skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's measurable, but not in an agreeable fashion. I'm sure if you tracked curse words, or simply looked at the number or reports an admin has managed, you can track a change.

But you then argue with the metric. Maybe curse words aren't a good measure of hostility. Maybe the admin was overzealous, or underzealous and then corrected. That's what makes it hard to come to a consensus.

Anectodally, on the internet, I would agree. I feel post 2016 saw an uptick in hostility, and then the pandemic years of 2021/2022 saw another uptick.
Our PDP-8/E in jr high school 4k core, with a later upgrade to a winchester disk (32Kb total storage) and a high speed tape reader. Still had to punch the tapes out on the KSR-33 but reading them was quite fast (relatively).
If you were lucky, you'd get permission to use a bit of space on the winchester. Now that was a feeling of privilege.
i like antropic’s claude.ai, use them side-by-side.
The default cooperative online mode ends up being a lot less interesting than going at it entirely by yourself offline from start to finish. All the clutter wrecks the immersion/isolation while the freebies end up wrecking the leveling.
Yes, that's a mental model you have from using Windows (or Linux, which copied this from Windows) before.
November Plasma 6 Update
Well, you could decide to have kids of your own. I used to really be annoyed by such things, but once we had a child, things just changed. Nowadays, I just feel sympathy for the kids and their poor parents, and then tune them out.
Depends on the country. I can vote for Italian EU Parliament elections from UK, where I live.
What if you don't know if it's an IP literal?
This is pretty sad. Are there any alternatives to Omegle?
It also just feels much smaller. Outside of maybe 4chan, none of those classic style forums feel anywhere close to as acitve as their heyday. Like, we're talking maybe 2-3 comments per day.

It definitely doesn't need to be Twitter/Reddit active, but a cozy but empty forum isn't a community so much as a small gathering.
About 7 or 8 years ago I lost my wallet in Golden Gate Park while tripping incredibly hard on LSD. I had been climbing around the trees and scrub for hours, so I was certain it was gone for good. A few months later it showed up in my mail halfway across the country (driver's license address). I was astonished, grateful, and wished I could send a reward or thanks — but it was literally just my wallet in a bubble mailer with $30 in cash untouched.
> When Anna Carin Elf arrived at her workplace

No knowing what these elves can do. She had probably put a spell on it when she left.
Anything high enough amperage is a fire hazard, even if its a low enough voltage to not be a shock hazard. Also “PoE” is a very loosely followed spec, there are a lot of non-spec PoE devices out there.
Variadic Generics, Again
Japan is quite safe, but has an organized crime problem.
Even with a fast readout, PWMing LEDs can still present issues for cameras like the Z9. The global shutter removes that concern entirely with no need for fine-tuning--still need some logic to identify the peak brightness but don't need to fine tune frame rates by fractions of a Hz to reduce banding.

A global shutter has been the holy grail for awhile for cameras like this in wide production. Yes, you can get a machine learning camera with 20 megapixels and a global shutter, but you'll need to strap a whole PC to it to do the data capture. And it'll be manual focus and manual aperture to boot.
Never seen this claimed, but apple absolute does trounce qualcomm and everyone else in terms of perf/w. iPhones with 3300mah batteries are getting longer sot than android flagships with 5000mah (and greater) batteries. The state of the android ecosystem is a complete joke and has been for years.
> If it’s human level AGI under firm human control

This just sounds like slavery with extra steps
Yes but all this is not because it was designed for it. It wasn't. It is just the open nature of its license that made it possible as a consequence through external contributions.
Most higher end cameras like the Panasonic G6, Nikon Z8/Z9, etc. hardly have any rolling shutter. You'll certainly NEVER see rolling shutter in any PRACTICAL application for video unless you pan like a true madman, either in photo or in video. (I am a professional photographer and videographer....)

In fact for sports and wildlife, you'll NEVER see rolling shutter in pretty much any existing camera, either in photo or video. For photography it's been like this for decades and for videography recently.

Where rolling shutter does appear is in the use of the electronic shutter only, but the Nikon Z9 already solved that, same with the Sony a1.

The main benefit is flash sync and a very SLIGHT improvement in some types of distortion when shooting at very high shutter speeds. I'd argue that the Nikon Z9 is a much better camera if not wanting flash sync due to its lower base ISO.

So to reiterate, the main benefit is not the reduction of rolling shutter, especially since any camera in this price point already has minimal rolling shutter.

Global shutters are COOL, and the reduction of rolling shutter is COOL, but not the main point, though of course most future cameras will probably switch to global shutters at some point if the base ISO can be lowered.
Philanthropy? Humans are social creatures.
> Cars are loud.[0]

Wheels rolling are loud. Also motorbikes. Combustion engines are even louder, and they are also put on bikes.

Disillusioned young pedal-metalling in residential neighborhoods are the f*king worst.
I'm curious: What are the use cases for these super light absorbent blacks?
“Better” is subjective. What older technology offers decentralization and (asymptomatically) 0 cost micropayments?
Did they even say when this event occurred?
That really isn't how the experiment works.
It is sort-of a warning for idealists who think that socialism treats nature better. I notice lionization of socialism among young Americans quite often, it is a distant and luring ideal for them, with no personal experience to correct the image.

Pretty much the universal experience from east of the Iron Curtain was the opposite. Ecological initiatives were a part of the coalition of the unhappy that brought the regimes down at the end of the eighties.
Cleaner air is a practical result - well, if we can persuade people to stop driving larger and larger petrol driven cars.

Living in London and seeing a visible build up of black dust on my window frames every month or two I'd like cleaner air.
India tamed Twitter and set a global standard for online censorship
It'd be interesting to look at why and how that 27% started using ad blocking software.

I'm suspicious that that 27% of users is mostly made up of a specific subset of tech workers and their family and friends.
don't think it's sudden. looking at the influence of, say, tape recording technology on the 1972 Presidental election, it seems weirder to think technology hasn't affected the democratic process. Would FDR and his paralized legs been elected if TV been more widespread in 1933? And where would we be without the printing press to spread yellow journalism, throwing elections?
not video based, but captures some of the spontaneous spirit of omegle. it lets you have live interactions with anyone on the same web page as you.

https://www.getmoonbounce.com/
He looked and he judged.

Why should have he been impeded by accidental features.
https://archive.li/fMrNH
You saying "help me plot a real crime" or "help me write the plot of a crime for a book", should yield the same result. Any moral system that forbids one but not the other is just for show, since obviously you can get the exact same outcome both ways.
Are screws bad because you need a screwdriver?
Many Dutch companies pay salaries by

1. receiving payslips from the accountant, and then

2. manually initiating bank transfers to each employee for the amount in the corresponding payslip, and then

3. manually initiating a bank transfer to the tax authority to pay the withholded salary taxes.

This is completely useless manual labor. There should be no reason for this to be a manual procedure. And yet it's almost impossible to automate this. The accountant portal either has no API, or it has an API but lets you download the data as PDF, and/or the API costs good money. The bank either has no API, or it requires you to sign up for a developer account as if you're going to publish a public app, when you're just looking to automate some internal procedures.

So the easiest way to pay salaries and taxes is still to hire a person to do it manually. Hopefully one day that won't be necessary anymore. I wouldn't trust an AI to actually initiate the bank transfers, but maybe they can just prepare the transactions and then a person has to approve the submission.
As native German speaker I would like to second that. It's a very good description.
Over the last 15 years, I have had the same experience (sample size is tiny though).
Yeah I’m trying to diagnose why one of my ethernet runs is only able to negotiate at 5gb/s instead of at 10gb/s

And bought two 100gb/s omnipath NICs for a point to point link…
No, they literally have to. The accessibility tool landscape is a wild place, since there are so many different human disability types, and people need different assistance in different ways, so there is no one tool that can help everyone end-to-end. Some people can see, but their hands can't type, so they use a custom input method. Some people can't see, but they can type, so they just need to be able to hear the page but otherwise can interact with the page with their normal keyboard. Some people have issues both seeing, hearing, and typing, so they have their own custom setup.

The browser's focus has to be taken as the gospel truth, because that is the only thing that all these different assistance tools can agree on. There is no standard otherwise. If you want to be a smartass and develop a speech-to-text tool that does it's own focus management separate from the browser's, well now people who need custom input solution can't use your tool, because what they are typing into (browser's focus) is different from what your tool is focusing on.
AI maps icebergs 10k times faster than humans
This is so sad to read. He hits the point about where our society is going.
Article and paper: https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/17/4675/2023/
First of all, everyone else was doing the same outside UNIX in the 1980's.

Secondly, Solaris, Aix, HP-UX, DG/UX were the same in what concerns having to buy a UNIX developers license for the compilers.

So other UNIX vendors did follow suit, and I can't be bothered to dive into BYTE and DDJ ads from 1980 - 1990's to add others to the list.
Do you have an example of a market where it's not shared?
Every social app is a party, and every party peters out one way or another. Too few people? It's dead. Too many people? Chilling effects. No budget to police the place? It becomes a magnet for abuse / spam / porn / scams / human trafficking / you name it. This party lasted more than most, they should be proud to have had such a long run.
When I deposit a physical euro in my bank account, it already becomes a digital euro. What am I missing from this?
I'd go a step further, and suggest that most languages are able to embed some level of DSL, although you might not be able to reach quite the expressiveness that you had in mind.

Generally a combination of block closures and being able to chain methods together is usually enough to create something reasonably expressive, although even then there are alternatives - I've seen DSLs in Python that use the class syntax and metaclasses to define quite complex this. You won't be generating your own syntax or anything, but you can often get pretty far.
And the bindings to python exist because those languages are a pain in the ass to work with.

I don't want to work with Fortran, C++, Cobol, etc. And I sure as hell don't want to figure out how to integrate such wildly different languages into my existing and modern ecosystem.
Perhaps you need a solid booster shot? And if it is for the Pfizer smile.
Just run w10privacy once, it takes 5 minutes to remove onedrive, cortana, telemetry and every other windows cruft. Wish it was that easy for Android.
Makes sense, the date was a holiday, everyone would be going out.

People who'd go to a library during such a time are less likely to want to cause trouble. Not to mention the value of a books aren't very high. You could find a free copy of every library book online.
These FFI bindings exist because Python was designed as a glue language for FFI bindings.
What standard library would that be?
It's bizarre computationally, but at this point maybe we have to compare it to the alternative: hiring a person. At least the AI only consumes electricity (which is hopefully green), while a person consumes food (grown with mined fertilizers), or meat (which we know is really bad for the environment).
'White gold' could revolutionize Imperial Valley. Will locals be included?
> All major OSes compress memory at this point.

zswap won't compress pages until they're swapped to disk, so essentially only once you've run out of memory to use and have begun experiencing the horrid performance degradation that comes from swapping to disk. you can use zram instead and put swappiness to a high value so the kernel aggressively swaps pages to the fake swap device made by zram, but then you lose the ability to have on-disk compressed swap pages.

i'm surprised that more work hasn't been done to fix this because memory management on linux is clearly lagging behind and affects a lot more than the minority of people using desktop linux systems, every android phone ships with 1.5x-2x more RAM than the equivalent iphone and performs worse when a bunch of apps are running in the background because of the poor memory management.
I remember when people were super excited for graphene and nanotubes in semiconductors. What happened to that? Seems like a lot of things stop dead in its tracks when it comes to mass manufacturing.
This hits me particularly hard. I met relationships, mentors, peers, pupils, friends of philosophy, fellow software developers, builders, dreamers, businessmen - and everything in between - from Omegle, all in different stages of my life.

I've messaged each and every one of them, just now, about the news - on the many platforms I added friends from Omegle with.

Conversations on Omegle changed my politics, it changed my beliefs, it changed my belief on systems of structure, changed my thoughts on strangers and humanity at large (as built by 8 billion of them).

Tragic. Thank you, Leif.
Someone could put hermitically sealed cartridges of something that will decay nicely into a high visibility container that's designed to stay permanently built into the structure itself. Future humans could drill through the solid exterior and retrieve samples of the decaying inner material providing definitive means of precisely dating the structure.
Designing it to be used more than once by successive generations would help keep future history more accurate than ancient history.
OH GOD IT'S HAPPENING! THE PANTHEON SERIES IS REAL!
Steam Deck reinforces Windows and XBox as target platform for game studios, it is doing nothing to change Windows supremacy in gaming.

Specially now that Asus, Razor, Lenovo are getting into the same space with Windows 11 devices.

After all Proton is all about running Windows games.
Oh that's interesting.

Do you (or: do people usually) exclude Madrid from Castilla? That's the only place in Spain I've lived and would not class the people I knew as quiet and calm. But then again it's a melting pot of people from all over Spain, so who knows!

And the calmest and quietest people I met were from the east coast :D

Definitely agree about Andalusia though
... no, because its tech jewelry lol. That is literally the history of Apple.

Or are we still going to pretend that a computer that you don't own, because Apple tells you what software you can and can't install on it, is somehow better for development?
I remember this. It was seen as an extremely serious breach of trust here in Europe. I remember the media trying to downplay it and dumdums on facebook spreading nonsense like "This is nothing, everybody spies. move on, sheeesh".
Gold standard is surely the US, which has much greater influence over social media and uses a variety of techniques such as planting agents into moderation / product teams or setting up advisory committees which social media platforms are obliged to attend. India's policy was crude in comparison.
I hope this is satire, DRY is more about extraction of shared function not about individual expressions. You write code once, no need to save yourself typing time at the expense of you and other peoples ability to read and understand the code afterward.
> It's my number 1 frustration when using the internet (worse than ads) and I find it mind-blowing that this hasn't been solved yet with or without LLMs.

Simple: it's because not solving this problem is how our godawful industry makes most of its money. Empowering the user means relinquishing control over their "journey"[0]. Ergonomics means fewer opportunities to upsell or show ads.

I don't have the link handy, but I'm reminded of one of the earliest Windows user interface guidelines documents, back from Windows 95/98 era, which, in a section about theming/visual style, already recognized that they have to allow for full flexibility, because vendors will insist on fucking the experience up for the sake of branding anyway, and resisting it is futile[1].

--

[0] - I'm trying really hard to hold back my contempt towards terms like this, and the whole salesy way of viewing human-computer interactions.

[1] - They put it in much more polite terms, but the feeling of helplessness was already there.
> In the US, about 40'000 people die every year in a traffic accident, yet

Yet EV's still have to pass insane standards because 1/10th, 1/100th of deaths would be too much... it's all about our monkey brain's perception, negativity bias (i.e. 100x good thing equals 1x bad thing) and emotions. We are tied to these things until we leave our carbon meat suits.
Curious, how would that differ? Assuming it is just grabbing the rendered HTML DOM after each action, isn’t it nearly the same?
I recently moved with my family to an appartment in the city. My wife and I have three children under the age of ten. One big benefit that we did not see in advance is that the public library is now in walking distance to our new home. It already has become a habit to go there with the kids and join the regular reading time.

The reading time is performed by a volunteer who usually reads out one book to the attending children. Often this is even done in two languages.

The kids meet their friends there and enjoy the stories read. We parents enjoy the silence and opportunity to stroll through all the bookshelves.

A public library really is a special place. Its atmosphere is hard to describe.
A pillow.
I disagree. I think they handled pretty well the last seasons and the ending. Very underrated show.
I usually joke, when someone has their bike stolen, that they have just gained membership in the local, involuntary bikesharing community, and thus can help themselves to a another bike from the bike parking.
Honest reason for doing this: A lot of candidates would hopefully appreciate the work they have put in to the interview does not go to waste and is part of some FOSS project out there.

We have seen endless take home tasks from other companies that you spend few days to work on and that goes to waste.

We also give them an option to delete all the code they have written at the end of the interview.
I have the same issue, but lower speeds. I have one cable that will negotiate 100Mbit rather than the 1Gbps that I expect. For a week it has been 100Mbit only (which is technically fine for the purpose), then two days around the router fell down and now I get 1Gbps.

I suspect a badly installed or wrong choice of keystone.
The DeFI element, of course, would enable someone to pay so MORE people could see their penis unsolicited
rEFInd is most useful on a Mac (it's what I used for a triple-boot). There's no reason to use it on a PC.
So is it like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Wave - but with limited scope and with new algos and finally usable?
Mostly because it was a way to reduce Aix development costs.

Ironically Aix is the only big iron UNIX that still matters today.
Why is it a privacy nightmare?, and why is it worse then existing payment opions?

It seems like an EU backed cryptocurrency, that could be implemented like monero and be fairly private or like bitcoin with public ledger,

It could also be like credit/debit cards which are already used everywhere...
On an anonymous website, that's the only differentiator
The trick is knowing which ones, and how to find a buyer.
This is also valid C++, so the example in the article does seem rather contrived.
In that case the developer could explicitly move focus to something that makes sense in the context of the application flow.
The largest art robbery that never was.

In all seriousness, we just made our visit and left, like the people in the article. At some point we even backtracked to the entrance to check for opening hours. No one. No alarm. Only the two of us and a very nice contemporary art collection.
how about a version that works on a custom/curated journals feed?
> We simply have slightly different goals in our work, which undoubtedly reflect where our engineering investments lie.

I’d love to hear more about this. Do you elaborate anywhere?
Sorry to hijack the comment.

I want to train a few engineers but not enough numbers to justify a team training.

Could you request/discuss internally to update ferrous systems 'scheduled trainings'? I unfortunately only see dates in the past.

Also for budget purposes it would be good to plan dates a bit further into the future. Like setup a 18 month calendar or something similar.

Great work on ISO26262 cert congrats all.
I don't think I'll ever have the privilege of working for a manager.

Getting a job in the first place is actually the hardest job of them all, even in the US.
The Great Stay
Are we doing this again? Yes, we're doing this again
I came to the conference with a MacBook

I remember being a at MS/.Net event a couple of years after Apple released Bootcamp, and Macs was the single most popular brand of laptop I saw at that event.
Robust undo/redo remains an ongoing research project. Leo Stewen's work was presented at PLF 2023 a few days ago. It turns out to be a subtle problem to really get completely right, but in my experience you can usually get passable results by letting editors default undo behaviour reverse text input.

For applications with more document-structured data, you can now produce inverse patches using Automerge.diff to go between any two points. To implement a reasonable undo in this environment you can record whatever document heads you consider useful undo points and then patch between them.

To perhaps expand on why the problem remains unsolved slightly further, there was a robust discussion about what the expected behaviour of "undo" out to be in even simple cases at the conference.
It's easy to make black material that is very black measured perpendicular.
Low total hemispherical reflectance is what makes Vanta Black different.
You don't see it in other paints like Black 4.0.

Possible experiment: If you could spray very thin layer of Black 4.0 into a black velvet or one of those nanofiber cloths (so thin that it's not covering the texture) you might improve total hemispherical reflectance.
It sounds like ms word saving to onedrive