skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the feeling of noticing how much better you've gotten when you start the game over.

There's nothing like your second playthrough of a game like Factorio, Cities Skylines, Stellaris, etc. All of the experience and knowledge you've gained feels like a superpower when you start fresh.
Err.. loading drivers dynamically according to a stable ABI doesn't make an OS a microkernel. If the drivers all share the same address space that's a pretty conventional OS. For a microkernel you need to have separate processes for each driver. It's more robust but there's more IPC overhead.
You're mixing up functional programming with an execution model for functional languages. These are not the same.
> Whether it would be the death knell of Google we'll have to wait a bit longer.

I don't understand the trope on HN that OpenAI is a competitor to Google. I do not think Google has the appetite or DNA to be purely an AI API vendor; I don't think selling APIs is as profitable as Google current business. Google investing in Anthropic is a good, cheap hedge against the low-probability (IMO) event that LLMs somehow displace the search results page and display ads.
How much time does Musk get with Twitter? Or as long as he owns it we keep up this line of reasoning?
Very wise, I live here and would advise against visiting. It's like China without the interesting cuisine.
How much does this speed up sessions over higher latency connections I wonder? I have been looking for RDP performance similar to that of Windows on Linux, but up until now it has been semi slow over WANs.
> Taking the time to install a custom ROM, run only FOSS apps, or find workarounds for needed apps, etc only to spend 90% of your time watching YouTube just doesn’t seem like a gain.

Think of it as reserving the right. Rights not exercised are lost. Retaining the ability to do something is valuable whether you need it right now or not. You may need it later.
By that logic, nobody should have started using Twitter in the first place, because when it started, no one used it either. It's circular reasoning.
> I don’t know why they would do this other than being bribed.

I wouldn't rule that out, but I do think there are other reasons too. Like the bulk of corporate decisions, it's probably justified by something like, "the security of our users is important and without a TPM we can't guarantee integrity of the OS <blah> <blah>". The fact that it also nets a whole lot of hardware sales (which flow directly to MS in the form of Windows licenses, and some first party hardware sales) is of course also a business factor in the decision, but that's not one they would publically acknowledge and they would probably avoid saying it among themselves too because that's the current business fashion of the day.

So I think a more fair sum would be: "There are some real 'benefits' to users to have a TPM, and that's a convenient vehicle for enforcing a policy that generates additional revenue"
Anyone care to explain what they mean by:

> As any EV advocate knows, vehicles powered by batteries and electricity are far more efficient than conventional cars powered by last century internal combustion technology.

Because they are comparing energy storage with energy creation. And as far as I know fuel holds more energy per cubic centimeter than batteries.
Yes, but the problem is with this practice spreading to more legislations.
I watched part of this and it’s all very interesting. I’m curious about the “algorithm”. Human structures can tell you if you’re in a city. The design and markings might clue the country. I think foliage may hint at a specific latitude range. I recall seeing of the contestants looking at a road in the middle of nowhere Russia. I would have had no clue where it was.
It's also still a phone chip, so I guess it actually isn't about speed over efficiency.
It is more like a piblic service than ever now. Maybe the "bias" is more visible for some people than before, but it's gone down to 10% of it was before (no mass bannings of conservatives and general oppressiveness against speech!!). Only shows the blindness towards those that think it's somehow more biased now. Jesus.

The old board's moral compass was surely for sale, that is true. Never again.
Upvote for the fellow techno-optimist. I am pretty excited with some of the startups I have seen in the electric farm equipment space.

https://www.monarchtractor.com/

I don't own a farm so I don't have industry insight but it's exciting because I think this is a problem at least appears solvable. I realize large combines are probably an issue but if you can automate the process perhaps smaller machines workout because they can run without human intervention. I am especially excited from what I have seen from the herbicide side. Take pictures the crop is driven over, hit with lasers or targeted herbicide instead of spraying the whole crop. The future is exciting.
No, due to heat reasons:

https://webb.nasa.gov/content/about/faqs/faqLite.html#:~:tex....

https://webb.nasa.gov/content/forScientists/faqSolarsystem.h...
I mean sure, he is a victim of British state terrorism. Arbitrary detention and all that.
There's some obvious caveats:

1. Not everyone who becomes a teacher is getting a teacher major. English Lit scores well in two areas.

2. Special education is just very expensive babysitting, so they don't actually need to know anything.

3. If you ever wonder why kids aren't learning math well, this should explain it. Every teaching major is in the bottom half of scores. Fucking nurses score better!
Reflected Energy
> You prefer totally non-transparent cloud scanning that allows for ad hoc, warrantless, untraceable, personally-targeted scans from anyone who can threaten a big company?

If the choice is between that and having my devices being used by others against me, then absolutely yes. The cloud is someone else's computer. Their machines, their rules. But it should also be "my machines, my rules".
Most social networks try to provide the energy necessary to get a critical mass of users aboard, but Mastodon is the opposite. Mastodon throws up a torrent of Nerd Bullshit® to make sure that only the chosen few will tolerate it.
Not just the company name, “tweet” was a household verb and noun. What do you do now on X? Post? I can post anywhere, I’ve been posting in other places for decades. There was just one place to tweet, it boggles my mind that they tossed that aside.
Where is the devastating part in this anecdote? Not disputing your thesis, there just seems to be a bit missing.
The network effect you describe is not a property of the platform itself
Lord no I am not putting my financial information on that cesspool of a platform.
The worst thing Elon has done to Twitter imo is elevate the paid blue checks to the top of the comment stream. The replies usually had the best information, and were my favorite part of the site. Now I have to scroll past dozens or hundreds of nonsense replies to get to anything good. And for that reason good commenters don't bother much anymore.

Although maybe I should thank him, because my time on Twitter has gone basically to zero, and my overall mood and productivity have gone up.
what a weasel!
oof, I've been using wg-easy and didn't realize the weird license situation. I like it but the image doesn't get updated as often as I'd like. I've been meaning to either build out an alternative or at least rebuild wg-easy with the latest packages
They are buying upside and they are funding a competitor to OpenAI and Microsoft. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. There are only so many groups in AI that have the chops to take on OpenAI and Anthropic is one of them - if not the most promising.
This. Even though it's quite different from his other ventures, he is able to run big companies in a way that no other CEO could.
Yes YouTube employees literally steal people's content. They break into the houses of hard working creators and riffle through their collection of USB sticks looking for videos to steal.

The bad faith hysterics of some of the people who block ads is really something to behold.
That "Web3" link at the top of the page is a big time-saver.
> Nobody uses it.

Who is nobody? Almost all of the people I used to follow and discuss the topics I cared about on Twitter are now all on Mastadon. I find that I'm having similar discussions at this point with almost all the same people I used to.
My plan is to replace the UI with a fully open-source version. This is part of the early revival.
Blind Elon faithers are unshakable. Figure out what it would take to boycott the last of the advertisers on Twitter still providing revenue and put it out of its misery. It will live on as a Wikipedia page as a cautionary tale around going public, lack of corporate governance, and the whims of the ultra wealthy and their outcomes on the rest of us.
But if less than half of adults have any kind of college degree and more than half of teachers have a master's, just saying "the teachers are the bottom 20% of the class" is, at best, extremely misleading—it's not even the same class as the average non-teacher.
Samsung's "reason" was that the phone was not certified for that region - which is exactly what happens when you travel from one region to another.
I do not agree.

Any file copy operation should by default make a perfect copy of the source file, without losing any kind of metadata, because that is the meaning of the word. It is not advertised as a partial copy command.

Even when some metadata would be useless of the destination, the purpose of the copy may be to store temporarily the file in another place, with the intention to bring it back later to the original location, when no alteration should have happened to the file.

If a complete copy cannot be done, e.g. because the destination file system cannot store some of the metadata, e.g. it has timestamps with a lower precision or it does not store some of the extended attributes, like the Linux tmpfs file system, the copy operation should fail with an explicit error message, like when the destination does not have enough space for all file data.

Any file copy command should have options to strip some or all metadata from a file, when that is desired, but that should not be the default option.

In the past I had unpleasant surprises with the Linux coreutils or with ssh, which lost silently metadata, even with the appropriate command-line options, which should not have been needed, in the case of coreutils because they had a compilation option to ignore the extended attributes and that option had been used in the binary packages available for certain Linux distributions.

When copying over the network, I always use rsync over ssh, because it copies reliably all metadata, even between different operating systems and file systems, e.g. Linux, FreeBSD and Windows.
That looks like the type with nickel flakes to me (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_field_viewing_film), as it's not showing different colours

This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfdq3oA6-4M shows the colours better than my photos
That was 100% the goal of buying Twitter. Just look at the people he's routinely photographed with in the VIP lounges at various events. He was buying the influence machine, not a business. No doubt about it.
Google invested in Anthropic before Amazon did, so not sure what you mean. This is just Google strengthening their bet.

You should first ask yourself why Amazon became a minority shareholder in a company already invested in by Google.
I'm on Bluesky, on substack notes and mastodont.

The activity is low, the discussions are boring and the communities are homogeneous.

It's nothing like when twitter started.

The young us started the energy on twitter, and the old us moved out of it. This means the new services have people with the same opinion, less energy and busy life. It makes for a bland experience.

I'm pretty sure the current young crowd is on platforms we are not, innovating, creating their culture, and we are just not there to participate, or even witness it.
I remember last year’s zeitgeist that after 75% of the people are fired, Twitter will stop working.

It works even better now. And they’ve added lots of features. Not a fan of the new branding, but I prefer free speech and community notes over opacity of previous Twitter admin.
A deep dive into a shallow bucket?
Very well. Assuming you have identical CPUs (say Intel with QuickSync) The performance constrains are really more dependent the desktop environment you choose (I have good results with GNOME on a LAN but LXDE works better in Azure since it has less decoration).
I teach 3rd - 5th grade at a selective private school. The students are extraordinarily well behaved compared to the public school classrooms I've been in; the difference is night and day.

But classroom management / "discipline" is still a thing. Getting a group of 18 nine-year-olds to quiet down at the right time takes a certain degree of skill, and that will always be a part of teaching, at least for this age group.
IIRC the guy who started one of those yellowpages.com-type sites started by acquiring, scanning, and OCRing various Yellow Pages books. Back in the day each one was hundreds of pages. I wouldn't underestimate folks' tenacity
Feels way better when someone else posts it
It could possibly not be trained on this
I like the second tweet (sadly he does not mention crimethInc, but considering he banned them I understand why) (and yes, I'll keep mentioning that ban until I get the reason why) but the first one is so full of shit, even if I'm not a fan of the guy I don't think he wrote it himself. Maybe the new corporate CEO did, totally the kind of corporate shit I'd expect from a salesman (saleswoman in that case)
I know this will be perceived as “mean” or “bad discussion” but based on your comment history you truly have an unhealthy obsession with Elon Musk and that fact really scares me because on this site your vote equals ten of mine because you post all the time.
> Christianity, for almost all of its history and in the present, espouses this bigotry as its doctrine, justifying it with the handful of references to homosexuality in its texts. What should be returned by such a search if not these sections?

Its a search of the text by the semantics of the text, not a search of the text by how doctrine has been rationalized (which could be done by an LLM, but wouldn't use a vector DB of the text, rather, it would need sonething like a vector DB of documentation of relevant written justifications of doctrine annotated with scriptural references, and then a simple book-chapter-verse DB of the scriptural text.) These are decidedly different problems, and complaining that something that purports to solve the first doesn’t solve the second is... odd.
> Get rid of protective regulations?

We do not need to be "protected" from, er, YouTube ads.
The idea is to use both the speaker and the microphone at the same time.

I'm not aware of anyone doing that with a single electromagnet and 2 wires.
that's very far from my experience, mods and voting community do great job in ranking good posts and comments. Maybe you can give example of your query which you are not satisfied with results?
Kernel is an overloaded term and actually there's two different usages of the word in the article itself: one referring to the kernel operator[1][2] (the primary subject of the article) and another referring to the kernel of a homomorphism[3] (essentially the complement of a subspace in a coordinate system in the linear case).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive-definite_kernel

[2] https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~duvenaud/cookbook/

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_(algebra)
Either there's a giant loophole in that license or it prevents you from modifying wg-easy at all. In particular, the prohibition on commercial use is clearly not open source, so the only way you could comply with the requirement to publish your changes in an open-source fork would be for your fork to have a different license. If that is allowed, then the giant loophole is that you could pick MIT, and then the rest of the world could use your fork and ignore the original's license. If that's not allowed, then there's no way for you to comply with that requirement and so you can't modify wg-easy at all.
But none of that supports the assertion that the attitude is "Well cops are bad, so we can't enforce any laws". It may support the assertion that "the way we're trying to address abusive policing is misguided", which is an entirely different thing.
Sounds like a short-term vs long-term business decision. Expel the bad students hurts in the short-term but better in long-term (good reputation).
Those tuners cost money, due to unnecessary licencing for codecs, and with the cable boxes locked down there isn't an easy way to watch two stations anymore beyond having multiple TV's going or using a HTPC. It was mostly useful for sports and a related issue with Sunday evening broadcast TV occasionally getting delayed due to NFL bumping the schedule later. The only other use was neurotic channel surfing during commercial breaks, again obsolete with streaming and DVRs.
There’s a tradeoff between seeking perfect information and velocity. ChatGPT is right enough of the time that it’s useful (>90%). I use it the same way knowing that I might have some details incorrect.

It’s also unlikely to hallucinate the same way twice so if you ask follow on questions to verify the accuracy it becomes pretty straightforward to know when it’s hallucinating.
I have a sinking feeling by the time Windows 10 support ends Microsoft will begin rolling out more and more "functionality" which requires it (both first and third party). It'd be kind of pointless to force now when you can just run Windows 10 and bypass it.

OTOH who knows, maybe they just want to be able to say BYOD will always be able to comply with your corporate requirements for bitlocker or something
And they are minimally active on those other platforms too, unfortunately.

The community is in a slumber.
In a free market, people choosing not to buy Samsung phones would prevent them from doing this.
Move where?
I think you're misunderstanding how licenses work. Being that wire hole is a conglomerate of a multitude of projects I am required to utilize the most restrictive version of that license.

I believe you're also thoroughly misunderstanding the license terms that are present. The license says that you can utilize it for a commercial settings and in a commercial environment you just cannot resell the product.

This means that an Enterprise can openly use it within their Enterprise they just cannot sell it as a service that they offer.

While this is not the license that I would have chosen for a Greenfield project but at the moment I am at the mercy of the licenses in place for the projects that I am using. Once I replace the UI with a proprietary one everything will be fully open source the way it's intended
No, it can't be pointed at the inner solar system or Earth; too bright, and its heat shield would point the wrong way.

But the military doesn't need it. Supposedly some military tech was declassified recently showing that the military had Hubble-level telescopes about 15 years before Hubble. So whatever they are using is much better (and more specialized, of course) than Webb.
When the shape of the hole changes, people still try to fit the same peg inside of it. I'm not sure why. People resist change I guess. Twitter is dead. Elon bought the scraps to short cut early network effective that is impossible to do otherwise. This was the price of admission to a game he is playing against zuck and friends. In 5 years, people won't be asking what do you call a tweet now? Tweets won't even matter. Most people tweet into a black hole. This purchase was about a starting point for a new platform that has more in common with chinese super apps than it does with anything else in the US mobile app market, including the former twitter.
FTA: "Most of us have little idea what NASA — the National Aeronautics and Space Administration — has been doing since the Apollo moon missions ended. We know it is responsible for Tang and space blankets, but what has it done for us lately?"

This is such a dumb and off-putting opening sentence that I can't imagine this was written by an adult person and passed by a real editor. The rest of the article is equally infuriating. It quite literally looks like output of ChatGPT for an article where the input prompt was to summarize a NASA press release but in a way that will be presented to gradeschool children. And poorly. Which isn't appropriate for... anybody, actually.

The real technical overview that isn't written like a middle-schooler-GPT-generated report is located here, specifically the PDF:

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20230013163
Hey, you can judge him whenever you want. I'm just saying that this forum has no predictive power and has low quality knowledge about the world.

How much time he "gets" is probably between him and his creditors.

Inevitably some guy will come around organizing some Twitter boycott. Or maybe some Elon fanboy meme. I'm going to be honest with you.

Normal people don't do that. Only people who post online obsessively making low quality predictions and then complaining about a loneliness epidemic and stuff like that.
Among one of the other aspects, one of the quite hopeful posts I've seen on X was from X engineering:

- Completely rebuilt the For you serving and ranking systems from the ground up, resulting in a decrease 90% reduction in lines of code from 700K to 70K, a 50% decrease in our compute footprint, and an 80% increase in the throughput of posts scored per request.

Among a ton of other improvements. Obviously the company is now more tech-focused. And shedding its old skin (not users the way people are saying, 15% goes literally inside random year-to-year deviation). X/Twitter has proven that it can endure Freedom.

One thing I'm sure is that the sale has shifted us off one very bad timeline.
This is why "Nothing to hide, nothing to fear" is such a bad excuse for the invasion of privacy everyone is tolerating. British law enforcement is targeting journalists and whistleblowers, not actual criminals.
I have my doubts.

Accepting payments from users can make the site have to deal with sales taxes or VAT in every jurisdiction that it has paid users in.

A reasonable way for sites to deal with that is for the site to not sell directly to users. Instead they sell to some third party aggregator and the aggregator sells to users. Basically the same model we see with app stores--people in 20 different countries buy your iOS app through Apple's store and it is Apple that deals with the 20 different tax authorities.

I think we'd end up with a very small of very large aggregators, because generally a bigger aggregator is more efficient than a smaller aggregator.

But then we probably won't need micropayments for this. Nearly everyone will be using the aggregators enough that an occasional normal sized payment to maintain a credit in their accounts will work.
VoxelSpace – Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code
No shame in that, just dropping links and references. Great project!
> I turned out ok, and I don’t think it’s survivorship bias.

Ah yes. https://www.logicalfallacies.org/anecdotal.html

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/cutting-edge-leade...

Personally, goatse was disgusting and I don't like being reminded of it. Did I turn out okay? I could have been better and happier, but that's the distractiveness of the internet and computers in general.

Edit to add: This is also, in part, why things get worse. Not only do we continue to add disgusting and horrific content, but we retain the disgusting and horrific content of the past. Meanwhile, how much good content from that era is permanently gone?
Sorry, everywhere I said "this" there I meant wg-easy, not WireHole. I just fixed it to clarify that.

> Once I replace the UI with a proprietary one everything will be fully open source the way it's intended

Huh? Proprietary is basically the opposite of open source.