skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have seen large letter censorship apparatus before. We have seen mass spying before. Implementing these systems (with just humans) has been done more than once at large scales (think Second World War, East Germany).

But regardless secure communication had to be undertaken between individuals. If the state wished to spy on people who did not have the ability to encrypt and decrypt their communication securely all they had to do was target them. Now the computer has made encryption into a technology rather than a skill.

I would suggest that’s just as anomalous as the ability to monitor electronic communication.
I presume that a DB lock for the length of the request processing time would cause contention when the number of concurrent session requests increases (with user growth).

The article mentions this example:

Some data structures aggressively tackle concurrency issues by using locking to only allow a single worker to access them at a time. One example of this is PHP's native session handler - if you send PHP two requests in the same session at the same time, they get processed sequentially! This approach is secure against session-based race conditions but it's terrible for performance, and quite rare as a result.
We migrated all our native apps to webapps. No fancy 3d apps. But mostly news apps. Lists, detail screens. Our approach shows no decrease in performance. But development becomes 10 times easier. Its a pita to work with iOS, but specially Android SDK is such a crap framework.
You still need a bit of native code. But at least all the UI related stuff can be created with css.
You probably still 40 hours week or less, but you're so expert in those fields that your 10 hours of work cannot be replaced by somebody else working full time.

In software engineering terms, you would gladly pay a full good salary and give a good role to John Carmack to work on your projects 6/7 days per month anyway, because he's John Carmack.
First, Twitter just isn't as much fun as it used to be. People are there out of inertia and inability to port their followers, not delight.

Second, Twitter Blue still has ads so you're still the product.

> how the hell is this whole thing supposed to work?

Twitter was relatively recently profitable. Surely they got bloated and through layoffs could have gotten back there or close. And the prior ownership would have stayed centrist enough to avoid pissing off either side's advertisers or users at scale.

And maybe the prior ownership could have launched a paid tier that people felt good about, rather than taking away features and APIs and selling an experience that was lesser than what we'd been used to getting for free.
Looks really good, will be updating soon. It's crazy there's a free, open source desktop that showcases the latest tech ... and yet we choose to constrain ourselves to MacOS and Windows by default.
A car's trip odometer measures distance in 1/10 mile increments.
There’s Motor, but I don’t know if the project is still being maintained.

https://github.com/rofl0r/motor
Some lawyers will be paid to analyzed the report; but orders-of-magnitude much work will be spend to examine and analyze the actual changes to the store.

The legal (might?) documents help to make a case down the line why their efforts were not up to snuff; but they won't be the _main_ reason why any enforcement actions will or will not happen.
GitHub CEO: Despite AI, demand for software developers will outweigh supply
I don't see how the links you've provided show that these companies are greenwashing anything.
There is also a short posted below that which shows the drone in action. Seriously watch it, it's 10 seconds long and you can hear how quiet it is with no other sounds around.
This is an interesting explanation, but wouldn't `I` influence `T` rather than the other way around? Since the type of ice cream determines the amount of time taken in the store.
> You fix it by making food expensive. I doubt anyone’s too keen to do that.

Here is an idea: Move food subsidies from farming industry to people needing it.

Now people needing it most can afford non-crappy food. And industry have to care about wasting now-not-so-cheap food.
Many of the privacy/security/data restrictions that Apple imposes on apps are not and can not be enforced by technical means (e.g. just gating APIs behind system-level permission dialogs). They require some combination of manual review, automated code analysis, and just plain old attestations made by the developer (e.g. "we will not sell any of your data or use it for advertising") where the recourse is kicking a developer off the store if they are lying.
Pentagon’s Budget Is So Bloated That It Needs an AI Program to Navigate It
C3PO is a translator droid that is basically stupid at everything else (other than math or facts listing, as he's a robot).

So yes, I think he seems a reasonable target.
you are conflating logs & metrics with user activity logs.
It works quite well for my usecase as a coder - generating boilerplate UDFs for spark, etc., generating boilerplate python functions from a description of what it does, rewriting code to handle errors, asking it to review simple code.
So like ~0.5% of their total losses?
You can't prove something by example, you can only show that the pattern holds for the examples that you've checked.
Honestly curious... how would this be useful to you? I cannot think of a use case for this at all.
The usability on Gnome is the worst of all the desktops I have ever used. I will never use it again. (been on Linux 14 years, windows/mac 20+)
It wasn't the plan, it's just what happes when you get paid by fossil fuel interests to stick your head in the sand for a couple of decades.

I'm sure lots of people got big quarterly bonuses along the way but eventually, reality catches up. So here we are, with China dominating: batteries, EVs, Wind power, Solar PV, HVDC transmission, UHVDC transmission, nuclear, hydro, high-speed rail, electrolyzers and probably others I've missed.

Amazing what you can achieve when you actually try over multiple decades rather than hoping you'll be retired and/or dead by the time things come to a head.
> (decaf) latte

I'm running on regular coffee, no milk.

> Oh wait I forgot about cheese

Try https://www.vegancheese.co/discover - 1800+ plant based cheeses, perhaps one or two would satisfy your taste buds? :)

> life without milk is udderly untenable

I've missed yoghurt the most. Fortunately coconut milk based yoghurts are quite palatable.

Sorry, I have to. Did you know that dairy is scary? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcN7SGGoCNI
Ah, I was a little unclear. I mean ~0 as in NOT 0, an integer with all bits set. This is also the same as -1 in two's compliment. So basically, I'm suggesting you use the maximum unsigned integer value as a sentinel. That doesn't work if you're using a variable-length unsigned integer like base128vlq, but if you're doing base128vlq you could always make a special sentinel for that (e.g. unnecessarily set the high bit and follow it with a zero byte; this would never normally appear with a base128vlq.)
Corporations are not people. Congress could pass laws saying that tech must host Nazi content. But they haven't.
You got it. But I'd go further -- what use is thousands of dollars in engine-specific assets for an unmaintained engine version? You should have the right to use new releases of the engine with the existing licence, and maintain feature parity and get security and bug fixes.

I'm sure someone at Unreal is working on asset conversation and API shims to allow porting Unity games, but it's a big change and costly for the developer.
matching color jumpsuits by rank, too ?
Interesting experiment, but given how permanent this kind of thing is, I personally don't see it as ethically defensible to inflict this on your child. I'm fairly certain this name will remain on their birth certificate for life now, albeit not necessarily as their main listed name. It's goi g to cause some embarassment at some stage. Hopefully the child as adult takes it in stride and it becomes a fun anecdote for them, and not a source of resentment.
Well in the western world, we're going to have a pretty marked decrease in population pretty soon. That also means fewer people to work the land (among other serious challenges), but it appears overpopulation will not be one of those problems to the same degree.

And the state of industrial AG isn't static, robotic micro pesticides are interesting for example. Not that I'm a fan of them, but it would be great to see us move away from showering everything in loads of agent orange and have more targeted application.
I'm totally on board with the idea for them to try it. At the very least, it would be some validation to those that kept complaining about "Social Dilemma" stuff and it would show that you can have a viable business if your network focuses more on quality than quantity.

The only thing that baffles me is that it seems that people do not want to pay for the service of social media. People don't mind paying their phone or water bills, but for some strange reason using an internet service that requires an infinite amount of bandwidth and storage (not to mention human effort in moderation and feature development) should either be free or have some other ulterior motivation to justify its price tag.
> I'm leaning more towards socialized housing, food, health care, and public transporation now, at least for the basics.

What's the difference between that and UBI? The state giving the people a magical ticket to redeem for food and shelter or simply giving them food and shelter is the same thing at the end of the day.

Both are equally prone to be inflationary as they require workers to provide the food and shelter without receiving anything real in return. In both cases you need to seize real value from the wealthy population if you want to avoid the inflationary effects.

It's the same thing, just different accounting.
Argh. My own mouse not working one:

- Use to fix PCs professionally in the early 90s.

- Guy comes in with PC. Right-mouse button stopped working.

- Replace mouse. Still not working.

- Play with Windows 3.1 drivers. Nothing helps.

- Pull HDD from another PC, install, boot. Mouse button still broken. WTF.

- Pull whole mobo, put another spare mobo in, with replacement HDD and replacement mouse. Still don't work.

- Replace PSU. Right-button works.

- Give up on computers, live in wilderness, eat squirrels.
Surely stone tools have demonstrated perpendicular attributes. It’s not too far of a stretch to imagine a Palaeolithic hunter aligning an axe head against a handle in a way that made it even on either side.
There’s also a Mac ForScore app.
The idea isn’t bad because it’s making people pay for stuff; it’s bad because people won’t, by and large, pay for Twitter specifically.
Now do the same with dynamic types and unit tests.
> This simply does not scale.

I see that as a perk. The local instance I’m on is funded mostly by donations and has been for more than a year now with success - it can’t become Twitter-scale.

Old forums used to be funded by selling memberships or limited ads - but the site owner was close enough to the community that they were reasonably sensitive to their needs.

I’m not particularly caring about large instances. Close registration if it’s getting too big I say! That’s not a bad thing!
This happens in “proper” firms too
Why does blockchain need to be involved? Magic: The Gathering Online exists and has existed for 20+ years without the need for a blockchain.
I'm on mobile now. I'm using plain old chrome
Evolutionary Determinants of Curability in Cancer
It provides one half of that, the article provides the other half.

> And neither is any other device maker. This industry is full of "feel good" messaging, but generates 50 million metric tons of e-waste each year.

And with my links it shows that these companies are doing feel-good messaging. I just thought I would call them out specifically.

The link in the article goes in depth on how far it is from sustainability for one part of their operation, despite trying harder than most https://frame.work/sustainability
Yaml is total garbage. I’m not sure what is best, but it ain’t yaml. The Norway problem is unforgivable.
on a sensible exchange that attempted match would trigger a circuit breaker and either halt the market for a short period or put it into an auction

(and members that create orders to do that a lot either get their membership removed or pay fines)
As a small engine mechanic, you you lucky. Usually those cheap carburetors will do the job, and usually the engine won't run quite as smooth. The rest of the times it's so erratic you have to buy an OEM one.

I will always clean/rebuild carburetors before replacing. And usually when replacing I will explain to the customer and get permission to spend their money on an OEM one.
I call shenanigans. There is no way this not an apocryphal story. There is no way anyone could not have realized that it was the time spent in the store and not the flavor of ice cream that was the relevant aspect of the story.
- "Smoother pointer movement: performance improvements mean that the pointer will move smoothly even when the computer is busy."

That's a very short description of what sounds like maybe a very interesting optimization? There've been giant HN threads arguing about why mouse pointers are not smooth.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34095032 ("24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse", 253 comments)
Except text.
You have to use the terminal to set your desktop background to a plain color.

Speaking of the terminal, it also has poor Unicode support compared to macOS Terminal.app (though to be fair, VTE-based terminal applications seem to be the best on Linux).
Two logs connected for some purpose near a River == must be a house? Not a raft, which would be much easier and obvious and helpful?
Baldurs Gate 3 comes out on Mac tomorrow. I will not play it
Blog post I wrote about video game addiction. Hope it resonates with someone :) Open to feedback
It's simply an excuse to engage in political censure. It's worth remembering that in these people's parlance it's "denying someone's existence" to disagree with their political program or one counter-reality belief they hold, and they do demonetize for it.
Naturally occuring cubic crystal systems might beat it by a few million years wouldn't they?
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37583924

It got flagged because it was just speculation at that point.
Title feels clickbaity. At first I thought thry were talking about (not) being financially sustainable.
The Capital Cycle
I have sent so many permutations of that, but I'll try against next time.
It’s because of the fear of sexual abuse and the belief that no penis / no rape
This is a good interview question.
> Twitter was relatively recently profitable.

Not really. They reported gross profit in 2019-2020 when every tech company was reporting crazy numbers, but even then they were not actually (net) profitable.
Water rights are a super complicated and politically challenging issue to navigate. I don't know how it gets solved because so many laws and rules have been passed to protect water rights.

What would happen if a central authority (like say the regulators here) ignored the claim of the bottling company and then also defied the courts to protect some greater good? Is the only remedy for lawmakers to pass laws explicitly disallowing them from using the water?

Generally feels like the right legislation will take forever to get crafted and then will never catch up and if it gets through, it will get (intentionally) jammed up in courts...
How would you turn that into legislation though? I can simply draw a few pieces of art in the style of Naoki Urasawa, train a model on it, and claim that the outputs of the model are non-infringing. An artistic style is either copyrightable or not - I don't think a blurry middle ground helps anyone.
I believe this is the related PR to mutter [0]. Basically mouse pointer movements no longer happen on the main thread

[0]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/2777
... And then run Linux inside WSL or Docker (which is really running a VM) when you could have run it natively to begin with.

100% agree. I made the jump from macOS and have never looked back. The one or two apps I missed from macOS, I have found alternatives.
Round to the even number, which eliminates a bias toward the higher number. This is the way Python does it.
Domain Is for Sale, but It's Expensive
I'd never seen this before, but http://www.erights.org/ displays a banner advertising that the website's domain is for sale.
> Credit Card companies and payment processors keep track of your transactions and it is trivial for them to trace it to a single individual.

there are lots and lots of regulation on most countries that prevent them from using that information for anything other than billing you.

They cannot sell, offer you services, etc. ...unless you agree to something else, usually hidden in theirs reward program contracts.

All that is gone the second you move to using apple et al instead of a card issuing company.
feels weird having to say it about github of all companies, but…

isn’t that exactly what the ceo of github would be expected to say as part of their role?

the service makes sense when there are humans at keyboards. if it were all for bots, it would look different.
Gokrazy seems pretty great and I loved the idea the moment I saw a description of what it does. (Though, disappointingly, I've never actually tried it.) I've long been interested in trying to write the entire usermode of a Linux system just because it seems interesting what you could do; the Linux kernel offers a whole lot of functionality. I've had the thought that this would be really fun to do on Pinephone, although in that case it does sort-of feel like you're just inventing another Android... Maybe focusing on making Wayland work better on phones would be a more productive use of everyone's time :)

However, I will say one thing about Raspberry Pi's: If you ever find yourself needing to use Raspbian for any reason, you can configure a lot of things by editing the boot files on the FAT32 boot partition. For example, you can throw a wpa_supplicant config to get WiFi working, enable SSH, etc. just using the boot partition. This is basically how I manage Raspberry Pis that I'm just messing around with, although cooking a fresh root image every time would definitely be a nicer solution for "real" work. (My weapon of choice would probably be NixOS in most cases, but I have to try gokrazy first if I ever deploy anything interesting and less temporary to a Raspberry Pi in the near future.)
It's like a little mini-brexit of Rishi's own.

Piss off all the corporate/business backers to win a few votes from angry Daily Mail readers, while shredding UK's reputation and damaging it's economy and not really making any coherent sense.
plants frequently come out of the ground and go straight up. things fall straight down, which is why bipedal humans stand straight up. our bilateral symmetry (arms out!) is at right angles to our bifocal vision, and we have people to our right and to our left. birds' beaks and dogs' muzzles are a vector notation from their bodies. various types of axeheads affixed to axehandles... I'm not saying the discovery is not amazing, nor that you're wrong, this could be the first. Just saying that right angles are going to come pretty quickly after the discovery of angles.
This is comparing apples and oranges. The article is talking about a wider sense of sustainability that includes e-waste. The links you posted are merely talking about carbon neutrality, which is a very small subset, and admittedly easier to achieve.
Ohhh, you know what? I think this makes sense, since it's basically like making prototypes from the training set, only it's instead comparing against every training example, then averaging. Cool. Did not know that would be remotely close to 90%, but that makes sense to me.

I wonder if something like a weighted max_mean would perform better or something L1. Or maybe L2 is ideal, it is at the center of a lot of things information theory, after all! ;PPPP
They are not paying for Mastodon/Bluesky/Threads/Instagram as well.
By taking it out of the commercial sphere altogether. The most ancient networks on the planet, religious institutions, do it pretty well still. There's a world that's perfectly within reach where decentralized social networks have organizations/chapters in every city, town, are funded on a need basis by lifelong members based on their means and ideally other diverse sources including public funds, take on active social roles that actually deserve that adjective, and so on.

To me the funny thing is that isn't particularly utopian given how many networks operate literally like that right now, it just takes one mental switch imagining yourself not as some passive consumer and everything you use as a product.
I think a raft would still be considered a structure or at least more than just used for fire or spears. It's a purpose-build device that was constructed to achieve a problem. I don't think what it is matters more than it was built in the first place to solve a problem. Those logs look too big for a raft though
Are you running a debugger on a web service in production?
ChatGPT is working on a new prototype with the codename “Gizmo”
DubDub: TikTok Meets Roblox Studio
Hey, Preston here from DubDub.

We're building "TikTok meets Roblox Studio." An endless feed of games with a built-in game editor all on your phone. (iOS only for now)

What Roblox has done for game development on desktop, we want to do on mobile.

Given Instagram's and TikTok's success of taking a desktop "pro" activity and giving it to users of all ages, we think we can do the same.

We're starting with just "obstacle course" games but will add many more mechanics, rules, and actions.

LMK what you think!
To each their own. I love Gnome 3+. It's getting better, faster, and smoother every update.

I wish they weren't so Gnome about things like CSD/SSD and GTK weirdness, and libmutter can use some work to get the Nvidia's shit drivers in check, but the UI is a lot smoother than any alternatives I've tried.
Combretum zeyheri
If it the popey from podcasts he used to work at Canonical. Actually looking at this confused, popey also came up with the snap removal tool that is handy https://github.com/popey/unsnap

Maybe he has a love hate relationship with snaps lol

Edit: added gh info
Might wanna ask them to set the correct content-type for their HTML (the heck is 'text/x-server-parsed-html'??), cos i'm looking at the raw source when viewing that site
The article is about how men need help. Gp stated men can’t even get jobs teaching children. But men also participate in the decision to keep men out of schools

Gender seems to cancel out here
The usability on GNOME is the best of all Desktops I have ever used. It's my daily driver and it feels so natural to use. To each their own, I guess.
"the utility we gained by moving fast outweighed the occasional costs we paid due to poor risk checks, hacks, and the like"

I think this may have potentially been true when everything was going up volume-wise, but as competition improves there's less margin for error.
a false carbon neutrality

It's not apples and oranges though. They are both about sustainability. https://3egroup.com.au/news-insights/coming-to-terms-with-su...