skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I stocked up on food and installed an extra CCTV camera, expecting widespread riots and looting. They never came.

Turns out, most people aren't psychos and at one extreme, some would rather end themselves than hurt others.

> I still think if food became really scarce, selfish, violent behaviour would have emerged.

That does emerge, as you said, but it needs to be SUPER extreme. By SUPER extreme I mean gulag or shipwrecked crew on an island with no food. In human history these scenarios are very rare, probably since the dawn of agriculture.

And, I mean, we could implode that badly, but we're talking regressing 3+ thousands of years. It looks more like a post-apocalyptic nuclear wasteland or Earth being hit by an asteroid than a "regular" economic meltdown.
Very nice that a RISC-V based laptop is, or is getting to market.

But: if advertized everywhere as using TH1520, then delivered with a JH7110 inside, that should be considered outright fraud. There's no other way to say it.

From what I've read the TH1520 is significantly faster than JH7110. But regardless, replacing one with another means not delivering what buyers paid for.

Makers of this laptop, if you're reading this: update your marketing materials to reflect what actually gets delivered to buyers. If a buyer purchases X, deliver X.

If you can't do that: prepare for product returns, lawsuits (which you will loose), and lots & lots of negative press.

I would certainly tend to give you benefit of the doubt. Few would fault you for making 'last minute' spec changes. But many would fault you for delivering a product unlike what's advertized.
From a human point of view
What if I show up with a shovel and plant a tree on some hill in a national park? Is that legal? Would someone remove it?
Not sure if I would call hardcoded settings in the sourcecode configuration - they are just constants. The primary benefit of configuration is the ability of changing the behavior of software without having to rebuild, redeploy, redistribute or even restart. Either by the user or by the developer or sysadmin, depending on context.
That doesn’t show up for me on web or mobile as a paid subscriber.
That looks like a backend web framework to me. Did I miss something?
That's of course an element, but there can be more than one problem at once. That the FSF holds position that's economically tricky makes it harder to "sell" it, which only reinforces the need for better communication.

Plus, the GPL has long been used for commercial purposes as well.
"We need absolutists like him who go to extremes and are known widely."

But what is he known for, outside tech circles, if he is known at all?

When you want to deliver a message, it matters a lot, how you deliver it.
By "they should" I think the criminal should.
I'm very happy you posted this, the information here is really interesting. Thank you.
Wish him well, i hope he recovers fully and soon.

So sad to hear this :(
I have been thinking that it should be given the to recover the best it can - it is a sycamore tree, so there will likely be some regrowth. It won't be the same, but eventually it could be beautiful in a different way.
> My guess is someone - parents or friends - incriminated him.

Given he was 16, there's probably a good chance the muppet posted a video or picture on social media.

In some ways what happens legally is the least of his problems. If found guilty he will likely become as reviled as the cat bin woman:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/oct/19/cat-bin-woman-...
I can confirm: I've been using Linux on the desktop since I was 15, nearly 20 years ago now. Be not afraid, fellow nerds!
The hypocrisy here is amusing. Interestingly also that piracy is de facto legal in many EU countries, at least as far as individuals downloading.
Ask HN: How filter HN about programming?
This might sound weird on HN but I would like to filter all news about coding and programming. I'm not a software engineer so those news are irrelevant for me, but on the other hand I want keep news that contains those words if not realated to "how to..." or ”tools for...”. I'm not sure if that is even possible filter news by keywords?

How do you filter news on HN?
Violent places are not violent all the time, to all the people, in all the regions. Violence is frequently very localized, even in those very violent places.
Since he's a child, probably not much.
> However, in Eastern Europe it's an absolute no, wearing such shirts is worse than the nazi symbols

As a Hungarian, this is just not true. The Western view of communism has been imported and the more time goes on, the more the younger generations base their views on what's cool in the West vs what their old and uncool grandparents blabber on about.

With the Internet and media and travel options and exchange semesters etc. the Western European attitude is diffusing into the east as well. It was already cool to wear Che t shirts 20 years ago in Budapest. Though of course Budapest has always been a West oriented cosmopolitan liberal city, so copying the west in this is not so surprising.
You know you're getting old when...something like this has aged off HN's /newest page with only 2 upvotes, and no comments.
it was a good article :) plus I've been a register fan since the slashdot days, I like y'all's style!
"Straight Outta Compton" (2015).
There are phases in which change happens: Stallman's preaching to people who can actually make free software (eg, people you might find on HN) has accomplished a huge amount of capacity building. He's tremendously good at encouraging it, and always has been. That provides the raw material for people who are perhaps a little more adoption focused (and apt) which is work that can't happen if there's no capacity.
I learned about them from yesterday's HN post about Open source and profitability, and this post. 2 mentions in a row sticks in my mind.

Same with GoDot recently, once on Humble Bundle, then again on HN
I think because it often means repeating the same points over again. People who contributed to the previous/earlier mentions may feel too exhausted to repeat their view, provide the same useful references again, or fight the same old misconceptions about the topic.

An interesting related example came up this week, when many people posted submissions about the same news story (anti-matter & gravity). However, all the source links were different. Some commenters may want to make the same comment in all the threads. But there may also be different facts or views in the different articles, so they might each provoke different discussions. [FYI: In that case, an authoritative source Nature appears to have 'won', even though it was not the first one posted. It has the most upvotes and comments, compared to wire-blurbing sci-tech news sites just summarizing the raw CERN PR - which was also submitted. The Let 1,000 Flowers Bloom approach worked well in this case].
There is no survival, everything dies. I die, you die, civilisation dies, humanity dies, all life, eventually all matter dies.

Just have some fun in the interim.
The cashback from cards isn't pad by the retailers, it paid by the issuing bank and consequently by the poor sods who carry a balance at rates up to 36%.

Costco's cashback is probably some variation of the same scheme, or a similar loyalty scheme.

So ultimately Costco only pays the processing fee of 0.4% or whatever.
Generally there are three reasons for keeping suspects locked up:

- When there is a worry that they will continue in criminal activities

- When there is a worry that they might influence other suspects

- When there is a worry that they might escape the country

There is also a fourth one, which is usually not legitimate in democracies:

- To make the suspect uncomfortable and more likely to plea guilty
Actually, there was an even older style of tty interface derived from telegraph circuits and called "current loop" that the ASR-33 originally used; in the 1970s dual-mode ASR-33s that could also speak RS-232 began to ship, and RS-232 eventually replaced current loop entirely.

This is what the KIM-1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIM-1) uses and it's pretty common for current loop (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_loop) interfaces to still be used in the context of industrial control and it's also the basis for MIDI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI#Electrical_specifications).
> won't heal the wound, at least not for hundreds of years

I’d say the real wound is the total lack of trees for miles around this location. England has some of the lowest tree cover, 12%.

It was jarring to me, you go to a national park and it’s just bald hills stretching as far as the eye can see.

I am not sure if thats just how people like it, or they are just so used to it they dont question it
This is what I do as well. I prefer to have the FLAC files for local playback and archiving then have a script which watches the FLAC folder, converts to v0 MP3 which then gets synced to my phone using Syncthing (because phones have such limited storage these days without Micro SD).
In almost every case it's because the tree's are stopping a guy from making some money. It's that simple.
I mean, that's still terrible, but how do they feel about the freezing the personal accounts of people[0]?

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-60383385
He's also been the victim of some pretty vile smear campaigns and is still going on. I know if I was the target of the crap he got, I wouldn't want to continue doing anything anymore.
Stainless steel is rigid. We would need a material with some flexibility probably

Connecting vases is the easy part as long as is done fast, or the cut piece is covered and protected from became too dry and develop longitudinal cracks. Just sinking it in running, good quality, freshwater would help for weeks probably. Maybe even months.

First, all leaves and some branches must be removed to avoid fast dehydration. Both surfaces have to be polished to 1) assure a good contact (the chainsaw removes a few centimeter ring of the wood, so you can just put it in place and wait) and 2) achieve perfectly 180 degrees flat surfaces so all the forces are applied vertically and the trunk remains in the same place instead to slip to the right for example.

Then you need to (pressure?) wash the surface to remove any debris and unclog the vases.

next step would be to put both trunks in the exact position with a crane (should be easy part. The trunk section is not a regular circle). The idea would be trying to connect most possible vases at least in a side even if you don't achieve a 100% contact and the other side must end very displaced. As long as you can somehow assure that the weight has accurate support, this is all.

Survival is not guaranteed. no government has been done this before, but any politician succeeding on this would send a strong message, and probably became very popular overnight. Just trying would improve their image.
The guy who just gave a well attended speech to loud applause and is getting gushing well wishes in this very conversation? The guy who is back at the FSF? That guy?
Yes, I would say so, on the average.

I think that people leaving a country are more likely to dislike that country than those staying.
STP detects loops between switches, not MAC addresses moving between them (or between APs).
it was the opposite for me, I was tempted into getting the steam deck because it seemed like a fun device and an exciting new frontier for linux, and it's gotten me into gaming in a way I haven't been since college.
Does that mean that in the UK if someone breaks a maxed-out MacBook voluntarily they risk up to 10 years in prison?
It's really not that American. Americans didn't invent the concept of free speech, not by a long shot. The idea that it's somehow "un-European" to allow people to say things "harmful to democracy" is wrong legally and culturally, but the cultural affinity so many Europeans have for authoritarianism is exactly the reason Europe has no tech industry to speak of.
CloudFlare is blocking traffic to Discord
Sell support, and protection against liability.
Not if the topic is choosing a technology stack for mobile development. Battery usage is an absolutely key consideration. It's the one thing that many users will notice even if they don't care about tiny UI differences.
I find it hard to download memories and mementos
One is monitoring my trash bins in the backyard and generating visual output of emptying times, current location of the bins, alerts if they are still in the backyard but are scheduled to be emptied tomorrow (in which case I need to move them to the street in the front). This has been running on a Pi with Bluetooth (monitoring uses BLE beacons) for over five years now, with very little maintenance necessary.

Another one runs the home automation hub (Homematic plus some addon stuff). Also very little maintenance, basically just doing backups and an update a year or so. Has been in place for several years as well. I often forget that this thing exists at all, as it just chugs along quietly, never needing reboots or anything. Even the updates are unnecessary unless I want to use some new sensor or actor that the old hub software doesn't yet know about.

And then there are two Pis connected to TVs in the living room and kitchen which run OpenELEC/Kodi for media center tasks. Started doing this when the first RPi came out and frequently used back then, these Pis are rarely used these days, as most streaming now involves commercial streaming services and is done via FireTV sticks. But I still have a private library for the occasional exception of stuff that's not offered on any commercial service, and that library is accessed via the Pis. Fortunately, aside from a reboot every few months and very rare updates, these Pis are also very low maintenance.
> One should also be aware of the massive selection bias in views you're going to hear.

Absolutely. The dead tell no tales.
I think that might be referring to an incident where he picked at his foot then ate the pickings.
> I’m drawing conclusions from your statements.

Flawed conclusions.

> What do you mean “blocked off transport”

See the upthread link to the Canadian Charter. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_2_of_the_Canadian_Ch...

Follow the links to see how "freedom to assemble" allows the "Right to protest" but doesn't guarantee the a right to "substantial disruption".

Unions (for example) have (location dependant) a right to strike, to protest, but not a right to block access to a business.

> Do you not think rioting in commercial centers and setting fire to businesses ...

For which specific protest was this a stated core goal of that protest? Surely these were incidental actions by third parties that happened coincidental with otherwise peaceful protests?

In the Canadian case under discussion the entire purpose was specifically to blockade, inconvenience, and shutdown key areas until their demands were met - this took place over the course of a month.

Again, which which specific protest in the US continuously occupied and blocked off major transport thoroughfares in the USofA for a month?
Should academic disciplines have both a purpose and a finish date?
Reminds me of the killing of the Tree of Ténéré. We must be the only species that kills old trees for stupidity, or for shits and giggles.
Which Samsung model is it? S models never did that.

Can't be too old as you are still getting updates.
Color me impressed, a marketing technology is used for marketing.
So business could train employees to do that immidiately when a raid happens, they could even run training sessions (like a fire alarm training where everyone has to pretend it's a real fire, or doesn't even know it's not real), but that would probably raise red flags.
In a corner of Java live the Amish of Indonesia
It's interesting how this is just like how when Linux started being used in super computers we saw a similar creeping feature improvement for everyone else.

I think that will always be one of the strongest points of Linux, the variety of different areas improvements can come from.
Top Architecture Firms Headquartered in San Francisco
Funny thing is I'm still getting between 3% and 5% cashback on my US cards that I use in the EU. Those interchange fee limits are probably EU issued cards only.
Archived copy: https://archive.li/dVPYy
I just want an IoT plug so I can switch things off and on. It should expose a tcp port and allow me to send packets to it via wifi with some level of authentication. I don't want any cloud shit with it. Just a simple (okay, it's not actually that simple) device that connects to wifi and lets me throw packets at it to control it.

Without GNU, that's just a fever dream.

Many cancers are survivable these days. I hope he has one of those.
Why do I feel that seeing this article here hints that people are leaning harder into causal inference problems?
If the powers in this have actually begun yet (I'm unclear given the future tense), unlimited fines, plus the possibility of… prison time if he doesn't plant another one? That doesn't seem right…

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-powers-to-crack-down-...
What about Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok?

I’m surprised they haven’t been considered.
There is a difference between "cancelled" and "permanently cancelled and also hated by all".

One can be cancelled but still adored by the masses - see Norman Finkelstein

One can be cancelled but still adored by minority - see Socrates

One can be cancelled but later regain his previous position - See Richard Stallman
I don't think it's part of some nefarious plan, the EU is still largely a way for big corporations to promote their own interests.
Even more than 5 hours - I've taken the Paris to Milan and Paris to Barcelona trains multiple times (6:30-7h), and both are relatively frequent, quite full, and competitive with air travel due to a number of factors even if they're slightly slower (for Paris-Milan depending on departure point and airport on both ends, you're looking at 30-60 mins per direction, plus being 2 hours early at the airport, plus the time to get from the gate to the train station to get out of the airport, plus 1h30 flight and you're looking at 5-6h for the plane vs 7h for the train):

* vastly more comfortable, with more space and amenities

* nice views

* single style of hassle (get to the train, sit down, enjoy; with a plane you get to the terminal, pass through security, then wait, then go in a plane in heavily restricted mode, then you can move/do stuff after take-off, then again you go in restricted mode, then you wait for taxi to finish, then you get to the gate, then you walk towards the exits, wait for luggage, etc.)
Conway and Doyle Can Divide by Three, but I Can't
I don't understand how it's economically viable to build an AI business. 32,768 is nothing and using OpenAI as a price reference (which I presume is heavily subsidised) just one chat hitting that will be ~$4 a message if you truncate the chat history down to 32k. That's $4 for every single message in your chat, even for mundane fillers such as "thank you".
Software development isn’t going anywhere. Just learn the new tools. Current AI can’t do anything more than templated copy paste and semantic search.

Honestly for engineering, AI is only good and boiler plate and reminding you of thing you already know but forgot.

Also FYI there is only one party, the rich.

And even after adjusting for cost of living, SF just has better pay and more jobs.
Looks like it might be global based on the subreddit[1]. Oddly reinstalling the app fixed it for me, while it still shows the Cloudflare error page on Chromium. Meanwhile, the website loads fine on Firefox.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/discordapp/new
Yikes, I'm the founder of this company (one of my colleagues wrote this piece) - just saw it appear here. We shipped a rather huge change to the website recently (we're trying to let other people post stuff too), think we accidentally made it janky and missed this. Will fix when the right person wakes up - he's west coast US! Sorry for QA via HN :)
Nvidia had built Maxine back in Oct of 2020. Arun Mallya also published One-shot Talking Head Synthesis in 2021 which does the same thing except removing the background from the rendering
I don't know why leftists act confused about why they are so hated throughout the world. They are blatant about it in so much of their behavior and pretend like they're proverbially morally and intellectually superior in every single way. It's like they're never falsifiable, and if they are its because everyone else in the world is stupid in comparison.

Then there comes the persecution complex. The horror.
This is of course just my opinion but we’re moving towards a high speed interconnected world- 5G, (6G?), peer to peer internet, starlink (eh?), etc.

One idea I’ve been playing around with quite a bit lately has been offloading computational data and even OS- obviously I’m not the first one on this, but I think at one point just turning our phones in to input/ receivers for some sort of cloud based OS- where basically all our phones have are an input module, battery, a strong receiver, and a storage for caching.

Then you could start making super light hardware- computers, tablets, phones all accessing on singular OS that just reformats depending on the device.
And we wouldn’t need to upgrade our personal hardware anymore we could just upgrade the racks.
Once everything is interconnected we wouldn’t even need cell plans either, we could just communicate through the existing cloud devices.

Anyway, that would be cool.
Samsung DEX and Windows Phone Continuum.

The market has already spoken.
This isn't government surveillance. This is companies keeping business records. Or more specifically not throwing them out when they might be evidence in a legal proceeding. They only end up in the hands of the government when the government has brought a lawsuit and a judge has decided the records are relevant.

And recording meetings isn't the stretch you might think. Financial companies have long had a variety of legal obligations to record communications related to financial trades and customer orders. This isn't just for funsies. Trust in the financial system is an incredibly valuable societal asset, and good records both mitigate errors and reduce crime.

As we see with the rise in recorded video meetings and auto-transcription services, plus the utility of from things like Slack's search, companies are seeing the value of keeping track of what happened. But that's not new; I don't know how far back the custom of meeting minutes goes, but it was in Robert's Rules of Order in 1876. [1] So it's entirely plausible to me that in a generation's time, auto-transcripts of every meeting will be seen as normal, with auto-summarization and LLM querying thrown in for free.

[1] https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/Robert-s-Rules-of-Order...
This topic was discussed a while back on HN since its a topic that comes up a few times. Karen Sandler, executive director of the Software Freedom Conservancy, has a pacemaker with wireless communication that runs non-free software with undisclosed source code. When it was discussed on HN a developer for such company also gave his views, including the tight regulations that covers medical devices.

FSF gave Karen Sandler an reward for her work on this: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2018/mar/26/sandler-fsf-free-...

"Richard Stallman, President of the FSF, presented Sandler with the award during a ceremony. Stallman highlighted Sandler's dedication to software freedom. Stallman told the crowd that Sandler's “vivid warning about backdoored nonfree software in implanted medical devices has brought the issue home to people who never wrote a line of code. Her efforts, usually not in the public eye, to provide pro bono legal advice to free software organizations and [with Software Freedom Conservancy] to organize infrastructure for free software projects and copyleft defense, have been equally helpful.”."
Ha yes the EU, that famous authoritarian regime !
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