skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really surprises me that it takes so long. This has been a talking point at least since 2018 [1]. 5 years and nothing has changed.

How is that possible, and acceptable?

Secondly, why is it so difficult to use other App stores for mobile? why section 4.5 of [2] exist at all?

As a user I really really would like to be able to install any app store I like. I do not like that Google play stored is installed by default, while there are so many hurdles to install f-droid.

It all looks like monopolistic actions that are against the law. I feel that we are repeating history. Microsoft has already gone through processes with bundling up of Internet Explorer.

Links

[1] https://www.axios.com/2018/11/19/tim-cook-interview-apple-go...

[2] https://play.google.com/about/developer-distribution-agreeme...
> You have to actively work not to meet people you want to date.

Meeting people you want to date is one thing. Meeting people who ALSO want to date you back is the elusive part.
OTOH, I know somebody who moved away from Denmark and used to continuously bad mouth Danish taxes. But now that he is retired he regrets the decision, seeing how well the Danes take care of their retirees.
There's various open source work going on, e.g. at Boston University (https://www.bu.edu/rhcollab/projects/software-hardware/fpgas...) but it's still pretty much at the research level.
Especially for Linux, not everything is a desktop system. I have Debian installations running on embedded machines in the ten thousands.

Besides our custom kernel modules and business applications, Debian has everything these systems need and more.

I find it way cooler to use Debian on embedded systems rather than some buildroot, because it's a widely available and reproducible environment and debugging and development tools are an "apt install" away.
I seriously doubt any student would care, honestly. When I was a freshman there was an older guy in our courses who was transitioning careers. He was a smoker like half of our group at the time, so we spent a lot of time just shooting the shit with the guy between classes.

Also, if the guy paid for an extension pass and was auditing courses "officially", he's well within his rights.
The sea people are probably what we consider now barbarians. They can be powerful when an empire is going through a weak period but they do not have an established civilization (they are nomads and survive from plunder)
It would be really hard. Many businesses in a metro area will have their own private backup generators which contributes to over capacity but doesn't get tracked by utility numbers. Sometimes utilities have programs where a business will on demand switch to their backup generator while the grid is on, thus getting that business off the grid. (private residences also have generators at times, it is common for businesses but both would have to be tracked.)
A WEF shill who was hired as a fall-women in case Twitter/X sinks isn't really in charge. Who would've guessed.
Exactly, the "tech" in "tech company", and the "technology" in "chief technology officer" are two completely different things.

"Tech companies" are arguably just product and service companies with a particular pattern of how the products work or sometimes how the business models work. From that perspective, it makes sense that many of the people running them came out of the product side, or the commercial side.
Lemmy is a perfectly good reddit replacement now that the boost app has migrated.

It's starting to reach that critical mass where people become toxic but still much better than reddit.

And since it's all federated, you can interact with mastodon users from the comfort of your lemmy app. It's certainly not a town square that most people use, but a corner of the internet that's less shitty than the rest.
Having cash counts as “decentralized” finance just as well, no?
I personally had great experience with dating apps.
Met two of my long-term partners on an app.
Not sure if I would still use them now, but back then it wasn't bad.

Of course social media and the internet has enshittified a lot over the last 10 years, so my experience could be different now.
Can I make a suggestion - the DE0-Nano and DE0-CV. Lots of legacy IO while being an older device family that still has a very fast and efficient compilation time. Hardware wise, both have vanilla SDRAM, the CV board has 7segments, PS/2 ports and VGA out.

If you want to learn FPGAs, don't let tools get in the way of learning. Stick to Altera/Intel if for only 1 reason: Signaltap.

SignalTap is the single best tool you can get for getting somewhere in your FPGA journey, primarily if you ever plan on interfacing with hardware or ICs outside your FPGA. That is what FPGAs are designed for, anyway. It's like superman x-ray vision for your bugs.

I would recommend not using the open source tools with ice40 if only because there is no equivalent of SignalTap. Imagine having no gdb, no printf debugging, and all you have is 2 LEDs. Don't waste your time. Sure, Quartus can be annoying sometimes, but don't get distracted on tooling when you are trying to get your PS/2 keyboard or mouse interface working. Or check how many pixels your VGA horizontal back porch is, even though you think you wrote the verilog correctly.

With Signaltap you cook in a highly configurable logic analyzer into the design, and you can include any IO pin, bus internal register, or state machine.

It's one thing to play around in the simulator and test bench your own code, but that's rarely where the issues come up. Nothing beats actually analyzing your own design and external interfaces, warts and all, to see down to the exact clock cycle where something happened.

By the way, Xilinx does have something similar as an ILA, but it's not nearly as good, and the 7 series compilation times are not gonna be as fast as the cyclone IV.
Yes, it's worth looking into the language and its concepts. But I think many people feel bad for not knowing or not having tried Rust because the Rust community tends to be very vocal and not quite reserved, and I believe that's a mistake. Not knowing Rust doesn't make you a bad software engineer, as opposed to what some Rustaceans want to make you believe.
I can't think of a more in your face example of anti-competitive business practices harming innovation.
Why do you perceive that as negative? To me, it's freeing. Great, someone created some philosophical position that is not provably wrong. That doesn't mean that I have to take it seriously.
For what I understand, the Sea Peoples invasions are the basis for the Iliad stories, with real Troy being destroyed in the Bronze Age collapse.
Holy cow. It is incredible how versatile this little thing is. I wonder if anyone has succeeded building a personal computer out of it, with keyboard and tape.
People in Gaza/West Bank are not the only ones threatening to wipe Israel off the map
Just commented exactly that above -.-

But yea I stopped using them in 2016, so they got that much worse since then I guess?
That depends on the country. For example, in Japan it is very common to write dates with either a dot, or with the full kanjis for year, month and day.
> People just want a money that works. You can send or receive it instantly across international borders, that no one can stop, and it doesn't lose its value over the years.

Pure fantasy.

On cross-border trade that cannot be interdicted: There is no reason for any state to deny itself from sanctioning its adversaries.

On currency valuation: An economic zone has many many actors making independent decisions which in aggregate affects the value of the zone’s currency. The ability to debase a currency by over issuing it is identical to the ability to expand the supply to provide liquidity to a growing economy.
ChatGPT subscribers may get a 'GPT builder' option soon
> since the Greeks were well-established in that area

Wait, were they? I thought they never really made it much past the southeastern coast of Spain, the west being full of Phoenicians.
Sorry to hear, but the bottom line here is to not trusting a single entity. Not having funds split between traditional banks and crypto (exchange + offline wallets) is just asking for problems.
Twitter is not a tech company: their commercial output is not technology, technology is just a tool, Twitter is a social platform. Musk is not acting as a CTO, a CTO doesn’t set product direction. A CTO delivers for other stakeholders using technology. Every company uses technology now, it’s not a differentiator. Even if a company is a technology company, the CTO role doesn’t change, a technology company still has a CEO. The CFO at a finance company doesn’t set product direction.
Talking about IP geolocation with no mention of peerings, AS or BGP is suspect.

The company does provide AS data via some API, so i wonder about the reasons why it was left out of this blog post.
Yes, it's big tech to blame, but for different reasons: FLOSS works for PERSONAL computers, meaning the desktop model, witch it BTW the best computing model we have so far. FLOSS does not work on modernized mainframe model, where the mainframe is someone else computer or "the cloud".

People do not know how to go FLOSS because they do not know how to work on desktops. Even if we have IPv6 since decades, so we can potentially have a classic internet, with a global address per device, a family domain names with personal subdomains etc, people do not know how to use them, ISPs do their best to obstacle such deployments. As a result people start to trying copy big tech, with open platforms and fails because they can't be usable with profit at smaller scales.

Not only, we have to interact with the rest of the world that have largely forgotten the Desktop, now an "endpoint", or a modern dumb terminal, making things even harder.

That's the FLOSS problem: the fact that Big Tech have won against the classic tech, stealing classic ideas only when they discovered how to make such ideas anti-users, an a success at a time, now IT is anti-user almost at a whole.

Oh, that's not a special FLOSS problem, is a social problem, because with the actual trend we can only evolve in neo-feudal dictatorships.
Time, as we perceive it doesn't really exist. It's much more complicated than what we perceive, as it should be otherwise we would not be able to live in society. Our brains create the apparent linearity of time to give us a sense of progression. But it doesn't really work that way. In my opinion, no evidence here, we could even communicate with someone that lived in the past. Because that's not the absolute past. That person lives still in another layer of reality. As such there's no such thing as past and future. It's just a construct from our brains. That's my view. Not affirming anything.
Swift and Scala also uses the enum keyword to define sum types, and their history goes earlier than Rust, so now you have multiple languages to yell at!
Good old section 1201. The EFF has been fighting it for a while, but hasn't had much success unfortunately.
Since covid, the bad news are eclipsed with another even worse bad news.
Could be the people that spend time answering random surveys online and the people that use dating apps are different.
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I agree that this is not very front page relevant, but its still a lot of animals dying-- since the local bear population is <2000, 1.5 fatalities per year are quite significant!

Compare to just ~700 human railway fatalities in the US (population: >300M)-- if railways were similarly lethal for us, the would be over 200000 deaths per year.
> It was easier, because I could never figure out how to clean up properly if I made a mistake

Made a mistake doing what? A mistake in your code or a mistake using Mercurial?

> If I remember correctly you even needed to install some kind of external plugin just to do simple rebasing / branch cleanup. Now's the part where you tell me I'm doing it wrong, shouldn't be rebasing etc etc, but I'm just saying, it didn't work for me

I've never understood this impulse to do "branch cleanup". Why are you adding unnecessary work? Is the source repository for tracking a history of changes or is it an art exhibition?
I imagine the biggest challenge when using this the first time is getting to sleep in the first place.
There's no way to figure out which lost event/place is symbolical and which is real other than looking for the real thing long enough.

I dislike this quote since it basically discourages further research.
Why not?
In what way have norms (in the USA I assume) changed that rejection in person should be a big risk?
I’ve been using this in production for about 6 months. It’s pretty good but has some warts around runner scheduling that need to be ironed out. It took a fair amount of tweaking with configuration to get something that worked for our setup.
Neither should MIC.
Good analogy. What level of control should there be for humans? I don’t think the answer is either 0% or 100%. Likewise with AI.
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"Tech" can be taken to mean the software/hardware we use, or to mean the ecosystem of tech companies and that style of company. I think given what YCombinator is it makes sense that the latter is a significant part of the discussion here.

Some people here are tech CEOs, even if that's typically of small startups going through YC. Many others here work for tech companies. All of them may have a legitimate interest in how companies are run, company culture, strategy, career paths, and so on.

I understand that Musk spectating is a little more drama filled than analysing most tech companies, but this feels very much within the scope of this forum to me. There is interesting discussion to be had around it, even if much of the discussion isn't super high quality.
> It might look better if you split it in lines:

You and other Rust enthusiasts are missing the point.

In C or any C-based language or even Python, you can just call either a function passing the reference to the GPIO pointer, or just GPIO |= 1.

You can't do that in Rust, or no one has shown a much better way to set a bit in Rust without writing verbose code that has dozens of borrowings done.
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If you prefer learning by doing, I recommend rustlings. Its a bunch of small exercises that roughly follow the content of the main rust book.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings
I certainly hope, for all our sakes, that Hamas and Iran do not become the largest governing powers in that region long-term.

If they do, I may not have grandchildren to “lie to,” because I, a Jew, will be dead.

But that’s cool, you just let Hamas do its thing, since that’s definitely the simplest answer to this simple problem.

Have a nice life.

[edit] Actually, I take it back; there is one simple solution: Hamas walks out and surrenders. I guarantee you, if that happens, the bombing and ground operations end tomorrow.

Unfortunately, that will never happen; instead, Hamas will continue to bomb the internationally agreed-upon escape routes to Egypt to, you know, “save” those leaving.

And don’t read this as defending Israel. I’m not happy with the invasion and the bombing. But I don’t have to pretend anything about the conflict is simple, just to make myself feel better about the slogans I’m shouting at protests.
There is a new show on HBO called Scavengers Reign, and it's become my favorite scifi story ever. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21056886/

It's kinda like watching Planet Earth about another ecosystem, with a strong focus on judgment-free ecology (ie there isn't good and evil, just different flora and fauna and otherwise interacting both with their normal food webs and with human outsiders).

It really tickles the environmental science geek in me. There's such a wonderful assortment of predators, prey, symbiotes, diseases, treatments, and thoughtful little touches everywhere. Beautiful art too.

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That aside, I can't stop thinking about how much fun it is to throw people off cliffs in Baldur's Gate 3. https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561199138390397/recomm...

Simple pleasures, man.
What do you consider "hobbyist-level resources"? The tools to take you from HDL (Verilog or VHDL) to a bitstream to load into the device are typically free to download.
For intraday variation, yes I agree - intermittent renewables+storage works well. But for longer term variability (eg wind droughts) or even worse, if you wanted to cover seasonal variation in production (solar PV can have enormous seasonal variability in northerly latitudes), the amount of storage you need in MWh is absolutely enormous. This is why nuclear still winds up being much more sensible.
I’ve noticed this a number of times in recent travel— Kyoto, New Orleans, Quebec City, all very old places where the narrow side streets (often with little to no sidewalk and certainly no dedicated bike space) are in fact a paradise for walking and biking, despite what you might think listening to some urbanism advocacy.
ravers are amazing right now.

you guys can act nostalgic about $5 cover charges at farmhouses in the middle of the woods, but that stuff was objectively horrible. smoke filled, counterculture only people, dingy.

I love the crowd that comes to these $600 music festivals, they're sexy and maintain good jobs or wealth, good support systems, can talk deeply about many technical topics, second hand smoke is sparse, and the production value increased to match!

oh no, phones. like what? this didn't start post pandemic. you have a missing decade and I'm not even going to ask.

edit: saw some of your other comments on this topic, this category of person is a big matter of discussion in Germany it seems. I think its silly to just put Tik Tok as an adjective on everything you don't like because I see that in other fields too. There are certain behaviors it seems some people are doing that are different than the ones you highlighted.
It was a joke. Your sentence was hard to read because it had 3 negatives in it:

> [Not] everything that I [can't] [disprove] should be taken seriously.
Some would say the fact that venvs and conda are so widely used shows that many users encounter problems with the stock Python dependency management.
Worth noting Atlantis wasn’t some widely known legend like Troy. We literally only know it from Plato, who used it as a moral fable.

No Greek historian mention Atlantis. No Greek myth or epic mention Atlantis.

We might also ask where the fabled cave from The Republic is actually located.
There's a gulf between being 99% compatible with something and being a 100% drop-in. If the author of program B wants to replace A, he should go the extra mile and implement every feature of A so as to erase technical excuses for stasis. B needs to put aside his ego, swallow his pride, and implement all the features of A, even the ones her personally dislikes, because the effect of doing otherwise will be that B doesn't replace A. We have to work backwards from out desired outcomes.
Why undo it? Just merge them. Undoing isn't difficult either, but I've never understood this obsession with clean repository history.
> The main input cost is green hydrogen

I wasn't aware that was the current consensus, due to a lack of knowledge around this domain. Prometheus Fuels' process to generate ethanol doesn't see to require green hydrogen as an input step, so I assumed other production processes were also going to get around needing that input?

Don't feel obligated, but I would appreciate a quick link to something I could read about green hydrogen uses other than "burn this instead of fossil fuels"
You have that backwards - it must be dynamically linked. Static linking without providing your source would violate the LGPL.
What are Transformer Models and how do they work? [video]
In this video, you'll learn all the components of a transformer model, including embeddings, positional encoding, and self and multi-head attention.
Google is set for second antitrust trial in two months
> Essentially what you really want is the sudo command to acquire a temporary capability token to edit that specific file.

This should be doable with an XDG portal model, right?
erm, no, perhaps most people who use Python, deal with it, because they have to. And it's about significant indentation/whitespace-defined-scope, not spaces versus tabs, though that can also cause havoc for these languages.

Sure Python is popular, like k-pop, but not necessarily because it's the best, and certainly not because of significant-whitespace, which I suspect even Guido regrets (eg in interviews, he hardly seems to defend this choice).

Yes, you often format your code anyway in a way that could be used to ascertain scopes, but to me, using an actual delimiter is like double-entry book-keeping, and easier than manual formatting; You write your code with delimiters. Your IDE formats accordingly (with style rules that you can choose BTW). If it looks weird, you messed up the delimiters and it's obvious. Not to mention copy/pasting code, moving blocks around, etc; all fraught or painful with significant indentation.

Form follows function, not the other way around, IMHO.
Thanks for doing the empirical tests!
I know what I need to do but I can sit there unable to do the thing whilst the guilt about not doing the thing takes up all my bandwidth.
Would be interesting to see a a Debian derivative that combines this with the Rust Implementation Of GNU Coreutils.[1] Could be a big win for memory safety and performance.

[1] https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
I wouldn’t just assume that people working and making decisions at big companies always are rational.
> while nowadays so much of what I see

there's your problem, you're not there.

there are other things happening in the crowd. all you see are tall guys with the longest arms holding up their phones taking videos of other phones.
It was too late the moment he publicly posted an offer on Twitter. I doubt he was really interested in the deal and suspect he didn’t realize the tweet he posted would be such a valid binding offer.
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Data Brokers and the Sale of Data on U.S. Military Personnel|Sherman et al. 2023 [pdf]
This may be a bold claim and it's hard to quantify, but based on weekly output I think it has sped up my development by 50%-80%, between researching technologies with chatgpt4, coming up with designs and code, copilot filling in the blanks, and gpt4 helping with troubleshooting. These are things that used to take me hours of scouring the web and docs, time spent on proofs of concepts, and additional trial and error- which has largely disappeared.

With the amount of time and effort saved I generally feel more confident about being able to create scripts or programs to solve problems or create art as a second nature, rather than having to treat each idea as a large project.

Similarly I have seen my brother go from someone who has never programmed to doing beautiful data analysis in python thanks to gpt4, for his own side projects. The speed in which he's learned has really impressed me. Makes me think that this technology will introduce many new programmers quickly.
So what justified closing their account instead?
That's 100% the thing. KitKat for example has recently been taking hits to its reputation because there have been instances of groping in there and they've been ignored by the club stuff. Now that they let Till Lindemann in a few weeks ago even though there have been active accusations of sexual harassment against him, they are completely done for with anyone who cares. In contrast, places like Berghain are blind to fame - there have been stories of celebrities like Björk being turned away at the entrance.
Doing what you love (but maybe you can't get paid for it)