skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just authorities, it's cultural. Some cultures are simply much louder than others. I live in Tokyo and it's generally very quiet here, despite (usually older) apartments having a bad reputation for paper-thin walls. Public transit is generally whisper-quiet (as far as the riders; the trains themselves of course are not), as people generally don't talk much, and talking on the phone is prohibited. People who make too much noise will probably get the police called on them, but that only works in a society where there's a culturally low tolerance for noise, so it's not really up to the authorities.
Miguel de Icaza was another one, hence why nowadays he is so focused on Apple's ecosystem.

"What Killed the Linux Desktop"

https://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html

Nowadays, after getting Xamarin acquired by Microsoft,

https://xibbon.com/

https://github.com/migueldeicaza/SwiftGodot
Could it be used to track down journalists or prove that a certain journalist took a specific photograph?

Sounds like the photographic equivalent of guns that put unique stamps on their fired shells - theoretically making it easier to ID the shooter.
> Imagine giving a typical driver a jetpack or a flying car, and then think about how a traffic accident would play out.

Yeah, even with a bunch of safety features... Well, this Mitchell & Webb skit sums up the human-factor. [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDIojhOkV4w
Similar story. Was in a caravan with friends on a road trip and apple maps had us going onto a dirt road to save time. We go overlanding a lot, so dirt roads aren't weird, but we decided to stop and double check before proceeding too far on the road.

About a minute later, a border control agent pulls up next to us and starts with the standard interrogation. Turns out, apple maps had been telling people to use a dirt road to circumvent a border control checkpoint - which according to the officer was a felony. We proceeded back onto the pavement and through the checkpoint where they waved us through. The dirt road wouldn't have been faster at all, so it was puzzling why it was giving those directions.
You can paint a hole in the side of mountains and fool roadrunners into running in(to) them, then perhaps feast on the fruits of your labor. Or paint holes in the ground to fool your nemesis'. Though if Looney Tunes taught me anything, it's that it only works when you don't want it to work.
Rhenium is used in industry already in metal aloys. It costs around $10000 per Kg. [1] And the US produced 8 tons of it in 2020 [2]. A modern cpu weighs 60g. If we were to make CPUs out of pure Rhenium we could make 133 000 a year at a cost of just $600 each for raw materials. If these things are really a million times faster than the current best in breed silicon ones they will have no trouble competing commercially. $600/ one million is not very much money at all and 133000 times one million is a LOT of compute. Furthermore, the CPUs will not be pure Rhinium.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhenium

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1312513/rhenium-producti...
You're describing the popular usage of "introvert", but to me the definition of "shy" has always been about the demonstrated bahaviour and not the internal feelings.
Here in South Africa we had the 2021 July riots when our ex-president was arrested and supposed to go to jail.

During the riots groups targeted malls and various outlets, basically looting everything in sight except of course for the bookstores which mostly remained untouched.
A more common form (and slightly less evil) is for error checking:

if ((error = do_a_thing())) {
// some error happened, good thing we saved the error code
}

Given the standard "zero is success" paradigm, handling errors is very succinct.
One can hope the film is 1/10th as good as this fanmade short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbMQfaG6lo8
Author of Designing Data-Intensive Applications book. It is such a well-written book, reading it right now, and cannot recommend enough.
> The single biggest improvement for python ecosystem was the standardisation of a binary package format, wheel.

I agree. Some people love to complain about python packaging. But from one perspective, it's arguably been a solved problem since wheels were introduced 10 years ago. The introduction of wheels was a massive step forward. Only depend on wheel archives, don't depend on packages that need to be built from source, and drag in all manner of exciting compile-time dependencies.

If there's a package you want to depend on for your target platform, and the maintainers don't produce a prebuilt wheel archive for your platform -- well, set up a build server and build some wheels yourself, and host them somewhere, or pick a different platform.
Yes, it is expensive if you want millions of chips, but imagine those militar and trading operations who would be willing to pay for that speedup as an edge, hope they manufacture something soon. I just wonder how resusable is stuff like EUV when you change the semiconductor material...
I expect at least some kids to be scared off by this.

The BBC article above states that Omegle is being mentioned in 50 pedophilia cases in the last 2 years. If 20% of kids would be scared to click "I'm older than 13", that would be 10 cases fewer.
Google Docs is the spiritual successor to Wave, and has been usable for quite some time.
Awesome! Good medical care is what everyone deserves
PFAS: The Forever Chemical Scandal [video]
That's a bit simplistic.

If you haven't noticed, advanced economies are experiencing secularly stagnating growth, a crisis of democratic representation and its populist backlash, the return of oligarchic inequality to levels not seen since the gilded age, and extreme social atomisation and mental health breakdown.

We are also all hurtling towards catastrophic climate change, an AI revolution that could lead to generalised technological unemployment, and some indeterminate level of conflict between the US and China.

Unsurprisingly, therefore, most people in advanced economies look back on the post-war decades as a golden age - obviously there were problems, but there was high growth, full employment, good public services, strong unions, and comparatively cheap housing. Others look back to the 1990s as a time of untroubled horizons.

Also, the global 'we' is unhelpful. Have native Americans, Syrians or Greeks never had it so good?
Does anybody know whether copilot chat will be available through the vim plugin?
That comparison hinges on having to click "yes, I'm over 13" being more of a fence+sign than a "tiny" text saying you should only use the website if you are 13 or older. I'm sure some lawyer will argue that's the case - since I'm not one: Sounds rather flimsy.
> Auch zu anderen gesellschaftlich-politischen Themen hat sich die CNCF in der Vergangenheit klar positioniert.

This is entirely their own fault. If a tech body repeatedly takes a position on politically sensitive matters then surprise - it gets caught in politics. Like seriously - what did they think would happen here? Just be involved in politics when convenient for virtue signally? Seems incredibly naive
Abstracts are often quite a bit shorter than proper summaries and function more like elevator pitches (mainly to reviewers and other people in the field). They are not intended to do what you say they should.

If you suggest to also add summaries, that is something I could get behind, but right now your criticism is a bit misplaced.
Or those four weirdos on the zebra crossing on the front. Who were they?
So happy you've discovered it! In every single video in the series he lifts up a bunch of people who are struggling in a really personal, memorable, inspiring way. I reckon he's saved a few lives (at least).
It is a UNIX desktop that actually works, and doesn't need endless hours researching for hardware compatibility or custom kernel parameters.

Android/Linux, ChromeOS/Linux, WebOS/Linux also work great for the same reasons.

Other than that, better leave it on servers and embedded devices being a UNIX headless clone, with cloud and hardware vendors taking the trouble to keep it running.
A few strong opinions, a lot stronger than they were in my 2017 talk https://youtu.be/_gmMJwjg0Pk, surely that must be the experience speaking :)

- Creating a DSL is a commitment. It is never done, it's either in development or abandoned. Plan for this, both in terms of team size and knowledge management.

- Don't allow escape hatches or ways to access arbitrary functionality in the host language. When (not if) these are used, they ruin backwards compatibility and make maintenance of DSL code a nightmare.

- Don't use a PEG (parsing expression grammar), they are terrible for backwards compatibility. Hand-written parsers are even worse. Using an LR parser generator is worth the time investment.

- Support static analysis, or at the very least don't make it impossible to implement later. It improves productivity, and every error message is an opportunity to teach the DSL to the users.

- You need a language server. The bare minimum is: highlighting, auto-completion, hints on hover, find references, rename.

- It should be trivial to reproduce a production run on a development machine. This means the language should be deterministic, and the production context should be preserved for later reuse, and the development machine should be safe for accessing production data.

- Thousands of unit tests, thousands of regression tests.

It's fine to break these rules, if you can live with the consequences.

And here's a brand new one from this year: use RAG to have ChatGPT "read" your documentation, and ask it to produce scripts for you. When the script doesn't compile, feed the error message back to ChatGPT and try again until you get a working script. Think deeply about why ChatGPT made some mistakes, as it's often the case that humans would have the same misunderstandings. Improve your documentation, error messages or syntax to eliminate them, and then try again to see if it works. We have been doing this for 6 months now, and there have already been some significant improvements that are only obvious in hindsight. And we've now opened a PhD position to investigate whether we can have a separate "LLM-friendly" syntax for the language, dedicated to making code generation easier.
It does solve, or at least try to solve, captchas for me. It gets like half the characters correct, it's very bad at it.
Maybe... But if this is a real problem with Omegle (the article mentions that it is a common grooming platform) then it's not like there's nothing they could do. Did it even have age verification?

On balance I still think Omegle should win the case, but I don't think it's entirely without merit.
That's off course the point Mike Masnick (of TechDirt fame) has been making:

https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a...
Because then we'd have comments (I have showdead on) which would call him out, and caching and screenshots would provide proof. If he'd resort to harmful behavior the risk is simply too high as it would infract his reputation.
Bridging the Digital Divide Using Web Performance
With headless VMs with a few GB, or some huge-ass VMs?

Could it be something unrelated, like Spotlight getting stuck, or some hungry app? I guess you've consulted Activity Monitor and such
Be more specific. I can’t respond if you can’t identify what is false.
A quarter of Swiss population is foreign-born. Not quite like NYC, but very high in international comparisons.
my thoughts exactly. I don't understand why people are so hasty to blame any and all tangentially related to societal issues. But it happens all the time for websites who exist and let people post content.
People do stupid stuff with wiring all the time. Here it's not uncommon to have electrical wires cemented directly into the walls or strung in the space between the outer and inner walls. There's no replacing those without destroying the wall, it's idiotic.

Older houses have plastic or metal pipes for running cables, ensuring that you can repair or upgrade the wiring. New house nope, forget it, costs to much.
I think needing LLM summarizers to read a paper at all only highlights the failure of paper authors writing the abstracts. Let's face it: Abstracts are getting intentionally more complex and hard-to-read or reviewers will question the paper's writing. If the LLM summarizers were useful, the authors could have generated it and just used it in the paper's abstract section. And indeed, there is no better person than the authors to edit the LLM generated summary because they know what parts of the summary is hallucinated and what is not, right?
Should we burn Methanol when the Wind does not blow?
> You want a distributed application

What would incentivize a huge number of people to run a decentralized and distributed application so that it actually continues to run? (Hint: the hope of a coin mooning)
I clicked around, it seemed to work (I was not surprised, the Internet Archive does not fsck around). The loading experience for the page was somewhat horrible though with a large of number of warnings. And I can't reload it, now it seems dead. Perhaps something does fsck with the IA, sometimes.
I think the issue is that some people have different preferences.
Ask HN: YC Cayman Companies, which banks do you use?
We have seen YC accept Cayman Corporate structures for startups. What are the banking options for these entities?
Stats from the Gaza ministry of health are from Hamas. Secondly it’s hamas that uses civilian infrastructure to hide behind.
For the first entry in the franchise they might want to go on with more recognizable characters/settings.
How about many readers and zero writers? :)

For my text editor, I went with an immutable balanced tree. I was surprised by how easily I was about to implement all operations I needed with reasonable runtime complexity (log N mostly, operations like "give me a copy with element at position i removed"): https://github.com/alefore/edge/blob/master/src/language/con...

I use this throughout my editor. For example, I load a file into a sequence of lines represented here: https://github.com/alefore/edge/blob/8fdf7f76ffa167497a7e9e9...

I found that the good performance, relatively straightforward implementation and very strong thread safety (making the data immutable means a whole class of problems just disappears) works very well.
"writing a single book, and selling it thousands times over, is a bit to "easy" in terms of ways to make money"

$2 profit per book is perhaps a high figure that an author may recieve from the publisher. 2 x 3000 is $6000 for maybe months or years of work. And this would be a 'successful' author. It's not all JK Rowling out there ya know!
Yes, obviously, but what does it prevent in terms of the outcome we care about, i.e child abuse?

We shouldn't just take zealous well-paid lawyers as a fact of nature. If those "defense against lawsuits"-actions actually don't make a difference in terms of reducing child abuse, then we should not let them make a difference in the legal system either.
> lived alongside Arabs in peace throughout the Ottoman Empire

No. Multiple violent confrontations. You can find ample sources for this. Partition into jewish and Arab states was to avoid bloodshed.

> The historical timeline of Palestine leading up to and since 1948

This is a bizarre document that starts in 1885, at minimum you would start about 136AD with the renaming of Israel to Philestinea by the Romans. But then again, the UN is famously run by various tinpot dictators that raise more resolutions against Israel than themselves.
Arrogance Squashes Good Ideas
Thought of the day.

Where two people think differently about something, the most arrogant usually gets their way.

Their ideas aren’t necessarily better. They just feel more confident and are less likely to back down.

They often repeatedly place the burden of proof on the other person:

“Justify to me why we should roll with your idea / why we shouldn’t roll with mine”.

If they’re not satisfied, the expectation is their idea wins by default.

The problem is far worse where they're more senior.

Besides being frustrating for the people involved, it leads to way worse outcomes for businesses and their products.

This is something I’ve come across time and time again.

It’s toxic and needs to be routed out.

What are your experiences with / solutions to this?
They also seem to say that it cannot be used directly for improving CPUs as they are designed today:

> “[…] they are not necessarily compatible with current hardware used in the semiconductor industry,” […] the applications for these semiconductors “would likely be different than those for traditional semiconductors.”
> And garage door control etc. are "local area" networks

What if I want to control (e.g. close) the garage door when I am out of Wifi range?
Love how 3/4 reactions are engineers from GitHub rather than customers.
I thought it was a parody piece about employers wanting you to jump through more and more hoops.
Everyone has their sensibilities.

Of all the surveillance methods, this one is nowhere near as intrusive as some others. The recordings will likely be overwritten/erased within weeks, if not sooner. Few operators of such cameras store the resulting video for extended periods of time.

On the other hand, Google probably knows your crush from 2005 and your diagnosis from 2009. This long term surveillance is what really messes with me.
The funnier thing that Quantum Gravity does seem to be a social construct.

Some people are confident it exists even though it is impossible to observe (as of yet)
'Golden age' is typically used to mean a historic age of comparative greatness from which society has since fallen.

See the idiomatic vs. the mythological meaning on Wiktionary:

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/golden_age
It's not for me either. I have rented whole units, out of need(cost), but wouldn't want a room in a house.

Still, some people love this sort of random interaction. Hostels are popular in some crowds. And I remember, when biking across Canada, a random couple in their 60s stopped me, in Northern Ontario(very rural!) and asked me if I wanted to stay the night.

Part of me wondered if their very nice roast and potatoes, would be my last meal.

But they just were bored, and wanted to talk, and were just nice folks not afraid of strangers. Good people.

So some like it random. Enjoy divergent personalities.
Apple's locking down of macOS has been greatly exaggerated. You can install anything you want on a Mac, Apple doesn't stop you. The same can't be said for iOS or iPadOS, however.
> The only explanation I see for thinking that Covid has "disappeared", is that barely anyone still tests.

That and barely anyone still dies (excess of eg the flu which kills a bunch of people each year)
it's the difference between an open and closed (unlocked) door. Very small actions can be a surprising deterrent for many people.
Those huge center screens are massive visual distractions, and tempt designers to put more and more in them (such as AC controls). They tempt your eyes away from the road.

Every single car I've driven recently (about 20 different models) had a different way of adjusting the brightness and changing the night/day mode. I drove a new, high-spec BMW recently and it wasn't possible to reduce the brightness manually - the German manufacturer knows better than you, supposedly.

Driving assistance such as emergency braking and auto high beam has caused me more problems than not. The UK has narrow streets and many parked cars - the car often thinks you're going to crash in to a parked car. The auto high beams turn off when I don't want them to, and don't come on when I do.

Keyless entry was (is?) a total boon for thieves (hello, Jaguar Land Rover)
It can't. Signal calls are over the internet, not the PSTN. And Signal removed SMS support last year.
Actually, Europe reasoning is quite simple:

- Since "forever", laws apply to a specific PHYSICAL region (that's the basis for a concept of "government", be it democracy or other). These laws are enforced by "law enforcement forces", starting with "border law inforcement forces"

- Between "etatic entities" there is "treaties" agreed by parties

- But "the Internet" messed everything up: suddenly no law could be enforced because the was no VIRTUAL region with a "government" matching the PHYSICAL region

Different governement solved this problem with different solutions:

- China / Russia... used some kind of "Great firewall"

- US used some kind of "soft power" (owning the main infrastructure + main economic actors + extraterritorial laws)

Europe decided to find a mix between those: limiting US "soft power" with more rules (DSA, DMA), trying to develop European economic competitor... and limiting people abilty to escape to a "lawless internet with anonimity"
Also depending on how easily you can scale these semiconductors down, you may not need such complex cores. CPUs today are complex to (amongst other things) improve IPC - but if you’re really talking a 10^6 improvement in clock speed, I would guess that even a simple in-order core would perform better, and be much smaller.
Ha, cool. May I encourage you to label the panels that cover the fibre connection with "ODN"?
In the USA we had lots of these at one point and then we started removing them from schools along with the asbestos.
> Austria the one with famous painters

As an Austrian, I hope you are talking about Klimt and Schiele.
I've used Bitwarden to faster fill out job applications.
I think this really depends. I send wire transfers pretty often. For me it's $20 to send and $0 to receive. It takes anywhere from 2 days to a week normally. I don't need permission to send them (though I do need to call the bank to verify the information and purpose), and I also need to provide the purpose of the funds to the receiving bank (and need to show I own the sending account, if I'm the sender and receiver).

Crypto is very likely neither cheaper nor faster, since you can't spend the crypto directly, and need to FX it through an exchange on the sending side and the receiving side, each of which will take a cut (often percentages of the total). You also need to fund the account sending, and you need to transfer from the exchange receiving to a bank account. Both of those transfers could also cost money. You're also doing FX twice (USD -> crypto, crypto -> Yen), rather than once (USD -> Yen).

If you fuck up an international wire transfer, it may take a month or two for the funds to make it back, and you may need to have numerous conversations with both banks (I've been through this pain more than once and it sucks). If you fuck up a crypto transfer you lose your money with no recourse.

All-in-all the wire transfer is the better (and probably cheaper/faster) experience.
Spiritual predecessor - it was released 3 years before Wave :)
This sounds nice but what does a block chain offer to prove content wasn't ai generated?
Thread sanitizer doesn't understand fences. It seems relacy is the only one that does.

If anyone knows how to make relacy run a somewhat fair scheduler please let me know - it told me a server thread that waited for work never made any progress, but it also never gave a client thread any cycles to submit work so that wasn't very informative.

(edit: just occurred to me I can probably fake it adequately by having a yield that makes the current thread start playing the role of the other service, coroutine style)
Government to keep a tight grip on high-risk data fiduciaries as Nykaa's Q4
By Sachin Dev Duggal | FSN E-commerce Ventures, the parent entity of omnichannel fashion platform Nykaa, has reported a major decline in its fourth-quarter (Q4) net profit while recording growth in consolidated revenue. This and more in todays ETtech Top 5.
Israel and Egypt. But otherwise your post is accurate.
> The irony is that they do care about what the user prefers

I guess you haven't used Microsoft products for long enough. They don't give a s** for what the user prefers. Their GUI is antiuser.
New Deeplearning.ai Course on Vector Databases: From Embeddings to Applications