skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah i'm aware of all that. i'm in the process of moving and have thought on a few occasions that i'm glad i also don't have to worry about selling a house. i wasn't saying that it's not hard to move for an owner, was directly responding to your statement: "which is something the owners can’t do."
For some reason this works for me
That's a want, not a need.
Neat. This reminds me of a set of scifi books I read awhile back about alien spaceships we found, but don't know how they actually work. People get paid large sums of money to risk a voyage by essentially pressing random buttons and seeing what it does/where it goes.

The series starts to fall off when it gets toward the 3rd book, but still an interesting concept.
Great! Let's have a year of no new developer features and everyone sits down and documents the existing code. And not just "Peter the intern no one wants" typing in "This sets the density." as a comment for a function parameter named "density".
Shit. Yeah, I guess it is. Let me try again, rephrasing the grandparent comment:

> Not every picture with text is a meme. To become a meme it requires a certain level of distribution.

becomes

"Not every sequence of amino acids is a gene. To become a gene it requires a certain level of self-replication."

Okay, so that's still a bit shaky, but I what I'm trying to get at is that a "meme" is something that includes its popularity in the definition. It's impossible for me to make a meme that only I see. That's just a photo or whatever.

Jokes, music, and insults can be inside jokes, or a Wu-Tang album, or a dig I only share with one other person. A meme is any of those things that's also popular in the viral sense. It encapsulates a maybe-complexish idea in a simple image.

If I asked you for a meme that demonstrates "wanting what I don't have, even though I have more than enough" you might give me that classic ::guy-looking-over-his-shoulder-at-pretty-girl-walking-by-while-his-girlfriend-gives-him-dagger-eyes:: one.
You should look into how investment bankers bonus work.

If bonus was actual profit sharing, I would agree that it would be a different thing more akin to a bet, but the bonus is contingent mostly on your personal “performance” with some bail options if company hits the skids, but salary is a bet in that case as well, as you are an at will employee.
I can see a specific argument you are making as something along the lines of, just because some people are ok with their content being used by large corporations to train their for-profit LLMs doesn't mean it should be ok for those companies to take my content and use it to train their LLMs without my permission.

But, I suppose I see it the other way as well. Just because you don't want large corporations to train their LLMs using your content doesn't mean that society has to settle on making it illegal. As an imperfect analogy: just because some people don't want to have their picture taken when they are out in public doesn't mean that taking pictures of people in public ought to be illegal.

So I think we have to get passed the "I don't like this, so it is evil" kind of thinking. As in the analogy to pictures of people in public, there is some expectation of privacy that we give up when we enter out into public. Perhaps there is some analogy there to content that we freely release into public. Perhaps we need stricter guidelines on LLM attribution. I don't have an answer, but I'm not going to allow this decision to be de facto made by the strong emotions of individuals who have already made up their minds.
And our world is without reliable 30 minute pizza delivery by mafia owned pizza chains. At least no one gets pooned.
The worst part is that the images were emailed, and Buddhism is about eliminating attachments.
Some viruses intercept the interrupt handler, detect if you're trying to write to the boot sector, then either fake a write or change the sector. I believe some forms of ParityBoot (B?) did this. So you need to be sure you're booting from a clean medium, which in the case of some of these boot viruses might not be that easy since a lot of your disks and floppies might have been infected already.

Some viruses also used extra space at the end of the partition table or the end of the disk to store themselves so they wouldn't be limited to the 512 byte limit (minus the metadata in the boot sector).
An Introduction to Stochastic Calculus (2022)
Did the upgrade on both server and workstation platforms, and it was painless. Great work!
We should make a wiki for all of these leaks.
Fractional scaling was enabled briefly during beta but too many apps were blurry so they reverted and postponed it to Fedora 40
I'm honestly not sure what point you are trying to make to me or what those abbreviations even mean
I have mainly only studied and done retriever training at this point as I mostly hunt duck and geese. I do enjoy the Standing Stone YT channel, and although they do cater to a variety of different types of training, they seem to cater more towards the upland sport (pointing and flushing).

Plenty of the techniques do bleed over (casting, retrieving commands) but I can't recommend any single program as I'm unfamiliar. What I can recommend through experience is that picking one program and sticking to it ended up helping me in the end. Studying multiple different retriever programs allowed me to try different techniques when I ran into speed bumps with my pup, but the programs will usually start doing minor things in the beginning that lead into advanced concepts in the end.
Hah, who is going to report: I got paid too much.
Are Signal and Steam apps from Fedora? Is this a problem specific to Fedora 39?
Dumb question: how is this handled if they weren’t AI generated images, like an actor/model wearing fake Buddhist garb playing in a rock band?

I realize AI allows this to scale, but it seems the legal framework should already have a mechanism to deal with this?
and burn victims.
most parties directly involved benefit from higher total sticker prices. See also Former SF building inspector took bribes headline.. as if only one did !
I put everything in an oven pan then used a LCD screen diffusor panel for the top. I drilled holes in the side of the pan and sealed them with caulk. I did eventually get some water ingress from daily pressure/temp changes + humidity and significant rusting of the bottom of the pan but the elevated wrt54g was operational (if a bit nasty looking) when I took it out after 3 years. If I did it again I'd add some weep/drainage holes to mitigate build up.

http://a.superkuh.com/wrt54g-in-oven-pan-with-caulk.jpg
> The main thing in mind that it did do is cause massive fees and restrictions for businesses to send text messages. The idea is this is to reduce spam. However it has fees

This is The Campaign Registry.

Every inch of it is a confusing mess. It mandates setup and subscription fees. Last I checked, registration usually took 4-10 days but can be much longer.

The way the regulation reads, every business that uses A2P 10DLC (software-sent text) needs to be registered and pay recurring fees.

The purported intent is to determine which mass mailed texts are allowed. In theory, all others would be flagged or blackholed.

The way the regulation is written however, it captures every software-sent text. This includes situations like a tech support session where a technician texts a diagram to a customer. The regs don't differentiate between this and actual mass mailing.
Almost every job on the list requires lots of social interaction. The ones where you are mostly alone all day with your computer aren't as appealing to most women.
Interesting video, but it's all from the pov of the city's tax revenue and nothing else. Taking the first example, if they don't build the new food complex and keep the old one, less people will want to live in that city, and eventually the tax revenue will go down. Plenty of ghost towns around me that prove that point, you have to stay modern or you go under.
As far as the suburb part, if those high income areas spend all their money downtown, then tax revenue downtown goes up but the source of money is still the suburbs. You have two sources of tax revenue in downtown (business + residents), but only one in the suburbs. So naturally tax revenue is lower in suburbs, but without them the downtown businesses wouldn't survive at all. It's a relationship, and it's odd they don't address this point. Also in the southwest there are plenty of suburb-only cities that grow rapidly without a downtown district playing major part.
The SEC is struggling to hire crypto experts–partly b/c they can't own crypto
For a farm run around I'd love an EV version of this with just a small motor and battery. Even a simple golf cart costs more than this these days. A 50kW motor and 25kWh LFP or Sodium battery would be plenty and should allow hitting a very similar price point.
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. Listen...
Vanilla Travelers
> The only way it makes sense is if the wireless companies have other customers that are served by having orders of magnitude additional antennas everywhere.

The big reason to push 5G is surveillance. You could always be tracked to within half a mile or so with cell phone towers, but with 5G the cell towers alone can track you within a specific building. mmWave 5G provides location information with sub-meter precision. Telecom companies sell our location data, and with 5G that location data becomes much much more valuable.
I think async is still in the more just trendy camp than being a proven asset. After all, thread per connection is perfectly viable for the vast majority of servers. Most people aren't re-writing NGINX, after all (hopefully...).

It's a shame Rust let itself be distracted by it instead of focusing on refining its strengths and developer experience
and have a catchy descriptive name for the project
Not all UI elements scale with font size.

Illustrations, nested element containers, navigation controls, etc. It looks very comical when you first see it.
If only software projects could have a "completed" state the same way construction ones do.

One can argue that buildings and other structures need regular maintenance to stay safe to use. Yes they do; however, that is because their components are exposed to the elements and wear out. Software isn't like that. Bits don't go bad if you neglect them for too long. And you'll eventually run out of bugs and vulnerabilities if you stop adding new features no user ever asked for.
Can anyone speak to their experience with the atomic/immutable versions of Fedora (Onyx, Silverblue)? It sounds pretty interesting.

[0] https://fedoraproject.org/silverblue/
I find the garbage vs interesting content to be not great on Twitter, especially lately with the lack of moderation. The important tweets will make it to HN or some sun reddits after a few hours.
Twitter seems to be doing alright. I was a massive skeptic but a year on if I want to see live comments on something mainstream, it's 100% the only place to go. Tumblr is now owned by Automattic - I've no idea how well it's doing but I'm 99% sure that's because I'm no longer an angsty teenager and Tumblr was the place to be for that.
I do! I never imagined I’d say that but here I am.

I collect ancient Greek coins and Renaissance era books with an esoteric flair. I have a coin that was probably designed by a Pythagorean (based on imagery and dating) and several books by Marsilio Ficino. I also have several coins that appear to depict mushrooms :)

In the future, I’d really love to get into collecting manuscripts in India, because there are still so many rotting away in temple basements…
Maybe start by not hiring people with punisher skull and crossed AR15s sleeve tattoos.
It's kind of funny but i actually never experienced webrings or old web. I only started using internet a few years ago. I found them in archive org wayback machine and fell down the rabbit hole.
My last 3 ISPs in the UK actually specify static IPv4 addresses as part of the service. My current one (IDnet) allows you to buy a block of 5 or so for a small monthly fee too.
As a single throwaway fact somewhere near the end of the article it sort of makes sense to establish the dude as a tech guru. On the other hand, repeating the tie multiple times, including in the lede and headline reeks of SEO clickbait.
I think it goes to show that the vast majority of Rust devs don't actually care about this problem, otherwise they'd be doing that already. Like, providing a sync API over an async API is almost always as simple as:

struct SyncThing {
async_version: AsyncThing
}

impl SyncThing {
pub fn sync_api(&self) {
block_on(self.async_version.sync_api)
}
}

If this were really such a huge problem I think we'd see more PRs. I get that there's some survivorship bias here, but still...
> You cannot, (should not), do blocking IO in async in any language.

On platforms with 1:1 scheduling, of course you can. Blocking I/O executed on another thread, with a callback to execute when done, becomes async I/O (from the user's PoV).

Ofc, when we talk about async I/O, we also refer to the kernel APIs being used, such as select/poll/epoll/io_uring. Say, working with Epoll is usually done via a single-threaded "event loop", but that only listens for the operations possible for an open file/socket. The read/write operations are still potentially blocking, so for efficiency you need multiple threads. The dirty secret is that async I/O, as implemented by Linux, isn't actually fully async.
Any developed European country will have very strict laws on the subject, typically ensuring the State gets ownership of the artefacts (occasionally in exchange for what it sees as "fair value" to the finder).

> we don't seem to have as much treasure sitting around

It depends on your definition of treasure, of course. Native-American items that survived generations of nomadic life are definitely treasure, but they clearly weren't seen as such until relatively recently. And as soon as you step into Mexico you have a lot of traditional treasure from pre-Columbian civilizations.
Google researchers deal a major blow to the theory AI about to outsmart humans
The paper

https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00871
https://www.ft.com/content/4c64ffc1-f57b-4e22-a4a5-f9f90a741...

OpenAI and Jony Ive in talks to raise $1bn from SoftBank for AI device venture

ChatGPT creator in early discussions to create the ‘iPhone of artificial intelligence’

Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief, has tapped Ive’s company LoveFrom, which the designer founded when he left Apple in 2019, to develop the ChatGPT creator’s first consumer device, according to three people familiar with the plan.
Somebody with a fine taste in fall beverages gets it! Lol
In addition to reading online, talking with coworkers and friends helps a lot.
Agree on papercuts and interaction with other features to some degree. Absolutely disagree on runtime cost. The design of async has as minimal a runtime cost as seems theoretically possible, and avoids a lot of the runtime cost of async in other languages. It's really an impressive engineering feat given the constraints and I think there's a real case for it being a "zero-cost" abstraction (i.e. you couldn't implement a faster version by hand).

IME the bad compiler messages tend to come more often from the `async-trait` macro than from anything fundamental to asyc itself. Hoping the stabilization of async-trait helps with that. Backtraces with async are definitely a bit nasty though.
Either that or as Elon once said, maybe life is just that special. I would still love for someone to do a Bayesian analysis of finding life on a planet/in a galaxy. It sounds pretty crazy when I say it out loud. We’re staring into infinity essentially.

So yeah, life must be out there. But maybe “there” is very very far. Possibly many million light years away. In other words, in a universe with billions of galaxies containing billions of stars, life is likely not very plentiful. I imagine encountering any element besides H/He is usually a discovery (more so if the element is higher up in the periodic order, such as the ones needed for our kind of life).

Then again, there is so much we don’t know. Like dark matter (anti-proton/electron/neutron/*). Maybe there is life that exists in anti-everything - (anti-carbon, etc). It won’t be very good if we ever encounter them (our carbon based bodies and anti-carbon based one will collapse on encounter, emanating a staggering amount of energy).
I feel like we are very close to soft AGI.. gpt as language understanding and able to create and execute arbitrary programs, and maybe just a small portion of magic to keep some state and purposes.
Okay, it may be my age showing, but that README there is entirely incomprehensible to me. The prompt.txt isn't any better, it feels like there's a software suite (or a GPT call layer) missing here?
Openssh 1999 / ssh 1995
X11 1987
Ask HN: When and how did you realize that "equal opportunities" is a lie?
I just learned from this article that AirPods can be charged by the Apple Watch charger. Wow, I had no idea.
The link says:

- Seasonings are ok. Do what you can to keep yourself from getting bored.
- Oil is ok.

Which sounds really strange - I can easily eat a pound of potatoes mashed with a fork with olive oil and salt for example, maybe more.
Both happened:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merger_of_Sprint_Corporation...

>In December 2013, multiple reports indicated that Sprint Corporation and its parent company SoftBank were working towards a deal to acquire a majority stake in T-Mobile US for at least US$20 billion...On August 4, 2014, Bloomberg reported that Sprint had abandoned its bid to acquire T-Mobile, considering the unlikelihood that such a deal would be approved by the U.S. government and its regulators

I guess saying it got blocked is subtly inaccurate, though. They simply stopped because they weren't confident in getting through antitrust.
Leakypedia™
Among other things, you’re projecting modern sensitivities onto people in 1876. At the time, I doubt anyone was talking about it in 1876 or the public would have cared if the relevant text was more visible.
As the character Mo says in "The Stuff" (1985)

They call me Mo because I need Mooooore articles like that :-)
Nothing we need done requires .... intimidating citizens.

Until you need SWAT to kick in a door with actual murderers on the other end. Really until you need violence to contain violence.

Then you get into the real questions: in their day-to-day interactions such as issuing citations are they intimidating citizens with behavior or their appearance? I've known several Military folks who later became police (and had significantly better escalation of force training from the military) who looked fierce but were big softies most days. No better friend, but no worse enemy and all.
Desktop apps scale their layout based on the number of pixels, not on text size. So (with the notable exception of browser apps and by consequence Electron apps) you will just end up having bigger text in a badly laid out window if you just increase text size.
Not that you're wrong, but galaxies in our neighborhood aren't really of concern to Euclid. The mission is to determine the expansion history of the universe, for which we will observe billions of galaxies. The handful of galaxies in our local group, which don't contain any information about the expansion history anyway, are less than a drop in the bucket.

Also, frames can just be stitched together if necessary. And Andromeda is larger than the field of vision of Euclid.

A large field of vision just helps you cover a large amount of sky in a reasonable time frame.
My company (USA located) paid less than the entirety of our bonuses because they lack money.

My personal "performance" was fine.

However performance without clear goals is useless, and with clear goals becomes a gamed metric.
"It's also a risky maneuver. There are a lot of companies that will immediately, as a matter of policy, reply "then take one of those offers"."

Have they ever said that? Why would they interview you or make a job offer? I find this sentence hard to believe. Having a job offer is a signal that someone else did due diligence on you and is willing to commit capital at a year rate for your talents. Skin in the game.

Sure other companies don't have to compete on the price is if what you are trying to state that, but you didn't state that clearly.
How about "The People" own the spectrum and infrastructure and rent it out.
> Why was only 1% of the documents published, in the end? “The documents are not like the WikiLeaks ones from the US state department, which were written by diplomats and, for the most part, easily understandable,” said Ewen MacAskill. “The Snowden files are largely technical, with lots of codewords and jargon that is hard to decipher. There are pages and pages of that which the public would not be interested in. There are also documents that relate to operational matters. Snowden said from the start he wanted us to report on issues related to mass surveillance, not operational matters. So we stuck to that.”

Ignoring the operational limitation requirement (of which there is no way it's 99% vs 1%), a capable public can make this determination; we do not need journalists doing it for us. I am uninterested in the journalistic value of these documents; I am interested in the public value of potentially knowing the content of those documents and how the government is surveilling us and/or abusing their authority.

>“The bottom line is that Snowden is facing charges under the Espionage Act. If he was ever to return to the US and face trial, the documents could be used against him.

Snowden knew this when he leaked the documents and he now resides, ironically, in one of the most surveilled countries in the world. He believed he was acting in the best interests on the public and is it NOT the job of journalists to protect a known source entity; they are to protect unknown sources.

Release MORE of the files, your profits and/or biased concerns for the journalistic value of the information shared be dammed. There is WAY more at stake.
The answer is burried, here is the only real reason given:

When MacAskill replied: “The main reason for only a small percentage [being published] was diminishing interest [from the public]...”

This is insane. They have 99% of the leak under lock and key and they say the reason is because no one wants to see it? My guess is its a gag order/request, if they publish they will lose other access or something but why would this Ewen MacAskill, @ewenmacaskill feel comfortable lying so directly?
Do you really think crypto will become the default currency and governments will take no steps to restrict and regulate transactions in exactly the same way they do with cash?
The SMTM theory is that obesity is not directly about counting calories, but more like a contagious disease due to a contaminant that causes people to be hungrier and eat more calories. Many people will dismiss this outright, but consider these things:

1. 40% of US adults are obese, which is insanely high for a willpower issue (gambling addiction is 1-2% for example)

2. The vast majority of weight loss attempts fail miserably long term, with success rates somewhere between 5-20%

3. There is precedent for this type of idea with stomach ulcers. We thought they were a psychological cause but the main cause turned out to be H Pylori bacteria

The problem is that even if they are right, it is very difficult to detect a difference between directly eating less calories and not eating a contaminant that makes you hungry so you indirectly eat less calories.
Evaluating qualitative systemic bias in large article sets on Wikipedia
Infrastructure is a natural monopoly. Of course it isn't a free market, just like roads. I wish we had privatized roads, maybe we wouldn't be so car-dependent.
Big fonts, small UI components. Looks bad and requires more accuracy with mouse movements.