tasks.
Can anyone ELI5 (well, or, "explain like I'm someone who understands how autoencoders, transformers & convolutional networks work") diffusion?

What makes it work so much better than alternatives mentioned above?
I don't even want to install Windows at all, yet M$ has made almost every business it's subordinate, where the businesses uncritically do what M$ demands of them while they pay M$ ungodly sums of money.
>> When people stop robbing phones for them to end up in Shenzen and stripped for parts, this will stop.

Once such practice is started it will never stop. If it benefits Apple why would they wver stop it.

Thieves have existed since forever. There are many things which get stolen and don't integrate such protection and people live with that. No tech things like gold bars, gold rings with diamonds. Some people simply look after their stuff. And it is possible to buy insurance, tracking devices, lock boxes and other services to help.
I had to look it up before writing my comment :)
The most effective cure for felt disposability is indispensability. Such as: family life.
Yes the only chance we have is big tech to massively boycott the UK

https://open.substack.com/pub/rakkhi/p/big-tech-vs-governmen...
It has a grammar and a syntax, so it is not a programming language, but it is a formal language.
Not surprising. Philips consumer electronics, or whatever is left of it anyway, is now just a licensing/branding company who earns money for putting their name brand on various Chinese OEM brands, much like consumer electronics from Nokia, Blackberry, Motorola, Braun, Blaupunkt, Grundig, AEG, Tefal, Toshiba, Hitachi, Sharp, NEC, Sanyo, etc.
I have a friend who's a car guy. He bought some fancy Mazda that he just adores and he takes to the track sometimes.

He's not pearl clutching. He's in love with that car. He keeps it immaculate and he has a sparkle in his eye when he talks about it.

Some people are the same with furniture. They buy super expensive, custom stuff and look after it for decades. Not me! All through my 20s I didn't care at all and my various homes were full of cheap ikea furniture. I had bills that need to be paid, and why should I pay more? Most of it is probably in landfill by now.

I'm not an expensive furniture guy. And I'm not an expensive car guy - I don't even own a car. But I am into software. Software is kind of my thing. When software works fast and well, when its clean, reliable, tested and memory efficient - its the best. I know deep down everything is right in the world.

And, obviously, I hate disposable, cheaply made software. I hate when software runs slowly. I hate seeing my expensive computer working hard to do basically nothing because of lazy code. And I hate running into stupid, avoidable bugs. I don't want to create work like that. And I don't want to use with software like that. When software is laggy and unreliable, my skin crawls and I feel disgusting.

Intellectually, I recognize that there's a place for the cheap ikea furniture equivalent in software. But craftsmanship matters to me. And I personally, hate bad software and I don't want it on my computer.

Does that make me a pearl clutching, elitist snob? Sure, whatever. But I'm done acting like I'm sorry for what I like.
That is common workday in enterprise consulting.

Most of our .NET workloads are still for .NET Framework, and only now we are starting to have Java 17 for new projects, and only thanks to projects like Spring pushing for it.

Ah, and C++ will most likely be a mix of C++14 and C++17, for new projects.
Anything for children safety, right? I have said years ago that all our rights, in all Western nations, will be stripped with that excuse, because it's so damn easy to convince the laymen that it's for the good of the children, and paint protestors are pedophile apologists.

Child safety laws are the Trojan horse of surveillance.
Makes me think of the approach Apple attempted
And they found that time for europe because...the EU's regulatory environment is easier to deal with?
Yep I'm with you. But sadly there are plenty of true believers who will always listen to him and will generally nod along in agreement. In this case they'd hold up a picture of a packed subway car and say "wouldn't you rather be cruising along an air-conditioned Tesla?" without really suggesting about how that would work at any scale.
And I see a virtue signaling middle class guy, that never once touched a working class person in his life.

My parents are working class, they lived on minimum wage or next to it all their life. Never, for once, they lived on welfare.

But that's the deal, they are working class. They worked their entire life, they used their money sparingly and without any luxuries for a big part of their life. Vacations, was going 2 weeks to the beach, by bus (later by car), coming and going every day, with a lot of bags, taking previously prepared food from home. Luxuries, was having a black and white TV, later a 2nd hand colour TV that lasted until I got into college and by the end was more than 20 years old. Eating out was a twice a year luxury for most of my infancy, and asking for food delivery? Are you joking me?

Weekend programs, was my father getting a side job to make more money installing and configuring electrical appliances in middle class people homes. And taking me along with him to help.

As hard-working and money saving people, they, of course, ended up building a better life for them and providing me an education within their means. Also, of course, they absolutely despise people that don't work and live on the state.

So, go burn yourself with your ridiculous virtue signalling high morals. It takes a lot of privilege and disconnect from reality, to think, and even say that out loud, that hard-working people are the ones living on the state.
What if your problem is best expressed as "arbitrary deep K-V pairs"? It's going to be more common than not, nesting really is that fundamental.

There is no escape, you can't win. If you want the nesting, and assuming you can't remove it from the problem itself (as you often can't, or at least shouldn't), there's only one thing you can do: move inner things out, and put pointers in their place. This is what we do when we create constants, variables, and functions in our code: move some of this stuff up the scope, so it can be used (and re-used) through a shorthand. It loses you the ability to see the nesting all at once, but is necessary (among other reasons) when the nesting is too large to fit in your head.

Of course once you do that, once you introduce indirection into your config format, people will cry bloody murder. It's complex and invites (gasp) abstraction and reuse, which are (they believe) too difficult for normies.

The solution is, of course, to ignore the whining. Nesting is a special case of indirection. Both are part of the problem domain, both are part of reality. Normies can handle this just fine, if you don't scare them first. You need nesting and you need means of indirection; might as well make them readable, too. Conditionals and loops, those we can argue about, because together they give a language Turing-complete powers, and give security people seizures. And we have to be nice to our security people.
Competition in this situation usually IS a bad thing. Private companies snag the financially viable and lucrative lines, leaving the essential yet money-sink lines for public companies.

Resulting in the collapse of the public one or, at best, cutting costs and reducing commuter lines from smaller towns/villages.
Ok but, just like the author of that article, you're just using the wrong datatype... You can easily get the desired behavior by quoting the strings:

- yaml:
- '01'
- '08'

Complaining about this is like complaining that

{ json: [01, 08] }

will be interpreted as [1, 8] in json... It's not a problem with the tool, it's a user error.
So many people fail to realize that it's not a partisan game. Surveillance and authortiarianism keeps going in one direction in many countries no matter what the party is.

Stop buying into this simplistic false dichotomies.
#internetofshit
If you are talking about a paid alternative to Instagram, yes. I for one can offer an account at a pixelfed server for $2.00/month and no tracking.
It seems like the government playbook reads as follows:

- Make the practicalities of everyday life extremely miserable

- Make the population worn down and apathetic because things are so bad, a better life unattainable for all but a few

- Then, no one will notice while we pass bills that heavily restrict your liberty and vastly entrench our power

- Profit

It's a sinister genius, and smacks of contempt for the governed.
None of these problems are unique to the UK though. Many other EU countries struggle with all of these problems(and more!) and yet manage to preserve the privacy of their citizens regardless.

And I'm not saying that someone worrying about affording food and energy bills should prioritize privacy over it, but the way I see it there is apathy on all levels of the society. I have friends who are very firmly in the top 1% of the British society and they also don't care too much about it, it's just yet another thing that they feel doesn't affect them so why worry about it. It's very different feeling to the one you can get in the US or in Germany or Poland, where even people who are theoretically not affected by surveillance laws are upset about them and will be very vocal about them.

Like I Said in another comment - on a personal level all I want is my friends, colleagues and family to say "this kind of thing is unacceptable in democratic society and I don't agree with it" instead of "meh I don't care".
Despite the correlation between higher cholesterol and mortality, increased cholesterol might be a defense mechanism. Possible explanation, from: https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/cholesterol-longevity....

>Although cholesterol is protective against oxidative and cytolytic damage, the chronic free radical exposure will oxidize it. During the low cholesterol turnover of hypothyroidism, the oxidized variants of cholesterol will accumulate, so cholesterol loses its protective functions.

>In the healthy organism, cholesterol is constantly being synthesized, and constantly converted into steroid hormones, and, in the liver, into the bile salts that are secreted to emulsify fats in the intestine. Thyroid hormone and vitamin A are used in the process of converting cholesterol into pregnenolone, the immediate precursor of progesterone and DHEA. Anything that interfered with these processes would be disastrous for the organism. The supply of cholesterol, thyroid and vitamin A must always be adequate for the production of steroid hormones and bile salts. When stress suppresses thyroid activity, increased cholesterol probably compensates to some extent by permitting more progesterone to be synthesized.

>In very young people, the metabolic rate is very high, and the rapid conversion of cholesterol into pregnenolone, DHEA, and progesterone usually keeps the level of cholesterol in the blood low. In the 1930s, a rise in the concentration of cholesterol was considered to be one of the most reliable ways to diagnose hypothyroidism (1936 Yearbook of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Endocrinology, E.L. Sevringhaus, editor, Chicago, p. 533). With aging, the metabolic rate declines, and the increase of cholesterol with aging is probably a spontaneous regulatory process, supporting the synthesis of the protective steroids, especially the neurosteroids in the brain and retina.
There is one 'good' aspect I can see.

Nearly all worthless trash games on steam, those that need more resources than anything else, those where you easily get stuck, those with generally no gameplay. Shine a very bad light at unity.

A unity splash screen is and always was a sign that the game might won't work on my setup.

Maybe this will drive away all these shitty games. That's definitely mostly just good for the brand, but IMO kinda necessary as the brand stands for shitty games for some.
I'm slowly moving control to a Hubitat (https://hubitat.com/). But still use the Hue hub for the noisy (frequent messages) Hue bulbs. Anyone have any alternatives?
What can I do as someone that lives in UK (but European nationality)? Is using a good VPN enough to mitigate these privacy and security issues?
Parts of The Grand Canyon took 40 times longer to be carved out by a river.
Nio launches smartphone developed to use with its electric cars
It's not so much that people vote Tory more, but rather that people that used to vote Labour don't vote at all since Labour abandoned them. First-past-the-post will always allow the Tories to win with a minority of the national vote.

However, politics do exist beyond elections. Strikes have again become common, which could build up to larger campaigns and even a general strike. The organised working class can force even a Tory government to act or face the beginning of revolution.
During the last KubeCon in Amsterdam, Hetzner employees hinted at the possibility of a Kubernetes-as-a-Service entirely managed by them… that’s one of my hidden dreams :)
Why do programming languages use the asterisk for multiplication?
> If there are items you don't believe poor people should be allowed to eat then speak to your legislative representatives.

Or better yet, maybe mind your own business and say nothing at all. The idea that a poor child shouldn't be allowed to have a birthday cake or that people shouldn't be able to decide for themselves what they'll eat is gross.

I've spent a lot of money over the years in taxes, and I do it in part on the expectation that there will be a safety net for those who might someday need it including (should something terrible happen) myself. I'd be pissed off if I fell on hard times and on the day I went to collect the assistance I'm owed it came with a list of arbitrary restrictions by people who assume I don't deserve anything nice.

We give a set amount of money to people to help them buy food. What foods they chose to spend that money on is no one else's concern. An exception to this being programs like WIC which are explicitly about making sure pregnant mothers and babies are getting the nutrition they need

If someone were genuinely concerned for people's health rather than just wanting to punish them for the moral failing of not having a lot of money, it'd make far more sense to bother their representatives about subsidizing healthy foods instead of restricting unhealthy ones, or fixing the countless issues that plague the healthcare system.
Blog post:

https://www.cambus.net/openbsd-arm64-on-hetzner-cloud/

https://web.archive.org/web/20230921084743/https://www.cambu...
Apple and Google and Microsoft are exaggerating for marketing their accomplishments, but the do really try to accomplish something. Apples „reasonably ambitious“ plans are aligned with the 1.5 degree target.

https://newclimate.org/news/reaction-apple-unveils-its-first...

> *Apple is one of very few companies* assessed in the Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor (CCRM, published February 2023) to have set and be implementing reasonably ambitious medium-term emission reduction targets.

> *Apple could stand out as a role model for various aspects of its climate strategy* without the exaggerating claims that let it down. Apple’s GHG emission reduction targets are relatively strong, it has one of the highest quality strategies in the industry for the procurement of renewable electricity for its own operations, and we see that the company is taken meaningful measures to extend the lifetime of its products.

https://newclimate.org/sites/default/files/2023-02/CCRM23_Fi...
yeah unfalsifiable beliefs are always starting at an outcome and trying to prove that

as opposed to starting at a hypothesis and accepting any result, and any future hypothesis and result modifies everything, the only question asked is whether it can be reproduced and how the reproduction went

unfalsifiable beliefs have no capability of doing that, or, as you say, the goal posts keep moving. its just a flawed place to start from

faith based belief systems are taking advantage of people that lack the mental faculties to understand that others aren't relying on beliefs, they're relying on reproducibility and acceptance of any outcome
In a way it's insanely easy to get a high-end tech job in the US. You don't need to spend 4 years in college. If you're willing to lock yourself in your bedroom and do leetcode for 3-6 months, one of them will hire you.
It looks like it can work if you do everything right, but it can also go very wrong. I think you will always need a central party to coordinate stuff, because letting a bunch of profit-driven railroads arrange this amongst themselves sounds like a recipe for disaster. But that central organisation needs to be run very well, or you still get disaster. Having everything in the hands of a single party has obvious advantages, but also obvious disadvantages. Competition clearly works well enough in some countries, and not so well in others.

I think a thorough analysis of where it works and where it doesn't, and why, would be really interesting.
When colleagues, friends, and students say they are getting into IoT it's becoming hard for me to feign interest or excitement when this is what that industry is moving towards.
Scripting:

would it be a good idea to use a WASM runtime as the basis of your scripting engine?
There’s a lot of compliance rules for these types of devices.
Then we need to find another way to generate fusion power, or admit that it's impossible to do on this planet.

Throwing lumps of cash at fusion power venture capital feels almost like a money-laundering fraud.
Your first point is very important but, what can you expect when a large percentage of the world population went "meh, what are you going to do" or, worse, "it's necessary" when govs implemented inconstitucional Draconian laws and policies on the "war on covid".

People at large have shown they'll go with whatever power pushes them to go because they're quite afraid to lose what they little material position they have.
It's also funny that the file extension YML is the successor of XML, so the rest is probably a backronym from that.
Mapbox is a big company. They can run their geocoder ("Carmen", at least during the time it was open source) with 10x hardware requirements, have a full-time team of engineers and testers, and they add commercial licensed (paid) data sources. For Germany for example they use official government data, not OpenStreetMap or other open data.
I have 1 blocker premium, adgard, proton vpn blocklist, NextDNS. Out of all of them Brave is best and the only one that consistently blocks YouTube ads (and allowed for background playing).
Same here. As programmer the whole software felt like a big antipattern trying to break my programming trained mind.
This is a disappointing if not unexpected update. I currently have a hue bridge for some hue ambiance bulbs but also have control through HA. There have been some needed bulb updates (improving the stability of last color temp and state on power on) but I will soon fully transition over to HA with a zigbee adapter because of stuff like this.