skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the link.

I guess we could just read his mind to find out what his intended interpretation was?
All these fires and train derailments, what's really going on?
Ah, but you forget the license agreement or definitely the privacy policy that changes with every OS upgrade. By doing forced OS upgrades, Apple is essentially forcing new ToS and privacy policy updates on you too.
What is the rationale behind the third party doctrine?
> Would it be impolite to ask if you consider yourself one of these
authentic humans?

I wouldn't consider it impolite, but would say it's an unproductive
question like all such questions of "identity" that unravel in the
slightest breeze.

Perhaps a useful concept is the Hegelian take on "freedom"; that in
any epoch freedom is defined by the will to overcome the obstacles one
faces. There is no firmer definition of it than "intent".

A better modern word might be "lifestance" [0], a word I learned from
hanging around with Rationalist/Humanist thinkers.

And here's what I think is a beautiful lifestance quote;

""" Act as though you are free, you might get lucky. You might be
free, who knows! Act that way it's worth trying! -- Rick
Roderick """

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_stance
Ansible is a good choice.

When I say ‘working server’ though, I typically mean one that is doing a job - providing a critical business service.

A ‘home lab’ of raspberry pis is a different beast.
Hm. Personally my mother has been a happy Ubuntu user for over a decade, even going through the installer and upgrades herself.

The only customisation has been to switch to MATE desktop every time, which she finds more familiar. That might also imply sticking with Xorg? Overall though her experience has been good. But perhaps your grandmother uses a wider variety of apps. For her, it's mostly about videos (she does use the ISO automount feature in MATE and CD ripping), some document editing, a web browser, and video conferencing.

The last support call was about plugging in a projector. Turns out the projector was not turned on, and once it was on, it autodetected just fine. I then mentioned mirrored mode and monitor positioning, and that was about it.

Ubuntu is offering 5 years of LTS maintenance on 22.04, and if in 5 years she needs help with the upgrade, I don't feel that's a huge imposition, but she may well manage it on her own just fine.
The BBC is a weird place. The have a policy of always referring to terrorists as "militants", but they fire a guy for imaginary "anti-semitism".

Edit: Oops, should have paid more attention, it's the The Guardian, not BBC.

Also weird times in London. Jewish shops around me have been vandalized (not a hate crime according to the police [1] as opposed to the nazi pug). There have been people marching and shouting "We'll find the jews. We want their blood." [2]. It's the sort of thing you expect to see in black and white documentaries not in your neighborhood.

[1]: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/golders-green-va...

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/badunitedkingdom/comments/nln27d/mo...
Every HN thread about YouTube and ads, we see the same ads/tracking/Google apologist fallacies:

1. Equivocating adblock with stealing

2. Using adblock deprives content creators of funds

3. Users of adblock are entitled whiners who just want free stuff

4. Without ads, YouTube cannot exist

It is getting tiring.
What does "ETA" mean in this context? I've only seen it used for "estimated time of arrival", which doesn't make sense here.
We did ok with the 8086 processors, no?
Rights aren't necessarily added to the constitution because they're currently being violated. They're added to secure the rights into the future.

There are many developments that are moving in the direction of this being violated, the most recent of which is Web Environment Integrity[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Environment_Integrity
If they listed both that would make sense, that's commonplace when listing net vs gross revenue, nominal vs real GDP, etc
From a networking perspective, I'm looking most forward to route-based IPSec tunnels: https://man.openbsd.org/sec.4

On the Linux side these are called "vti" devices, and they're simpler to use than most other methods, and also the default when interacting with cloud service providers IPSec gateways.
Who needs a 200k+ device when there's things like ghostgunner.net, which can mill a bunch of lowers all for less than 3k?
Mental trauma: African content moderators push Big Tech on rights
> I’d like it to be easier to use those libraries in a non-async context (e.g. by bringing a pollster-like API into the standard library),

I think this would simultaneously solve two of the major gripes expressed here and elsewhere.

1) An easy answer for those who wish to avoid being sucked into async just because there's a useful crate that has async.

2) Blessing an executor other than tokio avoids tokio lock in.
Just a shakedown for more cash to go someplace except where it's needed.
How is that implemented? Btree, hashtable?
Spice is a general-purpose circuit simulation program
If that's the edge for you, you are basically against free speech.
> many civilisations run artificial afterlives of eternal torment for their people, and the Culture doesn't openly intervene against _that_

Key word: openly.
A lot of things take more than 5 years to create. If save all your garbage and find the notes from your rough draft that you started more than 5 years ago does that mean your work is not copyright, merrily a derivative work? Some authors write a novel in 6 weeks, but others take years to polish it.
Here's the YouTube TOS. I believe they ask you to agree to it along with the cookie policy banner that shows up when you don't have cookies stored:

https://www.youtube.com/t/terms

Edit: actually you're right they don't explicitly ask you to agree to the TOS, but the TOS contains this paragraph.

> If you do not understand the Agreement, or do not accept any part of it, then you may not use the Service

So I guess the agreement is implicit rather than explicit.
Microsoft updated Office 365 earlier this year so that all the Office apps also load an Edge-based version of Electron, because letting their developers build UI elements as if they were web page content is more efficient for Microsoft.

The tradeoff is that every Office user has an additional 10+ processes that consume enormous amounts of RAM, but looks like someone in MS Marketing managed to turn that into lemonade, because it means that the "make your computer faster" ad is likely accurate (for Office users). Thanks to the magic of caches and shared libraries, running Edge probably does use fewer system resources than running Firefox or Chrome when Edge-Electron is already running.
Plus they already provide the data powering the site(plus the site code itself I think?) with a lenient CC license. What more can we ask for? I don't get why people are so hell bent over screwing over a good citizen.
Why Big Tech, Cops, and Spies Were Made for One Another
The Guardian fired him, not BBC.
Yeah, I was going to mention that if the long-running/CPU-bound work was put in a worker thread with a message queue in which state messages are received/handled, it'd be relatively trivial to handle the signal across these constraints, since signals are only delivered upon context switches.

But if you've just got one very tight loop and are running like a bat out of hell, well you deserve the hell you're in. ;) longjmp() is definitely not the right way to do this. A thread dedicated to handling signals (or doing the CPU work) which properly tells the main() thread to die/quit/clean up is how I'd do it .. even if you only spawn a thread for signal handling, its still way cleaner than that longjmp() business .. which is very difficult to understand, even with the context you've given in this thread (I read your code - its nasty) ...
ClickHouse Obfuscator – A tool for dataset anonymization
The Constitution says for the “general welfare” (ie for the greater good, so it may go against your point) and it’s related specifically to taxation.
I'm don't remember the chair but I have a queasy feeling that I've deliberately repressed thinking about the the chair.

I agree with GP that I don't want to reread certain thing regardless of how well written they are.
What does the ATF call that in the gun world? “Constructive possession”? You had the parts to make one, same as owning one! Felony charges.
That's one of the themes in the books. Even if humans in Special Circumstances feel they've accomplished something (or failed at something), they never know how much of it was just part of the Minds' schemeing.
I don't like this. Is there a reason for using a stringified method prefix?

I'd prefer the type safety of verb-specific methods (i.e. mux.Get, mux.Post etc) than magic strings validated at run time. Additionally editors can autocomplete/intellisense methods.
That paragraph is introduced with "As one commentator has said", making it only a single opinion. And I would mostly disagree. Consider Phlebas, The Hydrogen Sonata and Excession show competition on the same level as the Minds, the Excession even beyond their level. And any entity being "too good" is a strange notion, if you consider those entities being many, many orders of magnitude more intelligent than us humans. Why would "truths" about humans apply to Minds? It is like a bacterium trying to extrapolate the true character of humans.
I guess you're right in that it's not a contract because nothing is being offered in exchange on your part as a user. But it certainly reads like a "legal agreement" to me. I'm not sure what difference that actually makes:

https://www.youtube.com/t/terms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion

Train derailments have happened the entire time. We have a thousand a year in the USA.
> Linux isn't there yet to allow average users to upgrade major distribution versions.

I hate to say it, but ... don’t? Go the full managed-workstation route, put an LTS on there, and hope you’ll have a chance to do a version upgrade sometime in the coming years. I usually dislike the idea of using an LTS on a personal machine, but here, when the person using the computer isn’t the one maintaining it, it feels appropriate.

I agree it should be better, but it doesn’t feel like a grandma problem, it feels like a smart-and-willing-but-not-savvy problem. (Not that grandmas can’t be in the latter category, it just doesn’t sound like that’s what you’re describing.)
Or company help desks, at this point after twitter changes its licensing lots of companies quit it, it was the only social media account I still used for chat-like help. Most now offer Facebook but under no circumstance am I going to create another account. Now I'm stuck with calling and waiting in line since they also stopped doing email (only callback service, which rarely works).
> IBM Rational or Microsoft Dynamics

Thanks, haven't checked those two.

> I'm surprised ServiceNow isn't trying to break into this space.

Last time I ran SNOW a few years ago, it was slowly but steadily heading into the SAP trajectory - highly-customazible per customer needs, expensive to pay and even more expensive to migrate onto. And it doesn't seem to prioritize any developer-oriented features to appeal to that crowd.

I.e., they have GitHub integration but it's not something I could convince a developer to use on a daily basis unlike Jira's one: https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/vancouver-it-asset-manage...
I liked this one

* Do not calculate IP, TCP, and UDP checksums on lo(4) interfaces.
It's very typical, but also really sloppy reporting, that none of the articles I've seen have actually included even a thumbnail of the cartoon he says was the inspiration. It took me one search to find several links to it:

http://academics.wellesley.edu/Polisci/wj/Vietimages/Cartoon...

The reference then is very obvious. One might of course try to imply that the changes were made to intentionally change the context and reference Shylock and that the reference is just a smokescreen, but to me at least it seems contrived and driven by the same willingness to just view everything in the worst possible light when it is convenient that pervade the British press.

Bell has been a thorn in the sides of a lot of people for a long time, so I'm not surprised.
Every now and again, I think I'm in danger of becoming too cynical. It seems that I still have some way to go before my naïvety is properly calibrated to the real world.
https://archive.ph/XES40
sorry, i meant a description of the living area and examples of things that make it difficult or impossible to live there.

while i have lived in the US i have never been to areas that one is being told to avoid (the most dangerous area i have lived in for a short time was somewhere near downtown DC), and in most other countries that i have been to such neighborhoods are inconceivable. heck even slums in africa appear safer compared to some gunshot prone areas in the US
I am neither a compiler writer or an OS guru. Just an old c programmer. In this article it looks like the entire CPU instruction set was designed to emulate pdp11 to ensure c compatibility. So my naive question. What is stopping a Microprocessor manufacturer to have two instruction sets one that is compatible and one that allows us to fully utilise the modern CPU but with a different programming paradigm? Is that too expensive or hard to do? I genuinely don't know.
Wait until you find out fiat is still the top method of currency used for all of the above.
Things might be horrific even if they aren't gratuitous or even described explicitly in a book.
Ghost printers? Time for more legislation!
This is only until Dec 2017. The world is a lot different after Covid.

Car prices have definitely shot up quite a bit.
Public libraries should have gymnasiums!
True - but there are far fewer techno-utopians hanging around the shipbuilding industry, or soft drink industry, or roofing shingle industry, or ...
Yes, I have. And that is what my framework defaults to.

But when you must interrupt a CPU-bound operation, CSP does not work. CSP is an I/O design.
Hogwarts legacy works really well via Proton (Steam). Full AMD system, though.
I think in 1800 you would have got away with that argument. But for
me, living after 2000, when I say "technological age" I'm speaking of
the Anthropocene [0].

There's a qualitative difference of systematic complexity.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene
I was a premium subscriber for 1 month and quickly cancelled my subscription, the reason is simple: I was still bombarded by ads, just not YouTube ads.

If YouTube want my business back they should simply find a way to force YouTube creators to provide two video streams, one with sponsored content for non premium users and one with their sponsored content shenanigans stripped out for premium users. This would make me subscribe asap even if I couldn't care less for YouTube Music as a happy spotify user.

I know I can use sponsorblock to get rid of this, but I just felt silly having to use an adblocker while still paying for youtube premium.
Your missing the point. In that browsers insist that you now -must- have HTTPS. And that if you wish to serve an static HTTP website over HTTP you can not without a glaring "This site is unsafe" thrown in your face.
> The cover letter is a proxy for soft skills.

Not anymore. Not with ChatGPT. In any case, you have completely missed my point, right along with e12e.
> The whole point of taxes is that you don't get to pick and choose the parts you like or use.

No, the point of taxes is taking some minimum amount of money from others by force, so that the government can spend it how they choose.

> So you're fine with taking others' money by force, and spending some of it on the arts, but you think it's overall not going where you want it to, so you'll minimize your personal contribution?

I don't see this as a consistent view.
It’s in the Taxing and Spending Clause, it’s not as broad as to give powers to “do whatever we want as long as we can tie it to the welfare of a group.” The closest clause to that is the commerce clause.
I think _fat_santa was referring to the earlier period when the fraud began, but of course this call shows that most of them did not know.

Some did and knowingly participated in the fraud. Some knew about this or other shady practices and left the firm, as far back as 2019 IIRC. Lots of different responses, but unfortunately no leakers.
Until your Google Account gets banned for violating the ToS. No thank you.
For once, Betteridge's Law of Headlines doesn't hold. Signals suck and are best avoided.

When handling the concept in a vacuum, like writing a simple program from scratch that uses them, sure, they're usable.

But add threads, libraries, and complex code and it quickly risks becoming a huge pain. It's one of those things from UNIX that are in principle not that bad of an idea, but just never grew up with the times.
For hardware, the government could subsidize manufacturers for units sold in the country that meet requirements. Or provide a tax rebates to citizens who purchase them. Nobody is saying "A car in every driveway, and a server farm in every basement." Just ensuring a general purpose computer is affordable for families earning some fraction of the poverty line.

For software, The government could give grants to developers of FOSS operating systems and essential software, similar to how the US encourage the arts through the National Environment for the Arts. The grants would come with a requirement for distributing the works online to any citizen (e.g. download link on a public page). For people with crappy or no internet, the gov could mail USB sticks or CDs for cost plus shipping.
Ah right, Firefox does have a nice option for this. I happened to check Chromium on desktop, but Firefox on Android (which were the browsers I had open already), which doesn't have this option.
Why do I deserve that for having a CPU-bound program?

And why is longjmp() the wrong thing to do?
While this is true in a practical sense for the British PM, it is only true in the most technical legal sense for the US President.

Yes; it is true that the Constitution provides for the election of electors, who will then choose the President.

But in fact, while the Electoral College makes the precise mechanism of election slightly indirect and the methods of weighting the votes byzantine, in any practical sense there's no question that the US president is elected, and not appointed.
Show HN: DIY Todo App with Authentication, Caching, Security, and Message Queue
I don't think they were wrong about you implying it, though.

If you don't want people to assume you're proposing some form of command economy, then it's on you to concretely articulate how you envision avoiding the chaos of capitalism without resorting to the authoritarianism of a command economy.
Maybe where you are. Service industry job wages have all gone up significantly since pre-covid where I live.
Just like some people prefer vinyl over digital audio, I've always felt my division is warmer when using a slide rule.
What language(s) in your opinion have the right low-level where the access to the real machine doesn't feel foreign?
It becomes complex when you want to support multiple NVMes

Even more complex when you want to have any kind of redundancy, as you'd essentially need to build-in some kind of RAID-like into your database.

Also few terabytes in RAID10 NVMes + PostgreSQL and something covers about 99% of companies needs for speed.

So you're left with 1% needing that kind of speeds
So what?

Imagine you need 200 of bricks to fix a wall. You may say that modern brick is 50% better, more insulating whatever. And now your inlation number is 10% instesd of 60%

But I still need the same number of bricks to fill in the hole on the wall. And I have to pay 60% more for it, not 10%. So when it comes to cost of living and surviving in the world, this argument is pure fantasy.
> Is this surprising? Can you point to researchers in the field being “surprised” by LLMs returning sound answers?

It's surprising because it wasn't the intent of LLMs. LLMs are just predictive models that guess the most likely next word. Having the results make sense was never a priority. Early version, GPT1/2, all return mostly complete nonsense. It was only with GPT3 when the model got large enough that it started returning results that are convincing and might even make sense often enough.

Even more mind boggling is the fact that randomness is part of its algorithm, i.e. temperature, and that without it the output is kind of meh.
Its the best one! Set on Earth, far future, millennia after most of humanity left for the stars.
There's not going to be any significant difference between 2m and 10m.

A better question might be why they are measuring temperature there on a hot roof and not over grass. According to NOAA, that's a Class 5 location (the worst):

Class 5 (error ≥ 5ºC) – Temperature sensor located next to/above an artificial heating source, such a building, roof top, parking lot, or concrete surface. (Section 2.2.1 of the U. S. Climate Reference Network Site Information Handbook)

http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/uscrn/documentation/progr...
Dialectical text editor for co-evolving ideas with a partner

https://dialectica.app

About: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ORaXKVYI7aIcn_r3OxJJd4_o...
true I agress, I hate facebook/google a lot for developing tools to track users and target ads based on their personal data. yes, it optimized advertisers money but at the cost of our privacy. I know, If it is not fb/google someone else will develop the tools. I wish world governments will establish some doctrine on targeted ads and ads in general.

I am ok with seeing scam ads on shady small website, but for a company of google/FB scale . No. they should be more responsible. they have tools/money to be more responsible and yet they are not. the only reason I think is they are forcing people to turn off ad-personalisation this way.

by responsible I mean, we should have ability to report scam-ads even if we didn't sign-in/opt out of ad-personalisation.

every time , i try to report a scam-ad on youtube, it asks me to turn off ad-personalisation to proceed.
I like using HESK.
If you set your VPN location to Ukraine, you can buy Premium for ~$2.70/m

That's what I did.
HESK.

https://www.hesk.com/
Using AI to write about my sister's death (2021)
It would be great for you to link somewhere other than Wikipedia
We plan out meals and so we have dozens of recipes that we rotate through. Keeps things not quite boring while also keeping everything in the minds of everyone in the family so that when we ask what everyone wants for suppers this week they can think of something. Anyway, this is all to say that our grocery habits are fairly consistent. Our bill is up, in the past two years alone, between 30 and 40 percent. I haven't gone back to the old receipts to confirm exactly, but looking back at some old statements confirms that range.

That's just two years. Not 24.
> That is not where we are currently headed.

He smiled. “My dear girl, in Culture history alone it has been about nine thousand years since a human, marvellous though they are in so many other ways, could do anything useful in a serious, big-guns space battle other than admire the pretty explosions … or in some cases contribute to them.”

“Contribute?”

“Chemicals; colours. You know.”

--

I'm not sure why this quote came to my mind, maybe it's ongoing wars and things like Iron Beam and Rheimetal shaped charge antidrone gun and shaped charge anti-tank flying mines and munitions actively choosing targets.