skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for sharing some of your insight onto the problem domain. Do you happen to have any reference for laymen like me to onboard onto the subject? It's an awfully interesting topic but when I stumbled upon it I tend to fall back to JIT learning and troubleshooting, which is far from the best position to be.
English version of the article from the blog: https://www.observatoiredeparis.psl.eu/revue-fortement-a-la-...

@dang: should the URL be replaced?
X/Twitter issued with a $610,500 fine under Australia's Online Safety Act
When will it become practical to run Linux inside the browser using WASM?
Or the availability of PEDs.
I'm still on 1280x720 here... damn those huge nav bars that are stuck to the top.
Pretty depressing story, it’s sad to see how countries and companies only care about money and power, and how much of our individual well being is down to pure luck. Reading this makes me feel helpless (not buying their products will probably not make any difference) and also devoid of hope that we’ll be able to address issues like global warming.
I don't think a nation would bear that expense alone without an upside.

I imagine it would be selective areas, more along the lines of the diversion of the Blue Nile.
In case you missed the Falcon Heavy launch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npIDMxrzm_o&t=3051s

Boosters landing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npIDMxrzm_o&t=3539s
Sorry, that's a non-answer. Where have people not "lost touch with reality"?
NTFS? ActiveDirectory? UEFI? 64-Bit? Directly 11/12? Microsoft Hello (which is local to the is and supports U2f and thus webauthn , just not supported that much sadly)

I’m a Linux/macos person, but I would never say that there were no important things since windows 98. especially since their kernel is/was so different
After trying Linux on and off for 20 years, only to go back to Windows after a day or so, I feel it's finally usable enough that I ditched Windows a few months ago after using it for 25 years. Linux has come a long way and I'd argue it's much more usable than XP now.
Interestingly, recent research suggest that you can make better decisions by combining experimental and observational data than by using either alone:

https://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r513.pdf

> Abstract: Personalized decision making targets the behavior of a specific individual, while population-based decision making concerns a sub-population resembling that individual. This paper clarifies the distinction between the two and explains why the former leads to more informed decisions. We further show that by combining experimental and observational studies we can obtain valuable information about individual behavior and, consequently, improve decisions over those obtained from experimental studies alone.
Their next move in the politico-technological arms race is to pass a law that says the judge is allowed to assume you're guilty of whatever they're accusing you of if you're found to be in possession of encrypted data and refuse to decrypt it to prove your innocence. An encrypted drive? Looks like you're a drug trafficking money laundering child raping terrorist and it's off to the gulag with you.
I need an x account to view it, so I can't speak to the posts. I was wondering how you're ensuring that your "plain English" translation accurately describes the premise, goal or outcome of the abstracts (I assume its scraping and summarizing).
My ISP just fucked up their interface and I cannot create aliases anymore.
For Two Stop Bits, you can put anything as e-mail, they don't try to confirm it anyway.
Asked for a computer and didn't get one so had to code friends ones or use parents ones / school computers.
That's a terrible practice by Google and makes me rethink my android usage. They should use the original as a guide for detecting these abuses early instead of just being lazy and stamping them all bad.

How is Apple in this regard?
All that AI and all that great stuff they're doing has a cost. Bill Gates himself wrote software shouldn't be free. And if you look at all the great stuff he's doing in the world today, I'd gladly give him more.
A lot more founders and employees are heavily diluted than you think. I always just assumed massive exits meant people were rich.

But when I calculated out how much an exec would make for a diluted $1B exit compared to working at FAANG for the same amount of time... FAANG turned out better many times (unfortunately).

I think preventing dilution should be one of the highest priorities for founders for themselves and for retention. Every single dilution event sets the outcome bar higher and, thus, harder to achieve.
In the short term, sure. Now half their user base again for the next release, and then again for the one after. The less people use it, the less software targets it, and the less people use it.

If this really is their strategy, it's incredibly short sighted. I doubt it is though. These guys have been in the game for a lot longer than most, they're not stupid.
Any advice is good, I just have to start at the beginning in a way that most people don't. Beyond that, normal advice is fine. I can adjust that advice to the quirks of my systems.

Dynamical systems is a great new keyword! Algorithms are a perfect example. I am exploring system dynamics from a metacybernetic point of view (via the viable system model). My focus is the dynamics of humans in complex systems, how systems change human behavior and vice versa.

Does big picture thinking in math involve understanding/intuition of the implications of formulas, and how they interact with other formulas (or other mathematical entities, I don't know if formula is a general enough term for "group of math actions")?

Graph dynamical systems looks promising, because I draw similar pictures when showing relationships over time. Fractals are always good, drawing fractals taught me to think recursively.

Is this the definition of group in the algebra you mentioned? https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Group.html

I am also interested in the way models create understanding, and how technical models can be visually altered to aid in understanding. I have a background in visual psychology, and see many mistakes that cloud the meaning of what is being communicated.
> It is known that at least Germany, Austria and Estonia oppose the proposal. There are clearly more supporters known, e.g. Spain, Denmark, Hungary and Ireland support the Commission proposal

Hungary surprises me as a supporter for this
OpenEarable: A new, open-source, Arduino-based platform for ear-based sensing
You could just encrypt the text going over the “wire” things like a one time pad would likely be incredibly effective for most.
Unfortunately I think what we'll get is an operating system that you pay for and that feeds you ads and wastes your time. Both are possible!
Absolutely! And good science is sometimes just about organizing existing information too, which I believe LLMs can excel at.
I remember being excited for windows 7. I stayed up late on a school night to grab a beta iso because there was a limited number of downloads. It was an enormous improvement over XP. But I think that's where Microsoft really lost the plot.

They started forcing 7 users to upgrade to 10 without user input or consent. They kept adding on more and more spyware and ads, removing local accounts and any sort of control you have over your machine.

If I went into work tomorrow and found my machine had updated itself to 11, I'd probably just nuke it and install Linux. I'm so tired of these games and the total disrespect from Microsoft. I'll never be excited about windows again. I'll never want to use windows again.

Linux isn't perfect, but at least it respects me and my choices. It will let me turn off updates. It won't reboot itself in the middle of my work to update the calculator app. It won't sideload bloatware like "Xbox game bar" through the security update channels. I have control of my Linux machines, for good or ill. What I do on my machines is my business and I expect the machine to do what I tell it to, even if it's something like `rm -rf /`

Linux may not be as good an operating system as windows is (was), but at least it isn't actively antagonizing. It doesn't try to control me or sell me something, or mine my personal data to sell. And even if all that were the case, I could still build my own Linux system from scratch.

This slow death spiral is really agonizing for everyone in the tech industry. I wish Microsoft would either just die already or get their shit together. I'm tired of the current situation and I want it to be over already, one way or the other
The most important information seems to be missing from the article. The author says that all his apps are built similarly, except the one that led to the account termination which

uses a particular asset that I bought
on the Unity Asset Store

So which asset is it?

If that asset contains malware, then we know the reason for the ban.
Probably before WASM bytecode can manipulate the DOM without JavaScript.

The browser seems on track to do everything except giving first-class support for other languages.

I've been studying the WebGPU API, which seems good, and visions of even our game engines being written in JavaScript are continually before my eyes.
Once upon a time an interviewer in a job application that I participated was expressed his disappointment when he see that I didn't use css reset in the challenge they sent to me. I'm glad he is disappointed. I feel irritated when the people in tech so picky about the things that has an answer "hmm, yes, probably we should use", "lets not use, not worth it in this case". There was 2 html tags and an svg graph something like that in the page. I suspect he wasn't a tech person either, he was probably reading a google docs about how to interview fe person.

I personally don't use reset css and my web pages look ok. There are so many web pages that doesn't use reset css, they look ok.

I also don't like when people are being picky about things for fun. This is a job that people take seriously.
I’m pretty sure that modern CPUs do generally have shadow registers to make context switching faster. However, you also have to consider cache contention, the fact it needs to access an indefinite amount of machine code during the context switch, it may service other processes during the context switch, and the effects all this will have on the instruction pipeline. Not to mention bugs in the CPU that might require it to flush the pipeline to maintain complete process separation.

So you can keep dedicating more and more silicon to redundant components to get closer to physically representing each thread, or you can code more efficiently.

Eg even if you did nothing but loop over a do-nothing system call, it would still need to have two separate executable pages in the cache instead of just one.

Not only that, but often the kernel is acting as a mediator for the hardware - which could mean synchronizing between cores, which brings its own obstacles (using slower shared cache, waiting for other cores, etc)
They mentioned also shipping on iOS so they are probably leaning heavily on unity for cross platform functionality.
It's true that the wording runs like that. But here's the angle: the Council is the body intended to represent the member states, so the member states are the ones who get to decide who is going to represent them in council. At the moment, that's usually the minister for the subject under discussion. It's true that on those occasions where it is the head of state, you probably can't get round sending your head of state (and probably wouldn't want to). But if a member state decides they are going to define their own rules such that it's an elected representative that gets sent the rest of the time, the rest of the EU shouldn't be able to overrule it, because that would defeat the purpose of the role being one that is under control of a member state.
I have gripes with many parts of the process, predominantly the committee.

> Keep in mind that the ISO committee does not employ engineers and for international treaty reasons, it reasonably cannot.

Engineers not being employed by the committee doesn't meani can't hold them to a standard. The standards committee have shown that they're more interested in freesing popular libraries and putting them in the standard library. It's clear that major changes are preferred as library changes not language changes (ranges should be a language feature, as should span and optional).

> who should be doing this work?

I'm not sure what you're getting at here. The standards committee should have used some time between 2004 (when this was proposed first) and 2019 to get this done. The compiler vendors, 4 years later , should have made this usable. The build systems are at the mercy of the compiler vendors, but cmake has had 3-4? years to get this in.

> Are you talking to them about your expectations? Are you providing actual support to implementations that are public goods (i.e., open source compilers)?

It's not fair for you to suggest that it's my fault this is a mess, 15 years on.

To answer your question, I've tried multiple times over the last 3 years, hit show stopping bugs and issues, and have found them already reported in clang's issue tracker or the VS feedback forums. I've spoken with developers here and on Reddit about issues with MSVC, and cmake.
It’s been possible for years. I’m not sure what a good definition of “practical” would be though.

https://bellard.org/jslinux/
Israel has begun rapid deployment of the laser air defense system
This works for C, but not C++. And for C, it’s not that hard to do by hand so no one else bothers.
> Sure, if it's so valuable to have a training type role we'll keep it on those grounds

There’s no guarantee of this happening whatsoever. We’ve already seen private companies gut internal training programs in favor of increased hiring of experienced people and this is only going to continue.

Economies have to provide work in order to facilitate consumption. If there are a handful of people making all of the money and gutting pay and job security to the core (i.e. improving efficiency), people are going to start rejecting the system wholesale and it’s not going to be pretty.

The French Revolution didn’t happen in a vacuum, once people lost all hope of having a semblance of a decent standard of living, they didn’t just let rich keep on living, did they?
let's simply fix the issue at the source
Well about that, there was a topic on reddit about the state of desktop linux, and honestly it seems linux is reaching a good level of cuteness, ergonomics, stability, features..

Along history i was quite critical of linux ui/ux but for the first time I was actually not so, and it would be unfortunate for MS to miss this data.
The comment above said that the average german did not understand not to vote for hitler so in that context i understood majority as more than 50% of the german population. I probably should have clarified it in my comment.
> Wasn’t this debunked already?

yep. https://www.neowin.net/news/a-new-report-denies-rumors-of-a-...
Getting distraught about the destruction of something symbolic or culturally meaningful without knowing about it first before-hand is perfectly normal.

I found out about many of the artifacts for the first time in [1] after they were destroyed and was still upset by it.

Your question does not adequately reflect why someone should or should not care about something.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_cultural_herita...
If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.
> War with China does not seem to be that unlikely

Well, the more the US prepares for it, the more unlikely it is. Or, the best way to win a fight is to convince the other guy it's not worth fighting.
Too bothersome to be worth the hassle, for me personally. The only way Linux “wins” on the desktop is if Windows becomes even more bothersome than Linux. Not a positive outlook.

And this is not something a DE can fix, because the main problems are (a) the GUI app ecosystem is too heterogeneous on Linux and (b) laptop hardware-related issues like sleep, screen and camera control, trackpad and other input device drivers, and battery usage. To a lesser extent also peripheral support like printers and scanners.
It is very hard to communicate this to someone who hasn't interacted with a diverse group of people or spent a significant amount of time outside North America.

I also immigrated to America when I was young, having spent the first decade of my life in a cultural context where communication styles are more direct and the notion of "friendship" is different. Now many decades later, I can say that how people interact with each other here is not something that I accept or understand. Developing genuine connections here is extremely difficult and it doesn't have to be that way.

In short, "friendship" as a concept just doesn't exist in America. I've completely given up on trying to make connections with others whose only frame of reference is the image conscious culture here. I can't say I have a lot of close friends but the people in my life who I get along with and appreciate are without exceptions people who recently immigrated here from continental europe, africa, latin america, asia etc.
Yes. They called a company i worked for, we used a lot of data. They gave us a few weeks to move off (what we needed).

Do not think its free for all usage.
The biggest one is the Firefox ESR build from the pmOS repos with the custom userChrome.css that tries to fit everything onto the Pinephone's screen. I pretty consistently encountered pop-up prompts (for example, in the built-in password manager) that ran off the edge of the screen in both portrait and landscape. Zooming out sometimes helped, but then the text was unreadable and the buttons too small to press. There was also no forward button in either the overflow menu or the nav bar. The Phosh settings app had similar problems.
> The ISO committee should not be in the business of inventing language features out of whole cloth. That is not how “standardization” works. They should only standardize existing practice.

How do you expect to standardize a feature that does not exist yet but the whole community is demanding?

It sounds like the C++ standardization committee designed a feature following a process where all stakeholders had a say. Is this worse than being force-fed a vendor-specific solution?
Has anyone gone to arbitration over this?
Is that on the free tier or one of the paid tiers like the $60/mo or $200/mo?
The only thing going for windows is gaming. But this is huge. If it wasn't for gaming windows 12 would 100% turn me away.

This is unity level antics.
IRON BEAM - High Energy Laser Weapon System - https://www.rafael.co.il/worlds/land/iron-beam/
Depends on by whose standard you go.

Being a mountain of muscle will mostly get appreciation from other dudes in the gym.
Totally flawed calculation. For many tasks Llama 70b works just fine and you can run that on a 6000e server as much as you like.

Renting GPU servers at AWS is just stupid. Did you ever see bitcoin miners calculate the price of mining one bitcoin by looking at renting AWS GPU servers?
I don't know if I have the energy in me. The Rust Project burned me out and continues to burn me out. Writing a book is a tremendous amount of work, and I am focused on my job over more broad open source contribution.

That said, I appreciate the kind words. But I am struggling to have the energy to accept conference invitations and do smaller open source work, so I wouldn't commit to anything like that any time soon. (that said I literally arrived in Raleigh for All Things Open earlier today, where my talk will actually be about async/await, so... never say never.)
I'm going, who of you is going to be there? We could have a HN meetup at the conference.

There's a slack channel for the conference (I made it): https://osmus.slack.com/messages/sotm-eu/

Tech conferences are great. This'll be my ninth conference so far in 2023.
It is also likely Google themselves has been compromised. Those reviewer accounts could have been hacked and thus this kind of spurious behavior. Think of it similar to website defacing, instead of deface, you get random suspension or termination of random app developers. You don't always hear about Google being hacked, but it had happened in the past way more frequently then what were reported. Google biggest issue they have near non existence of customers support engineers there (probably not a glamorous job / career). They rely too much on automated responses with a bunch of if-else like their Diagflow (perhaps now upgraded with Bard). Don't depend on Google store. Support HarmonyOS and Samsung store. Give alternative a stronger support to force Google from monopolistic behavior to market competition. Microsoft over the years demonstrate this is possible. Rely on market and not some dont-do-evil mantra.
Lovely. Couple of random unimportant things on the sidenotes of the Boccaccio one.

vezzeggiativo - probably worth translating to English, at least once.

per avventura - still around in English but archaic https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peradventure
There are other key questions that could be asked to. Like, has it improved over 10 years?

I’d say yes. The breadth, range and typical tone of articles has changed. You still come across content that has stuffy tone.
Related, previous reporting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outlaw_Ocean

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Urbina
They're sort of like a walking buffet that you can talk to when you're bored.

They're going to be crucial to our survival in the coming apocalypse but in the modern world they don't serve much purpose.
Ok. You're right.

Notified them on their Discord of workers, let's see if it gets picked up tomorrow.

Edit: It's going to be escalated and fixed ( Got a response within 44 minutes ... On a Sunday, nice).
Yep.

I remember back in the day installing 95, 98, 2000, XP and then 7.

In the earlier days the sentiment was wow this is great and exciting. I looked forward to upgrading and enjoyed the discovery of new features and generally things were better in every upgrade. I was happy to use and recommend Windows for any personal usage.

Nowadays I run 10 Pro (which I bought) because IMO there's no other reasonable Windows choice and end up having to explain predatory Microsoft behavior to friends and family and suggest they avoid Windows unless it's necessary for specific software they run. You'd be surprised at how usable a modern Linux desktop OS is for an older person who doesn't know a lot about computers but only wants to check email and run a browser. The experience here is SO much better since stuff doesn't change under their feet and the OS doesn't try and con you into making bad choices for you as the end user.

Personally I wish I could go native Linux. I've tried a few times over the past 5 years but I always run into audio and video related issues (I tried everything you can reasonably imagine short of buying all new hardware) and certain games still have compatibility issues. Thankfully Steam is doing a great job at moving the ball forward with Linux compatibility in games.

If I could get 95%+ of games to play well on a desktop Linux system and DaVinci Resolve ran flawlessly for A/V editing I would instantly switch and never look back.
Privacy must belong to no one, or everyone, but no where in between; i.e. privacy must not be owned by a certain class or group.

If I can read anyone's messages, I'm absolutely fine with everyone else reading mine.

If governments want access to our data, they should open up their data for us to see as well.

Honestly I'd love to live in a world where everything is out in the open, no secrets, no agendas, nothing to hide, no passwords. Everyone knows everyone's intentions, perhaps even thoughts one day via Neurolink.
I think after the initial chaos in the first couple of decades, humanity will leap forward beyond imagination.
Looks interesting Yurii!