skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In what way is RISC-V more suited for writing assembly than, say, AArch64?

From what I know of each, they're fairly close together, but a few small things like the clever encoding of logical immediates (e.g. and x1, x1, 0x3fff70000000 is a single instruction; you don't need to waste a register to load the immediate) in AArch64 make it seem friendlier to me.
Renting from a private owner vs renting from a municipal/state government. In the US, the latter is virtually nonexistent.
The US was NEVER a democracy. It was founded as a “democratic republic”. And basically operates as a republic, in which the aristocrat class sneers in contempt at the “deplorables”, utterly convinced they are the only ones fit to make decisions and thus driven to a mad desperation to keep direct representation out:

Republicanism (supposedly) offers a solution to alleged instability, rashness, impetuosity, and social and political tyranny of democratic politics because it recognizes that the majority does not equal the whole of the community. US citizens elect what are basically proxies for power, but those proxies have only a facade of accountability. Instead, the elected enter a sphere where they ultimately control the institutions that control life for everyone in the US. It allows them to erect sets of rules that are never uniformly applied, it thrashes violently against efforts to combat such corruption, and have known for centuries that ultimately the voters are immaterial to the perpetuation of this system.

Absolutely no one in the US does any kind of governing whatsoever. The chickenshit house and senate AND executive branch punt lawmaking into the Supreme Court. Laws are all written by the Praetorian guard of lobbyists, piece of shit attorneys, and NGOs/think tanks. The judiciary exists to rubber stamp plutocrats’ agenda, nothing more. Binding arbitration ensures that the “deplorables” are forced into a parallel legal system, which robs them of the opportunity to take companies to court.
A different thing I've seen around Paris is that "traditional cafés" still do exist, with comfy seating and everything, but many explicitly have a "no laptops" policy (complete with signs and everything). Most of them aren't even particularly busy during the day.

Actually, the "cafés" with the most people on laptops around me are Starbucks.
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Unanswered questions over social media actions in Slovakia loom over
I think expectations broke as companies shifted from a focus on polished shrinkwrap to a ubiquitous race to market with continuous deployment.

For them, “alpha” and “beta” became ways to say “fresh out of the oven” and high profile revenue-generating products were proudly emblazoned with those words for years.

At this point, it doesn’t even mean anything. Half the internet is running on some 0.11.45-alpha of something or other, maintained by corporate engineering teams whose total compensation is in the millions.

It makes it legitimately hard for people to know what to expect and what standard to hold things to.
Exempting game consoles is funny, because it proves the question is "How much money can a company make from their products?"

Because we know that consoles are typically sold at a loss or barely break-even point, at least at launch (and some for their entire lifetime - like with Xbox[1]), with their cut of digital & physical sales funding the continued R&D of the consoles.

The only difference with iPhones is that Apple both makes money up-front on the hardware and on the backend with app/game sales.

If Apple were to cut the price of the iPhone, or fill it with diamonds (or an actually-valuable rare material like Tungsten) to bring the COGS up to the MSRP, would the EU and Cali suddenly bow to Apple and let them off the hook on being a gatekeeper/anti-R2R practices?

0: https://www.thegamer.com/standard-ps5-break-even-profit-june...

1: https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/322561-microsoft-says-it-...
Couple of issues I spotted:

>most type foundries protect their fonts by copyrighting the font files themselves

Copyright is applied at the point of creation of a work, so unless they're in jurisdictions with no copyright law then they all acquire copyright on their font files.

>Since you’re entering into a legal agreement with the type foundry themselves, they can put whatever limits on how you can use the font, regardless of local copyright law.

You can't normally disclaim obligations or rights provided by law unless explicitly allowed to do so. For example, in most jurisdictions you can make copies to aid creation of a tool for blind people (cf Marrakesh Treaty), so copying to feed into an ML algorithm to improve a text(image)-to-speech tool may be allowed even if the company put in their terms "no unauthorised storage on a computing system or in a database".

An interesting example of this is attempting to put work "into the public domain" depending on jurisdiction you might not be able to do that before the copyright expires 'naturally'.

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Again, I'm not making a value judgment (as rationalizations from both perspectives can be made, and a person's opinion will depend on their perspective), just saying that "charg[ing] outrageous amounts for saline and other things" is definitely something they do. In a free market system they're allowed to charge whatever they want, and the consumer is allowed to take it or leave it. But explicitly stating the practice is a fair thing to do.
Only commenting on the chocolate, because I don't know much about the rest.
There are probably hundreds/thousands of other brands that sell organic chocolate.

I checked the chocolate bars I buy in Germany - 1&2: FairTrade, 3: Rainforest Alliance, 4: organic, "fair trade" without label.
Many chocolate bars have the country name on it where the beans grew, for example "Edelbitter Perú 78%". I am pretty sure you can find dozens of similar ones in the US.
yep, that's true! I'll add this feature, so you can listen to the whole prompt and each word. Thanks for the feedback!
Only if it isn't treated carefully. Spray it on in fall after harvest and you are probably fine. however spray right before harvest and pathogens will still be alive. a month before harvest is often when plants need the most nutrients, and that isn't enough time for any pathogens to die.
My favorite presentation about K3s is when Darren Shepherd explains all the black magic (=all the custom patches) which made it possible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k58WnbKmjdA
It is NOT being written off. It is being paid for.

It wouldn’t make any sense otherwise. It would be a lose lose for an animal shelter to receive this deeply fragile animal and the vet to do this expensive surgery for free.
> five down votes in the space of a minute

How did you even notice this? Get off the computer, it's clearly not doing your mental health any favors. You seem very unhinged. Ranting at groups due to perceived persecution and calling them "fucking militant" is not decent behavior.

> Do you think no-one told a joke at George Carlin's funeral?
The comedian? Yeah he's a comedian, I would expect jokes to be told at his funeral.
"think differently about killing and death"

I think this is a huge factor that feel under represented for the population in general. I'd imagine this is part of a factor for the higher farmer suicide rates as well.
I'm not sure I'd call a (very very good) turn-based RPG a blockbuster game of the decade when titles like Fortnite and Minecraft exist with orders of magnitude more players from a much wider range of demographics.
Apple will probably just price the individual parts high by claiming that their parts are of higher quality which will again deter customers to get their parts repaired.
AI for me is an umbrella term.
If this legislation somehow turns out to be a mistake would you rather it affect everything everywhere or be scoped in this way?
> We have a dog in the white house.

Not anymore.

- https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/bidens-dog-commander-lon...
For me, the times when I compulsively engage with something is more akin to a threat-response. The scary things I react to are things like a twitter-mob forming to take someone down, or some policy proposal to enrich billionaires, or a politician offering a feel-good one-liner built on broken math.

I could go read a book, but blissful ignorance only lasts until the torches are burning down my own door. Perhaps it's better to try to engage in hopes of putting out the fires early? The foundation of democracy's is civic engagement.
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What's the enforcement? Companies all ignore the CCPA in my experience.
The benefit of using tabs with a tab width of 8, and limiting screen with to 80 columns (like old text based terminal) is that you limit how many loops and conditions you can nest in a single function due to running out of horizontal space. Eg, it encourages you to break functions with complex nested loops/conditionals into smaller functions.

EDIT: Both the Linux and BSD kernel coding style specify tabs for indentation, and a tab width of 8. The Linux guide says it best: "In short, 8-char indents make things easier to read, and have the added benefit of warning you when you’re nesting your functions too deep. Heed that warning."
The responses you've got so far aren't wrong, but there's an easier way to think about this:

Connectionless: Drop a postcard in the mail and stop thinking about it. Maybe it gets there, maybe not.

Connection-oriented: Start a correspondence. If you don't get a response after a while, send your letter again. If you get parts 1, 2, and 4 you say "Hey, I missed #3, send that again please!" You keep thinking about the flow of conversation whether you have a message in hand right now or not.

The "connection" is in your memory. On a computer, that may involve persistent memory use on network hardware, by your OS kernel, and in the program sending the messages while the connection exists.
May 2022, Starbucks: We're creating the digital Third Place

(crypto/metaverse nonsense)

https://stories.starbucks.com/stories/2022/starbucks-creatin...
My memory may be faulty, but ~2000 I remember results being more objectively useful from a user perspective. Versus competitors.

Granted, it was a simpler problem then, given early web.

But the slide since (in the face of revenue counter-incentives) feels at best like ambivalence about objective value to user.
Trees don't do much to stop you from sweating buckets when its 110F at 50% humidity.
To be fair, I think most devs aren't thinking about heap allocations; probably just want a collection.

If one needs to initialize it with performance considerations in mind, it is still possible to do so.
It is one of the better ones out there. I shy away from it because of cost. If it was similar in cost to the other ones then I would probably use it a lot more. Been using it from when it was watcom (for about 50 to 250 bucks a copy). Then MS took over and the cost went crazy not oracle crazy but crazy enough.
Or a game console, for that matter…
It will vary state by state.

In florida you can force their hand if you are a veteran or in one of a few specialized jobs.
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?mode=View%20St...

In other states, usually you can do something if you show you are a victim of 'fraud' or abuse. Fraud might be easy to prove, if someone ever stole your password or something
Memories in the Making: Predicting Video Memorability with Encoding Phase EEG
it's a rolling buffer, so it just upsert index % 4 in this case
Link to the study https://jech.bmj.com/content/jech/early/2023/08/17/jech-2023...

Appears to be a typical “look at dozens of variables and pick the one that turned out to be significant” to my untrained eye. Would love to know if I’m wrong and why!
Lol, these exemptions are pretty hilarious. I can get the logic of regulations that prevent tampering with alarm systems for safety reasons, or potentially dangerous heavy machinery like that found in agricultural equipment. Carving them out of right to repair is super silly.

Still a net win for right to repair. On the game side, everyone is just going to play on a steam deck in the future anyway.
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No it's not. Go to consumption in the last 24h and you'll see a question mark for nuclear, which is different than 0% for geothermal, implying they don't have that data.
Gas company shuts down due to overflow error
"I think it's something that’s aged sitting there because it’s a number, so we have to understand how that number got there because the number was so big that the control panel didn’t know what to do with it and kicked into shutdown mode." - CEO of Jersey's Island Energy after the gas completely cut out for their tens of thousands of customers
In the last decades I read that about:

- web ads

- web stores

- streaming websites

- chat apps
> I've lived in many suburbs, they've always had a lot of places to go. Libraries, parks, running trails, recreation centers, sports fields, publicly subsidized water parks or pools, town square areas, public golf courses, public disc golf courses, etc.

Any grocery stores? Cafes? Restaurants? Bars?
Note recent reports of mitigations=off _hurting_ Zen4 performance in many cases.

I don't have Zen4 so I'm not super up-to-date on this -- r2-t2 above disagrees, but offers no data.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-4-Mitigations-Off
FreeRADIUS v4 Alpha1 Released
I can share some, for Twitter/X at any rate. Employees of Rebel Media (far-right Canadian media org with an agenda) have been caught organizing the posting of old footage of IDF incursions in the West Bank and Gaza dubbed over (poorly) with soundtracks of Arab men laughing to make it look like Palestinian militants were caging Israeli children, knocking down doors, and otherwise being inhumane.

This tweet calls them out on it and has screenshots of the posts in question:

https://x.com/KeithWoodsYT/status/1711364819863888227

Their Wikipedia page has other misinformation they’ve done in the past, but my edit to include this bout of disinformation was just rolled back, apparently because this behavior was documented and called out by an independent journalist and not published by mainstream media:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_News
Value Creation in the Age of AI
Yep, fortunately they are airgapped (though they do have USB ports)
There all sorts of things that affect coverage. These things are done by booms with nozzles at all sorts of different points, and there's variables like pressure variance at different points in the pipes, spray radius per nozzle type, turning radius / position of the tractor, relative height of the boom to the crop / ground at different points, etc.

And it's not just fertilizer, but other sprays, too.

Here, this looks thoroughly boring, but this guy is going over configuring one of our systems for fertilizer application... You can get an idea of some of the variables involved, if you can make it through :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rQJI7zz1q4
Using energy is fine, it's burning hydrocarbons to produce energy that's the problem. We shouldn't be shaming people for running their AC, we should be encouraging them to install solar to power it.
Probably this one, if you've built something you can show off.

If not, you're just fucked. (I'm fucked.)
Pixel 8 and 8 Pro review: in Google we trust?
Can confirm, my daughter loves LinkedIn. For professional and social networking.
Well, if/when they ever do fight back, they will immediately be labelled right wing nutjobs by the mainstream media and no one will care about who/what they're fighting against, and you'll see lots of "well, I usually support right to repair, but those trump hats were really scary and john deere's position is actually kind of reasonable" comments here.
>Can't pay your rent? That's a crime, and the sheriff will be knocking on your door in 30 days.

What on Earth are you talking about? There was an emergency order during COVID that prevented anyone from being evicted for about two years. A ton of landlords got absolutely screwed because their tenants stopped paying rent and could not be evicted by any means.
Fair point, didn't find many ethical options last I checked but should have revisited, now seeing e.g. https://www.slavefreechocolate.org/ethical-chocolate-compani...

Should have just pointed to the apparent failure of the Harkin–Engel Protocol, introduced in 2001, and Supreme Court victory for Nestle and Cargill in 2021 (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/17/supreme-court-rules-in-favor...)
You can buy non patented seeds if you want to. there is a reason modern farmers buy form Monsanto (and competitors): hybrid corn yields a lot more crops - but the seeds don't breed true so you need special seed corn fields which need to be carefully managed.

There is a reason farmers use roundup as well: the other option to kill weeds is run a hoe through the field - which uses a lot more expensive fuel (read CO2!)
>I was under the same impression, but it seems that in the majority of jurisdictions, the use of a Font does not meet the threshhold for a meaningful work under copyright law.

Thanks for this! I'll look for a citation in the bottom of the wikipedia, but I believe you.

(Sorry to continue being "that guy" but while you raise good points about law and risk, I am once again forced to remind the hackers that Wikipeia is not a primary source)

>It seems copyright on fonts is mostly defined by case law. In the US, font files are apparently copyrightable because they're classified as a computer program, the actual artistic value of the displayed font is not taken into account at all.

I was born in Appalachia -- that's fucked up, especially since the "founding fathers" we Americans love to stan set much shorter copyright limits and many fonts, even computer ones, are quite old.

>And that the author and authors of any map, chart, book or books already made and
composed, and not printed or published, or that shall hereafter be made and composed, being a citizen or citizens of these United States, or resident therein, and his or their executors, administrators or assigns, shall have the sole right and liberty of printing, reprinting, publishing and vending such map, chart, book or books, for the like term of fourteen years from the time of recording the title thereof in the clerk’s office as aforesaid. And if, at the expiration of the said term, the author or authors, or any of them, be living, and a citizen or citizens of these United States, or resident therein, the same exclusive right shall be continued to him or them, his or their executors, administrators or assigns, for the further term of fourteen years; Provided, He or they shall cause the title thereof to be a second time recorded and published in the same manner as is herein after directed, and that within six months before the expiration of the first term of fourteen years aforesaid.

https://www.copyright.gov/history/1790act.pdf

(apologies for formatting issues -- copy and paste from the pdf did not retain linebreaks etc)

These fonts were made in the 80s, like me. They should be a free for all.
Are you talking about the Low Emission Zone? That seems to be a reduction of high emission cars and not really a total ban as described in the article.
The DSA you speak of is not the DSA (Digital Services Act) the article refers to. (I didn’t downvote, fwiw.)
Lots of discussion not even a month ago when this was news:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37507226
> this is a first step, but its a step to disjoin the incentives of farmers and consumers on the ballot.

How does this disjoin? Assuming it becomes popular, wouldn't both parties be in favor of future legislation to remove the carveouts?
Dark, comedic, and so true!

Imagine some kafkaesque effort of bureaucracy
I made this tool and I totally agree with you. I love the different accents around the world. But the point is the pronunciation, a lot of people want to speak clearer, and maybe, this tool could help
I was wondering how the ownership changed after the breakup. At least it was famous enough to get attention from the local SNL crew :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r4P_rJNad4
Huh? During COVID the US had several eviction moratoriums, which covered non-payment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_eviction_moratoriums_...
Do you know why they put up that no laptop rule? Is it to avoid people working or studying there for too long?
Post from the author on openwall: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37844157
OK, how about "cumbersome" or "unnecessarily verbose". I haven't used modern Pascal, but the ancient version I used was also very limited.

I am 60, have used many languages, and used to love C and C++. I consider C and C++ archaic and Java is border-line. I thought Java was cool 10-20 years ago, but I've moved on to Scala.
I'll add my personal peeve: Ctrl-Z in a terminal, as we all know, works (via SIGSTOP and process group handling) to return control to the shell that launched the process. And emacs supports similar behavior (even though its tty is in raw mode) for symmetry, and that makes sense.

But at some point the emacs folks decided that in a X11 window, Ctrl-Z should be bound to the same kind of idea: it minimizes the window! So you're happily typing along and hit C-x <something> and... your window just disappears because you missed and hit the adjacent key. Terrible default, have had it disabled for decades.
Sadly, agriculture is a large part of the "right to repair" movement and one of the groups that would benefit the most from it, as they've been repairing their own equipment for a long time and John Deere et al have been closing down as much as they can so people can't repair their own stuff.

And that's the group of people make it possible for us to stuff down all this food we're consuming, and somehow lawmakers find it OK to not give them more rights...
GrapheneOS version 2023100900 (Android 14) released
There's a few ways Python packages can be installed.

They can be installed at the system level, making the package available to any Python program on the system. This can get problematic if not all of your Python usage can function with the same versions of all system-installed packages.

They can be installed at the user level, sitting in your homedir instead of somewhere under /usr. This gives some isolation from the system defaults, but may just move the problem down a level - you still have the potential for version conflicts.

They can also be installed at the virtualenv level, and now the package install is specific to Python programs launched from that virtualenv. Upgrading a package can only break stuff in that virtualenv, it can't spread beyond it.

If you mostly use stuff from the standard library and stable packages that don't change their APIs much, you can go a long way without venvs before it actually bites you.
As far as I understand it, a "connection" in this context is a line of communication between you and some other machine that is ready to send or receive data.

Think of sending a text (connectionless) vs making a phone call (connection-oriented. why it's not called "connectionful" is beyond me).

When you send a text, you hope that the recipient gets it. If they don't, you send it again until they do.

Whereas when you make a phone call, the call is live the minute you dial the number. You're not always talking to the recipient, though; you might be waiting for them to pick up, trying again because the number is busy, in call waiting, etc.

(Packets transmitted via VoIP phone calls are usually UDP and texts _can be_ sent over TCP IIRC, but that's neither here nor there :D)
hmmm right, I'll add a better explanation of the results. Thanks!